Looks good! On Tue, Jul 7, 2026 at 7:52 PM Marc P. <[email protected]> wrote:
> Lgtm. > > On Tue, Jul 7, 2026, 7:41 PM Christopher <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi Devs, > > > > As we've previously agreed, here's a draft of the board report that we > > agreed to publish on the dev list. I've taken the liberty to draft > > this one, as per Ed's recent absence from community activity. I will > > attempt to ensure that this is submitted on time (tomorrow) as I have > > drafted here, unless there are any proposed changes before then. > > > > ***************************** > > > > ## Description: > > The mission of Apache Accumulo is the creation and maintenance of > software > > related to a robust, scalable, distributed key/value store with > cell-based > > access control and customizable server-side processing. > > > > ## Project Status: > > Current project status: Ongoing with moderate activity > > > > Issues for the board: The current PMC chair has not recently been active > in > > the project, and the last few board reports have been prepared by an > > alternate > > volunteer. The PMC is currently in process of discussing nominations for > a > > new > > PMC Chair to nominate to the board. > > > > ## Membership Data: > > Apache Accumulo was founded 2012-03-20 (14 years ago) > > There are currently 43 committers and 39 PMC members in this project. > > The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 6:5. > > > > Community changes, past quarter: > > - No new PMC members. Last addition was Kevin Rathbun on 2024-07-24. > > - No new committers. Last addition was John Kucera on 2025-06-04. > > > > ## Project Activity: > > Project activity varied between several different efforts. > > - Work on a separate access control library was updated to support Java > 11 > > for > > use with Accumulo 2.1 versions (1.0.0-beta3). > > - Work on bug fixes and stability fixes for the Accumulo 2.1 release > > series has > > been ongoing, with a release candidate staged for 2.1.5 and undergoing > a > > release vote as of the time of this writing. > > - Work on improvements to the future 4.0 version to support more dynamic > > scaling (elastic deployments) continues, with recent focus on updating > > Java, > > Hadoop, and Thrift dependencies, producing and displaying metrics, and > > command-line tool improvements. Some progress on new features has > stalled > > due to temporary inactivity of the main contributor for those features, > > but > > this probably will not block any future release, and the work may be > > deferred to a later version. > > > > ## Community Health: > > Overall community health is good, and GitHub activity remains regular. > The > > low > > email traffic on the dev list reflects the community preference of using > > GitHub projects and issues for planning and PRs for code discussions, but > > this > > activity is also reflected in the notifications list, for anybody who > > prefers > > not to engage on GitHub (this is rare for our community). We have > observed > > some new "drive-by" contributions for easy-to-fix typos and things that > are > > probably the result of contributors using AI to create PRs, but these > > haven't > > resulted in any new active contributors, though we have seen at least one > > new > > active contributor in the last quarter, and several existing community > > members > > have provided some tips and mentoring on ASF's Slack and in PR comments. > > The > > only serious concern is finding a replacement PMC Chair. We have a few > > nominations on the private list, which we will discuss and vote on, and > > present to the board for approval. > > >
