[REPORT] Apache OODT - December 2019

[Imesha Sudasingha <im...@apache.org>]

## 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

## Membership Data:
Apache OODT was founded 2010-11-17 (9 years ago) There are currently 46
committers and 45 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is
roughly 1:1.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Imesha Sudasingha on 2017-08-28.
- No new committers. Last addition was Imesha Sudasingha on 2017-08-29.

## Project Activity:
2 Google Summer of Code projects were completed in this quarter. With them a
new UI was introduced for OODT and main OODT components were dockerized to
support k8s deployment. These features are being further enhanced under 2.x
developments which are yet to be released.

After around one year silence, OODT 1.9 was released in this October which
included the major update of making Avro RPC the default. We are working on
a
maintenance release, 1.9.x to address a backward compatibility issue
introduced with 1.9 release due to avro being default over XML RPC.

## Community Health:
Mailing list activity was high due to recent release and completion of GSoC
projects. Jira and PR activity were lower compared to last quarter since
GSoC
projects finished at the beginning of this quarter.

We are planning to submit projects for 2020 GSoC program as well.