Review - Draft : Board Report for Ranger - period Ending 01/31/2017

[Selvamohan Neethiraj <sn...@apache.org>]

Rangers:

Please review the draft Board report below and let me know if you need to add/mod anything below ….

Thanks,
Selva-

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    # Description
    The Ranger project is a framework to enable, monitor and manage comprehensive data security across the Hadoop platform.
    
    # Issues
    * Running into some JIRA permission issues for the past few days. Working with INFRA team (INFRA-13423)
    
    # Status
    * Graduation approved by board on Jan 18, 2017
    * Working through tasks required of graduating projects
    * Release Plan for Ranger 0.7.0 will be started soon.
    
    # Releases
    * ranger-0.6.3 released on 2017-01-30 (Fixed some of the key security issues)
    
    # Development Activity
    * Community is discussing the scope of next release
    * Jira: 55(added), 66(resolved) (in the last 31 days)
    * Git(Source): 75 commits over last 31 days
    * SVN(Site & Docs): 5 commits over last 31 days
    
    # Community Activity
    ## Membership Changes
    * Added all committers to PMC list as part of the graduation (01-18-2017); Added (Alok Lal, Colm O hEigeartaigh, Gautam Borad)
    * No new committers in the last 31 days.
    * Gautam Borad was added as a committer on 06-29-2015
    ## Mailing List Activity
    * user@ranger:         48 messages over last 31 days
    * dev@ranger:         587 messages over last 31 days
    * commits@ranger:  96 messages over last 31 days
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