+1 On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 6:09 PM, Jacques Nadeau <jacq...@apache.org> wrote:
> Hey Guys, any feedback on the Arrow report? > > ## 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: > - Arrow made its first release. > - In preparation of the release, multiple discussions were focused on > formalizing various Arrow specification details. > - Discussion was good and we reworked some integration to invert the > dependency model between the Parquet project and the Arrow project. > - A new Arrow file format was defined and implemented in both Java and C++. > - Community members covered Arrow at multiple conferences including Strata > NYC. > - Arrow <> Parquet interchange has been made available in both Java and > C++. > - The new Arrow file format is planned to be used to move forward on both > cross-language IPC implementations and enabling cross-language > compatibility > tests. > > ## Health report: > - The first release is a good step in engaging a broader range of > contributors > and users. Having bits for use, albeit alpha, allows us to engage a wider > range of engineers. > - We need to continue to add new examples and more documentation to better > describe how to use and extend Arrow. > > ## 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 19 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: > > - 0.1.0 was released on Wed Oct 12 2016 > > ## JIRA activity: > > - 95 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months > - 73 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months > -- Julien
