Below is the quarterly report I submitted to the board.
Thanks all; please let me know of any errors or omissions.
bryan
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## Description:
The mission of the Apache DB project is to create and maintain
commercial-quality, open-source, database solutions based on software licensed
to the Foundation, for distribution at no charge to the public.
The Apache DB TLP consists of the following subprojects:
o Derby : a relational database implemented entirely in Java.
o JDO : focused on building the API and the TCK for compatibility
testing of Java Data Object implementations providing data
persistence.
o Torque : an object-relational mapper for Java.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention.
## Membership Data:
Apache DB was founded 2002-07-16 (19 years ago)
There are currently 47 committers and 45 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 1:1.
Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Georg Kallidis on 2020-08-26.
- No new committers. Last addition was Tobias Bouschen on 2021-01-19.
## Project Activity:
- Torque 5.0 was released on 2020-09-22.
- Derby-10.15.2.0 was released on 2020-02-18.
- JDO 3.1 was released on 2015-03-19
The Torque community are preparing their 5.1 release, which contains multiple
new features as well as security fixes. An initial release candidate was voted
on, then withdrawn, due to ongoing work to address the Log4J security fixes. A
subsequent release candidate has been prepared and will be voted upon by the
community.
JDO has prepared release 3.2 and the DB PMC has voted to approve it. The vote
was prior to the log4j2 disclosure and jdo had a dependency on an affected
release of log4j2. This dependency was only for running the TCK so it is not a
critical issue. However, the dependency has been updated for the official
release.
The JCP has completed the Maintenance Draft Review 5 and has scheduled the
Maintenance Review Ballot for January 11 through January 17. We are expecting
a positive result. Once the Ballot is approved we will do a final update of
JDO 3.2 and have a final vote by the DB PMC.
The Derby community have had some discussions as to whether a new
major release of Derby will be needed to support JDK 18. Certain
Derby features may be removed due to underlying changes in the JDK and
the Derby community will need to communicate this to the users of the software.
The DB project has discussed the upcoming shutdown of the CMS and the move
of the ci.apache.org support to the new ci2.apache.org that will occur at
the end of January, and the sub projects will make the necessary changes.
## Community Health:
DB mailing lists show typical levels of activity and appear healthy.
Project release activities and release votes are proceeding normally.
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