[REPORT] Apache Commons - September 2016

[Gary Gregory <gg...@apache.org>]

## Description:

The Apache Commons project focuses on all aspects of reusable Java
components.

The Apache Commons components are widely used in many projects, both within
Apache and without. Any ASF committer can commit to Apache Commons.

The last report was on June 7 2016.

## Issues:
 - There are no issues that requires the boards attention this quarter.

## Activity:
 - The project is active with 4 releases this reporting period. One new
 component being is being readied for release (Commons RNG) and another
 component is still in limbo (Commons Math.) after having been forked.
 Commons RDF is slowly making its way through the incubator.

 - Apache Commons Crypto has seen it first release: 1.0.0.

 - The Commons community has decided to bring forth and maintain a new
 component, Commons RNG, out of the larger Commons Math code base, which is
 has seen no activity in the last quarter. The future of Commons Math is
 still uncertain and being discussed from time to time. There are several
 proposals for fostering new communities in place of the dwindling
 Commons Math one, but that those are in limbo because no consensus
 has been reached yet.

## Health report:
 - Most components in Commons are mature, but are still actively
 maintained (4 releases). The dev list is active. JIRA is active. Speed of
 responses to users is reasonable in most cases. We have 4 new committers,
 and Commons is still open to any Apache Committer.

## PMC changes:

 - Currently 35 PMC members.
 - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
 - Last PMC addition was Stian Soiland-Reyes on Wed May 18 2016

## Committer base changes:

 - Currently 142 (but a lot less active committer).
 - New commmitters:
    - Artem Barger was added as a committer on Sun Aug 14 2016
    - Rob Tompkins was added as a committer on Mon Aug 22 2016
    - Eric Barnhill was added as a committer on Tue Sep 06 2016
    - Matt Sicker was added as a committer on Wed Jul 27 2016

## Releases:

 - BCEL-6.0 was released on Wed Jul 13 2016
 - COMPRESS 1.12 was released on Mon Jun 20 2016
 - CONFIGURATION-2.1 was released on Fri Aug 19 2016
 - CRYPTO-1.0.0 was released on Mon Aug 08 2016

## Mailing list activity:

 - The stats below show no significant change since last quarter.
 The dev list is active. Speed of responses to users is reasonable
 in most cases.

 - dev@commons.apache.org:
    - 680 subscribers (down -7 in the last 3 months):
    - 1609 emails sent to list (1714 in previous quarter)

 - issues@commons.apache.org:
    - 301 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
    - 1682 emails sent to list (2339 in previous quarter)

 - notifications@commons.apache.org:
    - 12 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
    - 247 emails sent to list (281 in previous quarter)

 - user@commons.apache.org:
    - 1236 subscribers (up 8 in the last 3 months):
    - 83 emails sent to list (166 in previous quarter)


## JIRA activity:

 - 209 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
 - 178 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months

Gary Gregory, Apache Commons PMC Chair.

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