[REPORT] Apache Karaf

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

Apache Karaf provides higher level features and services
specifically designed for creating OSGi-based servers.

Community
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Three talks have been given during ApacheCon EU:
- Enterprise Development with Apache Karaf
- Best Practices for Design and Development of OSGi Applications in 
Apache Karaf
and a tutorial
- Application Integration in OSGi on Apache Karaf

A talk and workshop has been given during latest JUG Barcelona.

Last committer addition: October 21, 2013
Last PMC addition: September 05, 2012

Development
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A plan to have a periodically release cycle has been proposed and we 
move forward to follow this plan.

The following new releases have been voted:
- Apache Karaf Cellar 2.3.3 (maintenance release) (November 17, 2014)
- Apache Karaf 2.3.9 (maintenance release) (November 9, 2014)
- Apache Karaf 4.0.0.M1 (technical preview release) (October 14, 2014)
- Apache Karaf 3.0.2 (maintenance release) (October 13, 2014)
- Apache Karaf 2.4.0 (maintenance release) (September 20, 2014)
- Apache Karaf 2.3.8 (maintenance release) (September 19, 2014)
- Apache Karaf 2.3.7 (maintenance release) (September 6, 2014)

Issues for board consideration
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None so far.