Draft report for ASF, July 2017

[Dan Haywood <da...@haywood-associates.co.uk>]

Hi folks,

below is the draft of the quarterly report we provide to the ASF board.
Yell if there's anything you'd llke changing, otherwise I'll submit in a
couple of days.

Thanks
Dan




## Description:

Apache Isis is a framework for rapidly developing domain-driven apps in
Java.

## Issues:

There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.

## Activity:

Since the last report we have made two small bug fix releases, v1.12.1 [1]
and v1.12.2 [2].  (The next release is imminent but hasn't quite made it
for this status report).

(As reported last quarter), a couple of conference have now taken place.
The outputs of one of these - an all-day workshop - is available has been
provided on github [3].

A comment was also made against last quarter's report regarding the slow
speed of loading up the screencasts page [4]; this has now been reworked and
now loads much faster.

## Health report:

Project activity (#mails, tickets, commits etc) are all healthy.

The main development activity (for 1.13.0) has been removing technical debt
and simplifying the code base, with a long-term view of leveraging more of
the JEE platform (eg CDI) and moving to Java 8 as the minimum requirement
around the time that Java 9 is released (mid next year).  The rationale is
that the simpler the codebase, the more likely it will encourage
contributions.

## PMC changes:

 - Currently 11 PMC members.
 - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
 - Last PMC addition was Martin Grigorov on Tue Dec 23 2014

## Committer base changes:

 - Currently 11 committers.
 - No new committers added in the last 3 months
 - Last committer addition was Martin Tzvetanov Grigorov at Thu Dec 11 2014

## Releases:

 - 1.12.1 was released on Tue Apr 12 2016
 - 1.12.2 was released on Mon Jun 06 2016

## Mailing list activity:

  Compared to lsat quarter when new subscriptions was flat, the number of
  mailing list subscribers has now resumed its upward trend.  The new
  screencasts page [4] and a twitter campaign related to that may be part of
  the explanation.

 - users@isis.apache.org:
    - 171 subscribers (up 16 in the last 3 months):
    - 423 emails sent to list (266 in previous quarter)

 - dev@isis.apache.org:
    - 77 subscribers (up 3 in the last 3 months):
    - 832 emails sent to list (759 in previous quarter)


## JIRA activity:

 - 101 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
 - 109 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months


[1] http://isis.apache.org/release-notes.html#r1.12.1
[2] http://isis.apache.org/release-notes.html#r1.12.2
[3] https://github.com/danhaywood/spa2016-workshop-outputs
[4] http://isis.apache.org/screencasts.html