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| Date | Action | Decided by |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-24 | Appointed James Fredley | the board, by resolution |
| Date | Decision | Item | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-24 | Establish the Apache Grails Project | special order | approved |
## Description: The mission of Apache Grails is the creation and maintenance of software related to the development of a powerful Groovy-based web application framework for the JVM built on top of Spring Boot ## Project Status: Current project status: Ongoing Issues for the board: None ## Membership Data: Apache Grails was founded 2025-09-23 (a year ago) There are currently 18 committers and 13 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 9:7. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Thomas Rasmussen on 2026-01-19. - Gianluca Sartori was added as committer on 2026-08-05 ## Project Activity: CORE-7.0.15 was released on 2026-08-06. CORE-7.1.5 was released on 2026-08-06. CORE-7.2.2 was released on 2026-08-06. CORE-8.0.0-M5 was released on 2026-08-06. ACTIONS-1.0.3 was released on 2026-07-24. CORE-8.0.0-M4 was released on 2026-07-24. GRAILS-PUBLISH-1.0.0-M2 was released on 2026-07-24. CORE-7.0.14 was released on 2026-07-14. CORE-7.1.4 was released on 2026-07-14. CORE-7.2.1 was released on 2026-07-14. CORE-8.0.0-M3 was released on 2026-07-14. CORE-8.0.0-M2 was released on 2026-07-05. CORE-7.0.13 was released on 2026-07-04. CORE-7.1.3 was released on 2026-07-04. CORE-7.2.0 was released on 2026-07-04. CORE-7.0.12 was released on 2026-06-22. CORE-7.1.2 was released on 2026-06-22. ## Community Health: The project is more active than it has been in around a decade. The Grails 8 release will be larger than 7 and the largest to date. There will be four Apache Grails presentations at Community over Code and it will be the largest gathering of Grails committers and users in many years.
## Description: The mission of Apache Grails is the creation and maintenance of software related to the development of a powerful Groovy-based web application framework for the JVM built on top of Spring Boot ## Project Status: Current project status: Ongoing Issues for the board: none ## Membership Data: Apache Grails was founded 2025-09-23 (7 months ago) There are currently 17 committers and 13 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 9:7. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Thomas Rasmussen on 2026-01-19. - Mihael Koep was added as committer on 2026-04-28 ## Project Activity: CORE-8.0.0-M1 was released on 2026-05-07. ACTIONS-1.0.2 was released on 2026-05-03. CORE-7.0.11 was released on 2026-05-03. CORE-7.1.1 was released on 2026-05-03. GRAILS-PUBLISH-0.0.5 was released on 2026-05-03. GRAILS-PUBLISH-1.0.0-M1 was released on 2026-05-03. SPRING-SECURITY-7.0.2 was released on 2026-05-03. CORE-7.1.0 was released on 2026-04-15. CORE-7.0.10 was released on 2026-04-04. CORE-7.1.0-RC1 was released on 2026-04-04. CORE-7.0.9 was released on 2026-03-16. CORE-7.0.8 was released on 2026-03-08. SPRING-SECURITY-7.0.1 was released on 2026-02-15. QUARTZ-4.0.1 was released on 2026-02-14. REDIS-5.0.1 was released on 2026-02-14. ## Community Health: The community is healthier than it's been in several years. There's a lot of new contributors including a number that began contributing in order to attempt to participate in the Google Summer of Code. The mailing traffic is up quite significantly on the dev and users mailing list as we're working towards Grails version 8, which is the next major version.
## Description: The mission of Apache Grails is the creation and maintenance of software related to the development of a powerful Groovy-based web application framework for the JVM built on top of Spring Boot ## Project Status: Current project status: Ongoing With high activity Issues for the board: No issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Membership Data: Apache Grails was founded 2025-09-23 (4 months ago) There are currently 16 committers and 13 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 8:7. Community changes, past quarter: - Thomas Rasmussen was added to the PMC on 2026-01-19 - No new committers were added. ## Project Activity: CORE-7.0.7 was released on 2026-02-01. CORE-7.0.6 was released on 2026-01-25. CORE-7.0.5 was released on 2026-01-12. GRAILS-PUBLISH-0.0.4 was released on 2026-01-12. CORE-7.0.4 was released on 2025-12-01. GRAILS-PUBLISH-0.0.3 was released on 2025-12-01. CORE-7.0.3 was released on 2025-11-23. CORE-7.0.2 was released on 2025-11-10. ## Community Health: Overall, community activity has increased this quarter. The project has generated significant buzz around graduation and eight 7.0.x releases with many end users submitting issues and pull requests, as they upgrade. The project has held weekly planning meetings via Google Meet for 18 months and they continue to provide an effective communication path to move the project forward. dev@grails.apache.org had a 57% decrease in traffic in the past quarter (151 emails compared to 345)
## Description: The mission of Apache Grails is the creation and maintenance of software related to the development of a powerful Groovy-based full-stack web application framework for the JVM built on top of Spring Boot ## Project Status: Current project status: Ongoing With high activity Issues for the board: No issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Membership Data: Apache Grails was founded 2025-09-23 (2 months ago) There are currently 16 committers and 12 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 4:3. Community changes, past quarter: No new PMC members (project graduated recently). Walter Duque de Estrada added 8/25/2025 Committers: Thomas Rasmussen added 8/25/2025, Jonas Pammer added 9/4/2025 ## Project Activity: Recent releases: CORE-7.0.4 was released on 2025-12-01. GRAILS-PUBLISH-0.0.3 was released on 2025-12-01. CORE-7.0.3 was released on 2025-11-23. ## Community Health: Overall, community activity has increased this quarter. The project has generated significant buzz around graduation and five 7.0.x releases with many end users submitting issues and pull requests, as they upgrade. The project has held weekly planning meetings via Google Meet for 18 months and they continue to provide an effective communication path to move the project forward. dev@grails.apache.org had a 31% increase in traffic in the past quarter (342 emails compared to 261)
## Description: The mission of Apache Grails is the creation and maintenance of software related to the development of a powerful Groovy-based web application framework for the JVM built on top of Spring Boot ## Project Status: Current project status: Ongoing With high activity Issues for the board: No issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Membership Data: Apache Grails was founded 2025-09-23 (2 months ago) There are currently 16 committers and 12 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 4:3. Community changes, past quarter: No new PMC members (project graduated recently). Walter Duque de Estrada added 8/25/2025 Committers: Thomas Rasmussen added 8/25/2025, Jonas Pammer added 9/4/2025 ## Project Activity: Recent releases: CORE-7.0.2 was released on 2025-11-10. CORE-7.0.1 was released on 2025-11-02. SPRING-SECURITY-7.0.0 was released on 2025-10-28. REDIS-5.0.0 was released on 2025-10-22. QUARTZ-4.0.0 was released on 2025-10-20. CORE-7.0.0 was released on 2025-10-19. GRAILS-PUBLISH-0.0.2 was released on 2025-10-13. ACTIONS-1.0.1 was released on 2025-10-12. ## Community Health: Overall, community activity has increased this quarter. The project has generated significant buzz around graduation and three 7.0.x releases with many end users submitting issues and pull requests, as they upgrade. Apache Grails 7.0.0 was features a press release from M&P and was included in PlusOne Newsletter and current episode of Podcast. The Apache Grails website is now consistently a top 20 site, based on analytics.apache.org.
## Description: Apache Grails is responsible for the evolution and maintenance of the Grails Framework ## Project Status: Current project status: Ongoing With high activity Issues for the board: No issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Membership Data: Apache Grails was founded 2025-09-23 (15 days ago) There are currently 16 committers and 12 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 4:3. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members (project graduated recently). - Committers: Thomas Rasmussen added 8/25/2025, Jonas Pammer added 9/4/2025 ## Project Activity: Recent releases: ACTIONS-1.0.0 was released on 2025-09-11. CORE-7.0.0-RC2 was released on 2025-09-11. GRAILS-PUBLISH-0.0.1 was released on 2025-09-11. QUARTZ-4.0.0-RC2 was released on 2025-09-11. REDIS-5.0.0-RC2 was released on 2025-09-11. SPRING-SECURITY-7.0.0-RC2 was released on 2025-09-11. The project graduated on 2025-09-23 and has been completing all of the graduation work in preparation for 7.0.0 release. ## Community Health: Overall, community activity has increased this quarter. The project has generated significant buzz around graduation which we hope to leverage to propel work on 7.0.x and 8.0.x. The main Grails project is preparing its final 7.0.0 release Our Chair participated in the Community over Code NA conference in Minneapolis last month. Talks on Grails were featured in the Groovy track.
