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# July 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:

- As a community we made 9 releases this quarter.
- We have added a new project: Aries Containers for manage container deployments from a Java API.

## Health report:

- The dev@ list traffic is back to the level from 2 quarters after a spike last quarter.
- The dev@ mailing list seems to be the channel most people communicate over.

## PMC changes:

- Currently 38 PMC members.
- Dominik Przybysz was added to the PMC on Tue May 30 2017

## Committer base changes:

- Currently 55 committers.
- New commmitters:
  - Raymond Augé was added as a committer on Mon Apr 24 2017
  - Tom De Wolf was added as a committer on Wed May 03 2017

## Releases:

- aries-rsa 1.11.0 was released on Fri Jul 07 2017
- blueprint-core 1.8.1 was released on Fri May 12 2017
- blueprint-core 1.8.2 was released on Thu Jul 06 2017
- blueprint-maven-plugin 1.7.0 was released on Fri May 19 2017
- blueprint-maven-plugin-spring-handlers 1.0.0 was released on Fri May 19 2017
- blueprint-spring 0.4.0 was released on Thu Jul 06 2017
- proxy-impl 1.1.1 was released on Fri May 12 2017
- transaction-manager 1.3.3 was released on Fri May 12 2017
- tx-control 0.0.3 was released on Mon Jun 26 2017

## Mailing list activity:

- dev@aries.apache.org:
  - 137 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
  - 324 emails sent to list (586 in previous quarter)

- user@aries.apache.org:
  - 241 subscribers (up 4 in the last 3 months):
  - 34 emails sent to list (38 in previous quarter)

## JIRA activity:

- 15 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 22 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months