Board Report 2020 12

Board Report 2020 12

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

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 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.

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

• Hugo Ferreira became a committer on 5 October 2020.
• Christofer Dutz became a committer on 4 September 2020.

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

[Prepared and submitted by Andrew Wetmore, PMC member, at the direction of the Chair, who was unavailable]

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