+1 On Mon, May 10, 2021 at 2:34 PM Paul King <pa...@asert.com.au> wrote:
> Hi Folks, > > Any other updates/comments before I submit our latest board report? (Due > in a couple of days) > > Thanks, Paul. > > ===============>8============== > > ## Description: > Apache Groovy is responsible for the evolution and maintenance of the > Groovy > programming language > > ## Issues: > No issues requiring board attention at this time. > > ## Membership Data: > Apache Groovy was founded 2015-11-18 (5 years ago) > There are currently 20 committers and 11 PMC members in this project. > The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 5:3. > > Community changes, past quarter: > - No new PMC members. Last addition was Eric Milles on 2020-11-20. > - No new committers. Last addition was Mikko Värri on 2020-06-03. > > ## Project Activity: > We continue to work on bug fixes for 2.5.x and 3.0.x and continue to assist > other non-Apache projects within the Groovy ecosystem move to Groovy 3. > > We are also continuing on our roadmap for Groovy 4 and recently > released another alpha version. We expect to move to beta/RC versions > shortly with GA release expected later this year. > > We have also had some activity related to the bintray sunset: > > > https://jfrog.com/blog/into-the-sunset-bintray-jcenter-gocenter-and-chartcenter/ > > Bintray was still the path to Maven Central for older "org.codehaus" > Groovy artifacts but that is no longer the case. > > Recent releases: > - 3.0.8 was released on 2021-04-19. > - 4.0.0-alpha-3 was released on 2021-04-16. > > Our most comprehensive historical download statistics are from Maven > Central and Bintray. With Bintray's sunset, as mentioned earlier, > we haven't found a good exact replacement for those statistics. > Our anticipation is that downloads will pick up from Maven Central > and Apache's mirror (where we don't have similar statistic reporting > capabilities). This seems to be the case so far. Downloads from > Maven Central for Mar 2021 were 34.2 million compared to 16.6 million > for the same month in 2020. > > ## Community Health: > This quarter, 278 commits (538 across all branches) were contributed > from 25 contributors including 51 commits from 20 non-committer > contributors (18 new). In recent times, Groovy has benefited from > contributions from hacker events, student projects and bug bashes. > This has been great for the project but it seems difficult to attract > such contributors to hang around longer term. We will continue to work > on making it easy for newcomers to find a foothold within the project. > > Activity across mailing lists, issues and pull requests remained healthy: > - 139/177 issues were opened/closed in JIRA during the quarter. > - 85/86 PRs were opened/closed on GitHub during the quarter. > >
