> so you can't fault anyone to think the project is dead.

Why? It has regular releases including one in 2021. That looks like the opposite of dead to me. The only time there were more common releases, was 2018 when it was new, so the release page by itself screams "mature and stable".

I always judge life by looking at how regular the releases are rather than the frequency. If they release ever year or two or three years consistently for the last few years then that's a good enough sign of life to me. Everyone goes at a different pace.

The last release (Drill 1.19.0) was a very significant release, firstly because it was the first release without MapR. Secondly, however, it had a lot of refactoring and offered some major improvements including connectivity with ElasticSearch, Splunk, Cassandra as well as readers for XML files and more.

The next Drill release will happen before the end of the year and also promises to be a big one. Some significant improvements are major rewrites of the Mongo connector, the ability to write to JDBC data sources, an Iceberg reader, Parquet updates and more.

>We’ve started talking about speeding up our release cadence to better reflect our recent activity.

reports of the death of the English language are increasing.

lol