Hey Everyone,
It's time for the quarterly report to the board.
Here is the draft and please let me know if there is anything else to include!
Bests,
William
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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 (9 years ago)
There are currently 49 committers and 14 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:2.
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Pavan Lanka on 2023-03-30.
- No new committers. Last addition was Yuanping Wu on 2024-05-14.
## Project Activity:
According to our release cadence, we released three maintenance releases
in this quarter and helped other Apache communities use them.
- 1.9.4 was released on 2024-07-17
- 1.7.11 was released on 2024-09-13
- 2.0.2 was released on 2024-08-15.
In addition, we are preparing the following milestones for the next quarter.
- 1.8.8 (November)
- 1.9.5 (November)
- 2.0.3 (November)
- 2.1.0 (January)
## Community Health:
In this quarter, the traffic of dev and issues mailing lists
have decreased by 13% and 22% respectively.
We are preparing for the planned releases ahead
and looking to return to normal activity levels soon.
