Board report

[Ross Gardler <Ro...@microsoft.com>]

Thanks to Sam for his notes for the board report this month, and Craig for expanding on the MFA issue - very helpful.

I submitted the following text - feedback welcome.

## Description:
Whimsy is a set of tools and a website to access them that help automate
various ASF administrative tasks or information lookup activities.

## Issues:
We are currently working with infra to conduct a limited experiment in using
GitHub as our primary development location. This experiment is conditioned
upon several factors:

* This is ONLY available to the Whimsy PMC
* The Whimsy project reports monthly on progress and issues surfaced
* The primary goal is to determine if the ASF can capture and retain (all)
necessary information related to our goals of establishing provenance of any
work performed.

Work is progressing. It is causing some churn for the infra team who are
needing to rework a considerable amount of their existing GitHub support (see
infra report).

The infra team feel that it is necessary to enforce multi-factor
authentication. This has met some (seemingly) mild resistance within the
Whimsy community as it potentially impacts contributors with an existing
GitHub account used in other contexts. This does not impact other projects
using GitHub as a mirror.

## Activity:

Incubator agenda reminders discussion appears to have petered out. Board
agenda reminders discussion never quite got off the ground - at least not on
dev@whimsical; there was a brief discussion on board@

New repository on GitHub: https://github.com/apache/whimsy a) ASF hosted clone
is not yet available b) whimsical site (via gitpubsub) is not yet set up c)
auto deploy (also via gitpubsub) is not yet set up d) updated VM (based on
Ubuntu 14.04) is available, but set up is not
   yet complete.

Development:
  a) updates to ICLA-lint (clr) and public JSON data (sebb).
  b) board agenda reminders is largely complete (rubys).
  c) exploratory rewrite of secretary mail function has been posted in
     a branch (rubys).

## Health report:
The community remains small and focused, there is active oversight from
numerous PMC members on both the project code and the GitHub experiment.

## PMC and Committer changes:

- Currently 10 committers, all of whom are PMC members.
- Craig L Russell was added on Sun Dec 13 2015

## Releases:

There are no formal releases of Whimsy code, although it is frequently
deployed on ASF hardware.

## Mailing list activity:

- dev@whimsical.apache.org:
- 15 subscribers (up 3 in the last 3 months):
- 282 emails sent to list (100 in previous quarter)


## JIRA activity:

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