PMC, and Community Happy 2026!
2025 was a bit of a trick for some of us, but PMC is hoping to rally more coordination and drive more capability and adoption this year… also, more community! Flagon remains a relevant product to many and the needs for observability and analytics are growing with the surge in AI development. If you want to start a convo, please do and don’t hesitate! PMC will do more to facilitate! Please find a draft of our Quartly Board report. Report is due on the 14th JAN, please provide any feedback you have on this thread! ## Description: The mission of Apache Flagon is the creation and maintenance of software related to thin-client behavioral logging capability useful for business analytics, usage analytics, usability and user testing ## Project Status: Current project status: [Insert your own data here] Issues for the board: [Insert your own data here] ## Membership Data: Apache Flagon was founded 2023-03-21 (3 years ago) There are currently 19 committers and 12 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 5:3. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Evan Jones on 2024-07-10. - No new committers. Last addition was Ryan Thenhaus on 2025-02-08. - Am following up on ICLAs for M. Grivel, and A. Fluck, who were voted in as committers and officially invited to join as committers. ## Project Activity: Project activity was extremely low this quarter. PMC will push for maintainance activities in the upcoming quarters. I know there is interest in doing more work with Open Telemetry integration, and so PMC will work to coordinate more effort in that direction in the new year. ## Community Health: The community regularly corresponds and PMC is aware of some ad hoc meetings between members. However, driving correspondence through official community challenges remains very challenging. Additionally, the project remains visible and relevant as there has been a surge of interest in business analytics, particularly in easy-to-use and maintain client packages that can log in Open Telemetry Logging Protocol (OTLP). I believe that we'll see a surge of new code coming in from commiters in that that direction as well as a the typical annual maintaince that the community and PMC reliably does on core products like UserALE.js. Overall, while it's too early to see if the monorepo structure has an impact on organic project growth, it hasn't seemed to deter end-users. I am continually surprised ot hear in correspondence with the PMC and in my own work anecdotes of how a variety of industries (including the AAA gaming industry) are aware of Flagon and consider it a viable tool for their own purposes.
