Hi All, Here is a draft of the Board report for March 2026.
## Description: The mission of Apache Commons is the creation and maintenance of Java-focused reusable libraries and components ## Project Status: Current project status: Ongoing. Issues for the board: None. ## Membership Data: Apache Commons was founded 2007-06-19 (19 years ago) There are currently 150 committers and 44 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 5:2. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Arnout Engelen on 2024-12-22. - No new committers. Last addition was Arnout Engelen on 2024-12-23. ## Project Activity: This reporting period saw the release of the following Apache Commons components: - PARENT-97 was released on 2026-02-26. - FILEUPLOAD-2.0.0-M5 was released on 2026-02-17. - JEXL-3.6.2 was released on 2026-02-09. - BUILD-PLUGIN-1.16.1 was released on 2026-01-31. - RELEASE-PLUGIN-1.9.2 was released on 2026-01-31. - CODEC-1.21.0 was released on 2026-01-29. - BCEL-6.12.0 was released on 2026-01-22. - PARENT-96 was released on 2026-01-21. - PARENT-95 was released on 2026-01-11. - PARENT-94 was released on 2026-01-02. - POOL-2.13.1 was released on 2026-01-02. - DAEMON-1.5.1 was released on 2025-12-16. - DBCP-2.14.0 was released on 2025-12-16. - JEXL-3.6.1 was released on 2025-12-14. - POOL-2.13.0 was released on 2025-12-09. - TEXT-1.15.0 was released on 2025-12-07. A Commons Logging release candidate is in flight. ## Community Health: There is a steady stream of pull requests on GitHub, fewer than a handful a day. Overall mailing list activity is down by about a third, but Jira and GitHub is up. There have been 66 JIRA tickets opened and 79 closed in the past quarter. Gary --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
