[INFO] DB Project report for October, 2020

[Bryan Pendleton <bp...@gmail.com>]

## Description:
The mission of the Apache DB project is to create and maintain
commercial-quality, open-source, database solutions based on software licensed
to the Foundation, for distribution at no charge to the public.

The Apache DB TLP consists of the following subprojects:
 o Derby    : a relational database implemented entirely in Java.
 o JDO      : focused on building the API and the TCK for compatibility
              testing of Java Data Object implementations providing data
              persistence.
 o Torque   : an object-relational mapper for Java.

## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention.

## Membership Data:
Apache DB was founded 2002-07-16 (18 years ago)
There are currently 46 committers and 45 PMC members in this project.

Community changes, past quarter:
- Georg Kallidis was added to the PMC on 2020-08-26
- Jeffery Painter was added to the PMC on 2020-08-26
- Long time Torque committer and PMC member Thomas Fox has
  retired from the project.

## Project Activity:
- Torque 5.0 was released on 2020-09-22. The Torque community is
  grateful to Infra for help in resolving a website publishing issue
  (INFRA-20929)
- JDO completed the migration of the code repository from svn to git
  and the web presence to a new repository in git
- The Derby community has not yet made the transition from Jenkins
  to CloudBees. We are not blocked by anything; we just haven't
  yet found the time.

## Community Health:
It was a quiet quarter, possibly due to worldwide COVID concerns.
But overall the DB community continues to be healthy, with two
new PMC members added and a new release (Torque 5.0) published.