It's time for our quarterly report to the ASF board. I wrote a draft.
Please let me know if you'd like to add or change anything.
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## Description:
The mission of ORC is the creation and maintenance of software related
to the smallest, fastest columnar storage for Hadoop workloads.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention.
## Membership Data:
Apache ORC was founded 2015-04-21 (7 years ago)
There are currently 44 committers and 13 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 3:1.
The PMC has been focusing on the community's growth to be
a healthier community by helping candidates.
- No new PMC members. Last addition was William Hyun on 2021-09-30.
- Yiqun Zhang was added as committer on 2021-11-23
- One invited candidate has been working on ICLA/CCLA.
## Project Activity:
In 2022, we started to build and share the release plan to improve
the visibility and collaboration of the Apache ORC releases for all active
branches.
This is based on our release cadence discussion in 2021.
- 1.6.13 (2022-01-15)
- 1.7.3 (2022-02-15)
- 1.8.0 (2022-09-15)
We also released three maintenance releases in this quarter and
helped the downstream Apache projects: Spark, Arrow, Iceberg.
- 1.7.2 was released on 2021-12-20
- 1.7.1 was released on 2021-11-07
- 1.6.12 was released on 2021-11-07
In addition, we updated the Apache ORC adopters page for the users.
https://orc.apache.org/docs/adopters.html
Lastly, we revisited our test coverage and simplified our CI environment
by migrating AppVeyor CI and Travis CI jobs to GitHub Action CI.
We are expecting improved controllability and speedup in the review process.
## Community Health:
Due to the seasonal reasons, all activity metrics decreased in this quarter.
However, we have a good start in the year 2022 in the number of
commits and PRs and new contributors.
