This is a draft of the August report to the board on River. Please
suggest any corrections or improvements.
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Apache River is a Java-based Service Oriented Architecture, implementing
the Jini Specification and Jini Technology Starter Kit originally
donated by Sun Microsystems.
ISSUES FOR THE BOARD
There are no board-level issues at this time
RELEASES
Apache River 2.2.2 was released on November 18, 2013
Apache River 2.2.1 was released on May 2, 2013.
COMMUNITY
Patricia Shanahan has returned from emeritus to active status as a
committer and PMC member. She has been appointed as the new PMC Chair.
A new user has brought to the attention of the PMC some issues in the
"Getting Started" web pages that may be a barrier to attracting new
users and to community involvement.
ACTIVITY
Mailing lists and development have been reasonably active in the past
few months. There were 28 messages on user@ during May through July
2014, and 60 messages on dev@.
Four issues have been reported on Jira and two of those have been resolved.
