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Reports submitted to the Apache Board

December 2023

## 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.

## Membership Data:
Apache Karaf was founded 2010-06-16 (13 years ago)
There are currently 32 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.
- Robert Varga was added as committer on 2023-10-31

## Project Activity:
We released:

• Karaf runtime 4.3.10 was released on 2023-09-20.
• Karaf runtime 4.4.4 was released on 2023-09-17.

We are now preparing Karaf runtime 4.4.5 including fixes on top of 4.4.4. This release is expected between Christmas and New Year.
We are also preparing Karaf runtime 4.5.0 which will be a main milestone with Jakarta namespace support. We plan this release in January 2024. This release requires updates/activities on other projects (Aries, etc).

## Community Health:
The karaf-integration distribution is planned for Karaf 4.5.0 (see

September 2023

## 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.

## Membership Data:
Apache Karaf was founded 2010-06-16 (13 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:
Due to summer break, the activity was pretty slow.
Releases preparation:
* karaf osgi runtime 4.3.10 and 4.4.4 are still in preparation, the vote will start in the coming days
* karaf decanter 2.11.0 and 3.0.0 are in preparation, vote is planned in September
* karaf osgi runtime 4.5.0 preparation will start just after 4.3.10 and 4.4.4 releases, with major upgrade

## Community Health:
The karaf-integration distribution will be part of new releases.
Karaf 4.5.x series will start just after 4.4.4 release, in September.
The new bundle URL handler implementation also started and a PR will be created soon.
Following the vote, Karaf Cave and Karaf Winegrower have been removed from the mailing list.

June 2023

## 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.

## Membership Data:
Apache Karaf was founded 2010-06-16 (13 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:
Releases preparation:
* karaf osgi runtime 4.3.10 and 4.4.4 are in preparation
* karaf decanter 2.11.0 and 3.0.0 are in preparation
* karaf osgi runtime 4.5.0 preparation will start just after 4.3.10 and 4.4.4 releases

## Community Health:
This past quarter was mostly preparation for the summer releases set.
The karaf-integration will be part of new releases.
The new bundle URL handler implementation also started and a PR will be created soon.
Following the vote, Karaf Cave and Karaf Winegrower have been removed from the mailing list.

March 2023

## 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.

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