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Reports submitted to the Apache Board

March 2015

Apache Karaf provides a very modern and polymorphic container, multi-purpose (microservices, OSGi, etc) powered by OSGi.

Community
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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
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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
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None so far.

December 2015

Apache Karaf provides a very modern and polymorphic container, multi-purpose (microservices, OSGi, etc) powered by OSGi.

Community
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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
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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
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None so far.

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Apache Karaf provides a very modern and polymorphic container, powered by OSGi.

Community
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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
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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
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None so far.

March 2015

Apache Karaf provides higher level features and services
specifically designed for creating OSGi-based servers.

Community
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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
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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
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None so far.

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