Blog from January, 2019

Camel BoF at FOSDEM 2019

Come join us at the Camel Birds of a Feather session at FOSDEM 2019 this Saturday, 2.2.2019. from 12:00 to 13:00 in the Room H.3242 J.1.106 at Université libre de Bruxelles Campus du Solbosch, Brussels, Belgium.

For those not familiar with FOSDEM: Free and Open source Software Developers' European Meeting (FOSDEM) it's a two-day event organized by volunteers to promote the widespread use of free and open source software. It is the biggest free software event in Europe organized by the community. Entrance is completely free, there's no registration, you just need to show up.

Find more information on the FOSDEM 2019 website.

On behalf of Camel PMC,

Zoran Regvart

@ApacheCamel on Twitter

Apache Camel project now has an official Twitter account at @ApacheCamel (https://twitter.com/ApacheCamel).

Please follow to receive news about the Camel project.

On behalf of the Camel PMC,

Zoran Regvart

The Camel community announces the immediate availability of the new patch release Camel 2.22.3. This release contains 44 fixes applied in the past few weeks by the community on the Camel 2.22.x maintenance branch.

The artifacts are published and ready for you to download either from the Apache mirrors or from the Central Maven repository. For more details please take a look at the release notes.
Many thanks to all who made this release possible.

On behalf of the Camel PMC,
Gregor Zurowski

The Camel community announces the immediate availability of the new patch release Camel 2.23.1. This release contains 33 fixes applied in the past few weeks by the community on the Camel 2.23.x maintenance branch.

The artifacts are published and ready for you to download either from the Apache mirrors or from the Central Maven repository. For more details please take a look at the release notes.
Many thanks to all who made this release possible.

On behalf of the Camel PMC,
Gregor Zurowski

The Camel community announces the immediate availability of the new patch release Camel 2.21.4. This release contains 24 fixes and improvements. An overview of the changes is available here. This is the last planned patch release for the 2.21.x branch.

The artifacts are published and ready for you to download either from the Apache mirrors or from the Central Maven repository. For more details please take a look at the release notes.

Many thanks to all who made this release possible.

On behalf of the Camel PMC,
Gregor Zurowski

Apache Camel 2018 Numbers

Summary of statistics for the Apache Camel project for the year 2018.

Number of releases in 2018: 12
Number of posts on Camel user forum in 2018: 1266
Number of gitter chat users at end of 2018: 428
Number of commits in 2018: 3600 (git shortlog -ns — since 2018–01–01 — until 2019–01–01 | cut -c1–7 | awk ‘{ SUM += $1} END { print SUM }’)

Total number of JIRA tickets created at end of 2018: 13033
Number of JIRA tickets created in 2018: 924
Number of JIRA tickets resolved in 2018: 766

Stackoverflow number of questions at end of 2018: 8375
Stackoverflow number of watchers at end of 2018: 1.8k

Number of stars on github at end of 2018: 2303
Total number of commits at end of 2018: 34431
Total number of contributors on github at end of 2018: 447
Number of closed pull requests at end of 2018: 2674
Number of closed pull requests in 2018: 280 (is:pr is:closed merged:>=2018–01–01)
Number of committers doing commits in 2018: 184 (git shortlog — since 2018–01–01 — until 2019–01–01 -ns | wc -l).

The Apache Software Foundation recently posted a summary of the most active projects in 2018 and Apache Camel was ranked 4th by commits.

You can find more statistics for example at GitHub and OpenHub.

Happy New Year and 2019 is going to be a special year for Apache Camel, with Camel 3 in the works.