## Description:
- Apache Streams unifies a diverse world of digital profiles and online activities into common formats and vocabularies, and makes these datasets accessible across a variety of databases, devices, and platforms for streaming, browsing, search, sharing, and analytics use-cases.
## Issues:
- There are a lot of changes occurring in the APIs of our supported data sources. Due primarily to the EU's GDPR legislation, a user's ability to collect profiles and posts from accounts other than the authenticated account is being limited.
- On the other hand comprehensive data about the authenticated account (sometimes via bulk export not via API) is becoming richer, presenting an opportunity for the project to assist users in awareness of the data collected about them by third-parties, and with data portability between systems using bulk export archives.
- We released Apache Streams 0.6.0, coordinated by a new release manager (number 5).
- We made progress toward including a binary artifact in an upcoming release.
## PMC changes:
## Releases:
- Apache Streams 0.6.0 was released on June 17, 2018
8 topics started during these 91 days, down 6 (-42%) compared to previous 91 days.
6 Participants during these 91 days, down 2 (-25%) compared to previous 91 days.
## JIRA Statistics: (3 month)
12 new, 15 resolved
## Website Traffic: (3 month)
1,187 sessions, up 5.89% compared to previous 3 months.
1,107 users, up 10.04% compared to previous 3 months.
## Upcoming Project Initiatives:
- Complete preparations for a binary release.
- Drop remaining maven dependencies on java SDKs for accessing third-party APIs in favor of HTTP/REST interfaces powered by Apache Juneau Remoteable Annotations.
- Reduce disparities between normalized activities and objects of like type collected from various data sources.
- Reduce disparities between the configuration objects that initialize similar providers from various data sources.