Joe, Looks great. Thanks for putting this together. One comment: the commuter to PMC ratio is listed as 3:2 (44 to 30). I think the 44 number includes all PMC members as well, so I would present the ratio as 1:2. But perhaps I’m misunderstanding the point of that distinction.
Andy LoPresto [email protected] [email protected] PGP Fingerprint: 70EC B3E5 98A6 5A3F D3C4 BACE 3C6E F65B 2F7D EF69 > On Oct 1, 2019, at 19:00, Joe Witt <[email protected]> wrote: > > Team, > > Here is the board report I've submitted for us this October. Great > progress! > > For those familiar with the format we've typically used this is a bit > different. I used a new tool that helps structure and capture data for the > report a bit differently than the previous approach. We'll see what the > feedback from the board is. > > Thanks > Joe > > ----- > ## Description: > The mission of NiFi is the creation and maintenance of software related to > providing an easy to use, powerful, and reliable system to process and > distribute data. > > Apache NiFi MiNiFi is an edge data collection agent built to seamlessly > integrate with and leverage the command and control of NiFi. There are both > Java and C++ implementations. > > Apache NiFi Registry is a centralized registry for key configuration items > including flow versions, assets, and extensions for Apache NiFi and Apache > MiNiFi. > > Apache NiFi Nar Maven Plugin is a release artifact used for supporting the > NiFi classloader isolation model. > > Apache NiFi Flow Design System is a theme-able set of high quality UI > components and utilities for use across the various Apache NiFi web > applications in order to provide a more consistent user experience. > ## Issues: > There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. > > ## Membership Data: > Apache NiFi was founded 2015-07-14 (4 years ago) > There are currently 44 committers and 30 PMC members in this project. > The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 3:2. > > Community changes, past quarter: > - No new PMC members. Last addition was Peter Wicks on 2019-05-29. > - Rob Fellows was added as committer on 2019-09-24 > > ## Project Activity: > Released Apache NiFi Registry 0.5.0 providing better proxy permissions, > support for Apache Knox, and the ability to make buckets accessible by > anonymous users. > > Apache NiFi 0.10.0 will have a release candidate likely by the time of this > October board report. It includes more than 330+ JIRAs. This brings > powerful > features such as sourcing extensions from the latest NiFi Registry at > runtime, > far better model for paramaterized version controlled flows, Java 11 > compatibility, back pressure prediction and more. > > The release for MiNiFi CPP 0.7.0 is closing in. There are nearly 100 closed > JIRAs including many bug fixes and new features such as ensuring all inbound > sockets are TLSv1.2 or newer, cron driven scheduling, support Kerberized > connections to Kafka, support for packages with Python scripts, and ability > to > capture individual frames from an RTSP camera stream. > ## Community Health: > Community health continues to be a strong point with a healthy committer and > PMC pipeline as well as high activity from current PMC members. We see > numerous release lines across the mentioned parts of the Apache NiFi project > all with very active development across features, bug fixes, and > improvements. > Our mailing list continues to be highly active and our slack room is also > super active. > > As reported in the previous quarter we had 394 users in our slack room but > now > there are 523 and growing. This is a great sign of the interest in the > community and the engagement level we see across PMC, committer, and > pipeline > for future committers. > > We continue to see highly active use and commentary related to Apache NiFi > in > social media, meetups, blogs, and conferences in various parts of the > world. A > NiFi PMC member presented on NiFi at the recent ApacheCon in Vegas. A recent > tweet reads "Work with ApacheNiFi is very fast and productive. Counting now > +290 processors to build both batch and streaming ETL data pipelines for any > type of data source and destination you want." Another reads "ApacheNiFi > thanks for the usual level of nonsensical obfuscated badly described prose > on > your homepage trying to describe your framework/product. As usual > obfuscation > is your the forte of the Apache Foundation..." Fortunately patches are > welcome. > > This quarter we're seeing higher engagement across mailing lists, JIRA > activity both opened and closed, commits, PRs opened and closed. This is > likely due to the range of release activities for the NiFi Registry as well > as > the impending release of Apache NiFi 1.10.0 which is a huge feature, bug > fix, > and improvement release representing one of the longer gaps we've ever had > since the previous feature bearing release.
