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Board Report 2017 12
Apache Royale is a new implementation of the principles of Apache Flex but designed for JavaScript runtimes instead of Adobe Flash/AIR runtimes. Apache Royale is designed to improve developer productivity in creating applications for wherever Javascript runs, including browsers as well as Apache Cordova applications, Node, etc.
Apache Royale was approved as a new TLP in the September meeting. Royale took over responsibility for the code related to what was known as Apache FlexJS from the Apache Flex community. This is our second report.
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
- Apache FlexJS 0.8.0 was released on 6/25/17.
- The effort to set up new builds and rename code assets from FlexJS to Royale was/is significant and that effort is more-or-less complete. There might be a few loose ends that still need to be tied up.
- Related to the above, Flash should no longer be a requirement to build Royale.
- Some new names have appeared on the mailing lists investigating whether Royale is a suitable solution for migrating existing Flex applications off of Flash.
- One PMC member has proposed an initial web site for Royale. There were some logistical issues in being allowed to use it as he created it on WordPress with a commercial theme. Those issues are mostly resolved at this time. The web site work has stalled a bit the last few weeks. We need to renew momentum on finishing the website work.
- Some work is being done on a new default look-and-feel for Royale.
- There has been some progress and discussion on improving the testing architecture to make it easier to improve the automated test coverage.
- Discussion has started on the release process for the first Royale release.
The community is still working through the transition from Apache Flex to Apache Royale. There is much documentation remaining to be transitioned from the Apache Flex wiki to some place in Apache Royale.
Currently, users@royale has 39 subscribers (up from 38) and dev@royale has 52 (up from 47) subscribers. We are not sure why more folks from the Flex mailing lists haven't subscribed to Royale, but it's likely that once we get our website and documentation moved over we will ask again on the Flex lists to see if folks want to come over.
We have not added any new committers or PMC members yet.
There is talk of possibly having a small hackathon in January.
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
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