The Apache Software Foundation

                  Board of Directors Meeting Minutes

                            February 20, 2013


1. Call to order

    The meeting was scheduled for 10:30am (Pacific) and began at
    10:34 when a sufficient attendance to constitute a quorum was
    recognized by the chairman. The meeting was held via
    teleconference, hosted by Doug Cutting and Cloudera.

    IRC #asfboard on irc.freenode.net was used for backup purposes.

2. Roll Call

    Directors Present:

        Rich Bowen
        Doug Cutting
        Roy T. Fielding
        Ross Gardler
        Jim Jagielski
        Brett Porter
        Greg Stein

    Directors Absent:

        Bertrand Delacretaz
        Sam Ruby

    Executive Officers Present:

        Chris Mattmann left at 10:58
        Craig L Russell

    Executive Officers Absent:

        none

    Guests:

        Marvin Humphrey

3. Minutes from previous meetings

    Published minutes can be found at:

        http://www.apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html

    A. The meeting of January 16, 2013

       See: board_minutes_2013_01_16.txt

       Tabled.

4. Executive Officer Reports

    A. Chairman [Doug]

       There was a brief board discussion of the chain of command
       within the ASF.  We agreed that our infrastructure contractors
       report to the VP of Infrastructure, who in turn reports to the
       President.  While we try to keep things informal, it's still
       best to know where everyone stands formally.  When the
       authority of our words are different depending on which hat
       hat we wear, whether officer, contractor, PMC member or ASF
       member, then we are wise to clarify.

    B. President [Jim]

       All President's cmmts reported and in general all is well. There
       are no issues with branding or marketing; fundraising has been
       active with renewals and this has created a delay in sending out
       the 'Thank You' letters. I am working with Fundraising to address
       their questions.

       ApacheCon NA 2013 is next week; I will be doing the standard 'State
       of the Feather' talk. Concom will be doing a post-con assessment.
       There will likely be an event in Bangalore in late March in which
       Concom is involved with.

       Both Infra and TAC are also progressing well.

       There were delays in getting reports this month; I will look
       into extending Marvin to better remind my cmmts to report earlier.

       Additionally, please see Attachments 1 through 6.


    C. Treasurer [Chris]

       On Jan 17th, Jim in his President's role informed Gav as TAC
       chair that for normal expenses related to TAC he is authorized
       to svn move bills from Bills/received to Bills/approved in the
       Treasurer workflow. However, TAC must provide a full accounting
       of such charges in their monthly report. It was also clarified
       that expenses for TAC team members cannot be approved by the
       TAC chair and must be approved by Jim and Ross
       (operations@apache.org)

       All bills continue to be paid as requested. We are currently in
       process for payment to the former ApacheCon producer for charges
       for ApacheConNA 2011 and 2010 and processing TAC on the ground
       helper charges for ApacheCon NA 2013.  Sally's flight expenses to
       ApacheCon NA 2013 have been taken care of on Sam's credit card,
       with details being provided to Sally by Gav.

       Sponsorship requested that the Treasurer's office look into
       notifications for incoming sponsorship payments from WFS.

       Nick Burch made a small update to
       https://whimsy.apache.org/fundraising/invoice to allow it to deal
       with non-whole numbers in invoices.

       Sam and Chris have agreed to send Melissa's check earlier in the
       month since her current Bill Pay is still not functioning correctly
       and is sent to the incorrect address.

       We received another contact from the Brazilian firm handling the
       SVN mark regarding its payments it claimed it never received.
       Treasurer's office reported that this matter has been handed off
       to the ASF President and CC'ed him directly on the reply.

       Nick Burch approached the Treasurer's Office mentioning that due
       to a TAC dropout the travel agent that handles TAC booking has a
       surplus of around 440.50 GBP and requested advice from the Treasurer
       on what to do with it. Treasurer's Office is OK with leaving the
       surplus with the agent.

       Income and Expenses

     Current Balances:

         Wells Fargo Business Checking:      385,345.02
         Wells Fargo Savings:                287,523.89
         PayPal:                             152,645.82
         ----------------------------    ----------
              Total                    $     825,514.73

     Income Summary:

         Lockbox                                 412.69
         Paypal                                2,673.19
         Misc Deposits                        25,000.00
         ----------------------------    ----------
              Total                    $      28,085.88

     Expense Summary:

                 Category                  Amount
         ----------------------------    ----------
         ApacheCon EU 2012                    13,300.00
         Executive Assistant                   2,346.50
         Infrastructure Contractors           30,500.00
         Network Services - Traci.net            518.00
         Public Relations                      6,545.45
         Misc Expenses                           550.85
         ASF credit card - Justin Erenkrantz      50.00
         ASF credit card - Sam Ruby               36.94
         Travel Assistance Committee          10,644.40
         ----------------------------    ----------
              Total                    $      64,492.14


    D. Secretary [Craig]

       Modulo a few hiccoughs due to changing the format of podling email
       lists, secretary is running smoothly.

       January was an average month for document filing. 54 iclas, five
       cclas, three ndas, and one grant were received and filed.

       James Carman continues to assist in the operation of the office
       of the secretary.

    E. Executive Vice President [Ross]

       A mostly uneventful month. There was a request from The Open
       Bastion to assist in generating more community interest in
       ApacheCon. The main concern was that VP ConCom appeared to be
       very busy elsewhere and was therefore unresponsive for a
       period. I did my best to fill the gap until VP ConCom was again
       available.

       One of the items that needed to be addressed was the collection
       of some sponsorship money from two sponsors who were unwilling
       or unable to pay The Open Bastion directly. This was addressed
       by VP Fundraising and the Treasurer but The Open Bastion felt
       this was a breakdown with respect to the single point of
       contact within the ASF.  Furthermore at least one of the two
       sponsors involved felt the delays this caused were somewhat
       unprofessional.

       These sponsorship payment issues have come up with both
       ApacheCon EU and ApacheCon NA. It is recommended that for
       future events we make provision for such sponsorships as part
       of our contract with the producer.

    F. Vice Chairman [Greg]

       Nothing to report at this time.

    Executive officer reports approved as submitted by General Consent.

5. Additional Officer Reports

    A. VP of W3C Relations [Andy Seaborne / Sam]

       See Attachment 7

    B. Apache Legal Affairs Committee [Sam Ruby]

       See Attachment 8

    C. Apache Security Team Project [Mark Cox / Greg]

       See Attachment 9

    Additional officer reports approved as submitted by General Consent.

6. Committee Reports

    A. Apache Abdera Project [Ant Elder / Ross]

       No report was submitted.

    B. Apache Ant Project [Conor MacNeill / Rich]

       See Attachment B

    C. Apache Attic Project [Gianugo Rabellino / Bertrand]

       See Attachment C

    D. Apache Buildr Project [Alex Boisvert / Doug]

       See Attachment D

    E. Apache C++ Standard Library Project [Jim Jagielski]

       See Attachment E

    F. Apache Cassandra Project [Jonathan Ellis / Roy]

       See Attachment F

       AI: Greg: contact PMC to ask for dates on releases

    G. Apache Click Project [Malcolm Edgar / Jim]

       See Attachment G

    H. Apache Cocoon Project [Thorsten Scherler / Brett]

       See Attachment H

    I. Apache Community Development Project [Luciano Resende / Roy]

       See Attachment I

    J. Apache Continuum Project [Brett Porter]

       See Attachment J

    K. Apache CouchDB Project [Jan Lehnardt / Ross]

       See Attachment K

    L. Apache Creadur Project [Robert Burrell Donkin / Rich]

       See Attachment L

    M. Apache DirectMemory Project [Raffaele P. Guidi / Doug]

       See Attachment M

       AI: Doug: let PMCs know to leave off branding from board
       reports unless there are issues

    N. Apache Empire-db Project [Francis De Brabandere / Bertrand]

       See Attachment N

    O. Apache Etch Project [Martin Veith / Greg]

       See Attachment O

    P. Apache Flex Project [Alex Harui / Brett]

       See Attachment P

    Q. Apache Flume Project [Arvind Prabhakar / Sam]

       See Attachment Q

       AI: Greg: let PMC know that affiliations are not needed in the
       board report

    R. Apache Forrest Project [David Crossley / Jim]

       See Attachment R

    S. Apache Giraph Project [Avery Ching / Doug]

       See Attachment S

    T. Apache Gora Project [Lewis John McGibbney / Roy]

       See Attachment T

    U. Apache Hadoop Project [Arun Murthy / Greg]

       See Attachment U

    V. Apache Hama Project [Edward J. Yoon / Sam]

       See Attachment V

    W. Apache HTTP Server Project [Eric Covener / Bertrand]

       See Attachment W

    X. Apache HttpComponents Project [Asankha Perera / Jim]

       See Attachment X

    Y. Apache Incubator Project [Benson Margulies / Rich]

       See Attachment Y

    Z. Apache jUDDI Project [Kurt Stam / Brett]

       See Attachment Z

    AA. Apache Kafka Project [Jun Rao / Ross]

       See Attachment AA

    AB. Apache Lenya Project [Richard Frovarp / Bertrand]

       See Attachment AB

    AC. Apache Libcloud Project [Tomaz Muraus / Roy]

       See Attachment AC

    AD. Apache Logging Project [Christian Grobmeier / Doug]

       See Attachment AD

    AE. Apache Mahout Project [Jake Mannix / Ross]

       No report was submitted.

    AF. Apache ManifoldCF Project [Karl Wright / Rich]

       See Attachment AF

    AG. Apache Oltu Project [Antonio Sanso / Greg]

       See Attachment AG

    AH. Apache Oozie Project [Alejandro Abdelnur / Jim]

       See Attachment AH

       AI: Jim: contact PMC with comments about affiliations and JIRA
       queries

    AI. Apache OpenMeetings Project [Sebastian Wagner / Brett]

       See Attachment AI

    AJ. Apache Perl Project [Philippe M. Chiasson / Sam]

       No report was submitted.

    AK. Apache POI Project [Yegor Kozlov / Rich]

       See Attachment AK

    AL. Apache Qpid Project [Carl Trieloff / Roy]

       No report was submitted.

    AM. Apache River Project [Greg Trasuk / Doug]

       See Attachment AM

    AN. Apache Roller Project [Dave Johnson / Bertrand]

       See Attachment AN

    AO. Apache Santuario Project [Colm O hEigeartaigh / Jim]

       See Attachment AO

    AP. Apache SIS Project [Adam Estrada / Greg]

       See Attachment AP

    AQ. Apache Subversion Project [Greg Stein]

       See Attachment AQ

    AR. Apache Syncope Project [Francesco Chicchiricco / Sam]

       See Attachment AR

    AS. Apache Turbine Project [Thomas Vandahl / Brett]

       See Attachment AS

    AT. Apache Tuscany Project [Luciano Resende / Ross]

       See Attachment AT

    AU. Apache Velocity Project [Nathan Bubna / Greg]

       See Attachment AU

    AV. Apache Wink Project [Luciano Resende / Sam]

       See Attachment AV

    AW. Apache Xalan Project [Steven J. Hathaway / Rich]

       See Attachment AW

    AX. Apache Xerces Project [Michael Glavassevich / Roy]

       See Attachment AX

    AY. Apache XML Graphics Project [Chris Bowditch / Brett]

       See Attachment AY

    AZ. Apache XMLBeans Project [Cezar Andrei / Bertrand]

       No report was submitted.

    BA. Apache Cordova Project [Brian LeRoux / ]

       See Attachment BA

    Committee reports approved as submitted by General Consent.

7. Special Orders

    A. Change the Apache Hadoop Chair

       WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Arun
       Murthy to the office of Vice President, Apache Hadoop, and

       WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation
       of Arun Murthy from the office of Vice President, Apache
       Hadoop, and

       WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Hadoop
       project has chosen by vote to recommend Chris Douglas as the
       Successor to the post;

       NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Arun Murthy is
       relieved and discharged from the duties and responsibilities of
       the office of Vice President, Apache Hadoop, and

       BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Chris Douglas be and hereby is
       appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Hadoop, to
       serve in accordance with and subject to the direction of the
       Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until
       death, resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification, or
       until a successor is appointed.

       Special Order 7A, Change the Apache Hadoop Chair, was approved
       by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.


    B. Establish the Apache Crunch Project

       WHEREAS, the Board of Directors deems it to be in the best
       interests of the Foundation and consistent with the Foundation's
       purpose to establish a Project Management Committee charged with
       the creation and maintenance of open-source software, for
       distribution at no charge to the public, related to the
       development of Java libraries for writing, testing, and running
       MapReduce pipelines.

       NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management
       Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Apache Crunch Project", be
       and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation;
       and be it further

       RESOLVED, that the Apache Crunch Project be and hereby is
       responsible for the creation and maintenance of software related
       to development of Java libraries for writing, testing, and running
       MapReduce pipelines; and be it further

       RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache Crunch" be
       and hereby is created, the person holding such office to serve at
       the direction of the Board of Directors as the chair of the Apache
       Crunch Project, and to have primary responsibility for management
       of the projects within the scope of responsibility of the Apache
       Crunch Project; and be it further

       RESOLVED, that the persons listed immediately below be and hereby
       are appointed to serve as the initial members of the Apache Crunch
       Project:

         * Brock Noland <brock@apache.org>
         * Christian Tzolov <tzolov@apache.org>
         * Gabriel Reid <greid@apache.org>
         * Josh Wills <jwills@apache.org>
         * Kiyan Ahmadizadeh <kiyan@apache.org>
         * Matthias Friedrich <mafr@apache.org>
         * Rahul Sharma <rsharma@apache.org>
         * Robert Chu <robertchu@apache.org>
         * Tom White <tomwhite@apache.org>
         * Vinod Kumar Vavilapalli <vinodkv@apache.org>

       NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Josh Wills be
       appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Crunch, to serve
       in accordance with and subject to the direction of the Board of
       Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until death,
       resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification, or until a
       successor is appointed; and be it further

       RESOLVED, that the initial Apache Crunch PMC be and hereby is
       tasked with the creation of a set of bylaws intended to encourage
       open development and increased participation in the Apache Crunch
       Project; and be it further

       RESOLVED, that the Apache Crunch Project be and hereby is tasked
       with the migration and rationalization of the Apache Incubator
       Crunch podling; and be it further

       RESOLVED, that all responsibilities pertaining to the Apache
       Incubator Crunch podling encumbered upon the Apache Incubator
       Project are hereafter discharged.

       Special Order 7B, Establish the Apache Crunch Project, was
       approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.


    C. Change the Apache OODT PMC Chair

       WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Chris Mattmann
       to the office of Vice President, Apache OODT, and

       WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation
       of Chris Mattmann from the office of Vice President, Apache OODT,
       and

       WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache OODT
       project has chosen to recommend Sean Kelly the successor
       to the post;

       NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Chris Mattmann is relieved and
       discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office
       of Vice President, Apache OODT, and

       BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Sean Kelly and hereby is
       appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache OODT, to
       serve in accordance with and subject to the direction of the
       Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until
       death, resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification, or
       until a successor is appointed.

       Special Order 7C, Change the Apache OODT PMC Chair, was
       approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.


    D. Establish the Apache Clerezza Project

       WHEREAS, the Board of Directors deems it to be in the best
       interests of the Foundation and consistent with the
       Foundation's purpose to establish a Project Management
       Committee charged with the creation and maintenance of
       open-source software, for distribution at no charge to
       the public, related to an OSGi-based modular application and
       set of components for building RESTFul Semantic Web applications
       and services.

       NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management
       Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Apache Clerezza Project",
       be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the
       Foundation; and be it further

       RESOLVED, that the Apache Clerezza Project be and hereby is
       responsible for the creation and maintenance of software
       related to an OSGi-based modular application and set of
       components for building RESTFul Semantic Web applications and
       services; and be it further

       RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache Clerezza" be
       and hereby is created, the person holding such office to
       serve at the direction of the Board of Directors as the chair
       of the Apache Clerezza Project, and to have primary responsibility
       for management of the projects within the scope of
       responsibility of the Apache Clerezza Project; and be it further

       RESOLVED, that the persons listed immediately below be and
       hereby are appointed to serve as the initial members of the
       Apache Clerezza Project:

         * Reto Bachmann-Gmuer <reto@apache.org>
         * Tsuyoshi Ito <ito@apache.org>
         * Hasan Hasan <hasan@apache.org>
         * Tommaso Teofili <tommaso@apache.org>
         * Bertrand Delacretaz <bdelacretaz@apache.org>
         * Florent André <florent@apache.org>
         * Rupert Westenthaler <rwesten@apache.org>
         * Daniel Spicar <dspicar@apache.org>

       NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Hasan Hasan
       be appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Clerezza, to
       serve in accordance with and subject to the direction of the
       Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until
       death, resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification,
       or until a successor is appointed; and be it further

       RESOLVED, that the initial Apache Clerezza PMC be and hereby is
       tasked with the creation of a set of bylaws intended to
       encourage open development and increased participation in the
       Apache Clerezza Project; and be it further

       RESOLVED, that the Apache Clerezza Project be and hereby
       is tasked with the migration and rationalization of the Apache
       Incubator Clerezza podling; and be it further

       RESOLVED, that all responsibilities pertaining to the Apache
       Incubator Clerezza podling encumbered upon the Apache Incubator
       Project are hereafter discharged.

       Special Order 7D, Establish the Apache Clerezza Project, was
       approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.


    E. Change the Apache Pig Chair

       WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Daniel Dai
       to the office of Vice President, Apache Pig, and

       WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation
       of Daniel Dai from the office of Vice President, Apache
       Pig, and

       WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Pig
       project has chosen by vote to recommend Julien Le Dem as the
       Successor to the post;

       NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Daniel Dai is
       relieved and discharged from the duties and responsibilities of
       the office of Vice President, Apache Pig, and

       BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Julien Le Dem be and hereby is
       appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Pig, to
       serve in accordance with and subject to the direction of the
       Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until
       death, resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification, or
       until a successor is appointed.

       Special Order 7E, Change the Apache Pig Chair, was approved by
       Unanimous Vote of the directors present.


8. Discussion Items
    Umbrella projects have been problematic in the past and the board
    wants to ensure that projects are aware of the dangers.

    AI Ross: prepare and review with the board a memo to PMCs
    with the board's concerns.

9. Review Outstanding Action Items
          * Daniel: draft an ASF policy for projects which need to re-bundle
            other Apache projects.
                  Status:

          * Roy: update the guidance for releases and communicate to all
            committers.
                  Status:

          * Brett: follow up with HBase PMC to clarify the "owner" role.
                  Status: sent mail, awaiting response from PMC

10. Unfinished Business

11. New Business

12. Announcements

13. Adjournment

    Adjourned at 11:44 a.m. (Pacific)

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ATTACHMENTS:
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Attachment 1: Report from the VP of Brand Management  [Shane Curcuru]

No issues requiring board or President attention.

I've caught up on replying to all outstanding questions, which run the
usual gamut.

A branding complaint was made by one company whose engineers work on
a major Apache project about behavior in a private email sent from
another company whose engineers work on the same project.  This was
addressed well by trademarks@ volunteers, but serves to show a couple
of key points we need to continue to educate our communities about:

- Branding issues are almost never immediate-time-sensitive.  Unless
the question is about physical media being printed for an in-person
event happening within the week, branding questions can ALWAYS wait
a few days to organize a response and deal with.

- The ASF is responsible for enforcing brand use of the Apache brand(s).
While we certainly very much appreciate third parties alerting us to
potentially improper uses of our brands, it is NOT appropriate for
third parties to directly work on enforcing Apache brands without
our explicit consent.

The Apache OpenOffice project has made a request that we lodge a
complaint with certain search terms being used on Google AdWords
that may infringe on our marks.  They have examples of
infringing sites using these marks to drive traffic, which is
clearly a problem for this project with it's large end-user population.


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Attachment 2: Report from the VP of Fundraising  [Upayavira]

Fundraising has been a bit more active this last month. We have sent out
four platinum invoices plus are following up one more. Hadrian has
offered to help contact some sponsors, and Bertrand has offered to
contact another. We were approached cold by a company wanting to become
a bronze sponsor. I sent an invoice, but have not yet seen note of
payment.

I attempted, but failed to send out thank you letters to PayPal
contributors. I believe I have the technology to do it, it just requires
a concerted input of time (in short supply). Given the January deadline
has passed, I would appreciate guidance as to whether I should still
persist in sending these letters. I would also appreciate knowing
whether a daily/monthly cron job could send out letters, rather than a
manual task undertaken from scratch each year.


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Attachment 3: Report from the VP of Marketing and Publicity  [Sally Khudairi]

  I. Budget: we remain ahead of plans and under budget. We are
incurring a production expense for "Apache" promotional items for
distribution at ApacheCon, as well as travel expenses for Sally
Khudairi to attend and present at the conference. No vendor payments
are due at this time.

  II. Fundraising/Branding/Marketing liaison: no meetings are
planned. Sally has been assisting Upayavira in securing and processing
3 Platinum Sponsorship renewals.

  III. Press Releases: no formal announcements were issued via the
newswire, ASF Foundation Blog, announce@apache.org, or
announce@apachecon.com during this timeperiod.

  IV. Informal Announcements: 4 items were announced on @TheASF
Twitter feed, and 10 on the @ApacheCon Twitter feed. No new posts were
made on "TheApacheFoundation" account on YouTube.

  V. Future Announcements: a graduation announcement is being planned
for a project currently in the Apache Incubator. PMCs wishing to
announce major project news —as well as podlings ready to graduate from
the Incubator— are welcome to contact Sally at press@apache.org for
more information. Kindly provide at least 2-weeks' notice for proper
planning and execution.

  VI. Media Relations: Sally responded to 4 media requests, 2
requests for project graphics/logos, and is coordinating 15 interviews
across various projects for a feature on the ASF's influence in the
world of Open Source. The ASF received 612 press clips over this time
period, vs. last month's clip count of 466.

  VII. Analyst Relations: no formal briefings are planned. Apache was
mentioned in 5 reports by Gartner, 1 write-up by GigaOM, and 3 reports
by 451 Research.

  VIII. ApacheCon liaison: a press release for ApacheCon will be
disseminated on 6 February. Sally will be attending the event to
organize and moderate "The Business of Open Source" plenary panel. She
also created new graphics and is working with Melissa Warnkin on
production of promotional items to be distributed at ApacheCon and
other ASF events.

  IX. (Non-ASF) Industry Events and Outreach liaison: no new
activities are underway, aside from our working with O'Reilly regarding
our participation with OSCON 2013, as well as possibly the
Strata/Hadoop World conferences.

  X. Newswire accounts: we have 15 pre-paid press releases with
NASDAQ GlobeNewswire through December 2013, and 12 pre-paid press
releases remaining on the PRNewswire account through May 2013.


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Attachment 4: Report from the VP of Infrastructure  [Sam Ruby]

Placed a $15K order for a new vmware server with Dell which is now on
backorder through February.

Still dealing with the fallout of losing one of our public switch
interfaces.

Uli is working on OOB access for us at FUB.

Specced some additional drive capacity for eris.

Discussed setting up apaste.apache.org as a pasting service for Apache
based on Daniel Gruno's apaste.info site.

Started the process of reigning in the abusive maven traffic to
svn.apache.org.

Started the process of dealing with the missing Flex attachments for a
Jira import.

Shut off the people -> www rsync jobs for our websites. All project sites
now MUST be on either svnpubsub or the CMS to continue to be maintained.

Enabled redirects for our svn.apache.org services for graduated podling
trees.

Upgraded the software on adam (OSX) for $40 thanks to Sander Temme.

Was contacted by Traci to update our inventory with them.


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Attachment 5: Report from the Apache Conference Planning Project  [Nick Burch]

Small Events
------------
It looks like there's a critical mass of organisers interested in an event
in Bangalore in late March, especially around CloudStack and GSOC. Once a
venue has been sourced, this can be announced. Depending on the venue, it
might be a pure BarCamp, or a BarCamp with hackathon.

Third Party Branding requests have come in from a few projects, and along
with trademarks we've been advising Subversion about their hackathon.

No other small events are on the horizon, and a few possible ones seem
to have gone quiet lately. We may want to hunt out likely suspects at
ApacheCon and try to persuade them to push ahead with smaller events
in their local areas. Spare mentor capacity currently exists.

Past ApacheCons
---------------
The finances for several past ApacheCons have largely been documented
and finalised this month. Figures for the last two NA ApacheCons have
now gone into SVN, and we've worked with TAC and Operations to handle
the ASF profits vs ASF TAC costs. The figures for ACEU have largely
gone into SVN, we're waiting for one EUR payment to come in from
NewThinking so we can finalise the USD accounts.

ApacheCon NA
------------
ApacheCon NA 2013 is happening in Portland next week. There will be a
BarCamp on the Sunday, Hackathon on the Monday, and community events in the
evenings.

Numbers are apparently looking lower than the last two NA ApacheCons. There
also seems to be less community engagement with the event than the previous
two NA events. Positively, the amount of volunteer energies going into the
event are well down on the previous two NA events, much much lower than EU,
and largely focused on the surrounding community events. Whether the lower
community engagement is linked to the lower volunteer involvement or not is
currently not clear.

Future ApacheCon Discussion
---------------------------
After Portland, no more ApacheCons are currently planned. Both Europe and
this event (along with the producer model) were one-off experiments to try
and find a future path for ApacheCon.

A session (with note taking) is planned for the end of ACNA, to discuss how
well the particular producer led approach worked, in terms of volunteer
energies and community outcomes. This will then be taken back to the list,
and shared especially with those with more experience of previous
ApacheCons, but less involvement in this one. We then need to decide if a
producer led ApacheCon under slightly different rules would work.

(A pure community event has been shown not to work, but a low cost for
committers and speakers event has been shown to, but may not be
possible financially with a producer. Co-locating has been tried a few
times now, and hasn't really seemed to work well. Berlin Buzzwords has
worked amazingly well, but sadly not under our flag...)

Committee
---------
No new members this month. A few people are likely to be approached in
Portland, to sound out their interest in joining


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Attachment 6: Report from the Apache Travel Assistance Committee  [Gavin McDonald]

General
=======

Clarification on TAC budget spending was resolved last meeting with
TAC being able to approve for its TAC recipients. Any TAC Committee
Members or other appointed helpers that seek assistance of any kind
must be approved by the President or the EVP.

The travel-assistance@ mailing list has 13 people subscribed (no
change on last month.)

ApacheCon NA 2013 Portland
=======================

Everything seems to be in place. No hiccups with our final 7
candidates, tickets are issued as appropriate.  Final information on
what TAC folks need to know are being emailed out.

Budget Spending
=============

As the event is next week, and some things are still going through,
I'll report on the spending for this event next month. That said,
expenditure for 2 TAC members were approved.

Other Events
===========

No other events requiring TAC attention at this time.


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Attachment 7: Report from the VP of W3C Relations  [Andy Seaborne]

ASF has made the W3C community group commitments on IP and copyright
so that Sergio Fernández can join the Open Data Spain Community Group.


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Attachment 8: Report from the Apache Legal Affairs Committee  [Sam Ruby]

Extremely quiet month.  Only discussion of note is once best summarized by
Roy's statement: "Obey the license and follow the golden rule".

Upcoming: I plan to spend some time looking into the JCP TCK issues.


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Attachment 9: Report from the Apache Security Team Project  [Mark Cox]

For Jan 2013: There continues to be a steady stream of reports of
various kinds arriving at security@.  These continue to be dealt with
by the security team.

3      Support question
2      User was hacked, but it wasn't ASF software at fault
7      Vulnerability reports
       1 [directory, via security@apache.org] [CLOSED, not an issue]
       1 [ofbiz, via security@apache.org] [CLOSED, dev version only]
       1 [httpd, via security@apache.org] [CLOSED, not httpd]
       1 [httpd, via security@apache.org] [STALLED, waiting for reporter]
       1 [tomcat, via security@apache.org] [CLOSED, not an issue]
       1 [tomcat, via security@tomcat.apache.org] [CLOSED, not an issue]
       1 [maven, via security@apache.org]

Since the new year we have started a weekly review of open issues to
try to catch situations where the security team have not forwarded
reports correctly or where the project has not responded to the
reporter.


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Attachment A: Report from the Apache Abdera Project  [Ant Elder]


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Attachment B: Report from the Apache Ant Project  [Conor MacNeill]

Apache Ant is a Java based build tool (see http://ant.apache.org)

o Release Status

Antoine Levy Lambert has begun the process that will lead to an Ant 1.9.0
release. Ivy 2.3.0 was just released.

Core
---------
Ant 1.8.4 was released on May 23rd 2012

Ivy
-------
Ivy 2.3.0 was released on January 21, 2013
Ivy-DE 2.1.0 was released on Aug 20, 2010


o Committers and PMC

No changes

o Community

No issues.


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Attachment C: Report from the Apache Attic Project  [Gianugo Rabellino]

Apologies for missing the report last month. At this point there are
no issues requiring board attention in the Attic project. Things are
quiet, the pipeline is empty but the low to nonexistent mailing lists
traffic is being monitored.  Other than one small ongoing task on
closing the XML project, we are waiting for things to do!


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Attachment D: Report from the Apache Buildr Project  [Alex Boisvert]

Apache Buildr is a Ruby-based build system for Java-based
applications, including support for Scala, Groovy and a growing number
of JVM languages and tools.

Our last release (1.4.9) was on November 9th, 2012.  We are in the
process of voting for the release of Buildr 1.4.10 at the time of
writing this report; this release should contain 8 enhancements, 7 bug
fixes (one of which contributed by a non-committer) and 5 minor
changes. The mailing lists remain relatively quiet.

We have no issues that require board attention.


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Attachment E: Report from the Apache C++ Standard Library Project  [Jim Jagielski]

The Apache C++ Standard Library Project aims to provide an ALv2-licensed
system standard C++ library suite.

Releases:

  None.

Development:

  Since last report, activity has slowed down quite a bit. I expect partly
  this is due to simple timing (around the end-of-year holidays), and
  I plan to try to encourage a ramp-up of development with some emails.

Community:

  No changes.

We have no issues that require board attention.


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Attachment F: Report from the Apache Cassandra Project  [Jonathan Ellis]

Cassandra is a distributed database providing massive scalability,
high performance, and high availability.

Releases:

1.1.7, 1.1.8, 1.1.9, 1.2.0, 1.2.1

Development:

Cassandra 1.2 was released at the beginning of January.  New features
include

- virtual nodes [1]
- collections [2]
- improved support for auto-expired data [3]
- startup optimization [4]
- atomic batches [5]

Community:

Jason Brown was added as a committer.

The Tokyo Cassandra community organized their second yearly conference
at the end of November, drawing a crowd of about 100.  Last year most
attendees were evaluating Cassandra, but this year saw many of them
discussing production experiences.

[1] http://www.acunu.com/2/post/2012/07/virtual-nodes-strategies.html
[2] http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/simple-data-importing-and-exporting-with-cassandra
[3] http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/tombstone-removal-improvement-in-1-2
[4] http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/1-2-startup-time-improvements
[5] http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/atomic-batches-in-cassandra-1-2
[6] http://b-rabbit.jp/cct2012/


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Attachment G: Report from the Apache Click Project  [Malcolm Edgar]

Apache Click is an easy-to-use page and component oriented Java web
framework.

The project is facing issues of having a viable community.

While the Apache Click is currently used for many applications under
current development, it has become superseded by more modern client
side MVC frameworks such as AngularJS.

The project needs to recruit new committers or faces the prospect of moving
into the attic over the medium term.

Infrastructure
-------------------
There are no infrastructure issues at this time.

Development
------------------
No headway has been made towards a version 2.3.1/2.4 release.

Community
----------------
There have been no new commiter or PMC members added during this period.

Mailing list traffic has been very light for the period.


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Attachment H: Report from the Apache Cocoon Project  [Thorsten Scherler]

Apache Cocoon 3 is a major rewrite of Cocoon 2.2. Like Cocoon 2 it
is based around the concept of pipelines and sitemaps and it is
very similar to Cocoon 2.2 in many respects but is slimmed down and
designed to be easily used with Java code (= no frameworks required!).
On top of this, Cocoon 3 has the goal of becoming the best available
platform for RESTful webservices and web applications.

Community

Traffic on users lists continues be light but steady, people continue
be interested on C2 and newer C3. Especially c3 new developments from
Mansour Al Akeel, a user that had been quite active the last quarter,
has spoused some discussions and bug fixes. Various devs attended the
questions and provided solutions.  Simone has resigned from the
position of PMC chair, and Cocoon PMC voted for Thorsten to fill this
role.

Releases

No releases during the last quarter but the community is working to do
a release for all version, where the 2.2 version did get less
attention then 2.1 and 3.0. The whole release effort is driven by
Francesco Chicchiriccò and the 2.1 release is supported by David and
Cédric. Hopefully we can release all versions within the next quarter.

Development

Bugfixing on C3 and release preparation on the 2.1 branch. Various
tickets and patches had been applied to the code base, especially one
blocking issue on the c3 branch could be closed which opened the door
towards a stable c3 release.


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Attachment I: Report from the Apache Community Development Project  [Luciano Resende]

The Community Development PMC is responsible for helping people become
involved with Apache projects


Project Status
--------------

No issues require board attention at this time.

GSoC
--------------

GSoC 2013 has just been announced and we need to start updating
website, and finding a volunteer for being the admin for 2013.

GSoC invoice for the GSoC and Mentor Summit has been submitted and are
being processed by Google.

Other
--------------

Outstanding:
  * Need to verify that GSoC invoice has been properly processed and
    that ASF has received the proper funds.


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Attachment J: Report from the Apache Continuum Project  [Brett Porter]

Apache Continuum is an enterprise-ready continuous integration server with
features such as automated builds, release management, role-based security,
and integration with popular build tools and source control management
systems.

This quarter saw the long overdue release of Continuum 1.4.1 on
January 7, 2013, including a number of accumulated improvements. This
also included a fix for a security vulnerability reported earlier,
based on the version of the Struts library used. We have recommended
all users upgrade and published details on a security page.

The project has moved to using svnpubsub for publishing the site and
documentation, and for release distributions.

All branding requirements have now been completed.

We are likely to have low activity from this point onwards, as the
application is mature and serves current user's needs. New
contributors would be welcomed, and there is enough attention from the
PMC to respond to new users and contributors as that arises, and to
produce a release if necessary.

We have not added any new committers recently. The last committer was added
December 8, 2010 and the last PMC member was added on September 2, 2012.


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Attachment K: Report from the Apache CouchDB Project  [Jan Lehnardt]

Apache CouchDB is a distributed JSON document database with an HTTP API.

Released version 1.0.4, 1.1.2 and 1.2.1 to address CVE-2012-5641,
CVE-2012-5650 and CVE-2012-5651 among other minor bugfixes.

Imported the codebase for a new, work-in-progress admin utility donated
by a set of users.

Added 5 new committers (among them the contributors & donators of the new
admin utility).

Starting the release procedure for 1.3.0.

Held a successful CouchDB Conf (http://conf.couchdb.org) bringing users
and committers together. ~70 people total over 3 days.

Branding Status: The project website and assorted assets are up to date
with the Branding Board Report Checklist[1].

[1]: http://apache.org/foundation/marks/pmcs#checklist


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Attachment L: Report from the Apache Creadur Project  [Robert Burrell Donkin]

Apache Creadur creates and maintains a suite of open source
software related to the auditing and comprehension of
software distributions. Any language and build system are
welcomed.

Project Status
--------------
Creadur graduated from the Apache Incubator in April, 2012.
Except for tasks performed after the first release as a top
level project, handover is now complete.

Issues
------
We have no issues requiring board attention at the moment.

Community
---------
Quiet since the last report.

Releases
--------
None (yet). The last release happened while the project was
incubating: RAT 0.8 released in November 2011.

Rat and Whisker are waiting to be released.

Community Objectives
--------------------
* Release Apache Rat 0.9
* Release Apache Whisker 0.1


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Attachment M: Report from the Apache DirectMemory Project  [Raffaele P. Guidi]

Apache DirectMemory is an off-heap cache implementation for the JVM. It
features direct memory management (a-la BigMemory) to enable efficient
handling of a large number of java objects without affecting JVM garbage
collection performance.

* General Information
Community interest seems to be still high but nothing serious happened in
code and in the mailing list except for a proposal to contribute some
benchmarks and performance testing that, since we are still far away from a
release, could really help.

* New Committers
  * None

* Project Branding Requirements
  Already completed.

* Issues
  No board level issues at this time.


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Attachment N: Report from the Apache Empire-db Project  [Francis De Brabandere]

Apache Empire-db is a relational database abstraction layer that allows
developers to take a more SQL-centric approach in application
development than traditional ORM frameworks. Its focus is to allow
highly efficient database operations in combination with a maximum of
compile-time-safety and DBMS independence.

Progress of the project

With our release last November many issues have been resolved and we are
now collecting new issues and ideas for future development. Mailing
list traffic was low, probably because of the holidays.

Changes in committers or PMC members

There have been no changes in committers or PMC members during the last
months.

Issues

There are no issues that require the board's attention at this time.

Releases

NONE


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Attachment O: Report from the Apache Etch Project  [Martin Veith]

Apache Etch is a cross-platform, language- and transport-independent
RPC-like framework for building and consuming network services.

MILESTONES
Etch graduated from the Apache Incubator on January 16, 2013. Since
then, there haven't been new releases.

ACTIVITY
* The main activity within the last month was related to the
  "After graduation tasks". We are following the steps described by
  http://incubator.apache.org/guides/graduation.html#life-after-graduation
  and tracking the status of the different issues at
  https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ETCH-252.
  See INFRASTRUCTURE section for details.
* Development goes on, our main focus is the stabilization of the Etch C++
  binding. As soon as this is in a beta status, we are planning to perform
  our release 1.3.0.
* User activity is almost quiet. We are working on improvements of
  documentation and examples to make it easier for people to use Etch.

COMMUNITY
No changes regarding PMC or committers composition since graduation.
More work is needed to broad both user and developer community.

INFRASTRUCTURE
* Incubator website, SVN repository and mailing lists have been
  transfered from their Incubator to TLP locations. Users and
  developers have been informed about the changes.
* Website has been updated to reflect the new status.
* Incubator EXIT issues have been signed off.
* Etch is now listed on Apaches a.o, projects.a.o sites (DOAP files
  created).
* Updated officer information for new chair.
* Twitter used to keep followers up to date about TLP migration.

LEGAL
No issues.

BRANDING
Incubator logo has been removed from website, no other known issues.


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Attachment P: Report from the Apache Flex Project  [Alex Harui]

Apache Flex is an application framework for easily building Flash-based
applications for mobile devices, the browser and desktop.

RELEASES
Apache Flex 4.9.0 was released on 12/27/12.
Apache Flex Installer 2.0.x was released on 1/9/13.

ACTIVITY
Activity in Apache Flex is in two main areas:  improvements to the existing
Adobe Flash-dependent code base, including the two releases listed above,
and prototyping ways to create a version of Flex that is independent from
Adobe Flash.  There is another group working on Maven-related tools for the
existing code base.

Nick Kwaitkowski and other community members totally revamped the
flex.apache.org site.  Trademarks reviewed the site before it went live on
1/31/13.  Analytics were also added to the site.  In the first two days we
had 4,228 (3,534 unique) visitors and 11,965 page views.

COMMUNITY
Roland Zwaga was approved as committer on 1/15/13.

PRESS
Scott Guthmann worked with Press@a.o to publish a press release about
Apache Flex on 1/14/13.  One link to it is here:
http://globenewswire.com/news-release/2013/01/14/516186/10017952/en/The-Apache-Software-Foundation-Announces-Apache-Flex-tm-as-a-Top-Level-Project.html

LEGAL
Nothing to report.

TLP MIGRATION
The TLP migration was completed on January 5, 2012.  I think we've
completed all of the necessary steps.

Task Status:
 * Infrastructure migration complete
 * All code & web pages have been updated to reflect new status
 * Final incubator status done
 * committee-info.txt updated with PMC details
 * Officer info updated for new chair
 * Clean up incubator version of website, dist done

INFRASTRUCTURE
 * Infrastructure migration from the incubator is complete and the project
   website has been transferred to flex.apache.org.
 * Infra attempted to resolve INFRA-4380 but ran into problems.  The
   problem appears to be resolved so INFRA-4380 will likely be
   resolved by the time of the board meeting.
 * We will be trying to migrate from SVN to Git as soon as possible.

BRANDING
The flex.apache.org site is undergoing a major overhaul.  We will
review the new site against this checklist.
* Project Naming And Descriptions : Done
* Website Navigation Links : Done
* Trademark Attributions : Done
* Logos and Graphics : Done
* Project Metadata : Done


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Attachment Q: Report from the Apache Flume Project  [Arvind Prabhakar]

DESCRIPTION

Apache Flume is a distributed, reliable, and available system for
efficiently collecting, aggregating, and moving large amounts of log
data to scalable data storage systems such as Apache Hadoop's HDFS.

RELEASES
* Since the previous status report, Flume has made two releases -
version 1.3.0 was released on December 4, 2012, and version 1.3.1
was released on January 2, 2013.
* No further releases are planned at this time.

CURRENT ACTIVITY
* Development activity continues with steady stream of issues being
logged and resolved.
* A total of 176 issues have been filed, and 117 issues have been
resolved between the period starting November 21, 2012 and February 12,
2013.
* Approximately 1500 messages were exchanged on the dev list in the
past three months, while a total of 627 were exchanged on the user
list in this period.

COMMUNITY
* PMC Composition has changed due to changes in affiliations of the
PMC members. Currently, the PMC affiliations stand at: Apple (1),
Cloudera (12), CyberAgent (1), Independent (2), Intuit (2),
Motorola (1), and Wibidata (1).
* Committer composition has not changed since the last report.
* Currently there are:
- Total of 161 subscribers to the developer list
- Total of 367 subscribers to the user list
- Total of 22 committers
- Total of 20 PMC members

ISSUES

* There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.


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Attachment R: Report from the Apache Forrest Project  [David Crossley]

Apache Forrest mission is software for generation of aggregated
multi-channel documentation maintaining a separation of content and
presentation.

Issues needing board attention:
  None.

Changes in the PMC membership:
  None.
  Last modified: 2011-01-10

General status:
  The most recent release is 0.9 on 2011-02-07.

  There was no activity on the user mail list. A user did add a comment for
  a workaround to an issue.

  There was some activity on the dev mail list, with one PMC member
  seeking assistance with their work (see below) and being assisted by
  two other PMC members.

  No other PMC members have been active during this quarter. Three
  people did respond to my draft board report. This confirms that
  there are at least four people hanging around, and so we are
  potentially able to make a decision or encourage new contributors.

  Following the December quarter, the board feedback was returned to the
  private list, i.e. it is okay to appear to be "dormant" as long as there
  are 3+ PMC members actively following. This quarter the activity seems to
  have risen a little.

Security issues reported:
  None.

Progress of the project:
  There was good progress on the "wiki" plugin, which handles input from
  various wikis. The plugin should now support all relevant jspwiki markup.

  That also spurred some interaction in the community.

  Continued work on one of our Gump projects, which now deploys some
  plugins and then uses the built 'forrest' to generate a sample site.

  Discussion was commenced regarding extending commit access. Not much
  activity yet.

  The project was reminded that Apache Cocoon is attempting to release the
  next Cocoon-2.1 version, which the current forrest depends upon.

  No developer assisted with the required move to 'svnpubsub', so the chair
  stepped up again to arrange that. All done now. Thanks to Infra.


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Attachment S: Report from the Apache Giraph Project  [Avery Ching]

Giraph is a Bulk Synchronous Parallel framework for writing programs
that analyze large graphs on a Hadoop cluster. Giraph is similar to
Google's Pregel system.

Project Status:
---------

Releases:
   0.2.0 - Delayed due to further API changes, will re-evaluate later this
           month.

Community:
---------

These past months we have seen an increase in contributions from a
more diverse set of individuals.  One contributor (Eli Reisman) is
working on getting Giraph to work natively on YARN, which will be
great for YARN and Giraph.

Mailing lists:
  148 subscribers on dev
  221 subscribers on user


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Attachment T: Report from the Apache Gora Project  [Lewis John McGibbney]

The Apache Gora open source framework provides an in-memory data model and
persistence for big data. Gora supports persisting to column stores, key
value stores, document stores and RDBMSs, and analyzing the data with
extensive Apache Hadoop MapReduce support.

Project Releases

The Apache Gora team was happy to announce the release of Gora 0.2.1 on
7th August 2012. No releases have been made since however a clear strategy
has been established for the 0.3 release.

Overall Project Activity since last report

Since last reporting, the PMC has geared the development drive towards
the 0.3 release. We have addressed and resolved 28 of 33 issues
meaning that the progression towards an RC for 0.3 is well on the
way. We currently have two blockers which nee to be addressed before
we can consider the 0.3 RC.

How has the community developed since the last report?

Activity on the user@ list has been very slow since last reporting. It
was invisaged that after ApacheConEU user interest might pick up
slightly, however this has not materialized as we hoped.  Activity on
dev@ has developed in line with our expectations as we move towards
more regular Gora releases. Generally speaking more work needs to be
done in an attempt to make it easier for people to use Gora. This is
something which the PMC need to work on.

Changes to PMC & Committers

The Gora PMC were very pleased to invite and have Alfonso Nishikawa
join our ranks in early December. After working with the PMC to ensure
smooth transition into the Apache community Alfonso is now
contributing to Gora and making a real impact. Alfonso also joined the
Gora PMC.

PMC and Committer diversity

We currently have committers from a wide variety of Apache projects
including, Nutch, Tika, OODT, Camel, Solr, Accumulo, Whirr & Hadoop
(this is not an exhaustive list). We are still actively seeking one or
more members to join the team from the Avro community so this will be
a main target for us in the future post 0.3 release.

Project Branding or Naming issues

NONE

Legal issues

NONE


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Attachment U: Report from the Apache Hadoop Project  [Arun Murthy]

Hadoop is a set of related tools and frameworks for creating and managing
distributed applications running on clusters of commodity computers.

On the people side, we have new people joining our ranks.
* We've added 3 new committers - Kihwal Lee, Arpit Gupta, Bikas Saha
* We've added 1 new PMC member: Harsh J
* We've elected a new PMC Chair, Chris Douglas. (Also added to the board
  agenda.)

On the project side, we have made 4 releases:
- hadoop-0.23.5 was released on 28th November, 2012
- hadoop-1.1.1 was released on 1st December, 2012
- hadoop-0.23.6 was released on 6th February, 2013
- hadoop-2.0.3-alpha was released on 13th February, 2013

PMC Chair Vote - We had a fairly contentious discussion after for the
PMC Chair resulted in a tie after STV. The discussions included
*analysis* of voting patterns w.r.t employers, accusations and
counter-accusations about reasons for those patterns such as marketing
etc., a proposal to *rotate PMC chair organization* as one of the
remedies, which eventually veered into a direction where one PMC
member perceived it as a of 'threat to remove all PMC members of an
organization' which was rapidly diffused by a clarification by the
other PMC member. In the end, one of the 2 candidates tied after the
vote withdrew to allow for an amicable solution and also cited
concerns about the nature of some of the discussions.

Clearly, the lesson the Hadoop PMC has learnt is that, in future, voting
should be done via the ASF Voting Tool.

As the outgoing Chair, my personal recommendation is that splitting
the Hadoop project into separate TLPs (HDFS, YARN, MapReduce) will not
only break up the 'umbrella' Hadoop project to better reflect the fact
that the communities are significantly disparate, but will also, more
importantly, help avoid excessive fascination with the Hadoop
brand. We've discussed about this in the past (see October 2012 Board
Report) - some people agree about this, others don't. We'll continue
to talk.

Overall, aside from these skirmishes, the community continues to
function in a healthy manner as evinced by the fact that we continue
to make a significant number of software releases, grow the community
by adding new users/contributors/committers/PMC-members and generally
make great forward progress. Hence, I feel there isn't any reason for
the Board to take any action.

Community:
* 51 committers
* 3932 user@
* 1783 subscribers on general@

COMMON

Common is the shared libraries for HDFS and MapReduce.

Community:
* 1751 subscribers on common-dev

HDFS

HDFS is a distributed file system that supports reliable replicated storage
across the cluster using a single name space.

Community:
* 829 subscribers on hdfs-dev

YARN

YARN is a distributed computation framework for easily writing distributed
applications.

Community:
* 185  subscribers to yarn-dev

MAPREDUCE

MapReduce is an implementation of the map/reduce programming paradigm.

Community:
* 867  subscribers to mapreduce-dev


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Attachment V: Report from the Apache Hama Project  [Edward J. Yoon]

Apache Hama is a Bulk Synchronous Parallel computing engine on top of
HDFS (Hadoop Distributed File System) for massive scientific
computations such as matrix, graph and network algorithms.

Releases:

 * We’re preparing 0.6.1 new release.

Community:

 * user@ and dev@ MLs activities are continuously raising. Currently
160 users, 98 devs.
 * Thomas Jungblut has requested to go Emeritus from the Hama PMC.
 * New committer (Mikalaj Parafeniuk) and pmc (Apurv Verma) are being
   voted.

Development:

 * We’re mainly improving scalability and performance of BSP computing
   engine.
 * We're preparing integration with Hadoop 2.0, Mesos, and Bigtop.

Issues:

 * No Board level issues at this time.


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Attachment W: Report from the Apache HTTP Server Project  [Eric Covener]

The Apache HTTP Server Project is an effort to develop and maintain an
open-source HTTP server for modern operating systems.

No major issues requiring the Board's attention.

== Project Status ==

No releases during this reporting period, but a 2.4.x release is
anticipated prior to ACNA (thanks Jim). There has been a flurry of
backport activity from trunk in anticipation.

2.0.x and older releases see almost no activity.

mod_macro was IP cleared and rolled into trunk.

== Community ==

IRC and users@ activity has been steady. Bugzilla and development lists
has been relativey slow.

Fabien Coelho joined us as a committer.
Gregg Smith and Daniel Gruno joined the PMC.

Apache HTTP Server has a number of talks/tutorials planned for ACNA.


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Attachment X: Report from the Apache HttpComponents Project  [Asankha Perera]

The Apache HttpComponents project is responsible for creating and
maintaining a toolset of low level Java components focused on HTTP
and associated protocols.

Status
Overall the project remains active.

Releases
- HttpCore 4.2.3 GA was released on the 2nd of December 2012
- HttpCore 4.3-alpha1 was released on the 2nd of December 2012
- HttpClient 4.2.3 GA was released on the 15th of January 2013
- HttpClient 4.3-alpha1 was released on the 22nd of January 2013

Community
The community remains small but active, but has good user interaction
on the mailing lists as well as contributions rolling in

- Karl Wright was voted in as a committer on the 8th of December 2012
- Francois-Xavier Bonnet was voted in as a committer on the 15th of
January 2013


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Attachment Y: Report from the Apache Incubator Project  [Benson Margulies]

The main concern of the incubator continues to be the quality and
reliability of supervision.  We know that some projects suffer from
Mentor Inattention. Individual PMC members have been volunteering to
address some of these holes. Shepherds are an additional mechanism for
taking note of problems, but not a solution to those problems. The
supply of mentoring seems, still, to exceed demand. Changes to the
report format make it somewhat easier to notice, for example, mentors
who don't sign off on reports or reports that are altogether missing.

As a change from this theme, this reporting period includes a less
conventional issue.  A podling (HCatalog) proposes to 'graduate' by
absorption into the Hive PMC. However, the terms under which Hive
proposes to absorb HCatalog strikes some PMC members as returning to
the deprecated practices of 'umbrellas' and 'subprojects', which led
to strong -1 votes on the graduation thread. On the other hand, it may
be entirely between the board and Hive to sort out whether Hive is
creating a structure that is acceptable to the board or not, and not a
matter for the IPMC to rule on.

We'd like to pose this question to the board:

There are three possible dispositions of a podling:

1. It graduates. The IPMC has a vote to recommend that the board
establish the TLP.

2. It retires. The IPMC votes to retire. The board learns in the next
IPMC report.

3. The podling community strikes an agreement to merge into some
existing TLP.

It is the third case we'd like some board feedback on. What is the
role of the IPMC in this case? A minimalist view is that all we do is
certify that the IP is cleared, and then we 'retire' the podling -- no
vote at all, or a lazy consensus to certify the IP situation. The
board, on the other hand, might look to us to vote to approve the
scheme of adoption. If the vote fails, however, then what?

o Community

New IPMC members:

Chris Douglas

People who left the IPMC:

None

o New Podlings

None.

o Graduations


The board has motions for the following:

Crunch and Clerezza have motions before the board.

o Releases

Well, I can't find any. But people may not have sent proper announcements
to general@incubator.

o Legal / Trademarks

Lovely new documentation on LICENSE and NOTICE resulted from conversations
at the IPMC.

-------------------- Summary of podling reports --------------------

Still getting started at the Incubator

  These projects are still getting started, so no immediate progress
  towards graduation is yet expected.

  Blur
  HDT
  Marmotta
  Onami
  Ripple
  Streams

Not yet ready to graduate

  Ambari
  Crunch
  Deltaspike
  Droids
  NPanday

Ready to graduate

   Clerezza


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                       Table of Contents
Ambari
Blur
Clerezza
Crunch
DeltaSpike
Droids
Hadoop Development Tools
Marmotta
NPanday
Onami
Ripple
Streams

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Ambari

Ambari is a monitoring, administration and lifecycle management project for
Apache Hadoop clusters.

Ambari has been incubating since 2011-08-30.

  - Release 1.2.0 done
  - Preparing for 1.2.1 release expected to be in the next week or so.
  - new committers have been added
    Jaimin Jetley, John Speidel, Tom Beerbower, Srimanth
  - We are hoping to do some meetups to get more user/dev engagement. This
    expected to happen in the next month or so.

Two most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:

  1. Attracting users and developers
  2. Increase diversity of developers outside of Hortonworks

Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of?

  No

How has the community developed since the last report?

  - With new releases, there is more interest in user community. We hope to
    build on that with more releases and better docs.
  - Mailing list stats: dev - 79, user - 111

How has the project developed since the last report?
  - Release 1.2.0 is done
  - Release 1.2.1 is expected to happen in the next week or so

Signed-off-by:
Owen O'Malley: [X](ambari)
Chris Douglas: [ ](ambari)
Arun Murthy: [X](ambari)


Shepherd notes: I think that Ambari is close to ready to graduate. They
have recently added new committers. Dave Fisher

--------------------
Blur

Blur is a search platform capable of searching massive amounts of data
in a cloud computing environment.

Blur has been incubating since 2012-07-24.

Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:

  1. Official IP sign off
    - Near Infinity signed CCLA and Blur Software Grant in July of 2012
    - All committers have submitted ICLA's in July/August of 2012
    - So I believe that an official vote is all that is needed.
  2. First Apache release which is dependent on #1
    - The biggest reason this has been delayed is due to several major code
      refactors to make use of Blur faster and easier
  3. Community growth, Blur needs to grow beyond the initial set of committors.

Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of?

  No.

How has the community developed since the last report?

  - Overall message traffic was down through the holidays, but has started
    to pick back up since the beginning of the year.
  - Subscriptions: users@ - 31[+9]; dev@ - 33[+9]

How has the project developed since the last report?

  - There has been about 80 commits since the last report, from 2
    committors and 1 contributor
  - The 0.2 development branch is now functioning and is getting closer to
    feature parity with 0.1.

Signed-off-by:
Doug Cutting: [ ](blur)
Patrick Hunt: [X](blur)
Tim Williams: [X](blur)

Shepherd notes: Cool project. Identifying and following through on
community growth is important. Beautiful website. Dave Fisher

--------------------
Clerezza

an OSGi-based modular application and set of components (bundles) for
building RESTFul Semantic Web applications and services.

Clerezza has been incubating since 2009-11-27.

The resolution to graduate Clerezza has been added to the board agenda, as
per the http://s.apache.org/rOw vote.

There was some prior discussion of the viability of the project, especially
the content management parts where activity has been fairly low recently,
but in the end enough volunteers have shown up to move the project forward.

Signed-off-by:
Ross Gardler: [ ](clerezza)
Reinhard Poetz: [ ](clerezza)


Shepherd notes:

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Crunch

Crunch is a Java library for writing, testing, and running pipelines of MapReduce
jobs on Apache Hadoop.

Crunch has been incubating since 2012-05-26.

Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:

  * None


Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of?

  * Nothing that currently requires IPMC attention.


How has the community developed since the last report?

The Apache Crunch development team has released version 0.4.0-incubating
in November, the second release at the Apache Incubator. We have worked
with the Apache BigTop project and our release is now part of Apache
BigTop 0.5.0. For our next release, we have discussed and agreed on some
large-scale API cleanup and implemented the necessary changes.

We have performed the podling name search - the name Apache Crunch has
been approved by the trademarks team. This has been our last blocker for
graduation, we have already started a vote on a graduation resolution
within the community and expect to start the vote on incubator-general in
February.

Development activity around Christmas has been a bit lower than usual but
is now picking up again. There has been a significant increase in traffic
on crunch-user; it is great to see that more and more users show up, file
bug reports and contribute patches or test cases.


How has the project developed since the last report?

 - 53 issues were created on the Crunch JIRA in November
   to January, 39 issues have been resolved
 - crunch-dev has seen 615 emails in the reporting period,
   while 126 emails were posted to crunch-user


Signed-off-by:
Arun Murthy: [ ](crunch)
Patrick Hunt: [X](crunch)
Tom White: [ ](crunch)


Shepherd notes:

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DeltaSpike

(incubating since December 2011)

DeltaSpike will consist of a number of portable CDI extensions that provide
useful features for Java application developers. The goal of DeltaSpike is
to create a de-facto standard of CDI-Extensions that is developed and
maintained by the community.

There are currently no issues requiring IPMC or Board attention.

Since our last report in November 2012, we have accomplished the following:

  - Migration to ApacheCMS finished
  - JSF module continued
  - JPA module enhanced

Upcoming major goals:

  - Finish the work on the WindowHandler and Security
  - Release deltaspike-0.4-incubating
  - target Graduation until the next month

Top 2 or 3 things to resolve before graduation:

  none


Signed-off-by:
Mark Struberg: [X](deltaspike)
Gerhard Petracek: [ ](deltaspike)
David Blevins: [ ](deltaspike)
Matt Benson: [ ](deltaspike)
Jim Jagielski: [X](deltaspike)


Shepherd notes:

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Droids

Droids aims to be an intelligent standalone robot framework that allows to
create and extend existing droids (robots).

Droids has been incubating since 2008-10-09.

Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:

  1. Diversity is still an issue for the podling. Activity has picked up in
     the recent months, helping with the diversity of those involved.
  2. A different name is most likely needed. Droid is now largely associated
     with Android.

Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of?
  None.

How has the community developed since the last report?

  Commons was approached to see if that was a viable option for graudation.
  It is unsure that would be a good fit. Other TLPs may be a better fit,
  but it is unknown how sub-projects would be handled or if they would be
  allowed.

  Development activity has picked up in the past two months, since just
  before Christmas. Most of the development is by one developer, but others
  have been involved. If this level of activity continues for the next month,
  Droids may be ready for graduation.

How has the project developed since the last report?

  Development activity has greatly increased in the recent months.
  There have been strides to make the code base cleaner, and easier to use.

Signed-off-by:
Thorsten Scherler: [x](droids)
Richard Frovarp: [x](droids)


Shepherd notes:

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Hadoop Development Tools

Eclipse based tools for developing applications on the Hadoop platform.

Entered 11/09/2012

Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
- Support multiple versions of Hadoop in a single IDE instance. During this
  time building understanding of the Apache processes around working and
  releasing.
- Release
- Grow the podling community in terms of users and contributors.

Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of?
- None

How has the community developed since the last report?
- Voted for, and invited new member of the PPMC (waiting on ICLA)
How has the project developed since the last report?
- Plugin and connector architecture discussion that led to agreement and
  direction for the early work.
- Code from Hadoop contrib ported and split into logical plugins.

Signed-off-by:
Suresh Marru: [X](hadoopdevelopmenttools)
Chris A Mattmann: [X](hadoopdevelopmenttools)
Roman Shaposhnik: [X](hadoopdevelopmenttools)


Shepherd notes:

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Marmotta

An open implementation of a Linked Data Platform.

Marmotta has been incubating since 2012-12-03.

Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:

  1. Ingest code and clear IP.
  2. A release
  3. Build dev and PMC.

Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of?

No such issues.

How has the community developed since the last report?

 * Communication mechanisms have been successfully setup: the
   dev@marmotta mailing list has quite important traffic (274 messages
   in January); Jira already registers more than 50 issues; regular
   meetings are held at IRC, sending the minutes to the mailing list
   to mitigate the barriers of people in different timezones. This
   approach is enabling the participation of new people in the
   community of the project.

 * Branding: Logo almost ready, trademarks@apache already contacted.
   Awaiting for the site installation.

How has the project developed since the last report?

The project is about publish the last release of the former project (LMF),
to them contribute the parts that will be actually Marmotta. This last full
release already advances some tasks for Marmotta, such as architectural
changes and dependencies clean up. After this major milestone, the
project's ambition is a rapid turnaround to get an Apache incubator release
as soon as possible.

Signed-off-by:
Fabian Christ: [X](marmotta)
Nandana Mihindukulasooriya: [X](marmotta)
Andy Seaborne: [X](marmotta)


Shepherd notes:

--------------------
NPanday

NPanday allows projects using the .NET framework to be built with Apache Maven.

NPanday has been incubating since 2010-08-13.

Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:

  1. work out a concrete plan towards graduation ASAP
  2. encourage newer contributors to do so on a continuing basis
  3. reach out to other projects using .NET that might be interested in
     working with NPanday

We are still short on mentors, and would appreciate any volunteers.

We have had some recent patch submissions again and will encourage those
actively using the project to contribute on a regular basis. We haven't
added a new committer since 20 April 2011, so expect to have a low barrier
to any new committers.

The last release was on 16 May 2011. It is clear that this is impacting the
ability of the project to attract and retain new blood. Unfortunately,
there remain some blockers to releasing the current trunk. We need to push
forward with this ASAP.

Signed-off-by:
Dennis Lundberg: [X](npanday)


Shepherd notes:

--------------------
Onami

Apache Onami aims to create a community focused on the development and
maintenance of a set of Google Guice extensions not provided out of the box
by the library itself nor the Google developers team, such as integration
with 3rd part frameworks or extra functionalities.

Onami has been incubating since 2012-11-14.

Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:

  1. complete the ongoing pending releases
  2. involve more mentors
  3. start discussing the graduation on dev@

Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware
of? Two Onami releases have been waiting for IPMC binding votes for seven
days and got no inputs

How has the community developed since the last report?
Two new committers joined the developers community:
 * Eric Charles, already chair of Apache James, on 2013-01-23;
 * Mikhail Mazursky, a new guy who joined the ASF thanks to his interest on
   Onami, on 2013-01-20.
Users ML continue being silent;
People showed interest on our components on Google Guice users ML.

How has the project developed since the last report?
 * released Onami Parent 2-incubating on 2013-01-19;
 * all Onami modules publish the required DOAP on the related public site;
 * released Onami Test 1.4.0-incubating, still under IPMC approval vote;
 * released Onami Logging 3.4.0-incubating, still under IPMC approval vote;
 * discussed with Apache BVal dev community about continuing the bval-guice
   module development under Onami governance.

Signed-off-by:
Christian Grobmeier: [X](onami)
Mohammad Nour El-Din: [ ](onami)
Olivier Lamy: [ ](onami)


Shepherd notes:


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Ripple

Ripple is a browser based mobile phone emulator designed to aid in the
development of HTML5 based mobile applications.  Ripple is a cross platform
and cross runtime testing/debugging tool. It currently supports such runtimes
as Cordova, WebWorks aand the Mobile Web.

Ripple has been incubating since 2012-10-16.

Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:

  1. Need to contribute code to ASF
  2. Increase the ripple community @ apache.

Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware
of?

We are still working internally to be able to contribute the Ripple code to
ASF Looks like we might have to strip out all of the trademarks from the
project for the initial commit under the SGA, we will then commit them back
as a normal contribution under ASL2.0.

How has the community developed since the last report?

The community continues to grow slowly with some more community
contributions seen in the project's current home. We expect the community
to build up once the project is fully transitioned to the ASF.

Also some discussion and bugs are happening in the apache community.

How has the project developed since the last report?

Very little change here.

Filed by Dan Silivestru.

Signed-off-by:
Jukka Zitting: [ ](ripple)
Christian Grobmeier: [X](ripple)
Andrew Savory: [X](ripple)


Shepherd notes:

--------------------
Streams

Apache Streams is a lightweight server for ActivityStreams.

Streams has been incubating since 2012-11-20.

Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:

  1. Diverse participation in development.  More of the community needs to
     be actively engaged.
  2. Increase the codebase
  3. Develop a larger community.

Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to
be aware of?
Not at this time

How has the community developed since the last report?
Discussions are starting to include a wider group of participants.

How has the project developed since the last report?
The community successfully voted on a new logo.
Streams had its first minor release (Streams Master POM 0.1-incubating)

Signed-off-by:
Matt Franklin: [X](streams)
Ate Douma: [X](streams)
Craig McClanahan: [ ](streams)


Shepherd notes:


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Attachment Z: Report from the Apache jUDDI Project  [Kurt Stam]

jUDDI (pronounced "Judy") is an open source Java implementation of the
Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration (UDDI v3)
specification for (Web) Services. The jUDDI project includes
Scout. Scout is an implementation of the JSR 93 - Java API for XML
Registries 1.0 (JAXR).

jUDDI
- We released version 3.1.4 adding support for digital signing.
- Traffic on the mailing lists was fairly low, mostly grad students.
- Getting some interest from a developer whose thesis was on UDDI.

Scout
- We released version 1.2.5.
- Very low volume of JAXR related questions on the mailing list.


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Attachment AA: Report from the Apache Kafka Project  [Jun Rao]

Apache Kafka is a distributed pub/sub system for efficiently collecting and
delivering a large number of messages to both offline and online systems.

Development
===========
We found a few more blocker issues while testing Kafka 0.8 (supports
intra-cluster replication). The 0.8 release is likely delayed to Mar
or Apr.

Community
===========
Lots of activities in the mailing list. kafka-user has 243 emails in Jan.
(up from 241 in Dec). kafka-dev has 804 emails in Dec (up from 498 in Dec).
We accepted a few more patches from non-committers.

There will be a Kafka presentation in ApachCon 2013 in Feb.

Infrastructure
===========
This is the third month since Kafka became a top-level project. All infra
work is now done.


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Attachment AB: Report from the Apache Lenya Project  [Richard Frovarp]

The Apache Lenya CMS is a Cocoon based XML/XHTML content management
system.

Issues:

No board level issues at this time.

After our report last November, there was a request from the board via
Greg about the lack of a release and activity. Michael Wechner and
Rudolf Korhummel both responded to board@ indicating that this is
normal low activity, and that there aren't further concerns. In
addition, Rudolf indicated that there was the potential for a release
in the future. The statements by both of those individuals remain
true.

Development:

No new releases this quarter.
Last release: 2.0.4 on 2011-03-14

There has been an effort to make a new release. We are currently trying to
improve our build system. We use Ant without Ivy, causing some problems in
dependency management that we would like to improve.

Community:

Requests are being handled in a timely manner on the lists.

No change in community.


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Attachment AC: Report from the Apache Libcloud Project  [Tomaz Muraus]

Libcloud is a Python library that abstracts away the differences among
multiple cloud provider APIs.

Issues

There are no issues that require the board's attention at this time.

Releases

- Libcloud 0.11.4 has been released on November 19th, 2012

Community

* No new PMC Members
* Two new committer have joined the team Ilgiz Islamgulov (ilgiz) and
  Mahendra Maheshwara (mahendra)
* Multiple patches have been contributed by external contributors


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Attachment AD: Report from the Apache Logging Project  [Christian Grobmeier]

The Apache Logging Services Project creates and maintains open-
source software related to the logging of application behavior.

- Community

No changes.

- Project Branding Requirements

All components meet the branding requirements, except Chainsaw. We
are hoping to release Chainsaw soon, but not much time has been
spent on this.

- Development

General:

No outstanding issues.

log4j 1.2: A few bugreports/patches came in, but no real work has
been done this quarter.

log4j 2.0: Good activity with further increasing interest from the
community which includes patches for new functionality. log4j 2.0-
beta3 was released on Nov 15, 2012. log4j 2.0-beta4 was released
on Feb 2, 2013. We are aiming at the first stable release.

The Apache Onami (incubating) project, which is creating Google
Guice extensions, created a new component which wraps log4j 2.

log4cxx: a few patches were applied from a contributor earlier
this quarter but then this component became inactive again. We have
started discussion on moving it to the Attic as it is becoming more
and more unlikely that it will revive.

log4net: patches have been reviewed and committed.

log4php: Constant activity. log4php moved to GIT, which motivated
several contributors to send patches. A new release is in the making,
along with plans for moving the web site to CMS.

Chainsaw: A new chainsaw release is blocked by the companions
release. The log4j 2.0.0 interest has increased interest in a new
Chainsaw release.

Companions (for log4j 1.x): No work has been done here, but it is
still on the plan to make a release and unblock Chainsaw.


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Attachment AE: Report from the Apache Mahout Project  [Jake Mannix]


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Attachment AF: Report from the Apache ManifoldCF Project  [Karl Wright]

Project description
==============

ManifoldCF is an effort to provide an open source framework for connecting
source content repositories like Microsoft Sharepoint and EMC Documentum,
to target repositories or indexes, such as Apache Solr , OpenSearchServer
or ElasticSearch. ManifoldCF also defines a security model for target
repositories that permits them to enforce source-repository security
policies.

Milestones
========

ManifoldCF graduated from the Apache Incubator on May 16, 2012.  Since
then, there have been two major releases, including a 1.0 release on
October 3, 2012, and another major release is undergoing voting at the time
of this writing.

Mailing list activity
==============

Mailing list has been active, with a wide range of topics.  Most of our
connectors now have significant use cases and constituencies.  Dev list
comments centered around new committers, release-related communication, and
voting.

I am unaware of any mailing-list question that has gone unanswered.

Committer and PMC membership
========================

We have signed up one new committer since the last report in November,
2012. We also continue to receive contributions in random bursts from
people using the software.  We've identified any contributor who seems to
have a medium-term or better commitment to the technology as being a
potential committer, and as always, we try to maintain an encouraging
attitude towards new contributors.

Branding
======

We are aware of no current violations of the Apache ManifoldCF brand.

Legal
====

There are no outstanding legal issues that need resolution at this time.

Infrastructure
==========

There are no infrastructure issues known at this time.


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Attachment AG: Report from the Apache Oltu Project  [Antonio Sanso]

DESCRIPTION

Oltu is a project to develop a Java library which provides an API
specification for, and an unconditionally compliant implementation of
the OAuth v2.0 specifications.  OAuth is a mechanism that allows users
to authenticate and authorise access by another party to resources
they control while avoiding the need to share their username and
password credentials.

MILESTONES

Oltu graduated from the Apache Incubator on January 16, 2013. Since then,
there have been no new releases.

CURRENT ACTIVITY

- the main activity at the moment is related to the "After graduation tasks".
  We have been following the instruction as for
  http://incubator.apache.org/guides/graduation.html#transfer.
  We are tracking our progress in
  https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-5772 and
  https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AMBER-76;
- development is freezed because of
  https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-5777; we would rather
  continue tracking issues on AMBER as soon as possible in order to
  avoid any confusion in our community;
- we have been discussing to widen a bit the scope of Oltu in order to
  provide Open Id Connect support, some implementation around this has
  already started;
- development activity is healthy, new contributors are emerging as
  potential new committers;
- users activity is almost quiet.

COMMUNITY

- PMC composition has not changed since graduation.
- Committers composition has not changed since graduation.

ISSUES

There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.


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Attachment AH: Report from the Apache Oozie Project  [Alejandro Abdelnur]

DESCRIPTION

Apache Oozie is a system for managing and scheduling workflows that run
different types of Hadoop jobs (such as MapReduce, Pig, Hive and Sqoop)
as well as system specific jobs (such as Java programs and shell scripts).

NEW RELEASES
* Apache Oozie version 3.3.0, released on DEC/03/2012
* Apache Oozie version 3.3.1, released on JAN/25/2013

CURRENT ACTIVITY
* Development activity continues as can be seen from the following report:
  http://s.apache.org/WQq (since last report, November 2012)

COMMUNITY

* PMC composition has not changed since last report.
  The current affiliations in the PMC stand at: independent (1),
  Cloudera (2), Continuity (1), Ebay (1), Hortonworks (2), Microsoft (2),
  Yahoo (2).

* Committers composition has not changed since last report.

* Currently there are:
- Total of 106 (+8) subscribers to the developer list
- Total of 241 (+28) subscribers to the user list
- Total of 13 committers
- Total of 11 PMC members

ISSUES

* There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.


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Attachment AI: Report from the Apache OpenMeetings Project  [Sebastian Wagner]

Apache OpenMeetings provides video conferencing, instant messaging, white
board, collaborative document editing and other  groupware tools like
calendar, invitations and emails using API functions of the Red5 Streaming
Server for Remoting and Streaming.

== Releases ==

The PMC has not made a release this reporting period. But we have elected a
release manager (Maxim Solodovnik) and, issues have been assigned and
ordered, features to be put into version 2.1 are discussed. Target date for
release 2.1 would be beginning of March.

== Activity ==

The constant activity in mailing list, jira and commits.
The main focus in the last couple of weeks since incubation have been:
- Moving all resources to top level project infrastructure - Status
  complete, except the incubator releases that currently remain on the
  incubator mirrors.
- Discussion about release - Status: See point -Releases-
- Main features working on: SIP integration/Asterisk VoIP bridge,
  clustering and load balancing, minor improvements around source code
  organization and feature enhancements.

== Community ==

We have been starting to search for ideas for GSoC 2013
program. Probably we will try to offer a project around integration of
OpenMeetings with Khan Academy to provide Virtual classrooms.  There
have been contributions around Joomla integration and Ldap that have
been applied or are in the process of reviewing by developers.  There
are currently two Votes processing for new committers and PMC members.

== Outreach ==

There is no dev coming to ApacheCon NA because developers are located in
Russia, Australia and New Zealand and can’t make it to the conference.

== Infrastructure ==

All resources have been moved to new infrastructure except the incubator
releases that are still on incubator mirrors.

== Board ==

There are no outstanding issues requiring board attention.


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Attachment AJ: Report from the Apache Perl Project  [Philippe M. Chiasson]


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Attachment AK: Report from the Apache POI Project  [Yegor Kozlov]

Apache POI is a Java library for reading and writing Microsoft Office file
formats.


Releases
--------
Version 3.9 was released on 3rd December 2012


Community
---------

No new committers/PMC members.

Project Status
---------

Apache POI continues to be an active project, both in terms of user
activity and development.

Traffic on the mailing lists has been steady in the last 3 months
(Nov 01 2012 - Feb 01 2013):

- User mailing list: 354 messages
- Dev mailing list: 319 messages
- Commits: 161 commits

Most patches and bug fixes are applied without much delay.

General Comments
----------------
There are no issues that require Board attention.


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Attachment AL: Report from the Apache Qpid Project  [Carl Trieloff]


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Attachment AM: Report from the Apache River Project  [Greg Trasuk]

Apache River is a service oriented architecture platform, based on the
JSK Starter Kit source code donated by Sun Microsystems, for the Jini
Specification.

Releases:
No new releases since last report, but a release is expected in early
March.

Board:
No board level issues to report

Progress:
We've had a flurry of activity recently surrounding a problem exposed by
Oracle's JDK 7 transition.  This activity will lead to a release in early
March.  Work also continues on improved user experience and
refactoring of the QA suite.


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Attachment AN: Report from the Apache Roller Project  [Dave Johnson]

Apache Roller is a full-featured, Java-based weblogging package that works
well on Tomcat and MySQL, and is also known to run on other servers and
databases. The ASF blog site at blogs.apache.org runs on Roller 5.0.1.

Issues

No board issues at this time.

Releases

The latest release of Apache Roller is v5.0.1, which was released
on June 24, 2012, a security and bug fix release.

Community

Since our last report we gained one committer, Glen Mazza, who
single-handedly moved the Roller home page to the new Apache CMS.
Glen has also been working to clean up the project's JIRA backlog,
and closing hundreds of obsolete issues, and our wiki space.

Apart from that, the Roller community continues to be rather quiet
with low traffic that mostly concerns technical support and installation
issues.


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Attachment AO: Report from the Apache Santuario Project  [Colm O hEigeartaigh]

The Apache Santuario project is aimed at providing implementation of
security standards for XML.

There were no new releases during the last quarter. Overall project
activity was quiet. The main development activity was focused on the
forthcoming 2.0 release of the Java library, which will support a new
streaming XML Security model. This work is mostly complete, and a
release is expected in the next few months.

The svnpubsub migration is not finished yet, but is almost complete. We are
working with INFRA on finishing this task.

No changes to the PMC or new committers in this quarter.


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Attachment AP: Report from the Apache SIS Project  [Adam Estrada]

Apache SIS is a spatial framework that enables better representation of
coordinates for searching, data clustering, archiving, or any other
relevant spatial needs.

Development:

There have been 87 commits since the last Board Report including the build
helper module [1], removal of an internal ThreadPoolExecuter[2] and
refinements to the Eclipse IDE integration build process[3]. SIS is moving
towards a reference implementation of GeoAPI, which is one of the few in
existence.  Chris Mattmann was also added as a voting member of the GeoAPI
community. Chris et al also suggested a major release, and Martin mentioned
that we may want to have the next release be for sis-metadata, and then the
one after be for sis-referencing. These will mark the first milestone
releases for Apache SIS.  We have been slowed down recently because of the
work temporarily shifted on GeoAPI and Unit of Measurement side. While
invisible work from Apache SIS perspective, we believe that this was a
necessary step to help ensure a more robust and full-featured Apache SIS
implementation.

Community:

OGC meeting at ESRI in Redlands California, where Martin, Paul
Ramirez, and Chris Mattmann met face to face for the first
time. Interactions from Johann Sorel and Geomatys were also visible on
the mailing list. Additionally, Chris Mattmann was contacted by a PhD
student from the University of Maine, Pathum Mudannayake
<pathum.mudannayake@maine.edu>, working on Spatial Information Science
and Engineering. Pathum is interested in continuing his doctoral
research in geoinformatics and contributing his research to Apache
SIS.

Branding:

The Website[5] and Project logo[6] are currently being worked on and
will be finalized soon. Andrew Hart worked with @infra to get the site
moved to the new CMS. The old site under incubator was in flux when
SIS was moved to TLP.  This caused some confusion that Andrew is
currently sorting out.

Issues:
Martin has reported ongoing issues with building and running unit
tests on ASF infrastructure. This issue is being logged with Sun for
JDK7 and ASF infra@ personnel are aware that these issues
exist. Additionally, the CMS integration with the SIS website is still
being worked on. On the Jenkins build, we would like to try with an
updated JDK (the current one is one year and half old). We don't know
if there is any way to help the build infra@ to update their JDK
installation so that the ASF infrastructure can support multiple
versions of the JDK.

Press:
Members of the SIS PMC met in person at the OGC meeting held in Redlands,
California in January 2013[4].

[1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SIS-75
[2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SIS-76
[3] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SIS-77
[4] http://www.opengeospatial.org/event/1301tc


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Attachment AQ: Report from the Apache Subversion Project  [Greg Stein]

* Board Issue

There are no Board-level issues of concern.

* Community

We have two new "partial" committers (their work is primarily
constrained to branches). One is Gabriela Gibson (gbg), who was
accepted as part of the [GNOME] Outreach Program for Women
(https://live.gnome.org/OutreachProgramForWomen), with Stefan Sperling
acting as her mentor. The second committer is Prabhu Gnana Sundar
(prabhugs).

elego is hosting a hackathon in Berlin in June. The past few years
have been a great success, with many from the Subversion community in
attendance. This year, there will not be an associated conference as
in the past, allowing for a stronger ASF branding and wider range of
visibility/invitations.

* Releases

Apache Subversion 1.7.8 was released on December 20th. The pre-ASF
Subversion had a maintenance update to 1.6.20 on January 8th.


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Attachment AR: Report from the Apache Syncope Project  [Francesco Chicchiricco]

Apache Syncope is an Open Source system for managing digital identities in
enterprise environments, implemented in JEE technology.


Status

There are no outstanding issues requiring board attention.


Community

user@ ML activity is raising, with new users evaluating the project and
asking questions: currently 47 subscribers, including 4 archive / non
human addresses.
dev@ ML activity is quite consistent: currently 42 subscribers,
including 4 archive / non human addresses.

The month of January 2013 made some significant activity peak: 45 issues
resolved, 271 commits, 1359 emails exchanged in our mailing lists.

The new CXF RESTful interface has been triggering relevant architectural
discussions and brought some roadmap adjustment.

We have two new committers, Christian Schneider and Andrei Shakirin.


Releases

1.0.5, a maintenance release from the 1_0_X branch, was cut last Jan 23rd.

The next major release 1.1.0 is approaching, only few issues (including
final checks and documentation) are left open.


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Attachment AS: Report from the Apache Turbine Project  [Thomas Vandahl]

Apache Turbine is a servlet based framework that allows experienced Java
developers to quickly build web applications. Turbine allows you to use
personalize the web sites and to use user logins to restrict access to
parts of your application.
Turbine is a matured and well established framework that is used as the
base of many other projects.

Status

The Turbine project has as usual seen low levels of activity in the last
quarter.
The Turbine project has no board-level issues at this time.

Project Branding Board Report Checklist

The last issue left is
- TODO: Logos and Graphics : include TM

Community changes

No new committers were voted in since the last board report.
No new PMC members were voted in since the last board report.

Turbine core project

The Turbine core project proceeds slowly to the next milestone release
which shall include a modified security implementation and support for
the Quartz scheduler to replace the built-in one.
The following components have been released in the last quarter
- Turbine Parent POM, version 2
- Maven Archetype for a Turbine 2.3.3 web application
- Maven Archetype for a Turbine 4.0 web application (based on Turbine 4.0M1)
The Turbine project has not yet switched its site publication method. We
are working with Infrastructure to sort this out.

Fulcrum component project

There has been no activity on the Fulcrum sub-project in this quarter.
No beta or final releases were made since the last board report.


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Attachment AT: Report from the Apache Tuscany Project  [Luciano Resende]

Apache Tuscany is an SOA framework based on OASIS OpenCSA and SCA.

ISSUES
- There are no issues that require the board's attention.

RELEASES
- None

COMMUNITY ACTIVITY
- The IPMC has approved the graduation of Apache Nuvem as a Tuscany
  subproject and the project merge process has just started.
- The Tuscany community has voted a new committer, but is waiting on
  acceptance, pending his employer reviewing Apache ICLA.
- Traffic hasn't change much, and continue on the lower side in the
  past few months.

BRANDING
- We still need to update logos with ™ and review project doap file.


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Attachment AU: Report from the Apache Velocity Project  [Nathan Bubna]

DESCRIPTION

Apache Velocity is a java template engine and related projects.

RELEASES

* None

CURRENT ACTIVITY

* Minimal

COMMUNITY

* The composition of the committers and PMC members has not
changed since the last report.
* Activity remains low on all lists, though Stack Overflow
regularly has Velocity questions, of which the intelligent
ones and a few less-so ones are answered in reasonable time.
* Apache Velocity remains in a more-or-less dormant period.
The rise of client-side development has undercut one of the
major sources of users and thus developers. While Velocity
remains quite useful for generating text on the server,
overall demand seems unlikely to rise.


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Attachment AV: Report from the Apache Wink Project  [Luciano Resende]

Apache Wink is a project that enables development and consumption of
REST style web services. The core server runtime is based on the
JAX-RS (JSR 311) standard. The project also introduces a client
runtime which can leverage certain components of the server-side
runtime. Apache Wink delivers component technology that can be easily
integrated into a variety of environments.

This is our second report after graduation, the project is working with
the infrastructure team to complete the remaining necessary migration
tasks.

Releases:
* None.

Activity:
* The community is working on the first Apache Wink TLP release.
* The community is working on website and source code cleanup to remove
incubator references.

Trademark/Branding:
The project needs to review website and other related artifacts
to remove any remaining mention of Incubation and to certify it
complies with Trademarks policy (in-progress).

Legal Issues:
* None


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Attachment AW: Report from the Apache Xalan Project  [Steven J. Hathaway]

The Apache Xalan Project develops and maintains libraries
and programs that transform XML documents using XSLT standard
stylesheets. Our subprojects use the Java and C++ programing
languages to implement the XSLT libraries.

Project Releases
----------------

There has been no new release since the last report.
The release of Xalan C 1.11 has been well received.  Some of our
people are working to add support for Microsoft Visual Studio
2012.  We are moving forward with another patch release of Xalan-C.
There is still patch integration work required for the Xalan-Java
release.

General Activity
----------------

We are being represented at ApacheCon NA 2013 in Portland, Oregon.

A staff of language specialists has volunteered to translate some
of our web documentation to languages commonly spoken and written
in Eastern European countries.

Our website is fully compliant with svnpubsub.

Before Apache XML was retired to the attic, we confirmed that
Apache Xalan dependence on Apache XML artifacts and links were
properly removed and resolved elsewhere.  This includes both
our Xalan-C and Xalan-Java projects.

There is still good activity in the mail lists for our C/C++
and Java products.

Committer and PMC membership
----------------------------

There are no changes in our membership.

Board and Infrastructure Issues
-------------------------------

There are no outstanding issues at this time.


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Attachment AX: Report from the Apache Xerces Project  [Michael Glavassevich]

Xerces-J

The development focus continues to be on improving the quality of
the XML Schema 1.1 implementation. Several bugs were fixed in this
area and a large set of XML Schema 1.1 unit tests were contributed.

Mailing list traffic has been moderate; about 100+ posts on the
j-dev and j-users lists since the beginning of November 2012.

No new releases this quarter.

Xerces-C

Discussion continues about the possible donation of icXML (a high
performance version of Xerces-C++) to the Xerces project. Rob
Cameron is currently looking for a champion to help get this on
track and understands that building a community of developers and
users around icXML is key for it to be a successful subproject here.

One minor bug was fixed during the reporting period.

Mailing list traffic has been moderate; about 70+ posts on the
c-dev and c-users lists since the beginning of November 2012.

No new releases this quarter.

Xerces-P

Nothing in particular to report. There was no development activity
over the reporting period.

XML Commons

It's been quiet in XML Commons. No postings to the mailing list or
development activity to report.

Apache Project Branding Requirements

There's still some work left to do on the TLP website, including
adding "TM" to the project logo.

General

We recently put in a request to the Infrastructure team to migrate
the Xerces website to svnpubsub. Everything is set up on our end
(in SVN) for the migration. We're just waiting for Infrastructure
to turn the switch.


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Attachment AY: Report from the Apache XML Graphics Project  [Chris Bowditch]

General
-------
No new committers or PMC members this quarter

Moving to CMS based websites
----------------------------
The switch took place on the 26th November, which was about 3 weeks after
our original planned date. During December, the committers made a number
of tweaks to fix minor issues, such as broken links etc. Most major issues
are resolved now.

Switching from Bugzilla to Jira
-------------------------------
Infra completed the import of Bugzilla issues into Jira on the 6th
December. The XML Graphic Teams and contributors have been using it
successfully ever since.

FOP
---
A number of patches have been processed and several bugs fixed. The most
significant is the re-working of the column balancing algorithm so that it
works for more than 2 columns. There have also been some changes to improve
the performance of the Complex Scripts feature.

XML Graphics Commons
--------------------
4 bugs resolved, including adding support for Little Endian TIFF generation

Batik
-----
No commits to SVN this quarter. A handful of new bugs have been reported by
users via JIRA


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Attachment AZ: Report from the Apache XMLBeans Project  [Cezar Andrei]


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Attachment BA: Report from the Apache Cordova Project  [Brian LeRoux]

Apache Cordova is a platform for building native mobile applications
using HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

Status
----------

Migration to a plugin exclusive architecture well under way but we are
waiting on infra for a number of new repos to facilitate this.

Community
----------------

- No new committers.
- Both DOAP files updated!
- Cordova documentation is now hosted on Cordova project website!
- Incubation retirement for
http://incubator.apache.org/projects/callback.html remains.

Releases
-------------

2.4.0 released Feb 7


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End of minutes for the February 20, 2013 board meeting.

Index

• Call to order
• Roll Call
• Minutes from previous meetings
• The meeting of January 16, 2013
• Executive Officer Reports
• Chairman [Doug]
• President [Jim]
• Treasurer [Chris]
• Secretary [Craig]
• Executive Vice President [Ross]
• Vice Chairman [Greg]
• Additional Officer Reports
• VP of W3C Relations [Andy Seaborne / Sam]
• Apache Legal Affairs Committee [Sam Ruby]
• Apache Security Team Project [Mark Cox / Greg]
• Committee Reports
• Apache Abdera Project [Ant Elder / Ross]
• Apache Mahout Project [Jake Mannix / Ross]
• Apache Perl Project [Philippe M. Chiasson / Sam]
• Apache Qpid Project [Carl Trieloff / Roy]
• Apache XMLBeans Project [Cezar Andrei / Bertrand]
• Special Orders
• Change the Apache Hadoop Chair
• Establish the Apache Crunch Project
• Change the Apache OODT PMC Chair
• Establish the Apache Clerezza Project
• Change the Apache Pig Chair
• Discussion Items
• Review Outstanding Action Items
• Unfinished Business
• New Business
• Announcements
• Adjournment
• Report from the VP of Brand Management [Shane Curcuru]
• Report from the VP of Fundraising [Upayavira]
• Report from the VP of Marketing and Publicity [Sally Khudairi]
• Report from the VP of Infrastructure [Sam Ruby]
• Report from the Apache Conference Planning Project [Nick Burch]
• Report from the Apache Travel Assistance Committee [Gavin McDonald]
• Report from the VP of W3C Relations [Andy Seaborne]
• Report from the Apache Legal Affairs Committee [Sam Ruby]
• Report from the Apache Security Team Project [Mark Cox]
• Report from the Apache Abdera Project [Ant Elder]
• Report from the Apache Ant Project [Conor MacNeill]
• Report from the Apache Attic Project [Gianugo Rabellino]
• Report from the Apache Buildr Project [Alex Boisvert]
• Report from the Apache C++ Standard Library Project [Jim Jagielski]
• Report from the Apache Cassandra Project [Jonathan Ellis]
• Report from the Apache Click Project [Malcolm Edgar]
• Report from the Apache Cocoon Project [Thorsten Scherler]
• Report from the Apache Community Development Project [Luciano Resende]
• Report from the Apache Continuum Project [Brett Porter]
• Report from the Apache CouchDB Project [Jan Lehnardt]
• Report from the Apache Creadur Project [Robert Burrell Donkin]
• Report from the Apache DirectMemory Project [Raffaele P. Guidi]
• Report from the Apache Empire-db Project [Francis De Brabandere]
• Report from the Apache Etch Project [Martin Veith]
• Report from the Apache Flex Project [Alex Harui]
• Report from the Apache Flume Project [Arvind Prabhakar]
• Report from the Apache Forrest Project [David Crossley]
• Report from the Apache Giraph Project [Avery Ching]
• Report from the Apache Gora Project [Lewis John McGibbney]
• Report from the Apache Hadoop Project [Arun Murthy]
• Report from the Apache Hama Project [Edward J. Yoon]
• Report from the Apache HTTP Server Project [Eric Covener]
• Report from the Apache HttpComponents Project [Asankha Perera]
• Report from the Apache Incubator Project [Benson Margulies]
• -- Ambari
• -- Blur
• -- Clerezza
• -- Crunch
• -- DeltaSpike
• -- Droids
• -- Hadoop Development Tools
• -- Marmotta
• -- NPanday
• -- Onami
• -- Ripple
• -- Streams
• Report from the Apache jUDDI Project [Kurt Stam]
• Report from the Apache Kafka Project [Jun Rao]
• Report from the Apache Lenya Project [Richard Frovarp]
• Report from the Apache Libcloud Project [Tomaz Muraus]
• Report from the Apache Logging Project [Christian Grobmeier]
• Report from the Apache Mahout Project [Jake Mannix]
• Report from the Apache ManifoldCF Project [Karl Wright]
• Report from the Apache Oltu Project [Antonio Sanso]
• Report from the Apache Oozie Project [Alejandro Abdelnur]
• Report from the Apache OpenMeetings Project [Sebastian Wagner]
• Report from the Apache Perl Project [Philippe M. Chiasson]
• Report from the Apache POI Project [Yegor Kozlov]
• Report from the Apache Qpid Project [Carl Trieloff]
• Report from the Apache River Project [Greg Trasuk]
• Report from the Apache Roller Project [Dave Johnson]
• Report from the Apache Santuario Project [Colm O hEigeartaigh]
• Report from the Apache SIS Project [Adam Estrada]
• Report from the Apache Subversion Project [Greg Stein]
• Report from the Apache Syncope Project [Francesco Chicchiricco]
• Report from the Apache Turbine Project [Thomas Vandahl]
• Report from the Apache Tuscany Project [Luciano Resende]
• Report from the Apache Velocity Project [Nathan Bubna]
• Report from the Apache Wink Project [Luciano Resende]
• Report from the Apache Xalan Project [Steven J. Hathaway]
• Report from the Apache Xerces Project [Michael Glavassevich]
• Report from the Apache XML Graphics Project [Chris Bowditch]
• Report from the Apache XMLBeans Project [Cezar Andrei]
• Report from the Apache Cordova Project [Brian LeRoux]