Our quarterly board report is due next week on June 11. Below is a starter draft. Please review.
I'd like to add a short paragraph under "Project Activity" about the functional changes in the VSCode work. Did I miss any other key changes? ## Description: The mission of Apache Daffodil is the creation and maintenance of software related to an implementation of the Data Format Description Language (DFDL) used to convert between fixed format data and more readily processed forms such as XML or JSON ## Project Status: Current project status: Ongoing. High activity. Issues for the board: None. ## Membership Data: Apache Daffodil was founded 2021-02-16 (4 years ago) There are currently 19 committers and 18 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 1:1. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Peter Katlic on 2024-03-17. - No new committers. Last addition was Peter Katlic on 2024-03-17. ## Project Activity: As of this writing, new releases of all our outputs are in the works. Daffodil 3.11.0, sbt-daffodil 1.4.0, and the Daffodil VSCode extension v1.4.1 are all in the works with votes and RCs happening. For the main library, and supporting sbt-daffodil plugin, the project is engaged in updating the version of Scala we are using, as we are 2 revisions behind the current modern Scala. This means we're focused on these painful infrastructure transitions, and not on fixes or new functionality. ## Community Health: Good activity level in email and commit activity. Attracting new contributors with diverse interests and uses for the project remains an ongoing challenge and in the long run, as with all projects, is a risk factor. In our prior report we raised concern about risk to the project because of USG funding uncertainty. The current primary user community for Daffodil is in cyber security, and this remains a USG funding priority according to statements from the current USG administration. So our concern has been lessened about sudden loss of current funding for our contributors. That said, in the long run broadening the use of Daffodil to more application areas such as big data and data integration is an ongoing need.
