[REPORT] Apache Gora

[lewis john mcgibbney <le...@apache.org>]

## Description:
The Apache Gora open source framework provides an in-memory data model and
persistence for big data. Gora supports persisting to column stores, key
value stores, document stores, distributed in-memory key/value stores,
in-memory data grids, in-memory caches, distributed multi-model stores,
and hybrid in-memory architectures.
Gora also enables analysis of data with extensive Apache Hadoop MapReduce
and Apache Spark support.

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

## Activity:
Due to two ongoing GSoC projects, activity has been refreshingly active.
Additionally, recently, a Pig module was sent via a PR. This is under
review.

## Health report:
The Gora project is in a healthy state with review-then-commit
practice being demonstrated time and time again. The PMC is
engaging in community grown initiatives e.g. GSoC and we will
look to open up the PMC books post-successful conclusion of the
current projects.

## PMC changes:

 - Currently 26 PMC members.
 - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
 - Last PMC addition was Cihad Guzel on Tue Mar 13 2018

## Committer base changes:

 - Currently 26 committers.
 - No new committers added in the last 3 months
 - Last committer addition was Cihad Guzel at Wed Mar 14 2018

## Releases:

 - Last release was 0.8 on Mon Sep 18 2017

## Mailing list activity:

As always, most of our communication happens on dev@, nothing new here.

 - dev@gora.apache.org:
    - 73 subscribers (down -2 in the last 3 months):
    - 138 emails sent to list (194 in previous quarter)

 - user@gora.apache.org:
    - 75 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
    - 5 emails sent to list (17 in previous quarter)


## JIRA activity:

 - 1 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
 - 2 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months

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