+1, thanks Jacques
On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 2:05 PM, Julian Hyde <jh...@apache.org> wrote: > +1 looks good! > >> On Jul 11, 2016, at 1:35 PM, Jacques Nadeau <jacq...@apache.org> wrote: >> >> Good point. I added an additional bullet below. >> >> >> ## Description: >> >> Arrow is a columnar in-memory analytics layer designed to accelerate big >> data. >> It houses a set of canonical in-memory representations of flat and >> hierarchical data along with multiple language-bindings for structure >> manipulation. It also provides IPC and common algorithm implementations. >> >> ## Issues: >> >> - There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. >> >> ## Activity: >> - Awareness continues to increase with the community having done >> presentations >> at various meetups as well as the following conferences: Pydata Paris, >> Hadoop >> Summit Ireland, Hadoop Summit San Jose and Berlin Buzzwords. >> - The CPP work has made good progress. >> - The cross-project work with Parquet has seen substantial work (both in >> the >> Parquet project and the Arrow project). This should be a great first >> example >> proof-of-concept integration showing the benefits of in-memory columnar >> layer. >> - There has been substantial progress on development of for the IPC / >> memory sharing. >> - Java development has slowed some but appears to be picking up again. >> - A new independent project called Feather is using Arrow as a format for >> writing >> to disk. This has also increased engagement with Arrow itself and we have >> a number >> excited communities including R & Python (and the Julia community >> experimenting). >> >> ## Health report: >> - We've seen good discussion and development activity since the last >> report. >> - We need to get to a first release. >> - Prior to doing so, the community is working on rudimentary integration >> tests between >> Java and C++ and more formal format specification. >> - More work can be done to make the project approachable to newly >> interested parties by >> creating additional documentation and quickstart. A sample application >> will also help. >> >> ## PMC changes: >> >> - Currently 17 PMC members. >> - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months. >> - Last PMC addition was Abdel Hakim Deneche on Tue Jan 20 2016 >> >> ## Committer base changes: >> >> - Currently 20 committers. >> - No new committers added in the last 3 months >> - Last committer addition was Ippokratis Pandis at Thu Feb 18 2016 >> >> ## Releases: >> >> - No releases yet. >> >> ## JIRA activity: >> >> - 71 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months >> - 40 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months >
