I'll pull this together today and post. Any last comments?
On Wed, Jan 6, 2021 at 4:16 AM Antoine Pitrou <anto...@python.org> wrote: > > > Le 05/01/2021 à 21:57, Wes McKinney a écrit : > > It's time for our quarterly board report (due next Wednesday). Can > > everyone help with completing the various sections? > > > > ## Description: > > The mission of Apache Arrow is the creation and maintenance of software > > related > > to columnar in-memory processing and data interchange > > > > ## Issues: > > [Insert your own data here] > > - After our past issues around scarce CI resources, we had managed to > stabilize our CI setup around the relatively generous execution > facilities provided by Github Actions, and a bunch of additional builds > on other platforms (mostly for nightly builds). That equilibrium was > unfortunately shattered after INFRA suddenly disallowed most third-party > Github Actions helpers in response to security concerns. Our remaining > Github Actions builds also seem to be queued longer. > > Concurrently, Travis-CI also started to be much stricter with resource > consumption, which is currently affecting several of our nightly builds > until we manage to migrate them to other CI services. > > These factors compounded mean we'll finally need to provide and set up > our own CI resources. We hope to be able to migrate a significant number > of builds to Buildkite, using execution resources paid by our sponsors. > We also hope that INFRA rules around repository access and configuration > won't stifle that endeavour. > > - The weight of our release procedure (due to the number of > implementations and platforms involved) puts a burden on our capacity to > release often. Our goal is to cut a new feature release roughly once > every two months, which often ends up challenging. This situation also > makes us reluctant to put out bugfix releases in-between, except for > critical fixes. > > > ## Membership Data: > > Apache Arrow was founded 2016-01-19 (5 years ago) > > There are currently 54 committers and 30 PMC members in this project. > > The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 9:5. > > > > Community changes, past quarter: > > - No new PMC members. Last addition was Francois Saint-Jacques on > > 2020-03-04. > > - Andrew Lamb was added as committer on 2020-11-06 > > > > ## Project Activity: > > [Insert your own data here] > > - We'd like to release Arrow 3.0 around mid-January. The issues > discussed above (diminished CI coverage due to disallowed third-party > Github Actions, blocked nightly builds on Travis-CI, complex release > procedure) make it more difficult than we'd like. > > - There seems to be growing interest in zero-copy zero-dependency > cross-runtime interoperability using our "C data interface". It is now > concretely possible to share data in-process between R, Python and Rust, > without any shared code and without going through IPC mechanisms (the > latter still possible, of course, using the Arrow IPC format). Other > projects such as DuckDB have started using this interface. > > - The Arrow in-memory format is regularly being adopted and/or adapted > to in other projects, especially in the dataframe and database communities. > > > ## Community Health: > > [Insert your own data here] > > The project is overall very active. The Rust implementation is > especially thriving, with numerous pull requests being submitted and > merged in due time. The C++ implementation is advancing at similar speed > as in previous reports. A Julia implementation was recently contributed. > > Our pull request backlog has also grown slightly as a result of > increased activity, but it does not seem to be posing a real problem for > now. > > Regards > > Antoine.
