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Reports submitted to the Apache Board
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.
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