[REPORT] Samza - Feb 2022

[Yi Pan <ni...@gmail.com>]

## Description:
The mission of Samza is the creation and maintenance of software related to
distributed stream processing framework

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

## Membership Data:
Apache Samza was founded 2015-01-22 (7 years ago)
There are currently 29 committers and 17 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 8:5.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Bharath Kumarasubramanian on
2020-02-13.
- No new committers. Last addition was Daniel Chen on 2021-09-17.

## Project Activity:
- Samza 1.7.x release is in DISCUSSION to include the following major
features
  - [SAMZA-2591] Introduce Async State Backup API (SEP-28)
  - [SAMZA-2657] Blob store backed state backup and restore (SEP-29)
  - [SAMZA-2709] Adding partial updates to Samza Table API (SEP-30)
  - [SAMZA-2716] Upgrade to Kafka 2.4
- Samza auto-scaling presented in Stream Processing Meetup@LinkedIn on Dec 1

## Community Health:
JIRA
- 11 issues opened in JIRA, past quarter (-72% change)
- 24 issues closed in JIRA, past quarter (166% increase)
COMMITS
- 28 commits in the past quarter (-15% decrease)
- 15 code contributors in the past quarter (87% increase)
- 24 PRs opened on GitHub, past quarter (-42% change)
- 25 PRs closed on GitHub, past quarter (-30% change)