LGTM Thanks Niclas!
Niclas Hedhman a écrit : > It is reporting season, and I am proposing the following updated draft to > be submitted; The previous draft was incorrectly submitted to private@; > Sorry about that. If no objections, I will submit this to board by tomorrow. > > -o-o-o-o- > > Report from the Apache Zest committee [Niclas Hedhman] > > ## Description: > Apache Zest is a community based effort exploring Composite Oriented > Programming for domain centric application development. > > ## Issues: > It has come to the PMC's attention that Eclipse Zest is a well-established > subproject, within EMF/GEF/GMF ecosystem at Eclipse Foundation, and that > there is some conceptual overlap (both deal with explicit application > models). They also started way back in time, and the Zest PMC think that > although we could stick to the name, we think we should express some > goodwill towards Eclipse and change name. The sooner the better, especially > since we have no published releases under the Apache Zest namespace. > > The new name "Apache Polygene" has been chosen, after quite a lot of > discussion back and forth and some dead ends. We have just started the > "unusual" process of project name change, and we are trying to capture the > work needed in https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ZEST-195, a fairly > long list of tasks (currently 18). > > We don't need Board assistance on this issue. > > ## Activity: > Recruitment of new blood is continuing to be our weak spot. Re-positioning, > re-branding, better tutorials and lowering the bar to entry are items to be > worked on, inspired by other Apache projects, although I suspect too few > small projects check what other smaller ASF projects do right. > > Zest is a small community, and this quarter was very typical, with good > progress towards the long overdue 3.0 release, which is all about making > the incompatible changes once and for all, both in namespaces as well as > leveraging Java 8 features in public APIs and discarding outdated ways for > that. > > Zest is started participating in Oracle's outreach beta testing of Java 9 > in CI build, and we are currently reporting "yellow" but expect to go > "green" before 3.0 release. > > ## Health report: > Zest is small, but above the threshold for worry. Efforts are being worked > on to simplify adoption. > Mailing list activity remains moderate and JIRA issues are being both > created and worked on. > All active committers that are willing, are on the PMC already. > > ## PMC changes: > > - Currently 11 PMC members. > - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months > - Last PMC addition was Kent Sølvsten on Tue Sep 22 2015 > > ## Committer base changes: > > - Currently 18 committers. > - No new committers added in the last 3 months > - Last committer addition was Georg Ragaller at Thu Jun 16 2016 > > ## Releases: > > - Last release was JAVA-2.1 on Fri Jul 31 2015 > > ## Mailing list activity: > > Rich Bowen is taking up 100% of the traffic on the users@ list :-) with > announcements. Officially, the users@ list is non-active as all queries are > directed to the dev@ list. The dev@ activity this month was normal, > although the stats shows a substantial increase, but that is probably due > to a larger number of CI build reports, some related to Java 9 testing > > > - [email protected]: > - 19 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months): > - 2 emails sent to list (2 in previous quarter) > > - [email protected]: > - 40 subscribers (up 3 in the last 3 months): > - 332 emails sent to list (240 in previous quarter) > > > ## JIRA activity: > - 38 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months > - 12 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months > >
