Apache Aries July 2013 board report

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

Dear Board, please find below the Apache Aries board report for July.
It is also checked into the board agenda file.

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

## Releases

* Apache Aries Subsystems Bundle 1.0.0

This is an 'uber' bundle form of the API and implementation (core) bundles
of Aries Subsystems. Together these are the reference implementation of
the OSGi Subsystem Service Specification which "provides a declarative
model for defining resource collections, including bundles, and an API for
installing and managing those collections of resources." See OSGi
Enterprise Release 5 specification chapter 134. The 'uber' bundle is
released for a convenience for people starting out with Subsystems.

##Project update

We have voted in John Ross as a member of the PMC. No new committers since
the last report. Usage questions and interactions with other non-ASF
projects continue to be asked on the user list, showing users are putting
Aries to use in real world scenarios.

There are no board level issues.


Thanks,
Jeremy