Proposal of ASF Board Report for 2024-03

[Xuanwo]

Hello, everyone.

I'm proposing the draft for this month's (March 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-2024-03

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 (2 months 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 one releases since last report (2024-02):

• 0.45.1 was released on 2024-03-02.

The OpenDAL community participates in GSoC events and has submitted three ideas. We've gained new contributors, some of whom we anticipate will become new committers to OpenDAL.

Community Health:

Mailing List

dev@opendal.apache.org had a 40% increase in traffic in the past quarter (210
emails compared to 150)

As GSoC progresses, we anticipate an increase in traffic in the upcoming
report.

Contributors

Since our last report, the OpenDAL community has merged 100 PRs across 209
files, thanks to the work of 18 contributors. Our total number of contributors
has now reached 184, marking an increase of 4 since the last report.

Our contributor growth has slowed, and no new committers have been nominated
since the last report, which is concerning. The OpenDAL PMC plans to implement
the following actions to address this:

• Participate in GSoC to attract more contributors to OpenDAL.
• Enhance documentation for OpenDAL, benefiting both developers and users.
• Simplify the internal implementation logic to make contributions easier.

We expect to see more committers in the next report.

Xuanwo

[dqhl76]

Why does the same content repeat twice? 🤔

[Xuanwo]

Sorry for the mistake. Updated now.