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Reports submitted to the Apache Board

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).

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