Board Report 2026 03

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: The project is productive, and beginning work on the long-awaited 1.0.0 release. A number of conversations are in progress about possible future work.

There are no issues for the Board at this time.

Membership Data:

Apache Royale was founded 2017-09-19 (8 years ago) There are currently 20 committers and 17 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 1:1.

• No new PMC members. Last addition was Alina Kazi on 2024-11-02.
• No new committers. Last addition was María José Esteve on 2021-11-23.

Project Activity:

The project is showing a jump of activity on the dev@, issues@ and royale-builds@ mailing lists, partly related to efforts to complete certain enhancements before moving into work on creating the next release. In addition to improving the typedefs objects and bringing Royale into sync with the latest ActionScript3 improvements, there is work to make Apache Flex's Blaze Data Services tool more available to Royale users.

Community Health:

The project membership, though small, continues active and engaged. We have not mapped out a plan yet for trying to attract more participants from the ActionScript world.