Proposal of ASF Board Report for 2024-12

[Xuanwo]

Hello, everyone.

I'm proposing the draft for this month's (2024-12) ASF board report.
Feel free to review and leave your comments here.

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Description:

OpenDAL is an Open Data Access Layer that enables seamless interaction with
diverse storage services.

OpenDAL's development is guided by its vision of One Layer, All Storage and
its core principles: Open Community, Solid Foundation, Fast Access, Object
Storage First, and Extensible Architecture.

Project Status:

Current project status: Ongoing
Issues for the board: None

Membership Data:

Apache OpenDAL was founded 2024-01-17 (a year ago)
There are currently 27 committers and 17 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:5.

Community changes, past quarter:

• Wenchuang Gan was invited as committer on 2024-12-10

Project Activity:

OpenDAL has the following release since last report:

• v0.50.2: 2024-11-07
• v0.50.1: 2024-10-23
• v0.50.0: 2024-09-18
• v0.49.2: 2024-08-29
• v0.49.1: 2024-08-20

Community Health:

Are there any risks to the sustainability of a project?

No, OpenDAL is in super healthy at the moment. I'm proud of that.

Is the PMC capable of responding to security issues and performing a

release of its projects if needed?

Yes, as I have demonstrated in the Project Activity, we release at least one
version per month and can release more if necessary. The PMC is also prepared
to handle security issues, although we haven't encountered any yet (thanks to
our Rust core).

Does the PMC need anything from the Foundation to improve on contributing

to our mission of delivering software for the public good?

Yes.

The OpenDAL PMC has switched its primary communication channel from the
mailing list to GitHub Discussions. A forward from GitHub Discussions to the
mailing list has been set up to ensure all discussions are archived and
accessible to mailing list subscribers. This change has been highly
beneficial, as we've seen increased participation in discussions and more
contributors joining as a result.

The next area we aim to improve is the release process. We want to create a
fully automated release workflow where committers only need to tag on GitHub,
and everything else can be handled automatically without human interaction.

We want the board to assist us in cleaning up the possibility: Can we set up a
bot account for the OpenDAL PMC to establish a workflow that allows it to
write to SVN?