[REPORT] Apache Aries board report November 2015

[Jeremy Hughes <hu...@apache.org>]

Hi, here is the Apache Aries board report for the period from July to
November 2015. Four months since we missed the October report. Our
next report will be in January 2016

   Apache Aries delivers a set of pluggable Java components enabling an
   enterprise OSGi application programming model.

## Issues:
 - There are no issues requiring board attention at this time

## Activity:
  - 23 releases since the last report in July.
  - Increasingly, contributions come in via GitHub pull requests.
  - Good discussions on both user@ and dev@ lists.

## PMC changes:

 - Currently 38 PMC members.
 - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
 - Last PMC addition was Jean-Baptiste Onofre on Fri Apr 10 2015

## Committer base changes:

 - Currently 48 committers.
 - No new committers added in the last 3 months
 - Last committer addition was Giuseppe Gerla at Wed May 27 2015

## Releases:

 - Aries Versioning 0.3.1 2015-07-16
 - Aries Blueprint Core (blueprint-core) 1.4.4 2015-07-16
 - Aries Blueprint CM (blueprint-cm) 1.0.7 2015-07-16
 - Aries Transaction Manager (transaction-manager) 1.3.0 2015-08-10
 - Aries Util (util) 1.1.1 2015-08-10
 - Aries Asynchronous OSGi Services 1.0.1 2015-08-10
 - Aries JPA (jpa) 2.1.0 2015-08-10
 - Aries Transaction Blueprint (transaction-blueprint) 1.1.1 2015-08-11
 - Aries JMX (jmx) 1.1.5 2015-08-30
 - Aries Blueprint Maven Plugin (blueprint-maven-plugin) 1.2.0 2015-09-25
 - Aries Transaction Blueprint (transaction-blueprint) 2.0.0 2015-09-25
 - Aries JPA (jpa) 2.2.0 2015-09-26
 - Aries Subsystem Gogo Command (subsystem-gogo-command) 1.0.0 2015-10-05
 - Aries Subsystems Bundle (subsystem-bundle) 2.0.4 2015-10-07
 - Aries Subsystem API (subsystem-api) 2.0.4 2015-10-07
 - Aries Subsystem Core (subsystem-core) 2.0.4 2015-10-07
 - Aries Subsystem OBR (subsystem-obr) 1.0.4 2015-10-07
 - Aries Blueprint Core (blueprint-core) 1.4.5 2015-10-26
 - Aries Blueprint Parser (blueprint-parser) 1.3.2 2015-10-26
 - Aries Subsystems Bundle (subsystem-bundle) 2.0.6 2015-11-01
 - Aries Subsystem API (subsystem-api) 2.0.6 2015-11-01
 - Aries Subsystem Core (subsystem-core) 2.0.6 2015-11-01
 - Aries SPI-Fly (spi-fly) 1.0.6 2015-11-09

## Mailing list activity:

 - dev@aries.apache.org:
    - 136 subscribers (up 4 in the last 3 months):
    - 824 emails sent to list (533 in previous quarter)

 - user@aries.apache.org:
    - 233 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
    - 98 emails sent to list (29 in previous quarter)


## JIRA activity:

 - 72 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
 - 74 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months

Thanks,
Jeremy