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Flume

21 Feb 2024 [Balázs Donát Bessenyei / Sander]

No report was submitted.

15 Nov 2023 [Balázs Donát Bessenyei / Sharan]

Considering the level of activity, number of contributors and
alignment of the missions, Flume and Logging Services have decided to
merge. Going forward, Flume will be stewarded by the Logging Services
PMC.
This is a final Flume board report. A resolution for the merger and
all further reports are going to be included in the Logging Services
submissions.

16 Aug 2023 [Balázs Donát Bessenyei / Shane]

## Description:
The mission of Flume is the creation and maintenance of software related to A
reliable service for efficiently collecting, aggregating, and moving large
amounts of log data

## Project Status:
Current project status: low, but steady activity. Mostly maintenance
and refactoring.
Issues for the board: no issues

## Membership Data:
Apache Flume was founded 2012-06-20 (11 years ago)
There are currently 33 committers and 25 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 9:7.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Tristan Stevens on 2022-04-10.
- No new committers. Last addition was Sean Busbey on 2022-07-25.

## Project Activity:
Flume Spring Boot 2.0.0 was released on 2023-04-02 which is the
first "non-monolithic" release after two "regular" releases last year.

## Community Health:
We seem to have 4 active PMC members which makes releases difficult,
but not impossible. Also, we have a committer who is on track to
become a PMC member. Contributor activity has increased recently.
Even though there are 33 people with commit rights, only a few of them
have merged changes in the past year or so.

17 May 2023 [Balázs Donát Bessenyei / Shane]

## Description:
The mission of Flume is the creation and maintenance of software related to A
reliable service for efficiently collecting, aggregating, and moving large
amounts of log data

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

## Membership Data:
Apache Flume was founded 2012-06-20 (11 years ago)
There are currently 33 committers and 25 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 9:7.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Tristan Stevens on 2022-04-10.
- No new committers. Last addition was Sean Busbey on 2022-07-25.

## Project Activity:
Flume Spring Boot 2.0.0 was released on 2023-04-02 which is the
first "non-monolithic" release after two "regular" releases last year.

## Community Health:
We seem to have 4 active PMC members which makes releases difficult,
but not impossible. Also, we have a committer who is on track to
become a PMC member. Contributor activity has significantly increased recently.

15 Feb 2023 [Balázs Donát Bessenyei / Willem]

## Description:
The mission of Flume is the creation and maintenance of software related to A
reliable service for efficiently collecting, aggregating, and moving large
amounts of log data

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

## Membership Data:
Apache Flume was founded 2012-06-20 (11 years ago)
There are currently 33 committers and 25 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 9:7.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Tristan Stevens on 2022-04-10.
- No new committers. Last addition was Sean Busbey on 2022-07-25.

## Project Activity:
After a longer hiatus, we managed to do 3 releases last year. At the
moment there aren't any upcoming versions planned. Recent community
activity is also rather low.

## Community Health:
We seem to have 3 active PMC members which makes releases difficult,
but not impossible. Also, we have a committer who is on track to
become a PMC member.

16 Nov 2022 [Balázs Donát Bessenyei / Sam]

## Description:
The mission of Flume is the creation and maintenance of software related to A
reliable service for efficiently collecting, aggregating, and moving large
amounts of log data

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

## Membership Data:
Apache Flume was founded 2012-06-20 (10 years ago)
There are currently 33 committers and 25 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 9:7.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Tristan Stevens on 2022-04-10.
- No new committers. Last addition was Sean Busbey on 2022-07-25.

## Project Activity:
Flume 1.11.0 was released last month, which is the third release this
year, after a 3-year gap.

## Community Health:
The community shows low activity and we seem to have 3 active PMC
members which makes releases difficult, but not impossible. We have a
committer who is on track to become a PMC member.

17 Aug 2022 [Balázs Donát Bessenyei / Willem]

## Description:
The mission of Flume is the creation and maintenance of software related to A
reliable service for efficiently collecting, aggregating, and moving large
amounts of log data

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

## Membership Data:
Apache Flume was founded 2012-06-20 (10 years ago)
There are currently 33 committers and 25 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 9:7.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Tristan Stevens on 2022-04-10.
- Sean Busbey was added as committer on 2022-07-25

## Project Activity:
Flume 1.10.0 was released a month ago. A new release is being worked on.

## Community Health:
The community shows low activity, but we still seem to have the
necessary number of people around.
Even though we have 25 PMC members in the project, it's worth mentioning
that only 10 or less are active.
Similarly, although there are 33 committers (with 25 of them being PMC
members), the reality is that in addition to the active PMC members we
only have 1 active committer.

18 May 2022 [Balázs Donát Bessenyei / Sam]

## Description:
The mission of Flume is the creation and maintenance of software related to A
reliable service for efficiently collecting, aggregating, and moving large
amounts of log data

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

## Membership Data:
Apache Flume was founded 2012-06-20 (10 years ago)
There are currently 32 committers and 25 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 8:7.

Community changes, past quarter:
- Tristan Stevens was added to the PMC on 2022-04-10
- No new committers. Last addition was Tristan Stevens on 2020-01-07.

## Project Activity:
The last release was on January 8, 2019, more than three years ago. A
new one is being actively worked on. We have good hopes we can get it
out this month.

## Community Health:
The community shows low activity, but we still seem to have the
necessary number of people around. We have invited a new committer who
is waiting for approval from his employer.

16 Feb 2022 [Balázs Donát Bessenyei / Roman]

## Description:
The mission of Flume is the creation and maintenance of software related to A
reliable service for efficiently collecting, aggregating, and moving large
amounts of log data

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

## Membership Data:
Apache Flume was founded 2012-06-20 (10 years ago)
There are currently 32 committers and 24 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 4:3.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Ferenc Szabo on 2019-01-28.
- No new committers. Last addition was Tristan Stevens on 2020-01-07.

## Project Activity:
The last release was on January 8, 2019, more than three years ago. A new one
is being actively worked on.

## Community Health:
The community shows low activity, but we still seem to have the necessary
number of people around.

17 Nov 2021 [Balázs Donát Bessenyei / Roman]

## Description:
The mission of Flume is the creation and maintenance of software related to A
reliable service for efficiently collecting, aggregating, and moving large
amounts of log data

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

## Membership Data:
Apache Flume was founded 2012-06-20 (9 years ago)
There are currently 32 committers and 24 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 4:3.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Ferenc Szabo on 2019-01-28.
- No new committers. Last addition was Tristan Stevens on 2020-01-07.

## Project Activity:
The last quarter had low activity, likely due to people busy with
other things.
The last release was on January 8, 2019, more than two years ago.

## Community Health:
The community shows low activity, but we still seem to have the necessary
number of people around. Work is in progress to try to get a new release out
by the end of the year.

18 Aug 2021 [Balázs Donát Bessenyei / Sheng]

## Description:
The mission of Flume is the creation and maintenance of software related to A
reliable service for efficiently collecting, aggregating, and moving large
amounts of log data

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

## Membership Data:
Apache Flume was founded 2012-06-20 (9 years ago)
There are currently 32 committers and 24 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 4:3.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Ferenc Szabo on 2019-01-28.
- No new committers. Last addition was Tristan Stevens on 2020-01-07.

## Project Activity:
The last quarter had low activity, likely due to people busy with
other things.
The last release was on January 8, 2019, more than two years ago

## Community Health:
The community shows low activity, but we still seem to have the
necessary number of people around.
A release is probably due sometime now, there are discussions about it.

19 May 2021 [Balázs Donát Bessenyei / Sander]

## Description:
The mission of Flume is the creation and maintenance of software related to A
reliable service for efficiently collecting, aggregating, and moving large
amounts of log data

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

## Membership Data:
Apache Flume was founded 2012-06-20 (9 years ago)
There are currently 32 committers and 24 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 4:3.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Ferenc Szabo on 2019-01-28.
- No new committers. Last addition was Tristan Stevens on 2020-01-07.

## Project Activity:
The last quarter had low activity, likely due to people busy with
other things.
The last release was on January 8, 2019, more than two years ago.

## Community Health:
The community shows low activity, but we still seem to have the
necessary number of people around.
A release is probably due sometime now; a PR was recently merged that
also bumped a few outdated dependencies.

17 Feb 2021 [Balázs Donát Bessenyei / Craig]

## Description:
The mission of Flume is the creation and maintenance of software related to A
reliable service for efficiently collecting, aggregating, and moving large
amounts of log data

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

## Membership Data:
Apache Flume was founded 2012-06-20 (9 years ago)
There are currently 32 committers and 24 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 4:3.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Ferenc Szabo on 2019-01-28.
- No new committers. Last addition was Tristan Stevens on 2020-01-07.

## Project Activity:
The last quarter had low activity, likely due to people busy with
other things.
The last release was on January 8, 2019, more than two years ago.

## Community Health:
The community shows low activity, but we still seem to have the
necessary number of people around.

18 Nov 2020 [Balázs Donát Bessenyei / Sander]

## Description:
The mission of Flume is the creation and maintenance of software related to A
reliable service for efficiently collecting, aggregating, and moving large
amounts of log data

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

## Membership Data:
Apache Flume was founded 2012-06-20 (8 years ago)
There are currently 32 committers and 24 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 4:3.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Ferenc Szabo on 2019-01-28.
- No new committers. Last addition was Tristan Stevens on 2020-01-07.

## Project Activity:
The last quarter had low activity, likely due to people busy with
other things.
The last release was on January 8, 2019, almost two years ago.

## Community Health:
The community shows low activity, but we still seem to have the
necessary number of people around.

19 Aug 2020 [Balázs Donát Bessenyei / Patricia]

## Description:
The mission of Flume is the creation and maintenance of software related to A
reliable service for efficiently collecting, aggregating, and moving large
amounts of log data

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

## Membership Data:
Apache Flume was founded 2012-06-20 (8 years ago)
There are currently 32 committers and 24 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 4:3.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Ferenc Szabo on 2019-01-28.
- No new committers. Last addition was Tristan Stevens on 2020-01-07.

## Project Activity:
The last quarter had low activity, likely due to people busy with
other things.
The last release was on January 8, 2019, about a year and a half ago.

## Community Health:
The community is still alive. New contributors show up from time to time.
Reviewing is a bit slow.

20 May 2020 [Balázs Donát Bessenyei / Patricia]

## Description:
The mission of Apache Flume is the creation and maintenance of
software related to a reliable service for efficiently collecting,
aggregating, and moving large amounts of log data.

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

## Membership Data:
Apache Flume was founded 2012-06-20 (8 years ago)
There are currently 32 committers and 24 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 4:3.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Ferenc Szabo on 2019-01-28.
- No new committers. Last addition was Tristan Stevens on 2020-01-07.

## Project Activity:
The last quarter had low activity, likely due to people busy with
other things.

## Community Health:
The community is still alive. New contributors show up time to time.
Reviewing is a bit slow.

Of all the committers and PMC members mentioned in the Membership
Data section above, 5 unique people have shown public activity in
the past quarter (reviews, commits and JIRA activity combined).

It's also worth mentioning the last release was on January 8, 2019,
a little more than a year ago.

18 Mar 2020

Change the Apache Flume Project Chair

 WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Ferenc Szabo
 (szaboferee) to the office of Vice President, Apache Flume, and

 WHEREAS, Ferenc Szabo is no longer performing the duties of Vice President,
 Apache Flume and is not responding to emails and

 WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Flume project has
 chosen by vote to recommend Balázs Donát Bessenyei (bessbd) as the successor
 to the post;

 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Ferenc Szabo is relieved and discharged
 from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice President, Apache
 Flume, and

 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Balázs Donát Bessenyei be and hereby is appointed
 to the office of Vice President, Apache Flume, to serve in accordance with and
 subject to the direction of the Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the
 Foundation until death, resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification,
 or until a successor is appointed.

 Special Order 7C, Change the Apache Flume Project Chair, was
 approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.

18 Mar 2020 [Ferenc Szabo / Rich]

## Description:
The mission of Flume is the creation and maintenance of software related to a
reliable service for efficiently collecting, aggregating, and moving large
amounts of log data

## Issues:
The Flume PMC Chair is no longer responding to emails. It has been confirmed
that he left his employer several months ago where he was employed to maintain
Flume. The PMC has confirmed that there are at least 6 people monitoring the
mailing lists,

## Membership Data:
Apache Flume was founded 2012-06-19 (8 years ago) There are currently 32
committers and 24 PMC members in this project. However at most 18 people are
subscribed to the private list. As noted above, 6 of the 18 responded to a
query to determine how many were still participating. The Committer-to-PMC
ratio is 4:3.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Ferenc Szabo on 2019-01-27.
- Tristan Stevens was added as committer on 2020-01-06

## Project Activity:
The project has a slow but steady activity. Jira issues and Pull Request are
being creating and addressed.



## Community Health:
The last Flume release was January 2, 2019. The PMC needs to elect a new PMC
chair but a vote has not yet begun.

19 Feb 2020 [Ferenc Szabo / Roman]

No report was submitted.

@Roman: pursue a report for Flume

20 Nov 2019 [Ferenc Szabo / Craig]

## Description:
The mission of Flume is the creation and maintenance of software related to A
reliable service for efficiently collecting, aggregating, and moving large
amounts of log data

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

## Membership Data:
Apache Flume was founded 2012-06-20 (7 years ago)
There are currently 31 committers and 24 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 4:3.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Ferenc Szabo on 2019-01-28.
- No new committers. Last addition was Attila Simon on 2017-11-04.

## Project Activity:
The project has a slow but steady activity. Some documentation fixes came in
and as a new feature the Kudu sink thanks to the Kudu community.


## Community Health:
The community is still alive. New contributors show up time to time.
Reviewing is a bit slow.

21 Aug 2019 [Ferenc Szabo / Rich]

## Description:
The mission of Flume is the creation and maintenance of software related to A
reliable service for efficiently collecting, aggregating, and moving large
amounts of log data

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

## Membership Data:
Apache Flume was founded 2012-06-20 (7 years ago)
There are currently 31 committers and 24 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 4:3.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Ferenc Szabo on 2019-01-28.
- No new committers. Last addition was Attila Simon on 2017-11-04.

## Project Activity:
 - A few minor bugs and documentation fixes
 - Work on 3rd party library updates should happen, after that, we can have
   a new release

## Community Health:
 - The contributions have slowed down recently
 - A few new contributors appeared

15 May 2019 [Ferenc Szabo / Joan]

## Description:

Apache Flume is a distributed, reliable, and available system for
efficiently collecting, aggregating, and moving large amounts of
log data to scalable data storage systems such as
Apache Hadoop's HDFS.

## Issues:

There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.

## Activity:
 - a few minor contributions were merged this month such as bug fixes and
doc improvements
 - discussion started about modernizing the description of what Flume is,
to place emphasis on its
   capabilities outside of the Hadoop ecosystem.
 - Ralph Goers is working on a centralized configuration provider
 - Ferenc Szabo started working on Java 11 support
 - discussion started about the next release content and 3rd party
   library upgrade

## Health report:
 - The last quarter had low commit activity, likely due to people busy with
   other things

## Regarding board comments from the last report:
  idf: It's been a while since the last committer was added. Are there
       any candidates that could benefit from a bit of mentorship?
  - there are a few candidates we are already working with
  - there is a plan to contact new people with more contributions to ask if
    they are interested in becoming committers


## PMC changes:

 - Currently 24 PMC members.
 - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
 - Last PMC addition was Ferenc Szabo on Mon Jan 28 2019

## Committer base changes:

 - Currently 31 committers.
 - No new committers added in the last 3 months
 - Last committer addition was Attila Simon at Sat Nov 04 2017

## Releases:

 - Last release was 1.9.0 on Wed Jan 02 2019


## JIRA activity:

 - 16 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
 - 4 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months

20 Mar 2019

Change the Apache Flume Project Chair

 WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Mike Percy
 (mpercy) to the office of Vice President, Apache Flume, and

 WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of
 Mike Percy from the office of Vice President, Apache Flume, and

 WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Flume project
 has chosen by vote to recommend Ferenc Szabo (szaboferee) as the
 successor to the post;

 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Mike Percy is relieved and
 discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice
 President, Apache Flume, and

 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Ferenc Szabo be and hereby is appointed to
 the office of Vice President, Apache Flume, to serve in accordance with
 and subject to the direction of the Board of Directors and the Bylaws
 of the Foundation until death, resignation, retirement, removal or
 disqualification, or until a successor is appointed.

 The PMC discuss thread can be found at https://s.apache.org/Dvvf

 Special Order 7B, Change the Apache Flume Project Chair, was
 approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.

20 Feb 2019 [Mike Percy / Phil]

## Description:

Apache Flume is a distributed, reliable, and available system for efficiently
collecting, aggregating, and moving large amounts of log data to scalable data
storage systems such as Apache Hadoop's HDFS.

## Issues:

There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.

## Activity:

This quarter we had a release (Flume 1.9.0) and added a PMC member (Ferenc
Szabo).

## Health report:

 - Quite a few bug fixes and improvements made it in for the 1.9.0 release,
   including improvements to Kafka support.
 - The pace of activity slowed down a bit after the new year, likely people
   busy with other things.

## PMC changes:

 - Currently 24 PMC members.
 - Ferenc Szabo was added to the PMC on Sun Jan 27 2019

## Committer base changes:

 - Currently 31 committers.
 - No new committers added in the last 3 months
 - Last committer addition was Attila Simon at Sat Nov 04 2017

## Releases:

 - 1.9.0 was released on Tue Jan 01 2019

## Mailing list activity:

There was quite a bit of discussion and pull request traffic on the dev and
issues lists leading up to the 1.9.0 release, while the user list has recently
been quiet.

 - dev@flume.apache.org:

    - 281 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
    - 137 emails sent to list (39 in previous quarter)

 - issues@flume.apache.org:

    - 9 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
    - 377 emails sent to list (144 in previous quarter)

 - user@flume.apache.org:

    - 659 subscribers (down -6 in the last 3 months):
    - 4 emails sent to list (7 in previous quarter)

## JIRA activity:

 - 34 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
 - 68 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months

21 Nov 2018 [Mike Percy / Shane]

## Description:

Apache Flume is a distributed, reliable, and available system for efficiently
collecting, aggregating, and moving large amounts of log data to scalable data
storage systems such as Apache Hadoop's HDFS.

## Issues:

There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.

## Activity:

This quarter:
 - Several improvements were made, including bug fixes and minor feature and
   configuration enhancements to existing subcomponents.
 - There has been recent work on enhancing the build, including adding support
   for SpotBugs.
 - Discussions have started regarding a 1.9 release.

## Health report:

 - Ferenc Szabo is doing basically all of the commits these days.
 - There have been several commits this quarter from some newer promising
   contributors.
 - There is a slow but steady heartbeat of activity on the project recently
   (~1 commit / week).

## PMC changes:

 - Currently 23 PMC members.
 - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
 - Last PMC addition was Denes Arvay on Sun Nov 05 2017

## Committer base changes:

 - Currently 31 committers.
 - No new committers added in the last 3 months
 - Last committer addition was Attila Simon at Sat Nov 04 2017

## Releases:

 - Last release was 1.8.0 on Tue Oct 03 2017

## Mailing list activity:

The majority of our mailing list traffic is code review interactions. There
was a small uptick in code review activity this quarter compared to the
previous one as well as discussion about an upcoming release.

 - dev@flume.apache.org:
    - 280 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
    - 42 emails sent to list (34 in previous quarter)

 - issues@flume.apache.org:
    - 9 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
    - 167 emails sent to list (124 in previous quarter)

 - user@flume.apache.org:
    - 667 subscribers (down -3 in the last 3 months):
    - 7 emails sent to list (14 in previous quarter)

## JIRA activity:

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

15 Aug 2018 [Mike Percy / Mark]

## Description:

Apache Flume is a distributed, reliable, and available system for efficiently
collecting, aggregating, and moving large amounts of log data to scalable data
storage systems such as Apache Hadoop's HDFS.

## Issues:

There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.

## Activity:

This quarter:
 - Support for writing to Apache HBase 2.0 was committed
 - Several bugs were fixed
 - The web site got a minor face lift

## Health report:

 - The project has been fairly slow lately, most likely due to committers
   having moved on to other things
 - A couple new contributors have outstanding pull requests

## PMC changes:

 - Currently 23 PMC members.
 - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
 - Last PMC addition was Denes Arvay on Mon Nov 06 2017

## Committer base changes:

 - Currently 31 committers.
 - No new committers added in the last 3 months
 - Last committer addition was Attila Simon at Sat Nov 04 2017

## Releases:

 - Last release was 1.8.0 on Wed Oct 04 2017
 - There are no releases being planned at this time

## Mailing list activity:

The issues@ list finally got added to the web site

 - dev@flume.apache.org:
    - 280 subscribers (down -4 in the last 3 months):
    - 36 emails sent to list (45 in previous quarter)

 - issues@flume.apache.org:
    - 9 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
    - 135 emails sent to list (113 in previous quarter)

 - user@flume.apache.org:
    - 670 subscribers (down -4 in the last 3 months):
    - 14 emails sent to list (21 in previous quarter)

## JIRA activity:

 - 30 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
 - 7 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months

16 May 2018 [Mike Percy / Shane]

## Description:

Apache Flume is a distributed, reliable, and available system for efficiently
collecting, aggregating, and moving large amounts of log data to scalable data
storage systems such as Apache Hadoop's HDFS.

## Issues:

There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.

## Activity:

 - Added support for encrypted passwords
 - Various bug fixes and stability improvements

## Health report:

This has been a slow quarter due to people being busy, going on vacation, and
only having a few active PMC members and committers. On the plus side, there
have been some new contributors to the project.

## PMC changes:

 - Currently 23 PMC members.
 - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months.
 - Last PMC addition was Denes Arvay on Sun Nov 05 2017.

## Committer base changes:

 - Currently 31 committers.
 - No new committers added in the last 3 months.
 - Last committer addition was Attila Simon on Sat Nov 04 2017.

## Releases:

 - Last release was 1.8.0 on Tue Oct 03 2017.
 - There are no releases being planned at this time.

## Mailing list activity:

Partway through the previous quarter we switched JIRA traffic from dev@ to
issues@. This resulted in a significant drop in traffic to dev@ that was
smeared across the previous quarter and this quarter. We'll monitor the
activity next quarter to see how things are progressing, but overall it appears
that change has been good for increasing the signal:noise ratio on the dev list.

One thing we didn't do yet was update the web site to reflect the addition of
the issues@ list, so the number of subscribers to that list is very low. We'll
get that fixed soon.

 - dev@flume.apache.org:
    - 284 subscribers (down -7 in the last 3 months):
    - 47 emails sent to list (189 in previous quarter)

 - issues@flume.apache.org:
    - 9 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
    - 125 emails sent to list (59 in previous quarter)

 - user@flume.apache.org:
    - 673 subscribers (down -7 in the last 3 months):
    - 21 emails sent to list (20 in previous quarter)

## JIRA activity:

 - 19 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
 - 9 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months

21 Feb 2018 [Mike Percy / Brett]

## Description:

Apache Flume is a distributed, reliable, and available system for efficiently
collecting, aggregating, and moving large amounts of log data to scalable data
storage systems such as Apache Hadoop's HDFS.

## Issues:

There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.

## Activity:

 - Upstream discussion began on a Flume 2.0 release which will allow us to
   make some minor but important API breaking changes as well as upgrade some
   dependencies.
 - Created a 1.x branch from trunk. Trunk is now destined to be 2.0.
 - There was some discussion of implementing classloader isolation for Flume
   plugins.

## Health report:

 - Over the last several months, it was observed that the dev list was being
   used less because of so much JIRA traffic. This quarter we moved JIRA
   traffic off the dev@ list and onto a dedicated list issues@ list to improve
   the usability of the dev list. This has been subjectively successful and we
   will continue to monitor the results over the next few months.

## PMC / committer changes:

 - No new PMC or committers added in the last 3 months
 - Currently 23 PMC members, 31 committers
 - Last PMC addition was Denes Arvay on Sun Nov 05 2017
 - Last committer additions were Attila Simon and Ferenc Szabo on Sat Nov 04
   2017

## Releases:

 - Last release was 1.8.0 on Tue Oct 03 2017

## Mailing list activity:

 - Change in mailing list traffic per health report.
 - dev@flume.apache.org:
    - 291 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months)
    - 175 emails sent to list (519 in previous quarter)
 - issues@flume.apache.org:
    - 9 subscribers (up 9 in the last 3 months)
    - 89 emails sent to list (0 in previous quarter)
 - user@flume.apache.org:
    - 680 subscribers (down -9 in the last 3 months)
    - 15 emails sent to list (38 in previous quarter)

## JIRA activity:

 - 22 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
 - 14 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months

17 Jan 2018

Change the Apache Flume Project Chair

 WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Hari Shreedharan
 (hshreedharan) to the office of Vice President, Apache Flume, and

 WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of
 Hari Shreedharan from the office of Vice President, Apache Flume, and

 WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Flume project
 has chosen by vote to recommend Mike Percy (mpercy) as the successor
 to the post;

 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Hari Shreedharan is relieved and
 discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice
 President, Apache Flume, and

 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Mike Percy be and hereby is appointed to
 the office of Vice President, Apache Flume, to serve in accordance
 with and subject to the direction of the Board of Directors and the
 Bylaws of the Foundation until death, resignation, retirement, removal
 or disqualification, or until a successor is appointed.

 Special Order 7A, Change the Apache Flume Project Chair, was
 approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.

15 Nov 2017 [Hari Shreedharan / Bertrand]

DESCRIPTION
Apache Flume is a distributed, reliable, and available system for
efficiently collecting, aggregating, and moving large amounts of log
data to scalable data storage systems such as Apache Hadoop's HDFS.
RELEASES
* The last release of Flume was version 1.8.0, released on October
4, 2017.
* No other releases are planned at this time.
CURRENT ACTIVITY:
* A total of 51 issues have been filed, and 31 issues have been
resolved in the last three months.
* Approximately 500 messages were exchanged on the dev list in the
past three months, while a total of 36 were exchanged on the user
list in this period.
COMMUNITY
* The last time a committer was added to the project
was on Nov 4, 2017. Attila Simon and Ferenc Szabo were added as committers.
* Currently there are:
- Total of 291 subscribers to the developer list
- Total of 691 subscribers to the user list
- Total of 31 committers
- Total of 23 PMC members
PMC CHANGES
* The last time a new PMC member was elected for the project was
on Nov 5, 2017. Denes Arvay was added to the PMC.
ISSUES
* There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.

16 Aug 2017 [Hari Shreedharan / Phil]

DESCRIPTION
Apache Flume is a distributed, reliable, and available system for
efficiently collecting, aggregating, and moving large amounts of log
data to scalable data storage systems such as Apache Hadoop's HDFS.

RELEASES
* The last release of Flume was version 1.7.0, released on October
16, 2016.
* No other releases are planned at this time.

CURRENT ACTIVITY:
* A total of 52 issues have been filed, and 14 issues have been
resolved in the last three months.
* Approximately 459 messages were exchanged on the dev list in the
past three months, while a total of 24 were exchanged on the user
list in this period.

COMMUNITY
* The last time a committer was added to the project
was on May 19, 2017. Denes Arvay was added a committer.
* Currently there are:
- Total of 292 subscribers to the developer list
- Total of 688 subscribers to the user list
- Total of 29 committers
- Total of 22 PMC members
* The last time a new PMC member was elected for the project was
on March 8, 2017.

PMC CHANGES
* Bessenyei Balázs Donát was added to the PMC on March 08, 2017.

ISSUES
* There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.

17 May 2017 [Hari Shreedharan / Jim]

DESCRIPTION
Apache Flume is a distributed, reliable, and available system for
efficiently collecting, aggregating, and moving large amounts of log
data to scalable data storage systems such as Apache Hadoop's HDFS.

RELEASES
* The last release of Flume was version 1.7.0, released on October
16, 2016.
* No other releases are planned at this time.

CURRENT ACTIVITY:
* A total of 37 issues have been filed, and 9 issues have been
resolved in the last three months.

* Approximately 392 messages were exchanged on the dev list in the
past three months, while a total of 57 were exchanged on the user
list in this period.

COMMUNITY
* The last time a committer was added to the project
was on September 21, 2016.

* Currently there are:
- Total of 292 subscribers to the developer list
- Total of 684 subscribers to the user list
- Total of 28 committers
- Total of 22 PMC members

* The last time a new PMC member was elected for the project was
on March 8, 2017.

PMC CHANGES
* Bessenyei Balázs Donát was added to the PMC on March 08, 2017.

ISSUES
* There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.

27 Feb 2017 [Hari Shreedharan / Jim]

DESCRIPTION

Apache Flume is a distributed, reliable, and available system for efficiently
collecting, aggregating, and moving large amounts of log data to scalable data
storage systems such as Apache Hadoop's HDFS.

RELEASES

* The last release of Flume was version 1.7.0, released on October 16, 2016.
* No other releases are planned at this time.

CURRENT ACTIVITY

* Project activity has picked up over the past few months, and a number of new
 contributors are active contributing code, reviews and responding to user
 and developer queries on mailing lists.

* A total of 31 issues have been filed, and 15 issues have been resolved in
 the last three months.

* Approximately 352 messages were exchanged on the dev list in the past three
 months, while a total of 58 were exchanged on the user list in this period.

COMMUNITY

* The last time a committer was added to the project was on September 21,
 2016.

* Currently there are:
 - Total of 295 subscribers to the developer list
 - Total of 694 subscribers to the user list
 - Total of 28 committers
 - Total of 21 PMC members

* The last time a new PMC member was elected for the project was on November
 4, 2014.

ISSUES

* There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.

16 Nov 2016 [Hari Shreedharan / Marvin]

DESCRIPTION
Apache Flume is a distributed, reliable, and available system for
efficiently collecting, aggregating, and moving large amounts of log data to
scalable data storage systems such as Apache Hadoop's HDFS.

RELEASES
* The last release of Flume was version 1.7.0, released on October 16, 2016.
* No other releases are planned at this time.

CURRENT ACTIVITY:
* Project activity has picked up over the past
 few months, and a number of new contributors are active
 contributing code, reviews and responding to user and developer queries on
 mailing lists.

* A total of 52 issues have been filed, and 40 issues have been resolved
 between the period starting August 8, 2016 and November 6, 2016.

* Approximately 978 messages were exchanged on the dev list in the past three
 months, while a total of 52 were exchanged on the user list in this period.

COMMUNITY
* Two new committers, Balazs Donat Bessenyei and Jeff Holoman were elected to
 the project on September 21, 2016.

* The last time a new PMC member was elected for the project was on November
 4, 2014.

* Currently there are:
- Total of 292 subscribers to the developer list
- Total of 687 subscribers to the user list
- Total of 28 committers
- Total of 21 PMC members

ISSUES
* There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.

17 Aug 2016 [Hari Shreedharan / Jim]

DESCRIPTION
Apache Flume is a distributed, reliable, and available system for
efficiently collecting, aggregating, and moving large amounts of log
data to scalable data storage systems such as Apache Hadoop's HDFS.

RELEASES
* The last release of Flume was version 1.6.0, released on May 20, 2015.
* Next release 1.7.0 has been discussed in the community but precise date has not been set
yet.

CURRENT ACTIVITY:
* A total of 59 issues have been filed, and 67 issues have been resolved in last three months.

* Approximately 1164 messages were exchanged on the dev list in the
past three months, while a total of 124 were exchanged on the user
list in this period.

COMMUNITY
* The last time a new committer was added to the project was on June 19, 2015.
* The last time a new PMC member was elected for the project was on November 4, 2014.

* Currently there are:
- Total of 285 subscribers to the developer list
- Total of 680 subscribers to the user list
- Total of 26 committers
- Total of 21 PMC members

ISSUES
* There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.

18 May 2016 [Hari Shreedharan / Bertrand]

DESCRIPTION
Apache Flume is a distributed, reliable, and available system for
efficiently collecting, aggregating, and moving large amounts of log data to
scalable data storage systems such as Apache Hadoop's HDFS.

RELEASES
* The last release of Flume was version 1.6.0, released on May 20, 2015.
* No other releases are planned at this time.

CURRENT ACTIVITY
* A total of 30 issues have been filed, and 16 issues have been resolved
 between the period starting February 6, 2016 and May 4, 2016.
* Approximately 424 messages were exchanged on the dev list in the past three
 months, while a total of 127 were exchanged on the user list in this period.

COMMUNITY
* The last time a new committer was added to the project was on June 19, 2015.
* The last time a new PMC member was elected for the project was on November
 4, 2014.

* Currently there are:
- Total of 282 subscribers to the developer list
- Total of 662 subscribers to the user list
- Total of 26 committers
- Total of 21 PMC members

ISSUES
* There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.

17 Feb 2016 [Hari Shreedharan / Brett]

DESCRIPTION
Apache Flume is a distributed, reliable, and available system for
efficiently collecting, aggregating, and moving large amounts of log
data to scalable data storage systems such as Apache Hadoop's HDFS.

RELEASES
* The last release of Flume was version 1.6.0, released on May
20, 2015.
* No other releases are planned at this time.

CURRENT ACTIVITY:
* A total of 40 issues have been filed, and 8 issues have been
resolved between the period starting November 5, 2015 and February 4,
2016.
* Approximately 354 messages were exchanged on the dev list in the
past three months, while a total of 194 were exchanged on the user
list in this period.

COMMUNITY
* The last time a new committer was added to the project was on
June 19, 2015.
* The last time a new PMC member was elected for the project was
on November 4, 2014.
* Currently there are:
- Total of 283 subscribers to the developer list
- Total of 653 subscribers to the user list
- Total of 26 committers
- Total of 21 PMC members

ISSUES
* There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.

18 Nov 2015 [Hari Shreedharan / Bertrand]

DESCRIPTION
Apache Flume is a distributed, reliable, and available system for
efficiently collecting, aggregating, and moving large amounts of log
data to scalable data storage systems such as Apache Hadoop's HDFS.

RELEASES
* The last release of Flume was version 1.6.0, released on May
20, 2015.
* No other releases are planned at this time.

CURRENT ACTIVITY:
* A total of 81 issues have been filed, and 20 issues have been
resolved between the period starting August 4, 2015 and November 2,
2015.
* Approximately 639 messages were exchanged on the dev list in the
past three months, while a total of 242 were exchanged on the user
list in this period.

COMMUNITY
* The last time a new committer was added to the project was on
June 19, 2015.
* The last time a new PMC member was elected for the project was
on November 4, 2014.
* Currently there are:
- Total of 270 subscribers to the developer list
- Total of 646 subscribers to the user list
- Total of 26 committers
- Total of 21 PMC members

ISSUES
* There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.

21 Oct 2015

Change the Apache Flume Project Chair

 WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Arvind Prabhakar
 to the office of Vice President, Apache Flume, and

 WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of
 Arvind Prabhakar from the office of Vice President, Apache Flume, and

 WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Flume project
 has chosen to recommend Hari Shreedharan as the successor to the post;

 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Arvind Prabhakar is relieved and
 discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice
 President, Apache Flume, and

 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Hari Shreedharan be and hereby is
 appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Flume, to serve in
 accordance with and subject to the direction of the Board of Directors
 and the Bylaws of the Foundation until death, resignation, retirement,
 removal or disqualification, or until a successor is appointed.

 Special Order 7F, Change the Apache Flume Project Chair, was
 approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.

19 Aug 2015 [Arvind Prabhakar / Brett]

DESCRIPTION

Apache Flume is a distributed, reliable, and available system for
efficiently collecting, aggregating, and moving large amounts of log
data to scalable data storage systems such as Apache Hadoop's HDFS.

RELEASES

* The last release of Flume was version 1.6.0, released on May
20, 2015.
* No other releases are planned at this time.

CURRENT ACTIVITY

* A total of 59 issues have been filed, and 15 issues have been
resolved between the period starting May 5, 2015 and August 3,
2015.
* Approximately 533 messages were exchanged on the dev list in the
past three months, while a total of 205 were exchanged on the user
list in this period.

COMMUNITY

* The last time a new committer was added to the project was on
June 19, 2015.
* The last time a new PMC member was elected for the project was
on November 4, 2014.
* Currently there are:
- Total of 264 subscribers to the developer list
- Total of 638 subscribers to the user list
- Total of 26 committers
- Total of 21 PMC members

ISSUES

* There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.

20 May 2015 [Arvind Prabhakar / Greg]

DESCRIPTION

Apache Flume is a distributed, reliable, and available system for
efficiently collecting, aggregating, and moving large amounts of log
data to scalable data storage systems such as Apache Hadoop's HDFS.

RELEASES

* The last release of Flume was version 1.5.2, released on November
18, 2014.
* Work on the next release version 1.6.0 is currently underway.

CURRENT ACTIVITY

* A total of 78 issues have been filed, and 39 issues have been
resolved between the period starting February 5, 2014 and May 4,
2015.
* Approximately 1095 messages were exchanged on the dev list in the
past three months, while a total of 224 were exchanged on the user
list in this period.

COMMUNITY

* The last time a new committer was added to the project was on
May 8, 2015.
* The last time a new PMC member was elected for the project was
on November 4, 2014.
* Currently there are:
- Total of 262 subscribers to the developer list
- Total of 636 subscribers to the user list
- Total of 25 committers
- Total of 21 PMC members

ISSUES

* There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.

18 Feb 2015 [Arvind Prabhakar / Jim]

DESCRIPTION

Apache Flume is a distributed, reliable, and available system for
efficiently collecting, aggregating, and moving large amounts of log
data to scalable data storage systems such as Apache Hadoop's HDFS.

RELEASES

* The last release of Flume was version 1.5.2, released on November
18, 2014.
* Initial discussions around an incremental release version 1.6.0
are currently underway.

CURRENT ACTIVITY

* A total of 80 issues have been filed, and 33 issues have been
resolved between the period starting November 4, 2014 and February 4,
2015.
* Approximately 1095 messages were exchanged on the dev list in the
past three months, while a total of 282 were exchanged on the user
list in this period.

COMMUNITY

* The last time a new committer was added to the project was on
September 24, 2013.
* The last time a new PMC member was elected for the project was
on November 4, 2014.
* The current PMC affiliations are: Apple (2), Cloudera (9),
CyberAgent (1), Data Fueled (1), Hortonworks (1), Nextiva (1),
ScalingData (1), StreamSets (1), Vanderbilt
University (1), Zymergen (1), Not Specified (2)
* Currently there are:
- Total of 263 subscribers to the developer list
- Total of 617 subscribers to the user list
- Total of 24 committers
- Total of 21 PMC members

ISSUES

* There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.

19 Nov 2014 [Arvind Prabhakar / Ross]

DESCRIPTION

Apache Flume is a distributed, reliable, and available system for
efficiently collecting, aggregating, and moving large amounts of log
data to scalable data storage systems such as Apache Hadoop's HDFS.
RELEASES

* The last release of Flume was version 1.5.0.1, released on June
16, 2014.
* A maintenance release version 1.5.1 is currently underway.

CURRENT ACTIVITY

* A total of 26 issues have been filed, and 42 issues have been
resolved between the period starting August 4, 2014 and November 4,
2014.
* Approximately 1147 messages were exchanged on the dev list in the
past three months, while a total of 526 were exchanged on the user
list in this period.

COMMUNITY

* The last time a new committer was added to the project was on
September 24, 2013.
* The last time a new PMC member was elected for the project was
on November 4, 2014.
* The current PMC affiliations are: Apple (2), Cloudera (9),
CyberAgent (1), Data Fueled (1), Hortonworks (1), Maas Global
Solutions (1), ScalingData (1), StreamSets (1), Vanderbilt
University (1), Zymergen (1), Not Specified (2)
* Currently there are:
- Total of 253 subscribers to the developer list
- Total of 599 subscribers to the user list
- Total of 24 committers
- Total of 21 PMC members

ISSUES

* There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.

20 Aug 2014 [Arvind Prabhakar / Brett]

DESCRIPTION

Apache Flume is a distributed, reliable, and available system for
efficiently collecting, aggregating, and moving large amounts of log
data to scalable data storage systems such as Apache Hadoop's HDFS.

RELEASES

* The last release of Flume was version 1.5.0.1, released on June
16, 2014.
* No further release is planned at this time.

CURRENT ACTIVITY

* A total of 14 issues have been filed, and 27 issues have been
resolved between the period starting May 4, 2014 and August 3,
2014.
* Approximately 617 messages were exchanged on the dev list in the
past three months, while a total of 248 were exchanged on the user
list in this period.

COMMUNITY

* Wolfgang Hoschek and Roshan Naik were added as committers to the
project on September 24, 2013.
* No new additions were made to the PMC on the project since it
graduated from Incubator.
* Discussions around organizing a Flume meetup in San Francisco
Bay Area are currently under way.
* Currently there are:
- Total of 243 subscribers to the developer list
- Total of 577 subscribers to the user list
- Total of 24 committers
- Total of 20 PMC members

ISSUES

* There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.

21 May 2014 [Arvind Prabhakar / Roy]

DESCRIPTION
Apache Flume is a distributed, reliable, and available system for
efficiently collecting, aggregating, and moving large amounts of log
data to scalable data storage systems such as Apache Hadoop's HDFS.

RELEASES
* The last release of Flume was version 1.4.0, released on July
2, 2013.
* Work is currently underway for the next release of Flume, version 1.5.0.

CURRENT ACTIVITY
* Development activity continues with steady stream of issues being
logged and resolved.
* A total of 67 issues have been filed, and 43 issues have been
resolved between the period starting February 7, 2014 and May 3,
2014.
* Approximately 790 messages were exchanged on the dev list in the
past three months, while a total of 266 were exchanged on the user
list in this period.

COMMUNITY
* Wolfgang Hoschek and Roshan Naik were added as committers to the
project on September 24, 2013.
* No new additions were made to the PMC on the project since it
graduated from Incubator.
* PMC member affiliations have changed. The current affiliations are:
- Apple: 1
- Cloudera: 9
- CyberAgent: 1
- Maas Global Solutions: 1
- Magnify Consulting: 1
- Motorola: 1
- ScalingData: 1
- Vanderbilt University: 1
- Other: 4
* Currently there are:
- Total of 230 subscribers to the developer list
- Total of 552 subscribers to the user list
- Total of 24 committers
- Total of 20 PMC members

ISSUES
* There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.

19 Feb 2014 [Arvind Prabhakar / Doug]

DESCRIPTION

Apache Flume is a distributed, reliable, and available system for
efficiently collecting, aggregating, and moving large amounts of log
data to scalable data storage systems such as Apache Hadoop's HDFS.

RELEASES
* The last release of Flume was version 1.4.0, released on July
2, 2013.
* Discussions around the next release are currently underway.

CURRENT ACTIVITY
* Development activity continues with steady stream of issues being
logged and resolved.
* A total of 76 issues have been filed, and 37 issues have been
resolved between the period starting November 2, 2013 and January 29,
2014.
* Approximately 1135 messages were exchanged on the dev list in the
past three months, while a total of 289 were exchanged on the user
list in this period.

COMMUNITY
* Wolfgang Hoschek and Roshan Naik were added as committers to the
project on September 24, 2013.
* No new additions were made to the PMC on the project since it
graduated from Incubator.
* Currently there are:
- Total of 226 subscribers to the developer list
- Total of 523 subscribers to the user list
- Total of 24 committers
- Total of 20 PMC members

ISSUES
* There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.

20 Nov 2013 [Arvind Prabhakar / Shane]

DESCRIPTION

Apache Flume is a distributed, reliable, and available system for
efficiently collecting, aggregating, and moving large amounts of log
data to scalable data storage systems such as Apache Hadoop's HDFS.

RELEASES
* The last release of Flume was version 1.4.0, released on July
2, 2013.
* No further releases are planned at this time.

CURRENT ACTIVITY
* Development activity continues with steady stream of issues being
logged and resolved.
* A total of 81 issues have been filed, and 29 issues have been
resolved between the period starting August 8, 2013 and November 1,
2013.
* Approximately 870 messages were exchanged on the dev list in the
past three months, while a total of 446 were exchanged on the user
list in this period.

COMMUNITY
* Wolfgang Hoschek and Roshan Naik were added as committers to the
project on September 24, 2013.
* No new additions were made to the PMC on the project since it
graduated from Incubator.
* Currently there are:
- Total of 213 subscribers to the developer list
- Total of 478 subscribers to the user list
- Total of 24 committers
- Total of 20 PMC members

ISSUES

* There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.

21 Aug 2013 [Arvind Prabhakar / Greg]

DESCRIPTION

Apache Flume is a distributed, reliable, and available system for
efficiently collecting, aggregating, and moving large amounts of log
data to scalable data storage systems such as Apache Hadoop's HDFS.

RELEASES
* The last release of Flume was version 1.4.0, released on July
2, 2013.
* No further releases are planned at this time.

CURRENT ACTIVITY
* Development activity continues with steady stream of issues being
logged and resolved.
* A total of 113 issues have been filed, and 67 issues have been
resolved between the period starting May 9, 2013 and August 7,
2013.
* Approximately 1198 messages were exchanged on the dev list in the
past three months, while a total of 383 were exchanged on the user
list in this period.

COMMUNITY
* No new additions were made to committers on the project. The last
addition of a committer was done on November 12, 2012 when
Patrick Wendell was appointed as a committer.
* No new additions were made to the PMC on the project since it
graduated from Incubator.
* Currently there are:
- Total of 197 subscribers to the developer list
- Total of 445 subscribers to the user list
- Total of 22 committers
- Total of 20 PMC members

ISSUES

* There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.

15 May 2013 [Arvind Prabhakar / Rich]

DESCRIPTION

Apache Flume is a distributed, reliable, and available system for
efficiently collecting, aggregating, and moving large amounts of log
data to scalable data storage systems such as Apache Hadoop's HDFS.

RELEASES
* The last release of Flume was version 1.3.1, released on January
2, 2013.
* No further releases are planned at this time.

CURRENT ACTIVITY
* Development activity continues with steady stream of issues being
logged and resolved.
* A total of 111 issues have been filed, and 77 issues have been
resolved between the period starting February 20, 2013 and May 6,
2013.
* Approximately 1505 messages were exchanged on the dev list in the
past three months, while a total of 477 were exchanged on the user
list in this period.

COMMUNITY
* PMC Composition has not changed since the last report.
* Committer composition has not changed since the last report.
* Currently there are:
- Total of 174 subscribers to the developer list
- Total of 399 subscribers to the user list
- Total of 22 committers
- Total of 20 PMC members

ISSUES

* There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.

20 Feb 2013 [Arvind Prabhakar / Sam]

DESCRIPTION

Apache Flume is a distributed, reliable, and available system for
efficiently collecting, aggregating, and moving large amounts of log
data to scalable data storage systems such as Apache Hadoop's HDFS.

RELEASES
* Since the previous status report, Flume has made two releases -
version 1.3.0 was released on December 4, 2012, and version 1.3.1
was released on January 2, 2013.
* No further releases are planned at this time.

CURRENT ACTIVITY
* Development activity continues with steady stream of issues being
logged and resolved.
* A total of 176 issues have been filed, and 117 issues have been
resolved between the period starting November 21, 2012 and February 12,
2013.
* Approximately 1500 messages were exchanged on the dev list in the
past three months, while a total of 627 were exchanged on the user
list in this period.

COMMUNITY
* PMC Composition has changed due to changes in affiliations of the
PMC members. Currently, the PMC affiliations stand at: Apple (1),
Cloudera (12), CyberAgent (1), Independent (2), Intuit (2),
Motorola (1), and Wibidata (1).
* Committer composition has not changed since the last report.
* Currently there are:
- Total of 161 subscribers to the developer list
- Total of 367 subscribers to the user list
- Total of 22 committers
- Total of 20 PMC members

ISSUES

* There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.

AI: Greg: let PMC know that affiliations are not needed in the board report

21 Nov 2012 [Arvind Prabhakar / Roy]

DESCRIPTION

Apache Flume is a distributed, reliable, and available system for
efficiently collecting, aggregating, and moving large amounts of log
data to scalable data storage systems such as Apache Hadoop's HDFS.

RELEASES
* Work for releasing Flume version 1.3.0 is underway and expected to
 be completed by end of the month.
* The last release of Flume was version 1.2.0, released on July 26,
 2012

CURRENT ACTIVITY
* Development activity continues as can be seen from the following report:
 http://s.apache.org/zls

COMMUNITY
* PMC Composition has not changed since the last report.
* Patrick Wendell joined as committer on 11/11/2012. He is affiliated to
 Berkley AMPLabs.
* A user-group meetup was held on October 25, 2012 at PulsePoint
 headquarters in New York. This was attended by 20 people in all.
* Currently there are:
- Total of 138 subscribers to the developer list
- Total of 324 subscribers to the user list
- Total of 22 committers
- Total of 20 PMC members

ISSUES

* There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.

19 Sep 2012 [Arvind Prabhakar / Greg]

DESCRIPTION

Apache Flume is a distributed, reliable, and available system for
efficiently collecting, aggregating, and moving large amounts of log
data to scalable data storage systems such as Apache Hadoop's HDFS.

RELEASES
* No further releases are planned at this time. The last release of
Flume was version 1.2.0, which was released on July 26, 2012.

CURRENT ACTIVITY
* Development activity continues as can be seen from the following report:
http://s.apache.org/zI4

COMMUNITY
* PMC Composition has not changed since the last report.
* Committer composition has not changed since the last report.
* A user-group meetup is being organized for the week of October 22 around
the time of Strata-Hadoop World conference in NY.
* Currently there are:
- Total of 127 subscribers to the developer list
- Total of 280 subscribers to the user list
- Total of 21 committers
- Total of 20 PMC members

ISSUES

* There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.

15 Aug 2012 [Arvind Prabhakar / Brett]

DESCRIPTION

Apache Flume is a distributed, reliable, and available system for
efficiently collecting, aggregating, and moving large amounts of log
data to scalable data storage systems such as Apache Hadoop's HDFS.

RELEASES
* Flume version 1.2.0 was released on July 26 which provides many
new features and bug fixes over the previous release.
* No further releases are planned at this time.

CURRENT ACTIVITY
* Development activity continues as can be seen from the following report:
http://s.apache.org/eKz
* All post-graduation tasks have been completed. All the infrastructure
has been setup as a TLP including the website using the CMS, conforming
to the branding and infrastructure requirements.
* The project has adopted Git as the primary source control system.

COMMUNITY
* PMC Composition has not changed since the last report.
* Committer composition changed with Mubarak Seyed joining as a committer.
* A user-group meetup is being organized for the week of October 22 around
the time of Strata-Hadoop World conference in NY.
* Currently there are:
- Total of 117 subscribers to the developer list
- Total of 270 subscribers to the user list
- Total of 21 committers
- Total of 20 PMC members

ISSUES

* There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.

25 Jul 2012 [Arvind Prabhakar / Bertrand]

DESCRIPTION

Apache Flume is a distributed, reliable, and available system for
efficiently collecting, aggregating, and moving large amounts of log
data to scalable data storage systems such as Apache Hadoop's HDFS.

RELEASES
* The last release of Apache Flume was version 1.1.0-incubating, released
 on March 27, 2012 while in Incubation.
* The release candidate for the upcoming release - version 1.2.0 is
 currently under vote.

CURRENT ACTIVITY
* Development activity continues as can be seen from the following report:
 http://s.apache.org/OzO
* Post-graduation tasks are under way with a majority of them completed
 already. Details at: http://s.apache.org/QNW

COMMUNITY

* PMC Composition has changed due to some PMC member changing affiliations.
 The current affiliations in the PMC stand at: Apple (1), Cloudera (13),
 CyberAgent (1), Independent (2), Intuit (2), WibiData (1).
* A Flume User Meetup was organized on June 13, in San Jose and was attended
 by 28 people.
* Currently there are:
- Total of 109 subscribers to the developer list
- Total of 261 subscribers to the user list
- Total of 20 committers
- Total of 20 PMC members

ISSUES

* There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.

(Flume)

20 Jun 2012

Establish the Apache Flume Project

 WHEREAS, the Board of Directors deems it to be in the best
 interests of the Foundation and consistent with the
 Foundation's purpose to establish a Project Management
 Committee charged with the creation and maintenance of
 open-source software related to a system for aggregating
 large amounts of log data on Apache Hadoop's HDFS and
 other scalable storage systems for distribution at no
 charge to the public.

 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management
 Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Apache Flume Project",
 be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the
 Foundation; and be it further

 RESOLVED, that the Apache Flume Project be and hereby is
 responsible for the creation and maintenance of software
 related to  a system for aggregating large amounts of log
 data on Apache Hadoop's HDFS and other scalable storage
 systems; and be it further

 RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache Flume" be
 and hereby is created, the person holding such office to
 serve at the direction of the Board of Directors as the chair
 of the Apache Flume Project, and to have primary responsibility
 for management of the projects within the scope of
 responsibility of the Apache Flume Project; and be it further

 RESOLVED, that the persons listed immediately below be and
 hereby are appointed to serve as the initial members of the
 Apache Flume Project:

   * Aaron Kimball             <kimballa@apache.org>
   * Andrew Bayer              <abayer@apache.org>
   * Ahmed Radwan              <ahmed@apache.org>
   * Arvind Prabhakar          <arvind@apache.org>
   * Brock Noland              <brock@apache.org>
   * Bruce Mitchener           <brucem@apache.org>
   * Derek Deeter              <ddeeter@apache.org>
   * Eric Sammer               <esammer@apache.org>
   * Hari Shreedharan          <hshreedharan@apache.org>
   * Henry Robinson            <henry@apache.org>
   * Jaroslav Cecho            <jarcec@apache.org>
   * Jonathan Hsieh            <jmhsieh@apache.org>
   * Juhani Connolly           <juhanic@apache.org>
   * Mike Percy                <mpercy@apache.org>
   * Mingjie Lai               <mlai@apache.org>
   * Nick Verbeck              <nerdynick@apache.org>
   * Patrick Hunt              <phunt@apache.org>
   * Prasad Mujumdar           <prasadm@apache.org>
   * Ralph Goers               <rgoers@apache.org>
   * Will McQueen              <will@apache.org>

 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Arvind Prabhakar
 be appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Flume, to
 serve in accordance with and subject to the direction of the
 Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until
 death, resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification,
 or until a successor is appointed; and be it further

 RESOLVED, that the initial Apache Flume PMC be and hereby is
 tasked with the creation of a set of bylaws intended to
 encourage open development and increased participation in the
 Apache Flume Project; and be it further

 RESOLVED, that the Apache Flume Project be and hereby
 is tasked with the migration and rationalization of the Apache
 Incubator Flume podling; and be it further

 RESOLVED, that all responsibilities pertaining to the Apache
 Incubator Flume podling encumbered upon the Apache Incubator
 Project are hereafter discharged.

 Special Order 7F, Establish the Apache Flume Project, was
 approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.

20 Jun 2012

Apache Flume is a distributed, reliable, and available system for
efficiently collecting, aggregating, and moving large amounts of log data
to scalable data storage systems such as Apache Hadoop's HDFS.

Flume entered incubation on June 12th, 2011.

Progress since last report

 - Move the active development branch - flume-728 to trunk: Completed.
 - Flume version 1.1.0-incubating released from trunk on March 27, 2012
 - Flume PPMC voted three new committers:
   Hari Shreedharan, Mike Percy and Will McQueen
 - Flume PPMC voted in a new PPMC member:
   Prasad Mujumdar
 - Development work going strong 146 issues resolved since last
   submitted report.
 - The flume-dev list has currently 103 subscribers with traffic
   of 3410 messages over last three months.
 - The flume-user list has currently 250 subscribes with traffic
   of 415 messages over last three months.
 - A Flume user meetup is being organized on June 13 in San Francisco
   Bay Area and has attendance to the planned capacity.

Progress on graduation:

 - Community vote: PASSED. Vote (1), Result (2)
 - Incubator PMC Vote: PASSED. Vote (3), Result (4)
 - During the community vote a concern was raised regarding whether
   the podling had sufficient diversity (5).
   - The Flume community worked with the mentors to reach consensus for
     resolving this issue.
   - The diversity requirement was clarified and helped resolve this
     concern (6)

(1) http://s.apache.org/Ckq
(2) http://s.apache.org/DBv
(3) http://s.apache.org/5Am
(4) http://s.apache.org/DGH
(5) http://s.apache.org/iI5
(6) http://s.apache.org/lE

Signed off by mentor: phunt, tomwhite
Shepherd: Dave Fisher

21 Mar 2012

Apache Flume is a distributed, reliable, and available system for efficiently
collecting, aggregating, and moving large amounts of log data to scalable
data storage systems such as Apache Hadoop's HDFS.

Flume entered incubation on June 12th, 2011.

Progress since last report

 - Flume made it's first release from Incubator - version 1.0.0-incubating
   on January 4th, 2012.
 - Flume PPMC voted in three new committers from diverse organizations:
   Jarek Jarcec Cecho, Brock Noland, and Juhani Connolly.
 - Development work is going strong on flume-728 branch with over 50 issues
   fixed since the last submitted report.
 - The flume-dev list is vibrant with discussions around design and policy,
   with active participation from contributors and committers alike.

Issues before graduation

  - Move the active development branch - flume-728 to trunk.
  - Release a version from the trunk.

Signed off by mentor: Ralph Goers (rgoers), phunt, tomwhite

21 Dec 2011

Apache Flume is a distributed, reliable, and available system for
efficiently collecting, aggregating, and moving large amounts of log data to
scalable data storage systems such as Apache Hadoop's HDFS.

Flume entered incubation on June 12th, 2011.

=== Progress since last report  ===

* Flume trademark inquiry has been resolved. Flume will retain its name as
an Apache project.
* Flume PPMC voted in two new committers - Prasad Mujumdar and Mingjie Lai
* Active development is going on in FLUME-728 branch.
 * FLUME-728 branch has gone through two milestones - "NG alpha 1" and "NG
alpha 2". A total of 50 issues have been fixed in these two milestone.
 * A release is being planned for 1.0.0-alpha-1 based on this branch.
* An inaugural Flume Meetup was held in New York on November 9, 2011 which
was attended by 40 users and developers.

=== Issues before graduation ===

* Create Flume web site.
* Make an incubating release.
* Grow the community size and diversity.

26 Oct 2011

Apache Flume is a distributed, reliable, and available system for
efficiently collecting, aggregating, and moving large amounts of log data to
scalable data storage systems such as Apache Hadoop's HDFS.

Flume entered incubation on June 12th, 2011.

== Issues before graduation ==

* Create Flume web site.
* Make an incubating release.
* Grow the community size and diversity.
* Licensing and trademark issues.

== Community ==

* Development activities are going steadily with eighteen JIRA issues
created in the past month, and eighteen resolved.
* Active development is going on in flume-728 branch which is an effort to
address critical problems observed in the trunk implementation.
 * The core interfaces have been defined for the first cut.
 * Active development is going on for implementing HDFS sink.
 * Active development is going on for implementing a reliable channel.
 * Core lifecycle and configuration aspects of the system are still being
tweaked to ensure support for common use-cases.

== Project developments ==

* Initial inquiry into trademark status.

21 Sep 2011

Apache Flume is a distributed, reliable, and available system for
efficiently collecting, aggregating, and moving large amounts of log data to
scalable data storage systems such as Apache Hadoop's HDFS.

Flume entered incubation on June 12th, 2011.

== Issues before graduation ==

* Create Flume web site.
* Make an incubating release.
* Grow the community size and diversity.
* Licensing and trademark issues.

== Community ==

* Development activities are going steadily with eighteen JIRA issues
created in the past month, and eighteen resolved.
* Active development is going on in flume-728 branch which is an effort to
address critical problems observed in the trunk implementation.
 * The core interfaces have been defined for the first cut.
 * Active development is going on for implementing HDFS sink.
 * Active development is going on for implementing a reliable channel.
 * Core lifecycle and configuration aspects of the system are still being
tweaked to ensure support for common use-cases.

== Project developments ==

* Initial inquiry into trademark status.

17 Aug 2011

Apache Flume is a distributed, reliable, and available system for
efficiently collecting, aggregating, and moving large amounts of log data to
scalable data storage systems such as Apache Hadoop's HDFS.

Flume entered incubation on June 12th, 2011.

Issues before graduation:

* Migrate mailing lists from Cloudera infrastructure to Apache mailing
lists.
* Create Flume web site.
* Make an incubating release.
* Grow the community size and diversity.
* Licensing and trademark issues.

Community:

* Mailing lists:
- flume-user@incubator is now fully active. flume-user@cloudera.org is
read-only
- flume-dev@incubator is nearly fully active, pending code import.
* Added two contributors.
* Discussion and voting about CTR / RTC.

Project developments:

* CCLA from Cloudera regarding license grant for existing Flume code from
Cloudera has been received by ASF.
* Flume project imported to Apache Jira from cloudera.org Flume jira.
(Thanks medthomas, gmcdonald!)
* Initial svn import completed (Thanks joes!)
* Initial inquiry into trademark status.
* Confluence Wiki space is started to get populated with resources and
design information.
* An initial implementation of masterless acknowledgement announced.
* Proposals for next generation master being discussed.
* OpenTSDB connector availability announced.

20 Jul 2011

Apache Flume is a distributed, reliable, and available system for
efficiently collecting, aggregating, and moving large amounts of log data to
scalable data storage systems such as Apache Hadoop's HDFS.

Flume entered incubation on June 12th, 2011.

Issues before graduation

* Migrate code to Apache SVN from Cloudera.
 * Work to obtain CCLA from Cloudera regarding license grant for existing
Flume code from Cloudera GitHub repository is underway.
* Migrate mailing lists from Cloudera infrastructure to Apache mailing
lists.
* Create Flume web site.
* Make an incubating release.
* Grow the community size and diversity.
* Licensing and other issues

Community

* Mailing lists have been created.
 * Initiated migration of mailing lists from Cloudera infrastructure to
Apache mailing lists.
* Voted to add Nick Verbeck as a committer and PPMC member.
* New committer accounts have been setup
* SVN directory structure has been created, karma granted for initial
committers.
* JIRA has been initialized for FLUME
* Confluence Wiki space has been created.
* Work on migrating JIRA information from Cloudera hosted JIRA instance to
Apache JIRA is underway.

Project developments

* A Flume 0.9.4 release was made with the intention that it is the last
pre-Apache release of the Flume project.