Hello all, I prepared the draft for March Board Report. I would like to submit on Monday. Feedback is welcome.
## 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. - No new committers. Last addition was Thomas Diesler on 2024-11-22. ## Project Activity: Apache Camel: - We released Camel 3.22.4 - We released Camel 4.8.3 - We released Camel 4.8.4 - We released Camel 4.10.0 - We released Camel 4.10.1 - We are in the process of releasing 4.8.5 for the 4.8.x LTS line - We are in the process of releasing 4.10.2 for the 4.10.x LTS line - 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. - 4.8.x is our last LTS release train. We released the main version 4.8.0 with two others patch releases 4.8.3 and 4.8.4 - 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 2.5.1 version - We released the 2.6.0 version - For Camel-K-runtime we released 3.15.2, 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 4.8.3 - We released Camel Kamelets 4.8.4 - We released Camel Kamelets 4.10.0 - We released Camel Kamelets 4.10.1 - 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. Also we improved the Kamelets description. Apache Camel Quarkus: - The Camel-Quarkus work is going ahead following the main camel releases with multiple releases - We released Camel-quarkus 3.15.2 - We released Camel-quarkus 3.17.0 - We released Camel-quarkus 3.18.0 - We released Camel-quarkus 3.19.0 - 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 more new features and extensions have been developed and improved. Apache Camel-Karavan: - Camel-Karavan is improving and the community around the project is increasing in number of features and new issues reporting. It's growing. - We released the 4.10.0 - We released the 4.8.1 - The 4.10.x is aligned to Camel 4.10.x LTS Camel-Kafka-Connector: - 4.8.3 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. We are improving the documentation. Apache Camel-Karaf: - Camel-karaf main branch has been updated and now works with Camel 4.9.0 and Karaf 4.4.7+. Many new contributors are helping on this. - We released also 3.22.4 for this project. ## Community Health: - dev@camel.apache.org had a 9% increase in traffic in the past quarter (361 emails compared to 330): Related to release planning and more heads up - iss...@camel.apache.org had a 4% decrease in traffic in the past quarter (2138 emails compared to 2221): Most of the projects are now using Github as first way of opening issues, so the decrease is somewhat expected. - us...@camel.apache.org had a 31% increase in traffic in the past quarter (182 emails compared to 138): Users are starting to move and ask questions on Zulip, but we had many discussion around releasing and questions from users - PRs opened: 1450, 18% decrease. This is because we slowed down on some subprojects. - PRs closed: 1460, 17% decrease. Same reason. - Issues opened 169, 34% decrease. The reason is related to the slowing down on some subprojects. - Issues closed 190, 25 decrease. Same reason.
