+1 Good summary and a promising one. Positive feelings after reading it!
Thanks Chris! On Thu, 2020-03-05 at 08:42 +0000, Christofer Dutz wrote: > ## Description: > The mission of the Apache PLC4X project is creating a set of > libraries for > communicating with industrial programmable logic controllers (PLCs) > using a > variety of protocols but with a shared API. > > ## Issues: > None > > ## Membership Data: > Apache PLC4X was founded 2019-04-17 (a year ago) > There are currently 14 committers and 9 PMC members in this project. > The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:5. > > Community changes, past quarter: > - No new PMC members. Last addition was Łukasz Dywicki on 2019-07-28. > - Alvaro del Castillo was added as committer on 2020-01-29 > - César García was added as committer on 2020-02-03 > - Niklas Merz was added as committer on 2020-01-29 > - Lukas Ott was added as committer on 2020-01-03 > - Dominik Riemer was added as committer on 2020-02-04 > > ## Project Activity: > - 0.6.0 was released on 2020-03-01 > > In December we had a 3 day code retreat, where a large portion of the > core-team meet and worked on addressing some of the most important > architectural challenges in preparation to porting all of our drivers > to the > new generated codebase. > > In general have we started to maintain and fix a lot of reported > issues in the > 0.6 branch which we now consider a LTS release branch. The version > 0.7.0 is a > huge refactoring as we completely rewrote the core of PLC4X and are > currently > deleting all existing drivers, replacing them with new version which > we > generate from our new code-generation tool. Still 1-2 drivers to > port, but > most of the others are already finished. > > We completely relaunched our website, giving it a way more appealing > look and > feel as we think the old website was preventing people from giving > PLC4X a > chance. > > We are currently in the process of preparing the ASF to become member > of a > list of 4-5 industry foundation in order to allow us to legally be > able to > provide some drivers and or mention them on our website and other > public > information material. > > We have had Meetups/Conference-Talks/Workshops: > - PLC4X full day workshop: Building IoT (02-03-2020) > - Talks: Building IoT - Essen (03-03-2020, 04-03-2020) > - Talk: Stuttgarter Innovationstage (03-03-2020) > - Talk: OOP - Munich (05-02-2020) > > Perhaps worth mentioning: > In December Christofer applied for European research funds via NLnet > Foundation and was recently informed that his application was > granted. So if > this really will happen, then these funds will be used 100% for > driving the > C-type drivers for PLC4X as well as an Apache MyNewt integration. > > ## Community Health: > This year the number of contributors has grown quite a bit. Also the > number of > people showing up from different companies has increased > significantly. > > Also starting this year we started to invite people as committer > first and > stopped instantly inviting them as PMC in one go, as we noticed some > people > became less active after becoming PMCs. At the same time er lowered > the bar > for committership a little and redefined how we interpret the term > "committer". We treat committers as people who are committed to PLC4X > and PMCs > who have proven to be so for a prolonged period of time (not too > long) > > - [email protected] had a 59% increase in traffic in the past > quarter > (494 emails compared to 309) > - [email protected] had a 444% increase in traffic in the past > quarter > (305 emails compared to 56) > - 23 issues opened in JIRA, past quarter (21% increase) > - 20 issues closed in JIRA, past quarter (42% increase) > - 490 commits in the past quarter (62% increase) > - 17 code contributors in the past quarter (13% increase) > - 28 PRs opened on GitHub, past quarter (21% increase) > - 27 PRs closed on GitHub, past quarter (28% increase) > - 172 Github Stars (up by 18 since last report) (up by 30) > - 305 @ApachePLC4X Twitter account followers (up by 33)
