Feedback is welcome...
## Description:
- A high-performance columnar file format for Hadoop workloads.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring the board's attention.
## Activity:
- We made the 1.5.3 bug fix release.
- There were two presentations about ORC at ApacheCon in Montreal:
+ A presentation about ORC column encryption
+ A presentation about benchmarks for ORC and other file formats
read performance from Spark
## Health report:
- The community has been a little quieter this quarter in between
releases.
- We continue to evaluate new committers and PMC members.
## 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:
- 1.5.3 was released on Mon Sep 24 2018
## JIRA activity:
- 25 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 24 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
