[REPORT] Apache Knox Board Report

[larry mccay <la...@gmail.com>]

## Description:
 - The Apache Knox Gateway is an HTTP/REST API Gateway for interacting with
   Apache Hadoop clusters. The Knox Gateway provides a single access point for
   all REST/HTTP interactions with Apache Hadoop clusters.

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

## Activity:
 - In Dec Apache Knox 1.2.0 was released. It consisted of ~160 resolved JIRAs.
 - This release concentrated on many dependency upgrades, performance
   improvements, build time improvements and scans
 - We have recently migrated to gitbox and agreed to start supporting Pull
   Requests from github
 - We have begun discussing the planning for the 1.3.0 release with a focus so
   far on containerization and cloud.


## Health report:
 - A more proactive approach on dependency upgrade has increased the level of
   commits and therefore mailing list activity.
 - New contributors are engaged, providing patches and filing JIRAs.

## PMC changes:

 - Currently 17 PMC members.
 - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
 - Last PMC addition was Kevin Risden on Mon Apr 02 2018

## Committer base changes:

 - Currently 21 committers.
 - No new committers added in the last 3 months
 - Last committer addition was Kevin Risden at Tue Apr 03 2018

## Releases:

 - 1.2.0 was released on Mon Dec 17 2018

## Mailing list activity:

 - dev@knox.apache.org:
    - 94 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
    - 2278 emails sent to list (1829 in previous quarter)

 - user@knox.apache.org:
    - 133 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
    - 49 emails sent to list (167 in previous quarter)

## JIRA activity:

 - 174 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
 - 158 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months