Initial july 2016 report
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+# April 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:
+ - New module: Aries Remote Service Admin seeded from Apache CXF DOSGi for providing an implementation of the OSGi Remote Service Admin specification with pluggable transports. http://aries.apache.org/modules/rsa.html
+ - New module: Aries Transaction Control Service. An implementation of the in development RFC221 at the OSGi Alliance.
+ - 8 releases since the last report in January
+
+## Health report:
+ - Mailing list discussion and project contributions continue to be healthy.
+
+## 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 49 committers.
+ - No new committers added in the last 3 months
+ - Last committer addition was Sam Bratton at Mon Dec 21 2015
+
+## Releases:
+
+ - Aries JPA container (jpa-container) 1.0.4 2016-03-08
+ - Apache Aries Proxy Service (proxy-impl) 1.0.5 2016-03-25
+ - Apache Aries JMX Core (jmx-core) 1.1.6 2016-03-25
+ - Aries Blueprint Core (blueprint-core) 1.6.0 2016-03-25
+ - Aries Blueprint Spring Support (blueprint-spring) 0.2.0 2016-03-25
+ - Aries Blueprint Spring Extender Support (blueprint-spring-extender) 0.2.0 2016-03-25
+ - Aries Blueprint no-OSGI (blueprint-noosgi) 1.1.2 2016-03-25
+ - Aries Blueprint CM (blueprint-cm) 1.0.8 2016-03-25
+
+## Mailing list activity:
+
+ - dev@aries.apache.org:
+ - 131 subscribers (down -4 in the last 3 months):
+ - 488 emails sent to list (527 in previous quarter)
+
+ - user@aries.apache.org:
+ - 236 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
+ - 37 emails sent to list (37 in previous quarter)
+
+
+## JIRA activity:
+
+ - 44 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
+ - 50 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
