[REPORT] Apache OODT - September 2018

[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 at this time.

## Activity:
 -  Last release was 1.2.5 released on Thu Sep 13 2018
 -  Couple of issues were fixed and released (3 releases) related to OODT
1.2
    within the reporting period including support for JDK 8.
 -  On the other hand, 1.9 is almost ready to be released after switching to
    Avro RPC for communications. This will be released within the coming
    month.
 -  We are also working on supporting OODT to be built under JDK 10.

## Health report:
 - Project activity has been quiet except for the 3 1.2.x releases.
 - Due to Apache DRAT GSoC project, OODT could identify bottlenecks of using
   XML RPC and could expedite the Avro RPC migration. As a result, Avro RPC
   support has been made stable along with better logging support.
 - Despite the number of mails in the lists are lower compared to the last
   term, contributor involvement has increased within the period where more
   contributors worked actively within the period.
 - OODT 1.9 is ready to be released and will be released in the coming
month.
 - After 1.9, we will be moving to the 2.0 development cycle which will be a
   major step forward.

## PMC changes:

 - Currently 45 PMC members.
 - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
 - Last PMC addition was Imesha Sudasingha on Mon Aug 28 2017

## Committer base changes:

 - Currently 46 committers.
 - No new committers added in the last 3 months
 - Last committer addition was Imesha Sudasingha at Tue Aug 29 2017

## Releases:

 - 1.2.3 was released on Mon Aug 06 2018
 - 1.2.4 was released on Sun Aug 19 2018
 - 1.2.5 was released on Thu Sep 13 2018

## Mailing list activity:

 - Mailing list activity has increased with increased user queries,
developer
   discussions and releases. The numbers are lower because the auto
generated
   mails (Jenkins/Jira) have decreased within the period.

 - dev@oodt.apache.org:
    - 92 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months):
    - 125 emails sent to list (152 in previous quarter)


## JIRA activity:

 - 7 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
 - 8 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months