A platform for building native mobile applications using HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
There are no issues requiring Board attention at this time.
There were two overall plugin releases this quarter. An overall plugin release usually consists of all, if not most, of our 22 plugins. This number was the same as last quarter.
We had three platform releases - two patch releases for Android (6.1.1 and 6.1.2) and one major release for Windows (5.0.0). Android patch releases were to fix a CI issue, and a security issue, respectively. The major Windows release introduces a major change in resource-file behavior and adds WinMD + C++ based DLL combination support for plugins. There was no iOS platform release this quarter, with ongoing work to release version 4.4.0 in the coming weeks.
We had a minor tools release of the CLI version 6.5.0 which updated Android platform pinning, as well as including minor fixes.
Our status dashboard at http://status.cordova.io is mostly all green. The badges that are red are general flakiness and unreliability of the CI environments that we use, which we are trying to track down. We are running into roadblocks with using Apache‘s account on Travis CI, where pull requests usually don’t start until more than 24 hours later: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-13634 which slows down evaluating contributions and iterative development.
We still have a huge backlog of Github Pull Request activity, same as last quarter -- but it has improved. We would have liked to have direct access to Github to manage these issues better, instead of the workaround we have now. Our JIRA issue resolve rate has vastly improved as well.
Our goal for plugins release is to have one per week as a cadence, and we have failed to do so again this quarter. We have done work on streamlining this so it will improve in the future.