Hi Groovy (including Geb) & Grails folks,
Any updates/comments before I submit our latest board report?
(Due in a few days. Note, even though we are primarily reporting on the 3
previous
months, I did include a couple of recent releases which appeared in the
first
few days of this month - since the reporting tool included them
automatically.)
Thanks, Paul.
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## Description:
Apache Groovy is responsible for the evolution and maintenance of the
Groovy
programming language
## Project Status:
Current project status: Ongoing with moderate activity.
Issues for the board: No issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Membership Data:
Apache Groovy was founded 2015-11-18 (10 years ago)
There are currently 23 committers and 13 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 3:2.
Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Soeren Glasius on 2024-11-06.
- No new committers. Last addition was Sergio del Amo on 2024-12-20.
## Project Activity:
Recent releases:
5.0.0-rc-1 was released on 2025-08-06.
4.0.28 was released on 2025-07-23.
5.0.0-beta-2 was released on 2025-07-23.
3.0.25 was released on 2025-05-27.
4.0.27 was released on 2025-05-27.
5.0.0-beta-1 was released on 2025-05-27.
The Groovy PMC voted to accept Geb (previously gebish.org) as a Groovy
subproject late last year. There is a draft website and snapshots are
currently
available. A first release under the ASF is taking a little longer than
expect but we are adapting the build process to some recent advances
spearheaded
by the Grails project.
The Groovy PMC voted earlier in the year to sponsor incubation of the Grails
project (grails.org) to become a new TLP when ready. The Grails PPMC is
working well.
* the major Grails repos are now under the ASF organization
* the project has performed self-assessment via the maturity model
which indicates the project is close to being ready for graduation
* they have voted in new committers and PPMC members
* community activity has been high including many discussions and votes
* interactions between the project and other parts of the ASF have been
healthy
* numerous releases have been undertaken including:
Core: 7.0.0-M4, 7.0.0-M5, 7.0.0-RC1
Plugins:
quartz: 4.0.0-M3
redis: 5.0.0-M4, 5.0.0-M5,
spring-security: 7.0.0-M4, 7.0.0-M5
The other major goal of the Groovy PMC over the next quarter is
to move Groovy 5 towards a GA release. We recently released 5.0.0-RC-1.
We are working with VP Brand management on potential branding issues
for Groovy and Grails with other projects popping up with similar names.
## Community Health:
Overall, community activity has increased this quarter.
Work on incorporating Geb as a subproject is well advanced.
Work helping Grails on their incubation journey is well advanced.
The main Groovy project is preparing its final RC release(s)
of Groovy 5 before the 5.0.0 release is undertaken.
We look forward to contributing to the upcoming Community over Code NA
conference in Minneapolis next month. Talks on Groovy, Geb and Grails
feature in the Groovy and Incubator tracks.
