[REPORT] Turbine - November 2019

[Georg Kallidis <ge...@cedis.fu-berlin.de>]

## Description:
The mission of Turbine is the creation and maintenance of software related 

to a Java Servlet Web Application Framework and associated component 
library.

Turbine is a matured and well established framework that is used as the 
base of many other projects. It allows experienced Java developers to 
quickly 
build web applications.

## Issues:
- The SVN-GIT Mirror was reactivated again successfully.

## Membership Data:
- Apache Turbine was founded 2007-05-16 (12 years ago)
- There are currently 11 committers and 9 PMC members in this project. The
  Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 6:5.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Jeffery Painter on 2017-11-12.
- No new committers were added.

## Project Activity:
- Hackathon took place at Apache Europe  and was attended by two PMC 
members.
  Focus has been on upstream component Apache Torque 4.1 (version label 
may be
  changed to 5.0) and finally Turbine 5.
- Java Docker Testcontainer integration in Turbine 5 (and prospectively
  Torque-Test)
- Discussions about Turbine pipeline components
- Last quarters backlog / discussion are still in follow-up work/work in
  process.
- No releases were done this quarter.

## Community Health:
- The Turbine project's quarter activity has been mainly in the dev 
mailing list with ongoing code changes on low/medium level.