Thanks, Paul. This looks great.
On 2025/08/11 06:11:55 Paul King wrote: > 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. > > =============== 8< ============== > > ## 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. >
