Any other comments before I file this report? ------------- Apache Flex is an application framework for easily building Flash-based applications for mobile devices, the browser and desktop.
RELEASES Apache Flex SDK 4.9.1 was released on 2/28/13. Apache Flex Installer 2.5.4 was released on 4/11/13. The community is currently preparing its next release of both the SDK and Installer. ACTIVITY Activity in Apache Flex continues to be in two main areas: improvements to the existing Adobe Flash Platform-dependent code base, including the releases listed above, and prototyping ways to create a version of Flex that is independent from the Adobe Flash Platform. There is another group working on Maven-related tools for the existing code base. Just in the past 30 days, 130 JIRA issues were resolved. JIRA activity is so high, a vote is underway to split JIRA notifications off to its own mailing list (issues@flex.a.o) Getting used to Git was still a frequent topic in April and May. Because Git does not support partial checkouts, the community prototyped using GitHub for the whiteboards. GitHub notifications are sent to the commits@ list just like any other Apache Git commit. The PMC then voted to approve this workflow. And because we do our work in a branch and have trunk only have released sources, we had to ask Infra to update the mirrors to work from that branch. The owner of a popular application-framework that leverages the Flex SDK has offered to donate the code to the project. This has met with some opposition from those who use competing application-frameworks. The ensuing dicussion indicated that the PMC is in favor of accepting donations from the these other frameworks should they choose to donate, so we believe we are not endorsing or showing favoritism. COMMUNITY No new committers in the last 90 days. A vote is underway to promote a committer to the PMC. Latest analytics include over 4000 downloads since 4/11/2013, and an average of 3000 hits per day during weekdays. INFRASTRUCTURE * Infra attempted to resolve INFRA-4380 but ran into problems. I have approval to try to use the SOAP interface to pull the current state of JIRA issues, merge them with the original attachments and provide a new import file for INFRA. That task has been delayed by other issues like getting new releases out, but we will get to it eventually. BRANDING We have noted that Apache projects are forming that use code module names that are used in Apache Flex. Namely 'Falcon' and now 'Spark'. These two words are used often on the mailing lists when discussing the related code which then finds its way into the search engines. Is this an issue? --
