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 - [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> - 46% increase in traffic in past quarter (1574 compared to 1073) - [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> - 47% increase in traffic in past quarter (2027 compared to 1377) - [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> - 27% decrease in traffic in past quarter (116 compared to 157)
