Board Report 2019 12

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

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

• Greg Dove was added as a new PMC member on October.

Mailing list activity:

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)