2018-12.13 HAWQ Board report

[Ruilong Huo <hu...@apache.org>]

Hi All,


Please find HAWQ Board report for November 2018 before submitting to board for review. Feel free to add any items missing. Thanks.


## Description:


HAWQ is a Hadoop native SQL query engine that combines the key technological advantages of MPP database with the scalability and convenience of Hadoop. HAWQ reads data from and writes data to HDFS natively. HAWQ delivers industry-leading performance and linear scalability. It provides users the tools to confidently and successfully interact with petabyte range data sets. HAWQ provides users with a complete, standards compliant SQL interface.




## Issues:


None




## Activity:


1) Finalize the scope of 2.5.0.0 release community. The features will be included in the 2.5.0.0 release are:


- New Feature: Support DDL for ORC as a native file format.
- New Feature: Support write ORC storage format.
- Bug fixes.


2) Finish part of feature for ORC support


3) Talks:


- Apache HAWQ Roadmap, The 17th North East Asia OSS Promotion Forum  (Speaker:  Chang Lei)
- New Data warehouse & AI, Data Technology Carnival 2018 (Speaker: Yang Zhe)
- AI Anyone, World of Tech 2018 (Speaker: Liu Dawei)
- Intel Roundtable Seminar 2018 (Attendee: Song Yixu)




## PMC changes:


Last PMC addition was Amy Bai Kevin Monroe on April 24, 2018, Currently 36 PMC members




## Committer base changes:


Last committer addition was  Shubham Sharma on April 25, 2018, Currently 45 committers


## Releases: Last release was 2.4.0.0 on Sep 23, 2018


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Best regards,
Ruilong Huo