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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 
+