draft for Mynewt Board Report for September 2019

[Szymon Janc <sz...@codecoup.pl>]

Hi,

This is draft for September Board Report.
Any comments/additions?
 


## Description:
Mynewt is a real-time operating system for constrained embedded systems like
wearables, lightbulbs, locks and doorbells. It works on a variety of 32-bit
MCUs (microcontrollers), including ARM Cortex-M, RISC-V and MIPS
architectures.

## Issues:
None.

## Activity:
- Work on release 1.7.0 in August 2019
- NimBLE 1.2 stack release at same time
- BT SIG qualification done for NimBLE 1.2
- Community work in several areas including test facilities

## Health report:
- Users questions and contributor's pull requests are quickly dealt with
- It's been a long time since any PMC members have been voted in


## PMC changes:
- Currently 18 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Aditi Hilbert on Wed Jun 21 2017

## Committer base changes:
- Currently 31 committers
- 1 new commiter voted (Amr Bekhit) on Jun 2019

## Releases:
- Apache Mynewt 1.7.0 and Apache NimBLE 1.2.0 released August 4th

## Mailing list activity:

- Mailing list activity seeing new users and responders to questions asked
 (esp. questions from newcomers)
- Mailing list exchanges are mostly around NFC, BLE (and BLE mesh), test
facilities and LoRa
- Mailing list activity has dropped compared to last quarter
- Slack activity is up and more users have joined

## GitHub Issues activity:
- Issue types seen include change/feature requests, bug reports,
 contributions/PR, Q&A


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pozdrawiam
Szymon Janc