## Description: The mission of Apache SkyWalking is the creation and maintenance of software related to application performance management and monitoring (APM)
## Project Status: Current project status: Ongoing Issues for the board: No issue ## Membership Data: Apache SkyWalking was founded 2019-04-17 (5 years ago) There are currently 58 committers and 34 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 8:5. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Ye Cao on 2023-08-28. - No new committers. Last addition was Gong Dewei on 2023-07-01. A new committer is voted and accepted. The account creation is ongoing. The new committer is Xiang Wei. ## Project Activity: Several releases are made by the project. - java-9.1.0 was released on 2023-12-04 - 9.7.0 was released on 2023-12-01. - infra-e2e-1.3.0 was released on 2023-11-13. - nodejs-0.7.0 was released on 2023-11-08. - banyandb-0.5.0 was released on 2023-10-23. - go-0.3.0 was released on 2023-10-23. A new repository is created, skywalking-graalvm-distro. It hosts codes for the re-distribution version of the official Apache SkyWalking OAP server running on GraalVM. No release yet. ## Community Health: The community is active. dev@skywalking.apache.org had a 38% decrease in traffic in the past quarter (138 emails compared to 222) 376 commits in the past quarter (-35% change) 59 code contributors in the past quarter (-4% change) The number is lower as we had cutted the last major release in 2023. Features are stable. Discussion page has 3000 views and 100 GitHub accounts involved per month. The community introduced GTP-based AI assistance(kapa.ai) to help user to locate correct documents/blogs/books and discussed issues/pull requests since Dec. 2023. 328 questions are made on that platform for the first year. Sheng Wu 吴晟 Twitter, wusheng1108
