Hello all, I prepare the draft for Decmber 2024, I'm planning to submit Monday, to avoid any delay. Feedback is welcome.
The community health Github part is missing because the statistics from the wizard are not available at this stage. ## Description: The mission of Apache Camel is the creation and maintenance of an open-source integration framework based on known Enterprise Integration Patterns. ## Project Status: Current project status: Ongoing with high activity Issues for the board: There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Membership Data: Apache Camel was founded 2008-12-17 (16 years ago) There are currently 94 committers and 47 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 2:1. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Colm O hEigeartaigh on 2024-03-11. - Thomas Diesler was added as committer on 2024-11-22 ## Project Activity: Apache Camel: - We released Camel 4.4.4 - We released Camel 4.8.0 - We released Camel 4.8.1 - We released Camel 4.8.2 - We released Camel 4.9.0 - Note: Camel releases have synchronized releases of Camel-Karaf and Camel-Spring-Boot too for 3.x, while for 4.x only Camel-Spring-Boot is synchronized. - The 4.4.x release is our LTS release train and we released the 4.4.4 patch release. - 4.8.x is our last LTS release train. We released the main version 4.8.0 with two others patch releases 4.8.1 and 4.8.2 - The situation is really healthy and the community is super. We are introducing many new features and working on engaging the community more. Camel is growing even in terms of interest Apache Camel K: - We released the 2.5.0 version - For Camel-K-runtime we released 3.15.0, for 2.5.x work. - Camel K is in good shape and the community is expading with new contributors and many new good idea and many good interactions. The situation is healthy. Apache Camel Kamelets: - We released Camel Kamelets 4.8.0 - We released Camel Kamelets 4.8.1 - We released Camel Kamelets 4.9.0 - Working on releasing 4.8.2 - The 4.8.x release train is matching the LTS release from Camel core and it's an important building block for starting with routes - We introduced a lot of new Kamelets and we are improving the documentation by focusing on much more examples - We released also 4.9.0 which is a development version Apache Camel Quarkus: - The Camel-Quarkus work is going ahead following the main camel releases with multiple releases - We released Camel-quarkus 3.15.0 - We released Camel-quarkus 3.15.1 - We released Camel-quarkus 3.16.0 - We released Camel-quarkus 3.17.0 - The 3.15.x is matching the 4.8.x release train from the main project - A lot of work has been done on testing side and many good features and extensions have been developed and improved. - There is already the 3.17.0 based on 4.9.0 on vote. It should be out before the board meeting. Apache Camel-Karavan: - Camel-Karavan is improving and the community around the project is increasing in number of features and new issues reporting - We released the 4.8.0 - We released the 4.8.1 - The 4.8.x is aligned to Camel 4.8.x LTS Camel-Kafka-Connector: - 4.4.3 has been released and we plan to align to the next patch release - 4.8.0 has been released and based on the last LTS release train 4.8.0 - The community is active and we receive a lot of feedback and requests. Apache Camel-Karaf: - Camel-karaf main branch has been updated and now works with Camel 4.8.0 and Karaf 4.4.6+. Many new contributors are helping on this. The release 4.8.1 has been done and is based on 4.8.x LTS release train. Overall: - The Camel project and all the subprojects are in a really good shape and all of them are growing in terms of community involvement and contributions. ## Community Health: - At the time of writing the integration showing stats for Github wasn't working so I couldn't add those information. - dev@camel.apache.org had a 39% increase in traffic in the past quarter (334 emails compared to 240): Related to release planning and more heads up - iss...@camel.apache.org had a 11% decrease in traffic in the past quarter (2134 emails compared to 2375): Most of the projects are now using Github as first way of opening issues, to the decrease is somewhat expected. - us...@camel.apache.org had a 11% decrease in traffic in the past quarter (132 emails compared to 147): Users are starting to move and ask questions on Zulip, like the discussion for development, still some discussion is happening at mailing list level
