## Description:
Apache DeltaSpike is a suite of portable CDI (Contexts & Dependency
Injection) extensions intended to make application development easier when
working with CDI and Java EE. Some of its key features include:
- A core runtime that supports component configuration, type safe messaging
and internationalization, and exception handling.
- A suite of utilities to make programmatic bean lookup easier.
- A plugin for Java SE to bootstrap both JBoss Weld and Apache OpenWebBeans
outside of a container.
- JSF integration, including backporting of JSF 2.2 features for Java EE 6.
- JPA integration and transaction support.
- A Data module, to create an easy to use repository pattern on top of JPA.
- Quartz integration
Testing support is also provided, to allow you to do low level unit testing of your CDI enabled projects.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
We are still preparing the upcoming release 1.8, which mainly consists of a reworked configuration API and bugfixes.
We are also discussing the change of the PMC chair as we agreed on yearly chair rotation.
## Health report:
The community and developers activity was a little bit higher again.
As already stated in the last report:
The activity is quite low as DeltaSpike is already very stable and covers many real-life usecases.
It will likely be higher again if we preparing our code-base this year for Java 8 / Java EE8.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 19 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Harald Wellmann on Thu May 19 2016
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 33 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Matej Novotny at Fri Jun 03 2016
## Releases:
- Last release was 1.7.2 on Sun Nov 06 2016
## Mailing list activity:
- users@deltaspike.apache.org:
- 180 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 75 emails sent to list (19 in previous quarter)
- dev@deltaspike.apache.org:
- 104 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 154 emails sent to list (150 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 20 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 18 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months