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.

Membership Data:

Apache Jackrabbit was founded 2006-03-15 (15 years ago) There are currently 58 committers and 58 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 1:1.

Community changes, past quarter:

• No new PMC members. Last addition was Miroslav Smiljanic on 2020-10-27.
• No new committers. Last addition was Miroslav Smiljanic on 2020-10-27.

Project Activity:

Apache Jackrabbit Oak receives most attention nowadays. All maintenance branches and the main development branch are continuously seeing moderate to high activity.

We continue making regular feature releases of Jackrabbit Oak. The most recent release was Jackrabbit Oak 1.38.0 that was made available on January 28th.

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 Jackrabbit Oak.

Mid-February the team decided to drop support and deprecate the 1.2 branch of Apache Jackrabbit Oak. Users are encouraged to upgrade to the latest stable 1.38.0 version (https://s.apache.org/ih4ms).

On March 1st a JCRSITE issue was created with spam content. The ticket INFRA-21489 was processed very quickly by the ASF infrastructure team. Thanks! At the same time the Jackrabbit team also noticed Jukka Zitting is set as the project lead for the JCRSITE. Jukka is not active anymore on the project and INFRA-21488 requests a change of the project lead.

Community Health:

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 dev and user lists as well as on the various JIRA issues.

Commit activity is moderate mirroring the activity on the JIRA issues and the desire of the individual contributors to bring features and improvements in for the next Jackrabbit Oak release.

Releases:

• jackrabbit-2.21.5 was released on 2021-01-14
• jackrabbit-oak-1.22.6 was released on 2021-01-19
• jackrabbit-filevault-3.4.8 was released on 2021-01-22
• filevault-package-maven-plugin-1.1.6 was released on 2021-01-22
• jackrabbit-oak-1.38.0 was released on 2021-01-28
• jackrabbit-2.16.7 was released on 2021-02-11
• jackrabbit-filevault-3.4.10 was released on 2021-03-01

JIRA activity:

• 110 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
• 109 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months