[REPORT] Aries October 2016

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

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

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

## Activity:
 - As a community we made 3 releases this quarter and 3 further releases
currently under vote, and added Johannes Utzig as a new committer.

## Health report:
 - The number of subscribes has remained consistent over the last three
months.
 - The user@ traffic has been significantly greater than the previous
three months with a wide range of discussion across the Aries sub-modules.
 - Despite 32 issues being closed off, the number opened was slightly
higher in the past 3 months.

## PMC changes:

 - Currently 37 PMC members.
 - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
 - Last PMC addition was Christian Schneider on Fri Apr 10 2015

## Committer base changes:

 - Currently 52 committers.
 - Johannes Utzig was added as a committer on Wed Sep 14 2016

## Releases:

 - Aries Blueprint Core 1.7.0 (blueprint-core) 2016-09-19
 - Aries Blueprint CM 1.0.9 (blueprint-cm) 2016-09-19
 - Aries Transaction Manager (transaction-manager) 1.3.1 2016-10-07
 - Aries Blueprint Core 1.7.1 (blueprint-core) voting in progres
 - Aries JMX Core 1.1.7 (jmx-core) voting in progress
 - Aries Util 1.1.3 (util) voting in progress

## Mailing list activity:

 - dev@aries.apache.org:
    - 135 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
    - 481 emails sent to list (546 in previous quarter)

 - user@aries.apache.org:
    - 239 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
    - 269 emails sent to list (91 in previous quarter)


## JIRA activity:

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

I'm sorry this a day late - apologies for the inconvenience.

Thanks,
Jeremy