Re: [DISCUSS] Draft board report

[Julian Hyde <jh...@apache.org>]

+1

Thanks for preparing the report.

Next report, consider revising the sentence

  Avatica
  has an independent release schedule, and since April 2017, it has its
  own independent repository.

because it is no longer new news.

Julian


On Sun, Dec 31, 2017 at 2:39 PM, Michael Mior <mm...@uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
> See below a draft of the board report for Jan. 17. I borrowed heavily from
> past reports and the release notes but I think the necessary points are
> covered. If there's any activity I'm missing, please let me know!
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Michael Mior
> mmior@apache.org
>
> ---
>
> ## Description:
>
> Apache Calcite is a highly customizable framework for parsing and
> planning queries on data in a wide variety of formats. It allows
> database-like access, and in particular a SQL interface and advanced
> query optimization, for data not residing in a traditional database.
>
> Avatica is a sub-project within Calcite, and provides a framework
> for building local and remote JDBC and ODBC database drivers. Avatica
> has an independent release schedule, and since April 2017, it has its
> own independent repository.
>
> ## Issues:
>
> - There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
>
> ## Activity:
>
> Development and mailing list activity is steady for both Calcite and
> its Avatica sub-project.
>
> Calcite 1.15.0, was released in December with 50 issues are fixed by 22
> contributors. Some features of note are a "server" module with DDL
> support; dynamic parameters in the LIMIT and OFFSET and clauses;
> refactoring the JDBC adapter to make it easier to plug in a new SQL
> dialect; and a data profiling algorithm, that efficiently analyzes
> large data sets with many columns, estimating the number of distinct
> values in columns and groups of columns.
>
> Our community continued growing this quarter, as two new committers
> (Christian Beikov and Vova Vysotskyi) were added to the project.
>
> Finally, members of the Calcite PMC along with external collaborators
> submitted a paper to the industrial track of SIGMOD 2018.
>
> ## Health report:
>
> Activity levels on mailing lists, git and JIRA are normal for both
> Calcite and Avatica.
>
> ## PMC changes:
>
>  - Currently 16 PMC members.
>  - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
>  - Last PMC addition was Michael Mior on Mon Apr 03 2017
>
> ## Committer base changes:
>
>  - Currently 28 committers.
>  - New commmitters:
>     - Christian Beikov was added as a committer on Thu Oct 12 2017
>     - Vova Vysotskyi was added as a committer on Thu Dec 21 2017
>
> ## Releases:
>
>  - 1.14.0 was released on Sun Oct 01 2017
>  - 1.15.0 was released on Sun Dec 10 2017
>
> ## JIRA activity:
>
>  - 121 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
>  - 89 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months