## Description: Apache Karaf provides a modern and polymorphic applications runtime, multi-purpose (microservices, cloud, IoT, OSGi, etc).
## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at this time ## Membership Data: Apache Karaf was founded 2010-06-16 (9 years ago) There are currently 31 committers and 17 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 8:5. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Francois Papon on 2018-11-29. - No new committers. Last addition was Francois Papon on 2018-05-19. ## Project Activity: We released Apache Karaf 4.2.6 with several fixes. Master update started to fully support OSGi R7 and other update. The kloud initiative keeps on running with new blog posts, and preparation on code base. The Karaf tooling (aka Karaf Boot) is in our roadmap. The Karaf Vineyard donation should happen soon as now the code base is done. We are preparing new releases on our subprojects, especially Decanter and Cave. We are very happy to have a full Apache Karaf track at ApacheCon NA with 3 talks about Apache Karaf (all on Thursday, September, 12). Recent releases: 4.2.6 was released on 2019-06-09. 4.2.5 was released on 2019-04-20. Decanter 2.2.0 was released on 2019-03-21. ## Community Health: Even if the activity is lower during summer, but we have a sustained activity on the mailing list and interaction: - dev@karaf.apache.org had a 53% decrease in traffic in the past quarter (125 emails compared to 262) - iss...@karaf.apache.org had a 46% decrease in traffic in the past quarter (692 emails compared to 1261) - u...@karaf.apache.org had a 32% decrease in traffic in the past quarter (343 emails compared to 499) - 77 issues opened in JIRA, past quarter (-44% decrease) - 37 issues closed in JIRA, past quarter (-71% decrease) - 95 commits in the past quarter (-67% decrease) - 11 code contributors in the past quarter (-38% decrease) - 53 PRs opened on GitHub, past quarter (-59% decrease) - 45 PRs closed on GitHub, past quarter (-62% decrease)