On Sat, 9 Aug 2025 at 01:19, Dave Fisher <w...@apache.org> wrote: > > I’ve drafted the Board Report. Please suggest any edits and corrections. > > ## Description: > The mission of Apache Whimsy is the creation and maintenance of software > related to tools that help automate various administrative tasks or > information > lookup activities > > ## Project Status: > - Current project status: Very low, Maintenance > - Issues for the board: None at this time > > ## Membership Data: > Apache Whimsy was founded 2015-05-19 (10 years ago) > There are currently 13 committers and 11 PMC members in this project. > The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:6. > > Community changes, past quarter: > - Dave Fisher was added to the PMC on 2025-07-15 > - Dave Fisher was added as committer on 2025-07-16 > > ## Project Activity: > We initiated a discussion on the mailing list about whether or not the PMC > is willing to develop whimsical tools using the same Python approach used > by both Infrastructure and Tooling - asfquart with asf oauth. It remains to be > seen what the Consensus will be. Stayed tuned. > > ## Community Health: > Due to the many year effort to replace the Agenda Tool which is nearing > completion there is little enthusiasm to develop Whimsy.
I don't think that is quite correct. There is obviously no need to develop the Agenda Tool, but there have been quite a few developments elsewhere. Development has slowed because the rest of the code is quite mature. > There is a downward > trend in emails on the development mailing list. We will see if Whimsy will > become more like the STeVe project and support only the features that remain, > or > if it shifts to a more activity place for members to develop whimsical tools. >
