Board report for Apache UIMA, for December 2020.

## Description:
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. The software provides frameworks, tools and annotators,
facilitating the analysis of unstructured content such as text, audio and
video.

## Issues:
No Board level issues at this time.

## Membership Data:
Apache UIMA was founded 2010-03-17 (11 years ago)
There are currently 25 committers and 17 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:5.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Viorel Morari on 2019-11-19.
- No new committers. Last addition was Viorel Morari on 2018-09-20.

## Project Activity:

- Cleaning up backlog on Jira
- Moving more of the project's code repositories from the 
  ASF SVN to GitHub/GitBox
- Ongoing work on bug fixing and new features
- Implemented transition of PMC chair role from Marshall Schor
  to Richard Eckart de Castilho

- Recent releases:
-- 3.0.1ruta was released on 2020-04-17.
-- 2.8.1ruta was released on 2020-04-11.
-- 3.0.0ruta was released on 2019-12-09.

## Community Health:
The community continues to be moderately active.

GitHub's PR mechanism increasingly used for patch submission. 

Started involving user's mailing list in discussions about the
development of features and the way certain bugs are fixed to 
assess user impact and to improve community engagement.