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Board reports
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December 2023
## Description:
The mission of the Apache Karaf project is the creation and maintenance of
open-source software related to a generic platform providing higher level
features and services specifically designed for creating OSGi-based servers for
distribution at no charge to the public.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention.
## Membership Data:
Apache Karaf was founded 2010-06-16 (13 years ago)
There are currently 32 committers and 17 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 8:5.
Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Francois Papon on 2018-11-29.
- Robert Varga was added as committer on 2023-10-31
## Project Activity:
We released:
- Karaf runtime 4.3.10 was released on 2023-09-20.
- Karaf runtime 4.4.4 was released on 2023-09-17.
We are now preparing Karaf runtime 4.4.5 including fixes on top of 4.4.4. This release is expected between Christmas and New Year.
We are also preparing Karaf runtime 4.5.0 which will be a main milestone with Jakarta namespace support. We plan this release in January 2024. This release requires updates/activities on other projects (Aries, etc).
## Community Health:
The karaf-integration distribution is planned for Karaf 4.5.0 (see
).
The Karaf community started to help on camel-karaf, restarting this project to support Camel 4.x in Karaf (as requested by users).
Following the vote, Karaf Cave and Karaf Winegrower have been removed from the mailing list.
September 2023
## Description:
The mission of the Apache Karaf project is the creation and maintenance of
open-source software related to a generic platform providing higher level
features and services specifically designed for creating OSGi-based servers for
distribution at no charge to the public.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention.
## Membership Data:
Apache Karaf was founded 2010-06-16 (13 years ago)
There are currently 31 committers and 17 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 8:5.
Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Francois Papon on 2018-11-29.
- No new committers. Last addition was Francois Papon on 2018-05-19.
## Project Activity:
Due to summer break, the activity was pretty slow.
Releases preparation:
* karaf osgi runtime 4.3.10 and 4.4.4 are still in preparation, the vote will start in the coming days
* karaf decanter 2.11.0 and 3.0.0 are in preparation, vote is planned in September
* karaf osgi runtime 4.5.0 preparation will start just after 4.3.10 and 4.4.4 releases, with major upgrade
## Community Health:
The karaf-integration distribution will be part of new releases.
Karaf 4.5.x series will start just after 4.4.4 release, in September.
The new bundle URL handler implementation also started and a PR will be created soon.
Following the vote, Karaf Cave and Karaf Winegrower have been removed from the mailing list.
June 2023
## Description:
The mission of the Apache Karaf project is the creation and maintenance of
open-source software related to a generic platform providing higher level
features and services specifically designed for creating OSGi-based servers for
distribution at no charge to the public.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention.
## Membership Data:
Apache Karaf was founded 2010-06-16 (13 years ago)
There are currently 31 committers and 17 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 8:5.
Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Francois Papon on 2018-11-29.
- No new committers. Last addition was Francois Papon on 2018-05-19.
## Project Activity:
Releases preparation:
* karaf osgi runtime 4.3.10 and 4.4.4 are in preparation
* karaf decanter 2.11.0 and 3.0.0 are in preparation
* karaf osgi runtime 4.5.0 preparation will start just after 4.3.10 and 4.4.4 releases
## Community Health:
This past quarter was mostly preparation for the summer releases set.
The karaf-integration will be part of new releases.
The new bundle URL handler implementation also started and a PR will be created soon.
Following the vote, Karaf Cave and Karaf Winegrower have been removed from the mailing list.
March 2023
## Description:
The mission of the Apache Karaf project is the creation and maintenance of
open-source software related to a generic platform providing higher level
features and services specifically designed for creating OSGi-based servers for
distribution at no charge to the public.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention.
## Membership Data:
Apache Karaf was founded 2010-06-16 (13 years ago)
There are currently 31 committers and 17 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 8:5.
Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Francois Papon on 2018-11-29.
- No new committers. Last addition was Francois Papon on 2018-05-19.
## Project Activity:
Recent releases:
* karaf decanter 2.10.0 was released on 2023-02-24.
* karaf osgi runtime 4.3.9 was released on 2023-01-14.
* karaf osgi runtime 4.4.3 was released on 2023-01-10.
* karaf minho 0.1 was released on 2023-01-07.
## Community Health:
We discussed to move Karaf Minho as TLP under Sunny name.
However the namesearch didn't pass for Sunny, so we plan to submit board resolution to accept Apache Minho as TLP. The resolution will be submitted to the next board meeting.
We also discussed about providing a new Karaf distribution named karaf-integration (as we have karaf-minimal), providing basically the same features as Apache ServiceMix distribution.
We also plan to move forward on new bundle URL handler, allowing us to avoid ServiceMix bundles release.
We also voted to move Karaf Cave and Karaf Winegrower to attic (removing them from website).
We discussed with the Camel community about camel-karaf. We proposed (and voted) to move camel-karaf governance to karaf. We didn't reach a consensus. The plan is now to be engaged more within camel-karaf to maintain it and move forward with new features/enhancements.
December 2022
## Description:
The mission of the Apache Karaf project is the creation and maintenance of
open-source software related to a generic platform providing higher level
features and services specifically designed for creating OSGi-based servers for
distribution at no charge to the public.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Membership Data:
Apache Karaf was founded 2010-06-16 (12 years ago)
There are currently 31 committers and 17 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 8:5.
Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Francois Papon on 2018-11-29.
- No new committers. Last addition was Francois Papon on 2018-05-19.
## Project Activity:
- 4.3.8 was released on 2022-10-23.
- 4.4.2 was released on 2022-10-23.
- 4.4.1 was released on 2022-07-14.
4.4.3 and 4.3.9 releases are in preparation (maintenance releases), they
should be on vote soon. Decanter, Cellar and Cave releases are also in
preparation.
## Community Health:
After Karaf 5 became Karaf Minho, we had several discussions with the Karaf
community and clearly people wanted to have Minho not coupled to Karaf as it's
different communities. Furthermore, we have new features in mind (IoC
container, kubernetes packages manager, ...) that are not Karaf specific but
more generic. So we decided to create a new Apache TLP named Apache Sunny
starting from Karaf Minho and adding these new features and building a
dedicated community. The Apache Sunny resolution proposal has been submitted
to the board (for December board meeting).
September 2022
## Description:
The mission of the Apache Karaf project is to provide an application
ecosystem. Apache Karaf runtime is a modulith runtime allowing to run any kind
of applications. Karaf subprojects bring additional features for this runtime
and running applications.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Membership Data:
Apache Karaf was founded 2010-06-16 (12 years ago)
There are currently 31 committers and 17 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 8:5.
Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Francois Papon on 2018-11-29.
- No new committers. Last addition was Francois Papon on 2018-05-19.
## Project Activity:
- 4.4.1 was released on 2022-07-14.
- 4.2.16 was released on 2022-06-19
- 4.3.7 was released on 2022-04-23.
We are working on new runtime maintenance releases (4.4.2 and 4.3.8).
We started Decanter 3.0.0 refactoring. Decanter 3.0.0 should be released in couple of months.
Some fixes has been done on Cave to be runnable on Karaf 4.4.x. A release will follow soon.
## Community Health:
Even if we have slightly delay, Karaf 5 preparation is still running and we did good progress on the tooling branch (allowing to easily build runtime/launcher): https://github.com/jbonofre/karaf5
A blog post is in preparation to present Karaf 5. It will be follow by a proposal donation vote on the mailing list.
We hope to announce karaf5 for ApacheCon.
June 2022
## Description:
The mission of the Apache Karaf project is to provide an application
ecosystem. Apache Karaf runtime is a modulith runtime allowing to run any kind
of applications. Karaf subprojects bring additional features for this runtime
and running applications.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Membership Data:
Apache Karaf was founded 2010-06-16 (12 years ago)
There are currently 31 committers and 17 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 8:5.
Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Francois Papon on 2018-11-29.
- No new committers. Last addition was Francois Papon on 2018-05-19.
## Project Activity:
Karaf runtime 4.4.0 has been released on 2022-04-22.
Karaf runtime 4.4.0 is an important milestone in the project, supporting OSGi R8.
Karaf runtime 4.4.1 is already in preparation including some improvements and minor fixes.
Karaf runtime 4.3.7 has been released on 2022-04-23.
New major refactoring on Karaf Cellar and Karaf Decanter will also start soon.
## Community Health:
Karaf runtime 4.4.0 is an important milestone for the community.
We did good progress on Karaf 5 preparation. We are now working on the tooling (common part) that the required part to donate Karaf 5 to ASF (https://github.com/jbonofre/karaf5).
We plan to donate Karaf 5 during summer at max.
March 2022
## Description:
The mission of the Apache Karaf project is to provide an application
ecosystem. Apache Karaf runtime is a modulith runtime allowing to run any kind
of applications. Karaf subprojects bring additional features for this runtime
and running applications.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Membership Data:
Apache Karaf was founded 2010-06-16 (12 years ago)
There are currently 31 committers and 17 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 8:5.
Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Francois Papon on 2018-11-29.
- No new committers. Last addition was Francois Papon on 2018-05-19.
## Project Activity:
Karaf Decanter 2.9.0 has been released on 2022-02-20.
Karaf runtime 4.2.15 has been released on 2022-01-14.
Karaf runtime 4.3.6 has been released on 2022-01-14.
These runtime version are major ones as it fixes several CVE.
Karaf main branch is not 4.4.x version with OSGi R8 update done.
A first 4.4.0 version will be released soon.
We also started to discuss about Karaf 5 on the mailing list, and donation will happen soon.
## Community Health:
Details about Karaf 5 and donation plan have been discussed on the mailing list. A branch will be created soon to "host" karaf5.
December 2021
## Description:
The mission of the Apache Karaf project is to provide an application
ecosystem. Apache Karaf runtime is a modulith runtime allowing to run any kind
of applications. Karaf subprojects bring additional features for this runtime
and running applications.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Membership Data:
Apache Karaf was founded 2010-06-16 (11 years ago)
There are currently 31 committers and 17 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 8:5.
Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Francois Papon on 2018-11-29.
- No new committers. Last addition was Francois Papon on 2018-05-19.
## Project Activity:
Karaf runtime 4.2.12 has been released on 2021-09-16.
Karaf Decanter 2.8.0 has been released on 2021-09-16.
Karaf main branch is not 4.4.x version with OSGi R8 update done.
We are now working on Karaf runtime 4.4.0.RC1 and 4.3.4 releases. Vote for 4.3.4 should start very soon.
We also did good progress on Karaf 5 PoC, it will be discussed on the mailing list soon.
## Community Health:
Karaf runtime 5 has been presented during ApacheCon.
We got very positive feedback and interested into Karaf 5.
September 2021
## Description:
The mission of the Apache Karaf project is to provide an application
ecosystem. Apache Karaf runtime is a modulith runtime allowing to run any kind
of applications. Karaf subprojects bring additional features for this runtime
and running applications.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Membership Data:
Apache Karaf was founded 2010-06-16 (11 years ago)
There are currently 31 committers and 17 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 8:5.
Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Francois Papon on 2018-11-29.
- No new committers. Last addition was Francois Papon on 2018-05-19.
## Project Activity:
Karaf runtime 4.3.3 has been released, it's a major release on the 4.3 series.
On the other hand, Karaf runtime 4.2.12 is in preparation (vote will start
shortly), as well as Karaf Decanter 2.8.0.
Karaf main will be upgraded to 4.4 series to update to OSGi R8.
We also did good progress on Karaf 5 proposal: it will presented during
ApacheCon.
## Community Health:
We are looking forward on ApacheCon to have kind of discussion panel about
Karaf 5 (expectations, use cases, etc). We also plan a Karaf meetup before the
end of the year to announce Karaf 5.
We also started to work with other projects (especially Camel and CXF) to have a better Karaf support.
June 2021
## Description:
The mission of the Apache Karaf project is to provide an application
ecosystem. Apache Karaf runtime is a modulith runtime allowing to run any kind
of applications. Karaf subprojects bring additional features for this runtime
and running applications.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Membership Data:
Apache Karaf was founded 2010-06-16 (10 years ago)
There are currently 31 committers and 17 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 8:5.
Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Francois Papon on 2018-11-29.
- No new committers. Last addition was Francois Papon on 2018-05-19.
## Project Activity:
We are working on Karaf runtime 4.2.12 and 4.3.3 releases, and also Karaf Decanter 2.8.0 release.
In the mean time, karaf-4.3.x branch will be created for the runtime, upgrading main branch to R8 spec (Karaf 4.4.0-SNAPSHOT).
Karaf 5 proposal is also moving forward
To summarize, here's the releases during the period:
- Karaf runtime 4.2.11 was released on 2021-03-13.
## Community Health:
We see a constant activity in our communities (we can not increasing activity on both dev and user mailing lists, showing a healthy community).
March 2021
## Description:
The mission of the Apache Karaf project is to provide an application
ecosystem. Apache Karaf runtime is a modulith runtime allowing to run any kind
of applications. Karaf subprojects bring additional features for this runtime
and running applications.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Membership Data:
Apache Karaf was founded 2010-06-16 (10 years ago)
There are currently 31 committers and 17 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 8:5.
Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Francois Papon on 2018-11-29.
- No new committers. Last addition was Francois Papon on 2018-05-19.
## Project Activity:
We are working on Karaf5 proposal (https://github.com/jbonofre/karaf5).
We would like to have a first "concrete" base to have a discussion/vote on the mailing
list. Karaf5 will be an important milestone for the project, changing the Karaf perspective
opening Karaf to new communities and users.
We are also working on other Karaf runtimes branches, especially Karaf 4.3.1 will be
released soon, fixing/improving Karaf 4.3.x series.
The Karaf subprojects are also active, especially Decanter with a release including
new features (Decanter 2.7.0).
To summarize, here's the releases during the period:
- Decanter 2.7.0 was released on 2021-02-15
## Community Health:
We are still working closely with other communities (Camel, ServiceMix, ...).
We have some actions planned with Camel community.
Karaf 5 will be very important and strong milestone for the project, opening
Karaf to even more communities.
December 2020
## Description:
The mission of the Apache Karaf project is to provide an application
ecosystem. Apache Karaf runtime is a modulith runtime allowing to run any kind
of applications. Karaf subprojects bring additional features for this runtime
and running applications.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Membership Data:
Apache Karaf was founded 2010-06-16 (10 years ago)
There are currently 31 committers and 17 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 8:5.
Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Francois Papon on 2018-11-29.
- No new committers. Last addition was Francois Papon on 2018-05-19.
## Project Activity:
Following the DevX and Spring Boot (which helped as lab), Karaf 5 roadmap
preparation is in progress with a complete PoC ongoing (we will share details
on the mailing list for Christmas). We reach an important milestone for the
project with the release of Karaf 4.3.0. It's a major update for the project.
We also did Karaf 4.2.10 which is a maintenance release for our 4.2 users.
Couple of Winegrower releases have been done as well. Now that winegrower is
used in production, we will add a dedicated section on the website (a blog
post is in preparation to explain winegrower).
To summarize, here's the releases during the period:
- Karaf 4.3.0 was released on 2020-10-30
- Karaf 4.2.10 was released on 2020-10-12
- Winegrower 1.0.1 was released on 2020-11-22
## Community Health:
We are still working closely with other communities (Camel, ServiceMix, ...).
We also proposed our help for the Apache Brooklyn community, and asked for
feedback about their Karaf use case (Brooklyn uses Karaf). We are pretty sure
Karaf 5 will be very important and strong milestone for the project, opening
Karaf to even more communities.
September 2020
## Description:
Apache Karaf provides a modern and polymorphic applications runtime,
multi-purpose (micro services, cloud, modulith, integration, IoT, OSGi, etc).
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Membership Data:
Apache Karaf was founded 2010-06-16 (10 years ago)
There are currently 31 committers and 17 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 8:5.
Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Francois Papon on 2018-11-29.
- No new committers. Last addition was Francois Papon on 2018-05-19.
## Project Activity:
Apache Karaf track has been prepared for ApacheCon, the schedule is ready. We are working to create HTML page to publish the schedule on ApacheCon website.
There's two PoC on the way:
- Karaf DevX (https://github.com/jbonofre/karaf/tree/DEVX/devx)
- Karaf Spring Boot support (https://github.com/jbonofre/karaf/tree/SPRING-BOOT/spring-boot)
These two new features will be discussed on the mailing list as soon as we have a full story to show.
We migrate our Jenkins build to ci-builds.a.o now using pipeline build.
In term of releases, we did:
- Apache Karaf Cellar 4.2.1 was released on 2020-08-21.
- Apache Karaf Cellar 4.2.0 was released on 2020-07-18.
- Apache Karaf Decanter 2.5.0 was released on 2020-06-22.
- Apache Karaf runtime 4.2.9 was released on 2020-06-09.
Apache Karaf 4.2.10 is in preparation with several fixes and improvements.
Apache Karaf 4.3.0 is also in preparation. We are waiting for Pax Web 8.0, however in the meantime, we are evaluating the use of Felix HTTP as default instead.
## Community Health:
We are happy to have received several talk proposals for ApacheCon.
We are increasing our partnership with other Apache projects, especially Apache Camel to help on the camel-karaf project (cleanup, refactoring, improvements).
Regarding ServiceMix, we are still in the process to move ServiceMix parts to Karaf, but due to other activities, we have postponed a bit.
June 2020
## Description:
Apache Karaf provides a modern and polymorphic applications runtime,
multi-purpose (micro services, cloud, integration, IoT, OSGi, etc).
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Membership Data:
Apache Karaf was founded 2010-06-16 (10 years ago)
There are currently 31 committers and 17 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 8:5.
Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Francois Papon on 2018-11-29.
- No new committers. Last addition was Francois Papon on 2018-05-19.
## Project Activity:
The first Apache Karaf European Meetup stood "virtually" using Zoom with the help of Codecentric. We had 80 people registered and around 50 people during the meetup.
We can say the event has been a success. Three talks were given:
- Karaf on the cloud (JB Onofré, Apache)
- Karaf at Netflix (Dmitry Vasilyev, Netflix)
- Karaf roadmap (open discussion)
We saw lot of interest and enthusiasm about Apache Karaf.
The meetup has been recorded and available on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYXT5y8gwAg
On the other hand, resulting to the discussion with the community and during the meetup (and after), a new PoC has started about Karaf: Karaf DevX. The purpose is to provide a way better developer experience with Karaf. DevX PoC started and we will communicate on the mailing list as soon as we have something "showable" to the community.
About the release front, Apache Karaf Decanter 2.4.0 has been released with new collectors (ConfigAdmin, OSHI, ...), new layer named processors (allowing to perform any processing between collectors and appenders, for instance aggregation), and some fixes.
About Apache Karaf runtime, 4.2.9 will be submitted to release soon, especially to fix issue with the shell. Karaf 4.3.0.RC2 is also in preparation as new step to 4.3.0 GA release.
## Community Health:
As we thought, Apache Karaf Meetup has been very interesting and a great opportunity to promote the project and the community.
We already planned a second meetup around the end of this year.
We postponed the move of ServiceMix Bundles and Specs to Apache Karaf as some bundles were required by third party projects (like Camel). However, the "technical" standpoint started and it's still the target asap.
March 2020
## Description:
Apache Karaf provides a modern and polymorphic applications runtime,
multi-purpose (micro services, cloud, integration, IoT, OSGi, etc).
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Membership Data:
Apache Karaf was founded 2010-06-16 (10 years ago)
There are currently 31 committers and 17 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 8:5.
Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Francois Papon on 2018-11-29.
- No new committers. Last addition was Francois Papon on 2018-05-19.
## Project Activity:
We prepared and plan first Apache Karaf European Meetup in Germany in April
30th. The formal communication (with CFP) will be sent soon (this week) and we
will plan to ask "support" to ASF com. In term of releases and "pure" project
activity, we released Apache Karaf 4.3.0.RC1 with a almost full support for
OSGi R7. It's an important milestone for the project as it heads to the next
major release (4.3.0). We also released 4.2.8 and 3.0.10 maintenance releases
to sustain our release cycle. Karaf 4.2.9 will be submitted to vote soon as
well. We also started a redesign of the Karaf tooling (maven plugins, etc) to
propose a much better developer experience. We had several feedbacks saying
that Apache Karaf is great once running, but the developer ramp up and
developer experience could be much better. That's why we started to work on
this area. About the subprojects, Apache Karaf Cave 4.2.1 has been released,
containing a complete refactoring of Cave, now more multipurpose repository
focused. We are also preparing Apache Karaf Decanter 2.3.0 as maintenance
release with lot of improvements and bug fixes. Finally, a complete Apache
Karaf Cellar refactoring has started, heading to new major Cellar release.
Here's a quick summary about recent releases:
- 4.3.0.RC1 was released on 2020-01-31.
- 4.2.8 was released on 2020-01-23.
- 3.0.10 was released on 2020-01-11.
- Cave 4.2.1 was released on 2019-12-02.
## Community Health:
We are happy to see a growing interest around Apache Karaf, with new users and
potential contributors on Slack and mailing lists. We can see about 25% more
traffic on mailing lists proving this interest about Apache Karaf. We think
that first Apache Karaf Meetup will be a great opportunity for Karaf
communities to meet and discuss about the project. There are also discussions
with Apache ServiceMix and OPS4J communities to move some projects into Apache
Karaf. It's also a tremendous sign about Karaf community and branding. With
these new subprojects, Apache Karaf will be first citizen project in the
runtime ecosystem.
September 2019
## Description:
Apache Karaf provides a modern and polymorphic applications runtime,
multi-purpose (microservices, cloud, IoT, OSGi, etc).
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Membership Data:
Apache Karaf was founded 2010-06-16 (9 years ago)
There are currently 31 committers and 17 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 8:5.
Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Francois Papon on 2018-11-29.
- No new committers. Last addition was Francois Papon on 2018-05-19.
## Project Activity:
We released Apache Karaf 4.2.6 with several fixes. Master update started to
fully support OSGi R7 and other update. The kloud initiative keeps on running
with new blog posts, and preparation on code base. The Karaf tooling (aka
Karaf Boot) is in our roadmap. The Karaf Vineyard donation should happen soon
as now the code base is done. We are preparing new releases on our
subprojects, especially Decanter and Cave.
Recent releases:
4.2.6 was released on 2019-06-09.
4.2.5 was released on 2019-04-20.
Decanter 2.2.0 was released on 2019-03-21.
## Community Health:
Even if the activity is lower during summer, but we have a sustained activity
on the mailing list and interaction:
- dev@karaf.apache.org had a 53% decrease in traffic in the past quarter (125
emails compared to 262)
- issues@karaf.apache.org had a 46% decrease in traffic in the past quarter
(692 emails compared to 1261)
- user@karaf.apache.org had a 32% decrease in traffic in the past quarter (343
emails compared to 499)
- 77 issues opened in JIRA, past quarter (-44% decrease)
- 37 issues closed in JIRA, past quarter (-71% decrease)
- 95 commits in the past quarter (-67% decrease)
- 11 code contributors in the past quarter (-38% decrease)
- 53 PRs opened on GitHub, past quarter (-59% decrease)
- 45 PRs closed on GitHub, past quarter (-62% decrease)
June 2019
## Description: - Apache Karaf provides a modern and polymorphic applications runtime, multi-purpose (microservices, cloud, IoT, OSGi, etc). ## Issues: - There are no issues requiring board attention at this time ## Activity: - As a start about Kloud initiative, new blog posts have been done showing some use cases covered by Karaf: static distribution, deployment on cloud, kubernetes support, ... For instance http://blog.nanthrax.net/?p=893 and http://blog.nanthrax.net/?p=874
- We are in the polishing phase for Karaf Vineyard (API management) for the donation
- We started the OSGi R7 support on Karaf master
- Karaf 4.2.6 release is on vote with bug fixes.
- A branch has been started with Runnable based tools, allowing us to support Maven, Gradle, and CLI tooling. ## Health report: - We can see more and more interaction with companies and communities (via the mailing list) ## PMC changes: - Currently 17 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Francois Papon on Thu Nov 29 2018 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 31 committers. - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was Francois Papon at Sat May 19 2018 ## Releases: - 4.2.4 was released on Mon Mar 18 2019 - 4.2.5 was released on Sun Apr 21 2019 - Decanter 2.2.0 was released on Fri Mar 22 2019 ## Mailing list activity: - dev@karaf.apache.org: - 178 subscribers (down -4 in the last 3 months): - 270 emails sent to list (294 in previous quarter) - issues@karaf.apache.org: - 42 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months): - 1397 emails sent to list (1467 in previous quarter) - user@karaf.apache.org: - 364 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months): - 551 emails sent to list (491 in previous quarter) ## JIRA activity: - 135 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 117 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
March 2019
## Description:
- Apache Karaf provides a modern and polymorphic applications runtime, multi-purpose (microservices, cloud, IoT, OSGi, etc).
## Issues: - There are no issues requiring board attention at this time ## Activity: - The kloud (karaf for the cloud) initiative has been launched. The first goal is to improve the tooling to easily start with Karaf for both developers and devops.
- Karaf Vineyard moved forward but not as fast as planned. The donation proposal should happen soon.
- Karaf 4.3.x branch has started, starting to upgrade to OSGi R7 specification and implement the "kloud initiative" features and improvements.
## Health report: - More interaction with other projects have been built. Especially, we are helping the jclouds community to upgrade to latest Karaf release.
- We started an effort to have regular cadence in Karaf releases.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 17 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Francois Papon on Thu Nov 29 2018
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 31 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Francois Papon at Sat May 19 2018
## Releases:
- 4.2.2 was released on Thu Dec 20 2018
- 4.2.3 was released on Mon Feb 11 2019
- Cellar 4.1.3 was released on Wed Feb 27 2019
## Mailing list activity:
- We can see an increase on the dev mailing list related to the kloud initiative mostly. The user mailing list activity is stable.
- dev@karaf.apache.org:
- 182 subscribers (down -4 in the last 3 months):
- 301 emails sent to list (146 in previous quarter)
- issues@karaf.apache.org:
- 42 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
- 1492 emails sent to list (1138 in previous quarter)
- user@karaf.apache.org:
- 363 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months):
- 506 emails sent to list (561 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 149 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 153 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months December 2018
## Description: - Apache Karaf provides a modern and polymorphic applications runtime, multi-purpose (microservices, OSGi, etc).
## Issues: - There are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity:
- Once Karaf 4.2.2 will be released, master will become Karaf 4.3.x, upgrading to OSGi R7. - We are working on two new PoC for Karaf:
* Karaf Vineyard is a API management platform powered by Karaf, providing API registry and gateway
* Karaf Winegrower is the new karaf boot name. The purpose is to provide a complete framework/tool allowing developers to start very easily with the Karaf ecosystem
- We also start discussion about improving the Karaf features service to better leverage resources repositories.
## Health report: - We can see interaction with different community (jclouds, OpenNMS, ...) and a general activity increase especially from users community
- We also agree to define a cadence in Karaf runtime and subprojects release cycle (every 3 months). It allows to include fixes/jira update most often in release and gives a better roadmap to our users.
## PMC changes: - Currently 17 PMC members. - New PMC members added in the last 3 months: François Papon, Grzegorz Grzybek - Last PMC addition was François Papon & Grzegorz Grzybek on Mon Nov 29 2018 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 31 committers. - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was Francois Papon at Sat May 19 2018 ## Releases: - 4.1.7 was released on Thu Nov 29 2018 - Cave 4.1.1 was released on Mon Sep 10 2018 - Cellar 4.0.5 was released on Sun Oct 14 2018 - Cellar 4.1.2 was released on Sun Oct 14 2018 - Decanter 2.1.0 was released on Tue Sep 11 2018 ## Mailing list activity: - dev@karaf.apache.org: - 189 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months): - 160 emails sent to list (163 in previous quarter) - issues@karaf.apache.org: - 43 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months): - 1182 emails sent to list (890 in previous quarter) - user@karaf.apache.org: - 362 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months): - 578 emails sent to list (500 in previous quarter) ## JIRA activity: - 139 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 123 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
September 2018
## Description: - Apache Karaf provides a very modern and polymorphic container, multi-purpose (microservices, OSGi, etc) powered by OSGi.
## Issues: - There are no issues requiring board attention at this time ## Activity: - New update/polishing on the website
- New important versions have been released (4.2.1)
- A talk about Karaf will stand at ApacheCon NA
- We are preparing new subprojects releases (Cave, Decanter) and a new subproject (Vineyard)
## Health report: - We asked communities to share their experience/usage of Karaf to populate the Stories pages on our website
- We can see updates from users asking for release so we agreed to have a periodically release cycle (every two months).
- We note a growing interest for Karaf in the cloud and Karaf with docker.
- We are reviewing a CVE report
## PMC changes:
- Currently 15 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Christian Schneider on Mon Aug 22 2016
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 31 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Francois Papon at Sat May 19 2018
## Releases:
- 4.1.6 was released on Sun Aug 12 2018
- 4.2.1 was released on Wed Aug 22 2018
## /dist/ errors: 15
- We are updating the signature for the existing releases on dist (it's "old" releases on maintenance branches)
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@karaf.apache.org:
- 187 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months):
- 173 emails sent to list (179 in previous quarter)
- issues@karaf.apache.org:
- 42 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 927 emails sent to list (904 in previous quarter)
- user@karaf.apache.org:
- 365 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 517 emails sent to list (416 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 110 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 119 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months June 2018
## Description:
- Apache Karaf provides a very modern and polymorphic container, multi-purpose (microservices, OSGi, etc) powered by OSGi.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity:
- We released new major milestone: 4.2.0, it's an very important step forward in our release cycle.
- We revamped the website and created a #karaf room on The ASF Slack
- We are preparing new Cave and Decanter releases, including new features requested by users
- We still have lot of interactions with other communities from Apache (from Apache, like jclouds, sling), and others (OpenHAB, OpenDaylight, ...)
## Health report: - We can note increased messages and feedback from users. ## PMC changes: - Currently 15 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Christian Schneider on Mon Aug 22 2016 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 31 committers. - Francois Papon was added as a committer on Sat May 19 2018 ## Releases: - 4.2.0 was released on Mon Apr 09 2018 ## Mailing list activity:
We can note a constant activity.
- dev@karaf.apache.org:
- 185 subscribers (down -4 in the last 3 months):
- 148 emails sent to list (223 in previous quarter)
- issues@karaf.apache.org:
- 43 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 909 emails sent to list (1219 in previous quarter)
- user@karaf.apache.org:
- 363 subscribers (down -10 in the last 3 months):
- 481 emails sent to list (434 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 117 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 91 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 monthsMarch 2018
## Description:
- Apache Karaf provides a very modern and polymorphic container, multi-purpose (microservices, OSGi, etc) powered by OSGi.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity:
- We continue the preparation of the 4.2.0 GA.
- We are preparing new subproject releases.
- A couple of new features are coming like the docker feature (it has been discussed on the mailing list) in the container.
## Health report:
- We continue interactions with other community and are committed to help users.
- We also "monitoring" new potential new committers.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 15 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Christian Schneider on Mon Aug 22 2016
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 30 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Stephen Kitt at Tue Jul 04 2017
## Releases:
- 3.0.9 was released on Fri Mar 02 2018
- 4.1.4 was released on Tue Dec 19 2017
- 4.1.5 was released on Thu Feb 15 2018
- 4.2.0.M2 was released on Tue Jan 02 2018
- Cave 4.1.0 was released on Tue Jan 02 2018
- Decanter 2.0.0 was released on Tue Feb 06 2018
## Mailing list activity:
- We can note a constant activity on the user mailing list activity. It's really important for us as the user community is key for the project.
- dev@karaf.apache.org:
- 189 subscribers (up 6 in the last 3 months):
- 224 emails sent to list (321 in previous quarter)
- issues@karaf.apache.org:
- 42 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 1358 emails sent to list (1635 in previous quarter)
- user@karaf.apache.org:
- 375 subscribers (up 7 in the last 3 months):
- 432 emails sent to list (355 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 137 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 189 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months December 2017
## Description: - Apache Karaf provides a very modern and polymorphic container, multi-purpose (microservices, OSGi, etc) powered by OSGi.
## Issues: - There are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity: - A first 4.2.0.M2 technical preview has been released, representing an important milestone in the project.
- We did bug fixes and improvements in interaction with user communities (OpenHAB, OpenDaylight, ...)
- We did a little improvement of the website look'n feel to give a better and more professional message
- We are preparing new releases for container, Cave, Decanter & Cellar.
## Health report:
- We have more and more users and interactions with communities thanks to Karaf container but also the other subprojects.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 15 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Christian Schneider on Mon Aug 22 2016
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 30 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Stephen Kitt at Tue Jul 04 2017
## Releases:
- 4.0.10 was released on Thu Sep 28 2017
- 4.1.3 was released on Wed Nov 01 2017
- 4.2.0.M1 was released on Sat Nov 04 2017
- Cellar 4.1.1 was released on Sat Oct 14 2017
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@karaf.apache.org:
- 184 subscribers (down -4 in the last 3 months):
- 286 emails sent to list (238 in previous quarter)
- issues@karaf.apache.org:
- 42 subscribers (down -2 in the last 3 months):
- 1673 emails sent to list (1627 in previous quarter)
- user@karaf.apache.org:
- 371 subscribers (down -4 in the last 3 months):
- 404 emails sent to list (402 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 165 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 186 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months October 2017
## Description: - Apache Karaf provides a very modern and polymorphic container, multi-purpose (microservices, OSGi, etc) powered by OSGi.
## Issues: - There are no issues requiring board attention at this time ## Activity: - We did 3 releases in the last 3 months
- We identified some improvements and new features to do in Karaf container but also in the sub-projects
- We see more interactions and contributions coming from other communities, especially OpenDaylight.
## Health report:
- Our user community is still growing up and we are in touch with other communities like OpenHAB and OpenDaylight.
- We are discussing about potential new committers## PMC changes: - Currently 15 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Christian Schneider on Mon Aug 22 2016 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 30 committers. - Stephen Kitt was added as a committer on Tue Jul 04 2017 - Last committer addition: Tue Jul 04 2017 (Stephen Kitt) ## Releases: → 4.1.2 was released on Tue Aug 08 2017
→ Decanter 1.4.0 was released on Sun Jul 23 2017
→ 4.0.10 was released on Thu Sep 28 2017 ## Mailing list activity: - dev@karaf.apache.org: - 188 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months): - 247 emails sent to list (315 in previous quarter) - user@karaf.apache.org: - 377 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months): - 353 emails sent to list (590 in previous quarter) ## JIRA activity: - 162 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 166 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
June 2017
## Description: - Apache Karaf provides a very modern and polymorphic container, multi-purpose (microservices, OSGi, etc) powered by OSGi.
## Issues: - There are no issues requiring board attention at this time ## Activity: - We did 4 releases in the last 3 months. 3 are maintenance release, and Cellar 4.1.0 is the first release in the Cellar 4.1.x series bringing lot of new features, improvements and fully compliant with Karaf 4.1.x
- "Large Apache Karaf cluster with Karaf Cellar and Mesos" talk has been given during ApacheCon NA '17 Miami. We noticed important interest during the talk and we got lot of questions and feedbacks from users.
- We are preparing Karaf 4.1.2, Cellar 4.1.1 and Decanter 1.4.0 releases.
- An important work is in progress on the documentation (mostly dev guide with samples). It's longer than we expected, but we did good progress and hopefully it should be available on our website soon.
## Health report: - Our user community is still growing up, and ApacheCon was a great way to meet users in person. We had several discussions and demos in the hacking area during ApacheCon.
- We addressed the trademark issue mentioned in the previous report. We contacted https://www.cloudkarafka.com/ and asked to update the website footer with Apache Karaf trademark. It has been done: "Apache Kafka and the Apache Kafka Logo, Apache Karaf, and the Apache Karaf Logo are trademarks of the Apache Software Foundation."
- As usual, we are watching potential new PMC members and committers.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 15 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Christian Schneider on Mon Aug 22 2016
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 29 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Grzegorz Grzybek at Mon Oct 31 2016
## Releases:
- 4.0.9 was released on Mon Apr 10 2017
- 4.1.1 was released on Fri Mar 31 2017
- Cellar 4.0.4 was released on Mon May 15 2017
- Cellar 4.1.0 was released on Mon May 15 2017
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@karaf.apache.org:
- 190 subscribers (up 4 in the last 3 months):
- 236 emails sent to list (335 in previous quarter)
- user@karaf.apache.org:
- 395 subscribers (up 22 in the last 3 months):
- 565 emails sent to list (559 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 145 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 126 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months March 2017
## Description: - Apache Karaf provides a very modern and polymorphic container, multi-purpose (microservices, OSGi, etc) powered by OSGi.
## Issues: - There are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity:
- We released first version in our new main serie: 4.1.0. It's a new major version. A 4.1.1 fix release is in preparation.
- New release of Karaf Cellar and Decanter are in preparation.
- We are beginning the work for a full JDK9 support, we expect to achieve the result in release 4.2.0## Health report:
We can note an increase in user community recently, probably due to new Karaf adoption in products or other projects.
We are watching new potential PMC members, a format discussion and vote will stand on the private mailing list pretty soon.
Talks have been proposed at ApacheCon NA. As several committers will be at ACNA, we plan to organize an informal event (like a diner).
## PMC changes: - Currently 15 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Christian Schneider on Mon Aug 22 2016 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 29 committers. - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was Grzegorz Grzybek at Mon Oct 31 2016 ## Releases: - 4.0.8 was released on Sun Dec 18 2016 - 4.1.0 was released on Sat Feb 04 2017
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@karaf.apache.org:
- 186 subscribers (up 3 in the last 3 months):
- 296 emails sent to list (341 in previous quarter)
- issues@karaf.apache.org:
- 41 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months):
- 1148 emails sent to list (1414 in previous quarter)
- user@karaf.apache.org:
- 372 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months):
- 618 emails sent to list (700 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 135 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 153 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months January 2017
## Description: - Apache Karaf provides a very modern and polymorphic container, multi-purpose (microservices, OSGi, etc) powered by OSGi.
## Issues: - As requested by the board, the Karaf PMC members decided to provide this new report to address board comments and questions. We want to apologize a new time for the delay to address those comments.
## Activity:
- We are maintaining our pace in the release. The next major release is 4.1.0 on which we are working. This release will contain lot of feedback and contributions from the users.
- We also continue to improve the Karaf subprojects, especially Karaf Decanter and Karaf Cellar. They both received important contributions from users.
- We started a discussion on the dev mailing list about a new feature: Karaf Boot. The purpose is to simplify writing applications running on Karaf and provide easy way to package applications and Karaf all together. Due to the releases activity, the discussion was in stand-by, but we plan to restart the discussion and move forward about this.
- We are beginning the work for a full JDK9 support, we expect to achieve the result in release 4.2.0## Health report:
Apache Karaf has been receiving issue reports, patch submissions from down stream projects such as OpenHab and OpenDaylight.
These projects use Apache Karaf as their runtime environment, their contributions upstream to Karaf help strengthen and grow our broader community.
It's also interesting to see that Karaf received contributions from other Apache community, like Apache Unomi.
Last month we quickly reacted to a CVE security request that we already fixed in last 4.0.8 release.
We are still watching for new potential committers and PMCs, extending our dev community.
Talks related to Karaf (directly or indirectly) were present during ApacheCon EU, promoting the project.
We also received new requests and feedback from new users (on the mailing list and/or Jira) showing a healthy user community.
We are trying to be active on related projects (Apache Felix, enRoute, ...) to increase the Karaf adoption and grow the user community.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 15 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Christian Schneider on Mon Aug 22 2016
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 29 committers.
- New commmitters:
- Grzegorz Grzybek was added as a committer on Mon Oct 31 2016
- Luca Burgazzoli was added as a committer on Mon Oct 31 2016
## Releases:
- 4.0.8 was released on Sun Dec 18 2016
- Cellar 4.0.3 was released on Mon Oct 31 2016
## 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@karaf.apache.org:
- 183 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months):
- 324 emails sent to list (370 in previous quarter)
- issues@karaf.apache.org:
- 39 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 1378 emails sent to list (1350 in previous quarter)
- user@karaf.apache.org:
- 369 subscribers (up 11 in the last 3 months):
- 555 emails sent to list (769 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 163 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 174 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months December 2016
Apache Karaf provides a very modern and polymorphic container, multi-purpose (microservices, OSGi, etc) powered by OSGi. Community =========
Last committer addition: October 31, 2016 Last PMC addition: August 22, 2016
Grzegorz Grzybek and Luca Burgazzoli were added as committers on October 31, 2016.
Messages on the dev mailing list during last 3 months: 341 (184 subscribers)
Messages on the user mailing list during last 3 months: 707 (367 subscribers)
Some talks related to Apache Karaf have been given during ApacheCon Europe.
Development ===========
The following new releases have been voted:
- 4.0.7 was released on Sun Sep 25 2016 - cellar 4.0.3 was released on Mon Oct 31 2016
- 185 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 174 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
Issues for board consideration ============================== None so far.
September 2016
Apache Karaf provides a very modern and polymorphic container, multi-purpose (microservices, OSGi, etc) powered by OSGi. Community =========
Last committer addition: January 21, 2016 Last PMC addition: August 22, 2016
Christian Schneider has been elected as new PMC member.
Messages on the dev mailing list during last 3 months: 391 (182 subscribers)
Messages on the user mailing list during last 3 months: 800 (360 subscribers)
Development ===========
The following new releases have been voted:
- 3.0.7 was released on Mon Jun 20 2016 - 3.0.8 was released on Thu Aug 11 2016 - 4.0.6 was released on Sat Aug 27 2016 - cellar 4.0.1 was released on Sun Jul 17 2016 - decanter 1.2.0 was released on Fri Aug 19 2016 - Cellar 4.0.2 was released on Mon Sep 19 2016
- 137 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 171 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
Issues for board consideration ============================== None so far.
June 2016
Apache Karaf provides a very modern and polymorphic container, multi-purpose (microservices, OSGi, etc) powered by OSGi. Community =========
Last committer addition: January 21, 2016 Last PMC addition: September 05, 2012
Talks related to Karaf have been given during ApacheCon NA Vancouver:
- Tutorial: Apache Karaf and OSGi Basics - Tom Barber
- Messaging for the cloud with ActiveMQ and Karaf - Hadrian Zbarcea & Jamie Goodyear
- Focus on business code with Apache Karaf Boot - Jean-Baptiste Onofré
- Monitoring and alerting with Apache Karaf Decanter - Jean-Baptiste Onofré
Messages on the dev mailing list during last 3 months: 374
Messages on the user mailing list during last 3 months: 694
Development ===========
The following new releases have been voted:
- 4.0.5 was released on Sat Apr 16 2016 - decanter 1.1.0 was released on Tue Apr 26 2016
We are preparing new releases and the new karaf-boot subproject.
- 152 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 114 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
Issues for board consideration ============================== None so far.
March 2016
Apache Karaf provides a very modern and polymorphic container, multi-purpose (microservices, OSGi, etc) powered by OSGi. Community =========
A completely brand new website has been promoted and announced. We are now working on the polishing of the documentation.
Two new committers have been elected:
- Andrea Cosentino was added as a committer on Thu Jan 21 2016
- Fabian Lange was added as a committer on Sun Jan 10 2016
Last committer addition: Janueray 21, 2016 Last PMC addition: September 05, 2012
Several talks will stand at next ApacheCon:
- Tutorial: Apache Karaf and OSGi Basics - Tom Barber
- Messaging for the cloud with ActiveMQ and Karaf - Hadrian Zbarcea & Jamie Goodyear
- Focus on business code with Apache Karaf Boot - Jean-Baptiste Onofré
- Monitoring and alerting with Apache Karaf Decanter - Jean-Baptiste Onofré
Messages on the dev mailing list (September, October, November): 510
Messages on the user mailing list (September, October, November): 101
Development ===========
The following new releases have been voted:
- 2.3.12 was released on Mon Jan 25 2016 - 2.4.4 was released on Mon Jan 25 2016 - 3.0.6 was released on Wed Feb 17 2016 - 4.0.4 was released on Thu Jan 14 2016
- 224 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 178 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
Issues for board consideration ============================== None so far.
December 2015
Apache Karaf provides a very modern and polymorphic container, multi-purpose (microservices, OSGi, etc) powered by OSGi. Community =========
We are working on new "marketing" material proposal, especially a new website and developer guide.
We are also discussing with other communities to have a better support of Karaf.
We are following a couple of potential new committers.
Messages on the dev mailing list (September, October, November): 487
Messages on the user mailing list (September, October, November): 1070
Numbers of commits (September, October, November) (sum on all Karaf projects): 176
Last committer addition: October 21, 2013 Last PMC addition: September 05, 2012 Development ===========
The following new releases have been voted:
- Apache Karaf Decanter 1.0.1 (November 16, 2015)
- Apache Karaf 4.0.3 (November 10, 2015)
- Apache Karaf 4.0.2 (October 13, 2015)
- Apache Karaf 3.0.5 (October 7, 2015)
Issues for board consideration ============================== None so far.
September 2015
Apache Karaf provides a very modern and polymorphic container, multi-purpose (microservices, OSGi, etc) powered by OSGi. Community =========
Two talks will stand at ApacheCon EU related to Karaf.
We are following a couple of potential new committers.
Last committer addition: October 21, 2013 Last PMC addition: September 05, 2012 Development ===========
The following new releases have been voted:
- Apache Karaf 4.0.1 (maintenance release) (August 19, 2015)
- Apache Karaf Decanter 1.0.0 (first release) (August 01, 2015)
- Apache Karaf 2.4.3 (maintenance release) (July 12, 2015)
- Apache Karaf Cave 4.0.0 (first branch release) (July 8, 2015)
- Apache Karaf 3.0.4 (maintenance release) (July 2, 2015)
- Apache Karaf 4.0.0 (first branch release) (June 26, 2015)
- Apache Karaf 4.0.0.M3 (June 8, 2015)
Issues for board consideration ============================== None so far.
June 2015
Apache Karaf provides a very modern and polymorphic container, powered by OSGi. Community =========
Some talks have been proposed to next ApacheCon EU.
A new Apache Karaf subproject has been created: Apache Karaf Decanter. We already have contributions on this subproject.
Last committer addition: October 21, 2013 Last PMC addition: September 05, 2012 Development ===========
The following new releases have been voted:
- Apache Karaf Cellar 3.0.3 (maintenance release) (May 12, 2015)
- Apache Karaf Cellar 2.3.6 (maintenance release) (May 12, 2015)
- Apache Karaf 2.4.2 (maintenance release) (April 25, 2015)
- Apache Karaf 2.3.11 (maintenance release) (April 11, 2015)
- Apache Karaf Cellar 3.0.2 (maintenance release) (March 27, 2015)
- Apache Karaf Cellar 2.3.5 (maintenance release) (March 27, 2015)
We are actively preparing 4.0.0.M3 release, which should be the latest one before the 4.0.0 GA.
Issues for board consideration ============================== None so far.
March 2015
Apache Karaf provides higher level features and services specifically designed for creating OSGi-based servers. Community =========
A talk will be given during ApacheCon NA:
- Karaf for the Enterprise
Talks are also in preparation at LavaJUG (France) and JBCNG (Barcelona, Spain).
Last committer addition: October 21, 2013 Last PMC addition: September 05, 2012 Development ===========
The following new releases have been voted:
- Apache Karaf 4.0.0.M2 (preview release, latest before GA) (February 13, 2015)
- Apache Karaf 2.3.10 (maintenance release) (February 6, 2015)
- Apache Karaf 3.0.3 (maintenance release) (January 30, 2015)
- Apache Karaf Cellar 3.0.1 (maintenance release) (January 23, 2015)
- Apache Karaf Cellar 2.3.4 (maintenance release) (January 23, 2015)
- Apache Karaf 2.4.1 (maintenance release) (January 2, 2015)
Issues for board consideration ============================== None so far.
December 2014
Apache Karaf provides higher level features and services specifically designed for creating OSGi-based servers. Community =========
Three talks have been given during ApacheCon EU:
- Enterprise Development with Apache Karaf
- Best Practices for Design and Development of OSGi Applications in Apache Karaf
and a tutorial
- Application Integration in OSGi on Apache Karaf
A talk and workshop has been given during latest JUG Barcelona.
Last committer addition: October 21, 2013 Last PMC addition: September 05, 2012 Development ===========
A plan to have a periodically release cycle has been proposed and we move forward to follow this plan.
The following new releases have been voted:
- Apache Karaf Cellar 2.3.3 (maintenance release) (November 17, 2014)
- Apache Karaf 2.3.9 (maintenance release) (November 9, 2014)
- Apache Karaf 4.0.0.M1 (technical preview release) (October 14, 2014)
- Apache Karaf 3.0.2 (maintenance release) (October 13, 2014)
- Apache Karaf 2.4.0 (maintenance release) (September 20, 2014)
- Apache Karaf 2.3.8 (maintenance release) (September 19, 2014)
- Apache Karaf 2.3.7 (maintenance release) (September 6, 2014)
Issues for board consideration ============================== None so far.
September 2014
Apache Karaf provides higher level features and services specifically designed for creating OSGi-based servers. Community =========
We have two talks scheduled at the next ApacheCon EU:
- Enterprise Development with Apache Karaf
- Best Practices for Design and Development of OSGi Applications in Apache Karaf
and a tutorial:
- Application Integration in OSGi on Apache Karaf
We also have a talk and workshop scheduled at JUG Barcelona.
Last committer addition: October 21, 2013 Last PMC addition: September 05, 2012 Development =========== The following new releases have been voted:
- Apache Karaf 2.3.6 (maintenance release) (August 1, 2014)
- Apache Karaf Cave 3.0.0 (major release) (July 4, 2014)
- Apache Karaf Cellar 3.0.0 (major release) (June 27, 2014)
We plan to release a Karaf 3.0.2 version (especially for Java8 support) and Karaf 2.4.0 version (for full support of Karaf 3.0.x branch) in the coming weeks. Due to a Windows platform issue, we plan to release Karaf 2.3.7 soon as well.
Issues for board consideration ============================== None so far.
June 2014
Apache Karaf provides higher level features and services specifically designed for creating OSGi-based servers. Community =========
The talk "Apache Karaf in real life" has been provided by a committer during the latest ApacheCon NA 2014.
Talks have been submitted by different committers for the next ApacheCon Europe 2014.
We can note a couple of books available (or in preparation) about Karaf and its sub-projects (Cellar, Cave, EIK).
There have been three articles in the german JavaMagazin about Karaf 3.0 in April, Mai and June.
We started to work on the next Karaf 4.0.0 branch including a lot of new features and improvements.
Last committers addition: October 21, 2013 Last PMC addition: September 05, 2012 Development =========== The following new releases have been voted: - Apache Karaf 3.0.1 (maintenance release) (April 13, 2014)
- Apache Karaf 2.3.5 (maintenance release) (April 13, 2014)
We plan to release a Karaf 3.0.2 version (especially for Java8 support) and Cellar 3.0.0 version (for full support of Karaf 3.0.x branch) in the coming weeks.
Issues for board consideration ============================== None so far.
March 2014
Apache Karaf provides higher level features and services specifically designed for creating OSGi-based servers. Community =========
The new Karaf 3.0.0 has been a good message to the community.
The website has been a bit polished to give more visibility to the documentation of the two active Karaf branches.
Last committers addition: October 21, 2013 Last PMC addition: September 05, 2012 Development =========== The following new releases have been voted: - Apache Karaf 3.0.0 (major new version) (December 24, 2013)
- Apache Karaf Cave 2.3.0 (first release of the Maven/OBR repository) (January 21, 2014)
- Apache Karaf 2.3.4 (maintenance release) (February 17, 2014)
Apache Karaf and all subprojects have moved to git (thanks INFRA for that). Issues for board consideration ============================== None so far.
December 2013
Apache Karaf provides higher level features and services specifically designed for creating OSGi-based servers. Community ========= Indicators during the last 3 months: - Download: 27,430 downloads (Karaf distributions without the subprojects like Cellar, all branches) between September, 1 and October, 31 (waiting update for November statistics). - User mailing list: 408 messages between September, 1 and November, 21. - Dev mailing list: 243 messages between September, 1 and November, 21. - Commits: 340 commits between September, 1 and November, 22. Two new committers have been elected in October, 2013: Jon Anstey, David Bosschaert Last committers addition: October 21, 2013 Last PMC addition: September 05, 2012 Development =========== The following new releases have been voted: - Apache Karaf Cellar 2.3.2 (October 14, 2013) - Apache Karaf 2.3.3 (September 20, 2013) A new major release (Apache Karaf 3.0.0) is planned to be released end of November, beginning of December. We asked to migrate to git: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-6708 It's in progress but takes time. Issues for board consideration ============================== None so far.
September 2013
Apache Karaf provides higher level features and services specifically designed for creating OSGi-based servers. Community ========= Indicators during the last 3 months: - Download: 44,166 downloads (Karaf distributions without the subprojects like Cellar, all branches) between June, 1 and August, 31. - User mailing list: 367 messages between June, 1 and August, 31. - Dev mailing list: 229 messages between June, 1 and August, 31. - Commits: 284 commits between June, 1 and August, 31. Last committers addition: February 11, 2013 Last PMC addition: September 05, 2012 Development =========== The following new releases have been voted: - Apache Karaf 2.3.2 (July 10, 2013) - Apache Karaf Cellar 2.3.1 (July 1, 2013) Issues for board consideration ============================== None so far.
June 2013
Apache Karaf provides higher level features and services specifically designed for creating OSGi-based servers. Community ========= Indicators during the last 3 months: - Download: 38,730 downloads (Karaf distributions without the subprojects like Cellar, all branches) between March, 1 and May, 31. - User mailing list: 516 messages between March, 1 and May, 31. - Dev mailing list: 383 messages between March, 1 and May, 31. - Commits: 414 commits between March, 1 and May, 31. Last committers addition: February 11, 2013 Last PMC addition: September 05, 2012 Development =========== The following new releases have been voted: - Apache Karaf 3.0.0.RC1 (March 15, 2013) - Apache Karaf 2.2.11 (April 30, 2013) - Apache Karaf Cellar 2.2.6 (May 23, 2013) - Apache Karaf Cellar 2.3.0 (May 23, 2013) Issues for board consideration ============================== None so far.
March 2013
Apache Karaf provides higher level features and services specifically designed for creating OSGi-based servers. Community ========= Indicators during the last 3 months: - Download: 31,490 downloads (all distributions, all branches) between December, 1 and February, 28. - User mailing list: 557 messages between December, 1 and February, 28. - Dev mailing list: 382 messages between December, 1 and February, 28. - Commits: 621 commits between December, 1 and February, 28. We are pleased to count two new committers elected in February: - Filippo Balicchia - Christoph Grtischenberger Development =========== The following new releases have been voted: * Apache Karaf 2.3.1 * Apache Karaf EIK 0.9.0 We are inline to release Karaf 3.0.0.RC1, and a first Cellar release on the 2.3.x branch. A new branch has been created (karaf-2.x) in order to prepare next Karaf 2.4.0. Issues for board consideration ============================== None so far.
December 2012
Apache Karaf provides higher level features and services specifically designed for creating OSGi-based servers. Community ========= Indicators during the last 3 months: - Download: 36,624 downloads (all distributions, all branches) between September, 1 and November, 30. - User mailing list: 574 messages between September, 1 and November, 30. - Dev mailing list: 459 messages between September, 1 and November, 30. - Commits: 607 commits between September, 1 and November, 30. A couple of talks have been provided during ApacheCon EU and W-JAX Germany. These talks introduced Karaf and Cellar. Development =========== The following new releases have been voted: * Apache Karaf 2.3.0 (major update to a new Karaf branch) * Apache Karaf Cellar 2.2.5 Due to a major issue in Apache Aries Blueprint 1.0.1, we decided to postpone Karaf 3.0-RC1 to include the Aries fix. We've resumed the work on EIK (Eclipse Integration for Karaf) in order to provide a first EIK release soon. Issues for board consideration ============================== None so far.
September 2012
Apache Karaf provides higher level features and services specifically designed for creating OSGi-based servers. Community ========= Indicators during the last 3 months: - Download: around 15,000 distribution downloads - User mailing list: 666 messages - Dev mailing list: 542 messages - Commits: 1110 commits We organized a Karaf 2nd birthday concall to discussed about the Karaf and Karaf subprojects activity and define the roadmap. Brian Topping (btopping) has been voted as a new Karaf committer. Lukasz Dywicki (ldywicki) has been voted as a new Karaf PMC member. Development =========== The following new releases have been voted: * Apache Karaf 2.2.8 * Apache Karaf 2.2.9 Karaf 2.3.0 is on the way, a first release is planned for September. We also plan to release Karaf 3.0-RC1 during October. Karaf WebConsole development resumed, the plan is to include WebConsole in Karaf 3.0. We're also progressing on the other Karaf sub-projects (Cellar and EIK). The Karaf community continues to help other Apache projects to support Karaf. Branding ======== As commented in the latest board report, this section will be removed from the next reports. * project website basics: ok * website nav links: ok * trademarks: ok * logo: ok * metadata: ok Issues for board consideration ============================== None so far.
June 2012
Apache Karaf provides higher level features and services specifically designed for creating OSGi-based servers. Community ========= Indicators during the last 3 months: - Download: around 12,000 distribution downloads - User mailing list: 424 messages - Dev mailing list: 495 messages - Commits: 758 commits Development =========== The following new releases have been voted: * Apache Karaf 2.2.6 * Apache Karaf 2.2.7 * Apache Karaf Cellar 2.2.4 We made progresses on the stabilization of the Karaf 3.0 next release. A stabilization branch is going to be create including a 3.0-beta pre-release. Web Site ======= A new website has been deployed including minor updates and bug fixes. Branding ======== * project website basics: ok * website nav links: ok * trademarks: ok * logo: ok * metadata: ok Issues for board consideration ============================== None so far.
March 2012
Apache Karaf provides higher level features and services specifically designed for creating OSGi-based servers. Community ========= The Karaf community continues to provide help to others Apache projects (Whirr, Archiva, etc) in order to increase the Karaf adoption. We welcome a new committer: Stephen Evanchik. Stephen already signed the ICLA. His account should be setup soon. Stephan made the donation to EIK (see below). We are discussing about mentoring a GSoC project. Some indicators during the last 3 months: - Download: around 14,000 distribution downloads - User mailing list: 718 messages - Dev mailing list: 706 messages - Commits: 742 Development =========== The following new releases have been voted: * Apache Karaf 2.2.5 * Apache Karaf Cellar 2.2.3 We made progresses on the stabilization of the Karaf 3.0 next release. A karaf-3.0.x branch will be cut off soon in order to prepare a first RC. A new Karaf sub-project has been created: EIK (Eclipse Integration for Karaf), which allows to run Karaf directly into the Eclipse IDE. Web Site ======= A new version of the website has been deployed to give more visibility to the Karaf sub-projects. Branding ======== * project website basics: ok * website nav links: ok * trademarks: ok * logo: ok * metadata: ok Issues for board consideration ============================== None so far.
December 2011
Apache Karaf provides higher level features and services specifically designed for creating OSGi-based servers. Community ========= Guillaume Nodet and Jean-Baptiste Onofré were presents at the ApacheCon. Two talks were related to Karaf. Several projects are interested to use Karaf. The Karaf community starts to help others projects to be OSGi compliant (work started on Apache Archiva and Apache Whirr). Development ============ A new release has been voted: * Apache Karaf 2.2.4 We are now focusing on Karaf 3.0 release (lot of fixes, cleanups and enhancements in progress). We also included a new testing framework based on Pax Exam (part of the Karaf tooling). The resources for the sub-projects will be created soon (website, etc). Web Site ======== We published a new web site to fix some typo mistakes and update the online documentation. The site will be updated soon to announce and give visibility to the new sub-projects. Branding ======== * project website basics: ok * website nav links: ok * trademarks: ok * logo: we added the TM mention on the logo, and provide new "powered by Karaf" logo * metadata: ok Issues for board consideration ============================== None so far.
September 2011
Apache Karaf provides higher level features and services specifically designed for creating OSGi-based servers. Community ========= The community has changed a bit: * Christian Schneider has been voted in as a committer We can note an increase of projects powered by Karaf. Apache ServiceMix and Apache Geronimo already use Karaf. We're discussing with Apache Directory about the usage of Karaf. Development =========== Four releases have been voted: * Apache Karaf 2.1.6 * Apache Karaf 2.2.1 * Apache Karaf 2.2.2 * Apache Karaf 2.2.3 NB: we turned Apache Karaf 2.1.x branch in End Of Life mode. Apache Karaf 2.1.6 is the latest version on this branch. We created the first Apache Karaf sub-project: Apache Karaf Cellar. Apache Karaf Cellar is a cluster and cloud solution for Apache Karaf, powered by Hazelcast and jclouds. We already released: * Apache Karaf Cellar 2.2.1 * Apache Karaf Cellar 2.2.2 We started OBR broadcast and DOSGi implementation. It should be included in Apache Karaf Cellar 2.2.3. We can note that two Karaf sub-projects have been started in sandbox and promoted as Karaf sub-projects: * Karaf WebConsole based on Pax-Wicket. This new console is very extend-able and highly pluggable. The purpose is to provide a complete enterprise administration and monitoring console, including a new look'n feel, and give a way for others projects (like ServiceMix, CXF or Camel for instance), to provide their own branding and modules. http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/karaf/webconsole/ * Karaf Cave is an OBR server implementation, including storage, OBR metadata generation, Maven proxy support, REST API, etc. It will also aim to be a KFR (Karaf Feature Repository) and KAR (KAR Repository). http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/karaf/cave/ We are also discussing with the author of EIK (Eclipse Integration for Karaf) to become a new Karaf sub-project (http://code.google.com/a/eclipselabs.org/p/eik/). Web Site ========= Web site has been updated to provide visibility to sub-projects such as Apache Karaf Cellar. We also gave more visibility to the documentation, allowing to download the PDF format of our guides. Branding ======== * project website basics: ok * website nav links: ok * trademarks: ok * logo: we added the TM mention on the logo, and provide new "powered by Karaf" logo * metadata: ok Issues for board consideration ============================== None so far.
March 2011
Apache Karaf provides higher level features and services specifically designed for creating OSGi-based servers. Community ========= The community has changed a bit: * Andreas Pieber has been voted in as a committer and PMC member * Achim Nierbeck has been invited to the PMC Mailing lists: * 58 subscribers to dev@, roughly 775 mails in the past 3 months * 94 subscribers to user@, roughly 290 mails in the past 3 months Development =========== Two releases have been voted * Apache Karaf 2.1.4 * Apache Karaf 2.2.0 Web Site ======== The website has been moved switched out of confluence to a scalate based solution. Confluence will still be kept has a wiki for a few pages. Branding ======== * project website basics: ok * website nav links: ok * trademarks: ok * logo: we're still missing the TM on the logo * metadata: ok Issues for board consideration ============================== None so far.
December 2010
Apache Karaf provides higher level features and services specifically designed for creating OSGi-based servers. Community ========= We've voted in 3 new committers: * Adrian Trenaman * Achim Nierbeck * Łukasz Dywicki One committer has been invited to the PMC: * Ioannis Cannellos Development =========== Two releases have been voted on: * Apache Karaf 2.1.1 on November 14th, 2010 * Apache Karaf 2.1.2 on November 25th, 2010 We're working towards the 2.2.0 release, currently targetted for January. It has been delayed because we're waiting for Aries to release a new version. We've voted a new logo and are discussing a possible web site design change. We're also planning to move out of confluence for the website, possibly using Scalate. Branding ======== * project website basics: home page is ok * website nav links: we're missing nearly all the links but the one to the main ASF web site * trademarks: not really compliant here * logo: not really compliant yet * metadata: we have a registered doap file Issues for board consideration ============================== None so far. The community is growing and healthy. We have currently two active contributors that aren't yet committers.
September 2010
Community ========= We added the following committers: * Hiram Chirino * James Strachan * Ioannis Canellos James and Hiram were committers before we moved to TLP and asked to get their committership back, so they've been voted in back. Ioannis is a new Apache committer. We also have other active contributors, so we expect some new committers in the coming months. Development =========== No releases this month so far, but development continues towards our next point release of Karaf, with attention coming from users testing new features and suggesting improvements. We expect to release this new version before the end of the month. Issues for board consideration ============================== None so far. The community is growing and healthy.
August 2010
Since the last July report, Apache Karaf 2.0.0 has been released. Several patches have been supplied by contributors, but due to the holiday season, development has slowed down a bit during the past weeks.
July 2010
It has been only a few weeks since the Karaf TLP has been established, but the activity level is very high. All resources have been set up by infra (thx) and we have moved the opened JIRA issues and svn tree from Felix to Karaf. We've already received some patches from non developers, so I expect the community to grow very soon. We haven't released anything yet, and we're waiting for trunk to stabilize before releasing a 2.0 (new major version due to package renaming).