Here is the latest draft. I did not mention Swiz because no paperwork has been filed yet so not important to the board. Probably worth mentioning elsewhere though.
------------- Apache Flex is an application framework for easily building Flash-based applications for mobile devices, the browser and desktop. RELEASES Apache Flex SDK 4.10.0 was released on 8/6/13. Apache Flex Installer 2.6.0 was released on 8/6/13. ACTIVITY Activity in Apache Flex continues to be in two main areas: improvements To the existing Adobe Flash Platform-dependent code base, including the releases listed above, and prototyping ways to create a version of Flex that is independent from the Adobe Flash Platform. There is another group working on Maven-related tools for the existing code base. Since the 4.10 release we've seen: - Significant web visits increase (especially for the week after the release up 100% or more) - More JIRA activity (more bugs raised than resolved however) - More activity on the users mailing list (flex-users markmail archive is broken so I can't see exact numbers) Other highlights: -Over 200 bugs were fixed in 4.10.0. -4.10.0 supports Linux. -FlexUnit was finally committed to its repo. -Several users have submitted applications for a "showcase" -Flex CI now runs over 30,000 tests. -One committer overhauled the wiki to make it better organized. -Adobe submitted the software grant for the BlazeDS software. There are some .jar files in the donation that need to be removed and replaced and that is holding up the actual committing of the code to the repo. COMMUNITY -Cyrill Zadra promoted from committer to PMC on 6/11/13. -Mark Kessler promoted from committer to PMC on 8/13/13. -Scott Guthmann added as committer and PMC on 7/19/13. Scott's main contributions will be on the marketing side. -Latest analytics include over 600,000 hits on the website in the last six Months. - Since beginning of this year, the Installer has been used to install over 16,000 copies of the SDK. There were more than 5000 installs of 4.10.0 in the month since its release. -Several Apache Flex committers presented at 360|Stack which is the largest Flex-oriented conference in the world. -Flex mailing lists are now 'mirrored' on Nabble. Mailing list traffic is so high that many folks I talked to at 360|Stack have stopped reading emails. Many of our committers are unable to keep up. June and July almost hit 1000 emails per month each. Folks requested a "forum" interface as being more friendly than the archive or mailing list interfaces. AREAS OF CONCERN -RELEASE EFFORT: Getting a release out seems more difficult than it should be because folks don't start serious testing on the first RCs so important bugs are found just before the VOTE ends and another RC has to be made. For 4.10.0, the 72 hours had just passed and VOTE results sent out when a critical issue was found. And, on each subsequent RC, fewer and fewer people vote. Not sure what can be done about this but this tends to make folks want to avoid becoming the release manager. One thought is that, if the area of code change for a critical issue is small, then past votes should still count in the total. -NUMBER OF ACTIVE COMMITTERS: Even though 200 bugs were fixed in 4.10.0, the majority were done by one committer. Only six of the nearly 40 committers have committed something to the main repo in this reporting period. There is activity in the other repos though. Not a critical issue yet, but worth noting. INFRASTRUCTURE * I'm still hoping to find time to resolve INFRA-4380 (attachments in old Flex bugs).
