+1 On Mon, May 10, 2021 at 9:08 AM Remko Popma <remko.po...@gmail.com> wrote:
> +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. >> >> -- Guillaume Laforge Apache Groovy committer Developer Advocate @ Google Cloud Platform Blog: http://glaforge.appspot.com/ Twitter: @glaforge <http://twitter.com/glaforge>
