+1, thanks Jacques
On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 1:40 AM, Jacques Nadeau <jacq...@apache.org> wrote: > Thanks for the ideas. Here is what I posted: > > ## 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 has made great progress since the last report. > - The community has actively been driving towards a set of cross-language > compatibility tests. These are now complete. > - The compatibility tests were a key gate identified to seeing the > specification as solidified. Now that it is, the community will be > starting > work on our second release. > - This release will show the arrow projects java arrow, arrow-cpp, py-arrow > and Parquet's parquet-cpp all working nicely together. > > ## Health report: > - A core group of community members continue to make good progress on > various > aspects of both the Java, C++ and python projects. > - We're seen a small number of casual contributors arrive and provide > additional patches to the project. > - Multiple people have been doing community outreach through the various > blog > posts, meetups and conference presentations. Examples include > - Upcoming talk at Strata San Jose in March > - Upcoming talk at Dataworks Summit Munich in April > - Arrow and Pandas vision: https://s.apache.org/arrow_1701_01 > - Python Data Wrangling talk: https://s.apache.org/arrow_1701_02 > - We continue to see nice growth in mailing list and jira activity. > > ## PMC changes: > > - Currently 18 PMC members. > - Wes McKinney was added to the PMC on Wed Oct 19 2016 > > ## Committer base changes: > > - Currently 21 committers. > - Uwe Korn was added as a committer on Thu Oct 27 2016 > > ## Releases: > > - Last release was 0.1.0 on Tue Oct 11 2016 > > ## JIRA activity: > > - 140 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months > - 117 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months > > On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 10:16 AM, Wes McKinney <wesmck...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> The integration test success is the biggest news. We should definitely >> try to release 0.2 as soon as possible. >> >> Other features >> >> - Significantly improved performance in Python pandas interoperability >> - Refactored parquet-cpp to depend on Arrow C++ memory management >> (buffers) and IO components >> >> I wrote 3 blog posts recently that include some words about Arrow >> >> http://wesmckinney.com/blog/outlook-for-2017/ >> http://wesmckinney.com/blog/high-perf-arrow-to-pandas/ >> http://wesmckinney.com/blog/python-hdfs-interfaces/ >> >> I talked some about Arrow in my recent talk: >> http://www.slideshare.net/wesm/python-data-wrangling- >> preparing-for-the-future. >> >> Thanks >> Wes >> >> On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 12:45 PM, Julien Le Dem <jul...@dremio.com> wrote: >> > Now that we have cross compatibility tests between Java and C++ we're >> going >> > to release a 0.2 soon. >> > arrow-cpp, py-arrow and parquet-cpp work together nicely. >> > I'm going to talk about arrow at Starta San Jose (March) and Dataworks >> > Summit in Munich (April) >> > >> > >> > On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 9:38 AM, Jacques Nadeau <jacq...@apache.org> >> wrote: >> > >> >> Hey All, I'm going to full together a arrow board report. Anything >> people >> >> think I should note? Presentations, progress, key features, etc? >> >> >> >> thanks, >> >> jacques >> >> >> > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > Julien >>
