Hi everyone, Here’s our July board report that I just posted. If you have anything to add, please reply! Description:
Apache Iceberg is a table format for huge analytic datasets that is designed for high performance and ease of use. Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention. Membership Data: Apache Iceberg was founded 2020-05-19 (2 years ago) There are currently 19 committers and 12 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 5:3. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Jack Ye on 2021-11-14. - No new committers. Last addition was Szehon Ho on 2022-03-07. Project Activity: The community recently released 0.13.2 on 2022-06-13 and is currently voting on a candidate for the 0.14.0 release. 0.14.0 will be followed closely by a 1.0.0, which will make API stability guarantees. The 0.14.0 release contains significant new features, including: - Support for Apache Spark 3.3 - Support for Apache Flink 1.15 - MERGE and UPDATE plans using row-level deletes - A FLIP-27 reader for Flink - The new REST catalog implementation with change-based commits - A new file format for index and stats data, Puffin - Zorder sorting when rewriting data files - Range and tail reads for IO - Additional metrics collection The community has also been working on new features, including: - Table-level statistics and data sketches using Puffin - Table branching and tagging - View metadata tracking - Default values in schemas - A native Python implementation The python implementation has been making good progress and may see a release next quarter. The project has also been working to improve documentation and has a new site design that tracks older versions. Community Health: Community health continues to be good. The community’s primary gauge of activity is pull requests and commits, and there were 1088 PRs opened this quarter a (5% increase) and 780 commits (a slight decrease). There were approximately the same number of contributors as the previous quarter, 79. -- Ryan Blue Tabular
