Hi Chris, it's a good report.
Best regards Markus Mit freundlichen Grüßen Markus Sommer Geschäftsführer isb innovative software businesses GmbH Otto-Lilienthal-Straße 2 D 88046 Friedrichshafen Tel +49 (0) 7541 3834-14 Fax +49 (0) 7541 3834-20 Mobil +49 (0) 171 537 8437 Mail to [email protected] http://www.isb-fn.de Geschäftsführer: Markus Sommer, Thomas Zeler Registergericht: Amtsgericht Ulm HRB-Nr. 631624 Important Note: This e-mail and any attachments are confidential, may contain trade secrets and may well also be legally privileged or otherwise protected from disclosure. If you have received it in error, you are on notice of its status. Please notify us immediately by reply e-mail and then delete this e-mail and any attachment from your system. If you are not the intended recipient please understand that you must not copy this e-mail or any attachments or disclose the contents to any other person. Thank you. -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Christofer Dutz <[email protected]> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 27. Dezember 2018 18:28 An: [email protected] Betreff: [DRAFT] January Podling Report Apache PLC4X (incubating) Hi folks, well it’s reporting time again, so I whipped up a first version … please feel free to comment. Chris --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Apache PLC4X (incubating) PLC4X is a set of libraries for communicating with industrial programmable logic controllers (PLCs) using a variety of protocols but with a shared API. # Most important issues to address while moving towards graduation: Building the community: The PPMC and committer group has a large percentage of codecentric employees, we have been recruiting people from other companies, but will have to continue these efforts for establishing a healthy Apache community. Onboarding of new committers: With PLC4X several people on the team are not very familiar with the Apache Way. We have started and will continue our efforts on this onboarding. Make our first release # Any Issues the Incubator PMC or ASF Board might wish/need to be aware of: Not at the moment. # How has the community developed since the last report? We have managed to get some more people to contribute. While we are still waiting for the initial contribution (OPC-UA Server) of one person to be submitted, we were just able to successfully integrate another first code contribution into our build which seeds the C++ API module (Thanks to Markus Sommer for this). Github notes the number of contributors has gone up to 12 … so I think we’re looking good as we are continuously getting more people on board, hopefully soon also into committership and PPMC involvement. In the last quarter of 2018 Christofer Dutz had several public talks on PLC4X: * 09.10.2018: “Between the towers” Meetup, Frankfurt * 24.10.2018: “Oss Summit Europe” Conference, Edinburgh * 13.11.2018: “3. Fachkonferenz - Big data in der Industire“ Conference, Berlin * 15.11.2018: „RheinJUG“ Meetup, Düsseldorf * 06.12.2018: „IoTHessen“ Meetup, Frankfurt From 22.11.2018-26.11.2018 we had our second official community event: This time we meet at the codecentric finca on Mallorca for 4 days of hacking, coding, discussions and community building. All in all 3 PPMC members participated and one new person. On 03.12.2018 we successfully released: Version 0.2.0 (RC1) and we’re currently working on enabling new release-managers for the next release. Our mailing list subscriptions went up another 4 to currently 42 subscribers. Our Twitter followers increased by 55 (almost doubled) to 114 followers (Mainly as a direct result of @Java tweeting about us). On GitHub we now have 42 “Stars” (increase of 18) and 20 “Forks” (increase of 6) We have successfully performed two major POCs with customers from the industry (Pharmaceutical and Automotive Companies) and the results where overwhelming. We are expecting to see more adoption in 2019. Also are we trying to convince companies to allow us to officially talk about what we did in order to spread the word. Also have we had first paid contracts where the companies were paying members of the project to implement some general purpose features that were missing as well as bug fixing and allowing those results to become part of the open-source project (Which I think is pretty surprising as the concept of Open-Source is quite new to these companies) # How does the podling rate their own maturity? We have a mix of new participants and experienced Apache people involved. So far, the new participants have shown great willingness and success in adopting the Apache Way. However, we still need to continue: the on-boarding increasing the diversity of the team. Also we are currently trying to enable other team members to take over vital roles (Like being a release manager) so we no longer have areas with personal singularities.
