Aug 2021

## 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.

## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention.

## Membership Data:
Apache Ignite was founded 2015-08-19 (6 years ago)
There are currently 60 committers and 35 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 3:2.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Alex Plehanov on 2020-11-18.
- Andrei Aleksandrov was added as committer on 2021-07-22
- Evgeny Stanilovsky was added as committer on 2021-07-26 

## Project Activity:
Releases:
- 3.0.0-alpha2 was released on 2021-06-29.
- Thin client for Python (pyignite) extension versions 0.5.0 and 0.5.1 were
released.
- Extension for cluster profiling (performance-statistics-ext) version 1.0.0
was released.
- Extension for Spring Data (spring-data-all-ext) version 1.0.0 was released
- 2.11 release is in stabilization phase.

Infrastructure:
- ci2.ignite.apache.org: SberTech is going to provide computing power,
JetBrains sponsored license for secondary TeamCity instance

## Community Health:
Ignite summit was held on May 25, 2021, virtual event
- 24 speakers representing a variety of industries including financial
services, health & fitness, IoT, construction, and more;
- 15 hours of talks and communication;
- with more than 845 registrations;
- 4 hours and 49 minutes at average spent each attendee on the event.

Whole community activity decreased in the past quarter:
- dev@, user@, commits, PRs open and closed had 30-40% decrease;
- JIRA and code contributions had 20% decrease.

May 2021

## 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.

## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention.

## Membership Data:
Apache Ignite was founded 2015-08-19 (6 years ago)
There are currently 58 committers and 35 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 8:5.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Alex Plehanov on 2020-11-18.
- Ivan Daschinsky was added as committer on 2021-04-09
- Mauricio Stekl was added as committer on 2021-03-01


## Project Activity:
Development:
- 2.10.0 was released on 2021-03-15 (latest stable), it is next major release
 contatining a number of features.
- (extensions) pyignite-0.4.0-rc1 was released on 2021-04-21.
- Community discussed possible future major releases (verisioning
is grand.major.fix), migth contain uncompatible changes instead of next
grand release only.

Events
- Ignite summit CFP has been closed. Event comittee decided which talks
are to be accepted to the final program.

## Community Health:
- Ignite summit caused interest from speakers, event schedule was extended.
- Mailing lists activity is the same with the past quarter.
- User list activity decrease most likely caused by statistic calculation
issue.
- PRs activity has ~ 20% decrease - quite minor, but commits count decreased
markably ~ -40%.

Feb 2021

## 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.

## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention

## Membership Data:
Apache Ignite was founded 2015-08-19 (5 years ago)
There are currently 56 committers and 35 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 8:5.

Community changes, past quarter:
- Alex Plehanov was added to the PMC on 2020-11-18
- Ivan Bessonov was added as a committer on 2021-01-19
- Nikita Amelchev was added as a committer on 2021-01-21

## Project Activity:
Development
- Apache Ignite community voted to remove MVCC public API. Test and test
  suites on the TeamCity are under discussion.
- 3.0.0-alpha1 was released on 2021-01-11, this release is the very first
  build made from standalone branch Ignite 3.0, such releases should help in
  early adoption and testing of 3.0
- 2.9.1 was released on 2020-12-28 (latest stable) - this release patches
  2.9.0 and mostly contains fixes
- 2.10.0 release is being prepared

Events and conferences
- Community members and Ignite users continue to run talks at online meetups

## Community Health:
- dev@, user@ list traffic, and code contributions are almost the same as
  in the past quarter
- Issues, PRs related activity have increased (from +14% to +49%)

Nov 2021

## 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.

## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention.

## Membership Data:
Apache Ignite was founded 2015-08-19 (6 years ago)
There are currently 64 committers and 36 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 8:5.

Community changes, past quarter:
- Kseniya Romanova was added to the PMC on 2021-09-08
- Alexandr Shapkin was added as committer on 2021-08-04
- Konstantin Orlov was added as committer on 2021-10-29
- Kseniya Romanova was added as committer on 2021-09-04
- Petr Ivanov was added as committer on 2021-08-18

## Project Activity:
Recent releases:
- 3.0.0-alpha3 was released on 2021-10-18.
- 3.0.0-alpha2 was released on 2021-06-29.
- 2.11.0 was released on 2021-09-17.
- 2.10.0 was released on 2021-03-15.
- Community started preparing next major release 2.12.

Events:
- Community members organized 3 virtual meetups in July, and September and one
  offline meetup in September in Moscow (in compliance with all local C19
  restrictions).
- Community is hosting the next Ignite Summit in November:
  https://ignite-summit.org


## Community Health:
- dev@ list traffic decreased by 20% in the past quarter.
- PRs closed count has 30% decrease (regular PR close hasn't been done this
  quarter).
- JIRA issues opened and closed, commits, PRs opened, and code contribution
  are amlsot the same.

Topics:
- PMC discussed a tool for non-code contributions track (project awareness:
  conferences, training, etc).
- Community postponed the creation of a separate Jira project and wiki space
  for Ignite 3.
- Community is discussing how to integrate two TeamCity instances sponsored by
  different entities.