[REPORT] Apache Samza - Oct 2017

[Yi Pan <ni...@gmail.com>]

## Description:
 Apache Samza is a distributed stream processing engine that are highly
configurable to process events from various data sources, including
real-time messaging system (e.g. Kafka) and distributed file systems (e.g.
HDFS).

## Issues:
- there are no issues requiring board attention at this time

## Activity:

- LinkedIn has another Stream Processing Meetup in Sept

-- Real-time Indexing of LinkedIn’s Economic Graph

--  Samza at Redfin: Using Streaming to Help Home Buyers and Sellers

- Talks and Presentations:

-- 5th Big Data Global Conference: unified processing using Samza
high-level API

-- @Scale: Samza booth


## Health report:
 - Project is in healthy status with a lot of development activities
 - Added 2 PMC members and 2 committers in the past quarter

## PMC changes:

 - Currently 13 PMC members.
 - New PMC members:
    - Jagadish Venkatraman was added to the PMC on Thu Sep 14 2017
    - Jake Maes was added to the PMC on Thu Sep 14 2017

## Committer base changes:

 - Currently 18 committers.
 - New commmitters:
    - Boris Shkolnik was added as a committer on Mon Oct 02 2017
    - Prateek Maheshwari was added as a committer on Wed Sep 20 2017

## Releases:

 - 0.13.1 was released on Thu Aug 24 2017

## Mailing list activity:

 - dev@samza.apache.org:
    - 291 subscribers (down -5 in the last 3 months):
    - 314 emails sent to list (464 in previous quarter)


## JIRA activity:

 - 95 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
 - 74 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months