initial Jan 2018 board report
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+# October 2017 Board report
+- Apache Aries delivers a set of pluggable Java components enabling an enterprise OSGi application programming model.
+
+## Issues:
+
+- None to report this quarter.
+
+## Activity & Health report:
+
+- As a community we made 10 releases this quarter.
+- Mailing list activity and pull request contribution remains broadly the same.
+- Release Distribution Policy update: .sha1 and .md5 files for all released files.
+
+## PMC changes:
+
+ - Currently 38 PMC members.
+ - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
+ - Last PMC addition was Dominik Przybysz on Tue May 30 2017
+
+## Committer base changes:
+
+ - Currently 55 committers.
+ - No new committers added in the last 3 months
+ - Last committer addition was Tom De Wolf at Wed May 03 2017
+
+## Releases:
+
+- subsystem (uber bundle) 2.0.10 was released on Tue Aug 08 2017
+- subsystem-api 2.0.10 was released on Tue Aug 08 2017
+- subsystem-core 2.0.10 was released on Tue Aug 08 2017
+- blueprint-maven-plugin 1.8.0 was released on Thu Aug 17 2017
+- blueprint-maven-plugin 1.9.0 was released on Tue Oct 10 2017
+- blueprint-maven-plugin-spi 1.1.0 was released on Thu Aug 17 2017
+- blueprint-maven-plugin-annotation 1.2.0 was released on Thu Aug 17 2017
+- blueprint-maven-plugin-annotation 1.3.0 was released on Tue Oct 10 2017
+- blueprint-maven-plugin-pax-cdi-handlers 1.9.0 was released on Tue Oct 10 2017
+- blueprint-spring 1.2.0 was released on Mon Oct 2 2017
+
+## Mailing list activity:
+
+ - dev@aries.apache.org:
+ - 136 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
+ - 200 emails sent to list (310 in previous quarter)
+
+ - user@aries.apache.org:
+ - 243 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
+ - 27 emails sent to list (34 in previous quarter)
+
+## JIRA activity:
+
+ - 16 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
+ - 16 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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