Here's the draft of our September report. -Alex
------------- Apache Flex is an application framework for easily building Flash-based applications for mobile devices, the browser and desktop. RELEASES Apache Flex SDK 4.19.0 was released on 8/6/13. Apache Flex Installer 2.6.0 was released on 8/6/13. ACTIVITY Activity in Apache Flex continues to be in two main areas: improvements To the existing Adobe Flash Platform-dependent code base, including the releases listed above, and prototyping ways to create a version of Flex that is independent from the Adobe Flash Platform. There is another group working on Maven-related tools for the existing code base. Other highlights: -Over 200 bugs were fixed in 4.10.0. -One committer overhauled the wiki to make it better organized. -Adobe submitted the software grant for the BlazeDS software. There are some .jar files in the donation that need to be removed and replaced and that is holding up the actual committing of the code to the repo. COMMUNITY -Cyrill Zadra promoted from committer to PMC on 6/11/13. -Scott Guthmann added as committer and PMC on 7/19/13. Scott's main contributions will be on the marketing side. -Latest analytics include over 600,000 hits on the website in the last six months and the installer has been used to install over 10,000 copies of the SDK. There were 4500 installs of 4.10.0 in the month since its release. -Several Apache Flex committers presented at 360|Stack which is the largest Flex-oriented conference in the world. -Flex mailing lists are now 'mirrored' on Nabble. Mailing list traffic is so high that folks have stopped reading emails. Many of our committers are unable to keep up. June and July almost hit 1000 emails per month each. Folks requested a "forum" interface as being more friendly than the archive or mailing list interfaces. INFRASTRUCTURE * I'm still hoping to find time to resolve INFRA-4380 (attachments in old Flex bugs).
