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## Project Activity:
Releases:
 - no recent releases, 2.15.0 (latest stable) was released on 2023-05-02.
 - next release 2.16.0 was proposed by Nikita Amelchev to be finalized at the
   end of November. This release will improve Apache Calcite engine support,
   cluster management API, and add support of JDK 14-21.

Other activity:
 - Machine Learning (ML) module was moved to ignite-extensions.
 - Transactions engine code cleanup is in progress (MVCC removal).
 - Community discusses discontinuing JDK 8 support.
 - Performance improvement proposed for peristence engine and storing
   checkpoint recovery data.

## Community Health:
 - There is notable traffic decrease in userlist (96 emails compared to 200 in
   the past quarter). This might be caused by opening Github issues for users.
 - There is decrease in commits, JIRA and Github issues opened (-20-30%).
 - Count of issues closed increased both in JIRA and GitHub (+20-50%).
 - Community attracts new contributors, JIRA accounts are requested. Number of
   code contributors has been increased (+23%).
 - security@ list subscription of non-PMC member was cancelled
   (jury.gerzhedowich@gmail.com). 

Feb 2024

## Description:
The mission of Ignite project is the creation and maintenance of software
related to high-performance distributed database engine providing in-memory
and persistent data caching, partitioning, processing, and
querying components.


## Project Status:
Current project status: Ongoing
Issues for the board: None

## Membership Data:
Apache Ignite was founded 2015-08-19 (8 years ago)
There are currently 76 committers and 40 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 5:3.

Community changes, past quarter:
- Nikita Amelchev was added to the PMC on 2023-11-20
- Iurii Gerzhedovich was added as committer on 2024-02-09
 

## Project Activity: 
 - 2.16.0 (latest stable) was released on 2022-11-17.
 - ML has been moved to the separate extenstion.
 - This extracted ML Extension 1.0 was released on 2022-11-17.
 - Maintainetrs fix a number of Apache Calcite integration issues, this will
   allow us to discontinue H2 and overcome H2-related security concerns.

## Community Health: 
- Community started to discuss JDK 8 support
- There is decrease in the dev list activity (-30%) and in the number of
  open/closed issues(-70%), but other activity metrics are almost the same.
- Project attracts new contributors.