Proposed April 2016 MyFaces Board Report

[Mike Kienenberger <mk...@gmail.com>]

Here's my proposed board report.  Comments welcome.

Report from the Apache MyFaces committee [Mike Kienenberger]

## Description:
The Apache MyFaces project is an umbrella project of the Apache Software
Foundation for projects relating to the JavaServer Faces (JSF) technology.

## Activity and health:
- Apache Myfaces Core is healthy and in maintenance mode.

UI-Component Sets:
- Apache Tobago is healthy and active.
- Apache Trinidad continues to have issues opened and interest expressed by
  end-users.  Leonardo Uribe proposed a release candidate in February, but
  the release has yet to receive any votes.  I'm one of those guilty of not
  finishing my release review yet. Last commit on behalf of a contributor was
  January 2015.
- Myfaces Tomahawk is in maintenance mode and has had very little activity
  this quarter. Last commit on behalf of a contributor was April 2015.

Add-ons and Extensions:
- Apache MyFaces Portlet Bridge is in maintenance mode.  Last developer commit
  was Jan 2014.  Last commit on behalf of a contributor was May 2015.
- Apache MyFaces CODI is in maintenance mode. CODI was replaced by Apache
  DeltaSpike so new development happens there.  Last commit March 2014.
- Apache MyFaces Orchestra is in maintenance mode.  New projects use CDI and
  DeltaSpike instead.  Last commit December 2014.
- Apache MyFaces ExtVal is in maintenance mode. Last commit June 2014.
- Apache MyFaces Commons is in maintenance mode.  Last commit August 2012.
- Apache MyFaces Ext-Scripting is in maintenance mode.  Last commit Dec 2012.
- Apache MyFaces Test is in maintenance mode (Used by Myfaces Core).  Last
  commit June 2014.

## Community changes:

- Currently 76 committers and 42 PMC members.
- Last committer addition was Thomas Andraschko at Thu Jul 02 2015
- Last PMC additions were Bill Lucy and Thomas Andraschko on Fri Jan 15 2016

## Releases:

- Apache Tobago 2.0.9 was released on Sun Jan 31 2016
- Apache Myfaces Core 2.0.24 was released on Wed Mar 30 2016
- Apache Myfaces Core 2.1.18 was released on Wed Mar 30 2016

## Mailing list activity:

 - users@myfaces.apache.org:
    - 744 subscribers (down -3 in the last 3 months):
    - 27 emails sent to list (20 in previous quarter)

 - dev@myfaces.apache.org:
    - 309 subscribers (down -3 in the last 3 months):
    - 356 emails sent to list (316 in previous quarter)

## JIRA activity:

 - 47 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
 - 54 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months