Hi.
On Wed, 14 Dec 2016 15:06:35 -0800, Gary Gregory wrote:
Hi All: I am requesting your feedback before I send this off.
## Description:
The Apache Commons project focuses on all aspects of reusable Java
components.
The Apache Commons components are widely used in many projects, both
within
Apache and without. Any ASF committer can commit to Apache Commons.
The last report was on September 13 2016.
## Issues:
- There are no issues that requires the boards attention this
quarter.
I'm not comfortable with the above statement because ...
## Activity:
- The project is active with 6 releases this reporting period. We
released
one new component Commons RNG 1.0. Commons Math still feels in
semi-limbo
and
now depends on Commons RNG in our repository. Commons RDF is making
its
way out of the incubator into Commons.
- The Commons community has decided to bring forth and maintain a
new
component, Commons RNG, out of the larger Commons Math code base,
which is
has seen no activity in the last quarter. The future of Commons Math
is
still uncertain and being discussed from time to time. There are
several
proposals for fostering new communities in place of the dwindling
Commons Math one, but that those are in limbo because no consensus
has been reached yet.
... of this state of affairs.
My assessment is that some people take positions that, in effect,
block (for good or bad reasons depending on the POVs), the (only)
initiatives which others want to take in order to gradually move
parts of CM out of "semi-limbo".
I'd like the report to convey that "do-ocracy" is stalled here.
and that it may be interesting to have external advice based on
last year's history (ML archive).
This report should also mention why some people (namely, James
Carman) want to leave the project.
I do not have the time to (re-)discuss any of this (and I won't
have a connection for the next 5 days).
Thanks,
Gilles
## Health report:
- Most components in Commons are mature, but are still actively
maintained (6 releases). The dev list is active. JIRA is active.
Speed of
responses to users is reasonable in most cases. We have 1 new PMC
member,
and Commons is still open to any Apache Committer.
Unedited reporter data follows.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 36 PMC members.
- Bruno P. Kinoshita was added to the PMC on Wed Oct 26 2016
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 142 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Eric Barnhill at Tue Sep 06 2016
## Releases:
- BEANUTILS-1.9.3 was released on Sat Sep 24 2016
- BUILDPLUGIN 1.7 was released on Mon Nov 21 2016
- JCS-2.0-beta-2 was released on Mon Oct 31 2016
- LANG-3.5 was released on Thu Oct 13 2016
- RNG-1.0 was released on Sun Dec 11 2016
- WEAVER-1.3 was released on Mon Oct 17 2016
## Mailing list activity:
- TODO Please explain what the following statistics mean
for the project. If there is nothing significant in the figures,
omit
this
section.
- dev@commons.apache.org:
- 671 subscribers (down -8 in the last 3 months):
- 1381 emails sent to list (1607 in previous quarter)
- iss...@commons.apache.org:
- 300 subscribers (down -2 in the last 3 months):
- 1743 emails sent to list (1646 in previous quarter)
- notificati...@commons.apache.org:
- 12 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 201 emails sent to list (247 in previous quarter)
- u...@commons.apache.org:
- 1231 subscribers (down -5 in the last 3 months):
- 130 emails sent to list (83 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 177 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 184 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
Gary Gregory, Your Apache Commons PMC Chair.
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