board report - apache nifi april 2019

[Joe Witt <jo...@gmail.com>]

Team,

I ran right up to the deadline on submission so apologies for not sending a
draft first.  Here is what I submitted.  Thanks all!


## Description:
 - Apache NiFi is an easy to use, powerful, and reliable system to process
and
   distribute data.
 - Apache NiFi MiNiFi is an edge data collection agent built to seamlessly
   integrate with and leverage the command and control of NiFi. There are
both
   Java and C++ implementations.
 - Apache NiFi Registry is a centralized registry for key configuration
items
   including flow versions, assets, and extensions for Apache NiFi and
Apache
   MiNiFi.
 - Apache NiFi Nar Maven Plugin is a release artifact used for supporting
the
   NiFi classloader isolation model.
 - Apache NiFi Flow Design System is a theme-able set of high quality UI
   components and utilities for use across the various Apache NiFi web
   applications in order to provide a more consistent user experience.

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

## Activity:
 - Released Apache NiFi 1.9.0 containing numerous new features, bug fixes,
and
   improvements. This includes support for several standard security headers
   such as HSTS, X-XSS-Protection, and Content-Security-Policy.
 - The community continues to make progress in externalizing all NiFi
   extension components which would help us reduce the size of our
convenience
   binaries which reduces impact on infrastructure and mirrors.

## Health report:
 - Health of the community remains strong with many releases and
   robust discussion threads on new feature ideas like nifi-stateless and
how
   to best migrate to Java 11.
 - The PMC has not discussed committer and PMC pipeline in some time and
needs
   to put renewed attention on it.
 - As evidenced by the timeline between Apache NiFi 1.9.0 and 1.9.1 and
1.9.2
   we have had important defects requiring prompt resolution but also strong
   community effort to do so.

## PMC changes:

 - Currently 29 PMC members.
 - No new PMC members in the last three months.
 - Last PMC additional was Jeremy Dyer on Mon Jul 30 2018.

## Committer base changes:

 - Currently 42 committers.
 - No new committers added in the last 3 months
 - Last committer addition was Ed Berezitsky at Wed Jan 02 2019

## Releases:

 - Apache NiFi 1.9.2 was released on Sun Apr 07 2019
 - Apache NiFi MiNiFi C++ 0.6.0 was released on Fri Mar 22 2019
 - Apache NiFi 1.9.1 was released on Sat Mar 16 2019
 - Apache NiFi 1.9.0 was released on Mon Feb 18 2019

## Mailing list activity:

 - Activity on the mailing lists remains high with a mixture of new users,
   contributors, and deeper more experienced users and contributors sparking
   discussion and questions and filing bugs or new features.

 - In addition to the mailing lists the Apache NiFi Slack channel is very
   active and seems to be a good source of contributor discussion and
   knowledge sharing.


 - users@nifi.apache.org:
    - 673 subscribers (up 20 in the last 3 months):
    - 822 emails sent to list (684 in previous quarter)

 - dev@nifi.apache.org:
    - 443 subscribers (up 11 in the last 3 months):
    - 454 emails sent to list (399 in previous quarter)

 - issues@nifi.apache.org:
    - 56 subscribers (up 4 in the last 3 months):
    - 4403 emails sent to list (5251 in previous quarter)


## JIRA activity:

 - 291 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
 - 183 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months