[REPORT] Samza - July 2016

[Chris Riccomini <cr...@apache.org>]

## Description:

 - Apache Samza is a stream processing framework built on top of Apache Hadoop
   YARN and Apache Kafka.

## Issues:

There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.

## Activity:

 - Good coverage of Apache Samza at Hadoop summit. Several talks about it.
 - Meetup at LinkedIn on streaming included presentations on Apache Samza.

## Health report:

 - Project seems healthy, but growth has been relatively flat. Likely due to
   complete saturation of projects in the stream processing space.

## PMC changes:

 - Currently 11 PMC members.
 - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
 - Last PMC addition was Navina Ramesh on Thu Jan 07 2016

## Committer base changes:

 - Currently 13 committers.
 - No new committers added in the last 3 months
 - Last committer addition was Navina Ramesh at Fri May 22 2015

## Releases:

 - Last release was 0.10.0 on Fri Dec 18 2015

## Mailing list activity:

 - dev@samza.apache.org:
    - 307 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months):
    - 537 emails sent to list (561 in previous quarter)

## JIRA activity:

 - 39 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
 - 38 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months