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# October 2015 Report from the Apache Aries committee [Jeremy Hughes]

## Description: 
   OSGi Enterprise Programming Model 
   
## Issues: 

There are no issues requiring board attention at this time
   
## Activity: 

Rising activity on mailing lists. At the moment very few active committers.
Main development areas are subsystems, transaction and jpa.
   
## Health report: 


## PMC changes: 
   
 - Currently 38 PMC members. 
 - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months 
 - Last PMC addition was Jean-Baptiste Onofre at Fri Apr 10 2015 
   
## LDAP changes: 
   
 - Currently 48 committers and 38 committee group members. 
 - No new committee group members added in the last 3 months 
 - Last committee group addition was Jean-Baptiste Onofre at Sat Apr 11 2015 
 - No new committers added in the last 3 months 
 - Last committer addition was Giuseppe Gerla at Wed May 27 2015 
   
## Releases: 
   
 - Versioning 0.3.1 2015-07-16
 - Blueprint Core 1.4.4 2015-07-16
 - Blueprint CM 1.0.7 2015-07-16
 - subsystem-bundle:2.0.4 2015-10-07
 - subsystem-api:2.0.4 2015-10-07
 - subsystem-core:2.0.4 2015-10-07
 - subsystem-obr:1.0.4 2015-10-07
 - transaction blueprint 1.1.1 2015-08-11
 - JPA 2.2.0 2015-09-26
 - transaction blueprint 2.0.0 2015-09-25
 - blueprint-maven-plugin 1.2.0 2015-09-25
 - Subsystem Gogo Command 1.0.0 2015-10-05
 - transaction manager 1.3.0 2015-08-10
 - JPA 2.1.0 2015-08-10
 - Aries Asynchronous OSGi Services 1.0.1 2015-08-10
 - Aries Util 1.1.1 2015-08-10
 - JMX 1.1.5 2015-08-30
   
## Mailing list activity: 
   
 - dev@aries.apache.org:  
    - 136 subscribers (up 5 in the last 3 months): 
    - 833 emails sent to list (394 in previous quarter) 
   
 - user@aries.apache.org:  
    - 232 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months): 
    - 106 emails sent to list (11 in previous quarter) 
   
   
## JIRA activity: 
   
 - 79 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months 
 - 90 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months