[DISCUSS] July board report

[Ryan Blue <bl...@tabular.io>]

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