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Reports submitted to the Apache Board

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).

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