Hello all, I've attached the draft board report for May. I included a list of interesting work but these are only the items that I have followed or am personally aware of, so if there are others that you'd like highlighted, please let me know. I'd appreciate comments back by Monday 11 May as the report is due on 13 May. Thank you!
## 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. ## Membership Data: Apache Drill was founded 2014-11-18 (5 years ago) There are currently 56 committers and 26 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:4. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Bohdan Kazydub on 2020-01-28. - No new committers. Last addition was Denys Ordynskiy on 2019-12-26. ## Project Activity: Since the lsat board reporr there has been considerable work done to Drill in preparation for the 1.18 release. Unfortunately the situation with COVID-19 has affected the development schedule. We have committed the following PRs of interest: - RDBMS Metastore for Drill - Significantly Refactored and Improved JSON Readers - Various Improvements to REST API - Time bucket and other UDFs to facilitate time series analysis - Storage plugin for REST APIs (https://youtu.be/oEOhFWm3D9A for demo) - Improvements to Excel Reader to allow large files - Format Plugin for SPSS files Additionally we have the following new functionality near completion: - Storage Plugin for Apache Druid In resposne to the questions from the last Board report, the Drill community has held two hangouts. Since the main developers are based in the US on both coasts, and in Ukraine, we held them at 10AM ET which is 7AM PT, and 1600 CET (Ukraine). The hangout was in English as everyone in the community does speak English. We didn't take minutes, but there were some follow on discussions over email and one concrete result was that Drill's error messages have been significantly improved. ## Community Health: [email protected] had a 24% increase in traffic [email protected] had a 60% increase in traffic 158 issues opened in JIRA (15% increase) 117 issues closed in JIRA (17% increase) 106 commits in the past quarter (6% increase) 13 code contributors (-18% decrease) 102 PRs opened on GitHub (27% increase) 107 PRs closed on GitHub (42% increase)
