## 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: Ongoing
Issues for the board: None

## Membership Data:

- There are currently 23 committers and 16 PMC members in this project.
- The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 3:2.

#### Community changes, past quarter:

- Yang Shuai was added to the PMC on 2024-03-18
- Runjie Yu was added as committer on 2024-06-10

## Project Activity:

### New Release

OpenDAL released version 0.47.0 this week.

Now, OpenDAL integrates seamlessly with the developing Apache Iceberg Rust and
Apache Arrow Rust. Additionally, the community is interested in collaborating
with more open source communities.

### Events

The two student-related events, GSoC and OSPP, were successful. Six students
were selected to work on various projects, ranging from additional storage
service support (monofs, opfs) to enhanced protocol support (fuse fs, virtio
fs, ftp), among others.

One student has been nominated as a committer, and two others are strong
candidates for the new committer role. The OpenDAL PMC expect most students at
this event to become OpenDAL committers.

## Community Health:

### Mailing List

- [e-mail] had a 50% decrease in traffic in the past quarter
(106 emails compared to 209)

This is the first time the OpenDAL PMC has performed quarterly reports. Our
data are compared with our graduation discussion, which is quite extensive and
active.

However, the OpenDAL PMC acknowledges that most discussions occur on Discord
and GitHub, which are not sufficiently public. We plan to shift more formal
discussions to a mailing list to ensure the entire community is informed about
our progress, rather than just those who follow GitHub events or have joined
our Discord.

### Contributors

Since our last update, the OpenDAL community has integrated 219 pull requests
across 757 files, thanks to the efforts of 41 contributors. Our total number
of contributors has now reached 204, an increase of 16 from our previous
report.

The OpenDAL PMC has completed the internal refactor, establishing a strong
foundation to attract more contributors and users. We will pay closer
attention to our integrations (such as arrow_rs object_store, webdav, ftp) and
binaries (including opendal command line, opendal gateway, opendal fs). We aim
to broaden the use cases for OpenDAL and ultimately increase our contributor
base.