Since New Year's day is this Sunday, I thought it appropriate to reflect on all that we have accomplished in the last year:
* Organized individuals from multiple organizations, many of which were not familiar with the "Apache Way" * Constructed and submitted the incubator proposal * Transferred IP for 3 complete portal code bases to Apache * Built a working system from scratch * Committed to SVN 677 times * Wrote over 34K lines of actual code * Received over 1400 non-JIRA related messages on the DEV List * Created ~400 issues in JIRA * Resolved ~280 of those issues * Shipped 4 releases, have a 5th awaiting incubator approval and a 6th ready to go out in early January * Participated in multiple hackathons and bar camps * Had community members speak about Rave at 3 conferences * Voted in 2 new committers/PPMC members * Received multiple patches from community developers Needless to say, this is an impressive list of accomplishments for any group of people, let alone a disparate set of individuals from multiple companies, countries, timezones and backgrounds. I can't help but imagine that if we can get this much done while learning how to work together at Apache, what does 2012 hold for us? I would like to thank everyone involved in the project, the committers, PPMC members, community submitters, users and especially the mentors. Without everyone's hard work, dedication and willingness to work together, this project would never have gotten off the ground; let alone reach its current state. Let's build on the enormous success of this year and really turn up the heat for 2012. Happy New Year! -Matt
