Hi Andrew, Thanks for preparing this! I've added some comments for Flight RPC, Apache Arrow Flight SQL adapter for PostgreSQL, C GLib, MATLAB, Ruby, Swift and so on.
Thanks, -- ko In <cafhtnrzntty3xqv7r1hgxljdpnvsy2u+sl8xdlc0isqvdht...@mail.gmail.com> "[CROWDSOURCING] 2023 ASF Board Report -- October 11, 2023" on Thu, 28 Sep 2023 06:33:22 -0400, Andrew Lamb <al...@influxdata.com> wrote: > Hello Arrow Community, > > Please add any comments or board content directly to [1] or reply to > this email and I will incorporate your comments. You can see what we > currently have at the end of this email. > > One of the responsibilities of being part of the Apache Software Foundation > (ASF) is to regularly summarize the state of the project in a quarterly > update to the ASF board. I plan to submit the next report on October 14, > 2023 > > While this is partly an administrative reporting exercise, I think it is > also valuable to reflect on past accomplishments and think about goals for > the future. > > Historically, Arrow has crowd sourced the content which has worked well. > It would be especially interesting and valuable for members of the various > language > implementation communities and subprojects could provide a sentence or two > updates > > Thank you, > Andrew > > [1]: > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MU5cxzVuAIuDb6KXOAkwT4ze7IBGHKks_l92gxZeTbg/edit > > -- > > Current content > > ## Description: > The mission of Apache Arrow is the creation and maintenance of software > related to columnar in-memory processing and data interchange. More > information can be found at https://arrow.apache.org/overview/ > > ## Project Status: > > Current project status: Ongoing (high activity) > > Issues for the board: None > > ## Membership Data: > > Apache Arrow was founded 2016-01-19 (8 years ago) > There are currently 98 committers and 50 PMC members in this project. > The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:4. > > Community changes, past quarter: > - No new PMC members. Last addition was Dewey Dunnington on 2023-06-22. > - Kevin Gurney was added as committer on 2023-07-04 > - Metehan Yildirim was added as committer on 2023-08-29 > > > ## Project Activity: > > We added a new array layout, [Utf8View] to the Arrow spec, which allows > more efficient variable length string handling. > > > > [Utf8View]: https://lists.apache.org/thread/wt9j3q7qd59cz44kyh1zkts8s6wo1dn6 > > > ## Sub Project Updates > Arrow has several subprojects, as listed on https://arrow.apache.org/ > > ### ADBC > > > > > ### Arrow Flight > > > > > ### Arrow Flight SQL > > > > > ### DataFusion > > > > ### Acero > > > > ## Language Area Updates > > Arrow has at least 12 different language implementations, as explained in > https://arrow.apache.org/overview/ > > Arrow 12.0.0 was released from the monorepo: > https://arrow.apache.org/blog/2023/05/02/12.0.0-release/ > > ### C++ > > > > ### C# > > > > ### Go > > > > ### Java > > > ### JavaScript > > ### Julia > > > > ### nanoarrow > > > > ### Rust > > The Rust implementation is in the process of adding StringView. > > ### C (GLib) > > > ### MATLAB > > > > ### Python > > > > ### R > > > > ### Ruby > > > ### Swift > > > ## Community Health: > Community communication continues to be strong. > > There have been 5 blog posts published to https://arrow.apache.org/blog/ in > the last 3 months. > > The mailing lists are active > > * dev@arrow.apache.org had a 29% decrease in traffic in the past quarter > (568 emails compared to 789) > * u...@arrow.apache.org had a 52% decrease in traffic in the past quarter > (65 emails compared to 133) > > > For the mono repo: > > * 2328 commits in the past quarter (2% increase) > * 246 code contributors in the past quarter (-3% change) > * 1802 PRs opened on GitHub, past quarter (-13% change) > * 1740 PRs closed on GitHub, past quarter (-14% change) > * 1515 issues opened on GitHub, past quarter (-10% change) > * 1234 issues closed on GitHub, past quarter (-12% change)
