Hi Folks, Any other updates/comments before I submit our latest board report? (Due tomorrow)
Thanks, Paul. ===============>8============== ## Description: Apache Groovy is responsible for the evolution and maintenance of the Groovy programming language ## Issues: No issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Membership Data: Apache Groovy was founded 2015-11-18 (6 years ago) There are currently 20 committers and 11 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 5:3. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Eric Milles on 2020-11-20. - No new committers. Last addition was Mikko Värri on 2020-06-03. ## Project Activity: We continue to work on bug fixes for 2.5.x and 3.0.x and continue to assist other non-Apache projects within the Groovy ecosystem move to Groovy 3 and prepare for Groovy 4. We have been receiving very valuable feedback on edge cases for our static compiler from a research group and have been making adjustments as needed. We are also continuing on our roadmap for Groovy 4. We recently added support for records, sealed classes, switch expressions and an integrated query DSL. We expect to be releasing release candidates for Groovy 4 soon with a final GA release for Groovy 4 still expected late this year or early next year depending on feedback. We have also been working on improving our support for recent JDKs (16-18). Recent releases: 2.5.15 was released on 2021-09-06. 3.0.9 was released on 2021-09-06. 4.0.0-beta-1 was released on 2021-09-06. 4.0.0-beta-2 has also been released recently but after the reporting period for this report and will be included in the next report. ## Community Health: Activity has been strong in the last quarter. The ASF Board Reporter wizard indicated an increase in activity for all metrics across mailing lists and issues/PRs opened/closed. Some of this can be attributed to some small contributions from Hacktoberfest but interest was also healthy outside that blip that we seem to get most years around this time. Groovy remained at a healthy position on the latest TIOBE language index. Popular JVM languages: Java 3, Groovy 12, Kotlin 33, Scala 35, Clojure 39. This quarter, 297 commits were contributed from 9 contributors including 6 non-committer contributors (5 new).
