Thank you all for your input. I have submitted our report to the board (in foundation/board/board_agenda_2013_12_18.txt)
Gary On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 10:48 AM, Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi All: > > Please let me know if you have any feedback or corrections ASAP. > > Thank you, > Gary > -- > Status report for the Apache Commons Project December 2013 > > > The Commons is an Apache project focused on all aspects of reusable Java > components. > > > Apache Commons components are widely used in many projects, both within > Apache and without. > > > There are no issues that require board attention at this time. > > > Overall project health is good with six releases this period, including > the long anticipated [pool] 2.0 and [collections] 4.0. The [csv] component > is still inching towards 1.0 releases and [imaging] is very close to 1.0 as > well. > > > Releases: > > - Apache Commons JCI 1.1 on 2013-10-14 > - Apache Commons Email 1.3.2 on 2013-10-23 > - Apache Commons Compress 1.6 on 2013-10-26 > - Apache Commons Configuration 1.10 2013-10-27 > - Apache Commons Pool 2.0 on 2013-11-11 > - Apache Commons Collection 4.0 on 2013-11-24 > > The mailing list and JIRA activity is good, most support issues get timely > replies, and development discussions are positive. One of the recurring > topics is migration from Subversion to Git, the current plan is to try this > with one component, [cli]. Another discussion is how to reflect component > liveliness into the site and what to do with mostly inactive components. To > this end, the main page lists the version and latest release date for each > component. Another recurring theme is when and how to update the dated look > and feel of the site; the current thinking here is to use the Fluido skin. > A perennial concern is how to attract new developers, one proposal is to > better integrate our processes with git and GitHub. > > > The following new committers have joined us: > > > - Ate Douma (ate) on 2013-10-14 > - Woonsan Ko (woon_san) on 2013-10-14 > > There are no new PMC members. > > > The PMC changed its chair from Luc Maisonobe to Gary Gregory. The Commons > community is grateful for Luc’s service. > > > Gary > > -- > E-Mail: garydgreg...@gmail.com | ggreg...@apache.org > Java Persistence with Hibernate, Second > Edition<http://www.manning.com/bauer3/> > JUnit in Action, Second Edition <http://www.manning.com/tahchiev/> > Spring Batch in Action <http://www.manning.com/templier/> > Blog: http://garygregory.wordpress.com > Home: http://garygregory.com/ > Tweet! http://twitter.com/GaryGregory > -- E-Mail: garydgreg...@gmail.com | ggreg...@apache.org Java Persistence with Hibernate, Second Edition<http://www.manning.com/bauer3/> JUnit in Action, Second Edition <http://www.manning.com/tahchiev/> Spring Batch in Action <http://www.manning.com/templier/> Blog: http://garygregory.wordpress.com Home: http://garygregory.com/ Tweet! http://twitter.com/GaryGregory
