LGTM Craig
> On Oct 26, 2025, at 07:27, Bryan Pendleton <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all, here's the (one month late) quarterly report that > we submitted to the board. Thanks all for your help, please > let me know of anything I missed or should amend. > > bryan > > =========================================================== > > ## Description: > The mission of the Apache DB project is to create and maintain > commercial-quality, open-source, database solutions based on software licensed > to the Foundation, for distribution at no charge to the public. > > The Apache DB TLP consists of the following subprojects: > o Derby : a relational database implemented entirely in Java. > o JDO : focused on building the API and the TCK for compatibility > testing of Java Data Object implementations providing data > persistence. > o Torque : an object-relational mapper for Java. > > ## Project Status: > Current project status: Ongoing > Issues for the board: none > > ## Membership Data: > Apache DB was founded 2002-07-16 (23 years ago) > There are currently 48 committers and 46 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 Max Philipp Wriedt on 2024-07-03. > - No new committers. Last addition was Max Philipp Wriedt on 2023-04-14. > > ## Project Activity: > > Recent releases: > - Torque 7.0 was released on 2025-08-13. > - Torque 6.0 was released on 2024-05-22. > - Derby-10.17.1.0 was released on 2023-11-14. > > ## Community Health: > > The DB community have reached consensus that the Derby software > is no longer actively being maintained and should be retired. > A public vote on the derby-dev list confirmed that consensus, > and the PMC are working to implement a subset of the Apache Attic > process to reflect that decision and to make the status be clearly > communicated to future visitors of the Db project site. > > The JDO and Torque communities do not expect any major issues > with our use of Derby when the Derby project retires. > > The Torque community voted on the Torque 7.0 release and it > was approved and released on 2025-08-13. The Torque developers > are working on a new approach to a performance problem in the > processRow method of RecordMappers (TORQUE-364). > > The JDO team continues to work toward the next release, 3.2.2. > No date yet but we have a number of fixes and improvements that > make it seem like a good time to make a dot release. JDO have > put SBOM creation into the normal build process. Two flavors > of SBOM have been built. and we expect to incorporate them into > the release process. The JDO team are working on the alpha version > of Apache Trusted Release; nothing official yet. > > The JDO team helped with the DB project logo update to use > the Oak Leaf instead of the Feather. Craig L Russell [email protected]
