All, Every quarter we have to report to the Apache Board about how the project is going. Suggestions welcome.
.. Owen ## Description: A high-performance columnar file format for Hadoop workloads. ## Issues: - There are no issues requiring the board's attention. ## Activity: - We've made the 1.2.0 release and a bug fix release. - We've updated the http://orc.apache.org/ home page to better support the Apache branding guidelines. - We've implemented benchmarks between Avro, JSON, ORC, and Parquet. - We've given presentations about the benchmarks at Hadoop Summit San Jose and Melbourne, and Strata New York. https://s.apache.org/file-format-bench ## Health report: - We continue efforts to increase the size and diversity of the contributor base by encouraging people to contribute to the project. ## PMC changes: - Currently 6 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Aliaksei Sandryhaila on Wed Nov 18 2015 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 12 committers. - No new changes to the committer base since last report. - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was more than 2 years ago ## Releases: - 1.2.0 was released on Wed Aug 24 2016 - 1.2.1 was released on Tue Oct 04 2016 ## Mailing list activity: - The mailing list is relatively stable with fewer issues, but a little more dev and user traffic. - dev@orc.apache.org: - 33 subscribers (up 4 in the last 3 months): - 149 emails sent to list (186 in previous quarter) - iss...@orc.apache.org: - 15 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months): - 136 emails sent to list (186 in previous quarter) - u...@orc.apache.org: - 32 subscribers (up 3 in the last 3 months): - 18 emails sent to list (4 in previous quarter) ## JIRA activity: - 23 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 17 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months