Board Report 2020 6

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 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.

• 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.

COMMUNITY

• No new PMCs nor committers in the most recent quarter. We are discussing adding someone as a committer.

Mailing list activity:

• users@royale.apache.org:

  • 79 subscribers (no changes in the last 3 months)
  • 28% decrease in traffic in the past quarter (245 emails compared to 338)

• dev@royale.apache.org:

  • 75 subscribers (decrease in the last 3 months was 79)
  • 57% increase in traffic in the past quarter (2518 emails compared to 1601)