## Apache BVal Report December 2016 ##

 - The Apache BVal project implements the Java EE Bean Validation specification(s)
   and related extensions, and became a top-level project of the foundation on
   February 15, 2012.

## Issues:

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

## Activity:
 - The community pulled together to get some improvements out the door for inclusion into
   Apache TomEE 7.0.2. A parallel effort was made to clean up the JIRA backlog, closing issues
   that had inadvertently become obsolete, etc.

## Health report:
 - The BVal project continues on limited manpower.

## PMC changes:

 - Currently 14 PMC members.
 - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
 - Last PMC addition was Romain Manni-Bucau on Mon Nov 18 2013

## Committer base changes:

 - Currently 14 committers.
 - No new changes to the committer base since last report.

## Releases:

 - Apache BVal 1.1.2 was released on Wed Nov 02 2016

## Mailing list activity:

 - The run-up to the 1.1.2 release is reflected by the mailing list statistics:

 - dev@bval.apache.org:  
    - 43 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months): 
    - 75 emails sent to list (15 in previous quarter) 

 - user@bval.apache.org:  
    - 51 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months): 
    - 3 emails sent to list (2 in previous quarter) 

## JIRA activity: 

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