Hi folks,
Any feedback on this quarter's board report?
Thanks
Wes
## Description:
Arrow is a columnar in-memory analytics layer designed to accelerate big data.
It houses a set of canonical in-memory representations of flat and hierarchical
data along with multiple language-bindings for structure manipulation. It also
provides IPC and common algorithm implementations.
Arrow contains implementations or bindings in various stages in
Java, C++, C, Ruby, Python, and JavaScript.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- We have added 6 new committers to the project
- Continued development activity and growing community since the last board
report. We have made 4 releases, with the next release 0.8.0 coming in a
month or so
- Development activity is increasing in JavaScript, and we are also looking to
grow a community of R language developers in the coming quarters.
## Health report:
- Arrow activity continues to increase with community interest and adoption.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 20 PMC members.
- Kouhei Sutou was added to the PMC on Fri Sep 15 2017
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 28 committers.
- New commmitters:
- Phillip Cloud was added as a committer on Tue Oct 03 2017
- Bryan Cutler was added as a committer on Wed Oct 04 2017
- Li Jin was added as a committer on Fri Oct 06 2017
- Philipp Moritz was added as a committer on Mon Aug 14 2017
- Paul Taylor was added as a committer on Fri Oct 06 2017
- Siddharth Teotia was added as a committer on Wed Oct 04 2017
## Releases:
- 0.5.0 was released on Sun Jul 23 2017
- 0.6.0 was released on Mon Aug 14 2017
- 0.7.0 was released on Sat Sep 16 2017
- 0.7.1 was released on Sun Oct 01 2017
## Mailing list activity:
- [email protected]:
- 599 subscribers (up 52 in the last 3 months):
- 839 emails sent to list (620 in previous quarter)
- [email protected]:
- 12 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 2982 emails sent to list (1987 in previous quarter)
- [email protected]:
- 10 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months)
## JIRA activity:
- 460 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 382 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
