[REPORT] Apache Karaf - June 2022

[Jean-Baptiste Onofré <jb...@nanthrax.net>]

## Description:
The mission of the Apache Karaf project is the creation and maintenance of
open-source software related to a generic platform providing higher level
features and services specifically designed for creating OSGi-based servers for
distribution at no charge to the public.

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

## Membership Data:
Apache Karaf was founded 2010-06-16 (12 years ago)
There are currently 31 committers and 17 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 8:5.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Francois Papon on 2018-11-29.
- No new committers. Last addition was Francois Papon on 2018-05-19.

## Project Activity:
Karaf runtime 4.4.0 has been released on 2022-04-22. Karaf runtime 4.4.0 is an
important milestone in the project, supporting OSGi R8. Karaf runtime 4.4.1 is
already in preparation including some improvements and minor fixes. Karaf
runtime 4.3.7 has been released on 2022-04-23. New major refactoring on Karaf
Cellar and Karaf Decanter will also start soon.

## Community Health:
Karaf runtime 4.4.0 is an important milestone for the community. We did good
progress on Karaf 5 preparation. We are now working on the tooling (common
part) that the required part to donate Karaf 5 to ASF
(https://github.com/jbonofre/karaf5). We plan to donate Karaf 5 during summer
at max.