Thank you for your review Gilles (more below.)

On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 3:50 PM Gilles <gil...@harfang.homelinux.org> wrote:

> Hi.
>
> On Tue, 12 Jun 2018 12:53:52 -0600, Gary Gregory wrote:
> > I plan on sending this tomorrow at the latest:
> >
> > ## Description:
> >  - Apache Commons is an Apache project focused on all aspects of
> > reusable
> > Java components.
> >
> > ## Issues:
> >  - There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
> >
> > ## Activity:
> >  - Activity is medium with the release of 4 components and 4 internal
> > components.
> >
> > ## Health report:
> >  - The project is healthy. We are discussing the addition of a new
> > component,
>
> Which one?
>

The board does not care I am sure. I am going for short and sweet here but
I think we had talked about a timing component and someone pointed out that
there was an old entire project at Apache that basically already did that
but that it was also dead or dormant.


>
> > mailing activity is good and JIRAs are addressed in a timely
> > manner.
> >  - Releases for existing components are in the planning stage
> > (Collections,
> > Lang, IO, Pool, DBCP.)
>
> RNG (if the next CP fixes the "japicmp" issue)
> Numbers (if it gets reviews from people other than me)
>

I will add those but I am sure the board does not care so we could also
omit the list.


>
> >
> > ## PMC changes:
> >
> >  - Currently 38 PMC members.
>
> This is highly not representative of the project's activity.
> It would be more meaningful to report active members.
>
> >  - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
>
> This is representative.
>

I just shows lack of growth.


>
> >  - Last PMC addition was Rob Tompkins on Fri Jun 30 2017
> >
> > ## Committer base changes:
> >
> >  - Currently 146 committers.
>
> All Apache committers are Commmons committers; so what?
> It would be (much) more meaningful to provide the number
> of people who made a commit in the last 3 months...
> Something like: "x committers changed y lines of code
> over z commits."[1]


Feel free to provide such stats ;-) But we all know how valuable LOC stats
are... While those [1] numbers are fun, they tell you nothing of the kind
of changes...


>
> >  - No new committers added in the last 3 months
>
> IMHO, this does not fit with the "healthy" qualifier.
>

Hm, perhaps 'moderately healthy and not currently growing' is more accurate
though.

Gary


> >  - Last committer addition was Sergio Fernández at Sat Nov 04 2017
> >
> > ## Releases:
> >
> >  - BUILDPLUGIN-1.8 was released on Wed Apr 04 2018
> >  - COMPRESS-1.17 was released on Sat Jun 02 2018
> >  - DBCP-2.3.0 was released on Fri May 11 2018
> >  - PARENT-45 was released on Wed Mar 14 2018
> >  - PARENT-46 was released on Sun Apr 15 2018
> >  - RELEASEPLUGIN-1.2 was released on Wed Apr 04 2018
> >  - TEXT-1.3 was released on Tue Mar 20 2018
> >  - TEXT-1.4 was released on Mon Jun 11 2018
> >
> > ## JIRA activity:
> >
> >  - 170 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
> >  - 133 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
> >
> > Gary Gregory,
> > Apache Commons PMC Chair.
>
> Regards,
> Gilles
>
> [1] https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/apache-in-2017-by-the
>
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