Here is the report I plan on sending to the board tomorrow: ## Description: The mission of Apache Commons is the creation and maintenance of Java focused reusable libraries and components
## Project Status: Current project status: Ongoing. Issues for the board: none. ## Membership Data: Apache Commons was founded 2007-06-19 (19 years ago) There are currently 150 committers and 44 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 5:2. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Arnout Engelen on 2024-12-22. - No new committers. Last addition was Arnout Engelen on 2024-12-23. ## Project Activity: We've started to process Glasswing/Mythos reports: BCEL and LANG have been processed and are readying releases. This will be followed by the allocation of many CVEs. We have a new component: Apache Commons Secure XML. In this reporting period, we've released the following components: - PARENT-105 was released on 2026-09-07. - SECUREXML-1.0.0 was released on 2026-09-06. - SKIN-5.3.0 was released on 2026-09-01. - PARENT-104 was released on 2026-08-22. - COLLECTIONS-4.6.0 was released on 2026-08-10. - VALIDATOR-1.11.0 was released on 2026-07-31. - CODEC-1.22.1 was released on 2026-07-30. - PARENT-103 was released on 2026-07-21. - JEXL-3.7.0 was released on 2026-07-02. - JEXL-3.6.4 was released on 2026-06-28. - JEXL-3.6.3 was released on 2026-06-23. - LOGGING-1.4.0 was released on 2026-06-17. - DAEMON-1.6.1 was released on 2026-06-11. - PARENT-102 was released on 2026-06-11. - BCEL 6.13.0 is currently a release candidate. ## Community Health: We've seen a near doubling of issue activity. There is also lively and constant stream of pull requests on GitHub. Folks have really taken on to using AI. The mailing list traffic on the other hand has decreased in traffic by half. It's quite likely that pull requests on GitHub and Jira tickets is where the activity has shifted towards. Gary --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
