Hey All! It's time for the quarterly report. Here is the draft. Please let me know if there is anything to add. With the addition of SBOM, releasing 1.7.8 and 1.8.2 this month will be helpful in getting early feedback. Any volunteers?
Bests, William Hyun -------- ## 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 (8 years ago) There are currently 46 committers and 14 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 Yiqun Zhang on 2022-05-06. - No new committers. Last addition was Pavan Lanka on 2022-05-23. ## Project Activity: According to our release cadence, we released one feature release and one maintenance release in this quarter. - 1.8.1 was released on 2022-12-02. - 1.7.7 was released on 2022-11-17. We have prepared an SBOM (Software Bill of Materials). https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/COMDEV/SBOM We are looking to release the following versions soon in order to get user feedback on the SBOM. We have adjusted the release date to this month. - 1.7.8 (January) - 1.8.2 (January) ## Community Health: In this quarter, activities have slowed down due to the Holiday season. We are preparing for the planned releases and looking to return back to normal soon.
