Board Report 2020 9

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

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 have been working intensively with several users who want to port existing applications from Flex to Apache Royale.

• 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

• Christofer Dutz became a committer on 4 September 2020.
• Raúl Núñez became a committer 26 June 2020.

Mailing list activity:

• users@royale.apache.org:

  • 84 subscribers (increase in the last 3 months was 79)
  • 23% increase in traffic in the past quarter (277 emails compared to 225)

• dev@royale.apache.org:

  • 83 subscribers (increase in the last 3 months was 75)
  • 66% decrease in traffic in the past quarter (857 emails compared to 2478)