Board report for Apache UIMA, for September 2016.

Apache UIMA's mission: the creation and maintenance of open-source
software related to the analysis of unstructured data, guided by the
UIMA Oasis Standard.

Dates: 
30 Aug 2016  (new)        last release - Apache UIMA Java SDK 2.9.0 
03 May 2016  (no change)  last PMC addition 
24 Jul 2015  (no change)  last Committer addition
          
Releases:
  30 Aug 2016 Apache UIMA Java SDK 2.9.0 - bug fixes + 2 new features
  08 Aug 2016 Apache DUCC 2.1.0 many updates and upgrades 
                                of contained subcomponents        
              
Other Activity:

Apache UIMA Ruta subproject in release vote (pending).
Dev mailing lists had more discussions around various directional 
issues for the experimental UIMA V3 work, such as backward 
compatibility concerns, and the best ways to exploit Java 8 idioms.

Reported an Infra issue 
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-12551
where the mechanism that ties SVN updates to Jira issues 
(an important facility) via commit message tagging, stopped working 
in mid June for many Apache projects.

Community:

The community continues to be moderately active.
 
Issues:
No Board level issues at this time.