Apache NiFi Jan 2020 Board Report

[Joe Witt <jo...@apache.org>]

Team,

Here is the content of the board report I submitted for us this quarter.
Again great progress!

Thanks
Joe


## Description:
The mission of NiFi is the creation and maintenance of software related to
providing an easy to use, powerful, and reliable system to process and
distribute data.

Apache NiFi MiNiFi is an edge data collection agent built to seamlessly
integrate with and leverage the command and control of NiFi. There are both
Java and C++ implementations.

Apache NiFi Registry is a centralized registry for key configuration items
including flow versions, assets, and extensions for Apache NiFi and Apache
MiNiFi.

Apache NiFi Nar Maven Plugin is a release artifact used for supporting the
NiFi classloader isolation model.

Apache NiFi Flow Design System is a theme-able set of high quality UI
components and utilities for use across the various Apache NiFi web
applications in order to provide a more consistent user experience.

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

## Membership Data:
Apache NiFi was founded 2015-07-14 (4 years ago)
There are currently 47 committers and 30 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 3:2.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Peter Wicks on 2019-05-29.
- Dániel Bakai was added as committer on 2019-10-19
- Kotaro Terada was added as committer on 2019-10-19
- Peter Turcsanyi was added as committer on 2019-10-25

## Project Activity:
We are nearing release of Apache NiFi Registry 1.0.0.  The release includes
support for common HTTP security headers, running on Java 11, updated to
Ranger 2.0, and more.

Released Apache NiFi 1.10.0.  This brings powerful features such as sourcing
extensions from the latest NiFi Registry at runtime, far better model for
parameterized version controlled flows, Java 11 compatibility, back pressure
prediction and more.

In the release candidate phase of Apache NiFi 1.11.0 which provides a range
of
bug fixes, improvements and a handful of new features.  This release will
solve class-loader isolation to include native libraries as well.

The release for MiNiFi CPP 0.7.0 is still being worked.  There are nearly
140
closed JIRAs including many bug fixes and new features such as ensuring all
inbound sockets are TLSv1.2 or newer, cron driven scheduling, support
Kerberized connections to Kafka, support for packages with Python scripts,
and
ability to capture individual frames from an RTSP camera stream.

## Community Health:
We have seen about a 15% decline in users and dev mailing list activity this
quarter. This is likely due to the growing use of Slack for more
direct/responsive interaction as well as seasonal considerations. We also
saw
a roughly 40% decrease in JIRA related activity.  This is certainly related
to
the completion of the very significant Apache NiFi 1.10.0 release as well as
seasonal aspects.

We've brought in several new committers in this timeline and hopefully the
current committer base leads to additional PMC members soon. The community
remains active on numerous release lines as well. Community health continues
to be a strong point with a healthy committer and PMC pipeline as well as
high
activity from current PMC members. We see numerous release lines across the
mentioned parts of the Apache NiFi project all with very active development
across features, bug fixes, and improvements. Our mailing list continues to
be
highly active and our slack room is also super active.

For the past few quarters we've reported 394, 523, and now 707 persistent
users in our slack channels. Interestingly we see more non committer based
collaboration here than we have on the mailing lists. People seem to prefer
the collaboration style of Slack quite a lot as well as more subject
dedicated
rooms to talk in. It isn't clear that this is leading to more committers and
PMC members but does help the community in general.

Re: Apache NiFi Jan 2020 Board Report

[Pierre Villard <pi...@gmail.com>]

Looks good to me as well, thanks Joe!

Le mer. 8 janv. 2020 à 01:38, Matt Burgess <ma...@apache.org> a écrit :

> Looks good to me, thanks for putting this together Joe!
>
> On Tue, Jan 7, 2020 at 1:32 PM Joe Witt <jo...@apache.org> wrote:
> >
> > Team,
> >
> > Here is the content of the board report I submitted for us this quarter.
> > Again great progress!
> >
> > Thanks
> > Joe
> >
> >
> > ## Description:
> > The mission of NiFi is the creation and maintenance of software related
> to
> > providing an easy to use, powerful, and reliable system to process and
> > distribute data.
> >
> > Apache NiFi MiNiFi is an edge data collection agent built to seamlessly
> > integrate with and leverage the command and control of NiFi. There are
> both
> > Java and C++ implementations.
> >
> > Apache NiFi Registry is a centralized registry for key configuration
> items
> > including flow versions, assets, and extensions for Apache NiFi and
> Apache
> > MiNiFi.
> >
> > Apache NiFi Nar Maven Plugin is a release artifact used for supporting
> the
> > NiFi classloader isolation model.
> >
> > Apache NiFi Flow Design System is a theme-able set of high quality UI
> > components and utilities for use across the various Apache NiFi web
> > applications in order to provide a more consistent user experience.
> >
> > ## Issues:
> > There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
> >
> > ## Membership Data:
> > Apache NiFi was founded 2015-07-14 (4 years ago)
> > There are currently 47 committers and 30 PMC members in this project.
> > The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 3:2.
> >
> > Community changes, past quarter:
> > - No new PMC members. Last addition was Peter Wicks on 2019-05-29.
> > - Dániel Bakai was added as committer on 2019-10-19
> > - Kotaro Terada was added as committer on 2019-10-19
> > - Peter Turcsanyi was added as committer on 2019-10-25
> >
> > ## Project Activity:
> > We are nearing release of Apache NiFi Registry 1.0.0.  The release
> includes
> > support for common HTTP security headers, running on Java 11, updated to
> > Ranger 2.0, and more.
> >
> > Released Apache NiFi 1.10.0.  This brings powerful features such as
> sourcing
> > extensions from the latest NiFi Registry at runtime, far better model for
> > parameterized version controlled flows, Java 11 compatibility, back
> pressure
> > prediction and more.
> >
> > In the release candidate phase of Apache NiFi 1.11.0 which provides a
> range
> > of
> > bug fixes, improvements and a handful of new features.  This release will
> > solve class-loader isolation to include native libraries as well.
> >
> > The release for MiNiFi CPP 0.7.0 is still being worked.  There are nearly
> > 140
> > closed JIRAs including many bug fixes and new features such as ensuring
> all
> > inbound sockets are TLSv1.2 or newer, cron driven scheduling, support
> > Kerberized connections to Kafka, support for packages with Python
> scripts,
> > and
> > ability to capture individual frames from an RTSP camera stream.
> >
> > ## Community Health:
> > We have seen about a 15% decline in users and dev mailing list activity
> this
> > quarter. This is likely due to the growing use of Slack for more
> > direct/responsive interaction as well as seasonal considerations. We also
> > saw
> > a roughly 40% decrease in JIRA related activity.  This is certainly
> related
> > to
> > the completion of the very significant Apache NiFi 1.10.0 release as
> well as
> > seasonal aspects.
> >
> > We've brought in several new committers in this timeline and hopefully
> the
> > current committer base leads to additional PMC members soon. The
> community
> > remains active on numerous release lines as well. Community health
> continues
> > to be a strong point with a healthy committer and PMC pipeline as well as
> > high
> > activity from current PMC members. We see numerous release lines across
> the
> > mentioned parts of the Apache NiFi project all with very active
> development
> > across features, bug fixes, and improvements. Our mailing list continues
> to
> > be
> > highly active and our slack room is also super active.
> >
> > For the past few quarters we've reported 394, 523, and now 707 persistent
> > users in our slack channels. Interestingly we see more non committer
> based
> > collaboration here than we have on the mailing lists. People seem to
> prefer
> > the collaboration style of Slack quite a lot as well as more subject
> > dedicated
> > rooms to talk in. It isn't clear that this is leading to more committers
> and
> > PMC members but does help the community in general.
>

Re: Apache NiFi Jan 2020 Board Report

[Matt Burgess <ma...@apache.org>]

Looks good to me, thanks for putting this together Joe!

On Tue, Jan 7, 2020 at 1:32 PM Joe Witt <jo...@apache.org> wrote:
>
> Team,
>
> Here is the content of the board report I submitted for us this quarter.
> Again great progress!
>
> Thanks
> Joe
>
>
> ## Description:
> The mission of NiFi is the creation and maintenance of software related to
> providing an easy to use, powerful, and reliable system to process and
> distribute data.
>
> Apache NiFi MiNiFi is an edge data collection agent built to seamlessly
> integrate with and leverage the command and control of NiFi. There are both
> Java and C++ implementations.
>
> Apache NiFi Registry is a centralized registry for key configuration items
> including flow versions, assets, and extensions for Apache NiFi and Apache
> MiNiFi.
>
> Apache NiFi Nar Maven Plugin is a release artifact used for supporting the
> NiFi classloader isolation model.
>
> Apache NiFi Flow Design System is a theme-able set of high quality UI
> components and utilities for use across the various Apache NiFi web
> applications in order to provide a more consistent user experience.
>
> ## Issues:
> There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
>
> ## Membership Data:
> Apache NiFi was founded 2015-07-14 (4 years ago)
> There are currently 47 committers and 30 PMC members in this project.
> The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 3:2.
>
> Community changes, past quarter:
> - No new PMC members. Last addition was Peter Wicks on 2019-05-29.
> - Dániel Bakai was added as committer on 2019-10-19
> - Kotaro Terada was added as committer on 2019-10-19
> - Peter Turcsanyi was added as committer on 2019-10-25
>
> ## Project Activity:
> We are nearing release of Apache NiFi Registry 1.0.0.  The release includes
> support for common HTTP security headers, running on Java 11, updated to
> Ranger 2.0, and more.
>
> Released Apache NiFi 1.10.0.  This brings powerful features such as sourcing
> extensions from the latest NiFi Registry at runtime, far better model for
> parameterized version controlled flows, Java 11 compatibility, back pressure
> prediction and more.
>
> In the release candidate phase of Apache NiFi 1.11.0 which provides a range
> of
> bug fixes, improvements and a handful of new features.  This release will
> solve class-loader isolation to include native libraries as well.
>
> The release for MiNiFi CPP 0.7.0 is still being worked.  There are nearly
> 140
> closed JIRAs including many bug fixes and new features such as ensuring all
> inbound sockets are TLSv1.2 or newer, cron driven scheduling, support
> Kerberized connections to Kafka, support for packages with Python scripts,
> and
> ability to capture individual frames from an RTSP camera stream.
>
> ## Community Health:
> We have seen about a 15% decline in users and dev mailing list activity this
> quarter. This is likely due to the growing use of Slack for more
> direct/responsive interaction as well as seasonal considerations. We also
> saw
> a roughly 40% decrease in JIRA related activity.  This is certainly related
> to
> the completion of the very significant Apache NiFi 1.10.0 release as well as
> seasonal aspects.
>
> We've brought in several new committers in this timeline and hopefully the
> current committer base leads to additional PMC members soon. The community
> remains active on numerous release lines as well. Community health continues
> to be a strong point with a healthy committer and PMC pipeline as well as
> high
> activity from current PMC members. We see numerous release lines across the
> mentioned parts of the Apache NiFi project all with very active development
> across features, bug fixes, and improvements. Our mailing list continues to
> be
> highly active and our slack room is also super active.
>
> For the past few quarters we've reported 394, 523, and now 707 persistent
> users in our slack channels. Interestingly we see more non committer based
> collaboration here than we have on the mailing lists. People seem to prefer
> the collaboration style of Slack quite a lot as well as more subject
> dedicated
> rooms to talk in. It isn't clear that this is leading to more committers and
> PMC members but does help the community in general.