Joe, Thanks for submitting the report! I noticed in the Project Activity section, Apache NiFi's next release candidate is specified for version 0.10.0, instead of 1.10.0.
On Wed, Oct 2, 2019 at 12:30 AM Andy LoPresto <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. >
