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Board of Directors Meeting Minutes
August 20, 2014
1. Call to order
The meeting was scheduled for 10:30am Pacific and began at 10:35
when a sufficient attendance to constitute a quorum was
recognized by the chairman.
Other Time Zones: http://timeanddate.com/s/2q9a
The meeting was held via teleconference, hosted by Doug Cutting
and Cloudera.
IRC #asfboard on irc.freenode.net was used for backup purposes.
2. Roll Call
Directors Present:
Rich Bowen joined at 11:09
Doug Cutting
Bertrand Delacretaz
Ross Gardler
Jim Jagielski
Chris Mattmann
Brett Porter
Greg Stein
Directors Absent:
Sam Ruby
Executive Officers Present:
Craig L Russell
Executive Officers Absent:
none
Guests:
Jake Farrell
Daniel Gruno joined at 10:41
Sean Kelly
Lewis John McGibbney
Shane Curcuru
David Nalley joined at 11:22
Tom Pappas
Henri Yandell joined at 11:06
3. Minutes from previous meetings
Published minutes can be found at:
http://www.apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html
A. The meeting of July 16, 2014
See: board_minutes_2014_07_16.txt
Approved by General Consent.
4. Executive Officer Reports
A. Chairman [Brett]
The last month has been on the quiet side, possibly owing to summer
vacations. Nothing new to report from my end.
While I didn't complete it in time for this meeting, I've picked up
on working to improve the signal-to-noise ratio of the board list, as
discussed in June and July.
B. President [Ross]
I'd like to thank the board for their understanding during the last
month as I dealt with personal issues at the expense of Foundation
issues. I'm still somewhat behind but catching up.
OSCON has been and gone. Unfortunately I was not able to attend as
previously planned, however, there seems to have been no shortage of
folks to step in and do the work necessary. A big thank you to all
those who helped with the Booth (Shane Curcuru, Upayavira, Roman
Shaposhnik, Justin Erenkrantz, J. Aaron Farr, Louis Suarez-Potts,
David Nalley). Melissa makes a special mention of Dennis Hamilton
who went above and beyond to help with the booth.
Our D&O insurance has been renewed, with some difficulty completing
the appropriate financial information (thanks to Sam who helped out
here).
EA contract has been renewed for another six months. No change to
the terms.
There was a significant effort from the Fundraising team,
coordinated by Upayavira at OSCON. A full report has been submitted
and while we need more time to see if we can deliver significant
results from these efforts it is with great pleasure that I can
report that we believe that a new sponsor will be reported next month
as a result of their meeting with the team at OSCON. I believe
fundraising is in a far better position today than it has been for
some time. My thanks go to Upayavira for driving this. Please see
the full report for details of the interactions at OSCON (a special
thank you to Rich Bowen and David Nalley who supported many of these
meetings).
One of the areas that I have fallen behind on during my recent
personal issues is the directed sponsorship policy requested by the
CloudStack PMC. This is something I intend to address ASAP. However,
VP Trademarks has agreed that the PMC should be allowed to manage
its own marks in accordance with the trademark policies and VP
Marketing has provided a marketing/promotional strategy to the
PMC. Furthermore, I have agreed with Virtual that they will be able
to track such directed sponsorships. It is my belief that the
barriers CloudStack felt were present have been removed. All that
remains is for the PMC to take advantage of this (admittedly,
without a policy the PMC may be wary of making a proposal).
Trademarks still continues to be a problematic area where our
existing policies are limiting the effectiveness of our brand
volunteers and PMCs. It is my belief that since Fundraising is now on
track and will soon be delivering results from its restructuring and
effective delegation model, I now hope to work closely with VP Brand
Management in the coming months so that we can improve projects
ability to manage their own brands in the same way that multiple
people are helping on fundraising.
Marketing, in conjunction with Brand Management and Fundraising has
created a "Powered by Apache" mark. This will be a part of a broader
attempt to raise awareness of the inclusion of our software in other
software out there.
Infrastructure continues to benefit from the energy of a new
VP. David is building on the foundations laid by Sam and is
delivering results. However, the greater level of direction provided
to our infrastructure team has brought into question our ability to
use contractors based in the US, it is believed that the IRS might
classify them as employees. David continues to explore this since
whilst we do not currently have any US based infra contractors we
may be bringing some on-board soon. We are working with Virtual
Inc. to evaluate the problem and identify a solution.
There is no report from TAC at the time of writing. Melissa,
however, reports that she has been assisting with preparations for
ApacheCon EU. There have been some complications but she believes
all blocks will be removed soon.
Virtual have indicated that the Audit is currently at a standstill
because of the limited amount of data available to the
auditors. Setting up a call between myself, Chris and Sam to try and
unblock this in September then a quarterly call after that.
Finally please see Special Order B for the FY14-15 budget. I request
that the board approve this budget which incorporates the three
month interim budget approved in May.
Additionally, please see Attachments 1 through 6.
C. Treasurer [Chris]
The Treasurer's office has worked with Virtual over the past month
to transition more of the operational functionalities of the Treasurer
role. In particular, Virtual is now responsible for handling
operational monthly payments to contractors and for invoice and
Bill remittance.
Virtual has worked with VP, Fundraising, the EA and the President's Office
to provide Current balances and sponsor funds analysis and projected
income, which was used both by VP, Fundraising at OSCON for situational
awareness to sponsors, and to feed into the President's 2014-2015
budget request.
The Treasurer's Office worked the ASF Audit Lead and President to
provide a retainer for our CPA conducting the ASF financial audit.
Virtual now has guest access to WFS Financials both Checkings and
Savings, allowing for statement download and for balance sheet
generation. Access to Amazon Payments and PayPal have also been
provided.
Sam Ruby has started to populate Treasurer content at
http://treasurer.apache.org/.
D&O Liability Insurance was remitted and the Treasurer's Office is
working with the EA and the President to process the D&O renewal.
An issue regarding the ASF meeting the public funding test is being
discussed amongst ASF audit participants and the President's Office
and the Treasurer's Office in reference to a suggestion made during
OSCON.
The EA and President's Office and Treasurer's Office are discussing
a review of disbursement of ASF credit cards, and expect a disposition
soon that may include issuing new credits and moving to a new credit
card provider.
Virtual is now providing the income and expenses roll up for the
Treasurer's Report.
Income and Expenses
Current Balances:
Citizens Checking $382,921
Amazon Prime $11,489
Paypal - ASF $27,766
Wells Fargo Checking - ASF $863,916
Wells Fargo Savings $288,007
Total Checking/Savings $1,574,099
Income Summary:
Public Donations $5,548
Sponsorship Program $100,000
Interest Income $24
Total Income $105,573
Expense Summary:
Infrastructure $34,711
Publicity $10,455
Travel Assistance Committee $1,670
Treasury Services $7,500
General & Administrative $7,301
Total Expense $61,636
Net Income $43,936
D. Secretary [Craig]
July was a busy month for secretary. 58 iclas, five cclas,
and three grants were received and filed.
E. Executive Vice President [Rich]
We have announced the schedule for ApacheCon Europe (Budapest,
November 17-21, 2014) and registration is open. We currently
have 118 people registered.
We have also announced our keynotes, including Douglas Carswell,
Member of Parliament (Great Britain), Hugh Howey, bestselling
science fiction author, and David Nalley, VP of Infrastructure
of the ASF.
We are in the process of planning the less formal aspects of
ApacheCon EU, including evening events, the ApacheCon Jam
Sessions, Lightning Talks, Fast Feather Track, and so on.
We have tentatively agreed to do ApacheCon North America in
Austin, Texas, on the week starting April 12th. In the coming
weeks we expect to sign contracts for that, and the CFP should
be sent out in the next 30 days.
This evening (August 20th) David Nalley and I are leading an
evening session at LinuxCon North America, in Chicago, where
CIOs and CTOs of local businesses will be attending to learn
about the Apache Software Foundation, with an emphasis on
sponsorship opportunities. This event is being covered out of
the President's discretionary budget, in the absence of a
fundraising budget at this time.
F. Vice Chairman [Greg]
A verbal report was provided, stating the Vice Chairman had
nothing to report for the prior month.
Executive officer reports approved as submitted by General Consent.
5. Additional Officer Reports
A. VP of W3C Relations [Andy Seaborne / Brett]
See Attachment 7
B. Apache Legal Affairs Committee [Jim Jagielski]
See Attachment 8
C. Apache Security Team Project [Mark Cox / Rich]
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 Ambari Project [Yusaku Sako / Sam]
See Attachment B
C. Apache Ant Project [Conor MacNeill / Ross]
See Attachment C
D. Apache Buildr Project [Alex Boisvert / Greg]
See Attachment D
E. Apache Cassandra Project [Jonathan Ellis / Doug]
See Attachment E
F. Apache Celix Project [Alexander Broekhuis / Jim]
No report was submitted.
@Jim: pursue a report for Celix
G. Apache Clerezza Project [Hasan Hasan / Bertrand]
See Attachment G
@Bertrand: ask for clarification on "partial release"
H. Apache Cocoon Project [Thorsten Scherler / Greg]
See Attachment H
I. Apache Community Development Project [Luciano Resende / Doug]
No report was submitted.
J. Apache Continuum Project [Brent Atkinson / Jim]
See Attachment J
@Jim: send message to all PMCs re: health of projects, new
committers, new PMC members
K. Apache CouchDB Project [Jan Lehnardt / Chris]
See Attachment K
L. Apache Creadur Project [Robert Burrell Donkin / Rich]
See Attachment L
M. Apache DeltaSpike Project [Gerhard Petracek / Ross]
See Attachment M
N. Apache DirectMemory Project [Raffaele P. Guidi / Bertrand]
No report was submitted.
O. Apache Empire-db Project [Francis De Brabandere / Sam]
No report was submitted.
P. Apache Etch Project [Martin Veith / Brett]
See Attachment P
Q. Apache Flume Project [Arvind Prabhakar / Brett]
See Attachment Q
R. Apache Forrest Project [David Crossley / Chris]
See Attachment R
S. Apache Giraph Project [Avery Ching / Doug]
See Attachment S
@Doug: clarify release comment.
T. Apache Gora Project [Lewis John McGibbney / Greg]
See Attachment T
U. Apache Hama Project [ChiaHung Lin / Jim]
See Attachment U
@Jim: board report is a bit sparse; can this be improved for
next report?
V. Apache Hive Project [Carl Steinbach / Rich]
See Attachment V
W. Apache HTTP Server Project [Eric Covener / Ross]
See Attachment W
X. Apache HttpComponents Project [Asankha Perera / Sam]
See Attachment X
Y. Apache Incubator Project [Roman Shaposhnik / Bertrand]
See Attachment Y
Z. Apache jUDDI Project [Alex O'Ree / Sam]
See Attachment Z
AA. Apache Kafka Project [Jun Rao / Doug]
See Attachment AA
AB. Apache Knox Project [Kevin Minder / Brett]
See Attachment AB
AC. Apache Lenya Project [Richard Frovarp / Chris]
See Attachment AC
AD. Apache Libcloud Project [Tomaz Muraus / Ross]
See Attachment AD
AE. Apache Logging Project [Christian Grobmeier / Jim]
See Attachment AE
@Jim: why is a certificate needed for release?
AF. Apache ManifoldCF Project [Karl Wright / Greg]
See Attachment AF
AG. Apache Marmotta Project [Jakob Frank / Bertrand]
See Attachment AG
AH. Apache Mesos Project [Benjamin Hindman / Rich]
See Attachment AH
AI. Apache ODE Project [Tammo van Lessen / Brett]
See Attachment AI
AJ. Apache Oltu Project [Antonio Sanso / Rich]
See Attachment AJ
AK. Apache Onami Project [Simone Tripodi / Greg]
See Attachment AK
AL. Apache Oozie Project [Mohammad Islam / Doug]
See Attachment AL
AM. Apache Open Climate Workbench Project [Michael James Joyce / Chris]
See Attachment AM
AN. Apache OpenMeetings Project [Sebastian Wagner / Sam]
No report was submitted.
AO. Apache Perl Project [Philippe M. Chiasson / Jim]
No report was submitted.
AP. Apache Phoenix Project [James R. Taylor / Ross]
See Attachment AP
AQ. Apache POI Project [Yegor Kozlov / Bertrand]
No report was submitted.
AR. Apache Qpid Project [Gordon Sim / Greg]
See Attachment AR
AS. Apache Rave Project [Matt Franklin / Jim]
See Attachment AS
AT. Apache River Project [Patricia Shanahan / Brett]
See Attachment AT
AU. Apache Roller Project [Dave Johnson / Doug]
See Attachment AU
AV. Apache Santuario Project [Colm O hEigeartaigh / Ross]
See Attachment AV
AW. Apache SIS Project [Adam Estrada / Bertrand]
No report was submitted.
AX. Apache Spark Project [Matei Zaharia / Sam]
See Attachment AX
AY. Apache Stratos Project [Lakmal Warusawithana / Rich]
See Attachment AY
AZ. Apache Subversion Project [Greg Stein]
See Attachment AZ
BA. Apache Syncope Project [Francesco Chicchiricco / Chris]
See Attachment BA
BB. Apache Tez Project [Hitesh Shah / Bertrand]
See Attachment BB
BC. Apache TomEE Project [David Blevins / Doug]
See Attachment BC
BD. Apache Turbine Project [Thomas Vandahl / Brett]
See Attachment BD
BE. Apache Tuscany Project [Jean-Sebastien Delfino / Greg]
See Attachment BE
@Greg: pursue a proper board report
BF. Apache Velocity Project [Nathan Bubna / Chris]
See Attachment BF
BG. Apache VXQuery Project [Till Westmann / Ross]
See Attachment BG
BH. Apache Wink Project [Luciano Resende / Sam]
No report was submitted.
BI. Apache Xalan Project [Steven J. Hathaway / Rich]
See Attachment BI
BJ. Apache Xerces Project [Michael Glavassevich / Jim]
See Attachment BJ
BK. Apache XML Graphics Project [Chris Bowditch / Bertrand]
See Attachment BK
Committee reports approved as submitted by General Consent.
7. Special Orders
A. Change the Apache HTTP Server Project Management Committee
WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee (PMC) of the Apache HTTP
Server project has chosen by vote to recommend the removal of the
persons listed immediately below from the PMC:
Aaron Bannert <aaro...@apache.org>
Ben Laurie <be.....@apache.org>
Chuck Murcko <chuc...@apache.org>
Doug MacEachern <doug...@apache.org>
Erik Abele <erik...@apache.org>
Joshua Slive (slive) <sliv...@apache.org>
Ken Coar (coar) <coa....@apache.org>
Manoj Kasichainula <mano...@apache.org>
Martin Kraemer <mart...@apache.org>
Maxime Petazzoni (maxime) <maxi...@apache.org>
Ralf S. Engelschall <rs.....@apache.org>
Sander Striker <stri...@apache.org>
Wilfredo Sanchez <wsan...@apache.org>
Yoshiki Hayashi <yosh...@apache.org>
Rasmus Lerdorf <rasm...@lerdorf.com>
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the persons listed immediately
above are relieved and discharged from the duties and responsibilities
of the Apache HTTP Server PMC.
Special Order 7A, Change the Apache HTTP Server Project
Management Committee, was tabled.
B. Approve the 2014-2015 FY ASF Budget
Call for board approval of the May 2014 - April 2015 budget for the
ASF (incorporates the Interim budget approved in Special Order G. of
the 21 May 2014 meeting.
INCOME
Public Donations
One-Time 2,400.00
PayPal 36,000.00
Amazon Payments 3,000.00
Car Program LLC 1,600.00
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Total Public Donations 43,000.00
Sponsorship Program
Platinum Sponsors 600,000.00
Gold Sponsors 130,000.00
Silver Sponsors 60,000.00
Bronze Sponsors 35,000.00
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Total Sponsorship Program 825,000.00
Programs
GSoC Mentor Stipends 19,500.00
GSoC Strato Mentor Stipends 1,500.00
GSoC Travel Reimbursements 4,400.00
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Total Programs 25,400.00
Interest Income 3,600.00
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897,000.00
Expenditure
Infrastructure
Staffing 520,000.00
Training 17,500.00
Hosting 6,216.00
Hardware
Replacement 70,000.00
Build Farm 60,000.00
Disks/Ram 20,000.00
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Total Hardware 150,000.00
Service Contracts
Dell 25,000.00
HP 5,000.00
----------
Total Service Contracts 30,000.00
SSL/DNS Renewals 2,000.00
Third Party "Thank You's" 500.00
Travel
AC Event 10,000.00
F2F Event 10,000.00
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Total Travel 20,000.00
Total Infrastructure 746,216.00
Sponsorship Program Expense
Fundraising Rep. at OSCON 3,700.00
Fundraising Rep. ApacheCon EU 1,450.00
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Total Sponsorship Program Expense 5,150.00
Programs Expense
GSoC Mentor Summit ASF Travel 3,800.00
GSoC Mentor Summit Srato Travel 2,200.00
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Total Programs Expense 6,000.00
Publicity
Outside PR Services 90,000.00
Press Releases 8,000.00
Travel 5,000.00
Consultant Expenses 2,500.00
Conference Participation 1,500.00
Conference Support 5,000.00
Conference Signage 4,500.00
Collateral Printing 2,500.00
Clipping Service 5,000.00
----------
Total Publicity 124,000.00
Brand Management
Register/Record Trademarks
US 6,825.00
International 8,500.00
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Total Register/Record Trademarks 15,325.00
Declarations/Renewal Fees 3,800.00
Register/Record TLPs
US 16,250.00
International 15,000.00
----------
Total Register/Record TLPs 31,250.00
Registrations of Apache Marks 25,000.00
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Total Brand Management 75,375.00
Conferences
Local Events & Hackathons 7,500.00
Travel 5,000.00
----------
Total Conferences 12,500.00
Travel Assistance Committee
Sponsored Attendees 50,000.00
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Total Travel Assistance Committee 50,000.00
Treasury Services
Tax & Audit 12,000.00
Software & Online Services 1,500.00
Virtual MSA
One Time Fees 1,500.00
Monthly Staff Management 6,000.00
Monthly General Fees 34,200.00
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Total Virtual MSA 41,700.00
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Total Treasury Services 53,200.00
General & Administrative
Office Supplies (Treasurer) 500.00
President Discretionary 5,000.00
Chairmans Discretionary 5,000.00
Executive Assistant 71,470.00
Legal Counsel Fees 19,000.00
Legal Discretionary spending 2,500.00
Licenses/Insurance 6,012.00
Bank Charges 3,725.00
Shipping 500.00
PayPal 100.00
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Total General & Administrative 113,807.00
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1,191,248.00
-294,248.00
Special Order 7B, Approve the 2014-2015 FY ASF Budget, was
approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
8. Discussion Items
9. Review Outstanding Action Items
* Brett: Remind PMCs to check their committee records, report on dates
Status:
* Greg: ask about "pending discussion by the PMC" by JMeter
Status:
* Jim: discuss service hosting issue (licensing, trademark, etc.) with
SpamAssassin PMC.
Status: They will report on this issue in their next report.
* Shane: follow up Open Climate Workbench regarding expanding the user
community
Status: current report says they've noticed an uptick. I believe we
can close this.
* Doug: pursue a report for Buildr
Status: A report was submitted this month.
* Shane: Get River connected with comdev to recruit new blood
Status: report identifies some forward steps and a new chair. I
believe we can close this.
* Rich: Ask Axis whether the community is really healthy? Seems Synapse is
asking
Status:
* Greg: Any info about the community? [ ACE ]
Status:
* Greg: Any info on sub-projects? [ ActiveMQ ]
Status:
* Jim: Follow up with CXF and Commons to see how well they are
communicating
Status: Not done yet.
* Chris: The report identifies a problem with no resolution... [ Deltacloud ]
Status:
* Greg: Six years seems too long between additions to the PMC. [ Directory ]
Status:
* Doug: Any thoughts on growing the dev community? [ Geronimo ]
Status: Jarek started a discussion, resulting in a new PMC member.
* Greg: pursue a report for Hive
Status:
* Chris: Please clarify what "voted on" means [ James ]
Status:
* Brett: Clarify TODO [ jclouds ]
Status: Done.
* Chris: Is PMC member discussion still ongoing? [ JMeter ]
Status:
* Brett: Please update report with PMC and committers. Also is there a
plan for reaching compliance? [ Maven ]
Status: Done.
* Chris: pursue a report for OpenMeetings
Status:
* Brett: Has the SQOOP-1287 contribution been subject to the IP clearance
Status: Done.
* Chris: strike sentence re: driving force [ Tapestry ]
Status:
* Chris: Clarify volunteer comment. [ Tcl ]
Status:
* Bertrand: Given the late report, request a report for next month [ Wink ]
Status: request sent on July 16th but no report received
10. Unfinished Business
11. New Business
12. Announcements
13. Adjournment
Adjourned at 11:46 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 (ea@, fundraising@, trademarks@,
treasurer@, comdev@, tm-registrations@, and board@) and following-up with
appropriate personnel
OSCON:
• Setup booth, staffed it, and tore it down
• As per usual, we had very heavy booth traffic Fundraising/Virtual:
• Worked w/Virtual to obtain contact at AmEx for credit cards
• Working with AmEx on obtaining information on credit card options
• As of this writing, I’m awaiting further information from AmEx on the
possibility of obtaining cards that are tied to the Foundation for financial
responsibility, rather than to the primary card holder personally and the
Foundation.
• Participated in bi-weekly call with Virtual; working with Lynsey on current
sponsors and invoicing procedures ApacheCon Europe:
• In communications with Nick and Jan I re assisting with TAC (this should be
in full speed by EOW/early next week
• Participated in a conference call with a potential new vendor for European
events
• Introduced Angela to Christian Grobmeier for a possible collaboration for
t-shirts for European events
Trademarks:
• Coordinating with Shane re TM issues
• Created a trademarks tracking s/s – captured all of the trademarks issues
(that I’m aware of) and sent to Shane – awaiting comments/further information
from him MISC:
• Misc changes and additions to the Lands’ End online store
• Coordinated with Helene (our travel agent) to change the hotel reservation
for the Infra F2F from Joe’s name to Rainer Jung (the res was non-cancellable
and non-refundable)
• Ordered Flowers for Ross and family; ordered gift card for Jake Farrell
• EA contract renewed
• D&O insurance renewal completed and submitted
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Attachment 2: Report from the VP of Brand Management [Shane Curcuru]
trademarks@ continues as busy as ever, even during the summer with OSCON and
several long-overdue vacations for myself, so both daily operations and
process improvements are running slower than planned.
Similarly, discussion on the backlog PODLINGNAMESEARCH escalated quickly
during a week I was mostly offline, which led to some unfortunate responses.
Thanks to Henri in particular for pulling together constructive criticism and
opinions on the remaining open issues.
I attended OSCON to help man the ASF booth along with our EA Melissa and a
host of volunteers, including David Nalley, Justin, Upayavira, Rich, and
especially Dennis Hamilton. Virtually everyone who visited the ASF booth was
immensely thankful for the work we and all Apache projects do. The variety of
questions from attendees was incredibly varied, everything from "Oh, you have
more than one project" to "How much do you get paid for working at Apache" to
"How can I get this Apache Foo bug fixed?"
We've begun using tm-registrations@ as a working list to manage the details of
Apache product name registration applications with the EA and counsel, and
DLAPiper has begun using this list. I'm also working with DLAPiper to
continue to push more of their responses to tm-registrations@ or trademarks@
wherever possible instead of vp-brand.
Counsel have reported back on several legal issues related to registration
applications or questions, needing additional direction for applications being
made or planned that have been requested by Apache projects.
Used board concall to host meeting with Sally and a third party alleging abuse
of Apache trademarks by a third party in their hiring process.
Interesting queries this week include a blogger asking permission to use
logos; a new Hadoop & Spark conference asking for a long-term partnership;
notice that OpenMRS has adopted a modified version of our trademark policy;
and a request to look into third party use of Apache marks in a negative sense
in AdWords.
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Attachment 3: Report from the VP of Fundraising [Upayavira]
== Metrics == An impromptu discussion was held between myself, Rich,
David, Roman and Jesus and Manrique from Bitergia about possibilities for
using their metrics technology. After consideration and discussion with a
sponsor, my conclusion is that that data is far more detailed than we
need, and that the system already built by Daniel Gruno is very close to
what we need, and is based upon the same data as I had considered using
before I saw the details of what Daniel has produced.
Hopefully, we can extract data from Daniel's system to produce an annual
report, perhaps with quarterly or half-yearly intermediate reports. The
aim here needs to be to identify the impact of the Foundation on the
world, and thus the benefit that a sponsor's contribution is bringing
about. The data should be used to show trends of decrease or increase that
can be used as the basis of some commentary.
The idea of a 'health of the community' report was suggested by a
sponsor. It was recognised though that whilst this could be incredibly
valuable, it could be quite challenging to put together in a useful way.
It would be good, also, to find an appropriate way to send this annual
report to prospects, as it might help them with their decision making.
== Small Donations == Whilst not directly discussed much here at OSCON, I
have considered further our possible use of Hopsie, and I am inclined to
make use of their service.
It does involve spending foundation money that could be used elsewhere.
However, the amounts are small, and we will easily recoup it. More
importantly, this could give us a relatively straight-forward means to
provide greater opportunities for individuals to contribute to the ASF. In
time, it could give us the ability to to launch campaigns with fixed
budgets targeting individuals. In a way that might sound
counter-intuitive, I do believe it important that we give individuals the
opportunity to give to us should they choose to - we could do much better
in this area.
== Concalls and Sponsor communication == I discussed my quarterly concall
idea with a sponsor. Her opinion was that every six months, and
keeping it short, to 30 minutes, was likely to suit the target audience.
She also suggested a 'sponsor' mailing list that we could use to push
updates to sponsors. I have considered this previously. With a 'reply to
sender' set, this could work well.
== LinuxCon Dusseldorf == The idea arose in one of our conversations
that we attempt to put on a "CIO Forum" at LinuxCon in
Dusseldorf. We would invite CIO types to a presentation that explains the
benefit of the ASF to the world and the benefits of sponsoring us. Rich
will be there, and for me to get to Dusseldorf wouldn't be too
expensive. Rich will talk with Angela to see if this is possible.
[Rich: Joe Brockmeier and David Nalley think that we could still pull this
off for Chicago. The conversation was with Leslie Hawthorne from
Elasticsearch. I have passed this conversation to them for now, because
I'm out of the office this week and can't really make much progress on
that, as it would take valuable time away from drinking homebrew on the
front porch.
However, I will resume the conversation with Angela regarding Dusseldorf
as soon as I'm back from vacation.]
== Immediate Actions ==
[ ] Rich to discuss CIO Forum with Angela
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Attachment 4: Report from the VP of Marketing and Publicity [Sally Khudairi]
I. Budget: we are under budget with no payments due at this time.
II. Fundraising/Branding/Marketing liaison: Sally Khudairi finalized the
“Powered by Apache” mark for Apache project logos (creative services donated
by HotWax Media), which was launched during OSCON. Sally is awaiting signoff
from VP Brand Management Shane Curcuru in advance of sharing with Apache
Members and PMCs. She is also working with Shane on a blog post on corporate
guidelines on engaging with the ASF, which will be part of a larger spotlight
on ASF operations. The three month period of working with Apache CloudStack on
project-specific marketing/promotional strategy and support has now
terminated; Sally continues to engage with the project until an organization
is selected to run the PR/marketing activity.
III. Press Releases: the following formal announcements were issued via the
newswire service, ASF Foundation Blog, and announce@apache.org during this
timeframe:
- 30 July 2014 --The Apache Software Foundation Exceeds 2 Million Code
Commits
- 22 July 2014 --The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache™ Tez™ as a
Top-Level Project
IV. Informal Announcements: 7 items were tweeted on @TheASF, and is
coordinating with the Linux Foundation on @ApacheCon to promote the event.
V. Future Announcements: Sally is working with two TLPs to announce new
milestone releases. 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 responded to 3 media requests, and coordinated several
interviews during OSCON. The ASF received 576 press clips over this time
period, vs. last month's clip count of 335. Our monitoring media hits for
CloudStack has yielded a total of 567 mentions this month vs. 1,089 last
month.
VII. Analyst Relations: Apache was mentioned in 3 write-ups by Gartner, 1
report by Forrester, 7 write-ups by GigaOM, 6 reports by Yankee Group, 6
reports by IDC, 4 write-ups by 451 Research, and 2 opinion pieces by RedMonk.
VIII. ApacheCon liaison: we have promoted reminders for the CFP for ApacheCon
Europe under the usual channels, and are working with the Linux Foundation
team on coordinating publicity/outreach efforts. In addition, Sally will be
working again with Melissa Warnkin on the ASF's presence (booth, giveaways,
etc.) at ApacheCon Europe.
IX. (Non-ASF) Industry Events and Outreach liaison: Discussions continue with
RedMonk regarding a possible group of Apache-branded DevOps and DataOps events
in the UK. Sally completed the ASF tearsheet for distribution at events in
Europe as requested by Jan Iverson.
X. Newswire accounts: we have 12 pre-paid press releases with NASDAQ
GlobeNewswire through the end of the calendar year, and continue to receive
gratis news release distribution by Pressat (UK).
# # #
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Attachment 5: Report from the VP of Infrastructure [David Nalley]
New Karma:
==========
none
Finances:
==========
RAM for VMWare host: $690.79
Operations Action Items:
========================
Short Term Priorities:
======================
* Code signing
Mark Thomas has successfully concluded his testing of Symantec Application
signing service. Subsequent to that, he's identified a workflow that should
work for our many projects. Conversations with Symantec on pricing are
ongoing.
* Response timeframe targets:
It was agreed to set up three distinct timeframes for responding to incidents;
1) For critical services, incidents should be responded to within 4 hours
2) For core services, incidents should be responded to within 6 hours
3) For standard services, incidents should be responded to within 12 hours.
The response need not be a resolvement of the issue, but needs to include one
or more of the following steps;
1) Acknowledging the incident through internal channels (See PagerDuty
et al)
2) Communication of the incident to the involved/affected people in
accordance with the new communications plan laid out by the VP.
3) Delegation of the issue to a member of infrastructure whenever possible
4) Tracking of the incident (method depends on the duration and gravity of
the incident)
* On-call rotation:
At the f2f meeting in Cambridge, it was decided to introduce an on-call
rotation between contractors. Each week, a contractor will be assigned as
being on-call, and will be responsible for either resolving, delegating or
communicating about outages, account-, mailinglist- and tlp-creations, as well
as planned changes, and security issues. To the extent that this is possible
(not counting sleep), incidents must be responded to within the new target
timeframes, as explained in the previous paragraph.
In the time since going live with both an on-call rotation and tracking
response time in the response timeframe, the responses have been
dramatically faster than the service level expectations. As we build up
staff numbers and spread geographically a bit, the expectations may change.
* Improved response for and analysis of Java services at the ASF: At the
previously mentioned f2f meeting, contractors were introduced to a detailed
course of analysing and reporting incidents with Java applications run by
infrastructure. We expect this new information to be extremely valuable in
reaching and maintaining the target uptime for Java services. The staffers
would like to extend a very big thank-you to Rainer Jung for his services in
this matter.
Long Range Priorities:
======================
* Monitoring
** Uptime monitoring and responsibility:
In addition to the previous board report, a new service level agreement was
made between infrastructure staffers, increasing the targets for uptime on
critical and core level services, as described below in the statistics
paragraph. Ensuring that services meet the new targets have been made one
of the cornerstones of infrastructure's work. The monitoring of public
facing services has been outsourced to a third party (free of charge), and
we will be focusing on having Circonus produce metrics for our inwards
facing services/devices, such as LDAP, PubSubs, SNMP etc.
** Unified logging:
Experiments with unified logging is proceeding as planned, with more and
more hosts being coupled into the new logging system. A filtering
mechanism for the lucene-based backend has been created, allowing anyone
to use the logging service based on their LDAP credentials. As such,
anyone with access to a specific host (as defined in LDAP) will be able to
pull logs from the unified logging system. We are confident that this will
make debugging and analysis easier, to the point that we are disabling
older alerting/information systems and using the logging system to fetch
information that would previously have been sent via email to root@.
* More virtualisation; Better use of what resources we have:
It was decided to move towards more use of virtualisation for many critical
and core services, including our main web sites and wikis. This will allow
us to better respond to incidents and resolve them without affecting other
services. Furthermore, it is our belief that we can free up resources by
switching to a virtualised environment, thereby possibly getting more
space for the crammed-up project/service VMs.
* Automation
** Cloud-based dynamic build slaves have been in progress for a bit. Much of
the work around this has been driven by Dan Norris. Building on a framework
of repeatable builds he and Gavin McDonald have been successfully spinning
up on-demand build slaves with our RackSpace account. This also relates to
our goals around configuration management, and configuration of the machine
is in Puppet. Expect to see this service go into production in the next
week or so.
** Puppet - the scope of puppet deployment continues to edge forward. Gavin
McDonald attended training just before the Infra F2F meeting.
* Technical Debt and Resiliency Work around uptime monitoring and actually being
able to better understand where the pain points are, coupled with some of the
knowledge we gained at the Infra F2F has allowed us to focus on long term
adjustments rather than hasty short term restoration of service. You should
see this reflected in the uptime statistics
General Activity:
=================
- A face-to-face meeting between infrastructure members was held in Cambridge,
UK.
- 27 new committer accounts created, 8 new mailing list (TBC)
- 3 projects were promoted to TLP
- 193 JIRA tickets resolved (since last report)
- A new status site was launched by Infra at status.apache.org
- PagerDuty has donated a gratis account for up to 10 users to ASF Infra
Uptime Statistics:
==================
Due to new a SLA between contractors, the targets for critical and core services
have been updated to reflect the new criteria (99.50% for critical and 99.00%
for core respectively). This represents an overall increase of 0.57% uptime
across the board. These figures span the previous reporting cycle as well as the
present reporting cycle (weeks 29-33)
Type: Target: Reality: Target Met:
---------------------------------------------------------
Critical services: 99.50% 99.94% Yes
Core services: 99.00% 99.81% Yes
Standard services: 95.00% 96.83% Yes
---------------------------------------------------------
Overall: 98.00% 98.99% Yes
---------------------------------------------------------
For details on each service as well as average response times, see
http://s.apache.org/uptime
Detailed Contractor Reporting
=============================
* Daniel Gruno
- Resolved 51 JIRA tickets
- Worked on a new status site for public ASF services
- Worked on the ELK stack, set up on phanes/chaos.
- On-call duties
- Worked with Gavin and Tony on OpenSSL CVEs and general VM upgrades
- Fixed issues with svn2gitupdate not working
- Worked around a GitHub API change that had invalidated our integration
measures
- Miscellaneous upgrades to ASFBot
- Continued work with uptime monitoring and reporting
- Worked with Fundraising to produce statistics about the ASF
- 8 days of vacation.
* Tony Stevenson
- Resolved 74 issues
- Took part in the bugbash
- On-Call rotation
- FreeBSD/Ubuntu SSL CVEs.
- Started work to disable swap across all VMs
- Investigations into BigIP/F5 etc
- Fixed issues with VPN applicance
- Several disk replacements
- Run down several repeat cron error messages
- Some further conversations with others about puppet
- Setup trial of lastpass with a view to possibly replacing our GPG files.
- Instigated the trial of hipchat. With a view to seeing if we coild deprecate
IRC.
* Tony Stevenson - Comments
Hipchat:
For a long time I have been thinking about trying to find a better way to
engage with some of our users. Also, I was hoping to find a way that we could
get a better feed of information that was more relevant and pertinent.
We have hooked it up to JIRA, Github, Pagerduty, and PingMyBox. These all
provide near realtime information that we can act on.
The more modern service, perhaps will be seen to be a move on from some of our
older roots. Which might appeal to others. With the move we have also seen the
SNR improve significantly enabling better communication across the team.
The alerting with Hipchat allows people to be notified of communcations that
involve them, via push messages to a phone/tablet etc. Also once you return
online from an offline state you see all the history. The history is
searchable.
You can join us, here, https://www.hipchat.com/gw4Cfp7JY
Private channels can also be created, for those who need a channel that need
to control access. Think #asfmembers etc
* Dan Norris
- Built machine image automation using Packer
- Packaged (using FPM) many of the unpackaged build tools (Provides
repeatable, known installation; allows us to query for status and version)
- Deployed a DEB repository in RAX CloudFiles for packages
- Puppetized the build slave configuration
- Documented the process of building a machine image, uploading it to RAX
- Using jclouds plugin for Jenkins, successfully provisioned dynamic build
slaves.
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Attachment 6: Report from the Apache Travel Assistance Committee [Gavin McDonald]
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Attachment 7: Report from the VP of W3C Relations [Andy Seaborne]
Henry Story (bblfish@) nominated to Social Web Working Group.
Sam Ruby has been nominated by IBM for the upcoming TAG election.
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Attachment 8: Report from the Apache Legal Affairs Committee [Jim Jagielski]
A relatively typical month with no issues or actions required by the board.
Two issues of note have popped up during the last few weeks, and the intent
is to reach consensus and closure in short order. The 1st has to do with
the exclusivity requirement of the Apple App Store, and how it affects
official distribution of Apache software via that vehicle. The second is a
relatively recent thread regarding an individual taking ASF code and simply
relicensing it, and whether that is legal or not. It has been explained
that as long as the conditions of the ALv2 are followed, relicensing is
allowed.
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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@ in July. These continue to be dealt with by
the security team.
July 2014
1 Support question
1 Phishing/spam/proxy/attacks point to site "powered by Apache"
11 Vulnerability reports to security@apache.org
3 [website] (closed, invalid)
2 [trafficserver]
2 [httpd]
1 [hc]
1 [solr/poi/tika]
1 [axis]
1 [activemq]
6 Vulnerability reports to projects own security lists
2 [tomcat]
1 [subversion]
1 [sling]
1 [struts]
1 [openoffice]
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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.
Abdera is very quiet. There are occasional emails and bug reports,
which sometimes take a little while to get actioned. The most frequent
activity is dealing with misfiled bug reports - Abdera is top in the
project list in the ASF JIRA system and the default project choice so
often gets bug reports for other ASF projects. While the code is not
being actively developed there are still a few PMC members watching
the lists so i don't see any problems with keeping on in this quiet
state for the time being.
The last release was over one year ago, the last committer / PMC member
addition was Nov 2011.
No board issues.
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Attachment B: Report from the Apache Ambari Project [Yusaku Sako]
Apache Ambari simplifies provisioning, managing, and monitoring of Apache
Hadoop clusters.
Since the last report in May 2014, Ambari released 1.6.1 and 1.6.0 which
collectively included resolution of 896 JIRAs.
1.7.0 release is scheduled for next month.
Mailing Lists:
* user@ambari.apache.org: 246 subscribers (+34 since last report)
* dev@ambari.apache.org: 148 subscribers (+21 since last report)
Releases:
* 2014-07-16 1.6.1
* 2014-05-25 1.6.0
Committers:
* 2014-07-14 Added Jonathan Hurley
PMC:
* 2013-11-20 Added 37 initial PMC members upon establishing TLP
Issues:
* There are no board-level issues at this time.
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Attachment C: Report from the Apache Ant Project [Conor MacNeill]
Apache Ant is a Java based build tool along with associated tools. It
consists of 4 main projects:
- Ant core and libraries (Antlibs)
- 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 1.9.4 was released on May 5, 2014
Ivy
-------
Ivy 2.3.0 was released on January 21, 2013
Ivy-DE 2.2.0 was released on November 22, 2013
EasyAnt
-------------
The current release is still from the Incubator
0.9-Incubating.
o Migration to Git
The project migrated to git on May 23rd, 2014 without any major issues.
o Committers and PMC
Jean-Louis Boudart was added to the PMC on Dec 6th, 2013
Charles Duffy was made a committer on Dec 8th, 2013.
o Community
No issues.
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Attachment D: Report from the Apache Buildr Project [Alex Boisvert]
Apache Buildr is a Ruby-based build system for Java-based applications,
including support for Scala, Groovy and a growing number of JVM languages and
tools.
We've had 4 minor releases since our last board report in March: 1.4.16 (May
3rd), 1.4.17 (May 25th), 1.4.18 (June 24th), 1.4.19 (July 6th, just a
quick-fix release).
Development and community activity (mailing lists, bug reports, etc.) remains
relatively low. Our last committer/PMC change happened in October 2013.
We have no issues that require board attention.
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Attachment E: Report from the Apache Cassandra Project [Jonathan Ellis]
Cassandra is a distributed database providing massive scalability,
high performance, and high availability.
Releases:
2.0.8 29 May 2014
2.0.9 30 Jun 2014
1.2.17 30 Jun 2014
1.2.18 3 Jul 2014
2.1 rc1..rc6 May-Aug 2014
Development:
2.1 is feature complete with optimized repair [1] and off-heap
memtables [2] joining user-defined types [3] and collection indexing
[4]. Counters have been rewritten [5], and compaction has been tuned
to be page-cache-aware [6].
We have required more release candidates than expected. I believe
that this is due to increased efforts around QA rather than worse
code quality than previous releases.
Community:
Joshua McKenzie was added as committer on 29 Jul 2014.
Aleksey Yeshchenko was added as PMC member on August 7 2014.
P.S.: I apologize for the late report.
[1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-5351
[2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-6694
[3] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-5590
[4] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-4511
[5] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-6504
[6] http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/compaction-improvements-in-cassandra-21
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Attachment F: Report from the Apache Celix Project [Alexander Broekhuis]
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Attachment G: 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
Latest release (partial-release-20130710) was created on 10.07.2013
A new partial release candidate has been voted.
ACTIVITY
Various improvements and bug fixes in source codes including:
- Made SolutionMapping serializable (to improve integration
with Apache Wicket)
- Enabled fastlane SPARQL Update support for jena TDB provider
- Fixed various errors in Virtuoso Storage Provider
(rdf.virtuoso.storage) and added Virtuoso Storage to full-launcher
- Improved PlatformGraphNodeProvider to handle URIs without path
- Working on the new platform editor
- Created Jersey based JAX-RS Whiteboard support
- Moved TDB specific artifacts out of provisioning/rdf to a
new module: provisioning/rdf.tdb
- Used the release version of Apache Stanbol security modules
- Removed old ext.jena bundles and outdated platform.testing project
COMMUNITY
Latest change was addition of a new committer and PMC member on 16.08.2013
INFRASTRUCTURE
- The website still needs to be fixed (CLEREZZA-853).
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Attachment H: Report from the Apache Cocoon Project [Thorsten Scherler]
Apache Cocoon 3 is a major rewrite of Cocoon 2.2. Like Cocoon 2 it is based
around the concept of pipelines and sitemaps and it is very similar to Cocoon
2.2 in many respects but is slimmed down and designed to be easily used with
Java code (= no frameworks required!). On top of this, Cocoon 3 has the goal
of becoming the best available platform for RESTful webservices and web
applications.
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 had been lighter then the last quarter. Some
users asked about different issues in the different versions of cocoon.
Various devs attended the questions and provided solutions.
We had again problems with a jira spammer "ROY Assink" which open/comment/...
on issues with spam messages, different PMC member removed the comment and
reverted the doing. r.assink.ra@gmail.com is the mail and he now has opened
another account
https://mail-search.apache.org/members/private-arch/cocoon-private/201406.mbox
/%3C53AA6DB8.7010003@apache.org%3E we consulted infra whether there is
possibility to get his e-mail address permanently disabled but that is not
possible so we need to block the user every time new.
Releases
2.1 has been released on 2013/03/20.
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Attachment I: Report from the Apache Community Development Project [Luciano Resende]
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Attachment J: Report from the Apache Continuum Project [Brent Atkinson]
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.
Since last period, the project released Continuum 1.4.2 on June 13, 2014. Among
the changes was an important security fix addressing the previously reported
remote execution vulnerability.
Volume on the mailing lists and in the issue tracker was slightly higher than
the last few periods leading up to and immediately following the release of
1.4.2, but still low as expected.
There have been no new committers since last cycle. The last committer was
added December 8, 2010 and the last PMC member was added on September 2, 2012.
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Attachment K: Report from the Apache CouchDB Project [Jan Lehnardt]
Apache CouchDB is a database that uses JSON for documents, JavaScript
for MapReduce queries, and regular HTTP for an API.
Releases:
1.6.0 (2014-06-06)
http://www.apache.org/dist/couchdb/notes/1.6.0/apache-couchdb-1.6.0.html
Recent Activity:
- Bylaws passed
- Code of Conduct and Diversity Statement passed
- BigCouch merge in progress and testing phase
- New home of the CouchDB Blog is http://blog.couchdb.org
- Moving content form the old Moin Moin wiki to Cwiki and documentation in
progress
Community:
Including the following additions, CouchDB has 36 committers and 12 PMC members.
New committers:
- Lena Reinhard
New PMC members:
- Joan Touzet (most recent PMC addition from April 10th 2014)
Mailing list stats:
announce
- 187 subscribers (0)
- 1 message since May (0)
user
- 1368 subscribers (18)
- 321 messages since May (-429)
erlang
- 174 subscribers (+7)
- 1 messages since May (0)
replication
- 58 subscribers (+4)
- 11 messages since May (-42)
l10n
- 36 subscribers (0)
- 1 messages since May (-15)
marketing
- 36 subscribers (+5)
- 411 messages since May (+99)
dev
- 586 subscribers (-13)
- 1848 messages since May (-782)
commits
- 104 subscribers (0)
- 2174 messages since May (-481)
Board Issues:
We would like to see the board drive more standardized bylaws, community
guidelines, code of conduct and anti-discrimination policies across all
projects. We are able to share our experiences in building this for our
community.
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Attachment L: Report from the Apache Creadur Project [Robert Burrell Donkin]
Apache Creadur creates and maintains a suite of open source software
related to the auditing and comprehension of software distributions.
Any language and build system are welcomed.
Status
------
We failed to submit our report last time, but reported a month later (in June).
There has been quite a lot of activity in the project since our last
report, in all of our sub projects. There has been discussions around
platform and coding standards.
We have had one release candidate for Apache Rat 0.11, which
unfortunately failed. A second release candidate is currently being
voted on.
One person has volunteered to step up as PMC chair, but a vote for
this has not yet been started.
Community
---------
The last committer was elected in August, 2012.
In September 2013 Phil Ottlinger was elected to join the PMC.
Gavin McDonald has expressed that he wants to resign from the PMC, but
this request still needs to be processed. We will deal with this once
a new PMC chair is in place.
Releases
--------
No releases since last report.
Apache Rat 0.10 was released in September, 2013.
Community Objectives
--------------------
Release Apache Rat 0.11
Vote for a new PMC chair
Release Apache Whisker 0.1
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Attachment M: Report from the Apache DeltaSpike Project [Gerhard Petracek]
Apache DeltaSpike is a portable JSR-299 CDI
(Contexts and Dependency Injection for Java) Extension library
which contains lots of useful tools and helpers
which are missing in the CDI core spec.
DeltaSpike is not a CDI-container itself, but a portable
Extension library which can run on all CDI-containers!
DeltaSpike is tested and runs on many Java EE Servers like
Apache TomEE, Red Hat JBoss Application Server, JBoss Wildfly,
Oracle WebLogic, Oracle Glassfish, IBM WebSphere, and also on
simple Servlet containers like Apache Tomcat or Jetty in combination
with either JBoss Weld or Apache OpenWebBeans.
Community
----------------
* No new Committers (since May 2014)
* No new PMC Members (since May 2013)
We receive contributions from the community on a regular basis.
DeltaSpike was nominated for "Duke's Choice Award 2014".
Red Hat extended its support and donated some resources
of their documentation team to review and improve our documentation.
Releases
-------------
We finally agreed on releasing v1.
The adoption we have seen so far is exceptional.
* DeltaSpike 1.0.0 (14/June/14)
* DeltaSpike 1.0.1 (13/July/14)
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Attachment N: Report from the Apache DirectMemory Project [Raffaele P. Guidi]
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Attachment O: Report from the Apache Empire-db Project [Francis De Brabandere]
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Attachment P: 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
* Apache Etch 1.4.0 was released on August, 06 2014.
ACTIVITY
* We have had some new users on the lists but activity on the mailing list
is still rather low. In comparison with the last quarters more users and
developers are showing up on the mailing lists.
* We got some more patches for the cpp-binding from external contributors which
have been merged.
* Talk about an Internet of Things protocol based on Apache Etch has been
accepted for the ApacheCon EU in November.
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. We were able to get
exactly three binding PMC votes for the last release.
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Attachment Q: Report from the Apache Flume Project [Arvind Prabhakar]
DESCRIPTION
Apache Flume is a distributed, reliable, and available system for
efficiently collecting, aggregating, and moving large amounts of log
data to scalable data storage systems such as Apache Hadoop's HDFS.
RELEASES
* The last release of Flume was version 1.5.0.1, released on June
16, 2014.
* No further release is planned at this time.
CURRENT ACTIVITY
* A total of 14 issues have been filed, and 27 issues have been
resolved between the period starting May 4, 2014 and August 3,
2014.
* Approximately 617 messages were exchanged on the dev list in the
past three months, while a total of 248 were exchanged on the user
list in this period.
COMMUNITY
* Wolfgang Hoschek and Roshan Naik were added as committers to the
project on September 24, 2013.
* No new additions were made to the PMC on the project since it
graduated from Incubator.
* Discussions around organizing a Flume meetup in San Francisco
Bay Area are currently under way.
* Currently there are:
- Total of 243 subscribers to the developer list
- Total of 577 subscribers to the user list
- Total of 24 committers
- Total of 20 PMC members
ISSUES
* There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
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Attachment R: Report from the Apache Forrest Project [David Crossley]
Apache Forrest mission is software for generation of aggregated multi-channel
documentation maintaining a separation of content and presentation.
Issues needing board attention:
None.
Changes in the PMC membership:
None.
Last modified: 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.
No activity on the user mail list.
The only activity on the dev mail list was one PMC member attending to an
alert from our Gump server. Another PMC member (not the chair) forwarded
the ApacheCon CFP.
The Chair replied to feedback from the previous Board report, and included
the private@f.a.o list (see 2014-05-22).
At this quarter, four other PMC members responded to my draft report.
This confirms that there are sufficient people hanging around for us to
potentially be able to make a decision or encourage new contributors.
Project status:
Idle. 3+ people have indicated presence, so has sufficient oversight.
Security issues reported:
None.
Progress of the project:
Clarified some project notes about the PMC member election process to
reflect recent changes. Thanks again sebb.
Enable 'java' to be found on a modern Mac.
Fixed the Lucene search results to properly show the "note" when zero hits
are returned.
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Attachment S: Report from the Apache Giraph Project [Avery Ching]
Giraph is a Bulk Synchronous Parallel framework for writing programs
that analyze large graphs on a Hadoop cluster. Giraph is similar to
Google's Pregel system.
Project releases
1.1.0 - We have continued delayed this release until Roman finds some time to
work on it.
Overall project activity since the last report
The project continues to develop at a steady rate. We have added Phabricator
support for increasing the number of review tools available.
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
Our status is the same as the last report. Maja Kabiljo became a PMC member
here on 4/22/2014. Pavan Kumar became a committer on 4/22/2014. I think we
are getting closer to adding a new committer in the near future (i.e. by the
next report).
New community development
Apache Giraph was presented by Claudio Martella in June at
http://2014.budapestdwforum.com/. We will also be presenting in
http://extremecomputingtraining.anl.gov/curriculum/agenda2014/.
Mailing list members
We continue to see steady mailing list growth.
user@ 418 -> 429
dev@ 242 -> 250
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Attachment T: Report from the Apache Gora Project [Lewis John McGibbney]
The Apache Gora open source framework provides an in-memory data model and
persistence for big data. Gora supports persisting to column stores, key
value stores, document stores and RDBMSs, and analyzing the data with
extensive Apache Hadoop MapReduce support.
Project Releases
The last release of Gora (0.4) was on 24th April, 2014.
Overall Project Activity since last report
Has been quite steady this quarter with mailing list activity
remaining on dev@. We have had contributions from new community
members and also some discussion on list about moving on with
the 0.5 release. We also added support for both MongoDB and
and Apache Camel.
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
Damien Raude-Morvan was elected as PMC member and committer
on 2014-08-03 (yyyy-mm-dd). The NOTICE thread has been passed
to the board and we look forward to formally inviting Damien
very soon.
How has the community developed since the last report?
Since last reporting Gora has been present at the HBase
London Meetup where various community members were able
to present Gora developments. In addition, Gora now features
in the DARPA Open Catalog therefore a number of new community
mambers have been recruited there due to increased promotion
of both Gora and Apache technologies in general.
Mailing list members are as follows
user@: from 62 --> 64
dev@: from 74 --> 74
commits@ from 26 --> 27
Changes to PMC & Committers
We hope that Damien will join us as stated above.
We are currently awaiting the 72 hour Board NOTICE period
before we attempt to invite him.
PMC and Committer diversity
We currently have committers from a wide variety of Apache projects
including, Nutch, Tika, OODT, Camel, Solr, Accumulo, Whirr, Hadoop,
Any23, Climate & HBase (this is not an exhaustive list). We also have
committers from many other projects outside of Apache.
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Attachment U: Report from the Apache Hama Project [ChiaHung Lin]
Apache Hama is a 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
--------------
Refactoring for fault tolerance is still in progress.
New users are helping improve web UI, and RPC performance.
Community
---------
The last PMC addition: Aug 4, 2013
The last committer addition: 13 Jun, 2014
Community Objectives
--------------------
Before moving to 1.x, fault tolerance would be the main objective goal.
Releases
--------
The last release of Hama (0.6.4) was on 5th March 2014.
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Attachment V: Report from the Apache Hive Project [Carl Steinbach]
DESCRIPTION
Apache Hive is a data warehouse written on top of Apache Hadoop. It
provides SQL to query and manage data (in the form of tables and
partitions stored in HDFS or external systems) and provides a
metastore containing metadata information about the stored data.
RELEASES
* The last release of Apache Hive was version 0.13.1, released on
June 7, 2014.
* Work on the upcoming 0.14.0 release has begun.
COMMUNITY
* Development activity continues as can be seen from the following
report: http://s.apache.org/xE
* A Hive User Group meeting was held on March 17th at Hortonworks'
office in Palo Alto.
* Gopal Vijayaraghavan, Szehon Ho, Prasanth J, Vaibhav Gumashta,
Alan Gates, Daniel Dai, and Sushanth Sowmyan were voted in as
committers. The most recent addition was made on June 27th.
* Currently there are:
- 713 subscribers to the developer list
- 1860 subscribers to the user list
- 15 committers
- 17 PMC members
- 6 Emeritus PMC members
BRANDING CHECKLIST
We have created HIVE-2432 to track this, with sub-tasks corresponding
to each item.
* Project Website Basics: [DONE]
* Project Naming And Descriptions: [DONE]
* Website Navigation Links: [IN PROGRESS]
* Trademark Attributions: [IN PROGRESS]
* Logos and Graphics: [DONE]
* Project Metadata: [DONE]
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Attachment W: Report from the Apache HTTP Server Project [Eric Covener]
Project Description
===================
The Apache HTTP Server Project develops and maintains 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
========
We've had one maintenance release of our latest branch in the current
reporting period. The only other in-service release,
2.2.x, is anticipated to be released soon.
* 2.4.10 : Released on July 21, 2014
Bug reports
===========
Encountered 143 bugs, 57 new and 40 closed/fixed
Community
=====================
* Several PMC members volunteered to go emeritus this period:
orlikowski,nlehuen,marc,grisha,jgallacher
* The PMC voted to move a number of inactive members to emeritus
status. Full details are in a resolution in the same agenda as
this report
* No other committer or PMC roster changes this reporting period.
* Date of last new committer : February 2014 (Yann Ylavic)
* Date of last new PMC member: July 2013 (Ben Reser)
Overall development activity continues to slow, with the focus on
the maintenance of 2.4.x which is making its way into various
httpd distributions.
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Attachment X: Report from the Apache HttpComponents Project [Asankha Perera]
The Apache HttpComponents project is responsible for creating and maintaining
a toolset of low level Java components focused on HTTP and associated
protocols.
Status
Overall the project remains active.
Releases
HttpClient 4.3.4 GA was released on the 6th of June 2014
HttpCore 4.4-alpha1 was released on the 18th of June 2014
HttpClient 4.4-alpha1 was released on the 1st of July 2014
HttpClient 4.3.5 GA was released on the 10th of August 2014
HttpAsyncClient 4.0.2 GA was released on the 10th of August 2014
Community
The community remains small but active, but has good user interaction on the
mailing lists
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Attachment Y: Report from the Apache Incubator Project [Roman Shaposhnik]
The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and codebases
wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.
There are 32 podlings under incubation this month. No projects are currently
voting on graduation. The incubator added Argus and REEF as new incubating
projects. Blur, DeviceMap, HDT, Metamodel, Slider, and Tez all had releases
since the last report.
* Community
New IPMC members:
Jan Iversen
People who left the IPMC:
* New Podlings
Argus
REEF
* Graduations
The board has motions for the following:
N/A - included in last month.
* Releases
The following releases were made since the last Incubator report:
Apache Tez-0.4.1-incubating RC0
Apache Slider 0.40-incubating RC0
Apache Blur 0.2.3-incubating RC2
Apache Metamodel incubating 4.2.0
Apache DeviceMap BrowserMap incubating 1.4.1
Apache HDT version 0.0.2.incubating (RC1)
* IP Clearance
Brooklyn CAMP Server
Sling Query contribution
BigCouch updates to Apache CouchDB
* Legal / Trademarks
It is unclear whether Blur can get the Trademark assign document
provided by trademarks@ signed by Near Infinity. The company no
longer exists.
* Infrastructure
* Miscellaneous
-------------------- Summary of podling reports --------------------
* Still getting started at the Incubator
Argus
Parquet
Optiq
Sirona
Twill
* Not yet ready to graduate
No release:
Brooklyn
Fleece
Flink
Parquet
Community growth:
BatchEE
Blur
Hadoop Development Tools
NPanday
ODF Toolkit
Sirona
Slider
Twill
* Require Mentors/IPMC intervention
Droids
Kalumet
* Ready to graduate
The Board has motions for the following:
(none)
* Did not report, expected next month
(none)
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Table of Contents
Argus
BatchEE
Blur
Brooklyn
Droids
Fleece
Flink
Hadoop Development Tools
Kalumet
NPanday
ODF Toolkit
Optiq
Parquet
Sirona
Slider
Twill
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--------------------
Argus
The Argus project is a framework to enable, monitor and manage comprehensive
data security across the Hadoop platform.
Argus has been incubating since 2014-07-24.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Get all podling committers and mentors on mailing lists
2. Publish initial code drop along with a code grant
3. Get approval for name of Argus (PODLINGNAMESEARCH-54)
4. Create a project website
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
As part of the discussion about entering incubator, we added a second
mentor (Daniel Gruno) from outside of Hortonworks.
How has the community developed since the last report?
* podling accepted into incubator
* all committers have ICLA filed and accounts created
* Jira created
* status page created
* git repostiory created
* mailing lists created
How has the project developed since the last report?
This is the first report.
Date of last release:
none yet
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
none yet
Signed-off-by:
[X](argus) Alan Gates
[ ](argus) Daniel Gruno
[X](argus) Devaraj Das
[X](argus) Jakob Homan
[X](argus) Owen O'Malley
--------------------
BatchEE
BatchEE projects aims to provide a JBatch implementation (JSR-352) and a
set of useful extensions for this specification.
BatchEE has been incubating since 2013-10-03.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Increase community (surely implies communication)
2. Do more release (in progress)
3. Improve our documentation
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 start to get some interesting "real life" user feedbacks (mainly through
JIRA).
How has the project developed since the last report?
Mainly bugfixes and some feature enhancement (goal is stability and ease of
use).
Date of last release:
2014-04-01
We are currently preparing for a new release.
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
Signed-off-by:
[ ](batchee) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
[ ](batchee) Olivier Lamy
[X](batchee) Mark Struberg
--------------------
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. It is unclear if we can get the Trademark assign document provided by
trademarks@ signed by Near Infinity. The company no longer exists.
2.
3.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
Other than the issue with the Trademark assignment listed above, no.
How has the community developed since the last report?
We continue to be small but active.
- Subscriptions: user@ - 61[+7]; dev@ - 67[+6]
How has the project developed since the last report?
Apache Blur has released a stable version and has started development of
a new feature set that should help grow the adoption of the technology.
This new feature set is being driven through community interaction and
development.
Date of last release:
2014-07-29
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
2014-07-28
Signed-off-by:
[ ](blur) Doug Cutting
[X](blur) Patrick Hunt
[X](blur) Tim Williams
--------------------
Brooklyn
Brooklyn is a framework for modelling, monitoring, and managing
applications through autonomic blueprints.
Brooklyn has been incubating since 2014-05-01.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Performing our first release under Apache
2. Grow the community
3. More diversity of the committers/PPMC (currently biased towards
employees of a single organisation)
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?
No major changes - the community is still small, but is attracting a
new names on the mailing list and IRC channel, including some code
contributions.
How has the project developed since the last report?
Development is in full progress and we have settled in to our new
home at the Incubator, and are preparing to make our first release.
Date of last release:
No releases under Apache yet.
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
No change since last report, when two new committers/PPMC members
joined (2014-07-02)
Signed-off-by:
[ ](brooklyn) Matt Hogstrom
[ ](brooklyn) Alex Karasulu
[ ](brooklyn) David Nalley
[ ](brooklyn) Marcel Offermans
[ ](brooklyn) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
[ ](brooklyn) Olivier Lamy
[ ](brooklyn) Chip Childers
[ ](brooklyn) Andrei Savu
[X](brooklyn) Joe Brockmeier
[ ](brooklyn) Jim Jagielski
--------------------
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
2. Name Search
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
None. The previous goal of conducting the name search was not met due to
time availability. Outlook is much more promising this quarter.
How has the community developed since the last report?
No change. Name search is one big outstanding piece to complete, and it is
rather intimidating. It is hoped that one of the more experienced individuals
will have time to complete it this quarter. That should help with
participation once the final name is known.
How has the project developed since the last report?
No change.
Date of last release:
2012-10-15
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
2012-05-07
Signed-off-by:
[x](droids) Thorsten Scherler
[X](droids) Richard Frovarp
--------------------
Fleece
Implementation of JSR 353: JavaTM API for JSON Processing.
Fleece has been incubating since 2014-06-09.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Rename the project due to naming conflicts with "Fleece".
Proposed name is "Johnzon".
2. Expanding the community, increase dev list activity and adding
new committers.
3. Publish first incubator release.
The Fleece project status page at http://incubator.apache.org/projects/fleece
needs updating but that would be pending on #1 due to many items on the
status-page need to be re-visited once #1 is settled.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
* Project have to be renamed because of naming conflicts with "Fleece".
* Waiting for https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PODLINGNAMESEARCH-53
How has the community developed since the last report?
* There have been several patches submitted from a current non-committer
and we’re hoping to be able to mentor that person toward becoming a
committer.
How has the project developed since the last report?
* Several issues were reported an fixed (mainly core performance and
API compliance enhancements).
* Lots of new unittests added.
Date of last release:
* No releases as of yet.
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
* N/A
Signed-off-by:
[X](fleece) Justin Mclean
[ ](fleece) Christian Grobmeier
[X](fleece) Daniel Kulp
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
Mailing list is active, all seems to be normal and ok.
--------------------
Flink
Flink is an open source system for expressive, declarative, fast, and
efficient data analysis. Flink combines the scalability and programming
flexibility of distributed MapReduce-like platforms with the efficiency,
out-of-core execution, and query optimization capabilities found in parallel
databases. Flink was originally known as Stratosphere when it entered the
Incubator.
Flink has been incubating since 2014-04-14.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. First incubator release
2. Continue with community growth
3. More comfortable with ASF policies and processes
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?
One new committer has been accepted into the project.
We received a large external code contribution and pending reviews.
The project started a bi-weekly Hangout.
How has the project developed since the last report?
The project has moved all infrastructure to Apache,
the source code has been renamed to the "org.apache.flink" namespace.
We are finalizing the preparations for the first Incubator release
Date of last release:
2014-05-31 (no incubator release yet)
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
2014-07-10
Signed-off-by:
[ ](flink) Sean Owen
[ ](flink) Ted Dunning
[ ](flink) Owen O'Malley
[X](flink) Henry Saputra
[ ](flink) Ashutosh Chauhan
--------------------
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. Build Community
2. Get more 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?
- 133 mails exchanged on mailing list
How has the project developed since the last report?
- Migrated all the existing functionality from master which enabled us for
next release.
- Released 0.0.2 incubating
Date of last release:
- July'2014
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
- November 2013
Signed-off-by:
[ ](hadoopdevelopmenttools) Suresh Marru
[ ](hadoopdevelopmenttools) Chris Mattmann
[X](hadoopdevelopmenttools) Roman Shaposhnik
--------------------
Kalumet
Kalumet a complete environment manager and deployer including J2EE
environments (application servers, applications, etc), softwares, and
resources.
Kalumet has been incubating since 2011-09-20.
Community Developement:
Apache Kalumet 0.6-incubating version has been released.
However, due to some misunderstanding, the release vote has not been
completed by 3 IPMC. Especially, some legal files issues have been raised.
We are preparing a 0.6.1-incubating release to fix the legal files and
submit to IPMC vote. We are in the way of promoting the documentation
on the website.
Project Development:
We are preparing the 0.6.1-incubating (plan for July, 14) to fix the
legal files issues raised on 0.6-incubating release and have a complete
IPMC vote.
We are preparing the 0.7-incubating release with the development changes.
Local branches have been created containing:
- new model and REST API
- new webconsole (remove of Echo framework)
These local branches will be merged on the 0.7-incubating branch (master).
Before Graduation:
- The documentation has been updated and aligned with the 0.6-incubating
release. The documentation will be promoted on the website and "linked"
in announcement e-mails as soon as the 0.6.1-incubating release has
been voted.
- The 0.7-incubating release will fix the graduation issue, especially
in term of license (removal of Echo2 framework for the UI).
Post Graduation:
- Kalumet scripts. It's the extension of the "software" concept
globally to all Kalumet resources. It will allow users to create custom
deployment/update plan, with a set of fine-grained steps.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of:
None so far.
Date of last release:
2013-11-22
Date of next release:
2014-08-24
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
None
Signed-off-by:
[ ](kalumet) Jim Jagielski
[ ](kalumet) Henri Gomez
[X](kalumet) Jean-Baptiste Onofre
[ ](kalumet) Olivier Lamy
--------------------
NPanday
NPanday allows projects using the .NET framework to be built with Apache
Maven.
NPanday has been incubating since 2010-08-13.
Since the last report in July:
- the build issues on the Windows Jenkins slaves were resolved
- further JIRA issues have been cleaned up to prepare for the release
- Konstantin Boudnik was formally added as a mentor for the project
While some progress was made towards getting the release out, there is
still more work to do as time allows.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Ship the changes on trunk as a release and make it easier for new
users to get up to speed when interested in the project
2. Get a critical mass of committers/PPMC members that can respond to
contributors, apply patches, nominate committers, and vote on releases
3. Provide guidance on how to get involved in contributing
The incubator is already aware of the low level of activity, that many of
the PPMC are now disengaged. There continues to be interest in a new
release from users, and new interest from some in making contributions that
continue to be followed up.
Date of last release:
2011-05-16
The last committer was added on 2011-04-19. There have not been any PPMC
additions since inception.
Signed-off-by:
[ ](npanday) Raphael Bircher
[X](npanday) Konstantin Boudnik
--------------------
ODF Toolkit
Java modules that allow programmatic creation, scanning and manipulation of
OpenDocument Format (ISO/IEC 26300 == ODF) documents
ODF Toolkit has been incubating since 2011-08-01.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Grow the community in terms of committers
2. Have regular releases
3. Decide if we would like to be a top level project or join an existing
project
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
How has the community developed since the last report?
We issued a "call for volunteers" to our users list and got a good
response: http://s.apache.org/4Vx
Of course, it will be easier to grow the community if we can reliably
conduct a release vote.
How has the project developed since the last report?
2014-06-02 - ODF Toolkit 0.6.1-incubating available
Date of last release:
2014-06-02
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
2012-10-29
Signed-off-by:
[ ](odftoolkit) Sam Ruby
[ ](odftoolkit) Nick Burch
[ ](odftoolkit) Yegor Kozlov
[x](odftoolkit) Rob Weir
--------------------
Optiq
Optiq is a highly customizable engine for parsing and planning queries on
data in a wide variety of formats. It allows database-like access, and in
particular a SQL interface and advanced query optimization, for data not
residing in a traditional database.
Optiq has been incubating since 2014-05-19.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Migrate fully to Apache infrastructure (next: web site and
nightly builds).
2. Re-organize code into org.apache.optiq namespace.
3. Regular releases.
4. Build an ASF 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?
We have added our first post-incubation committer, Vladimir
Sitnikov.
We are planning our first hackathon.
There have been community discussions about the goals for a future
1.0 release, in particular whether the project should be reorganized
to allow projects to use the optimizer core without using SQL parser
and code-generation facilities.
How has the project developed since the last report?
Adopting Apache infrastructure:
* Gained access to Nexus and started publishing (on-demand, not
nightly) snapshot builds.
* Web site in progress.
Working on first release under the Apache incubator,
apache-optiq-0.9.0-incubating.
Date of last release:
No releases yet under the Incubator.
Last unofficial release was optiq-0.8, on 2014-06-27.
First official release is imminent.
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
Vladimir Sitnikov, elected committer on 2014-07-15.
Signed-off-by:
[x](optiq) Ted Dunning
[X](optiq) Alan Gates
[x](optiq) Steven Noels
--------------------
Parquet
Parquet is a columnar storage format for Hadoop.
Parquet has been incubating since 2014-05-20.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Expanding the community and adding new committers
2. 1st release
3. Identifying how to ensure timely code reviews by committers
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
None at this time
Latest Additions:
* PMC addition: N/A
* Contributor addition: N/A
Issue backlog status since last report:
* Created: 60
* Resolved: 17
Mailing list activity since last report:
* dev 212 messages
How has the project developed since the last report?
* New commit workflow has been documented and commits have been
increasing using the commit script.
* Project website is posted: parquet.incubator.apache.org, working on
moving more content from github hosting
* Moved to issues.apache.org for all new issues
* Planning first release of parquet-format and parquet-mr. Using
parquet-format release to identify steps needed to release the
larger projects (e.g., parquet-mr)
* Adding documentation on reviews and contacts for specific modules
Signed-off-by:
[X](parquet) Jake Farrell
[ ](parquet) Chris Mattmann
[ ](parquet) Roman Shaposhnik
[X](parquet) Tom White
[X](parquet) Todd Lipcon
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
Mailing list has a healthy traffic, mostly bug reports. Mentors are
active and participating in the community.
--------------------
Sirona
Monitoring Solution.
Sirona has been incubating since 2013-10-15.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. need to increse contributor number
2.
3.
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?
Not a lot since last report as the project was a bit quiet.
Mainly some real usage feedbacks
How has the project developed since the last report?
A release has been cutted and some discussion on reworking the ui.
We felt holidays but some new features are expected soon (path tracking
for instance)
Date of last release:
2014-06-26
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
Signed-off-by:
[x](sirona) Olivier Lamy
[ ](sirona) Henri Gomez
[X](sirona) Jean-Baptiste Onofre
[ ](sirona) Tammo van Lessen
[ ](sirona) Mark Struberg
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
Traffic on the list is light. There was a recent release, using new rules
it looks like. I'm concerned over volume and availability of core devs.
--------------------
Slider
Slider is a collection of tools and technologies to package, deploy, and
manage long running applications on Apache Hadoop YARN clusters.
Slider has been incubating since 2014-04-29.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Building a user community
2. Getting those users to contribute their work back
3. Improving the application to make it easier to use
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're getting some independent users/developers on our list, including some
initial minor contributions and some bug reports. As an example, we have
some contributed logos ... which is now going to trigger a competition/vote
for a slider logo.
The main external developer adoption is not in actual contributions for the
core slider engine, but from a few people writing slider application-
packages to deploy their own applications. This is a good first step -
we have to work with them to get them through this process, note and
address issues they have -as well as encouraging them to contribute a bit
themselves. There's a tradeoff there: we don't want to dismiss all issues
with "file a patch with the JIRA" -maybe there's an intermediate step of
"let's work on this, can you take this branch and verify it works for you?"
How has the project developed since the last report?
1. We're still fast-iterating through releases.
2. We're testing slider against the forthcoming Hadoop 2.5 release, to
help validate that release.
3. We're debating when - in August - to make the leap to only building
against Hadoop 2.6
The switch to 2.6 will mean that this code would be developer only, as it
would only work against non-production Hadoop clusters. Yet we need this
for the forthcoming features: the Credential provider, service registry,
Yarn node labeling and other features we need to integrate with.
That's a fairly exclusionary move for potential users: the current plan is
to make a release in sync with Hadoop 2.5, which will be the last Hadoop
2.4/2.5 compatible version. Yet it not only gives us those new features,
it helps tune those features and find bugs in their implementation. As an
example, one fix in Hadoop 2.4 is related to an Application Master failure
and restart problem which we'd found, a problem which, if we'd switched to
Hadoop 2.4-SNAPSHOT earlier, would have been found and fixed in the 2.4
release.
Date of last release:
2014-07-21
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
2014-05
Signed-off-by:
[ ](slider) Arun C Murthy
[ ](slider) Devaraj Das
[X](slider) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
[ ](slider) Mahadev Konar
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Twill
Twill is an abstraction over Apache Hadoop® YARN to reduce the complexity of
developing distributed applications.
Twill has been incubating since 2013-11-14.
Top three items to resolve before graduation:
- More committers from different organizations.
- Regular Releases.
- Increase adoption.
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?
- 22 new JIRA issues filed since last report (2014-05-01)
- 13 JIRA issues resolved since last report (2014-05-01)
- Subscribers to the dev list up from 44 in May to 52 in August.
- 5 new contributors since last report.
How has the project developed since the last report?
- Version 0.3.0-incubating RC1 being voted upon
Date of last release:
- 2014-04-22: 0.2.0-incubating
What are the plans for the next period?
- Increase release frequency
- Engage active contributors and identify potential committers
- Improve documentation and website
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
- No new committers since incubation.
Signed-off-by:
[ ](twill) Arun C Murthy
[X](twill) Tom White
[X](twill) Patrick Hunt
[ ](twill) Andrei Savu
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Attachment Z: Report from the Apache jUDDI Project [Alex O'Ree]
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).
Issues
There are no issues that require the board's attention at this time.
Releases
There were no releases this period.
jUDDI
- Very low traffic on the mailing lists this quarter.
- Website is transitioned to CMS: http://juddi.apache.org/
Scout
- No release this period, no development took place.
- Very low volume of JAXR related questions on the mailing list.
Community Activity
- Last PMC addition and new committer April 3, 2013 (Alex O'Ree)
- Last Release jUDDI-3.2.0, Feb 5, 2014
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Attachment AA: Report from the Apache Kafka Project [Jun Rao]
Apache Kafka is a distributed pub/sub system for efficiently collecting and
delivering a large number of messages to both offline and online systems.
Development
===========
We continue to stablize two main features for the 0.8.2 release. The first one
is Kafka-based offset management, which allows consumer offsets to be stored
in a more scalable way. The second one is the new producer, which provides
better performance and a cleaner api. We expect to release 0.8.2 in a month or
two. We also finalized the api and the design for the new consumer and started
the development. This feature is intended for the 0.9.0 release.
Community
===========
Lots of activities in the mailing list. kafka-user has 422, 560, 429 emails in
May, June and July, respectively (up from 388 in Apr). kafka-dev has 789, 610,
1357 emails in May, June and July (sligtly higher than 1272 in Apr). We had a
Kafka meetup in June. We last elected two committers in Oct. 2013 and are
actively grooming new potential committers.
Releases
===========
0.8.1 was released on Mar 21, 2014 and 0.8.1.1 was released on Apr 29, 2014.
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Attachment AB: Report from the Apache Knox Project [Kevin Minder]
# Description
The Knox Gateway is a REST API gateway for securing Hadoop REST APIs at the
perimeter.
# Issues
None
# Status
* Graduation approved by board February 19, 2014
* Completed tasks required of graduating projects
* Completed first TLP release
* Beginning discussions on next release
# Releases
* 0.4.0: 2014-04-21
* 0.3.0: 2013-10-13 (Incubating)
# Development Activity
* Community is discussing the creation of the next release
* Jira: 301 total, +44 -32 (last 90 days)
* Git (Source): 52 commits over last 90 days
* SVN (Site & Docs): 0 commits over last 90 days
# Community Activity
## Contributors Added
* 2 new contributors engaged with multiple patches contributed.
## Membership Changes
* Chris Douglas has requested to have his status changed to a Mentor Emeritus
which we accept with great appreciation for his contributions
## Mailing List Activity
* user@knox: 23 messages over last 90 days
* dev@knox: 419 messages over last 90 days
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Attachment AC: 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
Community:
Last change to community was PMC addition in October 2011.
Activity:
Another quarter of no activity. Enough PMC members to remain viable.
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Attachment AD: 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 0.15.0 was released on June 26th, 2014
- Libcloud 0.15.1 was released on July 10th, 2014
Community
- No new committers or PMC members have joined the team.
- Latest PMC addition - Sebastien Goasguen (sebgoa) on February 17th, 2014
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Attachment AE: 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.
Currently there are no issues, which require the board’s attention.
- Community
Log4j 2 remains a very active project. The overall
community is healthy and friendly. Log4j 2.0 has finally been
released. Sally was so kind to support us with crafting a
press release statement.
Log4cxx is still active at the Incubator.
A new Chainsaw release is currently blocked by this Infra-Ticket
(open since Oct 2011):
* https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-3991
In general, all subprojects are healthy.
- Project Branding Requirements
All components meet the branding requirements, except Chainsaw.
We will fix the branding with the next release.
- Last three community changes
* Bruce Brouwer joined as a Committer on May 16 2014
* Matt Sicker joined as a Committer on Mar 01 2014.
* Nick Williams joined the PMC on Feb 19 2014.
- Releases
* Log4j 2.0.1 (Aug 05, 2014)
* Log4j 2.0 GA (Jul 17, 2014)
* Log4j 2.0 RC2 (Jun 25, 2014)
- Subproject summaries
Log4j 2: Very active.
Log4j 1: No activity. A CVE was opened but hasn't been fixed yet.
Log4net: Almost no activity, but questions on the mailing lists are answered.
Log4cxx: Very active in the Incubator.
Log4php: Less activity.
Chainsaw: The ticket INFRA-3991 is blocking a new release:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-3991
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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 seven major releases, including a 1.6 release on April 30,
2014, and a point release 1.6.1 on Jun 1, 2014. The next major release is
scheduled for August 31, 2014.
Committers and PMC membership
=============================
The last committer and PMC member we signed up was Muhammed Olgun (molgun), on
May 31, 2014. We also voted in another committer, Mingchun Zhao (mingchun),
on the same day.
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, and the
connector family continues to grow. Dev list comments for this period
centered around voting for the major d1.6 release, people looking for
integration advice, etc.
Committer and external contributions have been significant this cycle. I am
unaware of any mailing-list question that has gone unanswered.
Outstanding issues
==================
None known.
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 Marmotta Project [Jakob Frank]
Apache Marmotta, an Open Platform for Linked Data.
Apache Marmotta was founded in December 2012 and has graduated from
the Incubator in November 2013.
In May 2014, Apache Marmotta v3.2.1 was released.
After a very busy April, the development activity has dropped in the
last quarter. On the other hand, July was a very busy month on the
users list with several inquiries from new members of the user
community. Questions are answered timely, mostly by the core dev-team.
W3C has published LDP 1.0 as Candidate Recommendation, the Marmotta
community is actively developing the official test suite at GitHub,
early testing Marmotta with the goal of having listed our platform as
reference implementation of LDP 1.0.
GSoC 2014 is progressing according to the plan. It looks our student
will meet all goals of the project. We hope to keep him engaged within
the community, as he showed some good evidences in this regard.
Subscribers to the projects mailing list:
dev@marmotta.a.o: 76 subscribers (+6 since last report, 2014-05)
users@marmotta.a.o: 83 subscribers (+7 since last report, 2014-05)
Releases
2014-05-20 (3.2.1)
2014-04-09 (3.2.0)
Committers & PMC
Peter Ansell (committer&PMC, 2013-06-24)
Raffaele Palmieri (committer&PMC, 2013-05-21)
Issues for the Board
There are no Board-level issues at this time.
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Attachment AH: Report from the Apache Mesos Project [Benjamin Hindman]
Apache Mesos is a cluster manager that provides resource sharing and
isolation across cluster applications.
## General ##
The state of the project seems healthy, about a release a month has
been made since the last board report and continued increase in
contributors and committers. See the comments below in Community about
MesosCon as well!
## Releases ##
* Apache Mesos 0.18.1 (2014-04-29)
* Apache Mesos 0.18.2 (2014-05-13)
* Apache Mesos 0.19.0 (2014-06-04)
* Apache Mesos 0.19.1 (2014-07-14)
* Apache Mesos 0.20.0 (RC1 out on 2014-08-16)
## Community ##
* Added 3 new committers and PMC members:
Adam Bordelon (me) on 2014-06-11
Dominic Hamon (dma) on 2014-07-07
Tim St Clair (tstclair) on 2014-07-31
* 321/284 created/resolved JIRA issues in last 90 days.
* 93/83 created/resolved JIRA issues in last 30 days.
* 575 messages to user@mesos.apache.org (May - August), with 6,388
messages to dev@mesos.apache.org and 1,202 messages to
issues@mesos.apache.org (we recently split out emails from JIRA).
* We now have Mesos User Groups (MUGs) in London and Paris! Paris is
hosting their first meetup in September. The SF MUG hosted a
meetup in August at Pinterest as well.
* We've planned a small conference co-located with LinuxCon called
MesosCon which will be held on August 21, 2014 with an
accompanying hackathon on August 22, 2014 in Chicago, IL. Through
working with Apache and the Linux Foundation we were able to
secure 6 sponsors other than Apache (Twitter, Atlassian,
Mesosphere, Ebay, Hubspot, and Red Hat) and have speakers from
companies like Google, Airbnb, Netflix, Ebay/Paypal, etc. We're
really excited for the event!
## Issues ##
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
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Attachment AI: Report from the Apache ODE Project [Tammo van Lessen]
Apache ODE (Orchestration Director Engine) executes business processes
written following the WS-BPEL standard. It talks to web services, sending
and receiving messages, handling data manipulation and error recovery as
described by your process definition. It supports both long and short
living process executions to orchestrate all the services that are part of
your application.
STATUS
Although this reporting period was rather quiet, we made some progress
towards a 1.3.7 release. We brought a couple of improvements into the code
base, which fix some bugs, improved the build/ci system etc. Unfortunately
we had to fail one of two GSOC students because a lack of dedication or
skills. The other student, Fang Zhen, is making very good progress and
came up with a decent solution for one of your major issues, the OModel
serialization problem. We're looking forward to merge his work soon into
trunk and make a beta release from that. The goal to end the 1.3.x stream
and continue with trunk, which allows us again to add new features.
We expect to cut a 1.3.7 release within the next reporting period.
RELEASE
No releases in this reporting period.
DEVELOPMENT
The development in this period focussed on bug fixing and some
infrastructure improvements. Also our GSOC student Fang Zhen turned out
to be skilled developer and is developing a major contribution for ODE.
COMMUNITY
Nothing important to report. Last committer was added on Dec 10, 2012,
last PMC member was added on Jun 28, 2013.
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Attachment AJ: Report from the Apache Oltu Project [Antonio Sanso]
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 1.0 was released on March 3rd.
CURRENT ACTIVITY
The core part of the project related to 'The OAuth 2.0 Authorization
Framework' (RFC 6749) is pretty stable due the fact RFC 6749 is now a
standard.
A stable version 1.0 was released on March 3rd. The current focus is on
extending the coverage for the IETF JOSE specifications e.g. JWS, JWE (that
are strictly correlated to OAuth 2).
Users activity is growing slowly but steadily (the user@ mailing list has got
new messages from new users). We got some feedback from some users about our
not too clear documentation.
Hence we are planning to improve this area.
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 AK: Report from the Apache Onami Project [Simone Tripodi]
Apache Onami is a project focused on the development and maintenance
of a set of Google Guice extensions not provided out of the box by the
library itself nor the Google developers team, such as integration
with 3rd part frameworks or extra functionalities.
MILESTONES
Onami-Persist 1.0.0 has been released
CURRENT ACTIVITY
Many Onamy-Lifecycle issues resolved, development is going ahead to cut the
first release.
COMMUNITY
PMC composition has changed by inviting Stephan Classen as a new member.
PMC is discussing the election of a new PMC Chair - and related policy to
rotate chairs.
Users community is quite silent.
ISSUES
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time
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Attachment AL: Report from the Apache Oozie Project [Mohammad Islam]
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
* No new release since last report. Next Apache Oozie version (4.1.0) is
actively WIP
CURRENT ACTIVITY
* Development activity continues as can be seen from the
following JIRA report: http://s.apache.org/EVK (since
last report, 14th May 2014)
COMMUNITY
* PMC added 1 new PMC member since last report.
* Committers composition has changed since last report. PMC added 2 new
committers.
* Currently there are:
- Total of 397 (+29) subscribers to the user list
- Total of 128 (+5) subscribers to the developer list
- Total of 17 committers (+2)
- Total of 13 PMC members (+1)
ISSUES
* There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
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Attachment AM: Report from the Apache Open Climate Workbench Project [Michael James Joyce]
Apache Open Climate Workbench is a tool for scalable comparison of remote
sensing observations to climate model outputs.
Project Activity:
OCW development has remained steady since the last board report. We are
currently rolling our 0.4 release. We have had a vote for RC1 but decided
there were issues to be addressed first. RC2 should be ready for voting soon.
We have seen an increase in user activity and questions on the lists. We have
also seen some PMC members who have been inactive for some time start coming
back and participating on discussions on the list and JIRA tickets.
We added a new committer and PMC member, Lewis John McGibbney in the last
reporting period. He has been a huge asset to the team already and we look
forward to future contributions from him.
Paul Ramirez, Huikyo Lee, and Paul Loikith presented on OCW at the
Regional-scale Climate Modelling Workshop [1] in Lund, Sweden in June. Also,
an article about NASAs use of Apache OCW was featured on opensource.com [2]
since the last board meeting.
Issues for the Board:
None
When was the last release:
2013-10-11
We're currently rolling RCs for the 0.4 release. Should be out soon.
When was the last committer or PMC member elected:
2014-07-14
[1] http://www.baltex-research.eu/RCM2014/
[2] http://opensource.com/life/14/6/NASA-Earth-science-open-source
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Attachment AN: Report from the Apache OpenMeetings Project [Sebastian Wagner]
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Attachment AO: Report from the Apache Perl Project [Philippe M. Chiasson]
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Attachment AP: Report from the Apache Phoenix Project [James R. Taylor]
Phoenix is a SQL query engine for accessing NoSQL datastores such as
Apache HBase. It is accessed as a JDBC driver and enables querying
and managing NoSQL tables using SQL.
Releases:
2014-04-03 3.0.0-incubating
2014-04-04 4.0.0-incubating
2014-08-11 Started vote on 3.1.0 release
Recent Activity:
Improved overall stability (77 JIRAs closed) and added several key new
features for our current release being voted on:
- Support for derived/nested queries to increase breadth of SQL support.
- Added alternate, complementary "local" secondary indexing strategy.
- Implemented the ability to trace distributed query execution.
PMC:
Last PMC member was elected on 2014-04-08.
Committers:
Two new committers have been added:
2014-07-19 Rajeshbabu Chintaguntla
2014-08-12 Ravi Kiran
Mailing List Stats:
User list activity is moderate with 132, 123, and 129 message in May, June, July
Dev list activity is high with 591, 268, 1049 message in May June, July
Board Issues:
None
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Attachment AQ: Report from the Apache POI Project [Yegor Kozlov]
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Attachment AR: Report from the Apache Qpid Project [Gordon Sim]
Apache Qpid™ is a project focused on creating software based on the
Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP), currently providing a
protocol engine library, message brokers written in C++ and Java,
client libraries for C++, Java (including JMS), .Net, Python, Perl and
Ruby and a message 'router'.
* Releases:
Qpid 0.28 was released on the 3rd June 2014.
The last release of Qpid Dispatch Router, 0.2, was on 14th April
2014. The last release of Qpid Proton 0.7 was on 29th April, 2014.
* Community:
The main developer and user lists continue to be active. JIRAs are
being raised and addressed.
Andrew MacBean became a committer on 1st June 2014. There were no new
additions to the PMC since the last report. The last addition to the
PMC was Fraser Adams who joined on 6th March, 2014.
* Development
As well as ongoing fixes there has been a focus on the management UI
and security requirements in the Java broker. Work on the c++ broker
and client has been focused around AMQP 1.0 enhancements. An ActiveMQ
NMS implementation using AMQP 1.0 has been built on top of the .Net
Qpid.Messaging client.
In Qpid Dispatch Router, there is now support for more dynamic
configuration. The addressing model has been expanded to allow
aggregation of disparate brokers.
The proton library has been moving to a more event driven design as a
result of feedback received. It is believed that this will make it
easier to use and allow extra functionality to be offered within the
proton toolkit itself. Javascript support for proton is also being
developed.
Qpid 0.30 is now in alpha with a first beta due shortly. During this
cycle we have identified the need to adjust our procedure a little to
better cope with the evolution of the codebase. Previously we had a
single vote on a single release that covered several different source
bundles. The details are still being discussed but it is likely that
we move to having multiple distinct votes on specific source bundles,
with these perhaps eventually diverging into independent cycles
matching the different needs that different components have. An update
on this will be included in the next board report.
* Issues:
There are no items requiring board attention at this time.
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Attachment AS: Report from the Apache Rave Project [Matt Franklin]
Apache Rave is a widgets-based, web-and-social mashup platform.
ISSUES
There are no issues requiring the board's attention.
COMMUNITY
There has been significant new activity from a couple of new developers
looking to push the project forward.
COMMITTER/PMC CHANGES
08/29/13 - Dan Gornstein was added as a new committer & PMC member.
RELEASES
01/07/14 - 0.23 released.
ACTIVITY
All of the new activity is centered around finishing the front-end
separation using Angular JS. The code has also moved to Git and the
community is developing workflows for accepting submissions through the
git hub mirror.
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Attachment AT: Report from the Apache River Project [Patricia Shanahan]
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 2.2.2 was released on November 18, 2013
Apache River 2.2.1 was released on May 2, 2013.
COMMUNITY
In June, Patricia Shanahan returned from emeritus to active status as a
committer and PMC member. She was appointed as the River PMC Chair at the June
board meeting.
A new user has brought to the attention of the PMC some issues in the "Getting
Started" web pages that may be a barrier to attracting new users and to
community involvement.
ACTIVITY
Mailing lists and development have been reasonably active in the past few
months. There were 28 messages on user@ during May through July 2014, and 60
messages on dev@.
Four issues have been reported on Jira and two of those have been resolved.
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Attachment AU: Report from the Apache Roller Project [Dave Johnson]
Apache Roller is a full-featured, Java-based blog server that works
well on Tomcat and MySQL, and is known to run on other Java servers
and relational databases. The ASF blog site at blogs.apache.org runs on
Roller 5.0.3, Tomcat and MySQL.
Issues
No board issues at this time.
Releases
The latest release of Apache Roller is v5.0.3, which was released
on January 11, 2014, a security vulnerability and bug fix release.
Community
The Roller community is active these days and working on a major
new release of Roller to be known as Roller 5.1 and will feature a
cleaned-up and modernized code base and support for mobile themes.
The last new PMC member and committer who joined is Gaurav Saini
who joined on July 3, 2014.
This quarter, like most recent quarters, there has been a slow but steady
stream of bug fixes, re-factorings and improvements to the Roller code
base, documentation and the wiki.
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Attachment AV: Report from the Apache Santuario Project [Colm O hEigeartaigh]
The Apache Santuario project is aimed at providing implementation of
security standards for XML.
There have been two new releases of the Apache XML Security for Java project
over the last quarter, 2.0.1 and 1.5.7. These releases contained support for
some new signature algorithms, performance fixes, a race condition fix along
with various other minor fixes and improvements.
Project activity is quiet but development is continuing all the time - there
were 45 commits to the trunk branch of the Java project in the last quarter.
The PMC remains active and engaged with the project, and so there are no
issues or concerns to report to the board at this time.
Last committer addition: Marc Giger, July 2012.
Last PMC addition: Marc Giger, April 2013.
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Attachment AW: Report from the Apache SIS Project [Adam Estrada]
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Attachment AX: Report from the Apache Spark Project [Matei Zaharia]
Apache Spark is a fast and general engine for large-scale data processing. It
offers high-level APIs in Java, Scala, and Python as well as a rich set of
libraries including stream processing, machine learning, and graph analytics.
Project status:
Spark made its 1.0.0 release on May 30th, bringing API stability for the 1.X
line and a variety of new features. The community is now QAing the 1.1.0
branch for release later this month. (We follow a regular 3-month schedule
for releases.) The community held a user conference, Spark Summit, in July,
sponsored by 25 companies. We continue to see growth in the number of users
and contributors, with over 120 people contributing to 1.1.0.
Some of the big features in 1.1 include JSON loading in Spark SQL, a new
statistics library, streaming machine learning algorithms, improvements to
the Python API, and many stability and performance improvements.
Releases:
Our last few releases were:
August 5, 2014: Spark 1.0.2
July 23, 2014: Spark 0.9.2
July 11, 2014: Spark 1.0.1
May 30, 2014: Spark 1.0.0
Committers and PMC:
We closed votes to add two new committers and PMC members on August 7th.
Before that, we added two committers and PMC members in May 2014.
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Attachment AY: Report from the Apache Stratos Project [Lakmal Warusawithana]
Apache Stratos is a highly-extensible Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) framework
that helps run Apache Tomcat, PHP, and MySQL applications and can be extended
to support many more environments on all major cloud infrastructures.
Releases
========
* Apache Stratos 4.0.0 released on June 20th
Community and development
==========================
* One new committer/PMC member added
* Started implementing new features of 4.1.0 release
* Mailing list activity on dev@ was at 614 messages in July.
* Sathyasuriya Priya, who did the GSOC project completed his project and
successfully demoed GCE integration to Stratos.
* Excluding merges, 13 authors have pushed 14 commits to master and 104
commits to all branches. On master, 384 files have changed and there
have been 10,410 additions and 2,162 deletions.
(15th July to 15th August)
New Committer/PMC member addition
* Akila Perera - 2014.07.25
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Attachment AZ: Report from the Apache Subversion Project [Greg Stein]
Apache Subversion exists to be universally recognized and adopted as
an open-source, centralized version control system characterized by
its reliability as a safe haven for valuable data; the simplicity of
its model and usage; and its ability to support the needs of a wide
variety of users and projects, from individuals to large-scale
enterprise operations.
* Board Issues
There are no Board-level issues of concern.
* Community
Evgeny Kotkov was added to the Subversion PMC in February 2014 (this was
apparently left out of previously reports). No change in committers, our
last new committer was in July 2013.
An Elego hosted hackathon was held in Berlin from June 16th - 20th. We had
approximately 11 developers attend. In Berlin we discussed issues with the
upcoming 1.9.0 release and started planning future features for 1.10.0.
There will be another hackathon August 18th - 22nd in Sheffield, England,
with around 8 developers expecting to attend. We hope to finish up on
1.9.0 issues with that hackathon and spend more time working on changes
planned for 1.10.0.
Beyond our work towards the 1.9.0 release, we continue to support the 1.8.x
series. The 1.7.x series receives security updates, and (sometimes)
high-value functionality updates.
We continue to get around 200 messages per month on the users@ mailing list,
with most questions being answered. Often times by non-developer community
members.
The development list continues to see between 150-250 messages a month, and
around 200 commits per month. The commit rate has slowed slightly as we
work towards stability on trunk for a 1.9.0 release. Development can still
be considered healthy.
* Releases
Work toward 1.9.0 is progressing but no further alpha has been produced
since our last report. However, we do anticipate a branch sometime in
the near future and our normal stabilization period following that. Which
typically includes betas and release candidates.
Since our report in May, Apache Subversion 1.8.10 and 1.7.18 were both
released on August 11th.
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Attachment BA: 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
The mailing lists' traffic has quite revamped during the last quarter, mainly
due to increasing activity towards upcoming new stable release 1.2.0.
We are receiving contributions from external user for deb packaging.
We have successfully handled a new security flaw (CVE-2014-3503).
Last committer addition (Andrea Patricellil) is dated March 2014.
Last addition to PMC (Guido Wimmel) is dated April 2014.
Releases since last report
* 1.1.8 (Jul 3rd, 2014)
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Attachment BB: Report from the Apache Tez Project [Hitesh Shah]
Apache Tez is an effort to develop a generic application
framework which can be used to process arbitrarily complex DAGs
of data-processing tasks and also a re-usable set of
data-processing primitives which can be used by other projects.
ISSUES
There are no issues that require the board's attention at this time.
STATUS
Apache Tez graduated from Incubator in July 2014.
The initial activity was mostly around migrating the infrastructure
which was done promptly by the infra folks and with minimal
disruption to the community. There has been a lot of momentum on
finishing up the API clean up and local mode implementation
completed to help improve usability of Tez. These are the 2
main objectives for the upcoming 0.5 release.
RELEASES
0.4.1-incubating was released on July 15, 2014.
- This was the last release as an Incubator podling.
COMMUNITY
Auth: 31 PMC members and committers (as of Aug 06, 2014).
One vote in progress to add a new committer - Jonathan Eagles.
Jira: Last 30 days: 120 jiras created, 104 resolved.
Mailing Lists: user@ - 123, dev@ - 137 subscribers.
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Attachment BC: 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.
Major project news is the release of TomEE 1.7.0, which was a very
long release cycle an large community effort. First branch was July
1st. First vote was July 13th. One month late was the final passing
vote. Thank you notes have been pouring in from users, which is
fantastic to see.
As usual releases from some of our sister projects were required,
including OpenWebBeans and OpenJPA. Requests for those releases
started in April. We were able to get a release from OpenWebBeans,
but not OpenJPA. This happens and we dealt with it by creating or own
OpenJPA 2.4.0-nonfinal release. With only 70 commits on trunk in the
last 12 months it's clear the community needs significant help. I've
engaged the private list to see how we can help. I mention to the
board for purposes of transparency as most board reports sound
"business as usual" even when the community is slowly shrinking. Self
awareness can be hard.
TomEE trunk is now dedicated to TomEE 2.0 and Java EE 7 efforts, again
to much fanfare. Resources for implementing Java EE 7 will be
extremely tight. Adding new committers and focusing community on
passing the Java EE 7 TCK, assuming we get one, will be key. I
couldn't predict when we might reach certification even with a TCK.
Both Tomcat and TomEE were jointly awarded a "Geeks Choice" award from
ZeroTurnaround in a local developer pool. This is a nice confirmation
of interest from outside Apache. The banner is now displayed on our
website front-page.
Last release was 1.7.0 on 2014-08-15. Last committer was added
November 2013. Last PMC addition was 2010-08-26.
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Attachment BD: 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
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 again seen low levels of activity in the last quarter.
The Turbine project has no board-level issues at this time.
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 addition of Georg Kallidis (2013/09/30).
Turbine core project
No activity has been taken place in the core project.
The last released component was the parent POM (2013/09/25).
Fulcrum component project
Some cleanup has been done for the generic Fulcrum site.
The last released component was Fulcrum json 1.0.0 (2014/04/07)
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Attachment BE: 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
- Last release was Tuscany SCA 2.0.1, 10/3/2013.
COMMUNITY ACTIVITY
- Last committer addition was Sebastian Millies, 12/4/2012.
- Mailing list traffic hasn't changed much in the past few months, and
continues to be on the lower side, with a few questions on the user
mailing list and a few JIRAs on the dev list.
BRANDING
- We still need to update logos with ™ and review the project DOAP file.
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Attachment BF: Report from the Apache Velocity Project [Nathan Bubna]
Apache Velocity is a java template engine and related projects.
RELEASES
* Last release was master POM, May 2012
* Last noteworthy release was Engine in 2010
CURRENT ACTIVITY
* No commits or releases.
COMMUNITY
* Last committer added April 28, 2013
* Mailing list activity was higher than usual, responses were quick.
* Few questions on Stack Overflow.
* Action should be taken to confirm all active leaders are PMC members, not
merely committers.
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Attachment BG: Report from the Apache VXQuery Project [Till Westmann]
Apache VXQuery implements a parallel XML Query processor.
STATUS
Apache VXQuery graduated from the incubator in July.
The first activities as a TLP were mostly around the migration of the
infrastructure (with great support from infra). There is also some
development activity around performance measurements and improvements.
COMMUNITY
All PMC members came in through graduation, all committers are PMC members.
The community is small but active.
Last committer (Steven Jacobs) was added in September 2013.
COMMUNITY OBJECTIVES
After the infrastructure is migrated the next step is to create the first
non-incubating release.
RELEASES
Apache VXQuery 0.3-incubating was released on May 19, 2014
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Attachment BH: Report from the Apache Wink Project [Luciano Resende]
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Attachment BI: Report from the Apache Xalan Project [Steven J. Hathaway]
The Apache Xalan Project develops and maintains libraries and programs
that transform XML documents using XSLT standard stylesheets. Our
subprojects use the Java and C++ programing languages to implement the
XSLT libraries.
RELEASES
- Xalan Java (2.7.2) 23-Apr-2014
- Xalan C/C++ (1.11) 29-Oct-2012
COMMUNITY ACTIVITY
Xalan is a mature project with little development activity. We are tying
to encourage previous committers to participate in maintenance efforts.
The Oregon State University senior student projects have been completed.
Steven Hathaway was one of the mentors. Jan Iversen was the other mentor.
The development email has little volume. The Xalan library still has a
significant presence in commercial software products.
Discussion continues on how to implement the newer XSLT and XPath standards.
Our PMC is planning to have a representative at ApacheCon EU 2014.
NEW COMMITTERS
We have a new committer, Samuel, who is willing to become an active PMC member.
He has made significant contributions to both of the Xalan subprojects.
ISSUES
There are no issues that need board attention at this time.
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Attachment BJ: Report from the Apache Xerces Project [Michael Glavassevich]
Xerces-J
There was some initial discussion on having a new release and plans
to merge the XML Schema 1.1 code on to the trunk.
A new contributor has been helping enhance the new XML parser
configuration for the JAXP secure processing feature and recently
submitted a patch for review.
Mailing list traffic has been low; roughly 80 posts on the j-dev
and j-users lists since the beginning of May 2014.
No new releases this quarter. The latest release is
Xerces-J 2.11.0 (November 30th, 2010).
Xerces-C
A few minor bugs were fixed for JIRA issues that were reported by
the community.
Mailing list traffic has been very low; roughly 45 posts on the
c-dev and c-users lists since the beginning of May 2014.
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 and Activity
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.
Three committers (who are also PMC members) committed changes to
SVN in the last quarter.
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 BK: 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 ==
No issues at present.
== Community ==
I asked the PMC to consider a new Chair, as I have been in the role for
over 2 years now. The PMC voted that I should continue in the role, and
I have agreed to do so for a while longer. We have identified a potential
new contributor/committer and the PMC also voted to increase the minimum
Java version to 1.6, starting from the next release
Last new committer: Simon Steiner on 11/04/14
Last new PMC member: Luis Bernardo on 04/03/13
== XML GRAPHICS COMMONS ==
8 separate commits to SVN, of which 6 were general bug fixes, 1 was check
style related, and the last was to ensure compatibility with Java 8. A
release is planned in the next quarter
There were no releases this quarter.
The latest release is 1.5 (20 October 2012)
== FOP ==
116 e-mails on fop-user mailing list this quarter; a few questions asked
by users and answered by committers. Some new bugs logged and several
patches have been submitted and processed. 85 separate commits in total
to SVN. A vote to merge the finished font merging code into trunk passed
in the last few days. Discussions have started on release planning.
However, since an optional component of FOP has a snapshot dependency on
PDFBox 2.0, we are unsure whether to release FOP now and the component
later or to release both once PDFBox 2.0 is available.
There were no releases this quarter
The latest release is 1.1 (20 October 2012)
== BATIK ==
Mailing list activity remains light; 23 e-mails to the user list this
quarter. A few bugs have been reported in JIRA, and there have been
discussions about merging the CMYK colour branch into trunk. There were
3 commits made by PMC members during this quarter; 2 of which were
community supplied patches being processed. A release is planned in the
next quarter
There were no releases this quarter.
The latest version is 1.7 (6 January 2008)
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