Proposed January 2017 MyFaces Board Report

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

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

## Issues:
 - There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.

## 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 Sept
2017.
- 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 Sept 2017.
- Apache MyFaces Test is in maintenance mode (Used by Myfaces Core).  Last
commit May 2017.

## Community changes:

- Currently 78 committers and 43 PMC members.
- Last committer addition was Eduardo Breijo at Thu Jun 29 2017
- Last PMC additions was Dennis Kieselhorst on Sun Feb 05 2017

## Releases:

 - tobago-4.0.0 was released on Wed Dec 06 2017

## JIRA activity:

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


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The following question has not yet been answered by the PMC:

  sc: How are components in maintenance mode marked for users, so that
      newcomers understand what level of support might be available
      for those components? Or is there still PMC monitoring of
      questions there, and the components are stable and don't have
      new bugs being reported? (Question for the PMC, can answer via
      email or next report)


If no one else answers, I will respond with:

The components in maintenance mode are not marked as such, and no one
has volunteered to do so.
The PMC does respond to questions asked on the mailing list or in
JIRA, typically with something along the lines of this:

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We don't have any active [COMPONENT] committers currently. If you
provide a patch in unified diff format from the root of the project, I
will apply it.

If you would like assistance in tracking down the problem and creating
a solution, I recommend posting a message on the dev@myfaces mailing
list to see if any other JSF developers have an idea.
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