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Am 05.03.20, 09:43 schrieb "Christofer Dutz" <christofer.d...@c-ware.de>:
## 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.
## Issues:
None
## Membership Data:
Apache PLC4X was founded 2019-04-17 (a year ago)
There are currently 14 committers and 9 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:5.
Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Łukasz Dywicki on 2019-07-28.
- Alvaro del Castillo was added as committer on 2020-01-29
- César García was added as committer on 2020-02-03
- Niklas Merz was added as committer on 2020-01-29
- Lukas Ott was added as committer on 2020-01-03
- Dominik Riemer was added as committer on 2020-02-04
## Project Activity:
- 0.6.0 was released on 2020-03-01
In December we had a 3 day code retreat, where a large portion of the
core-team meet and worked on addressing some of the most important
architectural challenges in preparation to porting all of our drivers to
the
new generated codebase.
In general have we started to maintain and fix a lot of reported issues in the
0.6 branch which we now consider a LTS release branch. The version 0.7.0
is a
huge refactoring as we completely rewrote the core of PLC4X and are
currently
deleting all existing drivers, replacing them with new version which we
generate from our new code-generation tool. Still 1-2 drivers to port, but
most of the others are already finished.
We completely relaunched our website, giving it a way more appealing look and
feel as we think the old website was preventing people from giving PLC4X a
chance.
We are currently in the process of preparing the ASF to become member of a
list of 4-5 industry foundation in order to allow us to legally be able to
provide some drivers and or mention them on our website and other public
information material.
We have had Meetups/Conference-Talks/Workshops:
- PLC4X full day workshop: Building IoT (02-03-2020)
- Talks: Building IoT - Essen (03-03-2020, 04-03-2020)
- Talk: Stuttgarter Innovationstage (03-03-2020)
- Talk: OOP - Munich (05-02-2020)
Perhaps worth mentioning:
In December Christofer applied for European research funds via NLnet
Foundation and was recently informed that his application was granted. So
if
this really will happen, then these funds will be used 100% for driving the
C-type drivers for PLC4X as well as an Apache MyNewt integration.
## Community Health:
This year the number of contributors has grown quite a bit. Also the
number of
people showing up from different companies has increased significantly.
Also starting this year we started to invite people as committer first and
stopped instantly inviting them as PMC in one go, as we noticed some people
became less active after becoming PMCs. At the same time er lowered the bar
for committership a little and redefined how we interpret the term
"committer". We treat committers as people who are committed to PLC4X and
PMCs
who have proven to be so for a prolonged period of time (not too long)
- dev@plc4x.apache.org had a 59% increase in traffic in the past quarter
(494 emails compared to 309)
- iss...@plc4x.apache.org had a 444% increase in traffic in the past
quarter
(305 emails compared to 56)
- 23 issues opened in JIRA, past quarter (21% increase)
- 20 issues closed in JIRA, past quarter (42% increase)
- 490 commits in the past quarter (62% increase)
- 17 code contributors in the past quarter (13% increase)
- 28 PRs opened on GitHub, past quarter (21% increase)
- 27 PRs closed on GitHub, past quarter (28% increase)
- 172 Github Stars (up by 18 since last report) (up by 30)
- 305 @ApachePLC4X Twitter account followers (up by 33)
