Hi all, here's the (one month late) quarterly report that
we submitted to the board. Thanks all for your help, please
let me know of anything I missed or should amend.
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.
## Project Status:
Current project status: Ongoing
Issues for the board: none
## Membership Data:
Apache DB was founded 2002-07-16 (23 years ago)
There are currently 48 committers and 46 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 Max Philipp Wriedt on 2024-07-03.
- No new committers. Last addition was Max Philipp Wriedt on 2023-04-14.
## Project Activity:
Recent releases:
- Torque 7.0 was released on 2025-08-13.
- Torque 6.0 was released on 2024-05-22.
- Derby-10.17.1.0 was released on 2023-11-14.
## Community Health:
The DB community have reached consensus that the Derby software
is no longer actively being maintained and should be retired.
A public vote on the derby-dev list confirmed that consensus,
and the PMC are working to implement a subset of the Apache Attic
process to reflect that decision and to make the status be clearly
communicated to future visitors of the Db project site.
The JDO and Torque communities do not expect any major issues
with our use of Derby when the Derby project retires.
The Torque community voted on the Torque 7.0 release and it
was approved and released on 2025-08-13. The Torque developers
are working on a new approach to a performance problem in the
processRow method of RecordMappers (TORQUE-364).
The JDO team continues to work toward the next release, 3.2.2.
No date yet but we have a number of fixes and improvements that
make it seem like a good time to make a dot release. JDO have
put SBOM creation into the normal build process. Two flavors
of SBOM have been built. and we expect to incorporate them into
the release process. The JDO team are working on the alpha version
of Apache Trusted Release; nothing official yet.
The JDO team helped with the DB project logo update to use
the Oak Leaf instead of the Feather.
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