Here is my report to the Apache Board. Feedback welcome. .. Owen
## Description: - A high-performance columnar file format for Hadoop workloads. ## Issues: - There are no issues requiring the board's attention. ## Activity: - Released ORC 1.5.0 (and a few follow up bug fixes 1.5.1 and 1.5.2) + Added new C++ writer + Added support for variable length blocks in HDFS + Implemented a CSV to ORC converter + Improved performance for decimal types + Added support for compiling C++ code under MSVC. - Presentation about Avro, ORC, and Parquet benchmarks from Spark was given at Berlin Buzzwords https://berlinbuzzwords.de/18/session/fast-access-your-complex-data-avro-json-orc-and-parquet The code is in ORC-386 at https://github.com/apache/orc/pull/290 - Presentation about how to split up projects, such as ORC out of Hive, at FOSS Backstage https://foss-backstage.de/session/untangling-spaghetti-when-and-how-split-projects - Did a FeatherCast about ORC in Berlin. ## Health report: - After more discussions and a thread on Apache legal, we have reincorporated the benchmark code, which depends on the GPL'ed JMH framework back in to the project. Consensus was that because the benchmarks are not user facing they qualify as "optional components" from https://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html#optional . To strengthen this characterization, we ensured that the benchmarks are not built by default and are not distributed on Maven Central. ## PMC changes: - Currently 9 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Eugene Koifman on Tue Sep 05 2017 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 38 committers. - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was Xiening Dai at Fri Apr 06 2018 ## Releases: - 1.4.4 was released on Sun May 13 2018 - 1.5.0 was released on Sun May 13 2018 - 1.5.1 was released on Thu May 24 2018 - 1.5.2 was released on Thu Jun 28 2018 ## Mailing list activity: - With the new version coming out, we've had a lot of developer list traffic. - dev@orc.apache.org: - 57 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months): - 393 emails sent to list (305 in previous quarter) - iss...@orc.apache.org: - 20 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months): - 462 emails sent to list (388 in previous quarter) - u...@orc.apache.org: - 60 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months): - 7 emails sent to list (37 in previous quarter) ## JIRA activity: - 47 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 40 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
