【DISCUSS】ASF Board Report for RocketMQ - August 2021

[heng du <du...@apache.org>]

Hi, all,

Here is the draft of Apache RocketMQ Board Report - August 2021,

please have a review on it asap, and reply to the email if you want to add
something in it.

if no other sounds from our members in 72 hours, I would like to report it
to the board.

## Description:
The mission of Apache RocketMQ is the creation and maintenance of software
related to a fast, low latency, reliable, scalable, distributed, easy to use
message-oriented middleware, especially for processing large amounts of
streaming data

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

## Membership Data:
Apache RocketMQ was founded 2017-09-20 (4 years ago)
There are currently 37 committers and 14 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 5:2.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. The last addition was Rongtong Jin on 2020-03-30.
- Zhimin Li was added as a committer on 2021-07-29
- Bo Zhou was added as a committer on 2021-06-08

## Project Activity:
ROCKETMQ-4.9.0 was released on 2021-06-15.
ROCKETMQ-CLIENT-GO-2.1.0 was released on 2021-03-23.
ROCKETMQ-SPRING-2.2.0 was released on 2021-01-22.


## Community Health:
The RocketMQ community has remained very healthy in the latest quarter,
with more and more developers participating and being more active, which
not only increased RocketMQ's own performance by 15% but also started
discussions, development of RocketMQ-Streams, Compared with last quarter：

dev@rocketmq.apache.org had a 95% increase in traffic in the past quarter
(3333 emails compared to 1703)
users@rocketmq.apache.org had a 34% decrease in traffic in the past quarter
(6 emails compared to 9)
203 commits in the past quarter (75% increase)
73 code contributors in the past quarter (62% increase)
235 PRs opened on GitHub, past quarter (60% increase)
267 PRs closed on GitHub, past quarter (164% increase)
276 issues opened on GitHub, past quarter (33% increase)
237 issues closed on GitHub, past quarter (54% increase)


Sander Striker <st...@apache.org> 于2021年8月11日周三 上午5:17写道：

> Dear RocketMQ community,
>
> In the Apache governance model, the ASF board delegates responsibility for
> managing projects to PMCs. This allows projects to govern themselves, in
> terms
> of their own development goals, guidelines, and volunteer spirit, within
> the
> scope of our purpose as an open source foundation. The state allows us to
> supply an umbrella of corporate protection to our projects and volunteers,
> but
> only to the extent that we retain active and effective oversight of each
> project's operation on behalf of the public's interest.
>
> To enable the board to provide oversight across the foundation, each PMC is
> tasked with providing the board a quarterly report on the health of their
> project. This allows us to hear your heartbeat, to see the project through
> your eyes, and to inform the public through our meeting minutes.
>
> The board has noticed that the reports for RocketMQ have been missed
> for a number of months. This makes us sad because we have lost that ability
> to communicate with you, to see what may be preventing your good health,
> and to ensure that we are providing the services that you need to continue
> as an Apache project.
>
> The reports to the board are normally written by the PMC chair but all PMC
> members have an individual responsibility to ensure that a report is
> submitted. If the PMC chair is not available then any PMC member can submit
> the report. If you need help with this process, please reach out to
> board@apache.org
>
> Please ensure that a report for RocketMQ is submitted to the board
> for the next meeting.
>
> If the PMC chair is not going to be available for an extended period of
> time,
> it may make sense to rotate the PMC chair. Rotating the PMC chair does not
> mean the current chair has failed. People's situations and interests
> change;
> rotation is good as it allows more people to become familiar with that
> role.
> Again, if assistance is required with this process, please feel free to
> reach out to board@apache.org
>
> As projects mature, they will naturally reach a point where activity
> reduces
> to a level that the project is no longer sustainable. At Apache, projects
> reach this stage when there are no longer 3 active PMC members providing
> oversight. Projects that reach this stage are placed in our Attic, where
> they continue to be accessible to the public but are not portrayed as
> having
> an active community for maintenance.
>
>     http://attic.apache.org/
>
> If RocketMQ has reached this point, please reach out to the Attic project
> to arrange transfer. On the other hand, if your project is mostly dormant
> but
> still has at least three active PMC members, it can remain in that state
> for
> as long as needed. If your project is in such a state, please mention that
> in
> your report and verify the PMC's state at regular intervals.
>
> Finally, if you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to
> board@apache.org.
>
> Thanks,
> The ASF Board
>