Team, Here is the content of the board report I submitted for us this quarter. Again great progress!
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 47 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. - Dániel Bakai was added as committer on 2019-10-19 - Kotaro Terada was added as committer on 2019-10-19 - Peter Turcsanyi was added as committer on 2019-10-25 ## Project Activity: We are nearing release of Apache NiFi Registry 1.0.0. The release includes support for common HTTP security headers, running on Java 11, updated to Ranger 2.0, and more. Released Apache NiFi 1.10.0. This brings powerful features such as sourcing extensions from the latest NiFi Registry at runtime, far better model for parameterized version controlled flows, Java 11 compatibility, back pressure prediction and more. In the release candidate phase of Apache NiFi 1.11.0 which provides a range of bug fixes, improvements and a handful of new features. This release will solve class-loader isolation to include native libraries as well. The release for MiNiFi CPP 0.7.0 is still being worked. There are nearly 140 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: We have seen about a 15% decline in users and dev mailing list activity this quarter. This is likely due to the growing use of Slack for more direct/responsive interaction as well as seasonal considerations. We also saw a roughly 40% decrease in JIRA related activity. This is certainly related to the completion of the very significant Apache NiFi 1.10.0 release as well as seasonal aspects. We've brought in several new committers in this timeline and hopefully the current committer base leads to additional PMC members soon. The community remains active on numerous release lines as well. 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. For the past few quarters we've reported 394, 523, and now 707 persistent users in our slack channels. Interestingly we see more non committer based collaboration here than we have on the mailing lists. People seem to prefer the collaboration style of Slack quite a lot as well as more subject dedicated rooms to talk in. It isn't clear that this is leading to more committers and PMC members but does help the community in general.
