[REPORT] HttpComponents

[Oleg Kalnichevski <ol...@apache.org>]

## Description:

The mission of HttpComponents is the creation and maintenance of
software related to Java toolset of low level HTTP components

## Issues:

There are no issues requiring attention of the Board at this point.

## Membership Data:

Apache HttpComponents was founded 2007-11-14 (12 years ago)
There are currently 19 committers and 10 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 5:3.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Ryan Schmitt on 2019-08-28.
- No new committers. Last addition was Ryan Schmitt on 2018-11-13.

## Project Activity:

The project team is preparing the first GA release of HttpCore 5.0 and 
HttpClient 5.0 component libraries. This marks the end of a 5 year
long development cycle and is a major milestone for the project.  

Recent releases:
* HttpClient 5.0-beta7 was released on 2020-01-27.
* HttpClient 4.5.11 GA was released on 2020-01-20.
* HttpCore 4.4.13 GA was released on 2020-01-14.
* HttpCore 5.0-beta11 was released on 2020-01-08.

## Community Health:

Overall the project remains active. 

With 5.0 development phase completed we expect the main focus of 
the project to shift from development to maintenance and user support
for some while. 

We planning to start a discussion on the development list about 
the 5.1 development project, its main objectives, scope and timeline.  


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