I am thinking to add a paragraph about reviewer scarcity; I think we could use some agentic reviews if they were available, to supplement the human reviews.
Mihai ________________________________ From: Alessandro Solimando <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, October 3, 2026 1:48 AM To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Calcite draft board report for 2026 Q4 +1 on the draft, thanks Mihai for all your hard work On Sat, Oct 3, 2026, 01:08 Mihai Budiu <[email protected]> wrote: > Here is a draft of the current quarter's board report. > This needs to be submitted by October 14. > Please let me know if you have any suggestions for improvement. > > Thank you, > Mihai > > --------------------------------------- > > Description: > The mission of Calcite is the creation and maintenance of software > related to Dynamic data management framework > Apache Calcite is a highly customizable framework for parsing and > planning queries on data in a wide variety of formats. It allows > database-like access, and in particular a SQL interface and advanced > query optimization, for data not residing in a traditional database. > Avatica is a sub-project within Calcite and provides a framework for > building local and remote JDBC and ODBC database drivers. Avatica has > an independent release schedule and its own repository. > Project Status: > Current project status: ongoing (high activity) > Issues for the board: none > Membership Data: > Apache Calcite was founded 2015-10-21 (11 years ago) > There are currently 82 committers and 32 PMC members in this project. > The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 2.5:1. > Community changes, past quarter: > > * > No new PMC members. Last addition was Zhen Chen on 2026-03-11. > * > Weiqing Zhou was added as committer on 2026-08-22 > * > We have a vote in progress to add another committer > > Project Activity > > * > Calcite 1.42.0 was released on 2026-05-31 > * > Avatica 1.28.0 was released on 2026-05-12 > * > Avatica 1.29.0 was released on 2026-09-20 > > A new Calcite release is planned relatively soon. > Security Response > We have received some reports generated automatically by AI agents > and all the critical and important issues have received patches > or are currently are under review. > Community Health > The community seems very actively engaged. We are seeing a > substantial increase first-time contributions, no doubt due to the barrier > of entry > to contributions being lowered by AI tools. The suprising trend > of closing more tickets than opening has continued into this quarter. > This is due to the dilligence of people like Yu Xu (xuzifu666) who are > closing > old issues. > Community health score: 8.37 (Healthy) > > * > 196 JIRA tickets opened and 204 closed in the past quarter. > * > [email protected] has been flat in the past quarter (334 emails > compared to 336). > * > [email protected] has also been flat (1424 compared to 1441) > > Top committers for last 3 months: > https://github.com/apache/calcite/graphs/contributors?selectedMetric=commits > 52 mihaibudiu > 27 xuzifu666 > 22 rubenada > 9 zabetak > 7 zzwqqq > 6 tkalkirill > 6 snuyanzin > 5 anxkhn > 5 1fanwang > 4 xiedeyantu > > Most active reviewers in the last 3 months: > 159 mihaibudiu > 71 rubenada > 54 xuzifu666 > 28 sbroeder > 21 zzwqqq > 20 vlsi > 16 julianhyde > 13 wasabii > 11 xiedeyantu > 10 snuyanzin > 9 1fanwang > 8 FrankChen021 > 7 ehds > 6 zabetak > 6 vldpyatkov > 6 copilot-pull-request-reviewer >
