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September 2023 board report
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+## Description:
+
+Apache TomEE delivers enterprise application containers and services based
+on, but not limited to the Enterprise JavaBeans Specification and Java
+Enterprise Edition Specifications.
+
+## Health
+
+Activity on the project over the last quarter has been low with just 10
+commits to main in the previous three months from today (9/17). We seem to
+be steadily trending downward over the years. Here's an analysis of commits
+broken up by calendar quarter since work first started on TomEE 1.0.
+
+Year Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Average
+---- --- --- --- --- -------
+2023 30 42 7 26
+2022 248 175 78 107 152
+2021 66 141 41 34 70
+2020 33 147 123 94 99
+2019 446 190 214 120 242
+2018 156 58 141 555 227
+2017 58 88 108 104 89
+2016 116 114 174 69 118
+2015 234 263 65 127 172
+2014 234 353 396 363 336
+2013 434 264 195 188 270
+2012 632 671 632 597 633
+2011 111 266 486 400 315
+
+The project has actively been trying to increase participation. Users on the
+user list are frequently encouraged to help and given the "every contribution
+helps" perspective.
+
+The few that have shown interest are given very warm and encouraging
+responses with a great deal of coaching to feel comfortable asking questions,
+not get discouraged, not be hard on themselves and are encouraged to start
+small and get the encouragement a quick win before trying bigger tasks.
+
+Despite our efforts, almost no one makes it to the point where they can
+contribute to core code in any capacity. Contributions typically stop at
+minor doc updates and library upgrades.
+
+Those that do show enough promise to make it to committer tend to not
+continue contributing very long. We've added 7 committers in the last 6
+years and of that list only one contributes regularly. Two in the list
+stopped contributing once they gained the committer title, three stopped
+committing in the first year. Lowering the bar to commit hasn't really
+helped.
+
+A significant bar to entry has always been that the TCKs we implement were
+restricted and not available to the public. These were all open sourced in
+2018/2019 and we had hoped this would be key in enabling more members of the
+community to help with the main work of the project, getting compliance tests
+to pass and shipping certified releases. This hasn't really helped and in
+fact the new faster pace at which specifications are released seems to only
+hurt us.
+
+We had reported build times as a potential deterrent (they were 4-5 hours)
+and worked with Infra to help setup builds in AWS. This was complete last
+quarter. So far we have not had any new contributors test out this new
+system.
+
+We will keep trying, but overall it seems like very few are in a position to
+contribute. There is a high bar in terms of time and experience we simply
+cannot control or reduce. Fixing one TCK test can take a very experienced
+person one week full-time. You need to research cryptic text in
+specifications, do deep debugging in code you don't know to find causes, and
+find intricate solutions that do not cause new failures elsewhere. Due to
+the time involved it isn't something you can do without the support of your
+employer and it doesn't appear anyone who uses TomEE has interest in
+investing in the project at that level.
+
+
+## Activity
+
+As mentioned above, activity has been low -- 10 commits to main in the last
+90 days. No new releases have been shipped.
+
+The work done has largely been around the integration between TomEE and CXF,
+specifically to get CXF 4.0 fully integrated. We have seen a new face arrive
+and offer to help in this area and has openend a PR to help setup the new
+Jakarta REST TCK suite from Jakarta EE 10. It's not fully working and breaks
+the build, but is still very positive. Any kind of start is a good start.
+
+## PMC changes:
+
+- Currently 13 PMC members.
+- Last PMC addition Richard Zowalla on May 23rd, 2022
+
+## Committer base changes:
+
+- Currently 33 committers.
+- Last committer added was Richard Zowalla on January 6th 2021
+
+## Releases:
+
+None
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