Guillaume asked me to send through this report. ====
Groovy board report for February ## Description: Apache Groovy is a multi-faceted programming language for the Java platform. Groovy is a powerful, optionally typed and dynamic language, with static- typing and static compilation capabilities, aimed at multiplying developers’ productivity thanks to a concise, familiar and easy to learn syntax. It integrates smoothly with any Java program, and immediately delivers to your application powerful features, including scripting capabilities, Domain- Specific Language authoring, first class functional programming support and runtime and compile-time meta-programming. ## Issues: There is one point of interest and one on-going issue. - Groovy recognition program: The wider Groovy community has expressed a keen interest in creating a recognition scheme (perhaps called Groovy Stars or Groovy Champions) to recognise major past and present contributions across the many projects within the Groovy ecosystem. It is anticipated that the scheme would operate in a similar fashion to the fairly widely known Java Champions scheme for Java[1]. The Apache Groovy project is now also discussing this proposal[2]. At this point, no board action is required but we'd welcome any feedback and we'll escalate if needed depending on how the proposal unfolds. We'll be endeavouring to ensure that should the scheme go ahead it will meet all requirements from the Apache side from a branding/trademarks point of view. [1] https://community.oracle.com/community/java/java-champions [2] https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/c9d04fa6f1a8f 4357bc48f14f974c4eb139bc4d1c2c16c3d6c14f0a7@%3Cusers.groovy.apache.org%3E - Website migration: An additional step to completing the website migration was done. The website had custom embedded Nabble integration which has been disabled in favor of using the normal Nabble UI on their site and instead more actively promoting lists.apache.org (Apache Pony Mail). Final steps can now commence to complete the migration. ## Activity: - This quarter, 322 commits were contributed from 11 contributors including 6 non-committer contributors (1 new). - The project crossed over 50 million downloads for the 2017 calendar year. ## Health report: - Our release train velocity has been maintained, and there seems to be a healthy level of discussion about project direction on the mailing lists. ## PMC changes: - Currently 10 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was John Wagenleitner on Sun Apr 02 2017 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 18 committers. - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was Sergei Egorov at Thu Dec 08 2016 ## Releases: - 2.4.13 was released on Thu Nov 23 2017 - 2.6.0-alpha-2 was released on Wed Nov 15 2017 - 3.0.0-alpha-1 was released on Wed Nov 29 2017 ## Mailing list activity: - us...@groovy.apache.org: - 415 subscribers (down -4 in the last 3 months): - 207 emails sent to list (113 in previous quarter) - dev@groovy.apache.org: - 235 subscribers (down -9 in the last 3 months): - 541 emails sent to list (201 in previous quarter) ## JIRA activity: - 97 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 52 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
