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 January 10, 2024 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, Andy [1] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wZkDTcaR-fZwT5QUd6sFeYmmNKZXEhSrTu5U0glLAQg/edit?usp=sharing --- 2024-01-10 Arrow ASF Board Report Arrow PMC Chair Note: Please add any relevant comments / content to this document. Andy Grove will submit to the ASF board on January 10, 2024 (about one week prior to the scheduled <https://svn.apache.org/repos/private/committers/board/calendar.txt> board meeting). The rationale and process for this report: https://www.apache.org/foundation/board/reporting Past report: 2023-10-11 Arrow ASF Board Report <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MU5cxzVuAIuDb6KXOAkwT4ze7IBGHKks_l92gxZeTbg/edit> The metrics in this report are derived from https://reporter.apache.org/wizard/?arrow ## 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: There are currently 103 committers and 52 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:4. Community changes, past quarter: - Jonathan Keane was added to the PMC on 2023-10-13 - Raúl Cumplido was added to the PMC on 2023-11-12 - Curt Hagenlocher was added as committer on 2023-10-14 - Felipe Oliveira Carvalho was added as committer on 2023-12-06 - James Duong was added as committer on 2023-11-16 - Xuwei Fu was added as committer on 2023-10-22 ## Project Activity: ## Sub Project Updates Arrow has several subprojects, as listed on https://arrow.apache.org/ ### ADBC ### Arrow Flight ### Arrow Flight SQL ### Arrow Flight SQL adapter for PostgreSQL ### DataFusion & Ballista DataFusion continues releasing regularly. We are working on a paper describing the system for ACM SIGMOD, and in general are trying to scale the project as it grows in popularity. Ballista is not very active but continues to receive occasional contributions. ### Acero ### nanoarrow ## Language Area Updates Arrow has at least 13 different language implementations, as explained in https://arrow.apache.org/overview/ Arrow 14.0.0 was released from the monorepo: https://arrow.apache.org/blog/2023/11/01/14.0.0-release/ ### C++ ### C# ### Go ### Java ### JavaScript ### Julia ### Rust ### C (GLib) ### MATLAB ### Python ### R ### Ruby ### Swift ## Recent Releases: Recent releases: - 14.0.2 was released on 2023-12-18. - RS-DATAFUSION-34.0.0 was released on 2023-12-17. - JULIA-2.7.0 was released on 2023-12-10. - RS-DATAFUSION-PYTHON-33.0.0 was released on 2023-11-19. - RS-DATAFUSION-33.0.0 was released on 2023-11-16. - RS-48.0.1 was released on 2023-11-13. - RS-49.0.0 was released on 2023-11-13. - ADBC-0.8.0 was released on 2023-11-09. - 14.0.1 was released on 2023-11-08. - RS-OS-0.8.0 was released on 2023-11-06. - 14.0.0 was released on 2023-11-01. - RS-DATAFUSION-PYTHON-32.0.0 was released on 2023-10-25. - RS-48.0.0 was released on 2023-10-23. - RS-DATAFUSION-32.0.0 was released on 2023-10-12. ## 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 51% increase in traffic in the past quarter (715 emails compared to 472) For the mono repo: 2374 commits in the past quarter (-2% change) 249 code contributors in the past quarter (-2% change) 1752 PRs opened on GitHub, past quarter (-7% change) 1698 PRs closed on GitHub, past quarter (-5% change) 1364 issues opened on GitHub, past quarter (-14% change) 1052 issues closed on GitHub, past quarter (-18% change)
