proposed [REPORT] Myfaces - April 2017

[Mike Kienenberger <mk...@gmail.com>]

Here's the proposed board report for April.
Please comment.
I will be submitting it by next Wednesday.

## Description:
The Apache MyFaces project is an umbrella project of the Apache Software
Foundation for projects relating to the JavaServer Faces (JSF) technology.

## Activity and health:
- Apache Myfaces Core is healthy, and the community is working on the new
  JSF 2.3 specification features.

UI-Component Sets:
- Apache Tobago is healthy and active.
- Apache Trinidad is in maintenance mode.  Last developer commit was April 2017.
 Last commit on behalf of a contributor was Sept 2016.
- Myfaces Tomahawk is in maintenance mode. Last developer commit was May 2016.
 Last commit on behalf of a contributor was May 2016.

Add-ons and Extensions:
- Apache MyFaces Portlet Bridge is in maintenance mode.  Last developer commit
 was Jan 2014.  Last commit on behalf of a contributor was May 2015.
- Apache MyFaces CODI is in maintenance mode. CODI was replaced by Apache
 DeltaSpike so new development happens there.  Last commit March 2014.
- Apache MyFaces Orchestra is in maintenance mode.  New projects use CDI and
 DeltaSpike instead.  Last commit on behalf of a contributor was August 2016.
- Apache MyFaces ExtVal is in maintenance mode. Last commit June 2014.
- Apache MyFaces Commons is in maintenance mode.  Last commit August 2012.
- Apache MyFaces Ext-Scripting is in maintenance mode.  Last commit Dec 2012.
- Apache MyFaces Test is in maintenance mode (Used by Myfaces Core).  Last
 commit Apr 2017.

## Community changes:

- Currently 77 committers and 43 PMC members.
- Last committer addition was Henning Nöth at Thu Mar 30 2017
- Last PMC additions was Dennis Kieselhorst on Sun Feb 05 2017
- We have no new committer or PMC member candidates at this time beyond what
 was mentioned for Trinidad.

## Releases:

 - myfaces-core-2.2.12 was released on Mon Feb 06 2017
 - tobago-3.0.1 was released on Mon Jan 16 2017
 - tobago-3.0.2 was released on Sun Jan 22 2017
 - tobago-3.0.3 was released on Sun Feb 05 2017

## JIRA activity:

 - 98 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
 - 81 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months