Hi folks! Here's the report for the quarter I submitted. Let me know if there are any last minute changes y'all would like to see.
---- ## Description: Apache Avro is a data serialization system with a compact binary format. It is used for storing and transporting schema driven serialized data. The unique features of Avro include automatic schema resolution - when the reader's expected schema is different from the actual schema with which the data was serialized the data is automatically adapted to meet reader's requirements. ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention. Our prior report received a question about the compliance of our CPAN artifacts with foundation Release Policy. As far as the community is aware the convenience artifacts are properly following policy. See discussion from the dev@avro list subject line "ASF policy check on CPAN published artifacts" (https://s.apache.org/g3erx). Specific concerns are welcome on the dev list. ## Membership Data: Apache Avro was founded 2010-04-20 (10 years ago) There are currently 34 committers and 24 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 3:2. Community changes, past quarter: - Ryan Skraba was added to the PMC on 2020-09-14 - No new committers. Last addition was Kengo Seki on 2020-07-08. ## Project Activity: Our last release was Apache Avro 1.10.0 on 2020-06-29. Since the last report the community has reached a consensus position to drop Python 2 support in an upcoming major release. (https://s.apache.org/129n1) Since the last report the community has accomplished a number of build updates as well as fixes and improvements across several language libraries (Java, python, php, ruby, c++). We are due for some additional releases. ## Numbers For those who prefer metrics: Mailing Lists: - dev@avro.apache.org had 454 emails (66% decrease) - u...@avro.apache.org had 61 emails (49% increase) - iss...@avro.apache.org had 121 emails (61% increase) JIRA: - 39 issues opened (55% decrease) - 25 issues closed (78% decrease) GitHub: - 32 PRs open (56% decrease) - 25 PRs closed (77% decrease) Code Repository: - 32 commits in the past quarter (80% decrease) - 16 code contributors in the past quarter (64% decrease) ## Community Health: Avro's community is doing well at slowly stabilizing and getting modest gains in participation. This quarter's large activity drops compared to the prior report I think are largely due to the unusually higher activity levels that come from getting out a major release during the prior reporting period. The PMC still has work to do on making sure a regular cadence of releases happen, but it has managed to add several committers and PMC members over the last year.
