[DRAFT] Apache Groovy Board Report for February 2026 (reporting on Nov/Dec/Jan)

Hi folks,

Any updates/comments before I submit our latest board report?
(Due now).

Thanks, Paul.

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## Description:

Apache Groovy is responsible for the evolution and maintenance of the Groovy
programming language

## Project Status:

Current project status: Ongoing with moderate activity.
Issues for the board: No issues requiring board attention at this time.

## Membership Data:

Apache Groovy was founded 2015-11-18 (10 years ago)
There are currently 24 committers and 14 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 3:2.

Community changes, past quarter:
Jonny Carter was added to the PMC on 2025-12-02
Carl B. Marcum was added as committer on 2025-12-01

## Project Activity:

4.0.30 was released on 2026-01-19.
5.0.4 was released on 2026-01-19.
5.0.3 was released on 2025-12-03.
geb-8.0.1 was released on 2025-11-14.

## Community Health:

Community health is good. Community Health Score: 10.00 (Super Healthy)

57 JIRA tickets opened and 82 closed in the past quarter.

A key topic that has been under discussion is making Groovy more
performant. Numerous improvements are being considered in this area.
We are also working towards our first Groovy 6 release.

We look forward to contributing to the Community over Code Glasgow
conference in October. A Groovy Track is open in the CFP and we anticipate
talks related to Groovy, Geb and Grails among other topics in the broader
Groovy ecosystem.