[REPORT] ORC Board Report

[Owen O'Malley <ow...@gmail.com>]

Feedback is welcome...

## Description:

 - A high-performance columnar file format for Hadoop workloads.

## Issues:

 - There are no issues requiring the board's attention.

## Activity:

 - We released the bug fix release 1.5.5.
 - The column encryption work is nearing completion.
 - We gave a presentation about column encryption at Dataworks Summit in
   Barcelona. https://s.apache.org/orc-encryption
 - The C++ reader is being integrated into Apache Impala.
 - Work is starting on improving the integration with Apache Arrow.

## Health report:

 - The community is doing well.

## PMC changes:

 - Currently 10 PMC members.
 - Gang Wu was added to the PMC on Wed Jan 16 2019

## Committer base changes:

 - Currently 39 committers.
 - No new committers added in the last 3 months
 - Last committer addition was Dongjoon Hyun at Fri Jan 11 2019

## Releases:

 - 1.5.5 was released on Wed Mar 13 2019

## Mailing list activity:

 - There has been a noticeable uptick in the user traffic.

 - dev@orc.apache.org:
     - 67 subscribers (up 3 in the last 3 months):
     - 65 emails sent to list (97 in previous quarter)

 - issues@orc.apache.org:
     - 21 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
     - 85 emails sent to list (323 in previous quarter)

 - user@orc.apache.org:
     - 69 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
     - 57 emails sent to list (10 in previous quarter)


## JIRA activity:

 - 32 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
 - 18 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months