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From: OmPrakash Muppirala <bigosmallm@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2015 12:06:33 -0800
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Subject: Re: [DRAFT] Apache Flex December 2015 Board Report
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Can you give me a date range for the analytics?

Thanks,
Om

On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 11:29 AM, Alex Harui <aharui@adobe.com> wrote:

> Here's a draft of the board report.  Can someone provide new analytics?
> Anything else to add?
>
> Thanks,
> -Alex
>
> -------- Draft -----------
>
> Apache Flex is an application framework for easily building Flash-based
> applications for mobile devices, the browser and desktop.
>
> RELEASES
> -Apache FlexJS 0.0.2 was released on 11/14/15.
> -Apache Flex FalconJX 0.0.2 was released on 11/14/15.
> -Apache Flex BlazeDS 4.7.2 was released on 11/16/15.
>
> -Apache Flex SDK 4.14.1 was released on 3/30/15.
> -Apache Flex Tour De Flex Component Explorer 1.2 was released on 11/28/14.
> -Apache Flex Tool API 1.0.0 was released on 11/20/14
> -Apache Flex Squiggly 1.1 was released on 10/26/14
> -Apache Flex Installer 3.2.0 was released on 6/23/15.
>
>
>
> ACTIVITY
> The past three months saw continued activity related to FlexJS, a version
> of Flex that is independent from the Adobe Flash Platform. After the
> release in mid-November, mailing list activity related to FlexJS feels
> like it has reached new heights with new names posting.  Another security
> issue was discovered in the BlazeDS 4.7.1 release resulting in the Blaze
> 4.7.2 release.  Meanwhile, a release manager has volunteered to release
> Apache Flex SDK 4.15.0 and there is activity around bug fixes to that
> code.  Work on Maven integration continues.  Mailing list traffic is down,
> but not an issue yet.
>
> At some point in time, a change to the CMS was made and when we updated
> our website with news of the FlexJS release, those changes affected the
> output from the mirrors.cgi and broke our installer.  I was able to find a
> workaround and we'll have to eventually ship a new Installer release that
> uses JSON output from the cgi.
>
> 3 PMC members presented a Flex track at ApacheCon EU and discussion are
> underway for ApacheCon NA.
>
> CODE ADOPTION
> Based on threads on general@incubator and legal-discuss, we are now
> discussing the notion of adopting non-ASF code bases that are already
> licensed under ALv2.  One code base is Swiz which was approved for
> donation by vote over two year ago and reported in prior board reports but
> was never completed probably because the donor was having trouble tracking
> everyone down who needed to sign the Software Grant.  The other is
> AS3Commons, which is currently under discussion leading to a vote.
>
> The understanding we have is that a Software Grant is not needed to accept
> these code bases since they are under ALv2.  We will contact the major
> contributors from each code base to make sure there aren't conflicts or
> other objections to have Apache Flex adopt this code.  There is no
> community around these code bases right now as the major contributors have
> moved on to other projects so we will accept responses from the major
> contributors as speaking for the community.
>
> COMMUNITY
> -Josh Tynjala was added as a PMC member.
> -A discussion is underway about a new committer.
> -Latest analytics include a little less than 2000 hits per day on the
> website during the work week (less on weekends).
> -There were more than 12,500 installs of Apache Flex 4.14.1 since its
> release about two months ago.
> -Almost 75,000 people have run the Tour De Flex application.  Tour De Flex
> is a set of examples folks use to learn how to develop Flex applications.
>
> TRADEMARKS
> -The apacheflex.com site we reported in the prior two reports seems to be
> gone.  We never received any response to our request other than the site
> finally going away.
> -A PMC member reported that a company is promoting a software product
> called Flex that appears to be related to themes/styles for website
> visuals.  I used their contact page to deliver the standard trademark
> violation template just before writing up this report so they haven't had
> a chance to respond.
>
>
>
>

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