[INFO] DB report for April 2022

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

Below is the quarterly report I submitted to the board.
Thanks all, and let me know if I missed anything.

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.

## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention.

## Membership Data:
Apache DB was founded 2002-07-16 (20 years ago)
There are currently 47 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.
- No new committers. Last addition was Tobias Bouschen on 2021-01-19.

## Project Activity:
Recent releases:
- JDO 3.2 was released on 2022-02-01.
- Torque 5.1 was released on 2022-01-31.
- Torque 5.0 was released on 2020-09-22.

All of the DB subprojects were actively working on new releases
during this quarter, with both the JDO and Torque subprojects
completing their new releases.

Additionally, members from the entire DB community collaborated
this quarter to migrate the various project websites to the
new hosting system, and we thank the Infrastructure team for
their assistance with several requests during the migration.

Notable projects that got underway this quarter include:
- the JDO community are migrating the xml name space away
from jcp.org which is no longer maintained
- the JDO community are working on maintaining compatibility
with JDK 8 and 9 while accommodating JDK 18 and JDK 19
- the Derby community are working on an upcoming 10.16
release to address compatibility with JDK 17+.

## Community Health:
DB mailing lists show typical levels of activity and appear healthy.
Project release activities and release votes are proceeding normally.