Board Report 2019 12

DESCRIPTION

Apache Royale is a new implementation of the principles of Apache Flex, designed for JavaScript instead of Adobe Flash/AIR runtimes. Apache Royale improves developer productivity in creating applications to run wherever JavaScript runs, including on browsers as well as in Apache Cordova applications, Node, etc.

ISSUES

There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.

RELEASES

• Apache Royale 0.9.2 was released on March 16 2018.
• Apache Royale 0.9.4 was released on November 14 2018.
• Apache Royale 0.9.6 was released on October 1 2019

ACTIVITY

• A lot of time has been invested in helping users who are trying port their application from Flex to Royale. There are also increases activities and questions from new users in area of porting Flex applications to Royale.
• There are great progress in performance improvement for one of the module.
• Release process has been significantly simplified and tested with 0.9.6 release.
• We had a lot of activity on social networks, sharing what is happening in Apache Royale as we progress in the project. We think it is important to do this so people outside the project and not following in a daily basis can get a notion of how we are doing. The numbers are:
  • Our Twitter account has gained 610 (previous 590) followers since we opened it.
  • Our Facebook page has 144 (previously 130) likes.
  • Our LinkedIn Group has 129 (previously 126) people.

COMMUNITY

• Greg Dove has been added as a new PMC member on October.

Mailing list activity:

User-lists continue to grow. Fewer emails to read, but still a lot of emails.

• [email protected]:

  • 73 subscribers (down 3 in the last 3 months)
  • 1116 emails sent in the past 3 months (317 in the previous cycle)

• [email protected]:

  • 76 subscribers (down 4 in the last 3 months)
  • 1451 emails sent in the past 3 months (1287 in the previous cycle)