Resending draft shortly with additions. It's hard for me to know everything that is going on with Drill, and I definitely want to highlight everyone's good work!
> On Nov 7, 2019, at 7:01 AM, Volodymyr Vysotskyi <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Charles, > > Could you please add a couple of items to the list of upcoming features, > for example, I think that we should mention the following improvements: > - Hive complex types support (arrays, structs, union) > - Canonical Map<K, V> support > - Schema provisioning via table function > - Empty parquet files read / write support > - Run-time row group pruning > > Please refer to the upcoming release notes to point other significant > improvements: > https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12313820&version=12344870 > > <https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12313820&version=12344870> > . > > Kind regards, > Volodymyr Vysotskyi > > > On Wed, Nov 6, 2019 at 4:14 PM Charles Givre <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > >> Hello all, >> Here is the proposed Drill board report. Could everyone please take a >> look and add comments by noon thursday? I'd like to highlight both recently >> submitted and other issues in progress. I put the ones that I knew, but >> I'd like to highlight the work on the metastore, anything else that people >> would like highlighted. >> Thanks! >> -- C >> >> >> ## Description: >> The mission of Drill is the creation and maintenance of software related >> to >> Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Apache Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage >> >> ## Issues: >> There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. >> >> ## Membership Data: >> Apache Drill was founded 2014-11-18 (5 years ago) >> There are currently 55 committers and 24 PMC members in this project. >> The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:3. >> >> Community changes, past quarter: >> - No new PMC members. Last addition was Sorabh Hamirwasia on 2019-04-04. >> - No new committers. Last addition was Anton Gozhiy on 2019-07-22. >> >> ## Project Activity: >> - Drill 1.16 was released on 2019-05-02. >> - Drill 1.17 was delayed until end of November. >> >> ### Next Release >> The next release of Drill (1.17) resolved many issues and added a lot of >> new >> functionality including: >> - Enhanced Drill metastore >> - Numerous enhancements and upgrades to Drill with Hive >> - Format plugin for Excel Files >> - Format plugin for ESRI Shape Files >> - Add Variable Argument UDFs >> - Add UDF to parse user agent strings >> >> ### Future Functionality in Development >> There are a number of enhancements for which there are active PRs or >> discussions >> on the various boards. >> - Integration between Apache Drill and Apache Daffodil (Incubating) >> - Storage plugin for Apache Druid >> - Upgrading Drill to use Hadoop v. 3.0 >> - Format plugin for HDF5 >> >> >> ## Community Health: >> Drill seems to be recovering from the collapse of Drill's major backer >> MapR. >> >> ### Development Activity >> - 96 issues opened in JIRA (1% increase from last quarter) >> - 85 issues closed in JIRA (28% increase from last quarter) >> - 55 commits in past quarter (14% increase from last quarter) >> - 15 contributors from last quarter (25% increase) >> - 53 PRs opened on GitHub (no change from last quarter) >> - 63 PRs closed on GitHub (no change from last quarter) >> >> ### Email Lists >> - [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> <mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> >> - 46% increase in traffic in past quarter (1574 compared to 1073) >> >> - [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> <mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> >> - 47% increase in traffic in past quarter (2027 compared to 1377) >> >> - [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> <mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> >> - 27% decrease in traffic in past quarter (116 compared to 157)
