This is a review draft of our report to the Apache Board on the Geode project. Please send me your feedback by Monday, May 10. In particular, let me know if I omitted any publications or community outreach efforts. Thanks, Dave
## Description: The mission of Apache Geode is the creation and maintenance of software related to a data management platform that provides real-time, consistent access to data-intensive applications throughout widely distributed cloud architectures. ## Issues: Karen Miller notified the PMC on 7-April-2021 of her intent to resign from the position of PMC Chair. Karen has held the position since Dec 2018. The community solicited nominations and conducted an election. A resolution has been submitted separately from this report naming Dan Smith (upthewaterspout) as the new Apache Geode PMC Chair. ## Membership Data: Apache Geode was founded 2016-11-15 (over 4 years ago) There are currently 114 committers and 54 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 5:3. Community changes, past quarter: - Donal Evans was added to the PMC on 2021-03-22 - Alberto Gomez was added as committer on 2021-02-17 - Kamilla Aslami was added as committer on 2021-04-19 - Matthew Reddington was added as committer on 2021-03-24 - Ray Ingles was added as committer on 2021-03-18 ## Project Activity: Three releases of Apache Geode were issued during this reporting period. Work areas included: - Improvements to existing tests and addition of new ones - Improvements to WAN replication - Several bug fixes and improvements in the area of disaster recovery and restart Recent releases: - 1.13.2 was released on 2021-03-29. - 1.12.1 was released on 2021-02-26. - 1.12.2 was released on 2021-04-22. ## Community Health: Initiatives during this period include: - Implementation of CODEOWNERS and CODEWATCHERS lists to facilitate PR reviews - For the geode-native client, ongoing discussions regarding C++ version support and coding standards These initiatives and the releases listed above are reflected in Apache Geode repository activity: - 308 issues opened in JIRA, past quarter (30% increase) - 236 issues closed in JIRA, past quarter (6% increase) - 691 commits in the past quarter (50% increase) - 62 code contributors in the past quarter (10% increase) - 488 PRs opened on GitHub, past quarter (29% increase) - 478 PRs closed on GitHub, past quarter (28% increase) PMC member Barry Ogelesby published [Transmitting Deltas Between Different Apache Geode Distributed Systems]( https://medium.com/@boglesby_2508/transmitting-deltas-between-different-apache-geode-distributed-systems-e46a3eae931 ) on 23-March-2021.
