[submitted board report] NiFi Board Report - Oct 22

[Joe Witt <jo...@apache.org>]

## Description:
The mission of NiFi is the creation and maintenance of software related to
providing an easy to use, powerful, and reliable system to process and
distribute data.

Apache NiFi MiNiFi is an edge data collection agent built to seamlessly
integrate with and leverage the command and control of NiFi. There are both
Java and C++ implementations.

Apache NiFi Registry is a centralized registry for key configuration items
including flow versions, assets, and extensions for Apache NiFi and Apache
MiNiFi.

Apache NiFi Nar Maven Plugin is a release artifact used for supporting the
NiFi classloader isolation model.

Apache NiFi Flow Design System is a theme-able set of high quality UI
components and utilities for use across the various Apache NiFi web
applications in order to provide a more consistent user experience.

## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.

## Membership Data:
Apache NiFi was founded 2015-07-14 (7 years ago)
There are currently 61 committers and 33 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 8:5.

Community changes, past quarter:
- Nathan Gough was added to the PMC on 2022-09-06.
- Csaba Bejan was added as committer on 2022-09-09.
- Ferenc Erdei was added as committer on 2022-09-09.
- Peter Gyori was added as committer on 2022-09-23.

## Project Activity:
The NiFi community released both NiFi 1.17.0 on August 1st and NiFi 1.18.0
on Oct 6th 2022. The 1.18 release included over 180 JIRAs including many
new processors to talk with various SaaS endpoints and new parameter
providers to leverage things like HashiCorp Vault, external databases, as
well as AWS and GCP secret management. The 1.17 release had over 310 JIRAs
completed ensuring NiFi can be built on ARM based platforms such as the latest
macbooks, processors to connect with Salesforce and Google Drive as well
as other stability and security focused improvements.

## Community Health:
Community health remains strong.  We grew the PMC and committer ranks again
with more pipeline of people making progress as well.  Mailing lists
and slack remain quite busy and conference talks such as the recent 'Current'
included talks featuring NiFi. The dev mailing list saw nearly 300 emails
again this quarter. The users list showed a decrease in activity in raw
number of emails but the count of authors present remained strong.
JIRA activity
grew by 20% since last quarter with more than 300 issues closed with the
expected increase in commits and pull requests along with it. Our general
slack channel has grown to 2,388 users from 2262 in the previous quarter and
2042 the quarter before that. It also remains quite active with a lot of
responsive threads asking for help on various issues, sharing ideas, talking
about operations and so on.