Last week was all about adding support for more scenarios into our building blocks. @ryandawsonuk, @daisuke-yoshimotoand @igdianovwork is helping us to have a coherent set of services that supports a wide range of business use cases using a Cloud Native Approach. While @lucianopreaand @constantin-ciobotaruare polishing our modelling backend services to support the new generation set of tools for building Activiti Cloud Applications.
@diegonayalazois working on the acceptance tests for our BluePrint scenario.
@igdianovgot the initial version of GraphQL and Keycloak integration to secure our Subscription (push notification) mechanism.
@daisuke-yoshimoto is working on implementing Signal Throw Event Cloud Behavior that broadcasts signals to all Runtime Bundles by using Spring Cloud Stream. https://github.com/Activiti/Activiti/pull/1783https://github.com/Activiti/activiti-cloud-runtime-bundle-service/pull/38
@constantin-ciobotaruacceptance tests for modeling service using jbehave, feign, spring
@lucianopreasome extra work on the endpoint to validate BPMN models and support for variables controllers in runtime-bundle
@mteodorimoved from Log4J to Logback to fix https://github.com/Activiti/Activiti/issues/1749and implemented update to Spring Boot RC1 and pom changes to be reviewed, Spring Cloud update postponed due to issues in Spring Cloud Sleuth
@ffazzinicreated new env and partial deployment for admin up supporting new DBP deployment structure https://github.com/Activiti/Activiti/issues/1780, verified that activiti7 deployment on PKS includes also elastic now so all building blocks work now.
@balsaroriWorked on simplifying extendability of ServiceTaskParseHandler on 6.x. Fixed Activiti extensions 5.18 XML schema (xsd) on 6.x branch and created another PR for develop
@ryandawsonukAdded restrictions to REST part of query to control access to process instances by process definition. Started work on restrictions for tasks so that tasks in query module’s REST endpoints can be restricted to candidates and assignees.
@erdemedeiros- out last week -
@salaboywas working on improving the Trending Topic Campaigns BluePrint and adding support for new events to be emitted and consumed by our building blocks.
This week will be all about closing and triaging as many issues as possible to go over the monthly release process. We are aiming to finish some big chunks of work before doing the February Early Access Release, and for that reason we might push the release to early next week.
Check the February milestoneto find the issues that we are currently working on this month and get in touch if you want to contribute: https://gitter.im/Activiti/Activiti7
We are looking forward to mentor people on the technologies that we are using to submit their first Pull Request 
If you want to get started with Activiti Cloud visit our Gitbook: https://activiti.gitbooks.io/activiti-7-developers-guide/content/
