I Guess we could mention that there was a good bunch of time spend on getting the quality up for the plc4go part. So the API/SPI as well as the c-bus driver has now coverage above 80%. This also includes general fixing of QC issues and testing.
- Sebastian On 2023/06/13 08:03:23 Christofer Dutz wrote: > Hi folks … here comes the draft of our board report … especially with the > “what the project had been working on” part, I might have missed something … > so please metion things noteworthy. > > > ## 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. > > ## Project Status: > Current project status: ongoing with moderate activity > Issues for the board: none > > ## Membership Data: > Apache PLC4X was founded 2019-04-17 (4 years ago) > There are currently 21 committers and 13 PMC members in this project. > The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 3:2. > > Community changes, past quarter: > - No new PMC members. Last addition was César García on 2021-10-01. > - No new committers. Last addition was Jinlin Hong on 2022-11-02. > > Even if we managed to attract some new folks after switching to GitHub > Issues, PRs and Discussions, still we haven't identified anyone to invite as > committer or promote to PMC membership. But we know that it would be good > for the project and we're keeping an eye on potential candidates. > > ## Project Activity: > There have been multiple initiatives from the community. Probably the most > note- > worthy would be an updated S7 driver able to do cyclic communication. A new > Apache Hop integration and updates to the EtherNet/IP driver. Currently there > is one ongoing initiative to bring the Profinet driver forward. > > Unfortunately, some of these have brought the project in a somewhat unstable > state and we'll be investing quite some time to re-stabilize this in the > next few months. > > We are also planning on investing some time to refactor some of the core > mechanisms to handle multi-connection drivers. > > ## Community Health: > Commit-activity has increased by 34% in the last quarter and we have 15 > individual contributors on file. Communication has decreased by 18%, but > is still at levels we would still call ok (540 vs 653). This quarter we > added Github Discussions as new communication channel and are starting to > use it. >
