Thanks for the feedback, Lefty!
.. Owen
> On Apr 14, 2018, at 20:31, Lefty Leverenz wrote:
>
> Overall LGTM. Just a few editorial nits:
>
> 1. In Health report, "moved to code to an external github site" seems
> wrong, should it be "moved the code ..."?
> 2. Vertical whitespace inconsistencies:
> - blank lines after headings starting with PMC changes, but not
> before that
> - two blank lines before u...@orc.apache.org
> 3. Colon not needed at end of line for all 3 subscribers tallies
>
> -- Lefty
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 13, 2018 at 11:54 AM Owen O'Malley
> wrote:
>
>> Feedback welcome.
>>
>> .. Owen
>>
>> ## Description:
>> - A high-performance columnar file format for Hadoop workloads.
>>
>> ## Issues:
>> - There are no issues requiring the board's attention.
>>
>> ## Activity:
>> - We made two bug fix releases for the 1.4 branch and will make another
>> soon.
>> - We also need to finalize the ORC 1.5 release.
>> - We decided to create a security list.
>> - Expanded the development page on the website to help new committers.
>> - Refactored the format specification on the website to make it easier
>> to add the new ORCv2 specification as we work on it.
>> - The Iceberg project https://github.com/Netflix/iceberg from Netflix
>> added
>> ORC support.
>> - Presentations got accepted about ORC for Berlin Buzzwords and Dataworks
>> Summit San Jose.
>>
>> ## Health report:
>> - Discovered that our benchmarking code was using a GPL dependency and
>> so moved to code to an external github site.
>> - The activity level is increasing and drawing from an increasing number
>> of contributors. We continue to track the contributions looking for new
>> committers and PMC members.
>>
>> ## PMC changes:
>>
>> - Currently 9 PMC members.
>> - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
>> - Last PMC addition was Eugene Koifman on Tue Sep 05 2017
>>
>> ## Committer base changes:
>>
>> - Currently 38 committers.
>> - New commmitters:
>>- Gang Wu was added as a committer on Wed Mar 28 2018
>>- Xiening Dai was added as a committer on Fri Apr 06 2018
>>
>> ## Releases:
>>
>> - 1.4.2 was released on Mon Jan 22 2018
>> - 1.4.3 was released on Thu Feb 08 2018
>>
>> ## Mailing list activity:
>>
>> The traffic is up this quarter, but in line with expectactions.
>>
>> - dev@orc.apache.org:
>>- 55 subscribers (up 5 in the last 3 months):
>>- 328 emails sent to list (261 in previous quarter)
>>
>> - iss...@orc.apache.org:
>>- 20 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
>>- 409 emails sent to list (293 in previous quarter)
>>
>>
>> - u...@orc.apache.org:
>>- 58 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months):
>>- 36 emails sent to list (14 in previous quarter)
>>
>> ## JIRA activity:
>>
>> - 51 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
>> - 38 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
>>
