Hi everyone,
Board reports are due tomorrow, here's a draft of what I'm planning to
submit. If you want to add or edit something, please reply.
I think it's been a good quarter; I'm really excited that we got the 1.8.0
release out and added the new JS implementation. I'm also highlighting that
something we should work increasing engagement with potential contributors.
We've been letting some bug reports slip through without attention, some of
which even have fixes attached. I have a few ideas about how to work on
this that I'll write up, but please throw out your ideas for increasing our
engagement!
Thanks,
rb
## Description:
- Avro is a cross-language data serialization system.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- Released 1.8.0 on 29 January 2016.
- The latest release brings the project's licensing documentation
up-to-date, which was a major blocker.
- 1.8.0 includes a new JavaScript implementation
## Health report:
- Avro's last release, 1.7.7, was 23 July 2014. More than a year
between releases is not a healthy cadence.
- Avro needs to increase engagement with potential contributors.
- Some bug reports, reviews are not getting enough attention.
- Some language implementations are unmaintained.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 16 PMC members.
- New PMC members:
- Sean Busbey was added to the PMC on Sun Feb 14 2016
- Martin Kleppmann was added to the PMC on Sun Feb 14 2016
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 23 committers.
- Matthieu Monsch was added as a committer on Mon Jan 18 2016
## Releases:
- Last release: 1.8.0 on 29 January 2016
## Mailing list activity:
- [email protected]:
- 273 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months):
- 635 emails sent to list (541 in previous quarter)
- [email protected]:
- 605 subscribers (up 7 in the last 3 months):
- 107 emails sent to list (70 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 45 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 26 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Ryan Blue
Software Engineer
Netflix
