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# October 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 & Health report: 

- As a community we made 10 releases this quarter.
- Mailing list activity and pull request contribution remains broadly the same.
- Release Distribution Policy update: .sha1 and .md5 files for all released files.
      
## PMC changes: 
   
 - Currently 38 PMC members. 
 - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months 
 - Last PMC addition was Dominik Przybysz on Tue May 30 2017 
   
## Committer base changes: 
   
 - Currently 55 committers. 
 - No new committers added in the last 3 months 
 - Last committer addition was Tom De Wolf at Wed May 03 2017 

## Releases: 
   
- subsystem (uber bundle) 2.0.10 was released on Tue Aug 08 2017
- subsystem-api 2.0.10 was released on Tue Aug 08 2017
- subsystem-core 2.0.10 was released on Tue Aug 08 2017
- blueprint-maven-plugin 1.8.0 was released on Thu Aug 17 2017
- blueprint-maven-plugin 1.9.0 was released on Tue Oct 10 2017
- blueprint-maven-plugin-spi 1.1.0 was released on Thu Aug 17 2017
- blueprint-maven-plugin-annotation 1.2.0 was released on Thu Aug 17 2017
- blueprint-maven-plugin-annotation 1.3.0 was released on Tue Oct 10 2017
- blueprint-maven-plugin-pax-cdi-handlers 1.9.0 was released on Tue Oct 10 2017
- blueprint-spring 1.2.0 was released on Mon Oct 2 2017
   
## Mailing list activity: 
   
 - dev@aries.apache.org:  
    - 136 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months): 
    - 200 emails sent to list (310 in previous quarter) 
   
 - user@aries.apache.org:  
    - 243 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months): 
    - 27 emails sent to list (34 in previous quarter)
   
## JIRA activity: 
   
 - 16 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months 
 - 16 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months