Report from the Apache Jackrabbit committee [Michael Dürig] (Submitted Sept. 12th 2018)
## Description: The Apache Jackrabbit™ content repository is a fully conforming implementation of the Content Repository for Java™ Technology API (JCR, specified in JSR 170 and 283). The Jackrabbit content repository is stable, largely feature complete and actively being maintained. Jackrabbit Oak is an effort to implement a scalable and performant hierarchical content repository as a modern successor to the Apache Jackrabbit content repository. It is targeted for use as the foundation of modern world-class web sites and other demanding content applications. In contrast to its predecessor, Oak does not implement all optional features from the JSR specifications and it is not a reference implementation. ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at this time ## Activity: Apache Jackrabbit Oak receives most attention nowadays. All maintenance branches and the unstable development branch are continuously seeing moderate to high activity. Apache Jackrabbit itself is mostly in maintenance mode with most of the work going into bug fixing and tooling. New features are mainly driven by dependencies from Oak. The direct binary access feature finally landed in trunk this quarter. This is a major new feature that required effort and coordination from many different domain experts in our comitter base. There is an ongoing effort to understand and be prepared for the impact of the changes in the release model of Java. This includes evaluating whether we can support newer Java versions on some of our branches. We expect to further improve modularisation of our code base to enable independent releases for non core moduls. Discussions and prototyping is expected to happen in the next couple of months. ## Health report: The project is healthy with a continuous stream of traffic on all mailing lists reflecting the activity of the respective component. There is a wide range of topics being discussed on the various Jira issues. ## PMC changes: - Currently 51 PMC members. - Last PMC addition was Matt Ryan on Mon Sep 10 2018 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 51 committers. - Matt Ryan was added as a committer on Sun Sep 09 2018 ## Releases: - jackrabbit-2.14.6 was released on Sun Sep 02 2018 - jackrabbit-2.16.2 was released on Tue Jun 12 2018 - jackrabbit-2.16.3 was released on Tue Jul 31 2018 - jackrabbit-2.17.4 was released on Tue Jul 10 2018 - jackrabbit-2.17.5 was released on Wed Jul 25 2018 - jackrabbit-2.8.8 was released on Tue Jul 03 2018 - jackrabbit-2.8.9 was released on Mon Jul 16 2018 - vault-3.2 was released on Thu Aug 09 2018 - vault-package-maven-plugin-1.0.3 was released on Fri Aug 31 2018 - oak-1.4.22 was released on Mon Jun 25 2018 - oak-1.6.13 was released on Wed Jul 25 2018 - oak-1.8.5 was released on Tue Jul 03 2018 - oak-1.8.6 was released on Tue Jul 31 2018 - oak-1.8.7 was released on Tue Aug 28 2018 - oak-1.9.5 was released on Tue Jul 03 2018 - oak-1.9.6 was released on Wed Jul 18 2018 - oak-1.9.7 was released on Tue Aug 14 2018 - oak-1.9.8 was released on Tue Aug 28 2018 ## JIRA activity: - 281 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 263 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months