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## Description: The mission of Apache Royale is the creation and maintenance of software related to improving developer productivity in creating applications for wherever Javascript runs (and other runtimes) ## Project Status: Current project status: Ongoing Issues for the board: none ## Membership Data: Apache Royale was founded 2017-09-20 (7 years ago) There are currently 20 committers and 17 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 1:1. Community changes, past quarter: - Alina Kazi was added to the PMC on 2024-11-03 - No new committers. Last addition was María José Esteve on 2021-11-23. ## Project Activity: 0.9.12 was released, the announcement is coming soon. ## Community Health: The community status remains stable. There has been some discussion on the need to revitalize it, but no concrete plan on how to do so.
## Description: The mission of Apache Royale is the creation and maintenance of software related to improving developer productivity in creating applications for wherever Javascript runs (and other runtimes) ## Project Status: Ongoing Issues for the board: @hiedra has tried to contact @iemejia on issues with her Visual Studio Subscription in order to create an additional release machine instance. There was a response to the first mail, but not to the follow-ups. It could be the mails are buried in a spam folder, but maybe there are other ways of contacting Ishmael we have not thought of. ## Membership Data: Apache Royale was founded 2017-09-20 (7 years ago) There are currently 20 committers and 16 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 5:4. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Hugo Ferreira on 2022-10-27. - No new committers. Last addition was María José Esteve on 2021-11-23. ## Project Activity: Release has been held-up by aforementioned Visual Studio issue and limited availability on the part of the current RM. It may be necessary to get a release out with the current tools and delay the instance creation for a later time. The last release was done in June 23. ## Community Health: Most of the activity has been in the compiler repository, with no notable features added in the two others. We are seeing a decrease in the dev list which has generally been the main discussion forum for the community. There are some new Apache Royale users in commercial projects, but this is not being reflected in the mailing lists.
## Description: The mission of Apache Royale is the creation and maintenance of software related to improving developer productivity in creating applications for wherever JavaScript runs (and other runtimes). ## Project Status: ## Membership Data: Apache Royale was founded 2017-09-20 (7 years ago) There are currently 20 committers and 16 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 5:4. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Hugo Ferreira on 2022-10-27. - No new committers. Last addition was María José Esteve on 2021-11-23. ## Project Activity: Discussions about the next release were started. We hope to have a change in RM for this release. Latest release is 0.9.10. Release date: May 31, 2023. ## Community Health: There has been an increase in user activity due to new users showing an interest or actually starting to use the product. Commits to Apache repos have shown a decrease but there have been commits made to other repos (e.g. the Spectrum component set). New developers have trained to use Royale, which indicates a healthy eco-system.
## Description: The mission of Apache Royale is the creation and maintenance of software related to improving developer productivity in creating applications for wherever JavaScript and other runtimes run. ## Project Status: Current project status: Ongoing. Issues for the board: none. ## Membership Data: Apache Royale was founded 2017-09-20 (6 years ago) There are currently 20 committers and 16 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 5:4. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Hugo Ferreira on 2022-10-27. - No new committers. Last addition was María José Esteve on 2021-11-23. ## Project Activity: The minimum Java version for running the compiler was bumped to 11 to end support of older Java versions and allow us to focus on supporting the compiler to work with more recent Java versions. ## Community Health: Most metrics show a decline in activity, with the exception of issues being reported, in which there was a noticeable increase.
## Description: The mission of Apache Royale is the creation and maintenance of software related to improving developer productivity in creating applications for wherever JavaScript runs (and other runtimes) ## Project Status: Current project status: Ongoing. Issues for the board: in response to concerns raised previously by board members, we now have 2 VM instances dedicated to release and CI. We have an additional VM subscription which has not yet been set up for release/CI purposes. Recent releases have been done by the same PMC member; we are hoping the next release will be performed by a different member. ## Membership Data: Apache Royale was founded 2017-09-20 (6 years ago) There are currently 20 committers and 16 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 5:4. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Hugo Ferreira on 2022-10-27. - No new committers. Last addition was María José Esteve on 2021-11-23. ## Project Activity: Various bug fixes and improvements to asjs and compiler repos. ASFormatter improved and rolled into dev process of users. ## Community Health: We are seeing a rise in dev posts and a decrease in user posts. This is likely due to a combination of 2 factors: (a) many of the more active users are project developers as well, and (b) there is a typically shorter response time to issues posted on the dev list, which leads users to post there. This might imply that we need to expand our 'layman' user base and dispel the notion that Royale users are implicitly 'experts'.
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Piotr Zarzycki (piotrz) to the office of Vice President, Apache Royale, and WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of Piotr Zarzycki from the office of Vice President, Apache Royale, and WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Royale project has chosen by vote to recommend Yishay Weiss (yishayw) as the successor to the post; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Piotr Zarzycki is relieved and discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice President, Apache Royale, and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Yishay Weiss be and hereby is appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Royale, 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 7C, Change the Apache Royale Project Chair, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
DESCRIPTION Apache Royale implements the principles of Apache Flex to support development of applications designed for JavaScript instead of Adobe Flash/AIR runtimes. Apache Royale improves developer productivity in creating applications to run wherever JavaScript runs, including on browsers, in Apache Cordova applications, on Node, and on other platforms. Project Status Current project status: There are couple of PMC members who are constantly improving some areas of the project and responding to the questions on mailing list. Issues for the board: There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. Membership Data No new PMC members. Last addition was Hugo Ferreira on 2022-10-27. No new committers. Last addition was María José Esteve on 2021-11-23. Last release of Apache Royale 0.9.10 was on June 05 2023. Activity on social media: Our Twitter account has 697 followers. Our Facebook page has 214 likes. Our LinkedIn Group has 156 people. Our StackOVerFlow "apache-royale" tag currently has 65 questions. Project Activity We are seeing among our PMC members activity in several modules of our project. They are providing small improvements/fixes. Compiler part is being even more actively developed by one of our PMC members. Unfortunately, we don't have any social media activity, which is quite important these days - there is no volunteer who would take care of at least weekly news about our activity. Community Health We are seeing fewer emails in our Users list, while our development list is more active recently.
## Description: The mission of Apache Royale is the creation and maintenance of software related to improving developer productivity in creating applications for wherever Javascript runs (and other runtimes) ## Project Status: Current project status: No new PMC members. Last addition was Hugo Ferreira on 2022-10-27. No new committers. Last addition was María José Esteve on 2021-11-23. Last release of Apache Royale 0.9.10 was on June 05 2023. Issues for the board: no issue at this moment ## Membership Data: Apache Royale was founded 2017-09-20 (6 years ago) There are currently 20 committers and 16 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 5:4. ## Project Activity: In the result of team effort Apache Royale was successfully released on June 5th. This is the first release performed on a new Azure CI instance. We now have two functional CIs owned by different PMC members. This should help both in reducing the project's dependency on a single PMC member, and in dealing with downtimes of the older CI. We have provided a new version with various fixes in emulation component and Jewel module. Improvement was also provided in RoyaleUnit. In addition, significant efforts have been made to ensure binary reproducibility. With the next release we are going to continue providing fixes and improvements according to need of our users in their projects. One of our PMC members shared his large application written fully in Apache Royale - deployed across Mobile and Desktop. ## Community Health: We are seeing fewer emails in our Users list, while our development list is more active recently.
Hello, Apache Royale report March 2023 below: DESCRIPTION Apache Royale implements the principles of Apache Flex to support development of applications designed for JavaScript instead of Adobe Flash/AIR runtimes. Apache Royale improves developer productivity in creating applications to run wherever JavaScript runs, including on browsers, in Apache Cordova applications, on Node, and on other platforms. ISSUES There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. Membership Data No new PMC members. Last addition was Hugo Ferreira on 2022-10-27. No new committers. Last addition was María José Esteve on 2021-11-23. Last release of Apache Royale 0.9.9 was on March 30 2022. Project Activity Our release preparation goes on hold due to some issues on PMC's machine, there wasn't any new volunteer who would pick up release. Apart from that, some of our committers are adding new small features to the framework based on their project usage. Additionally, one of our PMC members released Apache Flex SDK Converter, which helps prepare Maven artifacts for release. Community Health We are seeing fewer emails in our Users list, while our development list is more active recently. Thanks, -- Piotr Zarzycki
## Description: The mission of Apache Royale is the creation and maintenance of software related to improving developer productivity in creating applications for wherever Javascript runs (and other runtimes) ## Issues: No issues to report ## Membership Data: Apache Royale was founded 2017-09-20 (5 years ago) There are currently 20 committers and 16 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 5:4. Community changes, past quarter: - Hugo Ferreira was added to the PMC on 2022-10-27 - No new committers. Last addition was María José Esteve on 2021-11-23. ## Project Activity: PMC members and the community after release has started working on new features and more general fixes. One PMC member has started preparations for the next release. Activity related to emulation components is still quite high, making more improvements available in that area. One committer was invited to become a PMC member based on activities and improvements provided. ## Community Health Our Twitter account has 707 (previously 718) followers. Our Facebook page has 184 (previously 185) likes. Our LinkedIn Group has 158 (previously 158) people. Our StackOverFlow "apache-royale" tag currently has 63 (previously 76) questions. Our Slack channel, "royale", in the-asf.slack.com workspace, makes quick team consultations more convenient.
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## Description: Apache Royale implements the principles of Apache Flex to support development of applications designed for JavaScript instead of Adobe Flash/AIR runtimes. Apache Royale improves developer productivity in creating applications to run wherever JavaScript runs, including on browsers, in Apache Cordova applications, on Node, and on other platforms. ## Issues: There is no issues to report. ## Membership Data: Apache Royale was founded 2017-09-20 (5 years ago) There are currently 20 committers and 15 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 4:3. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was María José Esteve on 2022-04-24. - No new committers. Last addition was María José Esteve on 2021-11-23. Releases: Apache Royale 0.9.9 was released on March 30 2022 ## Project Activity: We are seeing constant activity related to emulation components and good usage of Jewel modules by some Royale users. We have had problems with updating our website for some time, but one of the PMC members moved it to a system, based in Pelican, recommended by Infra. We have gained new control over the website, as we no longer have to edit in an external WordPress system. We have updated the links to released versions of Royale so that the latest version, 0.9.9, appears. ## Community Health: Social media activity as one of the community health report: Our Twitter account has 720 (previously 718) followers. Our Facebook page has 212 (previously 184) likes. Our LinkedIn Group has 155 (previously 158) people. Our StackOVerFlow "apache-royale" tag currently has 63 (previously 76) questions. Our Slack channel, "royale", in the-asf.slack.com workspace, makes quick team consultations more convenient.
## Description: The mission of Apache Royale is the creation and maintenance of software related to improving developer productivity in creating applications for wherever Javascript runs (and other runtimes) ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Membership Data: Apache Royale was founded 2017-09-20 (5 years ago) There are currently 20 committers and 15 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 4:3. Community changes, past quarter: - María José Esteve was added to the PMC on 2022-04-24 - No new committers. Last addition was María José Esteve on 2021-11-23. ## Project Activity: PMC members and the community, after longer break, have successfully released a new version of the Apache Royale framework. The release contains many improvements to emulation components, which many users depend on for migrating their applications from Flex to Royale. We are seeing a lot of activity related to emulation components and good usage of Jewel modules by some Royale users. One committer has been invited to become a PMC member based on activities and improvements provided. We have had problems with updating our website for some time, so it still has outdated information related to the latest released version of Apache Royale. ## Community Health: Releases: 0.9.9 was released on 2022-03-30. 0.9.8 was released on 2021-09-02. 0.9.7 was released on 2020-05-13. Activity on social media: Our Twitter account has 718 (previously 719) followers. Our Facebook page has 184 (previously 185) likes. Our LinkedIn Group has 158 (previously 158) people. Our StackOVerFlow "apache-royale" tag currently has 63 (previously 76) questions. Our Slack channel, "royale", in the-asf.slack.com workspace, makes quick team consultations more convenient.
DESCRIPTION Apache Royale implements the principles of Apache Flex to support development of applications designed for JavaScript instead of Adobe Flash/AIR runtimes. Apache Royale improves developer productivity in creating applications to run wherever JavaScript runs, including on browsers, in Apache Cordova applications, on Node, and on other platforms. ISSUES There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. RELEASES Apache Royale 0.9.8 was released on September 2 2021 Apache Royale 0.9.7 was released on May 13 2020 Apache Royale 0.9.6 was released on October1 2019 Apache Royale 0.9.4 was released on November 14 2018 ACTIVITY We have increased activity of current active committers who provided many fixes for the compiler and UI parts of the Royale framework. One of the committers introduced an ActionScript code formatter. We are seeing increased activity on the Royale users@ mailing list with questions regarding some features in Royale. The process of creating build 0.9.9 is under way. Activity on social media: Our Twitter account has 725 (previously 719) followers. Our Facebook page has 185 (previously 209) likes. Our LinkedIn Group has 158 (previously 158) people. Our StackOVerFlow "apache-royale" tag currently has 76 (previously 62) questions. Our Slack channel, "royale", in the-asf.slack.com workspace, makes quick team consultations more convenient. COMMUNITY Committers María José Esteve became a committer on 23 November 2021. One committer has requested emeritus status.
## Description: Apache Royale implements the principles of Apache Flex to support development of applications designed for JavaScript instead of Adobe Flash/AIR runtimes. Apache Royale improves developer productivity in creating applications to run wherever JavaScript runs, including on browsers, in Apache Cordova applications, on Node, and on other platforms. ## Issues: Concerns were raised over a committer failing to communicate on public lists regarding issues that were created by commits she had made. Said committer did not respond to attempts at private communication either. After some discussion on what this means for the community, the issue was eventually resolved technically by a commit made by a PMC member. There have been no further attempts to address the communication issues, as the consensus was that the impact made by this specific committer was not significant enough to warrant the effort. ## Membership Data: Apache Royale was founded 2017-09-20 (4 years ago) There are currently 20 committers and 14 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 5:4. Apache Royale 0.9.8 was released on September 2 2021 Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Greg Dove on 2019-10-29. - María José Esteve was added as committer on 2021-11-23 ## Project Activity: We have increased activity of current active committers who provided many fixes for the compiler and UI parts of the Royale framework. One of the committers introduced and ActionScript code formatter. Activity on social media: Our Twitter account has 719 (previously 715) followers. Our Facebook page has 208 (previously 169) likes. Our LinkedIn Group has 159 (previously 156) people. Our StackOVerFlow "apache-royale" tag currently has 62 (previously 62) questions. ## Community Health: We are seeing increased activity on the Royale users@ mailing list with questions regarding some features in Royale. These activities and pull requests leads with adding one of the user as our new committer.
## Description: Apache Royale implements the principles of Apache Flex to support development of applications designed for JavaScript instead of Adobe Flash/AIR runtimes. Apache Royale improves developer productivity in creating applications to run wherever JavaScript runs, including on browsers, in Apache Cordova applications, on Node, and on other platforms. ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Membership Data: - Hugo Ferreira became a committer on 5 October 2020. - Christofer Dutz became a committer on 4 September 2020. ## Project Activity: We have released a new version of the Royale framework, 0.9.8. It contains a very large number of changes due to more than a year elapsing since the previous release. Many of the changes improve system stability and rendering speed; others make available features and functions that were present in Apache Flex. Activity on social media: - Our Twitter account has 719 (previously 715) followers. - Our Facebook page has 208 (previously 169) likes. - Our LinkedIn Group has 159 (previously 156) people. - Our StackOVerFlow "apache-royale" tag currently has 62 (previously 58) questions. - Our Slack channel, "royale", in the-asf.slack.com workspace, makes quick team consultations more convenient. ## Community Health: There are number of users who have ongoing migration projects from Flex to Apache Royale - we are seeing quite often technical questin on users mailing list regarding that.
## Description: The mission of Apache Royale is the creation and maintenance of software related to improving developer productivity in creating applications for wherever Javascript runs (and other runtimes) ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Membership Data: Apache Royale was founded 2017-09-20 (4 years ago) There are currently 19 committers and 14 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 5:4. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Greg Dove on 2019-10-29. - No new committers. Last addition was Hugo Ferreira on 2020-10-26. ## Project Activity: One of the committers is working compiler options to improve optimizing the size of a compiled application. One user has created an MS Word Add-In plugin in Apache Royale. Work toward release 0.9.8 has been on hold for some time due to unavailability of committers to finish the whole process. Activity on social media: Our Twitter account has 722 (previously 697) followers. Our Facebook page has 171 (previously 169) likes. Our LinkedIn Group has 159 (previously 156) people. Our StackOVerFlow "apache-royale" tag currently has 63 (previously 62) questions. Our Slack channel, "royale", in the-asf.slack.com workspace, makes quick team consultations more convenient. ## Community Health: We have several questions from users interesting in using Apache Royale not only for project migration, but also for new projects. We have been trying to answer some questions, but some of them are staying unanswered due to unavailability of volunteers for that.
## Description: The mission of Apache Royale is the creation and maintenance of software related to improving developer productivity in creating applications for wherever Javascript runs (and other runtimes) ## Issues: No issue to report here. ## Membership Data: Apache Royale was founded 2017-09-20 (4 years ago) There are currently 19 committers and 14 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 5:4. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Greg Dove on 2019-10-29. - No new committers. Last addition was Hugo Ferreira on 2020-10-26. ## Project Activity: Project activity was reported in previous report ## Community Health:
## Description: Apache Royale implements the principles of Apache Flex to support development of applications designed for JavaScript instead of Adobe Flash/AIR runtimes. Apache Royale improves developer productivity in creating applications to run wherever JavaScript runs, including on browsers, in Apache Cordova applications, on Node, and on other platforms. ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Membership Data: - Hugo Ferreira became a committer on 5 October 2020. - Christofer Dutz became a committer on 4 September 2020. ## Project Activity: One of the committers has started improving how we build the Apache Royale distribution package using Maven. There is also a significant amount of work around emulation components, which help users smoothly migrate their application from Apache Flex to Royale. We have been working intensively with several users who want to port existing applications from Flex to Apache Royale. Each migrating application brings specific challenges; as we answer those challenges, we make Royale stronger and more useful to all users. Work toward release 0.9.8 has been on hold for some time due to unavailability of committers to finish the whole process. ## Community Health: Activity on social media: - Our Twitter account has 715 (previously 697) followers. - Our Facebook page has 169 (previously 170) likes. - Our LinkedIn Group has 156 (previously 153) people. - Our StackOVerFlow "apache-royale" tag currently has 62 (previously 58) questions. - Our Slack channel, "royale", in the-asf.slack.com workspace, makes quick team consultations more convenient.
## Description: Apache Royale implements the principles of Apache Flex to support development of applications designed for JavaScript instead of Adobe Flash/AIR runtimes. Apache Royale improves developer productivity in creating applications to run wherever JavaScript runs, including on browsers, in Apache Cordova applications, on Node, and on other platforms. ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## RELEASES: Apache Royale 0.9.4 was released on November 14 2018 Apache Royale 0.9.6 was released on October 1 2019 Apache Royale 0.9.7 was released on May 13 2020 ## Membership Data: Apache Royale was founded 2017-09-20 (3 years ago) There are currently 19 committers and 14 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 5:4. Community changes, past quarter: - Hugo Ferreira became a committer on 5 October 2020. - Christofer Dutz became a committer on 4 September 2020. ## Project Activity: The Royale team offered four presentations at ApacheCon 2020. They are now available as YouTube videos on the Apache channel. We have done more work on stability over recent months, particularly for the Jewel UI set, which we see more users adopting. We have continued expanding documentation to cover all classes and components for Jewel. We are extending documentation of compiler options that make it possible to reduce the size of a compiled application. Work toward the release of version 0.9.8 of the SDK is under way. We had a lot of activity on social networks, sharing what is happening in Apache Royale as we progress in the project. We think it is important to do this so people outside the project and not following it on a daily basis can get a notion of how we are doing. The numbers are: - Our Twitter account has 697 (previously 677) followers. - Our Facebook page has 170 (previously 162) likes. - Our LinkedIn Group has 153 (previously 140) people. - Our StackOVerFlow "apache-royale" tag currently has 58 (previously 56) questions. - Our Slack channel, "royale", in the-asf.slack.com workspace, makes quick team consultations more convenient. ## Community Health: We have been working intensively with several users who want to port existing applications from Flex to Apache Royale. Each migrating application brings specific challenges; as we answer those challenges, we make Royale stronger and more useful to all users. ## Mailing list activity: - users@royale.apache.org: 273 emails compared to 277 in the previous quarter - dev@royale.apache.org: 781 emails compared to 857 in the previous quarter
## Description:
Apache Royale is a new implementation of the principles of Apache Flex,
designed for JavaScript instead of Adobe Flash/AIR runtimes. Apache Royale
improves developer productivity in creating applications to run wherever
JavaScript runs, including on browsers as well as in Apache Cordova
applications, Node, etc.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Releases:
Apache Royale 0.9.4 was released on November 14 2018
Apache Royale 0.9.6 was released on October 1 2019
Apache Royale 0.9.7 was released on May 13 2020
## Membership Data:
Apache Royale was founded 2017-09-20 (3 years ago)
There are currently 18 committers and 14 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 9:7.
Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Greg Dove on 2019-10-29.
- Christofer Dutz was added as committer on 2020-09-04
- Raúl Núñez was added as committer on 2020-06-26
## Project Activity:
- We have done more work on stability over recent months, particularly for the
Jewel UI set, which we see more users adopting. We have continued expanding
documentation to cover all classes and components for Jewel.
- Release of the next version of SDK is on hold pending the release master
having available time.
- We had a lot of activity on social networks, sharing what is happening in
Apache Royale as we progress in the project. We think it is important to do
this so people outside the project and not following it on a daily basis can
get a notion of how we are doing. The numbers are:
- Our Twitter account has 677 (previously 661) followers.
- Our Facebook page has 162 (previously 147) likes.
- Our LinkedIn Group has 140 (previously 131) people. Our StackOVerFlow
"apache-royale" tag currently has 56 (previously 50) questions.
- We recently added a Slack channel, "royale", in the-asf.slack.com workspace
as an experiment to support real-time collaboration.
## Community Health:
- We have been working intensively with several users who want to port
existing applications from Flex to Apache Royale.
## Description: Apache Royale is a new implementation of the principles of Apache Flex, designed for JavaScript instead of Adobe Flash/AIR runtimes. Apache Royale improves developer productivity in creating applications to run wherever JavaScript runs, including on browsers as well as in Apache Cordova applications, Node, etc. ## Issues: 1. One of our PMC member notified us that he is no longer paid for a full time work on our project. It may have significant impact on our progress. 2. Disagreement between two PMC members which involved a contributor who is not yet a committer broke down communication and personal accusations were made. ## Releases: Apache Royale 0.9.7 was released on May 13 2020 ## Membership Data: No new PMCs nor committers in the most recent quarter. We are discussing adding someone as a committer. ## Project Activity: - We have started long discussion about changing the release process. The resulting release process should be easier, letting us create new releases more frequently. - Two PMC members started the current release process in order to understand it better and have better insight into potential changes. - Discussion about merging three repositories into one has been started on the list. - We are still investing a lot of time in supporting users who want to port existing applications from Flex to Apache Royale. - Emulation of Flex components has been significantly improved. Developers can use emulation with success for porting most of their existing MX components and some Spark components. ## Community Health: - We had a lot of activity on social networks, sharing what is happening in Apache Royale as we progress in the project. We think it is important to do this so people outside the project and not following it on a daily basis can get a notion of how we are doing. The numbers are: - Our Twitter account has 661 (previously 643) followers. - Our Facebook page has 147 (previously 144) likes. - Our LinkedIn Group has 131 (previously 129) people. - Our StackOVerFlow "apache-royale" tag currently has 50 (previously 44) questions. - We recently added a Slack channel, "royale", in the-asf.slack.com workspace as an experiment to support real-time collaboration.
## Description:
Apache Royale is a new implementation of the principles of Apache Flex,
designed for JavaScript instead of Adobe Flash/AIR runtimes. Apache Royale
improves developer productivity in creating applications to run wherever
JavaScript runs, including on browsers as well as in Apache Cordova
applications, Node, etc.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Releases:
- Apache Royale 0.9.2 was released on March 16 2018.
- Apache Royale 0.9.4 was released on November 14 2018.
- Apache Royale 0.9.6 was released on October 1 2019
## Membership Data:
- Greg Dove was added as a new PMC member on October, 2019.
## Project Activity:
- We are still investing a lot of time in supporting users who wanted to port
their applications from Flex to Apache Royale.
- Emulation of Flex components has been significantly improved. Developers can
use emulation with success for porting most of their existing MX components
and some Spark components.
- We have made significant refactoring towards better modularization of item
renderers.
- Filled a gap in the Jewel UI set by adding ButtonBar and DataGrid.
- Added Jewel VirtualList and VirtualComboBox to improve performance managing
large collections of data.
- Jewel Button got new "Outlined" and "Unboxed" styles.
- Jewel got theme switch feature, implemented in Tour De Jewel example, to
change themes at runtime.
- Lots of improvements in Jewel UI Set (including resizing, themes, and
disabling)
- Added Routing infrastructure classes to allow "routing" or "deep linking" on
SPA applications.
- Added AMFLocalStorage to allow storing data on the user's machine with AMF
encoding, removing the need to encode/decode to/from JSON.
- Royale compiler gets an improvement in data binding area.
- Royale Docs continues to be improved as the project develops.
- Royale Docs for Crux were added.
- We created two TodoMVC examples (from (todomvc.com)[http://www.todomvc.com]
website), one using Jewel UI set and the other adding the Crux IoC
framework). This example shows MVC good practices in Royale and many
features like IoC, DI, Event Handling, Data Binding, Jewel Theme
Customization, Routing and LocalStorage (with AMF).
## Community Health:
We think it is important to do this so people outside the project and not
following it on a daily basis can get a notion of how we are doing. The
numbers are:
- Our Twitter account has 643 (previously 610) followers.
- Our Facebook page has 147 (previously 144) likes.
- Our LinkedIn Group has 131 (previously 129) people.
- Our StackOVerFlow "apache-royale" tag currently has 44 (previously 43)
questions.
- We recently added a Slack channel, "royale", in the-asf.slack.com workspace
as an experiment to support real-time collaboration.
- users@royale.apache.org:
- 79 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months)
- 1% increase in traffic in the past quarter (358 emails compared to 351)
- dev@royale.apache.org:
- 79 subscribers (no increase in the last 3 months)
- 11% increase in traffic in the past quarter (1603 emails compared to
1444)
## Description:
Apache Royale is a new implementation of the principles of Apache Flex,
designed for JavaScript instead of Adobe Flash/AIR runtimes. Apache Royale
improves developer productivity in creating applications to run wherever
JavaScript runs, including on browsers as well as in Apache Cordova
applications, Node, etc.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## RELEASES:
- Apache Royale 0.9.2 was released on March 16 2018.
- Apache Royale 0.9.4 was released on November 14 2018.
- Apache Royale 0.9.6 was released on October 1 2019
## Membership Data:
Apache Royale was founded 2017-09-20 (2 years ago)
There are currently 16 committers and 14 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 8:7.
Community changes, past quarter:
- Andrew Wetmore was added to the PMC on 2019-09-16
- Greg Dove was added to the PMC on 2019-10-29
- No new committers. Last addition was Greg Dove on 2018-10-28.
## Project Activity:
- We have invested a lot of time in helping users who are trying to port their
application from Flex to Royale. There is also increased activity and
questions from new users about porting Flex applications to Royale.
- The team made good progress in emulation of Flex components and improvements
to MX and Spark Flex component sets.
- We have seen great progress in performance improvements for one of the
modules.
- Important components that the developer community needs, such as ButtonBar
and DataGrid, are under development for the Jewel UI Set.
- Royale members have contributed many improvements in the Compiler.
- We have greatly simplified the release process, and successfully tested the
changes with the 0.9.6 release, but we continue to try to streamline the
process of build and release so we can gain more traction withnew users.
- Royale Docs continues to be improved as the project is developed.
- We had a lot of activity on social networks, sharing what is happening in
Apache Royale as we progress in the project. We think it is important to do
this so people outside the project and not following it on a daily basis can
get a notion of how we are doing. The numbers are:
- Our Twitter account has 610 (590 at the time of the last Board report)
followers.
- Our Facebook page has 144 (previously 130) likes.
- Our LinkedIn Group has 129 (previously 126) people.
- Our StackOVerFlow "apache-royale" tag currently has 43 questions.
- We recently added a Slack channel, "royale", in the-asf.slack.com workspace
as an experiment.
## Community Health:
User-lists continue to grow:
- users@royale.apache.org:
- 78 subscribers (up 5 in the last 3 months)
- 1116 emails sent in the past 3 months (317 in the previous cycle)
- dev@royale.apache.org:
- 79 subscribers (up 5 in the last 3 months)
- 1451 emails sent in the past 3 months (1287 in the previous cycle)
## Description:
Apache Royale is a new implementation of the principles of Apache Flex,
designed for JavaScript instead of Adobe Flash/AIR runtimes. Apache Royale
improves developer productivity in creating applications to run wherever
JavaScript runs, including on browsers as well as in Apache Cordova
applications, Node, etc.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Releases:
Apache Royale 0.9.2 was released on March 16 2018.
Apache Royale 0.9.4 was released on November 14 2018.
## Membership Data:
Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Alex Harui on 2017-09-20.
- No new committers. Last addition was Greg Dove on 2018-10-28.
- A committer was voted in as a new PMC member on 9/11. The board has been
notified.
## Project Activity:
- No releases this quarter; We have created 0.9.6 RC1
- A lot of time has been invested in obtaining more robust processes and
eliminating errors in the compiler.
- There are some activities and questions from users in area of porting Flex
applications to Royale. We have created special page where individuals and
companies who can help with port are listed.
- Great progress in documentation front:
- Added lots of new docs and relationships with our Reference doc and blog
examples, that should help users.
- Added search capabilities thanks to Algolia DocSearch.
- Great progress in simplify the release process so others can take the RM
role more easily.
- Now we have presence in StackOverflow since end of April under
"apache-royale" tag
- We had a lot of activity on social networks, sharing what is happening in
Apache Royale as we progress in the project. We think it is important to do
this so people outside the project and not following in a daily basis can
get a notion of how we are doing. The numbers are:
- Our Twitter account has gained 590 (previous 549) followers since we
opened it.
- Our Facebook page has 130 (previously 127) likes.
- Our LinkedIn Group has 126 (previously 125) people.
## Community Health:
- Users list:
- 73 subscribers (down 3 in the last 3 months)
- 118 emails sent in the past 3 months (348 in the previous cycle)
- Dev list:
- 76 subscribers (down 4 in the last 3 months)
- 1394 emails sent in the past 3 months (1457 in the previous cycle)
@Myrle: follow up about build server breach
## DESCRIPTION
Apache Royale is a new implementation of the principles of Apache Flex,
designed for JavaScript instead of Adobe Flash/AIR runtimes.
Apache Royale improves developer productivity in creating applications to run
wherever JavaScript runs, including on browsers as well as in Apache Cordova
applications, Node, etc.
## ISSUES
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## RELEASES
- Apache Royale 0.9.2 was released on March 16 2018.
- Apache Royale 0.9.4 was released on November 14 2018.
## ACTIVITY
- One of the PMC member propose after release 0.9.6 mark Apache Royale as 1.0.
In the results one of the user made financial open proposition on Dev list
to made faster progress in that matter.
- No releases this quarter; however, we are closer to the release point. There
is still ongoing work on less complicated release process.
- Lots of improvements to component set Jewel.
- One committer created feature called Vector - an array whose elements all
have the same data type - his work is on separate branch and it is under
wide discussion about merging it to develop.
- We had a lot of activity on social networks, sharing what is happening in
Apache Royale as we progress in the project. We think it is important to do
this so people outside the project and not following in a daily basis can
get a notion of how we are doing. The numbers are:
- Our Twitter account has gained 549 (previous 507) followers since we
opened it.
- Our Facebook page has 127 (previously 116) likes.
- Our LinkedIn Group has 125 (previously 122) people.
- One of the user stated that he has started migrate portion of his large
desktop application to Apache Royale in order to investigate possibility of
porting whole application.
- One new user trough pull requests has been made some improvements to Royale
documentation.
## COMMUNITY
- No new PMC Members yet, however we have started vote for one candidate.
## Mailing list activity:
User-lists continue to grow. Fewer emails to read, but still a lot of emails.
- users@royale.apache.org:
- 76 subscribers (up 4 in the last 3 months)
- 189 emails sent in the past 3 months (348 in the previous cycle)
- dev@royale.apache.org:
- 80 subscribers (up 3 in the last 3 months)
- 1474 emails sent in the past 3 months (1386 in the previous cycle)
@Joan: follow up with Royale about build security
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Harbs (harbs) to the office of Vice President, Apache Royale, and WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of Harbs from the office of Vice President, Apache Royale, and WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Royale project has chosen by vote to recommend Piotr Zarzycki (piotrz) as the successor to the post; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Harbs is relieved and discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice President, Apache Royale, and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Piotr Zarzycki be and hereby is appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Royale, 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 7D, Change the Apache Royale Project Chair, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
## DESCRIPTION
Apache Royale is a new implementation of the principles of Apache Flex,
designed for JavaScript instead of Adobe Flash/AIR runtimes. Apache Royale
improves developer productivity in creating applications to run wherever
JavaScript runs, including on browsers as well as in Apache Cordova
applications, Node, etc.
## ISSUES
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## RELEASES
- Apache Royale 0.9.2 was released on March 16 2018.
- Apache Royale 0.9.4 was released on November 14 2018.
## ACTIVITY
- No releases this quarter; however, we have started discuss about next
release. We would like to make the whole process less complex, so there is a
discussion on the dev list about making one central point where most of the
steps happen automatically.
- Lots of improvements in one of the core parts of Royale responsible for
communications with server sites (AMF).
- Lots of progress on a new default look (component set) for Royale apps.
- Lots of progress on migrating large Flex apps to Royale. A new "Flex
Emulation" component set is being worked on to ease migrations.
- The owner of an ActionScript code base that doesn't use Flex is attempting
to use the Royale compiler to cross-compile his code to JavaScript.
- There have been a number of blog posts on using Royale. They seem to be
well-received.
- We are using Disqus for blog comments. It seems to help engagement. We were
not able to figure out how to get comments sent to the @dev list.
- We had a lot of activity on social networks, sharing what is happening in
Apache Royale as we progress in the project. We think it is important to do
this so people outside the project and not following in a daily basis can
get a notion of how we are doing. The numbers are:
- Our Twitter account has gained 507 followers since we opened it, and we
are getting around 30 likes and 10 to 20 retweets when we post
something, showing interest in what we're doing.
- Our Facebook page has 116 likes, and we get 10-15 interactions (likes)
and some comments on each post, showing interest in Apache Royale.
- We started a LinkedIn Group that 122 people joined almost immediately.
Groups in LinkedIn tend to be watched by many people who remain silent
most of the time.
- A contributor was able to migrate an Apache Flex application with success.
The application, part of a suite is in the process of validation and testing
and should be put in production for a client in about a month. The current
version is the app's first iteration since the Flex version, a huge app
developed over several years. The plan is to continue to migrate other parts
of the suite in phases as the client requires them.
## COMMUNITY
- Greg Dove was added as committer on October 28, 2018.
- No new PMC Members yet
- Two new contributors are candidates to become committers.
## Mailing list activity:
User-lists continue to grow. Fewer emails to read, but still a lot of emails.
- users@royale.apache.org:
- 72 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 366 emails sent in the past 3 months (528 in the previous quarter)
- dev@royale.apache.org:
- 77 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 1389 emails sent in the past 3 months (1974 in the previous quarter)
## DESCRIPTION Apache Royale is a new implementation of the principles of Apache Flex but designed for JavaScript runtimes instead of Adobe Flash/AIR runtimes. Apache Royale is designed to improve developer productivity in creating applications for wherever Javascript runs, including browsers as well as Apache Cordova applications, Node, etc. ## ISSUES There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## RELEASES - Apache Royale 0.9.4 was released on November 19 2018. - Apache Royale 0.9.5 was skipped due to an error in releasing to npm. ## ACTIVITY - More progress on the Jewel component set. - More progress on the new "Flex Emulation" component set is being worked on to ease migrations. - There was slight decrease in list activity, but that was probably expected due to the holiday seasons. - Work is being started to add compiler features. ## COMMUNITY - No new committers this quarter. - No new PMC Members yet - Piotr Zarzycki voted in as new PMC Chair ## Mailing list activity: It's been more-or-less constant this quarter.
No report was submitted.
## DESCRIPTION
Apache Royale is a new implementation of the principles of Apache Flex but
designed for JavaScript runtimes instead of Adobe Flash/AIR runtimes. Apache
Royale is designed to improve developer productivity in creating applications
for wherever Javascript runs, including browsers as well as Apache Cordova
applications, Node, etc.
## ISSUES
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## RELEASES
- Apache Royale 0.9.2 was released on March 16 2018.
- Apache Royale 0.9.4 in progress.
## ACTIVITY
- No releases this quarter. Releases have been stalled by a combination of
factors. One is that someone volunteered to be the RM and had not released
Royale before and ran into configuration issues. Another is that so many new
files were added that the Maven SCM plugin would not work correctly. Another
is that there is a disagreement about the organization of files in the
release. There has been a lot of work done to resolve this disagreement and
it looks like we are close to resolving it. It looks like the Maven plugin
has been fixed so hopefully we will release soon.
- Lots of progress on a new default look (component set) for Royale apps.
- Lots of progress on migrating a large Flex app to Royale. A new "Flex
Emulation" component set is being worked on to ease migrations.
- New names are showing up on the mailing list asking about Royale.
- The owner of an ActionScript code base that doesn't use Flex is attempting
to use the Royale Compiler to cross compile his code to JavaScript.
- There have been a number of blog posts on using Royale. They seem to be well
received.
- We are using Disqus for blog comments. It seems to help engagement. We were
not able to figure out how to get comments sent to the @dev list.
- We had huge activity on Social Networks, trying to inform about what is
happening in Apache Royale as we progress in the project. We think is
important to do this so people outside the project, not following in a daily
basis could get a notion of how we are doing. The numbers here are the
following:
- Twitter got 375 followers since we open the account, and we are getting
around 30 likes when we post something, and between 10 to 20 retweets,
showing interest in what we're doing.
- Facebook gets 97 likes to the page and we are getting around 10-15
interactions (likes) and some comments, showing interest in Apache
Royale. We took advantage of a promo in Facebook that allowed us to
promote Apache Royale during 1 month (5 Jun - 5 July). We spend 1€ per
day during 30 days, during that time we reached 34.879 People and had
6.943 Interactions.
- Google Plus, we post here as well but seem this social networks gets few
interactions and seems not widely used by our target users.
- We started a LinkedIn Group where 113 people joined in no time since
opened. Groups in LinkedIn used to be watched by many people but remains
silent most of the time, although it seems the way most of LinkedIn
groups work.
## COMMUNITY
- Alina Kazi was added as committer on April 26 2018.
- No new PMC Members yet
- Two new contributors being watched to be committers.
## Mailing list activity:
User lists subscribers continue to grow. Fewer emails to read, but still a
lot of emails.
- users@royale.apache.org:
- 69 subscribers (up 9 in the last 3 months):
- 181 emails sent to list (610 in previous quarter)
- dev@royale.apache.org:
- 76 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 1391 emails sent to list (1614 in previous quarter)
## DESCRIPTION
Apache Royale is a new implementation of the principles of Apache Flex but
designed for JavaScript runtimes instead of Adobe Flash/AIR runtimes. Apache
Royale is designed to improve developer productivity in creating applications
for wherever Javascript runs, including browsers as well as Apache Cordova
applications, Node, etc.
## ISSUES
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## RELEASES
- Apache Royale 0.9.2 was released on March 16 2018.
- Apache Royale 0.9.3 in progress.
## ACTIVITY
- No releases this quarter although 0.9.2 was released between the report and
the board meeting. Releases have been stalled by a combination of factors.
One is that someone volunteered to be the RM and had not released Royale
before and ran into configuration issues. Another is that so many new files
were added that the Maven SCM plugin would not work correctly. Another is
that there is a disagreement about the organization of files in the release.
There has been a lot of work done to reslove this disagreement and it looks
like we are close to resolving it. It looks like the Maven plugin has been
fixed so hopefully we will release soon.
- Lots of progress on a new default look (component set) for Royale apps.
- Lots of progress on migrating a large Flex app to Royale. A new "Flex
Emulation" component set is being worked on to ease migrations.
- New names are showing up on the mailing list asking about Royale.
- The owner of an ActionScript code base that doesn't use Flex is attempting
to use the Royale Compiler to cross compile his code to JavaScript.
## COMMUNITY
- Alina Kazi was added as committer on April 26 2018.
- No new PMC Members yet
- Two new contributors being watched to be committers.
## Mailing list activity:
Both user and dev lists have seen healthy growth:
- users@royale.apache.org:
- 58 subscribers (up 11 in the last 3 months):
- 657 emails sent to list (475 in previous quarter)
- dev@royale.apache.org:
- 75 subscribers (up 7 in the last 3 months):
- 1768 emails sent to list (1952 in previous quarter)
## DESCRIPTION
Apache Royale is a new implementation of the principles of Apache Flex but
designed for JavaScript runtimes instead of Adobe Flash/AIR runtimes. Apache
Royale is designed to improve developer productivity in creating applications
for wherever Javascript runs, including browsers as well as Apache Cordova
applications, Node, etc.
## ISSUES
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## RELEASES
- Apache Royale 0.9.0 was released on Jan. 28 2018.
- Apache Royale 0.9.1 was released on Feb. 13 2018.
- Apache Royale 0.9.2 in progress.
## ACTIVITY
- We have finished our first release and we're working on releasing often.
- We published convenience binaries to npm.
- Our website in now live with content.
- We have a couple of members who are active promoting Royale using social
media.
- A new contributor helped to really move the user documentation forward.
- Our ASDoc (ActionScript Doc just like JavaDoc) also went live. It is a
(almost) production Royale app.
- The ASDoc is indexed by Google, something that Flex apps had a hard time
doing, so another reason for Flex users to migrate to Royale.
- One PMC member is working hard on the default look-and-feel for Royale apps.
- The compiler was extended to be able to report on API usage in order to
understand what Flex dependencies Flex apps might have when migrating.
- Several people are investigating Royale as a way to break their Flex app's
dependencies on Flash. One user claims to be about 4 bugs short of
finishing his migration.
## COMMUNITY
- Andrew Wetmore as added as a committer on Jan. 22 2018.
- No new PMC members yet.
- There are some new names on the user and dev lists. Some of these might have
the potential of becoming actively involved.
## Mailing list activity:
Both user and dev lists have seen healthy growth:
- users@royale.apache.org:
- 47 subscribers (up 7 in the last 3 months):
- 527 emails sent to list (219 in previous quarter)
- dev@royale.apache.org:
- 68 subscribers (up 14 in the last 3 months):
- 2100 emails sent to list (1339 in previous quarter)
## DESCRIPTION Apache Royale is a new implementation of the principles of Apache Flex but designed for JavaScript runtimes instead of Adobe Flash/AIR runtimes. Apache Royale is designed to improve developer productivity in creating applications for wherever Javascript runs, including browsers as well as Apache Cordova applications, Node, etc. Apache Royale was approved as a new TLP in the September meeting. Royale took over responsibility for the code related to what was known as Apache FlexJS from the Apache Flex community. This is our second report. ## ISSUES There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## RELEASES - Apache FlexJS 0.8.0 was released on 6/25/17. ## ACTIVITY - The effort to set up new builds and rename code assets from FlexJS to Royale was/is significant and that effort is more-or-less complete. There might be a few loose ends that still need to be tied up. - Related to the above, Flash should no longer be a requirement to build Royale. - Some new names have appeared on the mailing lists investigating whether Royale is a suitable solution for migrating existing Flex applications off of Flash. - One PMC member has proposed an initial web site for Royale. There were some logistical issues in being allowed to use it as he created it on WordPress with a commercial theme. Those issues are mostly resolved at this time. The web site work has stalled a bit the last few weeks. We need to renew momentum on finishing the website work. - Some work is being done on a new default look-and-feel for Royale. - There has been some progress and discussion on improving the testing architecture to make it easier to improve the automated test coverage. - Discussion has started on the release process for the first Royale release. ## COMMUNITY The community is still working through the transition from Apache Flex to Apache Royale. There is much documentation remaining to be transitioned from the Apache Flex wiki to some place in Apache Royale. Currently, users@royale has 39 subscribers (up from 38) and dev@royale has 52 (up from 47) subscribers. We are not sure why more folks from the Flex mailing lists haven't subscribed to Royale, but it's likely that once we get our website and documentation moved over we will ask again on the Flex lists to see if folks want to come over. We have not added any new committers or PMC members yet. There is talk of possibly having a small hackathon in January. ## TRADEMARKS There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## DESCRIPTION Apache Royale is a new implementation of the principles of Apache Flex but designed for JavaScript runtimes instead of Adobe Flash/AIR runtimes. Apache Royale is designed to improve developer productivity in creating applications for wherever Javascript runs, including browsers as well as Apache Cordova applications, Node, etc. Apache Royale was approved as a new TLP in the September meeting. Royale took over responsibility for the code related to what was known as Apache FlexJS from the Apache Flex community. This is our second report. ## ISSUES There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## RELEASES - Apache FlexJS 0.8.0 was released on 6/25/17. ## ACTIVITY - The effort to set up new builds and rename code assets from FlexJS to Royale was/is significant and that effort is still in progress, but nearing completion. - Some new names have appeared on the mailing lists investigating whether Royale is a suitable solution for migrating existing Flex applications off of Flash. - One PMC member has proposed an initial web site for Royale. There were some logistical issues in being allowed to use it as he created it on WordPress with a commercial theme. Those issues are mostly resolved at this time. - Some work is being done on a new default look-and-feel for Royale. - There has been some progress and discussion on improving the testing architecture to make it easier to improve the automated test coverage. ## COMMUNITY The community is still working through the transition from Apache Flex to Apache Royale. There is much documentation remaining to be transitioned from the Apache Flex wiki to some place in Apache Royale. Currently, users@royale has 38 subscribers (up from 29) and dev@royale has 47 (up from 42) subscribers. We are not sure why more folks from the Flex mailing lists haven't subscribed to Royale, but it's likely that once we get our website and documentation moved over we will ask again on the Flex lists to see if folks want to come over. We have not added any new committers or PMC members yet. ## TRADEMARKS Several PMC members wanted to allow another PMC member to use royalesdk.io and/or royalesdk.org to externally host some content to promote Apache Royale. Trademarks denied use of that domain name. We might revisit the topic if and when there is a concrete reason to do so.
## DESCRIPTION Apache Royale is a new implementation of the principles of Apache Flex but designed for JavaScript runtimes instead of Adobe Flash/AIR runtimes. Apache Royale is designed to improve developer productivity in creating applications for wherever Javascript runs, including browsers as well as Apache Cordova applications, Node, etc. Apache Royale was approved as a new TLP in the September meeting. Royale took over responsibility for the code related to what was known as Apache FlexJS from the Apache Flex community. This is our first report. ## ISSUES There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## RELEASES - Apache FlexJS 0.8.0 was released on 6/25/17. ## ACTIVITY - Apache Royale was approved on September 20, 2017. There some delays getting Royale entered in committee-info.txt in order to allow Infra to start setting up the project. However, at the time of this report, we believe Infra has completed all of its tasks. - There is quite a bit of work required to deal with the rename of the project and a lot of progress has been made towards that goal. - One PMC member is working on a website for the project. We expect him to have some results to show soon. ## COMMUNITY The community is still working through the transition from Apache Flex to Apache Royale. Currently, users@royale has 29 subscribers and dev@royale has 42 subscribers. There has been interest from the community which might lead to new contributors. Future reports will contain information about: -Last committer added -Last PMC member added -Latest analytics and statistics: - Website hits per day - Number of known installs ## TRADEMARKS Several PMC members wanted to allow another PMC member to use royalesdk.io and/or royalesdk.org to externally host some content to promote Apache Royale. Trademarks denied use of that domain name. We might revisit the topic if and when there is a concrete reason to do so. ## SECURITY Nothing to report.
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, for distribution at no charge to the public, related to improving developer productivity in creating applications for wherever Javascript runs (and other runtimes). NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Apache Royale Project", be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache Royale Project be and hereby is responsible for the creation and maintenance of software related to improving developer productivity in creating applications for wherever Javascript runs (and other runtimes); and be it further RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache Royale" 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 Royale Project, and to have primary responsibility for management of the projects within the scope of responsibility of the Apache Royale 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 Royale Project: * Harbs <harbs@apache.org> * Yishay Weiss <yishayw@apache.org> * Alex Harui <aharui@apache.org> * Peter Ent <pent@apache.org> * Josh Tynjala <joshtynjala@apache.org> * Piotr Zarzycki <piotrz@apache.org> * Carlos Rovira <carlosrovira@apache.org> * Erik de Bruin <erikdebruin@apache.org> * Omprakash Muppirala <bigosmallm@apache.org> * Frédéric Thomas <fthomas@apache.org> * Olaf Krüger <okrueger@apache.org> * Michael Schmalle <mschmalle@apache.org> * David Fisher <wave@apache.org> NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Harbs be appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Royale, 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 Apache Royale Project be and hereby is tasked with the migration and rationalization of the Apache Flex resources pertaining to FlexJS; and be it further RESOLVED, that all responsibilities pertaining to Apache FlexJS encumbered upon the Apache Flex Project are hereafter discharged. Special Order 7I, Establish the Apache Royale Project, unanimous, with Bertrand abstaining