# Marmotta Board Report for May. 2017

## 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 major issues requiring board attention at this time.
   
## Activity: 

Still very low, but a quarter with more activity in the community,
specially regarding questions and patches. The community still
struggles to find its fit to warranty midterm viability of the
project.

Therefore it is critical to find new people with the time and the
ideas to keep the project alive and being a reference in the Linked
Data spectrum. Given his contributions to the project, Xavier Sumba
was invited as new committer.

Regarding that, we have proposed to Google Summer of Code the task of
upgrading to Eclipse RDF4J. Marmotta still uses the old Sesame, and
this is critical for the future technical viability. The project
received two different proposals, accepting the one by Gustavo Mora
(Ecuador). Further details at the announcement mail:
https://s.apache.org/atjc

   
## Health report: 

The project was considered feature-complete in 3.3.0. The current
release cycle (3.4.0) focuses on refining and fixing bug, plus
incorporation some non-core new features. The development activities
(issues, commits, emails) have significantly come down in the last
year.
   
## PMC changes: 
   
 - Currently 11 PMC members. 
 - Last PMC addition was Mark A. Matienzo on Thu Aug 18 2016 
   
## Committer base changes: 
   
 - Currently 13 committers. 
 - Xavier Sumba was added as a committer on Mon Mar 27 2017 
   
## Releases: 
   
 - Last release was 3.3.0 on Fri Dec 05 2014 
   
## Mailing list activity: 
   
 - users@marmotta.apache.org:  
    - 113 subscribers (down -2 in the last 3 months): 
    - 7 emails sent to list (4 in previous quarter) 
   
 - dev@marmotta.apache.org:  
    - 100 subscribers (up 5 in the last 3 months): 
    - 101 emails sent to list (31 in previous quarter) 

## JIRA activity: 
   
 - 3 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months 
 - 4 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months