Hello Arrow Community, Please add any comments or board content directly to [1] or reply to this email and I will incorporate your comments. You can see what we currently have at the end of this email.
One of the responsibilities of being part of the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) is to regularly summarize the state of the project in a quarterly update to the ASF board. I plan to submit the next report on October 14, 2023 While this is partly an administrative reporting exercise, I think it is also valuable to reflect on past accomplishments and think about goals for the future. Historically, Arrow has crowd sourced the content which has worked well. It would be especially interesting and valuable for members of the various language implementation communities and subprojects could provide a sentence or two updates Thank you, Andrew [1]: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MU5cxzVuAIuDb6KXOAkwT4ze7IBGHKks_l92gxZeTbg/edit -- Current content ## Description: The mission of Apache Arrow is the creation and maintenance of software related to columnar in-memory processing and data interchange. More information can be found at https://arrow.apache.org/overview/ ## Project Status: Current project status: Ongoing (high activity) Issues for the board: None ## Membership Data: Apache Arrow was founded 2016-01-19 (8 years ago) There are currently 98 committers and 50 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:4. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Dewey Dunnington on 2023-06-22. - Kevin Gurney was added as committer on 2023-07-04 - Metehan Yildirim was added as committer on 2023-08-29 ## Project Activity: We added a new array layout, [Utf8View] to the Arrow spec, which allows more efficient variable length string handling. [Utf8View]: https://lists.apache.org/thread/wt9j3q7qd59cz44kyh1zkts8s6wo1dn6 ## Sub Project Updates Arrow has several subprojects, as listed on https://arrow.apache.org/ ### ADBC ### Arrow Flight ### Arrow Flight SQL ### DataFusion ### Acero ## Language Area Updates Arrow has at least 12 different language implementations, as explained in https://arrow.apache.org/overview/ Arrow 12.0.0 was released from the monorepo: https://arrow.apache.org/blog/2023/05/02/12.0.0-release/ ### C++ ### C# ### Go ### Java ### JavaScript ### Julia ### nanoarrow ### Rust The Rust implementation is in the process of adding StringView. ### C (GLib) ### MATLAB ### Python ### R ### Ruby ### Swift ## Community Health: Community communication continues to be strong. There have been 5 blog posts published to https://arrow.apache.org/blog/ in the last 3 months. The mailing lists are active * dev@arrow.apache.org had a 29% decrease in traffic in the past quarter (568 emails compared to 789) * u...@arrow.apache.org had a 52% decrease in traffic in the past quarter (65 emails compared to 133) For the mono repo: * 2328 commits in the past quarter (2% increase) * 246 code contributors in the past quarter (-3% change) * 1802 PRs opened on GitHub, past quarter (-13% change) * 1740 PRs closed on GitHub, past quarter (-14% change) * 1515 issues opened on GitHub, past quarter (-10% change) * 1234 issues closed on GitHub, past quarter (-12% change)
