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Board Report 2019 6

Piotr Zarzycki edited this page Jun 7, 2019 · 2 revisions

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

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)
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