I submitted the following report. We can edit it any time for the next couple of weeks, so please respond to this list (dev@) if there is something you think should change.
## Description: Impala is a high-performance distributed SQL engine. ## Issues: As mentioned in the May report, Impala asked Google to add a disclaimer to their "IMPALA: Scalable Distributed DeepRL in DMLab-30"[0] acknowledging that the ASF owns the Impala trademark. Google had declined to do so, but as of June 5th, they "made a decision to launch the code by reference to its full name (Importance Weighted Actor-Learner Architecture) - i.e. we will no longer be using the acronym IMPALA". A project named "Palo" was accepted into the Incubator as "Doris". It is based on a forked Impala code base and a few Impala PMC members have expressed concern about some of their previous practices from a community-oriented perspective. These were addressed directly by the Palo/Doris community in the incubation proposal and there will hopefully be upcoming opportunities for both projects to start more direct contributions to each other. ## Activity: The previous three months had 364 patches to the master branch, while this three-month period had 350. Prominent work in the last three months includes: - The release of Impala 3.0 - The start of a very large effort to enable Impala to run without catalogd, which can sometimes be a bottleneck - A number of improvements to developer workflow, including documentation build changes and improvements to automate our CI system even more - The addition of fine-grained privileges A new book with multiple chapters about Impala was published, "Next-Generation Big Data: A Practical Guide to Apache Kudu, Impala, and Spark", by Butch Quinto. ## Health report: The project remains healthy and the cadence of most metrics (number of commits, emails, releases) is steady compared to previous quarters. One notable change is user@, which declined in volume by roughly 64%. The previous quarter, some large threads dominated user@: - A user inquiry on local join vs. exchange (10%) - A user inquiry on installation on Ubuntu (10%) - A user inquiry on admission control (7%) - A user inquiry on memory estimation (10%) ## PMC changes: - Currently 26 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Philip Zeyliger on Sun Apr 22 2018 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 42 committers. - New committers: - Attila Jeges was added as a committer on Fri May 18 2018 - Zoltán Borók-Nagy was added as a committer on Fri May 04 2018 - Csaba Ringhofer was added as a committer on Mon May 28 2018 - Fredy Wijaya was added as a committer on Mon Jun 25 2018 - Gabor Kaszab was added as a committer on Fri May 18 2018 - Jin Chul Kim was added as a committer on Fri May 18 2018 ## Releases: - 3.0.0 was released on Sun May 06 2018 ## Mailing list activity: Mailing lists metrics that held very steady: - dev@: 341 emails (309 in previous quarter) - issues@: 932 emails (929 in previous quarter) - reviews@: 6250 emails (6502 in previous quarter) ## JIRA activity: - 419 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 418 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Phil Steitz <[email protected]> Date: Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 11:57 AM Subject: Impala Board Report due for August 2018 - Initial Reminder To: Jim Apple Cc: [email protected] This email was sent on behalf of the ASF Board. It is an initial reminder to give you plenty of time to prepare the report. According to board records, you are listed as the chair of a committee that is due to submit a report this month. [1] [2] The meeting is scheduled for Wed, 15 Aug 2018 at 10:30 PDT and the deadline for submitting your report is 1 full week prior to that (Wed Aug 8th)! Meeting times in other time zones: https://timeanddate.com/s/3k2v Please submit your report with sufficient time to allow the board members to review and digest. Again, the very latest you should submit your report is 1 full week (7days) prior to the board meeting (Wed Aug 8th). If you feel that an error has been made, please consult [1] and if there is still an issue then contact the board directly. As always, PMC chairs are welcome to attend the board meeting. Thanks, The ASF Board [1] - https://svn.apache.org/repos/private/committers/board/committee-info.txt [2] - https://svn.apache.org/repos/private/committers/board/calendar.txt [3] - https://svn.apache.org/repos/private/committers/board/templates [4] - https://reporter.apache.org/ Submitting your Report ---------------------- Full details about the process and schedule are in [1]. Details about what a report should look like can be found at: https://www.apache.org/foundation/board/reporting Reports should be posted using the online agenda tool: https://whimsy.apache.org/board/agenda/2018-08-15/Impala Cutting and pasting directly from a Wiki is not acceptable due to formatting issues. Line lengths should be limited to 77 characters. If submitting using Whimsy please press Reflow before Submit. Chairs may use the Apache Reporter Service [4] to help them compile and submit a board report. Resolutions ----------- There are several templates for use for various Board resolutions. They can be found in [3] and you are encouraged to use them. It is strongly recommended that if you have a resolution before the board, you are encouraged to attend that board meeting.
