[REPORT] MADlib - October 2020

["FENG, Xixuan (Aaron)" <xi...@gmail.com>]

## Description:

- Apache MADlib is a scalable, big data, SQL-driven machine learning
framework for data scientists.


## Issues:

- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.


## Activity:

- Release 1.17.0 occurred on Apr 9, 2020 which was
the 7th release as an Apache TLP project.

- Community is working on the 1.18.0 release with JIRAs related
to deep learning and other ML methods:
* deep learning - improve GPU efficiency
* deep learning - support custom loss functions and custom metrics
* deep learning - add autoML methods Hyperband and Hyperopt
* DBSCAN clustering algorithm

- Community members presented sessions mentioning Apache MADlib
on Greenplum at the VMworld conference on Sept 2020,
e.g.https://www.vmworld.com/en/video-library/video-landing.html?sessionid=1586467547979001ehEahttps://www.vmworld.com/en/video-library/video-landing.html?sessionid=1589580297282001SUMh


## Health report:

The community is relatively small but very engaged with robust mailing
list traffic, interest in doing frequent releases and new
functionality being developed by contributors.

The number of developers actively contributing to the code/documentation
is approximately 5 in the 3rd quarter of calendar year 2020.

We will constantly be on a lookout for new community members to be
invited either as committers or PMC.


## PMC changes:

- No changes in the last quarter.  Currently stands at 14 PMC members.


## Committer base changes:

- Currently 17 committers, no new committers since last report.

- The most recent committers added were:
Ekta Khanna (2019-07-27)
Himanshu Pandey (2019-07-27)
Domino Valdano (2019-07-27)


## Releases:

- Next release: v1.18.0 planned for 2H 2020

- v1.17.0 released on 2020-04-09

- v1.16.0 released on 2019-07-08

- v1.15.1 released on 2018-10-15


## Mailing list activity:

Mailing list activity was 40 posts to dev@
and 1 posts to user@ for the last 3 months Jul-Sep 2020.


## JIRA Statistics:

- 18 JIRA tickets created in the 3 months

- 18 JIRA tickets resolved in the 3 months