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Board of Directors Meeting Minutes
August 21, 2013
1. Call to order
The meeting was scheduled for 10:30am (Pacific) and began at
10:47 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:
Shane Curcuru - joined at 10:55
Doug Cutting
Bertrand Delacretaz
Roy T. Fielding
Jim Jagielski
Chris Mattmann
Brett Porter
Sam Ruby
Greg Stein
Directors Absent:
none
Executive Officers Present:
Ross Gardler
Rich Bowen
Executive Officers Absent:
Craig L Russell
Guests:
Sean Kelly
Daniel Gruno - listening only
Christian Grobmeier
Henri Yandell
3. Minutes from previous meetings
Published minutes can be found at:
http://www.apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html
A. The meeting of July 17, 2013
See: board_minutes_2013_07_17.txt
Approved by General Consent.
4. Executive Officer Reports
A. Chairman [Brett]
Overall it has been a quiet month. The board received some requests to
assist with PR, which various Directors responded to.
The Attic has taken responsibility for the transition of two projects
that were terminated in the July meeting.
As agreed previously, there will be no face to face meeting of the
board like we have had at around this time for the last few years. The
next board may revisit that option again in 2014.
Thanks go to Sam for adding web-based tools to manage the meeting
agenda, which a number of directors and officers have been able to
make use of.
B. President [Ross]
Summary
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- OSCON booth well staffed, benefits not clear
- EA being encouraged to provide more proactive support to VPs
- starting with those reporting to President
- ApacheCon not awarded to previous producer. A new RFP will be
issued.
- Revisiting the Event in a Box concept to provide support for
project specific and small community events
- D&O insurance renewed
- Presenting at All Things Open in Raleigh, NC on Oct 23-24
Details
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OSCON booth was a success. Thanks to Melissa for her hard work.
Thanks also to Justin Erenkrantz, Martin van den Bemt, and Florian
Mueller for their help staffing the Booth. I'm not overly convinced
of the value of this booth (see EA report, Attachment 1). Raising
awareness of the ASF is important, but ensuring good representation
at the conference is probably more effective. We tend to get that
representation through our volunteers speaking in various capacities.
Personally, I feel the budget would be better spent in other ways
(e.g. Event in a Box, see below)
I met with Melissa to discuss her responsibilities (see
http://jceventphoto.com/v/oscon_2013/content/DSC_7507_large.html).
Jim as previous president had agreed an increase in both salary
and hours with the intention of expanding the EA role. Melissa
and I agreed a number of areas that she can help. In summary, all
ASF positions that report directly to the President will be
encouraged to use time from the EA. Top priorities at this time
are Fundraising and Trademarks. Both of these require timely
responses and therefore EA support would seem to be top priority.
Over the next month we will work with the relevant VPs to identify
concrete actions that can be undertaken by the EA.
EA, EVP and myself met at OSCON to discuss the future of ApacheCon.
We were in unanimous agreement that we needed to take some time to
figure out the correct way forward. Specifically, we felt it
necessary to refine the models Nick defined for our events.
I have therefore informed The Open Bastion that we will issue a new
RFP sometime in the future. Melissa is discussing with various event
producers to understand the different models they recommend. I will
submit a project timeline in the next board report.
It is worth noting that since ConCom was disbanded project specific
events have been progressing at roughly the same pace. Together with
EVP and EA, I intend to pursue the Event in a Box idea I originally
raised as part of ConCom some years ago. We do not imagine that
small events will require significant support beyond that provided
in the Event in a Box structure.
D&O insurance has been renewed. We ran right up to the wire as
the basic profit and loss report financial submitted was not
accepted as it has been in previous years. A full balance sheet is
what is requested and this year was insisted upon. EA has updated
the calendar entry for next year to ensure we have more lead time
to prepare the various reports. However, it may be wise to consider
giving access to the reporting tools.
D&O Broker suggested we consider the following insurances in addition to
D&O. I assume previous boards evaluated the need for these. I see no
reason to alter previous policies but include the list here for clarity.
* physical assets
* public liability
* non-owned Automobile Liability
* workers compensation
* Media Liability (i.e. copyright infringement)
* Privacy and Network Security Liability
I'll be presenting at the All Things Open conference in Raleigh, NC
on Oct 23-24. The session will focus on the ASF and how it
facilitates collaboration between otherwise competing organisations.
Additionally, please see Attachments 1 through 6.
C. Treasurer [Chris]
Treasurer's Office generated a balance sheet and income statement
required to renew Director's and Officer's Liability Insurance,
working with the President and the EA.
The Brazilian company that registered the SVN trademark is asking
again if the ASF would look to see if the payment that was wired
to them was returned to ASF accounts. The Treasurer's Office can
look into this -- but we refer the matter to the President again
to make an official reply since no one has replied since 7/18.
The Treasurer's website has been set up and CMS'ed by infra. Chris
will work to start using the website to document current Treasurer
process and flow documents.
DirectPay capabilities with WFS are now available to Chris and Chris
has full access to the WFS account services.
The Treasurer's Office is working with VP, Brand to pay a legal fee
related to trademark registration.
Income and Expenses
Current Balances:
Wells Fargo Business Checking: 869,235.96
Wells Fargo Savings: 287,719.31
PayPal: 180,775.91
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Total $ 1,337,731.18
Income Summary:
Lockbox 184.10
Paypal 2,166.93
Misc Deposits 55,000.00
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Total $ 57,351.03
Expense Summary:
Category Amount
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ASF credit card - Jim Jagielski 897.00
ASF credit card - Sam Ruby 648.11
EA 3,462.00
misc expense 924.34
Sysadmin 69,800.00
Press 9,090.90
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Total $ 84,822.35
AI: Ross to ping Hadrian on audit status.
D. Secretary [Craig]
Secretary continues to run without issues. July was a busy month, with
69 iclas and three cclas received and filed. Most documents are filed
within a day or two of receipt.
E. Executive Vice President [Rich]
Rich had nothing to report
F. Vice Chairman [Greg]
Nothing to report this month.
Executive officer reports approved as submitted by General Consent.
5. Additional Officer Reports
A. VP of W3C Relations [Andy Seaborne / Roy]
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 / Chris]
See Attachment A
B. Apache Ant Project [Conor MacNeill / Shane]
See Attachment B
C. Apache Buildr Project [Alex Boisvert / Sam]
No report was submitted.
Report was not received and is expected next month.
D. Apache Cassandra Project [Jonathan Ellis / Doug]
See Attachment D
E. Apache Clerezza Project [Hasan Hasan / Bertrand]
See Attachment E
F. Apache Click Project [Malcolm Edgar / Brett]
See Attachment F
Report was not approved due to lack of detail.
G. Apache Cocoon Project [Thorsten Scherler / Jim]
See Attachment G
H. Apache Community Development Project [Luciano Resende / Doug]
See Attachment H
I. Apache Continuum Project [Brett Porter]
See Attachment I
J. Apache CouchDB Project [Jan Lehnardt / Jim]
See Attachment J
K. Apache Creadur Project [Robert Burrell Donkin / Chris]
See Attachment K
L. Apache DeltaSpike Project [Mark Struberg / Brett]
No report was submitted.
Report was not received and is expected next month.
M. Apache DirectMemory Project [Raffaele P. Guidi / Bertrand]
See Attachment M
Report was not approved due to lack of detail.
N. Apache Empire-db Project [Francis De Brabandere / Roy]
See Attachment N
O. Apache Etch Project [Martin Veith / Sam]
See Attachment O
P. Apache Flume Project [Arvind Prabhakar / Greg]
See Attachment P
Q. Apache Forrest Project [David Crossley / Shane]
See Attachment Q
R. Apache Giraph Project [Avery Ching / Bertrand]
See Attachment R
S. Apache Gora Project [Lewis John McGibbney / Sam]
See Attachment S
T. Apache Hama Project [Edward J. Yoon / Roy]
See Attachment T
U. Apache HTTP Server Project [Eric Covener / Shane]
See Attachment U
V. Apache HttpComponents Project [Asankha Perera / Chris]
See Attachment V
W. Apache Incubator Project [Marvin Humphrey / Doug]
See Attachment W
X. Apache JSPWiki Project [Juan Pablo Santos / Brett]
See Attachment X
Y. Apache jUDDI Project [Kurt Stam / Greg]
See Attachment Y
Z. Apache Kafka Project [Jun Rao / Jim]
See Attachment Z
AA. Apache Lenya Project [Richard Frovarp / Shane]
See Attachment AA
AB. Apache Libcloud Project [Tomaz Muraus / Greg]
See Attachment AB
AC. Apache Logging Project [Christian Grobmeier / Bertrand]
See Attachment AC
AD. Apache Lucene.Net Project [Prescott Nasser / Chris]
See Attachment AD
AE. Apache Mahout Project [Jake Mannix / Brett]
No report was submitted.
Report was not received and is expected next month.
AF. Apache ManifoldCF Project [Karl Wright / Jim]
See Attachment AF
AG. Apache Mesos Project [Benjamin Hindman / Roy]
See Attachment AG
AH. Apache Oltu Project [Antonio Sanso / Doug]
See Attachment AH
AI. Apache Oozie Project [Alejandro Abdelnur / Sam]
See Attachment AI
AJ. Apache OpenJPA Project [Pinaki Poddar / Jim]
See Attachment AJ
AK. Apache Perl Project [Philippe M. Chiasson / Shane]
No report was submitted.
AI: Shane to pursue a report for Perl
AL. Apache POI Project [Yegor Kozlov / Sam]
No report was submitted.
AI: Sam to pursue a report for POI
AM. Apache Qpid Project [Carl Trieloff / Chris]
No report was submitted.
AI: Chris to pursue a report for Qpid
AN. Apache River Project [Greg Trasuk / Brett]
See Attachment AN
AO. Apache Roller Project [Dave Johnson / Bertrand]
See Attachment AO
AP. Apache Santuario Project [Colm O hEigeartaigh / Doug]
See Attachment AP
AQ. Apache Shindig Project [Paul Lindner / Greg]
See Attachment AQ
AR. Apache SIS Project [Adam Estrada / Roy]
See Attachment AR
AS. Apache Subversion Project [Greg Stein]
See Attachment AS
AT. Apache Syncope Project [Francesco Chicchiricco / Jim]
See Attachment AT
AU. Apache TomEE Project [David Blevins / Shane]
See Attachment AU
AI: Sam to send message
AV. Apache Turbine Project [Thomas Vandahl / Brett]
See Attachment AV
AW. Apache Tuscany Project [Jean-Sebastien Delfino / Sam]
See Attachment AW
AX. Apache Velocity Project [Nathan Bubna / Chris]
See Attachment AX
not approved
AY. Apache Web Services Project [Sagara Gunathunga / Greg]
See Attachment AY
AZ. Apache Xalan Project [Steven J. Hathaway / Doug]
See Attachment AZ
BA. Apache Xerces Project [Michael Glavassevich / Bertrand]
See Attachment BA
BB. Apache XML Graphics Project [Chris Bowditch / Roy]
See Attachment BB
Committee reports approved as submitted by General Consent.
7. Special Orders
A. Change the Apache Maven Project Chair
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Olivier Lamy
to the office of Vice President, Apache Maven, and
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation
of Olivier Lamy from the office of Vice President, Apache Maven,
and
WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Maven
project has chosen by vote to recommend Stephen Connolly as the
successor to the post;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Olivier Lamy is relieved and
discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office
of Vice President, Apache Maven, and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Stephen Connolly be and hereby is
appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Maven, 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 Maven Project Chair, was
approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
B. Change the Apache Oozie Chair
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Alejandro
Abdelnur to the office of Vice President, Apache Oozie, and
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation
of Alejandro Abdelnur from the office of Vice President, Apache
Oozie, and
WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Oozie
project has chosen by vote to recommend Mohammad Islam as the
Successor to the post;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Alejandro Abdelnur is
relieved and discharged from the duties and responsibilities of
the office of Vice President, Apache Oozie, and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Mohammad Islam be and hereby is
appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Oozie, 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 7B, Change the Apache Oozie Chair, was approved
by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
C. Change the Apache Axis Project Chair
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Andreas
Veithen to the office of Vice President, Apache Axis, and
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation
of Andreas Veithen from the office of Vice President, Apache
Axis, and
WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Axis
project has chosen by vote to recommend Deepal Jayasinghe as the
successor to the post;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Andreas Veithen is relieved
and discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the
office of Vice President, Apache Axis, and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Deepal Jayasinghe be and hereby is
appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Axis, 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 Axis Project Chair, was
approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
D. Change the Apache Shindig Project Chair
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Paul
Lindner to the office of Vice President, Apache Shindig, and
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation
of Paul Lindner from the office of Vice President, Apache
Shindig, and
WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Shindig
project has chosen by vote to recommend Ryan Baxter as the
successor to the post;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Paul Lindner is relieved
and discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the
office of Vice President, Apache Shindig, and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Ryan Baxter be and hereby is
appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Shindig, 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 7D, Change the Apache Shindig Project Chair, was
approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
8. Discussion Items
9. Review Outstanding Action Items
* Greg: email to multiple PMCs to ask for dates on releases.
Status: still intends to do this
* Roy: Update the guidance for releases and communicate to all
committers.
Status: still not done
* Sam: pursue a report for Web Services next month with more detail
Status: report present and approved
* Chris: pursue a report for Shindig
Status: report is there
* Greg: discuss "extras" issue with OpenOffice PMC and see if there is
to be done at the "ASF level"
Status: Greg intents to follow up. Ross notes that SourceForge
is willing to host the downloads.
* Sam: pursue a report for OpenJPA
Status: report is there
* Doug: pursue a report for Mahout
Status: I contacted them, as did Brett. They promised a
report again but have still not delivered. Sigh.
* Chris: follow up with Lucene.Net after late report
Status: report is there
* Sam: send feedback to JMeter PMC on new committers
Status: email was sent
* Doug: discuss inactive sub-projects with Axis PMC
Status: We had a discussion on board@. The fate of the
inactive subprojects is still not clear, but the project is
now more aware of its options.
10. Unfinished Business
11. New Business
12. Announcements
13. Adjournment
Adjourned at 11:32 a.m. (Pacific)
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ATTACHMENTS:
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Attachment 1: Report from the Executive Assistant [Melissa Warnkin]
* Daily monitoring of all email activity and following-up with
appropriate personnel
* Sent stickers to Uli Stark for his upcoming (early fall) events;
sent FedEx receipt to Chris Mattmann for accounting purposes
* OSCON 2013: Sent exhibit packages, forwarded receipts to Chris;
completed registration information for booth staff and submitted
to the O’Reilly contact. As usual, the Apache booth at OSCON was
an overwhelming success! There were some newbies that weren’t
aware of what Apache is, but they left with an abundance of
information and understanding; however, the majority of folks were
involved in Apache projects and just wanted to stop by to give
appreciation and thanks! A HUGE thanks goes to Justin Erenkrantz,
Martin van den Bemt, and Florian Mueller who were my main men in
supporting me at the booth. Of course I’d like to thank everyone
else who stopped by during their availability to socialize with
the attendees and answer questions!!
* Communication re getting the D&O insurance paperwork filed and
paid
* Worked with Ross and Chris regarding updating the corporate
calendar
* Continued work with Upayavira re fundraising and how I can assist;
next step is a call between Upayavira, Ross, and myself to discuss
the plan Upayavira has suggested.
* Met with Ross and Rich at OSCON to discuss the new roles and
responsibilities
* Discussed w/Ross and Rich the future of ApacheCons and how to
proceed going forward. It was agreed that we are going to seek
alternative prospects as producers. I had a meeting with Angela
Brown of the Linux Foundation re the possibility of them
organizing future events. The informational email that she sent
has been forwarded to Ross and Rich for their review. Rich has
provided two other leads.
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Attachment 2: Report from the VP of Brand Management [Shane Curcuru]
Trademarks has had a moderate month, with basic questions being answered.
Some needed brand policing actions are being queued up for next month.
Burns & Levinson is ably supporting us in pursuing just the CLOUDSTACK
trademarks both here in the US as well as in Europe.
No board level issues; however, I may need to call upon operations@ folks to
help provide better coverage for questions: at least having someone reliable
get back to various questioners quickly with pointers to our policy and a
"we're working on it" would go a long way.
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Attachment 3: Report from the VP of Fundraising [Upayavira]
Fundraising work has been slow again this month, running below the rate it
needs to.
I have been in contact with the EA, and we are going to work together to see
if we can speed things up.
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Attachment 4: Report from the VP of Marketing and Publicity [Sally Khudairi]
I. Budget: all OSCON-related expenses have been submitted for payment. We
remain on schedule, with no vendor payments due at this time.
II. Fundraising/Branding/Marketing liaison: no meetings are planned. Sally
Khudairi has secured an additional Gold-level Sponsorship renewal,
coordinated updates to the Foundation "Thanks" page, and has had several
phone calls and numerous email exchanges with four Sponsors regarding
newly-incubated projects, organizational participation, sponsorship
publicity, and events clearance/permission/signoff.
III. Press Releases: the following formal announcements were issued via the
newswire service, ASF Foundation Blog, and announce@apache.org:
- 24 July: The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache Mesos™ as a
Top-Level Project
- 23 July: The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache OpenOffice™ 4.0
IV. Informal Announcements: 8 items were announced on @TheASF Twitter feed.
No new posts were made on the @ApacheCon Twitter feed or
"TheApacheFoundation" account on YouTube.
V. Future Announcements: Sally is currently working with a TLP on a milestone
announcement. Those 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: we fielded several general inquiries, reviewed/edited 4
Apache-supporting organizations' proposed announcements and press plans,
responded to 14 media requests, and 3 queries on Foundation
background/operational information. The ASF received 845 press clips over
this time period, vs. last month's clip count of 1,695.
VII. Analyst Relations: Sally is planning the Autumn briefing schedule and is
working with select Sponsors to piggy-back on formal analyst outreach. One
briefing took place on 5 August. Apache was mentioned in 41 reports by
Gartner (including 31 Hype Cycle and 2 Magic Quadrant reports), 1 report by
Forrester, 7 write-ups by GigaOM, and 6 reports by 451 Research.
VIII. ApacheCon liaison: no activities are planned at this time. Melissa
Warnkin is leading the follow-up on the recorded videos from ApacheCon
2013/PDX (February 2013) that are still not online.
IX. (Non-ASF) Industry Events and Outreach liaison: Sally has also been
working with several event producers to secure Apache participation at
various Cloud, big data, security, and mobile-focused conferences.
X. Newswire accounts: we have 12 pre-paid press releases with NASDAQ
GlobeNewswire through December 2013, and 17 pre-paid press releases on the
PRNewswire account through May 2014.
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Attachment 5: Report from the VP of Infrastructure [Sam Ruby]
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Attachment 6: Report from the Apache Travel Assistance Committee [Gavin McDonald]
About
The Travel Assistance Committee (TAC) exists to help those that would like to
attend ApacheCon events, but are unable to do so for financial reasons.
Overall Project Activity since last report
TAC has been very quiet as we would expect. There are currently no events
planned which require TAC's attention.
Regarding the more verbose report which was produced for board@ in June
reporting, action will be taken on this in the build up to the next event
which requires TAC organization and input.
There are no other issues for the board.
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Attachment 7: Report from the VP of W3C Relations [Andy Seaborne]
W3C are discussing a proposal to make clear the licensing to permit
non-specification derivative works from content in W3C recommendations.
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Attachment 8: Report from the Apache Legal Affairs Committee [Sam Ruby]
Relatively routine month, nothing requiring board attention. Thanks go out to
Jim Jagielski for monitoring the lists while I was on vacation.
Notable discussions:
By an overwhelming vote, the Legal Affairs Committee declined to add a
requirement for a copyright notice in source headers. In theory this should
have unblocked the short form header discussion (LEGAL-172), but for the
moment it seems to have derailed it instead. Hopefully this will restart
soon.
There is interest by Cordova and others to distribute code via Apple's App
Store. At the moment this is waiting on somebody to do the work to find and
take a first pass at analyzing what the terms and conditions would be.
Clerezza wishes to allow users to use Virtuoso JDBC libraries. These
libraries are made available under a GPL license with a special exception for
JDBC usage. As it turns out Clerezza does not intend to distribute these
libraries, so there is no concern.
Apache Commons would like to distribute some sample CSV files from the US
government -- files without an obvious copyright. As there is contact
information provided on the website, the best approach would be to ask for
clarification.
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Attachment 9: Report from the Apache Security Team Project [Mark Cox]
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.
1 Support question
1 Security vulnerability question, but not a vulnerability report
4 Phishing/spam/attacks point to site "powered by Apache"
7 Vulnerability reports
3 [struts, via security@struts]
1 [infrastructure, via security@]
1 [sling, via security@sling] CVE-2013-2254
1 [roller, via security@]
1 [jackrabbit, via security@]
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Attachment A: Report from the Apache Abdera Project [Ant Elder]
Apache Abdera provides Java implementations of the IETF Atom
Syndication Format and Publishing Protocol specifications.
Very quiet quarter, other than a few JIRA issues not much going on at
all over summer.
The last release was 7 months ago, the last committer / PMC member
addition was Nov 2011.
No board issues.
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Attachment B: Report from the Apache Ant Project [Conor MacNeill]
Apache Ant is a Java based build tool and associated tools. It consists of 4
main projects:
- Ant core and libraries
- Ivy - Ant based dependency manager
- IvyDE - Eclipse plugin to integrate Ivy into Eclipse
- EasyAnt - Ant and Ivy toolbox to support build processes
o Release Status
Core
---------
Ant 1.9.1 was released on May 21, 2013
Ant 1.9.2 was released on July 12, 2013
The latter release included a change to the javadoc task to workaround
a vulnerability present in some versions of Oracle's JDK (CVE-2013-1571)
Ivy
-------
Ivy 2.3.0 was released on January 21, 2013
Ivy-DE 2.1.0 was released on Aug 20, 2010
EasyAnt
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The current release is still from the Incubator
0.9-Incubating.
o Committers and PMC
There are currently 27 Ant committers. There are 21 PMC members. Two PMC
members are no longer listed as committers:
- Sam Ruby
- Stephane Bailliez
There are 8 committers who are not members of the PMC. Of these:
1 was previously a member of the PMC but retired from the PMC, January 2012
1 is a recent committer, I expect will progress to PMC membership if they
remains engaged
3 are from the EasyAnt project which has recently been adopted by the Ant
project (March 2013)
3 are longer term committers (date from 2004/2005) and are no longer active
The last committer was added on April 5th, 2013.
The last PMC member was added on Jun 21st, 2010.
o Community
No issues.
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Attachment C: Report from the Apache Buildr Project [Alex Boisvert]
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Attachment D: Report from the Apache Cassandra Project [Jonathan Ellis]
Cassandra is a distributed database providing massive scalability,
high performance, and high availability.
Releases:
1.2.5 19/May/13
1.1.12 27/May/13
1.2.6 26/Jun/13
2.0b1 12/Jul/13
2.0b2 25/Jul/13
1.2.7 26/Jul/13
1.2.8 28/Jul/13
2.0rc1 8/Aug/13
Development:
Cassandra 2.0 warrants our first major version change in two years for
two main reasons:
1. Lightweight transactions are a first for a system built on eventual
consistency, and allows opting in to linearizable consistency when
necessary, giving users the best of both worlds [1].
2. We're dropping a lot of legacy baggage (but not API compatibility),
requiring users to upgrade through 1.2 first if they are on an earlier
release [2].
Community:
The 2013 Cassandra Summit was a two-day event for the first time and
saw over 1,100 attendees in SF [3].
Jake Luciani was added to the PMC on August 12.
[1] http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/lightweight-transactions-in-cassandra-2-0
[2] https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=cassandra.git;a=blob_plain;f=NEWS.txt;hb=cassandra-2.0.0
[3] http://www.datastax.com/company/news-and-events/events/cassandrasummit2013
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Attachment E: Report from the Apache Clerezza Project [Hasan Hasan]
DESCRIPTION
Apache Clerezza is an OSGi-based modular application and a set of components
(bundles) for building RESTful Semantic Web applications and services.
ISSUES FOR THE BOARD
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
RELEASE
partial-release-20130710 on dist.apache.org: version 0.3 (10.07.2013)
ACTIVITY
Various improvements and bug fixes in source codes including:
- CLEREZZA-802: Ability to enforce fastlane
- CLEREZZA-783: Standards compliant ResultSet providers for tab and
comma separated values
- CLEREZZA-782: Retrieving meta data (var names) from ResultSet
- CLEREZZA-791 and 794: Improved compatibility of Clerezza components among
JAX-RS implementations
- CLERZZA-791: API now available at http://clerezza.apache.org/apidocs/.
COMMUNITY
New committer and PMC member: Enrico Daga since 16.08.2013
INFRASTRUCTURE
Transfer of source codes to Git is still in progress (discussing about
what to do with our svn folders: contribs and issues).
Issue to merge mailing list archive of Clerezza incubation to
Clerezza TLP is awaiting INFRA
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Attachment F: 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.
Infrastructure
-------------------
There are no infrastructure issues at this time.
Development
------------------
No headway has been made towards a version 2.4 release.
Community
----------------
There have been no new committer or PMC members added during this period.
Mailing list traffic has been higher over the last reporting period.
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Attachment G: 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 web services and web applications.
Issues needing board attention:
None.
Changes in the PMC membership:
None.
Last modified: 2012/10/21 (change of PMC chair)
Community
Traffic on users and devs list continues be light but steady, people got
a bit more active after the release to give feedback. Further some user
started to adopt the latest addition of the examples. Various devs
attended the questions and provided solutions.
Releases
Maintenance release 2.1.12 has been released on 2013/03/20.
Development
Bugfixing on C3 and adding of some new features.
In c3 there have been a new set of components around TIKA (user asked to
migrate it to 2.1 but no work has started yet.
Further some new samples where added to the rest-optional-sample block
to show how to send eMails with c3.
Security issues reported:
None.
Progress of the project:
We need to release a new version of cocoon 3 but no committer has
stepped up yet to do so.
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Attachment H: 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.
PMC changes
-----------
No changes on this report period.
Last PMC addition was on April 2013 (Suresh Marru).
Google Summer of Code (section contributed by Ulrich Stärk)
-----------------------------------------------------------
GSoC is well under way. Of the initial 51 students, 45 made it through the
midterm evaluation. AFAICT the majority of the failed students failed due to
missing commitment and only a minority because of lack of skills or other
reasons we could have foreseen. I am contemplating ideas how to improve our
selection process for next year.
After a call for proposals the ComDev PMC has decided to send Lewis John
Mcgibbney and Ulrich Stärk to the GSoC Mentor Summit in Mountain View in
October. The goal there is to network with other mentors and organization
administrators and discuss the program and ideas for improving it.
At the moment we are preparing a post for Google's Open Source Blog where the
ASF and some of its GSoC projects will be featured.
ASF-ICFOSS Mentoring Programme
------------------------------
This ASF and India ICFOSS joint program was kicked off with a local workshop
in Kerala - India presented by Luciano Resende to a group of about 60
students. From these 60 Students, we have received 10 proposals and selected
7 proposals. The accepted students are now starting the coding phase.
Note that this program is different from GSoC, where these students are
having no monetary incentives, which can be an explanation for the number of
proposals compared to the number of students that initially attended the kick
off workshop.
ComDev & Events
---------------
The ComDev PMC is now a "home" for some of the ConCom responsibilities, but
there hasn't been much discussion/requests around events on the ComDev lists
yet.
Invoices
--------
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Attachment I: 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.
There has been one burst of activity in the last cycle, cleaning up a number
of issues towards a further 1.4.2 release. No movement on that front yet,
however. There has been no activity on the users list.
Activity remains low as expected, but there are still enough PMC members
around to help when needed.
The last release was Continuum 1.4.1, on January 7, 2013.
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.
As there was another willing candidate, I have decided to stand down as chair
of the project. There were no other nominations from the PMC, so I expect to
include a resolution for the board's consideration once the vote has
completed.
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Attachment J: Report from the Apache CouchDB Project [Jan Lehnardt]
Description
Apache CouchDB is a database that uses JSON for documents, JavaScript
for MapReduce queries, and regular HTTP for an API.
Releases
* 1.3.1 (27 June 2013)
* http://www.apache.org/dist/couchdb/notes/1.3.1/apache-couchdb-1.3.1.html
Recent Activity
* Support added for latest Erlang/OTP releases.
* Preparation for 1.4.0 release cycle has begun.
* Work is underway to document an official project vision.
* Work is underway to release in Cloudant's Fauxton overhaul of the
CouchDB admin interface.
* Work is underway to merge in Cloudant's BigCouch fork which will
add clustering capabilities to CouchDB.
* Work is underway to merge in parts of Benoît Chesneau's rcouch fork
which improves the build system, refactored internal applications,
and additional user-facing functionality such as bonjour/zeroconf
awareness, global db changes feeds, replications and changes feeds
across views.
* Work is underway on a plugin system, with early results already
shared with the community.
* Cloudant announced the BigCouch merge, generating lots of press
activity.
* Cloudant hosted a CouchDB booth and CouchDB party at OSCON.
* Cloudant are organising 'Apache CouchDB Conf, Vancouver' on November
13th, 2013 (in line with ASF branding and CouchDB PMC cooperation).
Our GitHub comment notifications have not been set up yet, due to lack
of progress with necessary infrastructure tasks.
Community
Including the following additions, CouchDB has 28 committers and 9 PMC
members.
New committers:
* Dirk Ochtman
* Sue 'deathbear' Lockwood
No new PMC members.
Mailing list stats:
* announce
* 94 subscribers (''+38'')
* 1 message since May (''-1'')
* user
* 1441 subscribers (''-15'')
* 496 messages since May (''-561'')
* erlang
* 121 subscribers (''+16'')
* 7 messages since May (''-7'')
* dev
* 599 subscribers (''-2'')
* 1010 messages since May (''-996'')
* commits
* 107 subscribers (''+6'')
* 697 messages since May (''-262'')
Issues
No issues for the board at this time.
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Attachment K: 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.
The final handover tasks were completed with the Rat 0.9
release.
Issues
------
None at this time.
Community
---------
A warm welcome to Manuel Suárez Sánchez, our Google Summer
of code student. And a warm welcome to newcomers to our
mailing lists.
Last committer was elected in August, 2012 and no new
PMC members have been elected since graduation.
Releases
--------
Rat 0.9 was released in June.
Rat 0.10 and Whisker 0.1 releases are being prepared.
Community Objectives
--------------------
* Release Apache Rat 0.10
* Release Apache Whisker 0.1
* Refactor Apache Rat core with Manuel's help
-----------------------------------------
Attachment L: Report from the Apache DeltaSpike Project [Mark Struberg]
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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
DirectMemory is being evaluated by project jackrabbit for integration of
off-heap memory into OAK.
New back-end implementation is being contributed by the members (thaks,
noctarius).
* Releases
No releases since last report. Corrections has been made to the last released
documentation
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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.
Project Status
We have not seen a lot of activity lately, could be related the holidays
and the fact that the project is quite mature.
Changes in committers or PMC members
No changes to report.
Issues
There are no issues that require the board's attention at this time.
Latest Release
Apache-Empire-db 2.4.1 was released on Oct 30, 2012.
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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.
BOARD ISSUES
There are no Board-level issues at this time.
RELEASES
There hasn't been any new release since becoming a TLP in January 2013.
The work on biggest new feature of the next release (the C++ binding)
is quite finished, at the moment there are only a couple of minor issues open.
Hence the 1.3 release is currently planned to be published by end of August.
ACTIVITY
* User activity on mailing lists is quite stable, but still rather low.
* In order to get a better feeling about how many users we have we are planning
to do some analysis on download counters/page visits.
* From a development prospective we are still concentrating on the C++ binding
to bring it from beta to stable.
COMMITTERS OR PMC MEMBERS CHANGE
* No changes regarding PMC or committers composition since graduation
in January 2013.
* Our committer and user base is still quite small. After the C++ binding
becomes stable there should be more time to take some actions to increase
both user and developer community.
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Attachment P: 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
* The last release of Flume was version 1.4.0, released on July
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 113 issues have been filed, and 67 issues have been
resolved between the period starting May 9, 2013 and August 7,
2013.
* Approximately 1198 messages were exchanged on the dev list in the
past three months, while a total of 383 were exchanged on the user
list in this period.
COMMUNITY
* No new additions were made to committers on the project. The last
addition of a committer was done on November 12, 2012 when
Patrick Wendell was appointed as a committer.
* No new additions were made to the PMC on the project since it
graduated from Incubator.
* Currently there are:
- Total of 197 subscribers to the developer list
- Total of 445 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 Q: 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: 2013-04-08
Most recent addition: 2009-06-09
New committers:
None.
Most recent addition: 2009-06-09
General status:
The most recent release is 0.9 on 2011-02-07.
Some tiny activity on the user mail list.
A little activity on the dev mail list. This was just between Stefan and
me regarding the Gump build. No other participation.
Security issues reported:
None.
Progress of the project:
Took up the Apache Gump invitation to continue. It has been good for
both Forrest and Cocoon. Thanks. We will now configure Gump to utilize
whatever products that Gump does provide, and use our packaged supporting
products for the rest (including Cocoon-2.1.*). It has been just me
(and Stefan) doing this so far. I am hoping that it will encourage others.
Improved the download page in response to a user misunderstanding.
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Attachment R: 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:
1.0.0 - released on 5/6/2013
1.1.0 - release expected in the fall
Community
---------
In the past 30 days we have resolved 15 issues. We presented our Giraph at
the GraphLab workshop
http://graphlab.org/graphlab-workshop-2013/preliminary-agenda/ and have been
actively talking to folks about the problem.
Mailing lists:
179 subscribers on dev
275 subscribers on user
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Attachment S: 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 last release of Gora (0.3) was on 8th May 2013. A number of
issues have been included within a 0.4 roadmap which we are
working towards.
Overall Project Activity since last report
Project activity has been steady. Mailing list activity has followed
usual trends, however our dev list saw the second highest ever level of
traffic during the month of July.
We moved to Apache CMS for our website and documentation so more ad-hoc
commits have been made since the last reporting period.
Since the last release >11 issues have been resolved, some of these major
in scope. We have also seen some new community members posting code
to our Jira instance which is great. We hope to integrate this in to
trunk for 0.4 release.
How has the community developed since the last report?
Gora was presented at this years CassandraSummit in SFO during June.
We were successful in being awarded two places for this years Google
Summer of Code program. Mid Term reporting has just taken place and
one project will be continuing.
Mailing list numbers have increased to
user:46
dev:62
Changes to PMC & Committers
Nothing to report.
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).
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Attachment T: Report from the Apache Hama Project [Edward J. Yoon]
Apache Hama is a pure BSP (Bulk Synchronous Parallel) computing
framework on top of HDFS (Hadoop Distributed File System) for massive
scientific computations such as matrix, graph and network algorithms.
Project Status:
* The Hama project has no board-level issues at this time.
Releases:
* June 26, 2013 - Hama 0.6.2 has released.
Community:
* Last PMC addition: Aug 4, 2013
* Last committer addition: Jun 11, 2013
* Yexi Jiang and MaoYuan Xian was voted into the committer.
* MaoYuan Xian joined Hama PMC.
* Edward, Suraj is mentoring 3 GSoC students.
* Edward's Hama (BSP) talk will be presented at 2013 Hadoop In Seoul
and 2014 SIAM conference.
* Mailing list activity was somewhat light. A few bugs have been
reported by users and a couple of patches submitted.
Mailing lists:
* 100 subscribers on dev
* 165 subscribers on user
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Attachment U: Report from the Apache HTTP Server Project [Eric Covener]
Project Description
===================
The Apache HTTP Server Project is an effort to develop and maintain an
open-source HTTP server for modern operating systems.
Issues for the Board
====================
There are no outstanding issues that require the board's attention.
Releases
========
httpd 2.4.6 was released on July 22nd, 2.4.5 was tagged but not released.
httpd 2.2.25 was released on July 9th.
httpd 2.0.x was released and officially retired on July 9th.
Bug reports
===========
Bug reporting and fixing is going at a steady pace with between a half
and one new ticket being filed and fixed every day (77 new
and 53 closed/fixed).
A total of 167 bugs have been discussed via Bugzilla within the last quarter.
Community
=====================
Ben Reser was added as committer on July 28th. No new PMC members has been
added, putting the last addition to the PMC at December, 2012.
IRC and mailing list activity are steady
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Attachment V: 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 4.3-beta2 was released on the 9th of May 2013
- HttpAsyncClient 4.0-beta4 was released on the 16th of May 2013
- HttpClient 4.3-beta2 was released on the 13th of June 2013
- HttpCore 4.2.5 GA was released on the 5th of August 2013
- HttpCore 4.3 GA was released on the 5th of August 2013
Community
The community remains small but active, but has good user interaction
on the mailing lists.
Last committer voted in: Francois-Xavier Bonnet, fx@apache.org, 24 Jan 2013
-----------------------------------------
Attachment W: Report from the Apache Incubator Project [Marvin Humphrey]
The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and codebases
wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.
By Incubator standards, it's been a quiet month. At 193 emails for July,
traffic on general@incubator was as light as it's been since May 2011, the
month before the Open Office proposal arrived.
* Community
There were no changes to the IPMC roster.
* New Podlings
Two new podlings entered the Incubator:
Samza
Sentry
* Graduations
(None)
* Releases
The following releases were made since the last Incubator report:
Jul 24 Apache Ambari 1.2.4-incubating
Aug 08 Apache Curator 2.2.0-incubating
It took 3-6 days for the third IPMC vote to arrive.
Release RC VOTE start Third IMPC +1 Days
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Apache Ambari 1.2.4-incubating Jul 17 Jun 23 6
Apache Curator 2.2.0-incubating Jul 31 Aug 02 3
* Miscellaneous
o Discussions about a potential Incubator Ombud continued.
o Discussions about a "welcoming committee" or other ways to facilitate
orientation of new podlings, spun off from the WhatToExpect wiki page and
the Ombud discussion, progressed but have not been put into action.
-------------------- Summary of podling reports --------------------
* Still getting started at the Incubator
o Olingo
o Samza
o Spark
* Not yet ready to graduate
o Blur (no release)
o Droids (activity)
o Falcon (community growth)
o Hadoop Development Tools (no release)
o Knox (community growth)
o MetaModel (plan around compatibility breaks from move to Apache)
o Open Climate Workbench (community growth)
o Tez (no release)
* Ready to graduate
o Ambari
* Did not report
o NPanday
o Tashi (second missed report)
--------------------
Ambari
Ambari is a monitoring, administration and lifecycle management project for
Apache Hadoop clusters.
Ambari has been incubating since 2011-08-30.
* Release 1.2.2, 1.2.3, 1.2.4 was done.
* Preparing for 1.2.5 release expected to be in the next week or so.
* New committers have been added:
Oleksandr Diachenko,Xi Wang,Oleg Nechiporenko,Dmitry Lysnichenko, Chad
Roberts, Andrii Tkach
* New PPMC members added:
Sumit Mohantly, Srimanth Gunturi, Nate Cole, Tom Beerbower, Siddharth
Wagle, Jaimin Jetly
* Meetup was held on June 25th at Hadoop Summit with good attendance:
http://www.meetup.com/Apache-Ambari-User-Group/events/119184782/
* Increased participation from others in the community outside of Hortonworks.
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?
None
How has the community developed since the last report?
Users have been active on the lists and contributions from folks outside
of Hortonworks has accelerated.
users@ - 156
dev@ - 113
How has the project developed since the last report?
A lot of new features have been added to newer Ambari Releases.
Date of last release:
July 2nd, 2013: Ambari 1.2.4-incubating
Signed-off-by:
[X](ambari) Owen O'Malley
[X](ambari) Arun Murthy
Shepherd notes:
mfranklin: The podling's activity looks great and they are constantly adding
new committers. I would like to see more discussion around graduation on
the dev list.
--------------------
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. Licensing/Notice files
2. Release
3. Release
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?
We continue to be small but active.
- Subscriptions: user@ - 38[+3]; dev@ - 46[+8]
How has the project developed since the last report?
The majority of effort has been around tightening things up for an upcoming
release.
Date of last release:
XXXX-XX-XX
Signed-off-by:
[X](blur) Doug Cutting
[x](blur) Patrick Hunt
[X](blur) Tim Williams
Shepherd notes:
mfranklin: Podling activity appears to be solid. It would be good to see
the community rally around producing a release.
--------------------
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. Activity
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?
There has been no change in the community. The summer months have been
very quiet. There are enough active people for a viable PMC.
How has the project developed since the last report?
Quiet quarter.
Date of last release:
2012-10-15
Signed-off-by:
[ ](droids) Thorsten Scherler
[x](droids) Richard Frovarp
Shepherd notes:
--------------------
Falcon
Falcon is a data processing and management solution for Hadoop designed for
data motion, coordination of data pipelines, lifecycle management, and data
discovery. Falcon enables end consumers to quickly onboard their data and its
associated processing and management tasks on Hadoop clusters.
Falcon has been incubating since 2013-03-27.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Add new and diverse committers
2. Build and grow community
3. Releases at frequent and regular intervals
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?
* More users have joined the falcon users group and mailing lists
* 1 new contributor has joined the project
How has the project developed since the last report?
33 new JIRAs were created since the last report and 15 JIRAs have been
resolved. The first release post incubation is now up for VOTE within the
dev community of falcon. Post passing the vote, vote would be called in
incubator-general for the release.
Signed-off-by:
[ ](falcon) Arun Murthy
[x](falcon) Chris Douglas
[ ](falcon) Owen O'Malley
[ ](falcon) Devaraj Das
[ ](falcon) Alan Gates
Shepherd notes:
(marvin: No shepherd assigned, since the podling reported out of cycle.)
--------------------
Hadoop Development Tools
Eclipse based tools for developing applications on the Hadoop platform
Hadoop Development Tools has been incubating since 2012-11-09.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Release
2. Support multiple versions of Hadoop in a single IDE instance.
3. Build Community
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?
- Srimanth Gunturi contributed Hadoop Eclipse project[HDT-32]
- Mirko Kaempf & Rahul Sharma added as committers
- Few JIRAs have also been filed during this period
- hdt-dev has seen 105 mails during this period
How has the project developed since the last report?
- The code has received a big contribution from Srimanth Gunturi which would
enable interactions with HDFS and Zookeeper.
- Discussion on the mailing lists while bringing up HDT with hadoop-eclipse
and work in is progress to add MR side of things on the same.
- Wizards for Mapper/Reducers migrated to new MR API[HDT-21] Three most
important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
Date of last release:
No releases yet
Signed-off-by:
[X](hadoopdevelopmenttools) Suresh Marru
[X](hadoopdevelopmenttools) Chris Mattmann
[X](hadoopdevelopmenttools) Roman Shaposhnik
Shepherd notes:
--------------------
Knox
Knox Gateway is a system that provides a single point of secure access for
Apache Hadoop clusters.
Knox has been incubating since 2013-02-22.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Expand community to include more diverse committers.
2. Align technically with security work going in in Hadoop.
3. Clear the project name with legal and pick a new name if required.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware
of?
1. None
How has the community developed since the last report?
1. Vote passed to invite a new committer to the project.
2. Engaging several interested parties in contributing plugins.
How has the project developed since the last report?
1. Continue to add and improve support for secure Hadoop clusters.
2. Driving secure cluster fixes of other Hadoop components.
3. Finalizing adding Knox to Apache Bigtop.
4. Closing down remaining 8 issues in preparation for an 0.3.0 release.
5. Resolved 30(+4) of 92(+10) total issues currently in JIRA.
Date of last release:
0.2.0 04/22/2031
Signed-off-by:
[ ](knox) Owen O'Malley
[X](knox) Chris Douglas
[X](knox) Alan Gates
[ ](knox) Mahadev Konar
[ ](knox) Devaraj Das
[X](knox) Chris Mattmann
[ ](knox) Tom White
Shepherd notes:
acabrera: Nice active podling. It's already done a release. I'm not sure
why they haven't started discussing graduation but I would support such a
move.
There seems to be a few security oriented software named Knox. There may be
a naming problem here, unless the product was consistently named Knox
Gateway and not Knox; just my opinion.
--------------------
MetaModel
MetaModel is a data access framework, providing a common interface for
exploration and querying of different types of datastores.
MetaModel has been incubating since 2013-06-12.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Roadmapping of our first Apache MetaModel release. Since the namespace
change is going to break backwards compatibility of the project anyway, a
couple of "old but breaking ideas" needs to be accepted or rejected.
2. Bring more diverse committers and contributors to the project.
3. We will probably be having several third party modules for MetaModel,
because of (L)GPL dependencies. We want to figure out a good way to make
this understandable for users (through website or similar means).
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?
The pending INFRA work was finished in end-july, and we are starting to take
it into use.
We've decided to go for a Review-Then-Commit policy. We will allow lazy
consensus after 3 days and a minimum of one +1 vote.
There are currently no concrete plans for a release. We have some
discussions and proposals of features on the mailing list which we want to
settle on first.
Since incubation we have not made any new appointments for either committer
or PMC member.
How has the project developed since the last report?
The code has been moved from eobjects.org to Apache's Git server
(https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator-metamodel.git). 5
bugfixes from the base release 3.4.4 was applied to our codebase as well.
The namespace of the project has been changed to org.apache.metamodel
(previously org.eobjects.metamodel). To aid migration, we've also
implemented a helping facility for deserializing objects of the old
namespace into the new.
A performance optimization for the CSV module has been proposed and applied.
The project now has a website (http://metamodel.incubator.apache.org/). The
website is meant mostly as an 'appetizer', and we're planning to put
lengthier pieces of information onto our wiki
(http://wiki.apache.org/metamodel/), and if needed link to those from the
website. Some initial content has been put on the wiki as well.
The project contains a Microsoft Access module, which depends on the LGPL
licensed Jackcess library. We are looking for a replacement dependency or to
remove the module from the project.
Date of last release:
None
Signed-off-by:
[x](metamodel) Henry Saputra
[x](metamodel) Arvind Prabhakar
[x](metamodel) Matt Franklin
[ ](metamodel) Noah Slater
Shepherd notes:
The podling is off to a good start (Dave Fisher - wave@)
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NPanday
NPanday allows projects using the .NET framework to be built with Apache
Maven.
NPanday has been incubating since 2010-08-13.
Shepherd notes:
acabrera: Not a lot of activity. Most of the mail is comes from the Jenkins
server. :) Still, the lone developer seems to be reasonably active. I
think it's telling that there is no report filed.
--------------------
Olingo
Apache Olingo provides libraries which enable developers to implement
OData producers and OData consumers. While starting with an initial
code base implementing OData version 2.0 it is also a clear goal to
start implementing a library for OData 4.0 once the OData standard is
published at OASIS. The focus within the community is currently on the
Java technology but it is up to the community to discuss if other
environments find interest.
Olingo has been incubating since 2013-07-08.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Grow the community
2. Make a first release
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?
- All initial committers have signed the ICLA
- Initial committers are all on board and started using the mailing
list to coordinate project activities.
- Committers started actively working on the code base
- The code base was contributed by SAP AG via Software Grant
How has the project developed since the last report?
- Infrastructure setup
-- Git Repository (for OData V2.0)
-- Issue Tracker (Jira)
-- Mailing Lists
- Check in of OData Library V2.0 as initial code base
- The code base is prepared and enhanced to be able to
produce the first release
-- Package name changes
-- License Headers added
-- Code Cleanup + Bugfixes
- Initial Web Site created with Project Overview,
Documentation and Support section
Date of last release:
- No release so far
Signed-off-by:
[X](olingo) Alan Cabrera
[X](olingo) Dave Fisher
[X](olingo) Florian Müller
Shepherd notes:
rgardler: The project is still in the initial setup phase so not much to
report. Mentors are engaged where they need to be.
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Open Climate Workbench
Apache Open Climate Workbench (Incubating) is an effort to develop software
that performs climate model evaluation using model outputs from a variety of
different sources (the Earth System Grid Federation, the Coordinated Regional
Downscaling Experiment, the U.S. National Climate Assessment and the North
American Regional Climate Change Assessment Program) and temporal/spatial
scales with remote sensing data from NASA, NOAA and other agencies. The
toolkit includes capabilities for regridding, metrics computation and
visualization.
Open Climate Workbench has been incubating since 2013-02-15.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Develop an Apache community for Open Climate Workbench and connect to
other relevant Apache efforts (Tika, Hadoop, SIS, OODT)
2. Identify a Champion/VP candidate.
3. Add new contributors to the project.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
None at this time.
How has the community developed since the last report?
No new committers or PPMC members added since the last report.
How has the project developed since the last report?
* Cameron Goodale made the 0.1-incubating release after 5 release candidates
on July 29, 2013.
* Mike Joyce has a VOTE up for the 0.2-incubating release.
* The UI and backend are now able to fully replicate the climate analysis
performed by Kim et al., J. Climate 2013.
* Maziyar Boustani and Mike Joyce both made screencasts demonstrating the
UI, and linked them on the wiki.
* A discussion of binding VOTEs by the IPMC on releases occurred, and the
PPMC worked through the issues and were better informed of Incubator
processes.
* Kyo Lee and Alex Goodman continued to improve the metrics and viz for the
toolkit.
* Shakeh Khudikyan is working on a History page for displaying previous runs.
Date of last release: 29-JUL-2013
Signed-off-by:
[X](openclimateworkbench) Chris Mattmann
[X](openclimateworkbench) Suresh Marru
[X](openclimateworkbench) Chris Douglas
[ ](openclimateworkbench) Nick Kew
Shepherd notes:
rvs: Open Climate Workbench looks like a pretty healthy
community with a strong potential for graduation.
--------------------
Samza
Samza is a stream processing system for running continuous computation on
infinite streams of data.
Samza has been incubating since 2013-07-30.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Getting codebase imported
2. Generating Apache community
3. Imparting ASF way to new PMC
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?
First report.
How has the project developed since the last report?
First report. Incubating for one week. Bootstrapping project. Have JIRA,
website and git repo up and running. Dev discussion moving to list and
JIRA.
Date of last release:
None yet.
Signed-off-by:
[X](samza) Chris Douglas
[X](samza) Roman Shaposhnik
[ ](samza) Arun Murthy
Shepherd notes:
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Spark
Spark is an open source system for fast and flexible large-scale data
analysis. Spark provides a general purpose runtime that supports low-latency
execution in several forms.
Spark has been incubating since 2013-06-19.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Finish bringing up Apache infrastructure (the only system missing
is JIRA, but we also still need to move out website to Apache)
2. Switch development to work directly against Apache repo
3. Make a Spark 0.8 release through the Apache process
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
Nothing major. We've gotten a lot of help setting up infrastructure and the
last piece missing is importing issues from our old JIRA, which we're
working with INFRA on (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-6419).
How has the community developed since the last report?
We've continued to get and accept a number of external contributions,
including metrics infrastructure, improved web UI, several optimizations and
bug fixes. We held a meetup on machine learning on Spark in San Francisco
that got around 200 attendees. Finally, we've set up Apache mailing lists
and warned users of the migration, which will complete at the beginning of
September.
How has the project developed since the last report?
We are finishing some bug fixes and merges to do a first Apache release of
Spark later this month. During this release we'll go through the process of
checking that the right license headers are in place, NOTICE file is
present, etc, and we'll complete a website on Apache.
Date of last release:
None yet.
Signed-off-by:
[X](spark) Chris Mattmann
[ ](spark) Paul Ramirez
[ ](spark) Andrew Hart
[ ](spark) Thomas Dudziak
[X](spark) Suresh Marru
[X](spark) Henry Saputra
[X](spark) Roman Shaposhnik
Shepherd notes:
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Tashi
An infrastructure for cloud computing on big data.
Tashi has been incubating since 2008-09-04.
Shepherd notes:
rvs: Tashi looks completely dormant at this point. Despite my repeated
on-list and off-list emails it appears that I couldn't find anybody to
compile a report. The only discussion that resulted from my attempts is
captured over here: http://markmail.org/thread/mveeuubf2fcdmgcw
Personally I think we need to figure out a path to *some* kind of a
resolution here. I don't think Tashi benefits from being an incubator
project and we need to figure out how to get it to a different trajectory.
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Tez
Tez is an effort to develop a generic application framework which can be used
to process arbitrarily complex data-processing tasks and also a re-usable set
of data-processing primitives which can be used by other projects.
Tez has been incubating since 2013-02-24.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Develop collaborations with other Apache projects, including Hadoop, YARN
2. Make an initial Tez release.
3. Grow the Apache Tez community.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
None at this time.
How has the community developed since the last report?
No new PPMC members or committers added since the last report. We need to
work to do a better job of identifying new contributors, but there is great
activity so I don't think this will be a big issue.
How has the project developed since the last report?
1. 170 jiras filed and 120 odd jiras resolved since the first week of June
2013.
2. The first Tez meetup was held at the Hortonworks office on July 31st and
had an attendance of around 30+ users/developers from across the Hadoop
ecosystem community.
3. Seeing more adoption from the Hive community as well as some initial
prototyping work being done in Pig.
4. Looking to make a release in the next couple of months after the release
of hadoop-2.1.0-beta ( which Tez depends on ).
We are to looking to increase both the user base as well as get more
contributors by having more meetups and also expect a release to drive more
adoption of Tez.
Signed-off-by:
[X](tez) Alan Gates
[X](tez) Arun Murthy
[X](tez) Chris Douglas
[X](tez) Jakob Homan
[X](tez) Chris Mattmann
[ ](tez) Owen O'Malley
Shepherd notes:
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Attachment X: Report from the Apache JSPWiki Project [Juan Pablo Santos]
JSPWiki is a Java-based wiki engine
Anything the board should be aware of?
---------------------------------------
Still having some issues transferring the resources from Incubator to TLP;
currently unable to edit the website, except but doing directly on
production/ URL. Following up this issue with Infra: INFRA-6577, INFRA-6611,
INFRA-6492 and JSPWIKI-787.
We're also looking forward to having a VM to host live (JSP)wikis with
documentation, a sandbox and a general entry point to newcomers.
Historically, these wikis have been were JSPWiki's community has built up. A
couple of JIRAs filed to follow up this issue with Infra: INFRA-6580,
INFRA-5588 and JSPWIKI-739.
Hopefully by the time of the board meeting, these infra issues will have
been resolved.
Releases / Development
----------------------
Last release on 15th May, 2013
Some development has occurred regarding 3rd party libraries being upgraded,
incubator references being removed, and some activity regarding
issues pointed out by analysis.a.o.
Community
---------
Last Committer: Glen Mazza (gmazza), on 04th Jan, 2013
Last PMC: Glen Mazza (gmazza), on 04th Jan, 2013
Both dev@j.a.o and user@j.a.o seem to have a little more activity than
when being at Incubator. 91 people subscribed to dev@j.a.o, 185 people
subscribed at user@j.a.o
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Attachment Y: 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 3.1.5 adding a much improved distribution with
quickstart examples, a way to create deployments using different JPA or
JAXWS implementations for different target platforms, lots of fixes of bugs
found by the work that is taking place on the console.
- Very low traffic on the mailing lists this quarter.
- Working on the 3.2 release which includes a full web based console.
- We deployed a jUDDI instance to the OpenShift Cloud, to make it easy for
people to try it out.
http://apachejuddi.blogspot.com/2013/08/uddi-in-openshift-cloud.html
Scout
- No release this period, not really any development took place.
- Very low volume of JAXR related questions on the mailing list.
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Attachment Z: 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 released Kafka 0.8 beta1 (supports intra-cluster replication). We have
updated the website with documentation and our new logo. We are fixing
critical bugs in the 0.8 branch and expect to release the 0.8 final version
soon.
Community
===========
Lots of activities in the mailing list. kafka-user has 425, 442, 421 emails in
Jul, Jun and May, respectively (up from 390 in Apr). kafka-dev has 290, 290,
562 emails in Jul, Jun and May (down from 567 in Apr since 0.8 dev is winding
down). There are patches being contributed by non-committers.
No committers added yet since graduation. Last committer was added in May, 2012.
Releases
===========
0.8.0 beta1: released on Jun. 27, 2013
0.8.0 final release is expected in three weeks
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Attachment AA: 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.
Development:
No new releases this quarter.
Last release: 2.0.4 on 2011-03-14
A GSoC student was chosen and assigned to the project. However,
the student totally disappeared at the community bonding time
and was failed a midterm as a result.
Community:
Requests are being handled in a timely manner on the lists.
No change in community.
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Attachment AB: 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 0.13.0 has been released on July 1st, 2013
Community
* New committer and PMC member John Carr has joined our team
* Multiple patches have been contributed by external contributors
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Attachment AC: 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.
- Issues, which require Boards attention
Both mentioned issues were reported with the last board report.
Issue 1:
We have discussed the attribution request with Ceki Gülcü and refused
to give attribution that all of our work is based on logback.
Instead we proposed to give credits to logback as the framework
served as inspiration.
We haven't heard back of Ceki until now and consider the issue
closed.
Ceki Gülcü remains PMC member of Apache Logging, but has
unsubscribed from the private mailing list to give us room
to discuss. He has not subscribed to the list again.
Issue 2:
We have discussed the similarity of the logback logo and
prepared an email for QOS. In this email we would also
mention that our trademark must be prefixed with "Apache".
So far the Logging PMC has not sent the email.
The situation from issue 1 has cooled down and it might be
better to co-exist in freedom. In addition, the log4j
project has started a logo contest and the confusing
similarity would only exist for an outdated framework.
Issue 3:
This issue has been resolved.
- Community
Log4j 2 remains a very active project. The overall
community is healthy and friendly. The newly elected
committers are still active and already discussed
to become PMC members soon.
The mailing lists face lot more user questions and feedback.
A few Apache projects already discussed the inclusion
of Log4j 2 as their main logging framework (Onami,
Syncope, Struts).
Christian spoke on a german conference about Log4j 2
and received good feedback on the framework. Also recent
blog posts on Log4j 2 received a lot of good feedback.
Surprisingly the rise of Log4j 2 reactivated some discussions
inside the JCP to standardize a logging facade.
log4cxx got a lot more activity on the mailing list, which is
surprising. There is still no decision what should happen next.
At least Christian oversees the mailing lists.
In general, the project is healthy and growing.
Community changes:
JUN 03, 2013: Dominik Psenner joined the PMC
MAY 11, 2013: Nick Williams joined as a new committer
APR 23, 2013: Remko Popma joined as a new committer
- Project Branding Requirements
All components meet the branding requirements, except Chainsaw.
We are still planning for a new Chainsaw release.
- Releases
* Log4j 2.0-beta8 (Jul 14, 2013)
* Log4j 2.0-beta7 (Jun 07, 2013)
* Log4j 2.0-beta6 (May 10, 2013)
- Subproject details
log4j 1, Extras: two attempts to release the code were made,
but failed. The Extras component was previously named "Companions".
log4net: less activity, a few code modifications. Help
has been provided on the user list.
log4cxx: A couple of user questions were answered by other users.
A few patches has been submitted (but not applied). No development.
log4php: less activity due to summer breaks.
Chainsaw: still blocked by a Extras release.
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Attachment AD: Report from the Apache Lucene.Net Project [Prescott Nasser]
Apache Lucene.Net is a port of the Lucene search engine library, written in
C# and targeted at .NET runtime users.
== Summary ==
The board should be aware that while our mailing list is somewhat active - we
still answer and help the community, our development has stalled. Recently,
we have tried to reinvigorate the discussion. One of our community members
has stepped up and has a running version of Lucene.Net 4.0.3 core. We're
attempting to coordinate to get that into our official repo and rounding out
some of the additional contributed packages.
== Releases ==
Last release was 3.0.3. We're attempting with the help of a group of our
community members to get 4.0.3 bootstrapped.
== Statistics ==
Nuget package downloads:
Lucene.Net 3.0.3: 22619
Lucene.Net Contrib 3.0.3: 7695
Lucene.Net Contrib Spatial: 945
Lucene.Net Contrib Spatial.NTS: 324
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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.
Releases
========
ManifoldCF graduated from the Apache Incubator on May 16, 2012. Since then,
there have been four major releases, including a 1.3 release on July 29, 2013.
Committers and PMC membership
=============================
The last committer and PMC member we signed up was Minoru Osuka (minoru), on
January 10, 2013. We voted in a new committer and PMC member in May, but he
declined to accept the committership due to his company's policies.
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 release-related communication, new contributions,
and voting. We have had a number of current committers significantly increase
their involvement in the project over the last quarter as well.
I am unaware of any mailing-list question that has gone unanswered.
Outstanding issues
==================
The ManifoldCF team has two outstanding Infra issues at this time: INFRA-6590
and INFRA-6588. No apparent activity on these issues has occurred over the
last few weeks. INFRA-6590 is the more critical of the two since right now
nobody except infra has write access to the ManifoldCF wiki pages.
Branding
========
We have reviewed the site branding guidelines and believe we are now compliant
with these, with the possible exception of (TM) signs in logos from other
Apache products that don't have any such marks. Hopefully we will be able to
correct this issue soon.
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Attachment AG: Report from the Apache Mesos Project [Benjamin Hindman]
Apache Mesos is a cluster manager that provides resource sharing and
isolation across cluster applications.
## General ##
All but a few loose ends remain for the graduation process. We completed a
press release at
https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/the_apache_software_foundation_announces45
along with rolling out our new website at http://mesos.apache.org.
## Releases ##
* Apache Mesos 0.12.1 (2013-08-13)
The 0.12.1 release included some bug fixes and back ported features for more
easily running frameworks like Hadoop. The release was voted on successfully
but was a bit delayed due to some infrastructure tickets that needed to get
performed in order to publish releases to dist.apache.org. We're on the verge
of releasing 0.13.0 as well!
## Community ##
* Added 2 new committers and PMC members:
Dave Lester (dlester) on 2013-08-05
Ross Allen (ssorallen) on 2013-08-05
* 92/67 created/resolved JIRA issues in last 30 days.
* 51 messages to user@mesos.apache.org (July - August), which is a
tremendous improvement but we're looking to add even more traffic
there. 1796 messages to dev@mesos.apache.org (July - August).
* Twitter hosted a meetup for the project on July 25 where we had
talks from Vinod Kone (Twitter) on running Jenkins on Mesos and
Brenden Matthews (Airbnb) on running Hadoop on Mesos. We have a
meetup in NYC planned for August 20th.
* We are (still) part of the Google Summer of Code:
Project: Security and Authentication Support
Student: Ilim Ugur
Mentor: Vinod Kone (PMC)
## Issues ##
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
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Attachment AH: 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
Apache Oltu OAuth2 0.31 was released on July 3rd.
CURRENT ACTIVITY
The "After graduation tasks" are now completed. Development activity has
been quite low lately but we have plan to implement OpenId Connect and JWT
specifications. From the other hand users activity is growing slowly but
steadily (the user@ mailing list has got new messages from potential new
users)
COMMUNITY
PMC composition has not changed since graduation
We have voted one new committer since graduation
ISSUES
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
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Attachment AI: 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).
RELEASES
* Last release was Apache Oozie version 3.3.2, released on MAR/25/2013
* Apache Oozie version 4.0.0 is nearing release
CURRENT ACTIVITY
* Development activity continues as can be seen from the following report:
http://s.apache.org/5UJ (since last report, May 2013)
COMMUNITY
* PMC composition had changed since last report.
- Chris Douglas has gone emeritus from the PMC in May
- Robert Kanter has been added to the PMC in May
- Mona Chitnis has been added to the PMC in May
- The Oozie PMC has voted a new chair, Mohammad Islam (added to the
'Special Orders' section of this agenda)
* Committers composition has changed since last report.
- Chris Douglas has gone emeritus in May
- Ryota Egashira has been added as Committer in May
- Rohini Palaniswamy has been added as Committer in May
* Currently there are:
- Total of 108 (+3) subscribers to the developer list
- Total of 284 (+16) subscribers to the user list
- Total of 14 (+1) committers
- Total of 12 (+1) PMC members
ISSUES
* There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
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Attachment AJ: Report from the Apache OpenJPA Project [Pinaki Poddar]
There are no items requiring board attention at this time.
* Highlights
Apache OpenJPA provides POJO persistence for stand-alone JSE, JEE
container and many other lightweight frameworks, such as Tomcat,
TomEE, Spring or OSGi.
* Community
Mailing lists continue to be active and many applications are
migrating from other vendors to OpenJPA.
The developer community had maintained the codebase stable,
supported for previous releases and backported resolved defects.
CVE-2013-1768 published and communicated to community. New service
releases were developed to include the necessary fix. Fixes were
provided for all service branches.
Coached a couple of new contributors with patches to the OpenJPA
code base.
Interest in the community to start development of new release of
OpenJPA in support of JPA 2.1.
* Governance
We continue to monitor contributors for possible committers and
PMC members.
* Releases
Service releases: OpenJPA 1.2.3, 2.2.2
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Attachment AK: Report from the Apache Perl Project [Philippe M. Chiasson]
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Attachment AL: Report from the Apache POI Project [Yegor Kozlov]
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Attachment AM: Report from the Apache Qpid Project [Carl Trieloff]
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Attachment AN: Report from the Apache River Project [Greg Trasuk]
Apache River is a Java-based Service Oriented Architecture, implementing
the Jini Specification and Jini Technology Starter Kit originally
donated by Sun Microsystems.
ISSUES FOR THE BOARD
There are no board-level issues at this time
RELEASES
Apache River 2.2.1 was released on May 2, 2013.
The community is working towards a maintenance release of the 2.2 branch
to be completed in September, and then a release of the 2.3 branch at
some later date.
COMMUNITY
No new committers have been added since Nov of 2011.
We hope that with releases coming on a more regular basis, user interest
will pick up, and with it we will attract more potential new committers.
ACTIVITY
Mailing lists and development have been fairly quiet over the summer
months. 19 messages on users@ from May-Aug, and over 200 messages on
dev@.
Two issues have been reported on Jira and resolved.
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Attachment AO: 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
The Roller community has been fairly active recently and since our
last report the community has continued to clean-up the JIRA issue
list, make simplifications in the Roller codebase and re-organize the
Roller source into a smaller number of Maven modules.
Apart from that activity, the Roller community continues to be rather
quiet with low traffic that mostly concerns technical support and
installation issues.
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Attachment AP: 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 several new releases in the last quarter due to multiple security
advisories. Security advisory CVE-2013-2172 has been issued for the Apache XML
Security for Java project. Versions 1.4.8 and 1.5.5 (20th June) have been
released, fixing this issue.
Security advisories CVE-2013-2153, CVE-2013-2154, CVE-2013-2155, and
CVE-2013-2156 were fixed in Apache XML-Security for C++ 1.7.1 (18th June).
Another vulnerability CVE-2013-2210 was subsequently found, and fixed in a
1.7.2 (26th June) release of the C++ library.
Last committer addition: Marc Giger, July 2012.
Last PMC addition: Marc Giger, April 2013.
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Attachment AQ: Report from the Apache Shindig Project [Paul Lindner]
Apache Shindig is an Opensocial Reference implementation in wide use by
both social networks and enterprise software. Shindig graduated from the
Incubator in January 2010.
ISSUES
The Shindig PMC has no issues that require board attention.
COMMUNITY
Mailing list traffic and contributions remain steady.
COMMITTER/PMC CHANGES
No new PMC members or committers were approved.
Paul Lindner stepping down as chair to be replaced with Ryan Baxter.
Last PMC change 11/2011 - Jesse Ciancetta added.
RELEASES
August 4, 2013 - Released 2.5.0
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Attachment AR: 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:
* Moved part of the documentation from Maven APT pages to CMS pages on
the web site.
* Completed minor missing features on metadata.
* Prepare room for the addition of more storage formats (SIS 0.3 reads
only NetCDF headers). In particular, a Shapefile reader has been
contributed on a branch. We will need to merge it to the trunk.
* Created Shapefile branch, added experimental Shapefile driver SIS-100 [9]
Work planned:
* Port the referencing module (coordinate transformation services).
The hope is to get at least the main part for the next OGC meeting
on September 23rd.
Community:
* Added Travis Pinney to Apache SIS PMC.
* The community resolved the outstanding issues with the SIS website [1].
* Established the Google Summer of Code project for Agent Based Modeling
* based geo-profiling of criminology projects [2]
Related event:
An OGC meeting is planned in Frascati on September 23rd to 27th [3]. That
meeting contains a session on Well Known Text (WKT) 2.0 format, to become an
ISO standard. ESRI provided a "proof of concept" implementation in C++ under
Apache 2 license [4]. We would like to get a WKT 2 Java parser ready in time
for the OGC meeting, in order to demonstrate an other proof of concept. Note
that the SIS parser would not be a port of the ESRI one however, since a WKT
parser already exists (in the code to be ported) and only needs some
adjustment for making it compliant with the new WKT 2 syntax.
Branding:
Finished moving SIS website to new bootstrap-enabled template [1]
Issues:
* More JUnit tests would be desirable, in particular regarding ISO
19139 XML documents.
Releases:
* Created a 0.3 branch, experimented the release process almost fully
documented the steps [6].
* 0.3 branch stabilized since July 30 and waiting for INFRA-6468 [7]
proposing a release to vote.
* Release notes page already written [8].
* Release expected at or around August 15th pending final [VOTE] tally.
Press:
[1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SIS-31
[2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SIS-97
[3] http://www.opengeospatial.org/event/1309tcagenda
[4] https://github.com/Esri/ogc-crs-wkt-parser
[5] http://sis.apache.org/site-management.html#bootstrap
[6] http://sis.apache.org/release-management.html
[7] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-6468
[8] http://sis.apache.org/release-notes/0.3.html
[9] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SIS-100
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Attachment AS: Report from the Apache Subversion Project [Greg Stein]
* Board Issues
There are no Board-level issues of concern.
* Community
Daniel Gruno was added as a committer in July (2013), Markus Schaber
in June, and Mattias Engdegård in May. Our last PMC addition was in
March, 2012.
There is nothing special to report about the community. It is
working towards 1.9.x, supporting the 1.8.x series on the users@
mailing list, and responding to issues and security concerns.
The elego hackathon in June went well, with many in the community
attending. Lots of discussion occurred, with the consensus ideas
brought back to the developer list.
There will be a "Subversion & Git Live" series of events in October.
This will be the third year WANdisco has run the event; they provide
support for PMC members and other Subversion developers to attend,
so it has been a good opportunity for the community to meet.
* Releases
Apache Subversion 1.8.1 and 1.7.11 were released on July 24, 2013.
The community will start the release process for 1.8.2 and 1.7.12,
the week of August 19, 2013.
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Attachment AT: 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 is active, with new users evaluating the project and
asking questions: currently 70 subscribers, including 4 archive / non
human addresses.
dev@ ML activity is progressing: currently 56 subscribers,
including 4 archive / non human addresses.
We have started working on 1.2.0, while providing maintenance
fixes for 1.0.X and 1.1.X.
We have a new contributor, Andrea Patricelli.
Last committer addition (Andrei Shakirin and Christian Schneider)
is dated January 2013.
Last addition to PMC (Jan Bernhardt) is dated November 2012.
Releases since last report
* 1.1.2 (Jun 11th, 2013)
* 1.1.3 (Jul 12th, 2013)
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Attachment AU: Report from the Apache TomEE Project [David Blevins]
Apache TomEE delivers enterprise application containers and services
based on, but not limited to the Enterprise JavaBeans Specification
and Java Enterprise Edition Specifications.
All development focus is on the coming 1.6.0 codebase and work towards
that release will likely start soon. Heavy amounts of user traffic has
kept the user list very very active and the dev list somewhat quieter
than usual keeping up under the weight of user traffic. Some new
faces have started to show up on the dev list and hopefully we can
pull some of those people across. Documentation contributions seem to
be the largest form of new contributions, though often just one-time
tweaks.
Demand for Java EE 7, expectation that this will be TomEE 2.x, and
requests for a timeline has spread through the user list. We can
stave off being specific for a while, but we will need access to a
Java EE 7 TCK soon. This is a top priority for our users. Based on
several years of Geronimo certification cycles and the TomEE Java EE 6
certification, it will likely take 10 to 15 months post getting access
to the Java EE 7 TCK before we can ship a final certified 2.x release.
Speculative implementation based only on specification text often
proves un-useful as critical details uncovered by the TCK often
require reworking implementation work at the core. It is often a
matter of doing double work to pull out the previous attempt, then
putting in the new attempt. Ideally we'd have the TCK and some
progress to show before the end of the year at the latest.
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Attachment AV: 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.
The last change to the committer base was the addition of Georg Kallidis
(2012/09/19)
No new PMC members were voted in since the last board report.
The last change to the PMC was the resignation of Henning Schmiedehausen in
2010
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 last released components were the Maven archetypes and the parent POM
(2012/11/18)
We are still waiting for Infra to switch our site to svnpubsub. The issue
INFRA-5685 is open. This is a bit unfortunate because we fixed the JavaDoc
security issues in the new site and cannot publish it.
Fulcrum component project
There has been no activity on the Fulcrum sub-project in this quarter.
The last released component was fulcrum-upload 1.0.5 (2012/08/09)
No beta or final releases were made since the last board report.
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Attachment AW: Report from the Apache Tuscany Project [Jean-Sebastien Delfino]
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
- Tuscany is participating in the ASF - ICFOSS pilot mentoring programme and
work on Tuscany's widget support is starting as part of that programme.
- A discussion thread on the Tuscany user list is asking for a new release.
- Mailing list traffic hasn't changed much in the past few months, and
continues to be on the lower side.
BRANDING
- We still need to update logos with ™ and review the project doap file.
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Attachment AX: Report from the Apache Velocity Project [Nathan Bubna]
Apache Velocity is a java template engine and related projects.
RELEASES
* None
CURRENT ACTIVITY
* None
COMMUNITY
* No changes.
* Activity remains low on the user list and slightly higher on Stack Overflow.
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Attachment AY: Report from the Apache Web Services Project [Sagara Gunathunga]
Releases within this quarter:
* WSS4J 1.6.11 (RM - Colm O hEigeartaigh)
Last releases for other subprojects:
* Axiom : Dec 2012
* XmlSchema : July 2012
* Neethi : April 2012
* Woden : Feb 2011
* XML-RPC : Feb 2010
Community and development:
* Old Forrest based WS web site was replaced with a Maven based new site.
* New Maven based site for Woden sub project is being developed and plan to
complete within next quarter in parallel to new releases.
* Last committer addition - in 2011, Last PMC member addition - in 2010
NOTE - Most of the WS sub projects are used by Web Services frameworks such
as Axis, CXF and very rarely an end user directly involves with these
Sub-projects, this nature results into TLP grows slowly but that does not
mean sub projects are inactive. Please refer following activity summery on
each sub project during the last quarter. Community is small and grow
slowly but existing members are active and doing releases frequently.
WSS4J - 165 commits by 3 committers.
Axiom - 116 commits by 1 committer.
Woden - 1 commit by 1 committer.
Neethi - 6 commits by 1 committer.
xmlschema - 0 commits
Additionally there was an effort to have a GSoC project for Apache Axiom
project but in later stage the student has changed his mind to do a different
project.
Branding checklist for sub-projects with releases in the last quarters
(Axiom, Neethi, WSS4J, Project homepage ):
* Project Naming And Descriptions: OK
* Website Navigation Links: OK
* Trademark Attributions: OK
* Logos and Graphics: OK ( Neethi and WSS4J sub projects don't have logos)
* Project Metadata: OK
Not yet compliant:
* XmlSchema
* Woden
* XML-RPC
Subprojects
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Current subproject descriptions follow, along with anything specifically
requiring the board's attention this quarter.
* Apache Woden
Woden is an open source Java implementation of the W3C WSDL 2.0
specification.
* Apache Axiom
Apache Axiom is a StAX-based, XML Infoset compliant object model which
supports on-demand building of the object tree.
- Project branding guidelines fully implemented.
- No release during last quarter. 1.2.13 planned for next quarter.
- Community activity: slightly increased JIRA activity over the last
quarter.
* Apache XmlSchema
Apache XmlSchema is a Java object model for manipulating and utilizing
XML Schema.
- no developer activity this quarter, although a user did raise a JIRA
that needs to be looks at.
* Apache Neethi
Apache Neethi is a Java implementation of the WS-Policy specifications.
- Two minor bugs fixed on trunk, but not yet released
* Apache TCPMon
Apache TCPMon is a Java-based network trace tool, useful for debugging
Web Service interactions.
* Apache XML-RPC
Apache XML-RPC is a Java implementation of XML-RPC, a popular protocol
that uses XML over HTTP to implement remote procedure calls.
* Apache WSS4J
Apache WSS4J is a Java implementation of the OASIS Web Services Security
(WS-Security) from OASIS Web Services Security TC.
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Attachment AZ: Report from the Apache Xalan Project [Steven J. Hathaway]
PROJECT
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++ programming languages to implement the XSLT libraries.
We implement the W3C XSL Transformations (XSLT) Version 1.0 and the
XML Path Language (XPath) Version 1.0 recommendations.
RELEASES
No new releases - latest stable releases are:
Xalan C/C++ version 1.11 29-0ct-2012
Xalan Java version 2.7.1 27-Nov-2007
ACTIVITY
A patch release for Xalan C/C++ is being planned after the summer.
A patch release for Xalan Java is being planned after the summer.
Samuel Medeiros, a student with Google Summer of Code 2013 is making good
progress on our Xalan Java project. Michael Glavassevich is the mentor.
Our community doing bug fixes and quality assurance. Both projects
are planning for upcoming patch releases.
ISSUES
There are no issues for the board at this time.
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Attachment BA: Report from the Apache Xerces Project [Michael Glavassevich]
Xerces-J
It's been fairly quiet over the summer. Six improvements and bug
fixes to the core XML parser components, DOM implementation and XML
Schema 1.1 implementation were committed over this period.
Mailing list traffic has been low; roughly 50 posts on the j-dev
and j-users lists since the beginning of June 2013.
No new releases this quarter. The latest release is
Xerces-J 2.11.0 (November 30th, 2010).
Xerces-C
Six new bugs were filed, three of which has already been fixed.
Mailing list traffic has been low; less than 20 posts on the c-dev
and c-users lists since the beginning of June 2013.
No news about when the 3.2 version will be packaged. The latest
release is Xerces-C 3.1.1 (April 27th, 2010).
Xerces-P
Nothing in particular to report. There was no development activity
over the reporting period.
XML Commons
Nothing in particular to report. There was no development or mailing
list activity over the reporting period.
Committer / PMC Changes
No new committers in the last quarter. The most recent committers
were elected in July 2008 (Xerces-C) and May 2009 (Xerces-J).
No new PMC members in the last quarter. The last two additions to
the PMC were in May 2010.
General
We have fixed the frame injection vulnerability that was affecting
the published Javadoc on the Xerces website.
Apache Project Branding Requirements
There's still some work left to do on the TLP website, including
adding "TM" to the project logo.
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Attachment BB: Report from the Apache XML Graphics Project [Chris Bowditch]
The Apache XML Graphics Project is responsible for software intended for
the creation & maintenance of the conversion of XML formats to graphical
output & related software components.
Issues for the Board
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No issues at present.
Community
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Last new committer: Luis Bernardo on 10/10/12
Last new PMC member: Luis Bernardo on 04/03/13
The PMC discussed the possibility of a Chair rotation, but the PMC indicated
it's preference to keep the current chair for now.
XML GRAPHICS COMMONS
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1 bug fix committed to SVN, and a copy of markdown docs added.
There were no releases this quarter.
The latest release is 1.5 (20 October 2012)
FOP
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User mailing list has several questions posted and answered each week. Some
new bugs logged and several patches have been submitted and processed. 19
separate commits in total to SVN. Significant new features of note in this
quarter are; Patch submitted by Robert Meyer to add support for OTF CFF Fonts,
and new code added in a branch which removes the dependence on AWT Fonts when
rendering SVG, developed by Vincent Hennebert and Peter Hancock.
There were no releases this quarter
The latest release is 1.1 (20 October 2012)
BATIK
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Mailing list activity was very light. A few bugs have been reported by users
and a couple of patches submitted. The only commit to SVN was made a PMC
member, adding a copy of the markdown docs.
There were no releases this quarter.
The latest version is 1.7 (6 January 2008)
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