It's the time of the year where we take a look back at 2019, and compile a brief summary of the Apache Camel project.
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The big news of 2019 was the much anticipated release of Apache Camel 3.
It was also in 2019 that the Camel project became a faimily of projects by introducing:
Making Apache Camel a trilogy. But it does not stop there; in early 2020 three will become five when we release:
Number of Camel releases in 2019: 21 Number of Camel K and Camel Quarkus releases in 2019: 15
Number of posts on Camel user forum in 2019: 1305 Number of gitter chat users at end of 2019: 691 Number of commits in 2019: 6734 (git shortlog -ns --since 2019-01-01 --until 2020-01-01 | cut -c1-7 | awk ‘{ SUM += $1} END { print SUM }’)
Total number of JIRA tickets created at end of 2019: 14340 Number of JIRA tickets created in 2019: 1306 Number of JIRA tickets resolved in 2019: 1379
Stackoverflow number of questions at end of 2019: 9311 Stackoverflow number of watchers at end of 2019: 2.1k
Number of stars on github at end of 2019: 3031 Total number of commits at end of 2019: 41164 Total number of contributors on github at end of 2019: 555 Number of closed pull requests at end of 2019: 3434 Number of closed pull requests in 2019: 482 (is:pr is:closed merged:>=2019-01-01) Number of committers doing commits in 2019: 218 (git shortlog --since 2019-01-01 --until 2020-01-01 -ns | wc -l).
The Apache Software Foundation recently posted a summary of the most active projects in 2019 and Apache Camel was ranked in the top 5 by commits and github traffic.
Happy New Year and 2020 is going to be a great year for Apache Camel with Camel Kafka Connector, Camel K and Camel Quarkus all in the works and to be released as production ready 1.0 releases.