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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
+
+
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