Title: Board Report Notice: http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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