Thanks, Julian!
Updated report as follows:
## 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 its own 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.
Calcite 1.18 was released towards the end of December with significant
enhancements to the SQL dialect: JSON functions, linear regression
functions and the WITHIN GROUP clause for aggregate functions.
Avatica 1.13 was released in early December and included numerous bug
fixes, upgraded dependencies and docker images for the HSQLDB flavor of
Avatica.
The PMC Chair was switched from Michael Moir to Francis Chuang on Dec 21
2018, following the project's tradition of rotating the PMC chair each year.
We continue to have a steady amount of contributions from new and
existing community members.
All of our git repositories (calcite, calcite-avatica and
calcite-avatica-go) were migrated to gitbox.
Finally, the project received a lot of excellent contributions, but a
number of them were not able to be merged into the Calcite 1.18 release
due to pull requests not being reviewed in a timely manner.
## Health report:
Activity levels on mailing lists, git and JIRA are normal for both
Calcite and Avatica.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 19 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Kevin Risden on Mon Jul 09 2018
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 35 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Andrei Sereda at Fri Sep 14 2018
## Releases:
- 1.18.0 was released on Fri Dec 21 2018
- avatica-1.13.0 was released on Tue Dec 04 2018
- avatica-go-3.2.0 was released on Mon Sep 17 2018
## JIRA activity:
- 154 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 105 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
On 3/01/2019 1:20 pm, Julian Hyde wrote:
I wouldn’t put it into “issues” because, as you say, there is nothing the Board
can do. It’s rare to put anything into “issues” because the Board does not have
powers to act (except in major ways, such as firing the entire PMC).
I would put it into “activity”. It is normal project activity to identify and
solve issues with our development process. The Board will be pleased that we
have identified issues and are working on them. Board members, as individuals
not on behalf of the Board, may well step forward to give us advice.
Julian
On Jan 2, 2019, at 6:10 PM, Francis Chuang <[email protected]> wrote:
Thanks, Julian!
I mentioned changing the PMC Chair and the migration to gitbox.
I also added a bit about the reviewing of PRs under "issues". I am not quite
sure what the board can do to help us, but I do hope this is something we can address
soon for Calcite. Avatica and Avatica-Go seem to be fine, but they don't receive a lot of
PRs.
Updated report attached:
## 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 its own repository.
## Issues:
The project received a lot of excellent contributions, but a number of them
were not able to be merged due to the pull requests not being reviewed in a
timely manner.
## Activity:
Development and mailing list activity is steady for both Calcite and its
Avatica sub-project.
Calcite 1.18 was released towards the end of December with significant
enhancements to the SQL dialect: JSON functions, linear regression functions
and the WITHIN GROUP clause for aggregate functions.
Avatica 1.13 was released in early December and included numerous bug fixes,
upgraded dependencies and docker images for the HSQLDB flavor of Avatica.
The PMC Chair was switched from Michael Moir to Francis Chuang on Dec 21 2018,
following the project's tradition of rotating the PMC chair each year.
We continue to have a steady amount of contributions from new and existing
community members.
Finally, all of our git repositories (calcite, calcite-avatica and
calcite-avatica-go) were migrated to gitbox.
## Health report:
Activity levels on mailing lists, git and JIRA are normal for both Calcite and
Avatica.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 19 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Kevin Risden on Mon Jul 09 2018
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 35 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Andrei Sereda at Fri Sep 14 2018
## Releases:
- 1.18.0 was released on Fri Dec 21 2018
- avatica-1.13.0 was released on Tue Dec 04 2018
- avatica-go-3.2.0 was released on Mon Sep 17 2018
## JIRA activity:
- 154 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 105 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
On 3/01/2019 10:42 am, Julian Hyde wrote:
Even though you probably don’t want to blow your own trumpet, Francis, I think we
should call out the change of VP, and the fact that we have had a "peaceful
transition of power” to a new person every year since graduation. I am proud of this
particular Calcite tradition, and one excellent side effect is the growing number of
former VP “elder statesmen” in our community.
Also mention the transition to gitbox?
Lastly, I am concerned at the number of active committers in the project (i.e.
people reviewing and committing PRs), and the number of good-looking PRs that
we did not include in 1.18. I don’t know whether it warrants a mention in this
quarter’s report, but I believe it is something that we urgently need to
address, as I wrote a couple of weeks back[1].
Julian
[1]
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/f131b63a61c2c22455335974b1b1256af0a435bec5be3fe020138087@%3Cdev.calcite.apache.org%3E
On Jan 2, 2019, at 1:37 PM, Francis Chuang <[email protected]> wrote:
Thanks Kevin, looks like I forgot the version number (1.13) for Avatica. I'll
also move it to a separate paragraph, so that it's more prominent.
Francis
On 3/01/2019 8:34 am, Kevin Risden wrote:
Should call out the Avatica release in the Activity section.
Kevin Risden
On Wed, Jan 2, 2019 at 4:29 PM Francis Chuang <[email protected]> wrote:
Attached below is a draft of this month's board report. Please let me
know if you have any additions or corrections.
## 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 its own 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.
Calcite 1.18 was released towards the end of December with significant
enhancements to the SQL dialect: JSON functions, linear regression
functions and the WITHIN GROUP clause for aggregate functions. Avatica
was released in early December and included numerous bug fixes, upgraded
dependencies and docker images for the HSQLDB flavor of Avatica.
We continue to have a steady amount of contributions from new and
existing community members.
## Health report:
Activity levels on mailing lists, git and JIRA are normal for both
Calcite and Avatica.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 19 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was
Kevin Risden on Mon Jul 09 2018
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 35 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Andrei Sereda at Fri Sep 14 2018
## Releases:
- 1.18.0 was released on Fri Dec 21 2018
- avatica-1.13.0 was released on Tue Dec 04 2018
- avatica-go-3.2.0 was released on Mon Sep 17 2018
## JIRA activity:
- 154 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 105 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
