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> On Nov 8, 2019, at 3:32 PM, Charles Givre <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 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)
