[INFO] DB Report for July, 2023

[Bryan Pendleton <bp...@gmail.com>]

Hi all, thanks for the project updates. Here is the DB project
report I submitted to the board. Let me know of any mistakes
or omissions please!

thanks,

bryan



## Description:
The mission of the Apache DB project is to create and maintain
commercial-quality, open-source, database solutions based on software licensed
to the Foundation, for distribution at no charge to the public.

The Apache DB TLP consists of the following subprojects:
 o Derby    : a relational database implemented entirely in Java.
 o JDO      : focused on building the API and the TCK for compatibility
              testing of Java Data Object implementations providing data
              persistence.
 o Torque   : an object-relational mapper for Java.

## Project Status:
Current project status: Ongoing, with moderate activity.

Issues for the board: none

## Membership Data:
Apache DB was founded 2002-07-16 (21 years ago)
There are currently 48 committers and 44 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 1:1.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Georg Kallidis on 2020-08-26.
- Max Philipp Wriedt was added as committer on 2023-04-14

## Project Activity:
Recent releases:
Derby-10.16.1.1 was released on 2022-06-15.
JDO 3.2.1 was released on 2022-05-25.
JDO 3.2 was released on 2022-02-01.

Torque team are happy that we have a new committer, Max Philip Wriedt!
Find the announcemet here in torque-dev mailing list:
https://lists.apache.org/thread/n3mdmpb4jmj67l9rh6d1gd029f5zohl3

Status of JDO is ongoing, low activity.
No new releases since the last report.

The JDO project is continuing to work on improving support for
current and future JDKs. Currently supporting JDK 7, 11, and 17.
Looking to JDK 21 for the next supported release. We are also
upgrading the JUnit dependency from JUnit 3 to JUnit 5 so
we can more easily take advantage of potential
performance improvements.

Derby was very quiet this quarter, though the team did fix
an error in the Derby DOAP release paperwork.


## Community Health:
JDO and Torque teams saw a continuation of the increased
community activity from last winter, which is great!
Mailing list and development activity in the Torque
and JDO communities has been quite healthy.

Derby project activity has been very low throughout 2023.
Although Derby development activity continues at its normal (low)
pace, Derby user community activity has dropped to nearly
nothing, probably indicating that external usage of Derby
is dropping as well.

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