Report from the Apache Parquet committee [Julien Le Dem] ## Description: Parquet is a standard and interoperable columnar file format for efficient analytics.
## Issues: there are no issues requiring board attention at this time ## Activity: The community has been converging toward a 1.9 release. The vote will start in the coming days. Discussion about better encoding and vectorization apis are ongoing. The parquet-cpp repo has reached a stable state and should release soon. Integration with arrow-cpp is now in the parquet-cpp repo. ## Health report: The PMC and committer list are growing. Discussion is happening on the mailing list, JIRA and regular hangout sync up. Notes are sent to the mailing list. ## PMC changes: - Currently 22 PMC members. - Wes McKinney was added to the PMC on Thu Sep 01 2016 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 25 committers. - Uwe Korn was added as a committer on Sun Sep 04 2016 ## Releases: - Last release was Format 2.3.1 on Thu Dec 17 2015 ## Mailing list activity: - Activity on the mailing list is still relatively the same - JIRAS are resolved about at the same pace they are opened. - [email protected]: - 172 subscribers (up 9 in the last 3 months): - 486 emails sent to list (394 in previous quarter) ## JIRA activity: - 85 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 74 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months -- Julien
