## 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, MATLAB, Python, R, Ruby, and Rust.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity:
- The Arrow and Parquet communities resolved by vote to merge their respective
C++ codebases in the Apache Arrow repository. This work was completed this
quarter
- The project received two code donations via IP clearance: a GLib interface to
the Parquet C++ libraries, and the Gandiva LLVM vectorized Arrow expression
compiler
- Work has commenced on R language integration with the C++ libraries
- An initial MATLAB binding to the C++ libraries was contributed
## Health report:
- The project is very healthy, though rapid user and contributor growth has
stressed the limits of our developer tooling and put a great deal of burden
on the active project maintainers
## PMC changes:
- Currently 24 PMC members.
- Antoine Pitrou was added to the PMC on Mon Aug 20 2018
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 33 committers.
- New commmitters:
- Andrew Grove was added as a committer on Tue Aug 07 2018
- Krisztian Szucs was added as a committer on Thu Aug 16 2018
## Releases:
- 0.10.0 was released on Sun Aug 05 2018
- 0.11.0 was released on Sun Oct 07 2018
## JIRA activity:
- 649 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 476 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
