[REPORT] Board report for this quarter

["Gary D. Gregory" <gg...@apache.org>]

This is the board report I submitted for this quarter:

## Description:
Apache Xalan exists to promote the use of XSLT. We view XSLT (Extensible 
Stylesheet Language Transformations) as a compelling paradigm that transforms 
XML documents, thereby facilitating the exchange, transformation, and 
presentation of knowledge. The ability to transform XML documents into usable 
information has great potential to improve the functionality and use of 
information systems. We intend to build freely available XSLT processing 
components in order to engender such improvements.

## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention.

## Membership Data:
Apache Xalan was founded 2004-09-30 (18 years ago)
There are currently 57 committers and 5 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 8:1.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Bill Blough on 2019-02-19.
- No new committers. Last addition was Bill Blough on 2019-03-20.

## Project Activity:
The Apache Xalan team has had a welcome burst of activity to release
Xalan-Java 2.7.3 to address a security issue, this will be done by picking the
latest Apache Commons BCEL release. This is welcome activity indeed as we had
been considering Xalan-Java to the attic. This move might still happen in the
future as the component is woefully being in terms of standard support of
newer XSLT versions.

The Xalan-C side of the house is quiet.

## Community Health:
The health of the project had been poor until the recent bout of activity
mentioned under "Project Activity". Almost all metrics are up due to the
imminent release of Xalan-Java 2.7.3.

Gary


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