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Posted to dev@skywalking.apache.org by Sheng Wu <wu...@gmail.com> on 2022/10/08 09:02:20 UTC

SkyWalking Board Report Oct. 2022(draft)

## Description:
The mission of Apache SkyWalking is the creation and maintenance of software
related to application performance management and monitoring (APM)

## Issues:
There is no issue

## Membership Data:
Apache SkyWalking was founded 2019-04-17 (3 years ago)
There are currently 54 committers and 32 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:4.

Community changes, past quarter:
- Yanlong He was added to the PMC on 2022-10-03
- Jiemin Xia was added to the PMC on 2022-10-04
- Jiemin Xia was added as committer on 2022-07-26

## Project Activity:
The community released a dozen of versions for main and sub projects.

php-0.1.0 was released on  2022-10-08
cli-0.11.0 was released on  2022-09-20
skywalking-kubernetes-4.3.0 was released on  2022-09-20
SWCK-0.7.0 was released on 2022-09-16.
rover-0.3.0 was released on 2022-09-12.
java-8.12.0 was released on 2022-09-03.
9.2.0 was released on 2022-09-01.
rust-0.4.0 was released on 2022-08-31.
rust-0.3.0 was released on 2022-07-21.
nodejs-0.5.1 was released on 2022-07-18.
infra-e2e-1.2.0 was released on 2022-07-10.
nodejs-0.5.0 was released on 2022-07-10.
python-0.8.0 was released on 2022-07-10.
satellite-1.0.1 was released on 2022-07-10.

Two important blogs are posted about expanding observability to eBPF stack
powered by rover agent and latest(9.2.0) backend.
- Diagnose Service Mesh Network Performance with eBPF
- Pinpoint Service Mesh Critical Performance Impact by using eBPF

## Community Health:
After 9.2.0 released, the 9.x version series becomes stable.
The number of issues, commits and PRs dropped 15%.
The community is healthy. The contributors are active.
Sheng Wu 吴晟
Twitter, wusheng1108