Podling ShenYu Report - June 2021

[Zhang Yonglun <zh...@apache.org>]

Dear community,

The following is the content of podling ShenYu monthly report.

## ShenYu

ShenYu is a high performance Microservices API gateway in Java ecosystem,
compatible with a variety of mainstream framework systems, supports hot
plug. Users can write their own plugin meet the current requirement and
future needs in a variety of scenarios, especially in large-scale scenes.

ShenYu has been incubating since 2021-05-03.

### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

  1. Code repositories migration to Incubator.
  2. Website transition to Incubator.
  3. Make an Apache Release

### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?

  None.

### How has the community developed since the last report?

  * 10+ new contributors participate in the community since entered the
  Incubator. There are currently 171 contributors and 24 committers.
  * There is regular traffic on the mailing list
  (~217 mailing list discussions/month).
  * Number of GitHub stars increased
  (before incubating: 3940, currently: 4689).
  * Hold Bi-weekly online meetings between committers. Mainly discussed new
  features and community building.

### How has the project developed since the last report?

  * Rename the project name from Soul to ShenYu.
  * Establish the official website for ShenYu.
  * Refactor PredicateJudge module using SPI.
  * Optimization of GRPC plugin.
  * Add JWT plugin.
  * Add Request plugin.

### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
  Please feel free to add your own commentary.

  - [ ] Initial setup
  - [ ] First release done
  - [ ] Community building
  - [ ] Nearing graduation
  - [ ] Other:

### Date of last release:

  No Release yet.

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

  May 2021

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

  Our mentors have been helpful and responsive.

### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?

  The PPMC manages the podling's brand / trademarks.

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (shenyu) Willem Ning Jiang
     Comments:
  - [ ] (shenyu) Jincheng Sun
     Comments:
  - [ ] (shenyu) Duo Zhang
     Comments:
  - [ ] (shenyu) Kevin Ratnasekera
     Comments:
  - [ ] (shenyu) Atri Sharma
     Comments:
  - [ ] (shenyu) Justin Mclean
     Comments:

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:


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Zhang Yonglun
Apache ShenYu (Incubating)
Apache ShardingSphere