Team, Here is what was submitted for our Jan 2023 board report. Thanks as always for the continued growth and progress of NiFi and the community.
## Description: The mission of NiFi is the creation and maintenance of software related to providing an easy to use, powerful, and reliable system to process and distribute data. Apache NiFi MiNiFi is an edge data collection agent built to seamlessly integrate with and leverage the command and control of NiFi. There are both Java and C++ implementations. Apache NiFi Registry is a centralized registry for key configuration items including flow versions, assets, and extensions for Apache NiFi and Apache MiNiFi. Apache NiFi Nar Maven Plugin is a release artifact used for supporting the NiFi classloader isolation model. Apache NiFi Flow Design System is a theme-able set of high quality UI components and utilities for use across the various Apache NiFi web applications in order to provide a more consistent user experience. ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Membership Data: Apache NiFi was founded 2015-07-14 (7 years ago) There are currently 61 committers and 33 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 8:5. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Nathan Gough on 2022-09-06. - No new committers. Last addition was Peter Gyori on 2022-09-22. ## Project Activity: The NiFi community released NiFi 1.19.0 in November 2022 and NiFi 1.19.1 in December 2022 as well as NiFi MiNiFi CPP 0.13.0 in December. The community also discussed and voted up release goals for Apache NiFi 2.0. We are now in the process of executing on converting our main line to be the go forward NiFi 2.0 line while branching to continue to support the 1.x line. NiFi 2.0 will provide a necessary technical debt reduction while still heavily focusing on ensuring existing flows and setups are easily migrated. We will also move away from Java 8 to at least Java 11 consistent with what we're seeing with important dependencies. ## Community Health: Health of the community remains strong. We did not add any committers or PMC members this quarter though we did have a brief discussion on it. We simply didn't pursue it over the break. Despite the usual slowdown we see over the December Holidays and New Years times activity remains strong across the mailing lists, slack, JIRA, and Github. We have already nearly 100 JIRAs and commits for what will be NiFi 1.20.0 and we're conducting appropriate security work. Our general slack channel has just under 2500 people in at the time of this writing and remains an active and responsive channel. Growth of 100 to 200 users per quarter seems steady for nearly a year now.
