> On Aug 8, 2025, at 10:20 PM, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 9 Aug 2025 at 01:19, Dave Fisher <w...@apache.org> wrote:
>>
>> I’ve drafted the Board Report. Please suggest any edits and corrections.
>>
>> ## Description:
>> The mission of Apache Whimsy is the creation and maintenance of software
>> related to tools that help automate various administrative tasks or
>> information
>> lookup activities
>>
>> ## Project Status:
>> - Current project status: Very low, Maintenance
>> - Issues for the board: None at this time
>>
>> ## Membership Data:
>> Apache Whimsy was founded 2015-05-19 (10 years ago)
>> There are currently 13 committers and 11 PMC members in this project.
>> The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:6.
>>
>> Community changes, past quarter:
>> - Dave Fisher was added to the PMC on 2025-07-15
>> - Dave Fisher was added as committer on 2025-07-16
>>
>> ## Project Activity:
>> We initiated a discussion on the mailing list about whether or not the PMC
>> is willing to develop whimsical tools using the same Python approach used
>> by both Infrastructure and Tooling - asfquart with asf oauth. It remains to
>> be
>> seen what the Consensus will be. Stayed tuned.
>>
>> ## Community Health:
>> Due to the many year effort to replace the Agenda Tool which is nearing
>> completion there is little enthusiasm to develop Whimsy.
>
> I don't think that is quite correct.
> There is obviously no need to develop the Agenda Tool, but there have
> been quite a few developments elsewhere.
> Development has slowed because the rest of the code is quite mature.
>
>> There is a downward
>> trend in emails on the development mailing list. We will see if Whimsy will
>> become more like the STeVe project and support only the features that
>> remain, or
>> if it shifts to a more activity place for members to develop whimsical tools.
>>
Thanks. Here is the rewrite of the last section:
## Community Health:
For some time there has been no need to develop the Agenda Tool, but there have
been quite a few developments elsewhere.
Development has slowed because the rest of the code is quite mature. There is a
downward trend in emails on the development mailing list. We will see if Whimsy
will become more like the STeVe project and support only the features that
remain, or if it shifts to a more activity place for members to develop
whimsical tools.
Best,
Dave
