Board Report 2017 10

DESCRIPTION

Apache Royale is a new implementation of the principles of Apache Flex but designed for JavaScript runtimes instead of Adobe Flash/AIR runtimes. Apache Royale is designed to improve developer productivity in creating applications for wherever Javascript runs, including browsers as well as Apache Cordova applications, Node, etc.

Apache Royale was approved as a new TLP in the September meeting. Royale took over responsibility for the code related to what was known as Apache FlexJS from the Apache Flex community. This is our first report.

ISSUES

There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.

RELEASES

• Apache FlexJS 0.8.0 was released on 6/25/17.

ACTIVITY

• Apache Royale was approved on September 20, 2017. There some delays getting Royale entered in committee-info.txt in order to allow Infra to start setting up the project. However, at the time of this report, we believe Infra has completed all of its tasks.

• There is quite a bit of work required to deal with the rename of the project and a lot of progress has been made towards that goal.

• One PMC member is working on a website for the project. We expect him to have some results to show soon.

COMMUNITY

The community is still working through the transition from Apache Flex to Apache Royale.

Currently, users@royale has 29 subscribers and dev@royale has 42 subscribers. There has been interest from the community which might lead to new contributors.

Future reports will contain information about:

-Last committer added
-Last PMC member added
-Latest analytics and statistics:
  - Website hits per day
  - Number of known installs

TRADEMARKS

Several PMC members wanted to allow another PMC member to use royalesdk.io and/or royalesdk.org to externally host some content to promote Apache Royale. Trademarks denied use of that domain name. We might revisit the topic if and when there is a concrete reason to do so.

SECURITY

Nothing to report.