Hi all, unfortunately I had almost forgotten to submit the board report after coming back from my little snowboard vacation. I took the liberty of posting the following report. If there are changes you’d like to see, please tell me asap and I can edit it.
## 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 (5 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: Version 0.12.0 was released on 2024-02-19 The project has been working on closing many issues this quarter. We were able to cut the number of open issues by half. Also did we invest a considerable amount of time for working towards reproducible builds and automating most of the release process. Also did we update the content on the website, especially thanks to a new documentation- generator now the configuration for our drivers is automatically going to be up to date. ## Community Health: We know we haven't invited any new committers for quite some time. This is definitely not due to a high committer bar, but more related to the fact that the people needing Apache PLC4X seem to come from a part of the industry that is completely new to the concept of open-source. Only very few people accept our offer to mentor them to scratching their own itches. Interestingly the project is gaining more and more popularity on the user- side. Activity on the mailing lists seems to have increased slightly (8% - 605 emails) The community is looking forward to a community meetup in Frankfurt the weekend after the board meeting. Here we hope to re-ignite some of the community activity and focus on perhaps releasing a 1.0.0 version of PLC4X this year.
