Hello, You will find here the Avro report for this quarter, let me know if any comments or ideas to improve it or to improve future versions.
## 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. ## Membership Data: Apache Avro was founded 2010-04-20 (10 years ago) There are currently 35 committers and 24 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 3:2. Community changes, past quarter: - One new committer. Last addition was David Mollitor on 2021-10-04 - No new PMC member elected. Last addition was Ryan Skraba on 2020-09-14 ## Project Activity: The project started the release process of the next version Avro 1.11.0 at the end of this quarter but due to some issues it was not ready on time. The Rust Avro version is now validated on the CI and being stabilized, we expect to include it in the next release. For those who prefer metrics: Mailing Lists: - [email protected] had 993 emails (51% increase) - [email protected] had 13 emails (63% decrease) - [email protected] had 236 emails (74% increase) JIRA: - 54 issues opened (-18% change) - 58 issues closed (61% change) Commit activity: - 106 commits in the past quarter (-10% decrease) - 27 code contributors in the past quarter (92% increase) GitHub: - 74 PRs open (-28% change) - 83 PRs closed (-8% change) ## Community Health: Community health is doing well at drawing in new contributions but we noticed a growing backlog of unreviewed pull requests probably due to the lack of active committers. The pace was good this quarter, with almost twice the number of contributors of the last quarter. We are working hard to detect and recognize the work of seasoned contributors to solve this and we added David Mollitor as a new committer and we are discussing adding our first Rust committer soon. We had less participation on the user@ mailing list and some unanswered emails (probably due to the same issue of active committers). We have also to remember that many conversations on Avro happen on dev@ too (which had a big increase in traffic in this period). We expect to finally catch on the release cadence for the next quarter with the 1.11.0 release. Work to support more recent language ecosystems continues as well as the intention to downstream Avro releases into other Apache projects eagerly.
