Re: Impala Board Report due by Wed May 10th - Initial Reminder

[Gabor Kaszab <ga...@apache.org>]

Hey,

I've submitted the following board report. Let me know if I missed anything!


## Description:
The mission of Apache Impala is the creation and maintenance of software
related to a high-performance distributed SQL engine

## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention.

## Membership Data:
Apache Impala was founded 2017-11-15 (5 years ago)
There are currently 66 committers and 38 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 9:5.

Community changes, past quarter:
- Andrew Sherman was added to the PMC on 2023-04-21
- Fang-Yu Rao was added as committer on 2023-03-10

Inactive PMC members:
After the recent message from the ASF Board about PMC member
responsibilities
we've identified 13 PMC members who are not subscribed to the project's
private@
mailing list. We sent them an initial reminder about their responsibilities
hoping they would become active again.

## Project Activity:
4.1.2 was released on 2023-04-10.
4.2.0 was released 2022-12-12.

The Impala community had implemented the following over the last three
months:
- Bug fixes for nested types handling
- Various improvements on the Web UI
- Apache Iceberg support improvements
- Apache Kudu support improvements
- Fix for incorrectly written Iceberg test data
- Added Hive's ESRI geospatial functions
- Document changes
- Various performance improvements
- Improved logging for different existing features
- Apache Ozone support improvements
- Introduced support for OBS file system
- Various test fixes
- Switch to C++17
- Bumped versions for various dependencies
- Improved decision making in query Planner
- Various improvements for Python3 support
- Fixes and improvements for impala-shell

## Community Health:
reviews@ is the most reliable metric of Impala community activity level.
There
were 3606 emails to that list in February, March and April together. This
is one
of the highest numbers for a quarter in recent years. Impala remains a
vibrant
project.

On Mon, May 1, 2023 at 9:38 AM Sander Striker <st...@apache.org> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> According to our records, you are listed as the chair of Impala,
> a committee that is due to submit a report by Wed May 10th
> for the next ASF board meeting. This is an initial reminder to prepare a
> report for Impala and submit it as described below.
>
> In the Apache governance model, the ASF board delegates responsibility for
> managing projects to PMCs. This allows projects to govern themselves, in
> terms of their own development goals, guidelines, and volunteer spirit,
> within the scope of our purpose as an open source foundation. The state
> allows us to provide an umbrella of corporate protection to our projects
> and volunteers, but only to the extent that we retain active and effective
> oversight of each project's operation on behalf of the public's interest.
>
> To enable the board to provide oversight across the foundation, each PMC
> is tasked with providing the board a quarterly report on the health of
> their project. This allows us to hear your heartbeat, to see the project
> through your eyes, and to inform the public through our meeting minutes.
>
> Thank you for being a responsible project chair and helping us maintain
> oversight over the Apache Software Foundation. If, for whatever reason,
> a full report is not possible by the deadline, please report just that.
> It's okay to postpone a report by a month.
>
> Please note that we will be reviewing and approving these reports,
> asynchronously, during the week prior to our scheduled board meeting.
> Reports received after Wed May 10th will be postponed to the
> next regular meeting. Please try to submit your report early.
>
>
> Submitting your report
> ----------------------
>
> Full details about reporting to the board are at
>
>   https://www.apache.org/foundation/board/reporting
>
> Please be aware that the board is looking for your personal observations,
> assessment, and ideas, not just raw statistics.
>
> Chairs may use one of several mechanisms to submit or edit their report:
>
>  a) the Apache Reporter Service
>     https://reporter.apache.org/
>
>  b) the Whimsy online agenda tool
>     https://whimsy.apache.org/board/agenda/2023-05-17/Impala
>
>  c) carefully editing and committing changes to the dated agenda in
>     https://svn.apache.org/repos/private/foundation/board
>
>  d) or, if none of the above work, send an email to board@apache.org with
>     Subject: [REPORT] Impala
>
> If you believe it won't be possible to prepare a report before the
> deadline,
> or if the PMC is aware that the Chair is unavailable, please report that
> and we can reschedule or have someone else report on your behalf.
>
>
> Attending the Board Meeting
> ---------------------------
>
> The formal board meeting (usually an online videoconference) will be held
> at
>
>   Wed, 17 May 2023 at 21:00 UTC
>
> which in other time zones is
>
>   https://timeanddate.com/s/433t
>
> As always, chairs and ASF members are welcome to attend the board meeting.
> However, in most cases, we will not be using meeting time to discuss
> reports
> unless you specifically request time to speak in person.
>
> During the week prior to the meeting, the directors will read the received
> reports, make comments (if any) within the agenda tool, discuss those
> comments on the board and/or private committee lists, and vote to approve.
>
> If we have comments on a report, we will forward them during the
> review and attempt to complete any associated action items as well.
> This will allow us to be more responsive to project needs and give you
> an opportunity to expand on your report if additional details are
> requested prior to the meeting.
>
> Regular board meetings are held monthly, as scheduled at
>
>   https://svn.apache.org/repos/private/committers/board/calendar.txt
>
>
> Requesting a Board Action
> -------------------------
>
> If you want the board to make a decision related to your report, such as
> changing the chair, establishing a new committee, or allocating a budget
> for something related to Impala, you should author a resolution
> for that purpose or ask a director to do so for you.
>
> To make this easier, there are several templates we use for common board
> resolutions. They can be found in
>
>   https://svn.apache.org/repos/private/committers/board/templates
>
> or accessible within the Whimsy online agenda tool
>
>   https://whimsy.apache.org/board/agenda/2023-05-17/Impala
>
> If you do place a resolution before the board and that resolution
> has not been preapproved before the board meeting, you are encouraged
> to attend the meeting in person to address any last-minute questions
> or concerns that might arise.
>
> Thanks,
> The ASF Board
>