[REPORT] Apache Zest

[Niclas Hedhman <ni...@hedhman.org>]

Inception: 18 March 2015
Last PMC addition: 18 March 2015
Last Committer additions: n/a (In progress)

Description
    Apache Zest contains platforms and tools to explore the Composite
Oriented
    Programming paradigm.

Activity
    3 weeks has passed since the inception of the project and being one of
    very few TLPs not coming from the Incubator, some smaller stumbling
blocks
    were encountered by infra. But infra has been great, and we have gotten;
      -  Mailing lists dev, users, private and commits has been created
      -  Subversion repository for static HTML website has been created
      -  Git repositories has been created.
      -  Requests for Software Grants from all previous contributors have
been
         sent
      -  Jira is set up.

Community
    The PMC had no objections to invite the previous contributors, and
    invitations has been sent out, including requesting ICLAs (standard
invite
    letter). One previous contributor passed on the invitation (moved on to
    other things)

Mailing list activity
    Development discussions have started on dev@zest, and the Google groups
    one is quickly deserted.

Next Steps
    * Ensure IP is free of encumbrance.
    * Migrate website (incl re-design and branding compliance)
    * Import codebase