## 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: Apache OpenDAL was founded on 2024-01-17 (8 months ago) There are currently 26 committers and 16 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:4. ### Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Yang Shuai on 2024-03-18. - George Miao was added as committer on 2024-06-28 - Hanchin Hsieh was added as committer on 2024-07-25 - Huang Feihan was added as committer on 2024-08-06 ## Project Activity: ### New Release - 0.47.0 was released on 2024-06-10. - 0.47.1 was released on 2024-06-21. - 0.47.2 was released on 2024-07-03. - 0.47.3 was released on 2024-07-07. - 0.48.0 was released on 2024-07-29. - 0.49.0 was released on 2024-08-13. - 0.49.1 was released on 2024-08-19. - 0.49.2 was released on 2024-08-29. OpenDAL will release its 0.50.0 version this week. At the same time, OpenDAL is preparing its first v1.0 release, marking its stable promise and readiness for broader adoption. ### Events #### Results of GSoC All three GSoC projects have been successfully completed, and the three participating students have been nominated as OpenDAL committers. Nice! #### Results of OSPP One of the students works actively and is a great potential candidate as an OpenDAL committer. However, the other two students show no activity. The OpenDAL PMC are contacting them to help remove the blockers of contribution. ## Community Health: ### Mailing List No reports of the mailing list have been generated. However, I feel that only a few people actually read the dev list. Most communication happens off-list on GitHub and Discord. I have been trying to change this trend, but it hasn't worked well. Maybe the board can give us some suggestions. ### Contributors Since our last update, the OpenDAL community has integrated 222 pull requests across 777 files, thanks to the efforts of 49 contributors. Our total number of contributors has now reached 224, an increase of 20 from our previous report.