Great report. Love the very detailed aspects.
---------------------------- Igor Costa www.igorcosta.com www.igorcosta.org On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 3:33 PM, Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com> wrote: > 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). > > > > >
