Calcite community, I attach the draft of the report I propose to file for the 10/18 Apache board meeting.
Please, let me know if you have any feedback. Also if you are aware of any talks given about Calcite in addition to those that I have added! Thanks, Jesús --- ## Description: Apache Calcite is a highly customizable framework for parsing and planning queries on data in a wide variety of formats. It allows database-like access, and in particular a SQL interface and advanced query optimization, for data not residing in a traditional database. Avatica is a sub-project within Calcite, and provides a framework for building local and remote JDBC and ODBC database drivers. Avatica has an independent release schedule, and since April 2017, it has its own independent repository. ## Issues: - There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Activity: Development and mailing list activity is steady for both Calcite and its Avatica sub-project. Since the last board meeting, there has been one Calcite release. Calcite 1.14.0 was released at the beginning of October. The release included more than 60 new features, improvements and bug fixes. Among others, the GEOMETRY data type was added along with 35 associated functions part of the OpenGIS set. Thus, projects integrating with Calcite can benefit from this initial spatial support. In addition, a new adapter for Elasticsearch5 was added. The adapter was an unexpected contribution by a new member in the community, which is representative of the benefits of open-source software development. Finally, a cool new feature was added: the "sqlsh" command, which allows you to run SQL queries against your OS from your shell! Our community continued growing this quarter, as a new committer (Chris Baynes) was added to the project. Finally, there was an important presence of the Apache Calcite project in talks at multiple events, such as FlinkForward 2017 (Berlin, Germany) and DataWorks Summit APAC 2017 (Sydney, Australia). ## Health report: Activity levels on mailing lists, git and JIRA are normal for both Calcite and Avatica. ## PMC changes: - Currently 16 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Michael Mior on Mon Apr 03 2017 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 26 committers. - Chris Baynes was added as a committer on Wed Aug 23 2017 ## Releases: - 1.14.0 was released on Sun Oct 01 2017 ## JIRA activity: - 122 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 70 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
