Over the past year or two, I've been working to include more details in our quarterly board report about what's been going on in the community and development. As I'm mostly active in Log4j and some adjacent code, I'm not always very informed about the development details in log4net, log4cxx, and chainsaw. While I do try to review the PRs, emails, and Jira issues that had activity during each quarter, as I'm not deep in the weeds of those subprojects, I haven't been able to do them justice in our past reports, especially as these subprojects experienced new bursts of activity.
Past board reports from this PMC are at [1] which dates back to the founding of the project. Interestingly enough, this lack of detailed reporting for non-log4j subprojects here has been a theme since forever. I'd love to improve on this by emulating what the Apache Incubator does by having our subprojects individually report summaries of their past quarter to the PMC. Then we can report and publish richer and more detailed summaries of what's going on. We have a board report due this week, so I don't really expect that we can fully bootstrap this idea for that one. Our next board report will be due in early May 2021, so subproject summaries should be assembled by the end of April 2021. Would anyone like to volunteer to shepherd or write up summaries for any particular subproject here? We particularly need people to help report on the projects mentioned in the subject. [1]: https://whimsy.apache.org/board/minutes/Logging_Services.html
