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Reports submitted to the Apache Board

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 

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