The report looks fine. Not sure if we already mentioned turbodbc in the
last report. If not, we should include it.
Uwe
On Fri, Jul 14, 2017, at 04:37 PM, Jacques Nadeau wrote:
> Wes, thanks for pulling this together! We've crazy busy getting reading
> to
> launch. I'll post this in a few hours after anybody provides any
> suggested
> additions/modifications.
>
> On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 7:31 AM, Wes McKinney <wesmck...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > If anyone has any comments on this quarter's board report or anything
> > to add, please let us know.
> >
> > Thanks!
> > Wes
> >
> > ## 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:
> >
> > - Heavy development activity and growing community since the last board
> > report. We have made 3 releases, with the next release 0.5.0 coming soon.
> >
> > - The Ray project for machine learning from the UC Berkeley RISELab
> > contributed
> > a large software component, a shared memory object store ("Plasma"), to
> > the
> > Apache Arrow project.
> >
> > - The Arrow 0.3.0 release on May 2 included C and Ruby bindings for the
> > Arrow
> > C++ libraries. We have also seen a native JavaScript (TypeScript)
> > implementation appear for use.
> >
> > - We have made significant progress toward completing compatibility
> > between the
> > Java and C++ implementations of the Arrow memory format. As soon as we
> > achieve reasonable completeness, we should consider leaping to Arrow
> > 1.0.0 to
> > communicate to the rest of the open source world that Arrow is no longer
> > as
> > much of a work-in-progress and ready for more widespread use.
> >
> > - We have created the arrow-dist git repo to assist with cross-language and
> > cross-platform packaging.
> >
> > - Apache Spark has merged its first Arrow integration, SPARK-13534
> >
> > - The external GPU Open Analytics Initiative is using Apache Arrow as its
> > data
> > interchange format
> >
> > ## Health report:
> >
> > - Arrow is seeing an uptick in community interest and adoption. The
> > increase in
> > activity reflects the project's scope expanding (i.e. more programming
> > languages) and increase in use in other projects. We expect this trend to
> > continue as Arrow's perception changes to be deemed more
> > production-ready and
> > stable.
> >
> > ## PMC changes:
> >
> > - Currently 19 PMC members.
> > - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
> > - Last PMC addition was Uwe Korn on Wed Apr 12 2017
> >
> > ## Committer base changes:
> >
> > - Currently 22 committers.
> > - Kouhei Sutou was added as a committer on Wed May 10 2017
> >
> > ## Releases:
> >
> > - 0.3.0 was released on Thu May 04 2017
> > - 0.4.0 was released on Mon May 22 2017
> > - 0.4.1 was released on Thu Jun 08 2017
> >
> > ## Mailing list activity:
> >
> > - We changed our JIRA notification schema to send only issue *creation*
> > e-mails to the primary mailing list, with further comments and edits
> > going
> > to issues@
> >
> > - dev@arrow.apache.org:
> > - 547 subscribers (up 17 in the last 3 months):
> > - 622 emails sent to list (1098 in previous quarter)
> >
> > - iss...@arrow.apache.org:
> > - 11 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
> > - 1985 emails sent to list (1255 in previous quarter)
> >
> > - revi...@arrow.apache.org:
> > - 9 subscribers (up 9 in the last 3 months)
> >
> >
> > ## JIRA activity:
> >
> > - 395 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
> > - 333 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
> >
