Draft report

[Patricia Shanahan <pa...@acm.org>]

## Description:
    Apache River software provides a standards-compilant JINI service.

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

## Activity:
  - We have added a new PMC Member and Committer, Bryan Thompson.
  - A new, more usable, set of examples was released in August.
  - Several release-related issues were resolved early in the quarter.
  - There has been a quiet period for the last couple of months.

## Health report:
  - The project continues to make progress whenever committers have time 
to work on it, but that is not all the time.

## PMC changes:

  - Currently 14 PMC members.
  - Bryan Thompson was added to the PMC on Sun Aug 30 2015

## Committer base changes:

  - Currently 14 committers.
  - Bryan Thompson was added as a committer on Mon Aug 31 2015

## Releases:

  - river-examples-1.0 was released on Sun Aug 09 2015

## Mailing list activity:

  - dev@river.apache.org:
     - 94 subscribers (down -2 in the last 3 months):
     - 220 emails sent to list (93 in previous quarter)

  - user@river.apache.org:
     - 100 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
     - 2 emails sent to list (3 in previous quarter)


## JIRA activity:

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