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Karaf

20 Mar 2024 [Jean-Baptiste Onofré / Willem]

## 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.

## Project Status:
Current project status: Ongoing with moderate activity during last quarter
Issues for the board: none

## Membership Data:
Apache Karaf was founded 2010-06-16 (14 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.
- No new committers. Last addition was Robert Varga on 2023-10-31.

## Project Activity:
We released:
* Karaf runtime 4.4.5 was released on 2024-01-10.

We are also preparing Karaf
runtime 4.5.0 which will be a main milestone with Jakarta namespace support.
We plan this release in March 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 KARAF-7792
- Provide karaf-integration distribution OPEN ). The Karaf community started
  to help on camel-karaf, restarting this project to support Camel 4.x in
  Karaf
(as requested by users), see
 https://github.com/jbonofre/camel-karaf/tree/REFACTORE The activity was lower
 in the past quarter as we were working on the 4.5.0 milestone. We expect much
 more activity (blog, messages on the ml, etc) with the 4.5.0 release will be
 available.

20 Dec 2023 [Jean-Baptiste Onofré / Christofer]

## 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.

## Project Status:
There are no issues requiring board attention.

## Membership Data:
Apache Karaf was founded 2010-06-16 (14 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 KARAF-7792
- Provide karaf-integration distribution OPEN ). The Karaf community started
to help on camel-karaf, restarting this project to support Camel 4.x in Karaf
(as requested by users). Following the vote, Karaf Cave and Karaf Winegrower
have been removed from the mailing list.

20 Sep 2023 [Jean-Baptiste Onofré / Christofer]

## 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.

## Project Status:
Ongoing, with moderate activity due to summer break, but still active.

## 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.

21 Jun 2023 [Jean-Baptiste Onofré / Justin]

## 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.

## Project Status:
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.

22 Mar 2023 [Jean-Baptiste Onofré / Bertrand]

## 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:
Recent releases:
* karaf decanter 2.10.0 was released on 2023-02-24.
* karaf osgi runtime 4.3.9 was released on 2023-01-14.
* karaf osgi runtime 4.4.3 was released on 2023-01-10.
* karaf minho 0.1 was released on 2023-01-07.

## Community Health:
We discussed to move Karaf Minho as TLP under Sunny name.
However the namesearch didn't pass for Sunny, so we plan to submit
board resolution to accept Apache Minho as TLP. The resolution will
be submitted to the next board meeting.
We also discussed about providing a new Karaf distribution named
karaf-integration (as we have karaf-minimal), providing basically
the same features as Apache ServiceMix distribution.
We also plan to move forward on new bundle URL handler, allowing
us to avoid ServiceMix bundles release.
We also voted to move Karaf Cave and Karaf Winegrower to attic
(removing them from website).
We discussed with the Camel community about camel-karaf. We proposed
(and voted) to move camel-karaf governance to karaf. We didn't reach
a consensus. The plan is now to be engaged more within camel-karaf
to maintain it and move forward with new features/enhancements.

21 Dec 2022 [Jean-Baptiste Onofré / Christofer]

## 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).

21 Sep 2022 [Jean-Baptiste Onofré / Willem]

## 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 (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:
- 4.4.1 was released on 2022-07-14.
- 4.2.16 was released on 2022-06-19
- 4.3.7 was released on 2022-04-23. We are working on new runtime maintenance
 releases (4.4.2 and 4.3.8). We started Decanter 3.0.0 refactoring. Decanter
 3.0.0 should be released in couple of months. Some fixes has been done on
 Cave to be runnable on Karaf 4.4.x. A release will follow soon.

## Community Health:
Even if we have slightly delay, Karaf 5 preparation is still running and we
did good progress on the tooling branch (allowing to easily build
runtime/launcher): https://github.com/jbonofre/karaf5 A blog post is in
preparation to present Karaf 5. It will be follow by a proposal donation vote
on the mailing list. We hope to announce karaf5 for ApacheCon.

15 Jun 2022 [Jean-Baptiste Onofré / Roy]

## 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:
Karaf runtime 4.4.0 has been released on 2022-04-22. Karaf runtime 4.4.0 is an
important milestone in the project, supporting OSGi R8. Karaf runtime 4.4.1 is
already in preparation including some improvements and minor fixes. Karaf
runtime 4.3.7 has been released on 2022-04-23. New major refactoring on Karaf
Cellar and Karaf Decanter will also start soon.

## Community Health:
Karaf runtime 4.4.0 is an important milestone for the community. We did good
progress on Karaf 5 preparation. We are now working on the tooling (common
part) that the required part to donate Karaf 5 to ASF
(https://github.com/jbonofre/karaf5). We plan to donate Karaf 5 during summer
at max.

16 Mar 2022 [Jean-Baptiste Onofré / Rich]

## 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 (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:
Karaf Decanter 2.9.0 has been released on 2022-02-20.
Karaf runtime 4.2.15 has been released on 2022-01-14.
Karaf runtime 4.3.6 has been released on 2022-01-14.
These runtime version are major ones as it fixes several CVE.
Karaf main branch is not 4.4.x version with OSGi R8 update done. A first 4.4.0
version will be released soon.
We also started to discuss about Karaf 5 on themailing list, and donation
will happen soon.

## Community Health:
Details about Karaf 5 and donation plan have been discussed on the
mailing list. A branch will be created soon to "host" karaf5.

15 Dec 2021 [Jean-Baptiste Onofré / Craig]

## 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 (11 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:
Karaf runtime 4.2.12 has been released on 2021-09-16. Karaf Decanter 2.8.0 has
been released on 2021-09-16. Karaf main branch is now 4.4.x version with OSGi
R8 update done. We are now working on Karaf runtime 4.4.0.RC1 and 4.3.4
releases.  Vote for 4.3.4 should start very soon. We also did good progress on
Karaf 5 PoC, it will be discussed on the mailing list soon.

## Community Health:
Karaf runtime 5 has been presented during ApacheCon.
We got very positive feedback and interested into Karaf 5.

15 Sep 2021 [Jean-Baptiste Onofré / Craig]

## 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 (11 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:
Karaf runtime 4.3.3 has been released, it's a major release on the 4.3 series.
On the other hand, Karaf runtime 4.2.12 is in preparation (vote will start
shortly), as well as Karaf Decanter 2.8.0.

Karaf main will be upgraded to 4.4 series to update to OSGi R8.

We also did good progress on Karaf 5 proposal: it will presented during
ApacheCon.

## Community Health:
We are looking forward on ApacheCon to have kind of discussion panel about
Karaf 5 (expectations, use cases, etc). We also plan a Karaf meetup before the
end of the year to announce Karaf 5.

16 Jun 2021 [Jean-Baptiste Onofré / Justin]

## 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 (11 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 are working on Karaf runtime 4.2.12 and 4.3.3 releases, and also Karaf
Decanter 2.8.0 release.

In the mean time, karaf-4.3.x branch will be created for the runtime,
upgrading main branch to R8 spec (Karaf 4.4.0-SNAPSHOT).

Karaf 5 proposal is also moving forward

To summarize, here's the releases during the period:

Karaf runtime 4.2.11 was released on 2021-03-13.

## Community Health:
We see a constant activity in our communities (we can not increasing activity
on both dev and user mailing lists, showing a healthy community).

17 Mar 2021 [Jean-Baptiste Onofré / Sander]

## 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 (11 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 are working on Karaf5 proposal (https://github.com/jbonofre/karaf5). We
would like to have a first "concrete" base to have a discussion/vote on the
mailing list. Karaf5 will be an important milestone for the project, changing
the Karaf perspective opening Karaf to new communities and users. We are also
working on other Karaf runtimes branches, especially Karaf 4.3.1 will be
released soon, fixing/improving Karaf 4.3.x series. The Karaf subprojects are
also active, especially Decanter with a release including new features
(Decanter 2.7.0).

To summarize, here's the releases during the period:
- Decanter 2.7.0 was released on 2021-02-15

## Community Health:
We are still working closely with other communities (Camel, ServiceMix, ...).
We have some actions planned with Camel community.
Karaf 5 will be very important and strong milestone for the project, opening
Karaf to even more communities.

16 Dec 2020 [Jean-Baptiste Onofré / Shane]

## 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.

16 Sep 2020 [Jean-Baptiste Onofré / Bertrand]

## Description:
Apache Karaf provides a modern and polymorphic applications runtime,
multi-purpose (micro services, cloud, modulith, 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:
Apache Karaf track has been prepared for ApacheCon, the schedule is ready. We
are working to create HTML page to publish the schedule on ApacheCon website.
There's two PoC on the way:
- Karaf DevX (https://github.com/jbonofre/karaf/tree/DEVX/devx)
- Karaf Spring Boot support
 (https://github.com/jbonofre/karaf/tree/SPRING-BOOT/spring-boot) These two
  new features will be discussed on the mailing list as soon as we have a
  full story to show. We migrate our Jenkins build to ci-builds.a.o now
  pipeline build.

In term of releases, we did:
- Apache Karaf Cellar 4.2.1 was released on 2020-08-21.
- Apache Karaf Cellar 4.2.0 was released on 2020-07-18.
- Apache Karaf Decanter 2.5.0 was released on 2020-06-22.
- Apache Karaf runtime 4.2.9 was released on 2020-06-09.

Apache Karaf 4.2.10 is in preparation with several fixes and improvements.
Apache Karaf 4.3.0 is also in preparation. We are waiting for Pax Web 8.0,
however in the meantime, we are evaluating the use of Felix HTTP as default
instead.

## Community Health:
We are happy to have received several talk proposals for ApacheCon.

We are increasing our partnership with other Apache projects, especially
Apache Camel to help on the camel-karaf project (cleanup, refactoring,
improvements).

Regarding ServiceMix, we are still in the process to move ServiceMix parts to
Karaf, but due to other activities, we have postponed a bit.

17 Jun 2020 [Jean-Baptiste Onofré / Craig]

## 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:
The first Apache Karaf European Meetup stood "virtually" using Zoom with the
help of Codecentric. We had 80 people registered and around 50 people during
the meetup. We can say the event has been a success. Three talks were given:
 - Karaf on the cloud (JB Onofré, Apache)
 - Karaf at Netflix (Dmitry Vasilyev, Netflix)
 - Karaf roadmap (open discussion) We saw lot of interest and enthusiasm about
   Apache Karaf. The meetup has been recorded and available on YouTube:
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYXT5y8gwAg On the other hand, resulting to
   the discussion with the community and during the meetup (and after), a new
   PoC has started about Karaf: Karaf DevX. The purpose is to provide a way
   better developer experience with Karaf. DevX PoC started and we will
   communicate on the mailing list as soon as we have something "showable" to
   the community. About the release front, Apache Karaf Decanter 2.4.0 has
   been released with new collectors (ConfigAdmin, OSHI, ...), new layer named
   processors (allowing to perform any processing between collectors and
   appenders, for instance aggregation), and some fixes. About Apache Karaf
   runtime, 4.2.9 will be submitted to release soon, especially to fix issue
   with the shell. Karaf 4.3.0.RC2 is also in preparation as new step to 4.3.0
   GA release.

## Community Health:
As we thought, Apache Karaf Meetup has been very interesting and a great
opportunity to promote the project and the community. We already planned a
second meetup around the end of this year. We postponed the move of ServiceMix
Bundles and Specs to Apache Karaf as some bundles were required by third party
projects (like Camel). However, the "technical" standpoint started and it's
still the target asap.

18 Mar 2020 [Jean-Baptiste Onofré / Dave]

## 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.

* The meetup was changed from an in-person meeting to a virtual meetup as a
 result of the current COVID19 pandemic concerns.

## 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.

18 Dec 2019 [Jean-Baptiste Onofré / Rich]

## Description:
Apache Karaf provides a modern and polymorphic applications runtime,
multi-purpose (microservices, cloud, IoT, OSGi, etc).

## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time

## Membership Data:
Apache Karaf was founded 2010-06-16 (9 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 did a complete refactoring on Karaf Cave and did two releases:
* Cave 4.2.1 was released on 2019-12-02.
* Cave 4.2.0 was released on 2019-10-31.
We also did a Karaf runtime maintenance release:
* 4.2.7 was released on 2019-09-29.
We also vote the donation of Winegrower as new Apache Karaf subprojec.
A first Winegrower release will happen soon.

## Community Health:
* dev@karaf.apache.org had a 82% increase in traffic in the past quarter
 (223 emails compared to 122)
* user@karaf.apache.org had a 35% increase in traffic in the past quarter
 (405 emails compared to 298)
* 126 issues opened in JIRA, past quarter (53% increase)
* 98 issues closed in JIRA, past quarter (66% increase)
* 199 commits in the past quarter (61% increase)
* 19 code contributors in the past quarter (72% increase)
* 118 PRs opened on GitHub, past quarter (81% increase)
* 115 PRs closed on GitHub, past quarter (101% increase)
We also started and helped other communities during the past quarter:
* discussion with Apache PLC4X about OSGi/Karaf adoption
* help Apache Unomi to upgrade to the latest Karaf releases branch

18 Sep 2019 [Jean-Baptiste Onofré / Myrle]

## Description:
Apache Karaf provides a modern and polymorphic applications runtime,
multi-purpose (microservices, cloud, IoT, OSGi, etc).

## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time

## Membership Data:
Apache Karaf was founded 2010-06-16 (9 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 released Apache Karaf 4.2.6 with several fixes. Master update started to
fully support OSGi R7 and other update. The kloud initiative keeps on running
with new blog posts, and preparation on code base. The Karaf tooling (aka
Karaf Boot) is in our roadmap. The Karaf Vineyard donation should happen soon
as now the code base is done. We are preparing new releases on our
subprojects, especially Decanter and Cave. We are very happy to have a full
Apache Karaf track at ApacheCon NA with 3 talks about Apache Karaf (all on
Thursday, September, 12). Recent releases:
4.2.6 was released on 2019-06-09.
4.2.5 was released on 2019-04-20. Decanter 2.2.0 was released on 2019-03-21.

## Community Health:
Even if the activity is lower during summer, but we have a sustained activity
on the mailing list and interaction:
- dev@karaf.apache.org had a 53% decrease in traffic in the past quarter (125
 emails compared to 262)
- issues@karaf.apache.org had a 46% decrease in traffic in the past quarter
 (692 emails compared to 1261)
- user@karaf.apache.org had a 32% decrease in traffic in the past quarter (343
 emails compared to 499)
- 77 issues opened in JIRA, past quarter (-44% decrease)
- 37 issues closed in JIRA, past quarter (-71% decrease)
- 95 commits in the past quarter (-67% decrease)
- 11 code contributors in the past quarter (-38% decrease)
- 53 PRs opened on GitHub, past quarter (-59% decrease)
- 45 PRs closed on GitHub, past quarter (-62% decrease)

19 Jun 2019 [Jean-Baptiste Onofré / Craig]

## Description:
- Apache Karaf provides a modern and polymorphic applications runtime,
  multi-purpose (microservices, cloud, IoT, OSGi, etc).

## Issues:
 - There are no issues requiring board attention at this time

## Activity:
 - As a start about Kloud initiative, new blog posts have been done showing
   some use cases covered by Karaf: static distribution, deployment on cloud,
   kubernetes support, ... For instance http://blog.nanthrax.net/?p=893 and
   http://blog.nanthrax.net/?p=874
 - We are in the polishing phase for Karaf Vineyard (API management) for the
   donation
 - We started the OSGi R7 support on Karaf master
 - Karaf 4.2.6 release is on vote with bug fixes.
 - A branch has been started with Runnable based tools, allowing us to support
   Maven, Gradle, and CLI tooling.

## Health report:
 - We can see more and more interaction with companies and communities (via
   the mailing list)

## PMC changes:

 - Currently 17 PMC members.
 - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
 - Last PMC addition was Francois Papon on Thu Nov 29 2018

## Committer base changes:

 - Currently 31 committers.
 - No new committers added in the last 3 months
 - Last committer addition was Francois Papon at Sat May 19 2018

## Releases:

 - 4.2.4 was released on Mon Mar 18 2019
 - 4.2.5 was released on Sun Apr 21 2019
 - Decanter 2.2.0 was released on Fri Mar 22 2019

## Mailing list activity:

 - dev@karaf.apache.org:
    - 178 subscribers (down -4 in the last 3 months):
    - 270 emails sent to list (294 in previous quarter)

 - issues@karaf.apache.org:
    - 42 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
    - 1397 emails sent to list (1467 in previous quarter)

 - user@karaf.apache.org:
    - 364 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
    - 551 emails sent to list (491 in previous quarter)


## JIRA activity:

 - 135 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
 - 117 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months

20 Mar 2019 [Jean-Baptiste Onofré / Mark]

## Description:
- Apache Karaf provides a modern and polymorphic applications runtime,
  multi-purpose (microservices, cloud, IoT, OSGi, etc).

## Issues:
 - There are no issues requiring board attention at this time

## Activity:
 - The kloud (karaf for the cloud) initiative has been launched. The first
   goal is to improve the tooling to easily start with Karaf for both
   developers and devops.
 - Karaf Vineyard moved forward but not as fast as planned. The donation
   proposal should happen soon.
 - Karaf 4.3.x branch has started, starting to upgrade to OSGi R7
   specification and implement the "kloud initiative" features and
   improvements.

## Health report:
 - More interaction with other projects have been built. Especially, we are
   helping the jclouds community to upgrade to latest Karaf release.
 - We started an effort to have regular cadence in Karaf releases.

## PMC changes:

 - Currently 17 PMC members.
 - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
 - Last PMC addition was Francois Papon on Thu Nov 29 2018

## Committer base changes:

 - Currently 31 committers.
 - No new committers added in the last 3 months
 - Last committer addition was Francois Papon at Sat May 19 2018

## Releases:

 - 4.2.2 was released on Thu Dec 20 2018
 - 4.2.3 was released on Mon Feb 11 2019
 - Cellar 4.1.3 was released on Wed Feb 27 2019

## Mailing list activity:

 - We can see an increase on the dev mailing list related to the kloud
   initiative mostly. The user mailing list activity is stable.

 - dev@karaf.apache.org:
    - 182 subscribers (down -4 in the last 3 months):
    - 301 emails sent to list (146 in previous quarter)

 - issues@karaf.apache.org:
    - 42 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
    - 1492 emails sent to list (1138 in previous quarter)

 - user@karaf.apache.org:
    - 363 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months):
    - 506 emails sent to list (561 in previous quarter)

## JIRA activity:

 - 149 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
 - 153 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months

19 Dec 2018 [Jean-Baptiste Onofré / Brett]

## Description:
 - Apache Karaf provides a modern and polymorphic applications runtime,
   multi-purpose (microservices, OSGi, etc).

## Issues:
 - There are no issues requiring board attention at this time

## Activity:
 - Once Karaf 4.2.2 will be released, master will become Karaf 4.3.x,
   upgrading to OSGi R7.
 - We are working on two new PoC for Karaf:
   * Karaf Vineyard is a API management platform powered by Karaf, providing
     API registry and gateway
   * Karaf Winegrower is the new karaf boot name. The purpose is to provide a
     complete framework/tool allowing developers to start very easily with the
     Karaf ecosystem
 - We also start discussion about improving the Karaf features service to
   better leverage resources repositories.

## Health report:
 - We can see interaction with different community (jclouds, OpenNMS, ...) and
   a general activity increase especially from users community
 - We also agree to define a cadence in Karaf runtime and subprojects release
   cycle (every 3 months). It allows to include fixes/jira update most often
   in release and gives a better roadmap to our users.

## PMC changes:

 - Currently 17 PMC members.
 - New PMC members added in the last 3 months: François Papon, Grzegorz
   Grzybek
 - Last PMC addition was François Papon & Grzegorz Grzybek on Mon Nov 29 2018

## Committer base changes:

 - Currently 31 committers.
 - No new committers added in the last 3 months
 - Last committer addition was Francois Papon at Sat May 19 2018

## Releases:

 - 4.1.7 was released on Thu Nov 29 2018
 - Cave 4.1.1 was released on Mon Sep 10 2018
 - Cellar 4.0.5 was released on Sun Oct 14 2018
 - Cellar 4.1.2 was released on Sun Oct 14 2018
 - Decanter 2.1.0 was released on Tue Sep 11 2018

## Mailing list activity:

 - dev@karaf.apache.org:
    - 189 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months):
    - 160 emails sent to list (163 in previous quarter)

 - issues@karaf.apache.org:
    - 43 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
    - 1182 emails sent to list (890 in previous quarter)

 - user@karaf.apache.org:
    - 362 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
    - 578 emails sent to list (500 in previous quarter)


## JIRA activity:

 - 139 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
 - 123 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months

19 Sep 2018 [Jean-Baptiste Onofré / Isabel]

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

## Issues:
 - There are no issues requiring board attention at this time

## Activity:
 - New update/polishing on the website
 - New important versions have been released (4.2.1)
 - A talk about Karaf will stand at ApacheCon NA
 - We are preparing new subprojects releases (Cave, Decanter) and a new
subproject (Vineyard)

## Health report:
 - We asked communities to share their experience/usage of Karaf to
populate the Stories pages on our website
 - We can see updates from users asking for release so we agreed to have
a periodically release cycle (every two months).
 - We note a growing interest for Karaf in the cloud and Karaf with docker.
 - We are reviewing a CVE report

## PMC changes:
 - Currently 15 PMC members.
 - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
 - Last PMC addition was Christian Schneider on Mon Aug 22 2016

## Committer base changes:
 - Currently 31 committers.
 - No new committers added in the last 3 months
 - Last committer addition was Francois Papon at Sat May 19 2018

## Releases:
 - 4.1.6 was released on Sun Aug 12 2018
 - 4.2.1 was released on Wed Aug 22 2018

## /dist/ errors: 15
 - We are updating the signature for the existing releases on  dist
(it's "old" releases on maintenance branches)

## Mailing list activity:
 - dev@karaf.apache.org:
    - 187 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months):
    - 173 emails sent to list (179 in previous quarter)

 - issues@karaf.apache.org:
    - 42 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
    - 927 emails sent to list (904 in previous quarter)

 - user@karaf.apache.org:
    - 365 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
    - 517 emails sent to list (416 in previous quarter)

## JIRA activity:
 - 110 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
 - 119 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months

20 Jun 2018 [Jean-Baptiste Onofré / Roman]

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

## Issues:
 - There are no issue requiring board attention at this time

## Activity:
 - We released new major milestone: 4.2.0, it's an very important step forward in our release cycle.
 - We revamped the website and created a #karaf room on The ASF Slack
 - We are preparing new Cave and Decanter releases, including new features requested by users
 - We still have lot of interactions with other communities from Apache (from Apache, like jclouds, sling), and others (OpenHAB, OpenDaylight, ...)

## Health report:
 - We can note increased messages and feedback from users.

## PMC changes:
 - Currently 15 PMC members.
 - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
 - Last PMC addition was Christian Schneider on Mon Aug 22 2016

## Committer base changes:
 - Currently 31 committers.
 - Francois Papon was added as a committer on Sat May 19 2018

## Releases:
 - 4.2.0 was released on Mon Apr 09 2018

## Mailing list activity:
 We can note a constant activity.

 - dev@karaf.apache.org:
    - 185 subscribers (down -4 in the last 3 months):
    - 148 emails sent to list (223 in previous quarter)

 - issues@karaf.apache.org:
    - 43 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
    - 909 emails sent to list (1219 in previous quarter)

 - user@karaf.apache.org:
    - 363 subscribers (down -10 in the last 3 months):
    - 481 emails sent to list (434 in previous quarter)

## JIRA activity:
 - 117 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
 - 91 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months

21 Mar 2018 [Jean-Baptiste Onofré / Bertrand]

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

## Issues:
 - There are no issues requiring board attention at this time

## Activity:
 - We continue the preparation of the 4.2.0 GA.
 - We are preparing new subproject releases.
 - A couple of new features are coming like the docker feature (it has been
   discussed on the mailing list) in the container.

## Health report:
 - We continue interactions with other community and are committed to help
   users.
 - We also "monitoring" new potential new committers.

## PMC changes:
 - Currently 15 PMC members.
 - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
 - Last PMC addition was Christian Schneider on Mon Aug 22 2016

## Committer base changes:
 - Currently 30 committers.
 - No new committers added in the last 3 months
 - Last committer addition was Stephen Kitt at Tue Jul 04 2017

## Releases:
 - 3.0.9 was released on Fri Mar 02 2018
 - 4.1.4 was released on Tue Dec 19 2017
 - 4.1.5 was released on Thu Feb 15 2018
 - 4.2.0.M2 was released on Tue Jan 02 2018
 - Cave 4.1.0 was released on Tue Jan 02 2018
 - Decanter 2.0.0 was released on Tue Feb 06 2018

## Mailing list activity:
 - We can note a constant activity on the user mailing list activity. It's
   really important for us as the user community is key for the project.

 - dev@karaf.apache.org:
    - 189 subscribers (up 6 in the last 3 months):
    - 224 emails sent to list (321 in previous quarter)

 - issues@karaf.apache.org:
    - 42 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
    - 1358 emails sent to list (1635 in previous quarter)

 - user@karaf.apache.org:
    - 375 subscribers (up 7 in the last 3 months):
    - 432 emails sent to list (355 in previous quarter)

## JIRA activity:
 - 137 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
 - 189 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months

20 Dec 2017 [Jean-Baptiste Onofré / Phil]

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

## Issues:
 - There are no issues requiring board attention at this time

## Activity:
 - A first 4.2.0.M2 technical preview has been released, representing an
   important milestone in the project.
 - We did bug fixes and improvements in interaction with user communities
   (OpenHAB, OpenDaylight, ...)
 - We did a little improvement of the website look'n feel to give a better and
   more professional message
 - We are preparing new releases for container, Cave, Decanter & Cellar.

## Health report:
 - We have more and more users and interactions with communities thanks to
   Karaf container but also the other subprojects.

## PMC changes:

 - Currently 15 PMC members.
 - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
 - Last PMC addition was Christian Schneider on Mon Aug 22 2016

## Committer base changes:

 - Currently 30 committers.
 - No new committers added in the last 3 months
 - Last committer addition was Stephen Kitt at Tue Jul 04 2017

## Releases:

 - 4.0.10 was released on Thu Sep 28 2017
 - 4.1.3 was released on Wed Nov 01 2017
 - 4.2.0.M1 was released on Sat Nov 04 2017
 - Cellar 4.1.1 was released on Sat Oct 14 2017

## Mailing list activity:

 - dev@karaf.apache.org:
    - 184 subscribers (down -4 in the last 3 months):
    - 286 emails sent to list (238 in previous quarter)

 - issues@karaf.apache.org:
    - 42 subscribers (down -2 in the last 3 months):
    - 1673 emails sent to list (1627 in previous quarter)

 - user@karaf.apache.org:
    - 371 subscribers (down -4 in the last 3 months):
    - 404 emails sent to list (402 in previous quarter)


## JIRA activity:

 - 165 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
 - 186 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months

18 Oct 2017 [Jean-Baptiste Onofré / Chris]

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

## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time

## Activity:
- We did 3 releases in the last 3 months
- We identified some improvements and new features to do in Karaf container
but also in the sub-projects
- We see more interactions and contributions coming from other communities,
especially OpenDaylight.

## Health report:
- Our user community is still growing up and we are in touch with other
communities like OpenHAB and OpenDaylight.
- We are discussing about potential new committers

## PMC changes:

- Currently 15 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Christian Schneider on Mon Aug 22 2016

## Committer base changes:

- Currently 30 committers.
- Stephen Kitt was added as a committer on Tue Jul 04 2017
- Last committer addition: Tue Jul 04 2017 (Stephen Kitt)

## Releases:

- 4.1.2 was released on Tue Aug 08 2017
- Decanter 1.4.0 was released on Sun Jul 23 2017
- 4.0.10 was released on Thu Sep 28 2017

## Mailing list activity:

- dev@karaf.apache.org:
 - 188 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months):
 - 247 emails sent to list (315 in previous quarter)

- user@karaf.apache.org:
 - 377 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
 - 353 emails sent to list (590 in previous quarter)


## JIRA activity:

- 162 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 166 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months

20 Sep 2017 [Jean-Baptiste Onofré / Ted]

No report was submitted.

21 Jun 2017 [Jean-Baptiste Onofré / Phil]

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

## Issues:
 - There are no issues requiring board attention at this time

## Activity:
 - We did 4 releases in the last 3 months. 3 are maintenance release, and
   Cellar 4.1.0 is the first release in the Cellar 4.1.x series bringing lot of
   new features, improvements and fully compliant with Karaf 4.1.x
 - "Large Apache Karaf cluster with Karaf Cellar and Mesos" talk has been given
   during ApacheCon NA '17 Miami. We noticed important interest during the talk
   and we got lot of questions and feedbacks from users.
 - We are preparing Karaf 4.1.2, Cellar 4.1.1 and Decanter 1.4.0 releases.
 - An important work is in progress on the documentation (mostly dev guide with
   samples). It's longer than we expected, but we did good progress and
   hopefully it should be available on our website soon.

## Health report:
 - Our user community is still growing up, and ApacheCon was a great way to meet users in person. We had several discussions and demos in the hacking area during ApacheCon.
 - We addressed the trademark issue mentioned in the previous report.
 - As usual, we are watching potential new PMC members and committers.

## PMC changes:

 - Currently 15 PMC members.
 - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
 - Last PMC addition was Christian Schneider on Mon Aug 22 2016

## Committer base changes:

 - Currently 29 committers.
 - No new committers added in the last 3 months
 - Last committer addition was Grzegorz Grzybek at Mon Oct 31 2016

## Releases:

 - 4.0.9 was released on Mon Apr 10 2017
 - 4.1.1 was released on Fri Mar 31 2017
 - Cellar 4.0.4 was released on Mon May 15 2017
 - Cellar 4.1.0 was released on Mon May 15 2017

## Mailing list activity:

 - dev@karaf.apache.org:
    - 190 subscribers (up 4 in the last 3 months):
    - 236 emails sent to list (335 in previous quarter)

 - user@karaf.apache.org:
    - 395 subscribers (up 22 in the last 3 months):
    - 565 emails sent to list (559 in previous quarter)


## JIRA activity:

 - 145 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
 - 126 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months

15 Mar 2017 [Jean-Baptiste Onofré / Rich]

## Description:

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

## Issues:

 - There are no issues requiring board attention at this time

## Activity:

 - We released first version in our new main serie: 4.1.0. It's a new major
   version. A 4.1.1 fix release is in preparation.
 - New release of Karaf Cellar and Decanter are in preparation.
 - We are beginning the work for a full JDK9 support, we expect to achieve the
   result in release 4.2.0

## Health report:

We can note an increase in user community recently, probably due to new Karaf
adoption in products or other projects.

We are watching new potential PMC members, a format discussion and vote will
stand on the private mailing list pretty soon.

Talks have been proposed at ApacheCon NA. As several committers will be at
ACNA, we plan to organize an informal event (like a dinner).

## PMC changes:

 - Currently 15 PMC members.
 - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
 - Last PMC addition was Christian Schneider on Mon Aug 22 2016

## Committer base changes:

 - Currently 29 committers.
 - No new committers added in the last 3 months
 - Last committer addition was Grzegorz Grzybek at Mon Oct 31 2016

## Releases:

 - 4.0.8 was released on Sun Dec 18 2016
 - 4.1.0 was released on Sat Feb 04 2017

## Mailing list activity:

 - dev@karaf.apache.org:
    - 186 subscribers (up 3 in the last 3 months):
    - 296 emails sent to list (341 in previous quarter)

 - issues@karaf.apache.org:
    - 41 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months):
    - 1148 emails sent to list (1414 in previous quarter)

 - user@karaf.apache.org:
    - 372 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months):
    - 618 emails sent to list (700 in previous quarter)

## JIRA activity:

 - 135 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
 - 153 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months

18 Jan 2017 [Jean-Baptiste Onofré / Chris]

## Description:

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

## Issues:

  - As requested by the board, the Karaf PMC members decided to provide this
    new report to address board comments and questions. We want to apologize a
    new time for the delay to address those comments.

## Activity:

  - We are maintaining our pace in the release. The next major release is
    4.1.0 on which we are working. This release will contain lot of feedback
    and contributions from the users.
  - We also continue to improve the Karaf subprojects, especially Karaf
    Decanter and Karaf Cellar. They both received important contributions from
    users.
  - We started a discussion on the dev mailing list about a new feature: Karaf
    Boot. The purpose is to simplify writing applications running on Karaf and
    provide easy way to package applications and Karaf all together. Due to
    the releases activity, the discussion was in stand-by, but we plan to
    restart the discussion and move forward about this.
  - We are beginning the work for a full JDK9 support, we expect to achieve
    the result in release 4.2.0

## Health report:

  Apache Karaf has been receiving issue reports, patch submissions from down
  stream projects such as OpenHab and OpenDaylight.

  These projects use Apache Karaf as their runtime environment, their
  contributions upstream to Karaf help strengthen and grow our broader
  community.

  It's also interesting to see that Karaf received contributions from other
  Apache community, like Apache Unomi.

  Last month we quickly reacted to a CVE security request that we already
  fixed in last 4.0.8 release.

  We are still watching for new potential committers and PMCs, extending our
  dev community.

  Talks related to Karaf (directly or indirectly) were present during
  ApacheCon EU, promoting the project.

  We also received new requests and feedback from new users (on the mailing
  list and/or Jira) showing a healthy user community.

  We are trying to be active on related projects (Apache Felix, enRoute, ...)
  to increase the Karaf adoption and grow the user community.

## PMC changes:

  - Currently 15 PMC members.
  - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
  - Last PMC addition was Christian Schneider on Mon Aug 22 2016

## Committer base changes:

  - Currently 29 committers.
  - New commmitters:
    - Grzegorz Grzybek was added as a committer on Mon Oct 31 2016
    - Luca Burgazzoli was added as a committer on Mon Oct 31 2016

## Releases:

 - 4.0.8 was released on Sun Dec 18 2016
 - Cellar 4.0.3 was released on Mon Oct 31 2016

## Mailing list activity:

 - TODO Please explain what the following statistics mean for the project. If
   there is nothing significant in the figures, omit this section.

 - dev@karaf.apache.org:
    - 183 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months):
    - 324 emails sent to list (370 in previous quarter)

 - issues@karaf.apache.org:
    - 39 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
    - 1378 emails sent to list (1350 in previous quarter)

 - user@karaf.apache.org:
    - 369 subscribers (up 11 in the last 3 months):
    - 555 emails sent to list (769 in previous quarter)

## JIRA activity:

 - 163 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
 - 174 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months

21 Dec 2016 [Jean-Baptiste Onofré / Rich]

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

Community
=========
Last committer addition: October 31, 2016
Last PMC addition: August 22, 2016

Grzegorz Grzybek and Luca Burgazzoli were added as committers on October 31,
2016.

Messages on the dev mailing list during last 3 months: 341 (184 subscribers)
Messages on the user mailing list during last 3 months: 707 (367 subscribers)

Some talks related to Apache Karaf have been given during ApacheCon Europe.

Development
===========
The following new releases have been voted:
 - 4.0.7 was released on Sun Sep 25 2016
 - cellar 4.0.3 was released on Mon Oct 31 2016
 - 185 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
 - 174 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months

Issues for board consideration
==============================
None so far.

@Jean-Baptiste: Provide an off-cycle report next month to reply to previous feedback

21 Sep 2016 [Jean-Baptiste Onofré / Mark]

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

Community
=========
Last committer addition: January 21, 2016
Last PMC addition: August 22, 2016

Christian Schneider has been elected as new PMC member.

Messages on the dev mailing list during last 3 months: 391 (182 subscribers)
Messages on the user mailing list during last 3 months: 800 (360 subscribers)

Development
===========
The following new releases have been voted:
 - 3.0.7 was released on Mon Jun 20 2016
 - 3.0.8 was released on Thu Aug 11 2016
 - 4.0.6 was released on Sat Aug 27 2016
 - cellar 4.0.1 was released on Sun Jul 17 2016
 - decanter 1.2.0 was released on Fri Aug 19 2016
 - Cellar 4.0.2 was released on Mon Sep 19 2016

 - 137 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
 - 171 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months

Issues for board consideration
==============================
None so far.

15 Jun 2016 [Jean-Baptiste Onofré / Chris]

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

Community
=========
Last committer addition: January 21, 2016
Last PMC addition: September 05, 2012

Talks related to Karaf have been given during ApacheCon NA Vancouver:
 - 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 during last 3 months: 374
Messages on the user mailing list during last 3 months: 694

Development
===========
The following new releases have been voted:
 - 4.0.5 was released on Sat Apr 16 2016
 - decanter 1.1.0 was released on Tue Apr 26 2016
We are preparing new releases and the new karaf-boot subproject.
 - 152 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
 - 114 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
Issues for board consideration
==============================
None so far.

16 Mar 2016 [Jean-Baptiste Onofré / Jim]

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

Community
=========
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
===========
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

Jira activity:
 - 224 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
 - 178 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months

Issues for board consideration
==============================
None so far.

16 Dec 2015 [Jean-Baptiste Onofré / Shane]

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

Community
=========
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
===========
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
==============================
None so far.

16 Sep 2015 [Jean-Baptiste Onofré / Rich]

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

Community
=========
Two talks will stand at ApacheCon EU related to Karaf.
We are following a couple of potential new committers.

Last committer addition: October 21, 2013
Last PMC addition: September 05, 2012

Development
===========
The following new releases have been voted:
- Apache Karaf 4.0.1 (maintenance release) (August 19, 2015)
- Apache Karaf Decanter 1.0.0 (first release) (August 01, 2015)
- Apache Karaf 2.4.3 (maintenance release) (July 12, 2015)
- Apache Karaf Cave 4.0.0 (first branch release) (July 8, 2015)
- Apache Karaf 3.0.4 (maintenance release) (July 2, 2015)
- Apache Karaf 4.0.0 (first branch release) (June 26, 2015)
- Apache Karaf 4.0.0.M3 (June 8, 2015)


Issues for board consideration
==============================
None so far.

17 Jun 2015 [Jean-Baptiste Onofré / Shane]

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

Community
=========
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
===========
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
==============================
None so far.

18 Mar 2015 [Jean-Baptiste Onofré / Brett]

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

Community
=========
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
===========
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
==============================
None so far.

17 Dec 2014 [Jean-Baptiste Onofré / Sam]

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

Community
=========
Three talks have been given during ApacheCon EU:
- Enterprise Development with Apache Karaf
- Best Practices for Design and Development of OSGi Applications in Apache Karaf
and a tutorial
- Application Integration in OSGi on Apache Karaf

A talk and workshop has been given during latest JUG Barcelona.

Last committer addition: October 21, 2013
Last PMC addition: September 05, 2012

Development
===========
A plan to have a periodically release cycle has been proposed and we move
forward to follow this plan.

The following new releases have been voted:
- Apache Karaf Cellar 2.3.3 (maintenance release) (November 17, 2014)
- Apache Karaf 2.3.9 (maintenance release) (November 9, 2014)
- Apache Karaf 4.0.0.M1 (technical preview release) (October 14, 2014)
- Apache Karaf 3.0.2 (maintenance release) (October 13, 2014)
- Apache Karaf 2.4.0 (maintenance release) (September 20, 2014)
- Apache Karaf 2.3.8 (maintenance release) (September 19, 2014)
- Apache Karaf 2.3.7 (maintenance release) (September 6, 2014)

Issues for board consideration
==============================
None so far.

17 Sep 2014 [Jean-Baptiste Onofré / Greg]

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

Community
=========
We have two talks scheduled at the next ApacheCon EU:
- Enterprise Development with Apache Karaf
- Best Practices for Design and Development of OSGi Applications in Apache Karaf
and a tutorial:
- Application Integration in OSGi on Apache Karaf

We also have a talk and workshop scheduled at JUG Barcelona.

Last committer addition: October 21, 2013
Last PMC addition: September 05, 2012

Development
===========
The following new releases have been voted:
- Apache Karaf 2.3.6 (maintenance release) (August 1, 2014)
- Apache Karaf Cave 3.0.0 (major release) (July 4, 2014)
- Apache Karaf Cellar 3.0.0 (major release) (June 27, 2014)

We plan to release a Karaf 3.0.2 version (especially for Java8 support) and
Karaf 2.4.0 version (for full support of Karaf 3.0.x branch) in the coming
weeks. Due to a Windows platform issue, we plan to release Karaf 2.3.7 soon as
well.

Issues for board consideration
==============================
None so far.

18 Jun 2014 [Jean-Baptiste Onofré / Brett]

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

Community
=========

The talk "Apache Karaf in real life" has been provided by a committer during
the latest ApacheCon NA 2014. Talks have been submitted by different
committers for the next ApacheCon Europe 2014.

We can note a couple of books available (or in preparation) about Karaf and
its sub-projects (Cellar, Cave, EIK). There have been three articles in the
german JavaMagazin about Karaf 3.0 in April, May and June.

We started to work on the next Karaf 4.0.0 branch including a lot of new
features and improvements.

Last committers addition: October 21, 2013
Last PMC addition: September 05, 2012

Development
===========

The following new releases have been voted:
- Apache Karaf 3.0.1 (maintenance release) (April 13, 2014)
- Apache Karaf 2.3.5 (maintenance release) (April 13, 2014)

We plan to release a Karaf 3.0.2 version (especially for Java8 support) and
Cellar 3.0.0 version (for full support of Karaf 3.0.x branch) in the coming
weeks.

Issues for board consideration
==============================

None so far.

19 Mar 2014 [Jean-Baptiste Onofré / Sam]

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

Community
=========
The new Karaf 3.0.0 has been a good message to the community.  The website has
been a bit polished to give more visibility to the documentation of the two
active Karaf branches.

Last committers addition: October 21, 2013
Last PMC addition: September 05, 2012

Development
===========
The following new releases have been voted:
- Apache Karaf 3.0.0 (major new version) (December 24, 2013)
- Apache Karaf Cave 2.3.0 (first release of the Maven/OBR repository) (January
 21, 2014)
- Apache Karaf 2.3.4 (maintenance release) (February 17, 2014)

Apache Karaf and all subprojects have moved to git (thanks INFRA for that).

Issues for board consideration
==============================
None so far.

18 Dec 2013 [Jean-Baptiste Onofré / Bertrand]

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

Community
=========
Indicators during the last 3 months:
- Download: 27,430 downloads (Karaf distributions without the subprojects like Cellar,
 all branches) between September, 1 and October, 31 (waiting update for November
 statistics).
- User mailing list: 408 messages between September, 1 and November, 21.
- Dev mailing list: 243 messages between September, 1 and November, 21.
- Commits: 340 commits between September, 1 and November, 22.

Two new committers have been elected in October, 2013: Jon Anstey, David Bosschaert
Last committers addition: October 21, 2013
Last PMC addition: September 05, 2012

Development
===========
The following new releases have been voted:
- Apache Karaf Cellar 2.3.2 (October 14, 2013)
- Apache Karaf 2.3.3 (September 20, 2013)

A new major release (Apache Karaf 3.0.0) is planned to be released end of November,
beginning of December.

We asked to migrate to git:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-6708

It's in progress but takes time.

Issues for board consideration
==============================
None so far.

18 Sep 2013 [Jean-Baptiste Onofré / Greg]

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

Community
=========
Indicators during the last 3 months:
- Download: 44,166 downloads (Karaf distributions without the subprojects like Cellar, all branches) between June, 1 and August, 31.
- User mailing list: 367 messages between June, 1 and August, 31.
- Dev mailing list: 229 messages between June, 1 and August, 31.
- Commits: 284 commits between June, 1 and August, 31.

Last committers addition: February 11, 2013
Last PMC addition: September 05, 2012

Development
===========
The following new releases have been voted:
- Apache Karaf 2.3.2 (July 10, 2013)
- Apache Karaf Cellar 2.3.1 (July 1, 2013)

Issues for board consideration
==============================
None so far.

19 Jun 2013 [Jean-Baptiste Onofré / Brett]

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

Community
=========
Indicators during the last 3 months:
- Download: 38,730 downloads (Karaf distributions without the subprojects
 like Cellar, all branches) between March, 1 and May, 31.
- User mailing list: 516 messages between March, 1 and May, 31.
- Dev mailing list: 383 messages between March, 1 and May, 31.
- Commits: 414 commits between March, 1 and May, 31.

Last committers addition: February 11, 2013
Last PMC addition: September 05, 2012

Development
===========
The following new releases have been voted:
- Apache Karaf 3.0.0.RC1 (March 15, 2013)
- Apache Karaf 2.2.11 (April 30, 2013)
- Apache Karaf Cellar 2.2.6 (May 23, 2013)
- Apache Karaf Cellar 2.3.0 (May 23, 2013)

Issues for board consideration
==============================
None so far.

20 Mar 2013 [Jean-Baptiste Onofré / Doug]

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

Community
=========
Indicators during the last 3 months:
- Download: 31,490 downloads (all distributions, all branches) between
 December, 1 and February, 28.
- User mailing list: 557 messages between December, 1 and February, 28.
- Dev mailing list: 382 messages between December, 1 and February, 28.
- Commits: 621 commits between December, 1 and February, 28.

We are pleased to count two new committers elected in February:
- Filippo Balicchia
- Christoph Grtischenberger

Development
===========
The following new releases have been voted:
* Apache Karaf 2.3.1
* Apache Karaf EIK 0.9.0

We are inline to release Karaf 3.0.0.RC1, and a first Cellar release on the
2.3.x branch.

A new branch has been created (karaf-2.x) in order to prepare next Karaf 2.4.0.

Issues for board consideration
==============================
None so far.

19 Dec 2012 [Jean-Baptiste Onofré / Doug]

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

Community
=========
Indicators during the last 3 months:
- Download: 36,624 downloads (all distributions, all branches) between
 September, 1 and November, 30.
- User mailing list: 574 messages between September, 1 and November, 30.
- Dev mailing list: 459 messages between September, 1 and November, 30.
- Commits: 607 commits between September, 1 and November, 30.

A couple of talks have been provided during ApacheCon EU and W-JAX Germany.
These talks introduced Karaf and Cellar.

Development
===========
The following new releases have been voted:
* Apache Karaf 2.3.0 (major update to a new Karaf branch)
* Apache Karaf Cellar 2.2.5

Due to a major issue in Apache Aries Blueprint 1.0.1, we decided to
postpone Karaf 3.0-RC1 to include the Aries fix.

We've resumed the work on EIK (Eclipse Integration for Karaf) in order to
provide a first EIK release soon.

Issues for board consideration
==============================
None so far.

19 Sep 2012 [Jean-Baptiste Onofré / Sam]

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

Community
=========
Indicators during the last 3 months:
- Download: around 15,000 distribution downloads
- User mailing list: 666 messages
- Dev mailing list: 542 messages
- Commits: 1110 commits

We organized a Karaf 2nd birthday concall to discussed about the Karaf and
Karaf subprojects activity and define the roadmap.

Brian Topping (btopping) has been voted as a new Karaf committer.
Lukasz Dywicki (ldywicki) has been voted as a new Karaf PMC member.

Development
===========
The following new releases have been voted:
* Apache Karaf 2.2.8
* Apache Karaf 2.2.9

Karaf 2.3.0 is on the way, a first release is planned for September.

We also plan to release Karaf 3.0-RC1 during October.

Karaf WebConsole development resumed, the plan is to include WebConsole in
Karaf 3.0.

We're also progressing on the other Karaf sub-projects (Cellar and EIK).

The Karaf community continues to help other Apache projects to support
Karaf.

Branding
========
As commented in the latest board report, this section will be removed from
the next reports.
 * project website basics: ok
 * website nav links: ok
 * trademarks: ok
 * logo: ok
 * metadata: ok

Issues for board consideration
==============================
None so far.

AI Doug: follow up regarding project roadmap

20 Jun 2012 [Jean-Baptiste Onofré / Ross]

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

Community
=========
Indicators during the last 3 months:
- Download: around 12,000 distribution downloads
- User mailing list: 424 messages
- Dev mailing list: 495 messages
- Commits: 758 commits

Development
===========
The following new releases have been voted:
* Apache Karaf 2.2.6
* Apache Karaf 2.2.7
* Apache Karaf Cellar 2.2.4

We made progresses on the stabilization of the Karaf 3.0 next release.

A stabilization branch is going to be create including a 3.0-beta pre-release.

Web Site
=======
A new website has been deployed including minor updates and bug fixes.

Branding
========
 * project website basics: ok
 * website nav links: ok
 * trademarks: ok
 * logo: ok
 * metadata: ok

Issues for board consideration
==============================
None so far.

21 Mar 2012 [Jean-Baptiste Onofré / Greg]

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

Community
=========
The Karaf community continues to provide help to others Apache
projects (Whirr, Archiva, etc) in order to increase the Karaf
adoption.

We welcome a new committer: Stephen Evanchik. Stephen already signed
the ICLA. His account should be setup soon.
Stephan made the donation to EIK (see below).

We are discussing about mentoring a GSoC project.

Some indicators during the last 3 months:
- Download: around 14,000 distribution downloads
- User mailing list: 718 messages
- Dev mailing list: 706 messages
- Commits: 742

Development
===========
The following new releases have been voted:
* Apache Karaf 2.2.5
* Apache Karaf Cellar 2.2.3

We made progresses on the stabilization of the Karaf 3.0 next release.
A karaf-3.0.x branch will be cut off soon in order to prepare a first RC.

A new Karaf sub-project has been created: EIK (Eclipse Integration for
Karaf), which allows to run Karaf directly into the Eclipse IDE.

Web Site
=======
A new version of the website has been deployed to give more visibility to
the Karaf sub-projects.

Branding
========
 * project website basics: ok
 * website nav links: ok
 * trademarks: ok
 * logo: ok
 * metadata: ok

Issues for board consideration
==============================
None so far.

21 Dec 2011 [Jean-Baptiste Onofré / Larry]

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

  Community
Guillaume Nodet and Jean-Baptiste Onofré were presents at
the ApacheCon.
Two talks were related to Karaf.

Several projects are interested to use Karaf.

The Karaf community starts to help others projects to be OSGi
compliant (work started on Apache Archiva and Apache Whirr).

  Development
A new release has been voted:
* Apache Karaf 2.2.4

We are now focusing on Karaf 3.0 release (lot of fixes, cleanups
and enhancements in progress).

We also included a new testing framework based on Pax Exam (part
of the Karaf tooling).

The resources for the sub-projects will be created soon (website, etc).

  Web Site
We published a new web site to fix some typo mistakes and update the
online documentation.
The site will be updated soon to announce and give visibility
to the new sub-projects.

  Branding
 * project website basics: ok
 * website nav links: ok
 * trademarks: ok
 * logo: we added the TM mention on the logo, and provide new "powered by Karaf" logo
 * metadata: ok

  Issues for board consideration
None so far.

21 Sep 2011 [Jean-Baptiste Onofré / Brett]

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

Community
 The community has changed a bit:
   * Christian Schneider has been voted in as a committer

 We can note an increase of projects powered by Karaf.
 Apache ServiceMix and Apache Geronimo already use Karaf.
 We're discussing with Apache Directory about the usage of Karaf.

Development
 Four releases have been voted:
 * Apache Karaf 2.1.6
 * Apache Karaf 2.2.1
 * Apache Karaf 2.2.2
 * Apache Karaf 2.2.3

 NB: we turned Apache Karaf 2.1.x branch in End Of Life mode. Apache Karaf
 2.1.6 is the latest version on this branch.

 We created the first Apache Karaf sub-project: Apache Karaf Cellar.
 Apache Karaf Cellar is a cluster and cloud solution for Apache Karaf,
 powered by Hazelcast and jclouds.
 We already released:
  * Apache Karaf Cellar 2.2.1
  * Apache Karaf Cellar 2.2.2
 We started OBR broadcast and DOSGi implementation. It should be included
 in Apache Karaf Cellar 2.2.3.

 We can note that two Karaf sub-projects have been started in sandbox
 and promoted as Karaf sub-projects:
 * Karaf WebConsole based on Pax-Wicket. This new console is very
 extend-able and highly pluggable. The purpose is to provide a complete
 enterprise administration and monitoring console, including a new look'n
 feel, and give a way for others projects (like ServiceMix, CXF or Camel
 for instance), to provide their own branding and modules.
   http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/karaf/webconsole/
 * Karaf Cave is an OBR server implementation, including storage, OBR
 metadata generation, Maven proxy support, REST API, etc. It will also
 aim to be a KFR (Karaf Feature Repository) and KAR (KAR Repository).
   http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/karaf/cave/

 We are also discussing with the author of EIK (Eclipse Integration for
 Karaf) to become a new Karaf sub-project
 (http://code.google.com/a/eclipselabs.org/p/eik/).

Web Site
 Web site has been updated to provide visibility to sub-projects such
 as Apache Karaf Cellar.
 We also gave more visibility to the documentation, allowing to download
 the PDF format of our guides.

Branding
 * project website basics: ok
 * website nav links: ok
 * trademarks: ok
 * logo: we added the TM mention on the logo, and provide new "powered by
 Karaf" logo
 * metadata: ok

Issues for board consideration
 None so far.

17 Aug 2011 [Jean-Baptiste Onofré / ]

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

Community:
The community has changed a bit:
   * Christian Schneider has been voted in as a committer

We can note an increase of projects powered by Karaf.
Apache ServiceMix and Apache Geronimo already use Karaf.
We're discussing with Apache Directory about the usage of Karaf.

Development:
Three releases have been voted:
* Apache Karaf 2.1.6
* Apache Karaf 2.2.1
* Apache Karaf 2.2.2

NB: we turned Apache Karaf 2.1.x branch in End Of Life mode. Apache Karaf 2.1.6 is the latest version on this branch.

We created the first Apache Karaf sub-project: Apache Karaf Cellar.
Apache Karaf Cellar is a cluster and cloud solution for Apache Karaf, powered by Hazelcast and jclouds.
We already released:
 * Apache Karaf Cellar 2.2.1
 * Apache Karaf Cellar 2.2.2

We can note that two Karaf sub-projects have been started in sandbox:
* Karaf WebConsole based on Pax-Wicket. This new console is very extendable and highly pluggable.
  The purpose is to provide a complete enterprise administration and monitoring console, including a new look'n feel.
  http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/karaf/sandbox/pieber/karaf-webconsole/
* Karaf Cave is an OBR server implementation, including storage, OBR metadata generation, Maven proxy support, REST API, etc.
  http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/karaf/sandbox/jbonofre/cave/

Web Site:
Web site has been updated to provide visibility to sub-projects such as Apache Karaf Cellar.
We also gave more visibility to the documentation, allowing to download the PDF format of our guides.

Branding:
 * project website basics: ok
 * website nav links: ok
 * trademarks: ok
 * logo: we added the TM mention on the logo, and provide new "powered by Karaf" logo
 * metadata: ok

Issues for board consideration:
None so far.

Greg suggested that specific names should be removed from the sandbox svn repository names. Jean-Baptiste responded, indicating they will rename the directories.

20 Jul 2011

Change the Apache Karaf Chair

 WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Guillaume
 Nodet to the office of Vice President, Apache Karaf, and

 WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation
 of Guillaume Nodet from the office of Vice President, Apache
 Karaf, and

 WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Karaf
 project has chosen by vote to recommend Jean-Baptiste Onofré as the
 Successor to the post;

 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Guillaume Nodet is
 relieved and discharged from the duties and responsibilities of
 the office of Vice President, Apache Karaf, and

 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Jean-Baptiste Onofré be and hereby is
 appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Karaf, to
 serve in accordance with and subject to the direction of the
 Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until
 death, resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification, or
 until a successor is appointed.

 Special Order 7A, Resolution to change the Apache Karaf Chair,
 was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.

15 Jun 2011 [Guillaume Nodet / Greg]

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

Community
=========
We've votes a new committer:
   * Christian Schneider

Development
===========
Apache Karaf Cellar, a clustering solution based on Hazelcast for Karaf,
has been accepted as a Karaf subproject.
The following new releases haven been voted:
   * Apache Karaf 2.2.0
   * Apache Karaf 2.2.1
   * Apache Karaf 2.1.5
The main web site and Karaf manuals (user guide and developer guide)
are generated in the build using Scalate.   Confluence has been kept
has a pure wiki when it makes sense.
A new logo for Karaf has been voted and is used.
We are working on a bunch of enhancements in Karaf 3.0.0.

Branding
========
 * project naming and desc.: ok
 * website navigation: ok
 * trademark attributions: ok
 * logo: our logo does not include the TM sign
 * metadata: ok

Issues for board consideration
==============================
None so far.  The community is growing and healthy.

16 Mar 2011 [Guillaume Nodet / Shane]

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

Community
=========
The community has changed a bit:
  * Andreas Pieber has been voted in as a committer and PMC member
  * Achim Nierbeck has been invited to the PMC
Mailing lists:
  * 58 subscribers to dev@, roughly 775 mails in the past 3 months
  * 94 subscribers to user@, roughly 290 mails in the past 3 months

Development
===========
Two releases have been voted
 * Apache Karaf 2.1.4
 * Apache Karaf 2.2.0

Web Site
========
The website has been moved switched out of confluence
to a scalate based solution.  Confluence will still be
kept as a wiki for a few pages.

Branding
========
 * project website basics: ok
 * website nav links: ok
 * trademarks: ok
 * logo: we're still missing the TM on the logo
 * metadata: ok

Issues for board consideration
==============================
None so far.

15 Dec 2010 [Guillaume Nodet / Roy]

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

Community
=========
We've voted in 3 new committers:
 * Adrian Trenaman
 * Achim Nierbeck
 * Łukasz Dywicki
One committer has been invited to the PMC:
 * Ioannis Cannellos

Development
===========
Two releases have been voted on:
 * Apache Karaf 2.1.1 on November 14th, 2010
 * Apache Karaf 2.1.2 on November 25th, 2010

We're working towards the 2.2.0 release, currently
targetted  for January. It has been delayed because
we're waiting for Aries to release a new version.

We've voted a new logo and are discussing a possible
web site design change.  We're also planning to move
out of confluence for the website, possibly using
Scalate.

Branding
========
 * project website basics: home page is ok
 * website nav links: we're missing nearly all the links
   but the one to the main ASF web site
 * trademarks: not really compliant here
 * logo: not really compliant yet
 * metadata: we have a registered doap file

Issues for board consideration
==============================
None so far.  The community is growing and healthy.
We have currently two active contributors that aren't yet
committers.

22 Sep 2010 [Guillaume Nodet / Bertrand]

Community
=========
We added the following committers:
 *  Hiram Chirino
 *  James Strachan
 *  Ioannis Canellos
James and Hiram were committers before we moved to TLP and asked
to get their committership back, so they've been voted in back.
Ioannis is a new Apache committer.
We also have other active contributors, so we expect some new
committers in the coming months.

Development
===========
No releases this month so far, but development continues towards
our next point release of Karaf, with attention coming from users
testing new features and suggesting improvements. We expect to
release this new version before the end of the month.

Issues for board consideration
==============================
None so far.  The community is growing and healthy.

18 Aug 2010 [Guillaume Nodet / Jim]

Since the last July report, Apache Karaf 2.0.0 has been released.

Several patches have been supplied by contributors, but due to the
holiday season, development has slowed down a bit during the past
weeks.

The report was inadequate.

21 Jul 2010 [Guillaume Nodet / Greg]

It has been only a few weeks since the Karaf TLP has been established,
but the activity level is very high.   All resources have been set up
by infra (thx) and we have moved the opened JIRA issues and svn tree
from Felix to Karaf.

We've already received some patches from non developers, so I expect
the community to grow very soon.

We haven't released anything yet, and we're waiting for trunk to
stabilize before releasing a 2.0 (new major version due to package
renaming).

16 Jun 2010

Establish the Apache Karaf Project

 WHEREAS, the Board of Directors deems it to be in the best
 interests of the Foundation and consistent with the
 Foundation's purpose to establish a Project Management
 Committee charged with 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.

 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management
 Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Apache Karaf Project",
 be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the
 Foundation; and be it further

 RESOLVED, that the Apache Karaf Project be and hereby is
 responsible for the creation and maintenance of software
 relating to a generic platform providing higher level
 features and services specifically designed for creating
 OSGi-based servers.

 RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache Karaf" be
 and hereby is created, the person holding such office to
 serve at the direction of the Board of Directors as the chair
 of the Apache Karaf Project, and to have primary responsibility
 for management of the projects within the scope of
 responsibility of the Apache Karaf Project; and be it further

 RESOLVED, that the persons listed immediately below be and
 hereby are appointed to serve as the initial members of the
 Apache Karaf Project:

   * Chris Custine <ccustine@apache.org>
   * Freeman Fang <ffang@apache.org>
   * Jarek Gawor <gawor@apache.org>
   * Jamie Goodyear <jgoodyear@apache.org>
   * David Jencks <djencks@apache.org>
   * Alex Karasulu <akarasulu@apache.org>
   * Charles Moulliard <cmoulliard@apache.org>
   * Guillaume Nodet <gnodet@apache.org>
   * Jean-Baptiste Onofré <jbonofre@apache.org>
   * Gert Vanthienen <gertv@apache.org>

 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Guillaume Nodet
 be appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Karaf, to
 serve in accordance with and subject to the direction of the
 Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until
 death, resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification,
 or until a successor is appointed; and be it further

 RESOLVED, that the initial Apache Karaf PMC be and hereby is
 tasked with the creation of a set of bylaws intended to
 encourage open development and increased participation in the
 Apache Karaf Project; and be it further

 RESOLVED, that the Apache Karaf Project be and hereby
 is tasked with the migration and rationalization of the Apache
 Felix Karaf sub-project; and be it further

 RESOLVED, that all responsibilities pertaining to the Apache
 Felix Karaf sub-project encumbered upon the
 Apache Felix Project are hereafter discharged.

 Special Order 7E, Establish the Apache Karaf Project, was
 approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.