# Marmotta Board Report for August 2016

## Description: 

Apache Marmotta, an Open Platform for Linked Data.

Apache Marmotta was founded in December 2012, and has graduated from the
Incubator in November 2013.
   
## Issues: 

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

As the previous, this has not been a very active period either. Most 
of the issues we targeted for 3.4.0 still remain open. So we are discussing 
how to move forward with the release in the next few weeks 
(https://s.apache.org/pzef).

The reduction of frequent contributions from many of the core members
is affecting the project development and support. Therefore we have 
started to look for solutions to grow the community and help in the 
future development. Mark A. Matienzo has been recently added as 
Committer and PMC member (https://s.apache.org/ztE6).

W3C has kicked-off a relevant Community Group for evolving LDP
(https://www.w3.org/community/ldpnext/). The new recent member (Mark)
could represent the project, although goals has not yet been discussed.

## Health report: 

The project was considered feature-complete in 3.3.0. The current release 
cicle (3.4.0) focused on refining and fixing bug, plus incorporation some 
non-core new features. The development (issues, commits, emails) has 
significantly come down in the last months.
   
## PMC changes: 
   
 - Currently 11 PMC members.
 - Mark A. Matienzo was added as a PMC member on Wed Aug 03 2016. 
   
## Committer base changes: 
   
 - Currently 13 committers.
 - Mark A. Matienzo was added as a committer on Wed Aug 03 2016. 
   
## Releases: 
   
 - Last release was 3.3.0 on Fri Dec 05 2014 
   
## Mailing list activity: 
   
 - users@marmotta.apache.org:  
    - 112 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months): 
    - 18 emails sent to list (79 in previous quarter) 
   
 - dev@marmotta.apache.org:  
    - 93 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months): 
    - 507 emails sent to list (241 in previous quarter) 
   
   
## JIRA activity: 
   
 - 12 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months 
 - 6 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months