All, 
Below is the draft with some updates.  If anyone has anything else, please get 
them to me over the weekend. 
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 
- 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
- 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 acquisition 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
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 - 27% decrease in traffic in past quarter (116 compared to 157)

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