Hi all, so I took the liberty of starting the work on the board report. Especially with the “Project activity” please mention what I should also put in there … I just listed, what I remembered to have worked on.
## 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 slightly less than usual 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. ## Project Activity: The project has mostly been working on scratching individual contributor's itches, implementing features needed for their every day work. - IEC 60870-5-104 driver - ... fill more In general, the project is aiming for a new release, as the time since our last release has been way too long. ## Community Health: It's been a pretty slow quarter, the expected boost of activity after one of the PMC members switching jobs didn't quite come as expected, but we're still hopefully it will come. The project knows that we need to grow the contributor base, however we need to put in a lot more effort into this. Admittedly PLCs and writing drivers for communicating with them is probably not the sexiest of things to do. We've started planning a hackathon, which we are hopefully going to run this December, there the existing and possibly future community would be able to re-unite and hopefully re-spark the activity levels a bit.
