Yang is away right now so I'm attaching a copy of the draft of the board report for this quarter on her behalf. Please respond to this post if there is anything to add or edit.
## Description: Apache TinkerPop is a graph computing framework for both graph databases (OLTP) and graph analytic systems (OLAP). ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention. ## Project Status: Ongoing We have relatively high activity on the project, with on-going quarterly releases, daily commits and development discussions on the devlist. Our Discord channel has active engagement with a steady stream of new users and questions, as well as steady participants in our new bi-weekly TinkerPop Gathering event. The regular knowledge-sharing Twitch streams have been on-going as planned. ## Membership Data: Kelvin Lawrence has assumed the PMC Chair position starting July as per the project chair rotation setup. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Yang Xia on 2023-03-15. - No new committer. Last addition was Cole Greer on 2023-05-30 ## Project Activity: TinkerPop released versions 3.7.0, 3.5.7, and 3.6.5 on July 31, 2023, making it the first major version release since the 3.6.0 release in April 2022, as well as the first triple-version release. Various new features were included in this 3.7.0 major release. We have expanded our support to JDK 17 as well as Groovy 4. This release included many usability improvements in areas often requested by users, which included returning vertices and edges with their properties by default instead of only as reference elements, which often led to confusion, especially for new users. The first of the long-desired string manipulation function, concat(), is now part of Gremlin transversal language. We have also introduced transaction support in TinkerGraph, the TinkerPop reference graph implementation We are currently closing in on releasing 3.7.1 shortly, with up to 20 new steps added to the traversal language. These new steps will include further string manipulation step functions for user convenience, as well as additional date and list manipulation steps. Together with 3.7.1, we plan to also publish maintenance releases 3.6.6, and 3.5.8. ### Releases: 3.7.0 was released on 2023-07-31. 3.6.5 was released on 2023-07-31. 3.5.7 was released on 2023-07-31. ## Community Health: We again had some live events on Twitch[1] where the recordings are available on our YouTube channel[2]: * Contributorcast: Apache TinkerPop 3.7.0/3.6.5/3.5.7 Post-Release Review - Presenter: Yang Xia, Valentyn Kahamlyk, Cole Greer, and Ken Hu * TinkerPop Gathering: We have begun a regular bi-weekly event on the Discord channel starting on Aug 18, serving as a dedicated time for users, providers, and developers to meet and chat about any questions or suggestions they have. ## Links [1]: https://www.twitch.tv/apachetinkerpop [2]: https://www.youtube.com/@apachetinkerpop
