Proposal of ASF Board Report for 2024-02

[Xuanwo]

Hello, everyone.

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

For live review and online comments, please visit:

https://hackmd.io/@opendal/asf-board-report-2024-02

The original content also pasted here for a quick reading:

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Description:

Apache OpenDAL is a data access layer that allows users to easily and
efficiently retrieve data from various storage services in a unified way.

Its vision centers on enabling access data freely, with the goal of
empowering ALL users to freely access ANY storage service in ANY way they
choose.

Project Status:

Current project status: New
Issues for the board: None

Membership Data:

Apache OpenDAL was founded 2024-01-17 (21 days ago)
There are currently 22 committers and 15 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 3:2.

Community changes, past quarter:

• Liuqing Yue was added to the PMC on 2024-01-22
• Yang Shuai was added as committer on 2024-01-23

Project Activity:

OpenDAL community made two releases after TLP setup:

• 0.45.0 was released on 2024-02-05.
• 0.44.2 was released on 2024-01-20.

The community has just set its 2024 goal:

• Improve the stability of its Rust core.
• Enhance the usability of its language bindings, including Python,
  Node.js, and Java.
• Implement more possible ways for users to access data: FUSE, WebDAV, FTP.
• Explore additional platforms like WASM.

Community Health:

Mailing List

dev@opendal.apache.org had a 150% increase in traffic in the past quarter (260
emails compared to 104).

This mainly discusses OpenDAL's recent graduation discussion and release
efforts. We expect to see a drop in new report.

Contributors

Since becoming a TLP, the OpenDAL community has merged 95 PRs, affecting 368
files, thanks to the efforts of 26 contributors. Our contributor count has now
reached 180, an increase of 16 from the initial 164 at TLP establishment.

We're setting our sights on expanding our project with more components such as
fuse, webdav, and ftp support. Additionally, we're excited to participate in
GSoC events. We look forward to welcoming even more contributors in our next
report.