Board Report 2023 12

Description:

The mission of Apache Royale is the creation and maintenance of software related to improving developer productivity in creating applications for wherever JavaScript runs (and other runtimes)

Project Status:

Current project status: Ongoing. Issues for the board: in response to concerns raised previously by board members, we now have 2 VM instances dedicated to release and CI. We have an additional VM subscription which has not yet been set up for release/CI purposes. Recent releases have been done by the same PMC member; we are hoping the next release will be performed by a different member.

Membership Data:

Apache Royale was founded 2017-09-20 (6 years ago) There are currently 20 committers and 16 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 5:4.

Community changes, past quarter:

• No new PMC members. Last addition was Hugo Ferreira on 2022-10-27.
• No new committers. Last addition was María José Esteve on 2021-11-23.

Project Activity:

Various bug fixes and improvements to asjs and compiler repos. ASFormatter improved and rolled into dev process of users.

Community Health:

We are seeing a rise in dev posts and a decrease in user posts. This is likely due to a combination of 2 factors: (a) many of the more active users are project developers as well, and (b) there is a typically shorter response time to issues posted on the dev list, which leads users to post there. This might imply that we need to expand our 'layman' user base and dispel the notion that Royale users are implicitly 'experts'.