## 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:
The first Apache Karaf European Meetup stood "virtually" using Zoom with the
help of Codecentric. We had 80 people registered and around 50 people during
the meetup.
We can say the event has been a success. Three talks were given:
- Karaf on the cloud (JB Onofré, Apache)
- Karaf at Netflix (Dmitry Vasilyev, Netflix)
- Karaf roadmap (open discussion)
We saw lot of interest and enthusiasm about Apache Karaf.
The meetup has been recorded and available on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYXT5y8gwAg
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYXT5y8gwAg>
On the other hand, resulting to the discussion with the community and during
the meetup (and after), a new PoC has started about Karaf: Karaf DevX. The
purpose is to provide a way better developer experience with Karaf. DevX PoC
started and we will communicate on the mailing list as soon as we have
something "showable" to the community.
About the release front, Apache Karaf Decanter 2.4.0 has been released with new
collectors (ConfigAdmin, OSHI, ...), new layer named processors (allowing to
perform any processing between collectors and appenders, for instance
aggregation), and some fixes.
About Apache Karaf runtime, 4.2.9 will be submitted to release soon, especially
to fix issue with the shell. Karaf 4.3.0.RC2 is also in preparation as new step
to 4.3.0 GA release.
## Community Health:
As we thought, Apache Karaf Meetup has been very interesting and a great
opportunity to promote the project and the community.
We already planned a second meetup around the end of this year.
We postponed the move of ServiceMix Bundles and Specs to Apache Karaf as some
bundles were required by third party projects (like Camel). However, the
"technical" standpoint started and it's still the target asap.
