## Description:
Apache Arrow is a cross-language development platform for in-memory data. It
specifies a standardized language-independent columnar memory format for flat
and hierarchical data, organized for efficient analytic operations on modern
hardware. It also provides computational libraries and zero-copy streaming
messaging and interprocess communication. Languages currently supported include
C, C++, Go, Java, JavaScript, Python, Ruby, and Rust.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity:
- We received a donation of a Go implementation since the last report
## Health report:
Project is very healthy with a growing developer and user community.
Overall development activity has increased since the prior quarter
with the addition of two new programming languages (Go, Rust) to the
project.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 22 PMC members.
- New PMC members:
- Phillip Cloud was added to the PMC on Thu Mar 15 2018
- Philipp Moritz was added to the PMC on Thu Mar 15 2018
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 31 committers.
- New commmitters:
- Antoine Pitrou was added as a committer on Tue Apr 03 2018
- Brian Hulette was added as a committer on Mon Feb 12 2018
- Robert Nishihara was added as a committer on Mon Feb 19 2018
## Releases:
- 0.9.0 was released on Mon Mar 19 2018
- JS-0.3.0 was released on Wed Feb 21 2018
- JS-0.3.1 was released on Fri Mar 16 2018
## JIRA activity:
- 464 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 358 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
