## Description: Apache Karaf provides a modern and polymorphic applications runtime, multi-purpose (micro services, cloud, integration, IoT, OSGi, etc).
## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at this time ## Membership Data: Apache Karaf was founded 2010-06-16 (10 years ago) There are currently 31 committers and 17 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 8:5. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Francois Papon on 2018-11-29. - No new committers. Last addition was Francois Papon on 2018-05-19. ## Project Activity: We prepared and plan first Apache Karaf European Meetup in Germany in April 30th. The formal communication (with CFP) will be sent soon (this week) and we will plan to ask "support" to ASF com. In term of releases and "pure" project activity, we released Apache Karaf 4.3.0.RC1 with a almost full support for OSGi R7. It's an important milestone for the project as it heads to the next major release (4.3.0). We also released 4.2.8 and 3.0.10 maintenance releases to sustain our release cycle. Karaf 4.2.9 will be submitted to vote soon as well. We also started a redesign of the Karaf tooling (maven plugins, etc) to propose a much better developer experience. We had several feedbacks saying that Apache Karaf is great once running, but the developer ramp up and developer experience could be much better. That's why we started to work on this area. About the subprojects, Apache Karaf Cave 4.2.1 has been released, containing a complete refactoring of Cave, now more multipurpose repository focused. We are also preparing Apache Karaf Decanter 2.3.0 as maintenance release with lot of improvements and bug fixes. Finally, a complete Apache Karaf Cellar refactoring has started, heading to new major Cellar release. Here's a quick summary about recent releases: - 4.3.0.RC1 was released on 2020-01-31. - 4.2.8 was released on 2020-01-23. - 3.0.10 was released on 2020-01-11. - Cave 4.2.1 was released on 2019-12-02. ## Community Health: We are happy to see a growing interest around Apache Karaf, with new users and potential contributors on Slack and mailing lists. We can see about 25% more traffic on mailing lists proving this interest about Apache Karaf. We think that first Apache Karaf Meetup will be a great opportunity for Karaf communities to meet and discuss about the project. There are also discussions with Apache ServiceMix and OPS4J communities to move some projects into Apache Karaf. It's also a tremendous sign about Karaf community and branding. With these new subprojects, Apache Karaf will be first citizen project in the runtime ecosystem.
