Looks good to me, thanks for putting this together Joe!
On Tue, Jan 7, 2020 at 1:32 PM Joe Witt <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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.
