2016-12-21 Apache VCL Board Report

## Description:
VCL is a modular cloud computing platform which dynamically provisions and
brokers remote access to compute resources including virtual machines,
bare-metal computers, and resources in other cloud platforms. A self-service
web portal is used to request resources and for administration. VCL became a
TLP on June 20, 2012.

## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time

## Activity:
- Upon a review of our documentation, we realized that it needed notable improvement and thought it best to put a fair amount of work into it before getting our next release out. Work is in progress to improve it.

## Health report:
- TODO

## PMC changes:

- Currently 7 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Aaron Coburn on Tue Jun 19 2012

## Committer base changes:

- Currently 8 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Young Hyun Oh at Sun Dec 08 2013

## Releases:

- Last release was 2.4.2 on Wed Apr 15 2015

## Mailing list activity:

- TODO Please explain what the following statistics mean
for the project. If there is nothing significant in the figures, omit this
section.

- dev@vcl.apache.org:
- 131 subscribers (down -2 in the last 3 months):
- 69 emails sent to list (195 in previous quarter)

- user@vcl.apache.org:
- 168 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
- 15 emails sent to list (53 in previous quarter)

## JIRA activity:

- 16 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 5 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months