Hi folks … here comes the draft of our board report … especially with the “what the project had been working on” part, I might have missed something … so please metion things noteworthy.
## Description: The mission of the Apache PLC4X project is creating a set of libraries for communicating with industrial programmable logic controllers (PLCs) using a variety of protocols but with a shared API. ## Project Status: Current project status: ongoing with moderate activity Issues for the board: none ## Membership Data: Apache PLC4X was founded 2019-04-17 (4 years ago) There are currently 21 committers and 13 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 3:2. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was César García on 2021-10-01. - No new committers. Last addition was Jinlin Hong on 2022-11-02. Even if we managed to attract some new folks after switching to GitHub Issues, PRs and Discussions, still we haven't identified anyone to invite as committer or promote to PMC membership. But we know that it would be good for the project and we're keeping an eye on potential candidates. ## Project Activity: There have been multiple initiatives from the community. Probably the most note- worthy would be an updated S7 driver able to do cyclic communication. A new Apache Hop integration and updates to the EtherNet/IP driver. Currently there is one ongoing initiative to bring the Profinet driver forward. Unfortunately, some of these have brought the project in a somewhat unstable state and we'll be investing quite some time to re-stabilize this in the next few months. We are also planning on investing some time to refactor some of the core mechanisms to handle multi-connection drivers. ## Community Health: Commit-activity has increased by 34% in the last quarter and we have 15 individual contributors on file. Communication has decreased by 18%, but is still at levels we would still call ok (540 vs 653). This quarter we added Github Discussions as new communication channel and are starting to use it.
