[Draft] Jena board report : October 2016

[Andy Seaborne <an...@apache.org>]

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## Description:

Jena is a framework for developing Semantic Web and Linked Data
applications in Java. It provides implementation of W3C standards for
RDF and SPARQL.

## Issues:

There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.

## Activity:

The project has been proceeding steadily.  Initial thoughts on the next 
release have lead to an uptick in activity.

## Health report:

The project has been running as normal and there have been some nice 
contributions from outside the usual contributors.

## PMC changes:

   - Currently 12 PMC members.
   - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
   - Last PMC addition was Adam Soroka on Mon Jun 06 2016

## Committer base changes:

   - Currently 14 committers.
   - No new committers added in the last 3 months
   - Last committer addition was Adam Soroka at Mon May 30 2016

## Releases:

   - Last release was 3.1.0 on Tue May 10 2016

## Mailing list activity:

The project mailing lists are at normal levels - a wave of students 
asking beginner questions on users@ have got some very patient answers 
from the community.  Discussions on github reflected to dev@ account for 
the slight peaks recently.

   - users@jena.apache.org:
      - 622 subscribers (down -14 in the last 3 months):
      - 812 emails sent to list (410 in previous quarter)

   - dev@jena.apache.org:
      - 157 subscribers (up 4 in the last 3 months):
      - 963 emails sent to list (599 in previous quarter)

## JIRA activity:

   - 35 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
   - 37 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months