board report for oct 2016
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+# October 2016 Board report
+
+ 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
+
