[REPORT] Apache Aries October 2017

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

Dear Board,

Here is the report for October 2017:

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

## Issues:

- None to report this quarter.

## Activity & Health report:

- As a community we made 10 releases this quarter. - Mailing list activity
  and pull request contribution remains broadly the same. - Release
  Distribution Policy update: .sha1 and .md5 files for all released files.

## PMC changes:

- Currently 38 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3
  months - Last PMC addition was Dominik Przybysz on Tue May 30 2017

## Committer base changes:

- Currently 55 committers. - No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Tom De Wolf at Wed May 03 2017

## Releases:

- subsystem (uber bundle) 2.0.10 was released on Tue Aug 08 2017
- subsystem-api 2.0.10 was released on Tue Aug 08 2017
- subsystem-core 2.0.10 was released on Tue Aug 08 2017
- blueprint-maven-plugin 1.8.0 was released on Thu Aug 17 2017
- blueprint-maven-plugin 1.9.0 was released on Tue Oct 10 2017
- blueprint-maven-plugin-spi 1.1.0 was released on
  Thu Aug 17 2017
- blueprint-maven-plugin-annotation 1.2.0 was released on
  Thu Aug 17 2017
- blueprint-maven-plugin-annotation 1.3.0 was released on
  Tue Oct 10 2017
- blueprint-maven-plugin-pax-cdi-handlers 1.9.0 was released on
  Tue Oct 10 2017
- blueprint-spring 1.2.0 was released on Mon Oct 2 2017

## Mailing list activity:

- dev@aries.apache.org:
   - 136 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months): - 200 emails sent to
   list (310 in previous quarter)

- user@aries.apache.org:
   - 243 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months): - 27 emails sent to
   list (34 in previous quarter)

## JIRA activity:

- 16 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 16 JIRA tickets
closed/resolved in the last 3 months