Here's a draft of the board report. Can someone provide new analytics? Anything else to add?
Thanks, -Alex -------- Draft ----------- Apache Flex is an application framework for easily building Flash-based applications for mobile devices, the browser and desktop. RELEASES -Apache FlexJS 0.0.2 was released on 11/14/15. -Apache Flex FalconJX 0.0.2 was released on 11/14/15. -Apache Flex BlazeDS 4.7.2 was released on 11/16/15. -Apache Flex SDK 4.14.1 was released on 3/30/15. -Apache Flex Tour De Flex Component Explorer 1.2 was released on 11/28/14. -Apache Flex Tool API 1.0.0 was released on 11/20/14 -Apache Flex Squiggly 1.1 was released on 10/26/14 -Apache Flex Installer 3.2.0 was released on 6/23/15. ACTIVITY The past three months saw continued activity related to FlexJS, a version of Flex that is independent from the Adobe Flash Platform. After the release in mid-November, mailing list activity related to FlexJS feels like it has reached new heights with new names posting. Another security issue was discovered in the BlazeDS 4.7.1 release resulting in the Blaze 4.7.2 release. Meanwhile, a release manager has volunteered to release Apache Flex SDK 4.15.0 and there is activity around bug fixes to that code. Work on Maven integration continues. Mailing list traffic is down, but not an issue yet. At some point in time, a change to the CMS was made and when we updated our website with news of the FlexJS release, those changes affected the output from the mirrors.cgi and broke our installer. I was able to find a workaround and we'll have to eventually ship a new Installer release that uses JSON output from the cgi. 3 PMC members presented a Flex track at ApacheCon EU and discussion are underway for ApacheCon NA. CODE ADOPTION Based on threads on general@incubator and legal-discuss, we are now discussing the notion of adopting non-ASF code bases that are already licensed under ALv2. One code base is Swiz which was approved for donation by vote over two year ago and reported in prior board reports but was never completed probably because the donor was having trouble tracking everyone down who needed to sign the Software Grant. The other is AS3Commons, which is currently under discussion leading to a vote. The understanding we have is that a Software Grant is not needed to accept these code bases since they are under ALv2. We will contact the major contributors from each code base to make sure there aren't conflicts or other objections to have Apache Flex adopt this code. There is no community around these code bases right now as the major contributors have moved on to other projects so we will accept responses from the major contributors as speaking for the community. COMMUNITY -Josh Tynjala was added as a PMC member. -A discussion is underway about a new committer. -Latest analytics include a little less than 2000 hits per day on the website during the work week (less on weekends). -There were more than 12,500 installs of Apache Flex 4.14.1 since its release about two months ago. -Almost 75,000 people have run the Tour De Flex application. Tour De Flex is a set of examples folks use to learn how to develop Flex applications. TRADEMARKS -The apacheflex.com site we reported in the prior two reports seems to be gone. We never received any response to our request other than the site finally going away. -A PMC member reported that a company is promoting a software product called Flex that appears to be related to themes/styles for website visuals. I used their contact page to deliver the standard trademark violation template just before writing up this report so they haven't had a chance to respond.
