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bRPC quarterly report(Q4 2022) ●Brief description of bRPC. bRPC is an industrial-grade RPC framework for building reliable and high- performance services. ●The overall status and health of bRPC and the community. Apache bRPC is just graduated as Top Level Project in December. 129 developers from 20 more companies and organizations have contributed to the bRPC project, including 10 PMC members and another 6 committers. Committers take turns responding user emails and issues on a weekly basis. Due to efforts of the whole community, the mailing list (and issue board) of Apache bRPC stays active. We released v1.3.0 in last october and plans to make the next release this month including several new features and bug fixes. ●Are there any issues for the Board to act on? There are no Board-level issues at this time. ●When did the project last make any releases? * bRPC v1.3.0 was released on Oct. 25th with several bug fixes and new features such as gcc support on Linux arm64. ●The overall activity in the project over the past quarter. We got 25 +1, and no -1 during the Vote to graduation of bRPC in the IPMC community in December 2022. On Dec. 22th, the ASF board comfirmed the graduation of bRPC to TLP. bRPC v1.3.0 was released on Oct. 25th with several bug fixes and new features such as gcc support on Linux arm64. One new committer was added in Novemeber. During the past quarter, about 100 new emails were received and answered weekly. ●The current plans of bRPC. The release work for bRPC v1.4.0 is in progress, in which several improtant features will be included such as the RDMA support and bazel third_party support. Meanwhile, we are arranging PR announcement for the graduation to TLP and developing new committers as always. ●When were the newest committers or PMC members elected? * On November 1st, 2022 we elected the newest committer Chen Guangming. On June 22th, 2022 we added three new PMC members: Cai Daojin, Helei and Lilei. ●PMC and committer diversity. 16 PMC members and committers are from 9 unique organizations (including one freelancer): Baidu, ByteDance, Google, 4Paradigm, Momemta. AI, Shopee, Tecent, JOYY. ●Project branding or naming issues, either in the project or externally. There are no known branding or naming issues. ●Legal issues or questions. There are no known legal issues or questions. ●Infrastructure issues or strategic needs. There are no infrastructure issues or strategic needs at this time.
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors deems it to be in the best interests of the Foundation and consistent with the Foundation's purpose to establish a Project Management Committee charged with the creation and maintenance of open-source software, for distribution at no charge to the public, related to an industrial-grade RPC framework for building reliable and high-performance services. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Apache bRPC Project", be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache bRPC be and hereby is responsible for the creation and maintenance of software related to an industrial-grade RPC framework for building reliable and high-performance services; and be it further RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache bRPC" be and hereby is created, the person holding such office to serve at the direction of the Board of Directors as the chair of the Apache bRPC Project, and to have primary responsibility for management of the projects within the scope of responsibility of the Apache bRPC Project; and be it further RESOLVED, that the persons listed immediately below be and hereby are appointed to serve as the initial members of the Apache bRPC Project: * Zhangyi Chen <zychen@apache.org> * Cai Daojin <caidj@apache.org> * James Ge <jamesge@apache.org> * Von Gosling <vongosling@apache.org> * Bear Jiang <jrjbear@apache.org> * Lorin Lee <lorinlee@apache.org> * He Lei <leander@apache.org> * Jean-Baptiste Onofré <jbonofre@apache.org> * Juan Pan <panjuan@apache.org> * Jerry Tan <jerrytan@apache.org> * Yao Wang <fisherman@apache.org> * Wang Weibing <wwbmmm@apache.org> * Jiashun Zhu <jiashunzhu@apache.org> NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that James Ge be appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache bRPC, to serve in accordance with and subject to the direction of the Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until death, resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification, or until a successor is appointed ; and be it further RESOLVED, that all responsibilities pertaining to the Apache Incubator bRPC podling encumbered upon the Apache Incubator PMC are hereafter discharged. Special Order 7C, Establish the Apache bRPC Project, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.