[Report] Apache OODT - December 2018

[Imesha Sudasingha <im...@gmail.com>]

## Description:

Apache OODT is a software framework as well as an architectural style for
the
rapid construction of scientific data systems.  It provides components for
data capture, curation, metadata extraction, workflow management, resource
management, and data processing.

## Issues:

There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.

## Activity:
 - Last release was 1.2.5 on September 18th 2018
 - A discussion is ongoing on plan to containerize OODT
 - 1.9 release is yet to be made even though the required developments are
   almost complete.

## Health report:

During this reporting period, there has been an increased activity due to
contributions from a new community member and active usage of OODT in user
projects. We plan to release 1.9 (which was delayed) in the coming reporting
period. Furthermore, we plan to containerize OODT components along with a
docker build. In addition to that, we are planning on what GSoC project
ideas
to make available for GSoC 2019 and possible mentors.

Overall this period can be considered as an active period where new
contributions and active users were involved.

## PMC changes:

 - Currently 45 PMC members.
 - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
 - Last PMC addition was Imesha Sudasingha on Mon Aug 28 2017

## Committer base changes:

 - Currently 46 committers.
 - No new committers added in the last 3 months
 - Last committer addition was Imesha Sudasingha at Tue Aug 29 2017

## Releases:

 - 1.2.5 was released on Thu Sep 13 2018

## Mailing list activity:

There was increased activity in this period due an ongoing discussion on
containerization, a new contributor fixing some bugs and some users actively
using OODT in their projects.

 - dev@oodt.apache.org:
    - 95 subscribers (up 3 in the last 3 months):
    - 139 emails sent to list (118 in previous quarter)

## JIRA activity:

 - 10 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
 - 4 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months