Team, Congrats again on all the great work. Thanks to everyone involved. Here is our board report for Jan 2024.
## 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. ## Project Status: Current project status: Ongoing. High. Issues for the board: None. ## Membership Data: Apache NiFi was founded 2015-07-14 (8 years ago) There are currently 64 committers and 36 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 8:5. Community changes, past quarter: - Csaba Bejan was added to the PMC on 2023-10-25 - No new committers. Last addition was Timea Barna on 2023-08-02. ## Project Activity: The community conducted its first major (semantic versioning) milestone 1 release of Apache NiFi 2.0.0 M1 in November of 2023. The first new major release since 2016! This release is a total game changer for NiFi. In addition to the more than 900 JIRAs included which comprise of features, bug fixes, and security related changes this release makes major steps forward. The NiFi 2.0 means we are up to date with and based on Java 21 and the latest of many great projects like Apache Maven, Spring, Jetty, and many more. Users can now write legit NiFi components in Python and enjoy a first class integrated experience in NiFi as if they were written in Java. We eliminated many defunct code areas, improved and clarified APIs, eliminated poorly maintained code, and much more. We anticipate having a full blown 2.0 production release soon though we already know of several production users of the 2.0 M1 release now. We also kept the momentum up with the NiFi 1.x line releasing, also in November, Apache NiFi 1.24.0. Again this comes with improvements, security changes, and bug fixes. We have also at long last finally launched a revamped website for nifi.apache.org. ## Community Health: Community health remains strong and growing. Our mailing list activity as measured by the dev list dropped by 17% but overall activity remained busy. The dev list drop likely relates to the Holidays and the activity on Slack. PR activity, reviews, and merges remain highly active with more than 31 authors contributing code in this quarter. We added another 150 or so net Slack users this quarter now sitting at 2980 in the general channel. We continue to ensure discussions that should turn into JIRAs or other documented mailing lists do get sent to those mechanisms. We continue to see plenty of commercial activity around NiFi in the form of vendor material, blogs, social media posts, etc..
