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Board of Directors Meeting Minutes
September 17, 2014
1. Call to order
The meeting was scheduled for 10:30am Pacific and began at 10:33
when a sufficient attendance to constitute a quorum was
recognized by the chairman.
Other Time Zones: http://timeanddate.com/s/2qkd
The meeting was held via teleconference, hosted by Doug Cutting
and Cloudera.
IRC #asfboard on irc.freenode.net was used for backup purposes.
2. Roll Call
Directors Present:
Rich Bowen
Doug Cutting
Ross Gardler
Jim Jagielski
Chris Mattmann
Brett Porter
Sam Ruby
Greg Stein
Directors Absent:
Bertrand Delacretaz
Executive Officers Present:
Craig L Russell
Executive Officers Absent:
none
Guests:
Sean Kelly
Jake Farrell
Daniel Gruno
Joe Brockmeier
Shane Curcuru
David Nalley
Henri Yandell left 11:26
Gavin McDonald
Tom Pappas
3. Minutes from previous meetings
Published minutes can be found at:
http://www.apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html
A. The meeting of August 20, 2014
See: board_minutes_2014_08_20.txt
Approved by General Consent.
4. Executive Officer Reports
A. Chairman [Brett]
There has been some discussion about the maintenance of PMC records,
with a couple of people interested in streamlining the process to
reduce duplication and chances for human error.
Other than that, another quiet month with nothing else to report.
B. President [Ross]
I'm still struggling under the fallout from my recent personal trials
but things are slowly coming back together. Essential items are being
addressed but some key activities are falling behind. I thank the
board for their patience.
TAC: All arrangements have been made for ApacheCon with logistics
being handled by Melissa.
Trademarks: Lots of discussions about how best to scale the trademark
activities. VP Trademarks has agreed to focus on updating policies to
ensure that it is clear that PMCs can manage their project marks.
Sally has done a fantastic job on the Powered By logos, these (along
with usage guidelines) are now staged on the foundation's website and
will go live very soon.
Press: Sally has completed a period of work with CloudStack but I am
behind on following up on this and ensuring the project is able to
move forward. This is a very high priority item for me moving
forward. Plans are underway for our 15 year anniversary at ApacheCon
Europe.
Sally is keen to update the website for the 15th anniversary. However,
given the current status of the budget it is felt that hiring a web
design company is out of the question while recent interest from a
group of volunteers has died down. Sally is looking at revamping the
home page with a view to requesting budget in the next fiscal year for
a full site redesign.
Fundraising: Upayavira has restated his intention to step down as VP
Fundraising. This was first discussed almost a year ago. I wish to
express my thanks to Upayavira who agreed to stay on in the role while
we focused on documenting the process and ensuring our EA was able to
assist. Upayavira now feels this work is complete and has asked that
we find a replacement. No date has been set for the changeover.
Expressions of interest into the role are welcome. In the meantime I
again ask for Directors and other interested parties to volunteer to
assist Melissa in contacting existing sponsors periodically.
Volunteers to the fundraising@ list please.
We have two new sponsors (Bluehost and Samsung) coming onboard this
month - both at Bronze level. We thank them for their support.
Infrastructure: We have further discussed the status of contractors
and are exploring options. At present we have not identified an
acceptable approach beyond the previous recommendation to use Virtual
Inc. services as the employer. However, we have not yet exhausted all
possibilities. At present our two new contractors (US based) are under
contract and being managed accordingly.
Good progress is being made in infrastructure services but a high rate
of failures again this month has detracted from this progress to a
certain extent. Nevertheless, all targets for uptime have been met.
Work is underway to move apache-extras services that have been lost to
SourceForge.
TODO Group: Some organizations have created an organization for
"companies committed to open source". I had an early morning call with
a representative of that group this morning and possible the engagement
of the ASF was discussed. At this time the group is discussing what the
groups mission and scope will be. I hope to attend an event in SF next
week to find out more. See http://todogroup.org/ and
http://tech.blog.box.com/2014/09/announcing-the-box-open-source-open-house/
Additionally, please see Attachments 1 through 6.
C. Treasurer [Chris]
A relatively quiet month for the Treasurer's Office.
The Treasurer's Office worked with the EA and infra team to address
credit card issues for hardware purchases.
Virtual and the Treasurer's Office and the Audit team are trying
to put together a call to discuss the next steps on the Audit.
The EVP and VP, Sponsorship set up a mechanism to take Bitcoin as
a donation currency. Great work!
Income and Expenses for August 2014
Current Balances:
Citizens Checking $322,595
Amazon Prime $14,300
Paypal - ASF $31,595
Wells Fargo Checking - ASF $857,069
Wells Fargo Savings $288,032
Total Checking/Savings $1,513,591
Income Summary:
Public Donations $8,415 Amazon and Paypal
Sponsorship Program $-
Interest Income $24
Total Income $8,439
Expense Summary:
Infrastructure $33,826
Sponsorship Program $1,079
Publicity $5,743 HALO monthly fee
Conferences $2,610
Travel Assistance Committee $15,153
Treasury Services $2,750
General & Administrative $7,786 EA monthly exp and Signing bonus for EA
Total Expense $68,947
Net Income $(60,508)
D. Secretary [Craig]
Secretary is running well. During the dog days of August, 97 iclas,
four cclas, and two grants were received and filed.
There still is some confusion regarding under what circumstances
a CCLA is required.
E. Executive Vice President [Rich]
* ApacheCon
* Europe
We continue to move towards ApacheCon Europe. Now that
we are just 2 months out, we will be pushing harder on
projects and speakers to promote their content and bring
the registration numbers up. As of the 15th,
registration numbers are:
Attendees: 44
Committer: 26
Student: 1
Speaker: 72
Sponsor: 4
Total: 147
With much assistance from the Cassandra community, we
have added a Cassandra mini-summit, with a full track of
content. The Cassandra project, as well as our friends
at DataStax, will be promoting this as though it were a
stand-alone event. This is an experiment to see if
having conference promotions under several different
banners is effective in bringing a larger audience.
* Austin
We have "soft announced" ApacheCon Austin as of the
15th. See http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/apachecon-north-america/
for the website and CFP. We will start shouting about it
over the next few days, and if you want to leak the news,
please feel free to do so.
* BitCoin donations
On August 26th, a query to the Fundraising list about whether
we accept Bitcoin donations prompted us to create a Bitcoin
account. This was mentioned on Reddit and several news sites,
including http://s.apache.org/bitcoinnews and within the
first 24 hours we had pulled in over US$2000 in Bitcoin
donations. The rate has slowed down considerably since then,
and our balance now is just under 7 Bitcoins, or US$3,300.
In addition to the monetary benefit, this event got us quite
a bit of very positive press on a wide range of news sites.
F. Vice Chairman [Greg]
Nothing of consequence to report, beyond a few wearing-hat emails.
Executive officer reports approved as submitted by General Consent.
5. Additional Officer Reports
A. VP of W3C Relations [Andy Seaborne / Ross]
See Attachment 7
B. Apache Legal Affairs Committee [Jim Jagielski]
See Attachment 8
C. Apache Security Team Project [Mark Cox / Jim]
No report was submitted.
Additional officer reports approved as submitted by General Consent.
6. Committee Reports
A. Apache Allura Project [Dave Brondsema / Greg]
See Attachment A
B. Apache Any23 Project [Lewis John McGibbney / Sam]
See Attachment B
C. Apache APR Project [Jeff Trawick / Brett]
See Attachment C
D. Apache Archiva Project [Olivier Lamy / Rich]
See Attachment D
E. Apache Axis Project [Deepal Jayasinghe / Chris]
See Attachment E
@Chris: pursue a proper report for Axis for next month
F. Apache Bigtop Project [Konstantin Boudnik / Doug]
See Attachment F
G. Apache Bloodhound Project [Gary Martin / Jim]
See Attachment G
H. Apache BVal Project [Matt Benson / Chris]
See Attachment H
@Chris: does the project have enough committers to make
releases?
I. Apache Camel Project [Christian Mueller / Greg]
See Attachment I
J. Apache Cayenne Project [Andrus Adamchik / Sam]
See Attachment J
K. Apache Celix Project [Alexander Broekhuis / Brett]
See Attachment K
L. Apache Chemistry Project [Florian Müller / Doug]
See Attachment L
M. Apache CloudStack Project [Hugo Trippaers / Ross]
See Attachment M
N. Apache Commons Project [Gary Gregory / Rich]
See Attachment N
O. Apache Community Development Project [Luciano Resende / Doug]
See Attachment O
P. Apache Cordova Project [Shazron Abdullah / Sam]
See Attachment P
Q. Apache cTAKES Project [Pei J Chen / Ross]
See Attachment Q
R. Apache Curator Project [Jordan Zimmerman / Jim]
See Attachment R
S. Apache DirectMemory Project [Raffaele P. Guidi / Brett]
See Attachment S
T. Apache Empire-db Project [Francis De Brabandere / Chris]
See Attachment T
U. Apache Felix Project [Carsten Ziegeler / Greg]
See Attachment U
V. Apache Flex Project [Alex Harui / Rich]
See Attachment V
@Rich: work with PMC to help resolve conflicts
W. Apache Gump Project [Stefan Bodewig / Ross]
See Attachment W
X. Apache Helix Project [Kishore Gopalakrishna / Sam]
See Attachment X
Y. Apache Hive Project [Carl Steinbach / Jim]
See Attachment Y
Z. Apache Incubator Project [Roman Shaposhnik / Chris]
See Attachment Z
AA. Apache Jackrabbit Project [Michael Dürig / Brett]
See Attachment AA
AB. Apache Karaf Project [Jean-Baptiste Onofré / Greg]
See Attachment AB
AC. Apache Labs Project [Tim Williams / Rich]
See Attachment AC
AD. Apache Lucene Project [Mark Miller / Doug]
See Attachment AD
AE. Apache Lucene.Net Project [Prescott Nasser / Chris]
See Attachment AE
AF. Apache MRUnit Project [Brock Noland / Greg]
No report was submitted.
AG. Apache OFBiz Project [Jacopo Cappellato / Rich]
See Attachment AG
AH. Apache Olingo Project [Stephan Klevenz / Doug]
See Attachment AH
AI. Apache OODT Project [Sean Kelly / Jim]
See Attachment AI
AJ. Apache OpenMeetings Project [Sebastian Wagner / Brett]
See Attachment AJ
AK. Apache OpenNLP Project [Joern Kottmann / Ross]
See Attachment AK
AL. Apache OpenWebBeans Project [Mark Struberg / Sam]
See Attachment AL
AM. Apache Perl Project [Philippe M. Chiasson / Rich]
No report was submitted.
AN. Apache Pig Project [Cheolsoo Park / Brett]
See Attachment AN
AO. Apache Pivot Project [Roger Whitcomb / Chris]
See Attachment AO
AP. Apache POI Project [Yegor Kozlov / Greg]
See Attachment AP
AQ. Apache Portals Project [David Sean Taylor / Doug]
See Attachment AQ
AR. Apache ServiceMix Project [Gert Vanthienen / Jim]
See Attachment AR
AS. Apache Shiro Project [Les Hazlewood / Ross]
See Attachment AS
AT. Apache SIS Project [Adam Estrada / Sam]
See Attachment AT
AU. Apache Sling Project [Carsten Ziegeler / Ross]
See Attachment AU
AV. Apache SpamAssassin Project [Kevin A. McGrail / Jim]
See Attachment AV
@Jim: ask SpamAssassin to discuss budget issues with treasurer
AW. Apache Stanbol Project [Fabian Christ / Sam]
See Attachment AW
AX. Apache Synapse Project [Hiranya Jayathilaka / Brett]
See Attachment AX
@Brett: discuss with both PMCs to find a way to work together
AY. Apache Tajo Project [Hyunsik Choi / Chris]
See Attachment AY
AZ. Apache Tez Project [Hitesh Shah / Rich]
See Attachment AZ
BA. Apache Tiles Project [Greg Reddin / Doug]
See Attachment BA
BB. Apache Tomcat Project [Mladen Turk / Greg]
See Attachment BB
BC. Apache UIMA Project [Marshall Schor / Brett]
See Attachment BC
BD. Apache VCL Project [Andy Kurth / Jim]
See Attachment BD
BE. Apache VXQuery Project [Till Westmann / Greg]
See Attachment BE
BF. Apache Whirr Project [Andrew Bayer / Chris]
See Attachment BF
BG. Apache Wicket Project [Martijn Dashorst / Rich]
See Attachment BG
BH. Apache Wink Project [Luciano Resende / Doug]
See Attachment BH
BI. Apache ZooKeeper Project [Flavio Junqueira / Ross]
No report was submitted.
BJ. Apache Tuscany Project [Jean-Sebastien Delfino / Brett]
See Attachment BJ
Committee reports approved as submitted by General Consent.
7. Special Orders
A. Change the Apache Creadur Project Chair
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Robert Burrell
Donkin to the office of Vice President, Apache Creadur, and
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation
of Robert Burrell Donkin from the office of Vice President,
Apache Creadur, and
WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Creadur
project has chosen by vote to recommend Brian E Fox as the successor
to the post;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Robert Burrell Donkin is relieved
and discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office
of Vice President, Apache Creadur, and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Brian E Fox be and hereby is
appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Creadur, to
serve in accordance with and subject to the direction of the
Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until
death, resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification, or
until a successor is appointed.
Special Order 7A, Change the Apache Creadur Project Chair, was
approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
B. Change the Apache Onami Project Chair
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Simone
Tripodi to the office of Vice President, Apache Onami, and
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation
of Simone Tripodi from the office of Vice President, Apache
Onami, and
WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Onami
project has chosen by vote to recommend Nino Martinez Wael as the
successor to the post;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Simone Tripodi is relieved
and discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office
of Vice President, Apache Onami, and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Nino Martinez Wael be and hereby is
appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Onami, to
serve in accordance with and subject to the direction of the
Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until
death, resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification, or
until a successor is appointed.
Special Order 7B, Change the Apache Onami Project Chair, was
approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
C. Establish the Apache Storm Project
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors deems it to be in the best
interests of the Foundation and consistent with the
Foundation's purpose to establish a Project Management
Committee charged with the creation and maintenance of
open-source software, for distribution at no charge to
the public, related to distributed, fault-tolerant,
and high-performance realtime computation.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management
Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Apache Storm Project",
be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the
Foundation; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the Apache Storm Project be and hereby is
responsible for the creation and maintenance of software
related to distributed, fault-tolerant, and high-
performance realtime computation; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache Storm" be
and hereby is created, the person holding such office to
serve at the direction of the Board of Directors as the chair
of the Apache Storm Project, and to have primary responsibility
for management of the projects within the scope of
responsibility of the Apache Storm Project; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the persons listed immediately below be and
hereby are appointed to serve as the initial members of the
Apache Storm Project:
* Derek Dagit (dagit@apache.org)
* Devaraj Das (ddas@apache.org)
* Ted Dunning (tdunning@apache.org)
* Robert Evans (bobby@apache.org)
* Andy Feng (afeng@apache.org)
* P. Taylor Goetz (ptgoetz@apache.org)
* Jason Jackson (jjackson@apache.org)
* Flip Kromer (mrflip@apache.org)
* David Lao (dlao@apache.org)
* Nathan Marz (nathanmarz@apache.org)
* Michael G. Noll (miguno@apache.org)
* Arvind Prabhakar (arvind@apache.org)
* James Xu (xumingming@apache.org)
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that P. Taylor Goetz
be appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Storm, to
serve in accordance with and subject to the direction of the
Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until
death, resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification,
or until a successor is appointed; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the initial Apache Storm PMC be and hereby is
tasked with the creation of a set of bylaws intended to
encourage open development and increased participation in the
Apache Storm Project; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the Apache Storm Project be and hereby
is tasked with the migration and rationalization of the Apache
Incubator Storm podling; and be it further
RESOLVED, that all responsibilities pertaining to the Apache
Incubator Storm podling encumbered upon the Apache Incubator
Project are hereafter discharged.
Special Order 7C, Establish the Apache Storm Project, was
approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
D. Change the Apache Community Development Project Chair
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Luciano Resende
to the office of Vice President, Apache Community Development, and
WHEREAS, Luciano Resende has requested the Project Management
Committee of the Apache Community Development project to nominate a
successor for the office of Vice President, Apache Community
Development, and
WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Community
Development project has chosen by vote to recommend Ulrich Stärk as
the successor to the post;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Luciano Resende is relieved and
discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office
of Vice President, Apache Community Development, and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Ulrich Stärk be and hereby is
appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Community Development, to
serve in accordance with and subject to the direction of the
Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until
death, resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification, or
until a successor is appointed.
Special Order 7D, Change the Apache Community Development
Project Chair, 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: did some legwork on state of records, planning to reach out
soon
* Greg: ask about "pending discussion by the PMC" by JMeter
Status: message sent.
* Rich: Ask Axis whether the community is really healthy? Seems Synapse is
asking
Status:
* Greg: Any info about the community? [ ACE ]
Status: message sent.
* Greg: Any info on sub-projects? [ ActiveMQ ]
Status: message sent.
* Jim: Follow up with CXF and Commons to see how well they are
communicating
Status: No update
dkulp: The CXF community has basically given up on getting the BCEL
release from Commons in any sort of timely manner. We first
asked for the release five months ago. We have moved the
affected functionality to optional modules that are disabled
on Java8. If Commons does decide to actually create the
release, we can easily re-enable.
* Chris: The report identifies a problem with no resolution... [ Deltacloud ]
Status:
* Greg: Six years seems too long between additions to the PMC. [ Directory ]
Status: message sent.
* Chris: Please clarify what "voted on" means [ James ]
Status:
* Chris: Is PMC member discussion still ongoing? [ JMeter ]
Status:
* Chris: pursue a report for OpenMeetings
Status: present.
* Chris: Clarify volunteer comment. [ Tcl ]
Status:
* Bertrand: Given the late report, request a report for next month [ Wink ]
Status: present.
* Jim: pursue a report for Celix
Status: Done
* Bertrand: ask for clarification on "partial release" [ Clerezza ]
Status:
* Jim: send message to all PMCs re: health of projects, new committers,
Status: In process
* Doug: clarify release comment. [ Giraph ]
Status: PMC has promised to address the complaint.
* Jim: board report is a bit sparse; can this be improved for next
report? [ Hama ]
Status: In process
* Jim: why is a certificate needed for release? [ Logging ]
Status: Forgotten. Will follow up.
* Greg: pursue a proper board report [ Tuscany ]
Status: added
10. Unfinished Business
11. New Business
12. Announcements
13. Adjournment
Adjourned at 11:42 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 Fundraising/Virtual:
* Work continues with Virtual re obtaining information on credit card options
with AmEx. I had several conversations with Tom wrt AmEx options, as well as
the block on the existing WF cards
* Invoices sent to new sponsors: Bluehost and Samsung
* Revised invoice also sent to new sponsor EILEO SAS/Hertz for EUR 1,500 (I’ve
been working with them since last fall).
* Renewal invoices have been obtained from Lynsey and sent out for the folks
I’m responsible for
* Reminders have been sent to the sponsors that we are awaiting payment from
* Reminders have been sent to Upayavira wrt the past-due and upcoming renewals
for the Platinums
* Complete analysis was performed on the “Thanks” page of our website to
ensure it matches with our current sponsors and the necessary modifications
were made (LucidWorks was removed from the thanks page, as they are no longer
an active sponsor) ApacheCon Europe:
* It was a busy month with the TAC work. To date, all of the flight bookings
have been made, minus three folks from whom we’re awaiting further details
from in order to book the flights, but we anticipate this happening within a
week.
* Preliminary rooming assignments have been made based upon the information I
have. I will send the rooming assignments to Nick for review/approval prior
to submitting to the hotel.
* Wire transfer information has been obtained from the hotel, and I will
submit a request to Michelle Ball (Virtual) closer to the date when everything
is finalized.
* Requested visa invitation letters from the Corinthia Hotel for two TAC’ers;
composed invitation letters on behalf of the ASF for the same and sent to the
shepherd for passing on
* Registered the TAC’ers requiring registration
* In communications with Sally and Rich re budget for ACEU giveaways; will be
using a new vendor out of England for these items Trademarks: Per Ross, I have
pushed trademarks to the back burner for now MISC:
* Sent two boxes to Rich for LinuxCon Chicago
* Sent a box of stickers to Lewis McGibbney for CodeFest
* Assisted Lewis with his inquiries regarding the Hadoop meetup for the end of
Sept
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Attachment 2: Report from the VP of Brand Management [Shane Curcuru]
trademarks@ volume was lighter than usual this month, allowing catchup on some
outstanding third party questions.
Sally did an amazing job of developing and rolling out the new Powered By
Apache logo set and guidelines, including suggested logos for all Apache
projects. These are a simple way that projects can choose to have users show
their support of Apache and the projects in a wide variety of contexts.
Along with DLAPiper's continuing assistance on tracking registrations and
legal advice, in conjunction with Jim I've gotten some excellent trademark
policy advice from Pamela Chestek, creator of ModelTrademarkGuidelines.org, in
terms of the most effective ways to craft our public policies.
Started work on updating brand policy contact us page, which starts the
process of explicitly pointing third party questions to capable PMCs who have
asked to handle more third party questions directly.
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Attachment 3: Report from the VP of Fundraising [Upayavira]
See Melissa's report for much of the Fundraising activity.
A week or so ago I mentioned to Ross and Rich that I believe it is time for
me to stand down as VP Fundraising. The role has always included an element
of sponsor liaison that I have generally neglected. Having established the
basic mechanisms of sponsor tracking and renewal, which is now functioning
effectively in Melissa's capable hands, I believe it is now time for me
to hand over the reigns to someone who can better fulfill the sponsor
relationship management aspect of the role. This is both in relation to
our existing sponsors, along with pursuing contacts that have been made at
various conferences, for example at OSCON by David, Rich and myself.
I have no specific timescale for standing down. My concern however is more
that the work that isn't being done is started, and that I cease to be an
impediment to it.
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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 received signoff
from Brand Management on the “Powered by Apache” mark and guidelines for
Apache project logos, and worked with Ross Gardler to have them uploaded to
apache.org (currently staged at
http://www.staging.apache.org/foundation/press/kit/). She also responded to a
request for graphics development for Apache TomEE winning a Duke's Choice
Award. Sally responded to some fundraising questions pertaining to
Platinum-level sponsor outreach. Sally was working with Shane on a blog post
on corporate guidelines on engaging with the ASF, which has now evolved to
showcase ASF operations/achievements as part of its 15th Anniversary
publicity. Sally's three month work period with Apache CloudStack had
terminated in July; she helped write and distribute issue the CloudMonkey™
v5.2.0 announcement on 28 August, and has assisted with several media queries.
No further developments have taken place in response to Sally's Outline for
CloudStack Marketing Plan sent on 24 June.
III. Press Releases: the following formal announcements were issued via the
newswire service, ASF Foundation Blog, and announce@apache.org during this
timeframe:
- 11 September 2014 --The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache™
Cassandra™ v2.1
- 02 September 2014 --The Apache Software Foundation Announces Donations
Accepted Using Bitcoin
IV. Informal Announcements: 3 items were tweeted on @TheASF, including a
project release extracted from announce@apache.org and posted by Joe
Brockmeier, who has offered to continue to monitor the announce@ list and
tweet newsworthy items to augment the ASF's official/formal news. Coordination
with the Linux Foundation to promote the event on @ApacheCon continues.
V. Future Announcements: Sally is working with two TLPs to announce milestone
releases. She also responded to a request for promotional guidelines from a
podling with a new release. Those PMCs wishing to announce major project news,
as well as podlings ready to graduate from the Incubator, are welcome to
contact Sally at <press@apache.org> for more information. Kindly provide at
least 2-weeks' notice for proper planning and execution.
VI. Media Relations: we responded to 4 media requests. The ASF received 571
press clips over this time period, vs. last month's clip count of 576. Our
monitoring media hits for CloudStack has yielded a total of 581 mentions this
month vs. 567 last month.
VII. Analyst Relations: we responded to 2 analyst queries, and fact-checking
request for a Forrester report on Cloud computing. Apache was mentioned in 4
write-ups by Gartner, 3 reports by Forrester, 7 write-ups by GigaOM, 7 reports
by 451 Research/Yankee Group, and 3 reports by IDC.
VIII. ApacheCon liaison: Sally is working with the Linux Foundation team on
celebratory activities for the ASF's 15th Anniversary at ApacheCon Europe. She
is also working with Melissa Warnkin on the ASF's booth, signage, giveaways,
etc.
IX. (Non-ASF) Industry Events and Outreach liaison: discussions with RedMonk
regarding a possible group of Apache-branded DevOps and DataOps events in the
UK have suspended due to (non-ASF) scheduling issues.
X. Newswire accounts: we have 10 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:
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Chris Lambertus (cml)
Geoffrey Corey (coreyg)
Finances:
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RAM for VMware hosts $715 Replacement HDDs ~$1700
Mac OSX Build Slave $730
Puppet training $1300
Domains: $17
Operations Action Items:
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Short Term Priorities:
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## Code signing Mark Thomas successfully concluded his testing and we were
able to come to agreement with Symantec. The service has thus far been
deployed with Mark Thomas leading efforts to deliver signed code for Apache
Commons. The Apache Commons PMC is currently voting on release artifacts for
the first signed binaries. Post-completion of this test the service will be
available to any PMC requesting the service.
## Build/CI environment. http://s.apache.org/hDu
### Yahoo has graciously increased the number of machines that they provide
(and provide colo services for) to a total of 20 machines this year. This has
tremendously reduced the pending queue size for our build services.
### Cloud slaves Our RAX cloud environment is now being utilized by Jenkins to
deploy (and destroy) machines on demand in response to load. Additionally,
we’ve made a RAX account available to the Gora PMC for twice yearly testing
they plan to engage in.
Long Range Priorities:
======================
* Monitoring We are beginning to get insightful information out of monitoring.
We now have a mail loop that provides information on the cycle time from
sending to mail reception. Additionally we now have started monitoring some
elements of host storage. Centralized logging is making slow progress but has
a plan with a time table.
* Automation The base level framework for machine automation is complete; and
that work is expanding. As we begin to need to break services out we are
building them with puppet. Additionally work to programmatically have JEOS
machines for bare metal as well as virtualization and cloud targets is
progressing nicely with most of that work expected to be wrapped up by end of
month.
* Technical Debt/Resiliency Some work has happened identifying long
complaining error conditions in a number of processes and resolving them;
currently focused on errors around backup scripts.
General Activity:
=================
* Welcomed two new contractors, Chris Lambertus and Geoff Corey, to the fold.
* We’ve dealt with a unusually high number of failed hardware issues this
month.
* Sourceforge has reached out to infra regarding migrating Apache Extras to
Sourceforge.
* The machine that houses our US web server (for www.a.o and $tlp.a.o) as well
as mail-search and the moin-moin wiki has experienced tremendous IO load. Work
is ongoing to breakout those services and reduce total IO load for any given
machine. This has been noticeable to end users in the form of wiki slowness
and updates to project websites being slow on the US website.
* repository.apache.org suffered a severe service degradation that resulted in
many projects being unable to publish artifacts to Nexus for several days. For
details see: http://s.apache.org/H2f
* We’ve found a number of processes that infra executes that appear to be tied
to being listed as a member in LDAP. We’re working to resolve that issue and
tracking it in INFRA-8336
Uptime Statistics:
==================
Targets remain the same in the last report (99.50% for critical, 99.00%
for core and 95% for standard respectively).
These figures span the previous reporting cycles as well as the
present reporting cycle (weeks 34-38). Overall, the figures have gone up
since the last report, and we are continuing to meet the uptime targets.
Type: Target: Reality: Target Met:
---------------------------------------------------------
Critical services: 99.50% 99.97% Yes
Core services: 99.00% 99.77% Yes
Standard services: 95.00% 97.46% Yes
---------------------------------------------------------
Overall: 98.00% 99.16% Yes
---------------------------------------------------------
For details on each service as well as average response times, see
http://s.apache.org/uptime
Detailed Contractor Reporting
=============================
* Daniel Gruno:
Work done since past report:
- Cleared 30 JIRA tickets. See those for additional details.
- Helped introduce Chris to his new job. This included setting up his account,
putting it into the correct staff groups, assigning some easy JIRA tickets
to get started with and walking him through the process of resolving these
tickets.
- Fixed some mailing lists mistakenly marked as private. This seems to be a
reoccuring problem, so we will need to tighten our mlreq page and make it
harder to create a private list.
- Created new mailing lists for Reef.
- On-call duties.
- Started work on the Infrastructure presentation for ApacheCon EU.
- Discussed doing a "Git at the ASF" talk with David at ApacheCon, as we have
a free slot.
- Dealt with Freenode's security breach (mainly rerouting some IRC services to
the EU and resetting passwords).
- Started work on resolving the current issues faced by non-member staffers.
This will likely take some time to finish, and involve several people. Our
first priority should be getting a new ACL set up for browsing the mail
archives, so root has acces to this data. This is a sensitive operation, but
one that should be well covered by the confidentiality clause in staffers'
contracts.
- ELK stack is progressing, storage setup expected to be done this week, at
which point we will be able to start pointing some of the heavier services
to it.
- Answered queries from Joe Brockmeier re Hadoop moving to Git and the new
status page.
- Helped EVP and fundraising with the new Bitcoin donation methods (and
answered queries on that).
- Added commit comment integration with GitHub. This is still a work in
progress, and I plan to rewrite then entire integration system when time
permits.
- Moved some VMs around in response to prolonged downtime on Erebus due to
disk replacements. This resulted in minimal downtime for services (a few
seconds at most).
- Finished work on the subscription service for our monitoring of local
project VMs.
* Gavin McDonald:
Work done since last report:
- 68 Jira tickets closed.
- 7 Jira tickets closed were Hardware related repairs - Disks, PSU and Memory
The hardware situation is much better. Still a couple to resolve.
- More Jenkins work done, Ansible issues determined but the slaves are
unreliable at present. Still have no OOB access to them and 9 times out of
10 if a reboot is needed the slave doesnt come back. This situation is
only tollerable for a certain perios and that is nearly up. David is in
talks to get more slaves available.
- Buildbot has been worked on some more, it got left behind due to other work
but is now getting some love once more. There is one major nag in that some
slaves (and seem to be only the new ones) are failing randomly with xml
corruption failures even though the checkout performs fine. Testing shows
that the xml isnt being returned (but only some of the time.).
- There are plans to upgrade Buildbot Master this month.
- There are plans to upgrade Confluence (accross several versions) this month.
- On Call duties
- Working through reducing cron mails
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Attachment 6: Report from the Apache Travel Assistance Committee [Gavin McDonald]
The main list has been quite quiet, whilst in the background Jan and Melissa
have been working wonders with our TA and applicants. Getting all the info
needed, flights are just about booked and paid for, Hotel accommodation is
nearing completion and AFAICT those that need conference tickets have them.
One or two stragglers remain but overall we are in good shape going into the
conference. Thanks also go to Nick for his work and letting us use his card
yet again!
Good work team!
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Attachment 7: Report from the VP of W3C Relations [Andy Seaborne]
ASF voting in the W3C TAG election caused a discussion about what
membership of W3C brings, and whether to the foundation and/or an
individual committer. W3C members are organisations, not individuals, and
some roles at W3C are explicitly for organisation representation.
-----------------------------------------
Attachment 8: Report from the Apache Legal Affairs Committee [Jim Jagielski]
A relatively typical month with no issues or actions required by the board.
One item of note was discussed during the last 4 weeks. It was the
recurring thread regarding modifying the CLAs for cases where there
is no copyright (the typical example is code from/by US Federal
Government employees). It was explained that (1) this has already
been addressed, both by the ASF and several government agencies that
such modification is not required and (2) regardless of whether copyright
exists within the US or not, it doesn't affect its existence outside
of the US, and the CLAs are designed to be valid in the larger, world-wide
arena. This should likely become a FAQ (if it isn't already).
-----------------------------------------
Attachment 9: Report from the Apache Security Team Project [Mark Cox]
-----------------------------------------
Attachment A: Report from the Apache Allura Project [Dave Brondsema]
Apache Allura is an open source implementation of a software forge, a web site
that manages source code repositories, bug reports, discussions, wiki pages,
blogs, and more for any number of individual projects.
Project Status
--------------
Allura graduated to a TLP in March. Development continues at a moderate pace.
Community
---------
* Latest PMC member added in July 2014
* Ongoing tickets & commits from the active developers and one new contributor.
* A few tickets and emails from users and potential users of Allura.
Community Objectives
--------------------
We are ready to move our tickets from SourceForge to the Allura self-hosted
site. Scripting has been done recently, just need to execute and resolve any
issues that arise.
We would like to find and encourage new contributors to Allura. We also want to
explore if other Apache projects would be interested in using Allura.
Releases
--------
Last release was Feb 2014. We should discuss making our next release.
-----------------------------------------
Attachment B: Report from the Apache Any23 Project [Lewis John McGibbney]
Anything To Triples (Any23) is a library, a web service and a command line
tool that extracts structured data in RDF format from a variety of Web
documents.
Project Releases
The last release of Any23 (1.0) was on 13-May-2014.
Overall Project Activity since last report
Project activity has been reasonably slow however this is nothing new
for Any23 generally.
Any23 is being used within the Eurosentiment [0] project for extracting
structured reviews from websites. These review are then used to build
topical lexicon on a website-by-website domain-by-domain basis.
There is currently a thread out discussing if a project release should
take place.
[0] http://eurosentiment.eu/
How has the community developed since the last report?
Lewis John McGibbney is actively pushing for Any23 to become a well
recognised software component within the W3C Data on the Web Best Practices
Working Group. Since then our new PMC member Stephane has also been active.
It is our underatanding that Any23 will not be represented at ApacheCon EU.
Changes to PMC & Committers
Stephane Corlosquet (scor) was added to the Any23 PMC recently with his
account being created Tue, 19 Aug 2014 04:28:51 GMT.
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Attachment C: Report from the Apache APR Project [Jeff Trawick]
The Apache Portable Runtime (APR) project creates and maintains
software libraries that provide a predictable and consistent interface
to underlying platform-specific implementations. The sub-projects
which are released somewhat regularly are APR and APR-util. In addition,
the APR-iconv sub-project is commonly used but has not had a release
since 2007.
Releases
========
The project has not produced any releases this quarter. APR 1.5.1 was
released on April 21, 2014. APR-util 1.5.3 was released on November 18,
2013.
Community
=========
New PMC members: none
The last new PMC member was added in November of 2013.
Two committers were added during the quarter, both existing committers
on other ASF projects:
Takashi Soto
Yann Ylavic
Nine bugs were opened during the reporting period, with some sort
of developer followup (closure or discussion) on eight bugs.
Mailing list activity has been very light this quarter, mostly related
to a handful of code issues.
Development
===========
Nothing to report
Issues
======
There are no board-level issues at this time.
-----------------------------------------
Attachment D: Report from the Apache Archiva Project [Olivier Lamy]
Apache Archiva is an extensible repository management software that helps
taking care of your own personal or enterprise-wide build artifact
repository. It is the perfect companion for build tools such as Maven,
Continuum, and ANT.
Releases
--------
* Archiva 1.3.9 was released on 30 Jun 2014
* Archiva 2.1.0 was released on 19 July 2014
* Archiva 2.1.1 was released on 04 September 2014
Community
---------
We added a new committer: Sascha Voigt (17 July 2014)
We added a new PMC member: Jean-Baptiste Onofre (28 July 2014)
The new 2.x series releases tends to generate a bit more traffic mailing lists.
Development
-----------
On-going development is now geared towards the release of 2.1.x with
particular enhancements to LDAP support and fixing issues.
Issues
------
No issues at the moment.
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Attachment E: Report from the Apache Axis Project [Deepal Jayasinghe]
The Apache Axis project is responsible for the creation and maintenance of
software related to the Axis Web Services frameworks and subsidiary
components. This August Axis2 completed its 10th year journey.
Community
=========
The level of participation is consistent and healthy.
User mailing list continue to be active, while we observed a fair amount of
traffic in developer list.
Releases
========================
No releases for this quarter, and limited time and resources have become a
blocker for the release.
Last releases:
Axis2/Java: April 2012
Rampart/Java: April 2012
Sandesha2/Java: April 2012
Axis2 Transports/Java: December 2009
Axis/Java: April 2006
Axis2/C: Apr 2009
Rampart/C: May 2009
Sandesha/C: Oct 2007
Savan/C: May 2007
Axis/C++ 1.x: March 2006
Issues
===========================
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
-----------------------------------------
Attachment F: Report from the Apache Bigtop Project [Konstantin Boudnik]
Apache Bigtop is a software related to a system for integration,
packaging, deployment and validation of a big data management
software distribution based on Apache Hadoop.
RELEASES
* The last release of Apache Bigtop was version 0.7.0, released on Nov 5, 2013
* Bigtop 0.8.0 is the next release scheduled for Q3 of 2014, based on
Hadoop 2.4.1
- RC1 is getting build at the time of the report writing
CURRENT ACTIVITY
* Development activity continues as can be seen from the following report:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/?filter=12329170
(since last board report, June 2014)
* Bigtop 0.8.0 is the next release the community is working on
* Accommodations were made to include Hadoop 2.4.1
* CI system has been cleaned and improved to allow work on new release
* Project's meetup was held on July 22, 2014
COMMUNITY
* No changes in community in this period
* Currently there are:
- Total of 117 subscribers to the developer list
- Total of 140 subscribers to the user list
- Total of 24 subscribers to the announce list
- Total of 26 committers
- Total of 21 PMC members
ISSUES
* There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
-----------------------------------------
Attachment G: Report from the Apache Bloodhound Project [Gary Martin]
Project Description
===================
Apache Bloodhound is a software development collaboration tool, including
issue tracking, wiki and repository browsing.
Issues
======
There are no issues that we believe currently require the board's attention.
Releases
========
There have been no releases over the last three months. The last releases
were:
* apache-bloodhound-0.6 (16th July 2013)
* apache-bloodhound-0.7 (23rd August 2013)
Community & Development
=======================
No new committee members have been added this quarter. The last new
committee members to be added joined in January 2013.
As mentioned in the previous report, Apache Bloodhound was involved in GSoC
for a second year, and we were able to accept three students with three
PMC members able to take on the duties of mentorship. In contrast with the
previous year where we only had one successful student, this year all of our
students were able to complete their projects successfully.
Following on from GSoC, we are beginning to look at the possible path of the
students to graduate to the PMC. Up until now we have not made any judgement
on whether the work towards GSoC is enough to warrant an automatic promotion
to the PMC.
Work towards a new release is ongoing. Currently there are no issues that
have been identified as blocking and so a candidate release is likely to be
ready for the community to vote on within a week.
In June and July we experienced some issues with the project's VMs which
appeared to be a result of the distribution upgrades that were required on
6th June. After requests to improve the puppet manifests to avoid excess
work on the main VM, the situation looks to have been resolved. However,
problems are sometimes reported with one of the two demos running on the
second VM.
-----------------------------------------
Attachment H: Report from the Apache BVal Project [Matt Benson]
The Apache BVal project implements the Java EE Bean Validation specification(s)
and related extensions, and became a top-level project of the foundation on
February 15, 2012.
### Releases ###
No new releases.
### Activity ###
Low, but clearly discernible, JIRA/commit activity this quarter. Currently the
project has but one active committer. A lack of volunteer availability/energy
has left the Commons Weaver dependency situation yet unresolved, but all things
in time.
### Community ###
No changes in community.
Last PMC member added Q4 2013
Last committer added Q3 2013
### Branding ###
Nothing to report.
### Legal ###
No concerns at present.
### Infrastructure ###
Nothing needed at the moment.
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Attachment I: Report from the Apache Camel Project [Christian Mueller]
Apache Camel is a powerful open source integration framework based on known
Enterprise Integration Patterns.
Project Status
--------------
* There are no issues that require the board attention.
* The project is healthy, active and stays at a high level.
Community
---------
* We got 3 new contributors who signed the ICLA.
* We have two talks scheduled at the next ApacheCon EU:
* Using Websocket With CXF And Camel - Akitoshi Yoshida
* Apache Camel In The Belly Of The Docker Whale - Henryk Konsek
* The community stays at a high level (307 subscribers at dev@; 772
subscribers at users@)
* The community is active and questions being answered in short term.
* Avg. 618 mails per month on the users mailing list in June 2014 -
August 2014
* Avg. 182 mails per month on the dev mailing list in June 2014 -
August 2014
* Avg. 347 committs per month in June 2014 - August 2014
Community Objectives
--------------------
* We finalized the Spring 4 and Java 8 support.
* We are planning to release Apache Camel 2.14.0 next week.
* Adding new features and improvements to Apache Camel in version 2.15.0.
Project Composition
-------------------
* no new committer was added in this reporting period
* the last committer was added at 06/11/2014
* no new PMC member was added in this reporting period
* the last PMC member was added at 04/24/2014
Releases
--------
* 2.12.4 (07/06/2014)
* 2.13.2 (07/06/2014)
-----------------------------------------
Attachment J: Report from the Apache Cayenne Project [Andrus Adamchik]
Apache Cayenne is a Java persistence framework. It takes a distinct approach
to object persistence and provides an ORM runtime, remote persistence
services, and a GUI mapping/modeling tool.
### Project Status
* Preparations are underway for Cayenne 3.1 Final (Release Candidate 1
was released on Feb 18).
* New feature development continues for Cayenne 3.2.
* Git migration has completed for the supported branches - 3.2, 3.1, 3.0
(the entire history is archived in Subversion). As a result of the
migration, we have received pull requests via GitHub which opens up
new avenues for developers to contribute.
* Confluence "CAY" space deleted since it was not used.
### Community
* Mailing list activity is about average on developer and user lists.
* The last PMC member was added in December 2012.
* The last committer was added in May 2012.
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Attachment K: Report from the Apache Celix Project [Alexander Broekhuis]
Celix is an OSGi like implementation in C with a distinct focus on
interoperability between Java and C.
Activity
Celix graduated in July, during the summer committers where mostly on
vacation, so not much has happened. Work has been picked up again.
Most graduation steps have been performed, the source and website have
been moved to the new location and mailing lists have been migrated.
There are still some open tasks, Jira send mails to the old list,
the website doesn't generate properly etc, that need some time to fix.
Statistics:
* Last committer added: 2014-03-04
* Last PMC member added: 2014-07-17 (Since we just graduated,
the whole PMC has been set up during graduation)
* Mailing list activity since graduation: 32 messages on dev
* Commits since graduation: 45 commits
* Last release: 2014-02-24: Apache Celix 1.0.0 release
-----------------------------------------
Attachment L: Report from the Apache Chemistry Project [Florian Müller]
Apache Chemistry is an effort to provide an implementation of the CMIS
(Content Management Interoperability Services) specification in Java,
Python, PHP, .NET, and Objective-C (and possibly other languages).
The project has graduated in February 2011.
== Project status ==
The sub-projects OpenCMIS (Java) and ObjectiveCMIS (Objective-C)
published a release this quarter.
A major enhancement to the DotCMIS sub-project (.Net) has been offered,
but hasn't been provided, yet.
There is not much activity around the other sub-projects at the moment.
Another group offered a web interface implementation for CMIS. We will
discuss if we accept the contribution and form a new sub-project when
we have access to the source code.
There are no board-level issues at this time.
== Community ==
Steady traffic on the mailing list but no community changes.
== Releases ==
Last releases:
OpenCMIS 0.12.0 2014-08-21
ObjectiveCMIS 0.4 2014-07-25
DotCMIS 0.6 2014-03-17
cmislib 0.5.1 2012-12-19
-----------------------------------------
Attachment M: Report from the Apache CloudStack Project [Hugo Trippaers]
DESCRIPTION
Apache CloudStack is open source software designed to deploy and manage
large networks of virtual machines, as a highly available, highly scalable
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud computing platform.
ISSUES
None
CURRENT ACTIVITY
* The community is working on maintenance releases for both the 4.3.0 and
the 4.4.0 releases.
* The agreed release schedule is not met at the moment as we regularly identify
quality issues in pending releases. This is an ongoing process, but slowly
we are improving our QA processes and introducing more testing capabilities.
* Apache CloudStack CloudMonkey 5.2.0 was released on Aug 28 2014. Apache
CloudStack CloudMonkey is a CLI tool for interacting with Apache
CloudStack and is distributed separate from Apache CloudStack
* Apache CloudStack 4.4.0 was released July 26 2014. Some issues were
identified with this release after the release. The community decided
not to market this release to a big audience and work on a maintenance
release immediately.
* The community is working with The Linux Foundation to prepare
the second European CloudStack Collaboration Conference
(CCCEU). CCCEU will planned following ApacheCon in
Budapest from November 19 till 21. It will have a new format
which will hopefully engage more users and developers.
* The CloudStack PMC was approached with a request to approve an outside
organization being formed in order for companies to pool resources together
to help promote Apache CloudStack. This included a specific request to use
the term CloudStack within the name of the organization. The PMC voted to
approve that request, but also consulted trademarks@ to get advice on how to
handle the situation.
The response led us to the decision to not formally approve the use of our
mark, but to point the requester to the ASF's domain name policy.
As a followup action, the PMC was asked to communicate its general agreement
to the concept of a trade organization being independently formed to help
promote our project. The PMC did that via an email to the "parent"
organization that is currently being considered by these companies as the
home for the CloudStack Alliance.
RELEASES
Apache CloudStack 4.4.0 was released on July 26, 2014.
Apache CloudStack CloudMonkey 5.2.0 was released on Aug 28, 2014
COMMUNITY
Including the following additions, CloudStack has 96 (+5) committers and
29 (+1) PMC members.
New Committers:
Amogh Vasekar (amoghvk) - May 29
Pierre-Luc Dion (pdion891) - June 5
Will Stevens (swill) - June 16
Santhosh Edukulla (santhoshedukulla) - June 24
Rajani Karuturi (rajani) - July 17
New PMC Members:
Mark R. Hinkle (mrhinkle) - July 3
The Apache CloudStack project remains a high volume community:
dev@ msgs = Jun: 1852, Jul: 1555, Aug: 1613
users@ msgs = Jun: 663, Jul: 710, Aug: 640
issues@ msgs = Jun: 1386, Jul: 1381, Aug: 1635
commits@ msgs = Jun: 700, Jul: 790, Aug: 808
marketing@ msgs = Jun: 251, Jul: 189, Aug:99
users-cn@ msgs = Jun: 54, Jul: 133, Aug: 73
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Attachment N: Report from the Apache Commons Project [Gary Gregory]
The Apache Commons project focuses on all aspects of reusable Java components.
The Apache Commons components are widely used in many projects, both within
Apache and without.
The last report was June 8 2014.
No issues require board attention at this time.
Overall project health is good with four releases this period. The [csv]
component finally crossed the 1.0 finish line and [imaging] is very close to
1.0 as well but not active right now.
Releases:
2014-07-10: Apache Commons Email 1.3.3
2014-07-10: Apache Commons Logging 1.2
2014-07-21: Apache Commons DbUtils 1.6
2014-08-15: Apache Commons CSV 1.0
New committers
2014-07-28: Michael Osipov
News
Apache Commons Math is migrating to Git from Subversion.
-----------------------------------------
Attachment O: Report from the Apache Community Development Project [Luciano Resende]
The Community Development PMC is responsible for helping people become
involved with Apache projects
Project Status
--------------
No issues require board attention at this time.
PMC changes
-----------
Jim Jagielski has been voted into the Community Development PMC on 2014-05-21.
Google Summer of Code
---------------------
GSoC is over. Of the initial 42 students 36 passed the midterm
evaluations and 35 passed the final evaluations.
The ComDev PMC decided to send Suresh Marru and Ulrich Stärk to the
GSoC Mentor Summit in Mountain View in October.
We had one case of alleged admittance to the program of one person
using multiple identities but the case could be dismissed after a
video conference and proof of identity has been submitted.
ComDev & Events
---------------
The ComDev PMC is now a "home" for some of the ConCom
responsibilities. Most of the recent discussions on our dev mailing
list are about ApacheCon EU 2014.
Other
-----
Replacement for Apache extras is still an open issue. Ross offered to
put somebody willing to drive the effort in contact with folks at
Sourceforge but nobody stepped up to take the responsibility for
driving it.
Invoices
--------
We will shortly approach the Fundraising team to prepare the invoice
for GSoC travel reimbursement and mentor stipends.
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Attachment P: Report from the Apache Cordova Project [Shazron Abdullah]
Apache Cordova is a platform for building native mobile applications using
HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
# Status
Current releases have been voted on according to the Apache vote policy. We
are currently on track for 8 new platform releases for version 3.6.0, and are
actively working on versions 3.7.0 and beyond for the upcoming quarter.
Since the last board report, Apache Cordova has had:
- over 2500 commits in its 52 Git repositories
- over 3700 emails in its dev mailing list
- over 4400 issues/comments on issues in JIRA
- 8 new contributors filed iCLAs specifically for contributing to Apache Cordova
- over 329,000 downloads of cordova from https://www.npmjs.org/package/cordova
Several security issues were resolved as well:
- CVE-2014-3500: Cordova cross-application scripting via Android intent URLs
(http://cordova.apache.org/announcements/2014/08/04/android-351.html)
- CVE-2014-3501: Cordova whitelist bypass for non-HTTP URLs
(http://cordova.apache.org/announcements/2014/08/04/android-351.html)
- CVE-2014-3502: Cordova apps can potentially leak data to other apps via URL
loading (http://cordova.apache.org/announcements/2014/08/04/android-351.html)
Since the last board report, Apache Cordova has had 44 different releases
which are related to the overall version of Apache Cordova 3.5.x, noted below.
# Community
Cordova welcomed the following new committers and PMC members:
- Parashuram Narasimhan (axemclion)
- Vladimir Kotikov (an-selm)
# Board Issues
There are no Board-level issues at this time.
# Releases (44)
- http://archive.apache.org/dist/cordova/
## Platforms (1)
Released August 4th , 2014
- cordova-android@3.5.1 ......... http://s.apache.org/3Ds
## Tools (5)
Released Aug 13th , 2014
- cordova-cordova-lib@0.21.7 ........ http://s.apache.org/ZXc
- cordova-cordova@3.5.0-0.2.7........ http://s.apache.org/ZXc
Released July 8th , 2014
- cordova-cordova-lib@0.21.6 ......... http://s.apache.org/tJ3
- cordova-cordova@3.5.0-0.2.6 ........ http://s.apache.org/tJ3
- cordova-plugman@0.22.4 ............. http://s.apache.org/tJ3
## Plugins (38)
Released Aug 11th, 2014
- cordova-plugin-battery-status@0.2.10 ........ http://s.apache.org/8pF
- cordova-plugin-camera@0.3.1 ................. http://s.apache.org/8pF
- cordova-plugin-console@0.2.10 ................http://s.apache.org/8pF
- cordova-plugin-contacts@0.2.12 .............. http://s.apache.org/8pF
- cordova-plugin-device@0.2.11 ................ http://s.apache.org/8pF
- cordova-plugin-device-motion@0.2.9 .......... http://s.apache.org/8pF
- cordova-plugin-device-orientation@0.3.8 ..... http://s.apache.org/8pF
- cordova-plugin-dialogs@0.2.9 ................ http://s.apache.org/8pF
- cordova-plugin-file@1.3.0 ................... http://s.apache.org/8pF
- cordova-plugin-file-transfer@0.4.5 .......... http://s.apache.org/8pF
- cordova-plugin-geolocation@0.3.9 ............ http://s.apache.org/8pF
- cordova-plugin-globalization@0.3.0 .......... http://s.apache.org/8pF
- cordova-plugin-inappbrowser@0.5.1 ........... http://s.apache.org/8pF
- cordova-plugin-media@0.2.12 ................. http://s.apache.org/8pF
- cordova-plugin-media-capture@0.3.2 .......... http://s.apache.org/8pF
- cordova-plugin-network-information@0.2.11 ....http://s.apache.org/8pF
- cordova-plugin-splashscreen@0.3.2 ........... http://s.apache.org/8pF
- cordova-plugin-statusbar@0.1.7 .............. http://s.apache.org/8pF
- cordova-plugin-vibration@0.3.10 ..............http://s.apache.org/8pF
Released July 7th, 2014
- cordova-plugin-contacts@0.2.11 .............. http://s.apache.org/C6S
Released June 27th, 2014
- cordova-plugin-network-information@0.2.10 ... http://s.apache.org/Ew6
Released June 12th, 2014
- cordova-plugin-camera@0.3.0 ................. http://s.apache.org/WME
- cordova-plugin-console@0.2.9 ................ http://s.apache.org/WME
- cordova-plugin-device-motion@0.2.8 .......... http://s.apache.org/WME
- cordova-plugin-device-orientation@0.3.7 ..... http://s.apache.org/WME
- cordova-plugin-device@0.2.10 ................ http://s.apache.org/WME
- cordova-plugin-dialogs@0.2.8 ................ http://s.apache.org/WME
- cordova-plugin-file@1.2.0 ................... http://s.apache.org/WME
- cordova-plugin-file-transfer@0.4.4 .......... http://s.apache.org/WME
- cordova-plugin-geolocation@0.3.8 ............ http://s.apache.org/WME
- cordova-plugin-globalization@0.2.8 .......... http://s.apache.org/WME
- cordova-plugin-inappbrowser@0.5.0 ........... http://s.apache.org/WME
- cordova-plugin-media-capture@0.3.1 .......... http://s.apache.org/WME
- cordova-plugin-media@0.2.11 ................. http://s.apache.org/WME
- cordova-plugin-network-information@0.2.9 .... http://s.apache.org/WME
- cordova-plugin-splashscreen@0.3.1 ........... http://s.apache.org/WME
- cordova-plugin-statusbar@0.1.6 .............. http://s.apache.org/WME
- cordova-plugin-vibration@0.3.9 .............. http://s.apache.org/WME
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Attachment Q: Report from the Apache cTAKES Project [Pei J Chen]
Apache cTAKES (clinical Text Analysis and Knowledge Extraction System) is
a natural language processing (NLP) tool for information extraction from
electronic medical record clinical free-text.
Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
Releases:
- ctakes-3.1.0 on 2013-08-30
- ctakes-3.1.1 on 2013-12-05
- ctakes-3.2.0 on 2014-07-23
Development:
The committee is actively working on a release candidate for 3.2.1
tentatively scheduled for Oct/Nov.
Some of the planned code changes for the upcoming release includes:
- Infra supplied us with a demo vm for demo purposes (demo-ctakes.a.o)
- New temporal models for extracting Time and Events relations.
- Upgrade to clearTK 2.0 (retraining of any existing clearTK models)
- Various bug fixes and code enhancements tracked by Jira
Community:
Last Committers/PMC:
Murali Nagendranath (2013-10-21)
Vijay Garla (2013-11-16)
There are a few federal grants submissions pending where we anticipate
more contributions/committers in the near future.
dev mailing list subscribers count: 131 (+9 since last report)
user mailing list subscribers count: 112 (+7 since last report)
-----------------------------------------
Attachment R: Report from the Apache Curator Project [Jordan Zimmerman]
The Apache Curator Java libraries make using Apache ZooKeeper much easier and
more reliable.
Community
=========
* Since our last report Curator has added two new committers, Cameron MacKenzie
and Scott Blum. They have both been very active and the project has benefited
greatly from them.
* Numerous online articles that mention Curator have been written:
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CURATOR/Third+Party+Articles
Development
===========
* Several successful releases have occurred since the last report
* Curator's adoption continues to grow:
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CURATOR/Powered+By
Issues for board consideration
==============================
None currently
-----------------------------------------
Attachment S: Report from the Apache DirectMemory Project [Raffaele P. Guidi]
Apache DirectMemory is an off-heap cache implementation for the JVM
* General Information
Development and mailing lists traffic are mostly quiet. The PMC is thinking
about ways to improve popularity and adoption of the project and some
proposals have been made
* Issues
No known issues at the time
* Committers or PMC members change
Last added PMC member was Noctarius (Cristoph Engelbert) on 2013-09-25
* Releases
Release 0.2 has seen the light on 2013-09-17
-----------------------------------------
Attachment T: Report from the Apache Empire-db Project [Francis De Brabandere]
Apache Empire-db is a relational database abstraction layer that allows
developers to take a more SQL-centric approach in application development
than traditional ORM frameworks. Its focus is to allow highly efficient
database operations in combination with a maximum of compile-time-safety
and DBMS independence.
Progress of the project
During the last three months we have worked on a new release with contains
several bugfixes and improvements. The release was approved and published
on 20/Aug/2014.
We have also received suggestions and code contributions from uses which
we will evaluate and integrate in an upcoming release.
Changes in committers or PMC members
There have been no changes in committers or PMC members during the last
months.
Issues
There are no issues that require the board's attention at this time.
Releases
Apache-Empire-db 2.4.3 released on 20/Aug/2014
-----------------------------------------
Attachment U: Report from the Apache Felix Project [Carsten Ziegeler]
Apache Felix is a project aimed at implementing specifications from the
OSGi Alliance as well as implementing other supporting tools and technologies
aligned with OSGi technology.
Community
PMC: One new PMC member has been added: David Bosschaert
Committers: No new committers have been added in this report period.
The last new committer was added in Dec. 2013
Steady mailing list activity.
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
Software
Apache Felix Maven Bundle Plugin 2.5.3 (August 31, 2014)
Apache Felix Maven Bundle Plugin 2.5.2 (August 27, 2014)
Apache Felix Maven SCR Plugin 1.20.0 (August 25, 2014)
Apache Felix Event Admin 1.4.0 released (August 25, 2014)
Apache Felix Maven SCR Plugin 1.19.0 (Jul 31, 2014)
Apache Felix SCR Ant Task 1.13.0 (Jul 31, 2014)
Apache Felix SCR Bnd Plugin 1.3.0 (Jul 31, 2014)
Apache Felix SCR DS Annotations 1.2.8 (Jul 31, 2014)
Apache Felix SCR Generator 1.12.0 (Jul 31, 2014)
Apache Felix WebConsole OBR Plugin 1.0.2 (July 25, 2014)
Apache Felix Dependency Manager 3.2.0 (July 21, 2014)
Apache Felix Framework 4.4.1 (July 14, 2014)
Apache Felix Maven Bundle Plugin 2.5.0 (June 26, 2014)
Apache Felix Bundle Repository (OBR) 2.0.2 (June 26, 2014)
Apache FelixGogo Runtime 0.12.1 and Command 0.14.0 (June 23, 2014)
Apache Felix HTTP Service 2.3.0 (June 13, 2014)
Project Branding
TM missing from all Logos
Licensing and other issues
None
-----------------------------------------
Attachment V: Report from the Apache Flex Project [Alex Harui]
Apache Flex is an application framework for easily building Flash-based
applications for mobile devices, the browser and desktop.
RELEASES
-Apache Flex Installer 3.1.0 was also released on 7/14/14.
-Apache Flex SDK 4.13.0 was released on 7/16/14.
-Apache FlexJS 0.0.2 was released on 7/17/14.
-Apache Flex FalconJX 0.0.2 was released on 7/17/14.
-Apache Flex Tour De Flex Component Explorer was released on 8/21/14.
ACTIVITY
Activity in Apache Flex is becoming more diverse. While there is still
work going on fixing bugs in the existing Adobe Flash Platform-dependent
code base, and on FlexJS, a version of Flex that is independent from the
Adobe Flash Platform, there has been more tangible activity working on
Maven support for the various releases, another release of the Installer
that better tracks why Apache Flex installs have a high failure rate, the
donated Tour De Flex was released, a release of a Spell Checking library
is in progress, and a committer and recently-added committer are working
on TLF Table support in a GitHub fork.
Also, we reconfigured both the Flex SDK and FlexJS SDK install scripts to
use download servers that are not blocked in China, and had the install
scripts localized to Chinese, enabling what we hope will eventually become
a significant population of users. On our website, China is not too far
behind the US as the most frequent visitors.
Adobe is starting to shutdown some of its Flex-related web sites. We
had to reconfigure our installer to download some optional Flex
dependencies from different servers, but installs of older Apache Flex
releases are now broken. One a good note, Adobe did install redirects
from its version of Tour De Flex to ours, resulting in a significant
boost in traffic and attention.
In the past three months we've continued to see:
- Continued JIRA activity (more bugs raised than resolved however)
- New committers and potential committers.
Code Donation Update
-Swiz donation is still pending. The donor has not filed the paperwork.
-Judah Frangipane donated the Radii8 code base. It is a tool to help
Apache Flex users design their UI.
COMMUNITY
-Chris Martin, Darkstone and Judah Frangipane were added as committers
-Latest analytics include around 2000 hits per day on the website during
the work week (less on weekends). That's slightly down from before.
-There were more than 4,000 installs of 4.13.0 in the 6 weeks since its release.
-There were more than 120 installs of FlexJS in the 6 weeks since its release.
-There have now been more than 60,000 installs of the Apache Flex SDK.
-----------------------------------------
Attachment W: Report from the Apache Gump Project [Stefan Bodewig]
Apache Gump is a cross-project continuous integration server. Gump's
intention isn't so much to be a CI server but rather a vehicle that
makes people look beyond their project's boundaries and helps the
projects to collaborate.
Gump is written in Python and supports several build tools and version
control systems. The Apache installation of Gump builds ASF as well
as non-ASF projects and their dependencies. It started in the Java
part of the foundation but also builds projects like APR, HTTPd and
XMLUnit.NET.
== Summary ==
Gump seems to create useful results for the few projects that use it.
This quarter showed more activity than usual with Gump learning to
deal with git submodules and vmgump being upgraded to Ubuntu 14.04.
== Releases ==
Gump has never done any releases. One reason for this is that the ASF
installations of Gump work on the latest code base almost all of the
time following its "integrate everything continuously" philosophy.
== Activity ==
With Ant and the Antlibs migrated to git and the Antlibs using git
submodules it was necessary to add support for transparent handling of
git submodules, this has been implemented in July and seems to work
well enough.
Mark Thomas was kind enough to upgrade vmgump from Ubuntu 10.04 to
14.04 which freed us from the need of a hand compiled git and provided
us with a few more recent compilers and libraries. Mark has been
added to the list of sudoers on vmgump.
vmgump's httpd has been added to the lists of services monitored by
infra "the pubsubified way".
== Changes to the Roster ==
All ASF committers have write access to the metadata that configure
the ASF installations.
No new committers to the code base, no changes to the PMC. The most
recent addition to the PMC was in December 2006 when we added Sander
Temme.
-----------------------------------------
Attachment X: Report from the Apache Helix Project [Kishore Gopalakrishna]
Project Description
===================
Apache Helix is a generic cluster management framework used to build
distributed systems and provides automatic partition management, fault
tolerance and elasticity.
Development
===========
- Implemented extensions to task framework, including smarter retry logic and
queuing of jobs
- Dashboard contributed by a GSOC student
- Netty-based IPC framework contributed by the community
- Task framework with YARN integration tested on a live YARN deployment
- 48 new JIRAS since last report
- 56 issues resolved
Community
=========
- 100+ emails on the dev list
- 90+ emails on the user list
- Community effort in designing the IPC framework, including email threads,
wiki pages, and GitHub pull request comments
Releases
=========
- Two new releases are approved and will soon be announced:
-- 0.6.4: Bug fixes and support for task framework
-- 0.7.1 beta: Bug fixes, task framework, YARN integration, performant IPC
-----------------------------------------
Attachment Y: 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/la
* A Hive User Group meeting was held on March 17th at Hortonworks'
office in Palo Alto. The next Hive User Group meeting is scheduled
for October 15th in New York City.
* Gopal Vijayaraghavan, Szehon Ho, Prasanth J, Vaibhav Gumashta, Alan
Gates, Daniel Dai, Sushanth Sowmyan, and Eugene Koifman were voted
in as committers. The most recent addition was made on September 12th.
* Currently there are:
- 719 subscribers to the developer list
- 1865 subscribers to the user list
- 16 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: [DONE]
* Logos and Graphics: [DONE]
* Project Metadata: [DONE]
-----------------------------------------
Attachment Z: 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 REEF as a new incubating
project in August. Aurora, Drill, Sentry, Twill, Flink, and Optiq all had
releases since the last report.
* Community
New IPMC members:
No additions
People who left the IPMC:
(none)
* New Podlings
REEF
* Graduations
The board has motions for the following:
Apache Storm
* Releases
The following releases were made since the last Incubator report:
Apache Aurora 0.5.0-incubating
Apache Drill 0.4.0-incubating, 1.0.0-m1-incubating
Apache Sentry 1.4.0-incubating
Apache Twill 0.3.0-incubating
Apache Flink 0.6-incubating
Apache Optiq 0.9.0-incubating
* IP Clearance
Radii8 for Apache Flex
Apache Sqoop Contribution
* Legal / Trademarks
Apache OPTIQ wishes to trademark it's name
* Infrastructure
Nothing to report
* Podlings without mentor sign offs
None
* Miscellaneous
-------------------- Summary of podling reports --------------------
* Still getting started at the Incubator
REEF
* Not yet ready to graduate
No release:
Argus
Brooklyn
Fleece
log4cxx2
Wave
Community growth:
Brooklyn
Drill
Falcon
Fleece
MRQL
Optiq
Sentry
Wave
* Ready to graduate
The Board has motions for the following:
Storm
* Did not report, expected next month
Streams
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Table of Contents
Argus
Brooklyn
Drill
Falcon
Fleece
Kalumet
log4cxx2
MRQL
Optiq
REEF
Sentry
Storm
Streams
Wave
----------------------------------------------------------------------
--------------------
Argus
The Argus project is a framework to enable, monitor and manage
comprehensivedata 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 - COMPLETED
2. Publish initial code drop along with a code grant - COMPLETED
3. Get approval for name of Argus (PODLINGNAMESEARCH-54) - IN PROGRESS
4. Create a project website - TO DO
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?
* Developers are showing interest in contribution to Apache Argus
How has the project developed since the last report?
* Code Grant has been sent to Apache
* Initial Codebase is uploaded to Apache Argus git repository
* Review Board for Argus project has been setup for code review process
* Total of 32 JIRA tickets have been created; out of which 21 of them
are RESOLVED.
- 9 - CLOSED
- 12 - RESOLVED,
- 3 - PATCH_AVAILABLE
- 4 - IN PROGRESS
- 4 - OPEN
Date of last release:
none yet
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
none yet
Signed-off-by:
[ ](argus) Alan Gates
[ ](argus) Daniel Gruno
[ ](argus) Devaraj Das
[x](argus) Jakob Homan
[x](argus) Owen O'Malley
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
Argus appears to be brand new. They don't have a working website yet (was
unclear if there was a pending ticket for it not), though mailing list is
working and let me subscribe. They do have a draft board report floating
around their mailing list, which is a great sign for a brand new podling.
--------------------
Brooklyn
Brooklyn is a framework for modeling, 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 organization)
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?
Our community continues to grow slowly but surely, and has received
contributions from new community members that are significant and
highly interesting to our project.
How has the project developed since the last report?
No major changes from the last report; we are well-settled into our
new home and commits are being made at a regular rate. Preparation for
our first release continues.
We neglected to mention in last month's report about the completion of
a code grant for the "camp-server" component. This is a crucial
component of Brooklyn, and deserves its place in Brooklyn, rather than
an external dependency where we would have no control over release
schedules and bug fixing. So we are grateful to the donor, Cloudsoft,
for passing this component to Apache Brooklyn.
Date of last release:
No releases under Apache yet.
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
No change since 2014-07-02.
Signed-off-by:
[ ](brooklyn) Matt Hogstrom
[ ](brooklyn) Alex Karasulu
[X](brooklyn) David Nalley
[ ](brooklyn) Marcel Offermans
[ ](brooklyn) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
[ ](brooklyn) Olivier Lamy
[ ](brooklyn) Chip Childers
[ ](brooklyn) Andrei Savu
[X](brooklyn) Joe Brockmeier
[X](brooklyn) Jim Jagielski
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
(rvs) a very strong community, the only thing missing to make it exemplary
would be a release ;-)
--------------------
Drill
Description:
Apache Drill is a distributed system for interactive analysis of
large-scale datasets that is based on Google's Dremel. Its goal is to
efficiently process nested data, scale to 10,000 servers or more and to be
able to process petabyes of data and trillions of records in seconds.
Drill has been incubating since 2012-08-11.
In the previous reports, the following were listed as goals before
graduation
1. Complete the feature set
2. Continue to attract new developers/contributors with a variety of
skills and viewpoints
3. Continue the outreach activities to build the early user community for
the technology
These have been achieved and the podling has made several releases with no
more than minor issues that were related to changing requirements for
notices in incubator projects. The next release (0.5) is currently being
voted on. Subsequent to that, the podling is likely to vote to request the
board to graduate Drill to TLP status.
Issues to Call to Attention of PMC or ASF Board:
None
How community has developed since last report:
Community awareness and outreach were strengthened in multiple forums as
below
8/7/14 Big Data Analytics Melbourne MC Srivas
8/13/14 Chicago HUG Chicago Jim Scott
8/20/14 Pittsburgh HUG Pittsburgh Andy Pernsteiner
8/21/14 Heartland Big Data Omaha, NE Neeraja Rentachintala
8/26/14 Data Mining San Francisco, CA Tomer Shiran
Mailing list discussions:
Activity summary for the user mailing list:
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-drill-user/
* June 2014: 79
* July 2014, 12
* August 2014, 63
Activity summary for the dev mailing list:
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-drill-dev/
* June 2014, 374
* July 2014, 294
* August 2014, 247
For details of code commits, see
https://github.com/apache/incubator-drill/graphs/commit-activity (about
400 commits in the past 3 months)
31 contributors have participated in GitHUB code activity; there have
been 152 forks.
Community Interactions
Monthly Drill hangout continues, conducted remotely through Google
hangouts Tuesday mornings 10am Pacific Time to keep core developers in
contact in realtime despite geographical separation.
Community stays in touch through @ApacheDrill Twitter ID, and by postings
on various blogs including Apache Drill User http://drill-user.org/ which
has had several updates and through international presentations at
conferences.
Articles
Examples of articles or reports on Apache Drill since last report
include:
* Self Service Data Exploration is Here by Neeraja Rentachintala
Social Networking
@ApacheDrill Twitter entity is active and has grown substantially by 20%,
to 1057 followers.
How project has developed since last report
Web-site clean slate revamp
Significant progress has been made in performance and stability
New functionality has been added to the product including reading and
writing complex types in Parquet, as well as using hadoop 2 API for
Parquet
Nearly ~450 bugs filed and ~550 bugs resolved
New docs have been published on Drill wiki ( Develop Custom Functions,
Querying HBase Tables, Querying Complex Data)
Started monthly releases. 0.4 release at end of July.
Announcement: http://s.apache.org/t0a
0.5 release currently up for vote.
Signed-off-by:
[x](drill) Ted Dunning
[x](drill) Grant Ingersoll
[ ](drill) Isabel Drost-Fromm
[X](drill) Sebastian Schelter
--------------------
Falcon
Falcon is a data processing and management solution for Hadoop designed for
data motion, coordination of data pipelines, lifecycle management, and data
discovery. Falcon enables end consumers to quickly onboard their data and
its associated processing and management tasks on Hadoop clusters.
Falcon has been incubating since 2013-03-27.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Continue to build community
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?
* Three more committers were invited and they have accepted to join the
project
* More users & contributors have joined the falcon project and the
community continues to grow
How has the project developed since the last report?
* Development activity has been very hectic more than 200 JIRAs have been
created and about 120 of them resolved since the last report
* There are more than 100 users subscribed on the dev mailing list
* We have formaulated bi weekly sync up to coordinate with developers and
contributors across the world
* 0.5-incubating release has been withdrawn due to LICENSE & NOTICE issues
and same is intended to be prepared for vote shortly and will be released
in Sep 2014.
Date of last release:
2014-02-03 (0.4-incubating)
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
Aug 28, 2014
Signed-off-by:
[ ](falcon) Arun Murthy
[X](falcon) Chris Douglas
[ ](falcon) Owen O'Malley
[ ](falcon) Devaraj Das
[X](falcon) Alan Gates
--------------------
Fleece (currently renaming to Johnzon)
Implementation of JSR 353: JavaTM API for JSON Processing.
Fleece/Johnzon 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".
New approved name is "Johnzon". Waiting for INFRA-8269.
2. Expanding the community, increase dev list activity and adding
new committers.
3. Publish first incubator release.
The Fleece project status page at http://s.apache.org/0m
needs updating but that would be pending on #1 due to many items on
the statuspage need to be re-visited once #1 is settled.
Clutch needs also an update.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
* N/A
How has the community developed since the last report?
* Voted in one new committer.
How has the project developed since the last report?
* Some minor fixes and improvements.
Date of last release:
* No releases as of yet.
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
* New committer Hendrik Saly (salyh) on 2014-08-23
Signed-off-by:
[X](fleece) Justin Mclean
[ ](fleece) Christian Grobmeier
[ ](fleece) Daniel Kulp
--------------------
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 September, 20) 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:
[X](kalumet) Jim Jagielski
[ ](kalumet) Henri Gomez
[X](kalumet) Jean-Baptiste Onofre
[X](kalumet) Olivier Lamy
--------------------
log4cxx2
Logging for C++
log4cxx2 has been incubating since 2013-12-09.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. We need to release 0.11.0 as maintenance release.
2. We probably need to decide what's an acceptable platform/compiler
list, sort out any remaining hiccups, and then move towards a release.
3. We need to make a broader use of the ASF infrastructure
(notably the CI, as well as improved management of the Jira
site - notably with triaging), and establish a roadmap for
the next releases.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
N/A
How has the community developed since the last report?
No changes in team.
How has the project developed since the last report?
Mails suggest that there's work going on in the background by some
committers especially regarding the build process, but there hasn't been
any notable commit in the last weeks. The current trunk now fixes most of
the important outstanding bugs and we are actively supporting the
project. Some minor changes have been applied for the website.
Date of last release:
2008-04-03 was the official, pre-incubation 0.10.0
Many post-0.10.0 commits exist on trunk which we intend to get out as
0.11.x.
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
N/A
Signed-off-by:
[X](log4cxx2) Christian Grobmeier
[ ](log4cxx2) Scott Deboy
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
log4cxx is still getting started. While activity is happening, they need
to get their first release out the door to be successful and start to get
interest.
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MRQL
MRQL is a query processing and optimization system for large-scale,
distributed data analysis, built on top of Apache Hadoop, Hama, Spark, and
Flink.
MRQL has been incubating since 2013-03-13.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. increase the number of active committers
2. increase adoption, expand user community, and increase user list
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?
We have released our second release under Apache incubation. After we
added Apache Flink as an evaluation backend for MRQL, there was an
interest by the Flink community in our project, which may result in
collaboration between the projects and may expand our user community.
How has the project developed since the last report?
We have added support for Apache Flink. Now users can run MRQL queries
on a Yarn cluster using 4 different backends (Hadoop map-reduce, Hama,
Spark, and Flink), without having to change their queries.
Date of last release:
2014-06-26
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
2014-04-17
Signed-off-by:
[X](mrql) Alan Cabrera
[ ](mrql) Anthony Elder
[ ](mrql) Alex Karasulu
[ ](mrql) Mohammad Nour El-Din
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
jmclean: Mentors active and project healthy. Project has discussed
graduation but feels it needs more active committers.
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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: nightly builds).
2. Re-organize code into org.apache.optiq namespace.
3. Improve web site.
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 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:
* First release approved by PPMC and Incubator PMC
* Web site
We will push our and announce the release shortly.
Apache infrastructure is extremely frustrating. The release has
taken a lot longer than it should have because it frequently makes
this newbie feel like an idiot. Questions are answered promptly but
it is difficult to know what questions to ask.
Date of last release:
2014-08-25
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
2014-07-15
Signed-off-by:
[X](optiq) Ted Dunning
[X](optiq) Alan Gates
[X](optiq) Steven Noels
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REEF
REEF (Retainable Evaluator Execution Framework) is a scale-out computing
fabric that eases the development of Big Data applications on top of
resource managers such as Apache YARN and Mesos.
REEF has been incubating since 2014-08-12.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Set up the basic infrastructure: git repository, mailing lists
(INFRA-8190)
2. Publish initial code drop along with a code grant
3. Get approval for name of REEF (PODLINGNAMESEARCH-55)
4. Update the existing project web site
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?
* All committers have filed ICLAs.
* JIRA created
* Status page 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](reef) Chris Douglas
[X](reef) Chris Mattmann
[ ](reef) Ross Gardler
[X](reef) Owen O'Malley
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Sentry
Sentry is a highly modular system for providing fine grained role based
authorization to both data and metadata stored on an Apache Hadoop cluster.
Sentry has been incubating since 2013-08-08.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Continue to grow the Sentry community
2. Initiate graduation discussion with community and address any
potential concerns raised
3. Update project status page, website etc.
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?
The community is growing. A number of new members have started actively
contributing to the project. New contributors made a significant
contribution in patches as well as release activity. Two of contributors
are elected to become new committers.
How has the project developed since the last report?
The project did its 3rd release from incubation. Thanks to lot of hard
work and initiative from the release manager Tuong Truong, Sravya
Tirukkovalur as his mentor and contributions from other community
members, version 1.4 was released on 18th August. Several new features
and patches are being actively worked on the master branch.
Date of last release:
2014-08-19
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
Arun Suresh and Tuong Truong have been added as a committer as announced
on 9/1/2014. No new PPMC members have been added since the project has
entered the incubator.
Signed-off-by:
[X](sentry) Arvind Prabhakar
[X](sentry) Joe Brockmeier
[X](sentry) David Nalley
[ ](sentry) Olivier Lamy
[X](sentry) Patrick Hunt
[ ](sentry) Thomas White
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
dev@ list is active, although the amount of traffic was quite lower this
month, compare to the past periods. Mentors are visible (IPMC report
discussion)
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Storm
Storm is a distributed, fault-tolerant, and high-performance realtime
computation system that provides strong guarantees on the processing of
data.
Storm has been incubating since 2013-09-18.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
N/A - Storm is ready to graduate.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
Both the Storm PPMC and the IPMC have voted to graduate. The graduation
resolution has been sent to the board for approval.
How has the community developed since the last report?
The Storm community continues to grow, and the mailing lists are quite
active. We have added 3 additional committers/PPMC members.
How has the project developed since the last report?
We have issued one release and are preparing for the next release.
Date of last release:
2014-06-24
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
2014-08-26
Signed-off-by:
[x](storm) Ted Dunning
[x](storm) Arvind Prabhakar
[ ](storm) Devaraj Das
[ ](storm) Matt Franklin
[ ](storm) Benjamin Hindman
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Wave
A wave is a hosted, live, concurrent data structure for rich communication.
It can be used like email, chat, or a document.
Wave has been incubating since 2010-12-04.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Make a release.
2. Grow community.
3. Develop new feature/fix bugs.
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?
A new committer joined us. There has been increased activity from existing
members, and we have started receiving patches from a new developer.
How has the project developed since the last report?
Work has continued on generating our first release. We are now testing out
RC6 - after RC5 failed due to a couple of missing licenses, and a bug in
the MongoDB implementation. In the mean time, development work on the main
branch has added profiling support, JDK 7 support, Solr as a search backend,
and various bugfixes.
Date of last release:
No release yet.
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
July 2014 - Andrew Kaplanov
Signed-off-by:
[X](wave) Christian Grobmeier
[ ](wave) Upayavira
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Attachment AA: Report from the Apache Jackrabbit Project [Michael Dürig]
The Apache Jackrabbit™ content repository is a fully conforming
implementation of the Content Repository for Java™ Technology API
(JCR, specified in JSR 170 and 283).
The Apache Jackrabbit project is in good shape. We have no board-level
issues at this time.
o Releases
We made the following unstable release from Jackrabbit trunk:
* Apache Jackrabbit 2.9 on August 28th
We made the following maintenance releases from the Jackrabbit Oak sub
project:
* Apache Jackrabbit Oak 1.0.2 on July 14th
* Apache Jackrabbit Oak 1.0.3 on July 28th
* Apache Jackrabbit Oak 1.0.4 on August 4th
* Apache Jackrabbit Oak 1.0.5 on August 29th
o Community / Development
* Amit Jain joined the Jackrabbit team as committer and PMC member
in June.
* .adaptTo() Berlin 2014 will be featuring a session on Jackrabbit
Oak in September.
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Attachment AB: Report from the Apache Karaf Project [Jean-Baptiste Onofré]
Apache Karaf provides higher level features and services
specifically designed for creating OSGi-based servers.
Community
=========
We have two talks scheduled at the next ApacheCon EU:
- Enterprise Development with Apache Karaf
- Best Practices for Design and Development of OSGi Applications in Apache Karaf
and a tutorial:
- Application Integration in OSGi on Apache Karaf
We also have a talk and workshop scheduled at JUG Barcelona.
Last committer addition: October 21, 2013
Last PMC addition: September 05, 2012
Development
===========
The following new releases have been voted:
- Apache Karaf 2.3.6 (maintenance release) (August 1, 2014)
- Apache Karaf Cave 3.0.0 (major release) (July 4, 2014)
- Apache Karaf Cellar 3.0.0 (major release) (June 27, 2014)
We plan to release a Karaf 3.0.2 version (especially for Java8 support) and
Karaf 2.4.0 version (for full support of Karaf 3.0.x branch) in the coming
weeks. Due to a Windows platform issue, we plan to release Karaf 2.3.7 soon as
well.
Issues for board consideration
==============================
None so far.
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Attachment AC: Report from the Apache Labs Project [Tim Williams]
Apache Labs hosts small and emerging projects from ASF committers.
[STATUS]
Another typical quiet couple months for Labs. The PMC remains quiet and
healthy.
[DETAILS]
== Community ==
A couple researchers had work, otherwise it’s back to being
fairly quiet with nothing significant to report.
== Labs Statistics ==
- new: 0
- status changes (last 3 months): 0
- total number: 41
- active: 17
- idle: 15
- promoted: 3
- completed: 8
- labs with commits: panopticon, alike
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Attachment AD: Report from the Apache Lucene Project [Mark Miller]
The Apache Lucene project develops open-source search software.
TLP
---
We added one new committer in the last quarter: Tomás Fernández Löbbe George
Aroush went emeritus from the PMC.
We have closed down the OpenRelevance sub project. The project is dead,
mailing lists are currently removed. We have preserved the Wiki.
Lucene Core and Solr
--------------------
Lucene Core is a search-engine toolkit.
Solr is a search server built on top of Lucene Core.
In the last quarter we made two releases of both Lucene Core and Solr:
- 4.9.0 on 25 June 2014
- 4.10.0 on 3 Sept 2014
The corresponding Apache Solr Reference Guide was released as PDF version,
generated from the Confluence Wiki:
- 4.9 on 30 June 2014
- 4.10 on 7 Sept 2014
The community is very active.
Security: There were two security issues reported:
- An XXE vulnerability was reported against Apache Solr
(CVE-2014-3529). The issue was caused by the bundled Apache
POI library. Apache POI fixed the issue and released
bugfix packages. An advisory was posted on the Solr web page
about how to update the bundled libraries in existing
deployments. The recent release of Apache Solr 4.10.0 is no
longer vulnerable.
- External search web pages, referenced by the Lucene/Solr
site, were vulnerable to an XSS attack. Both providers,
LucidWorks and Sematext, were contacted and they
fixed the problem.
PyLucene
--------
PyLucene is a Python integration of Lucene Java. Development is almost
entirely an automated port, so this project will never require a lot of
developers. The user community is active.
In the last quarter we made one release of PyLucene:
- 4.9.0-0 on 17 July 2014
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Attachment AE: Report from the Apache Lucene.Net Project [Prescott Nasser]
Apache Lucene.Net is a port of the Lucene search engine library, written in C#
and targeted at .NET runtime users.
== Summary ==
In the last month we have had a significant contribution from some interns at
Microsoft. After working through CLA/ICLA issues we were able to get their
code for a port of Java Lucene 4.8 into our official Lucene.Net repo. We are
actively working on getting tests to pass (with approx. 3/4ths passing). As
well as porting additional contrib packages for additional functionality.
We had some issues with the ICLA, and it was determined, with legal, secretary
and some board input, that we are not going to question CLA's and their
responses where they say they do not require employer CCLA's.
== Releases ==
Working toward 4.8. Additionally we have a 4.3 port targeting portable common
library in the works.
== Statistics ==
Nuget package downloads:
Lucene.Net 3.0.3: 85731
Lucene.Net Contrib 3.0.3: 25325
Lucene.Net Contrib Spatial: 3480
Lucene.Net Contrib Spatial.NTS: 842
== Additional Information ==
- We've gotten some support from Microsoft developers, it looks like there is
a group in MSFT that is taking an active interest in this project (just an
observation)
- We've had some questions about the health of the project on our mailing
list, as well as a number of people asking how they could get involved
(from website maintenance to porting code)
- A few of our committers are very active working to finalize the v4 port of
Lucene.Net
- There have been ~50 new questions tagged as Lucene.Net since July
(http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/lucene.net?page=1&sort=newest&pagesize=50)
- Overall, I feel we are doing ok, but as a team we need to get a new release
out (last release was end of 2012)
Our last PMC Member and Committer was added late 2013
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Attachment AF: Report from the Apache MRUnit Project [Brock Noland]
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Attachment AG: Report from the Apache OFBiz Project [Jacopo Cappellato]
Apache OFBiz is an open source product for the automation of
enterprise processes that includes framework components and business
applications for Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP),
Customer Relationship Management (CRM),
E-Business / E-Commerce, Supply Chain Management (SCM),
Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRP).
We have no issues that require Board assistance at this time.
*Releases*
* Apache OFBiz 12.04.03 has been released in June 2014
* Apache OFBiz 11.04.05 has been released in August 2014
* Apache OFBiz 12.04.04 has been released in August 2014
* note that 11.04.05 and 12.04.04 have been released in order to fix a
security vulnerability (CVE-2014-0232) that has been reported to the
Apache Security Team; we have handled this security fix according to
the security workflow; the process is now complete
* the stabilization of the latest release branch 13.07 is mostly complete; the
release date has been postponed but we should get a new release before
the end of 2014
*Community and Project*
* committers: Sharan Foga is a new committer since July 2014
* PMC members: no new PMC members; the last PMC member is
Erwan de Ferrieres (erwan) invited in December 2009; Adrian Crum
resigned from the PMC in June 2014
* the PMC is aware of the importance of working with the community in order to
encourage new contributors and promote them to committers and PMC members;
the PMC is now considering for invitation individuals that, even if they are
not developers, are committed to the project, show a positive attitude and
ability to work with the community; the new committer, Sharan Foga, is a
good example of this new course because she is a consultant, project
manager, technical writer and she is currently helping to improve the OFBiz
documentation
* ApacheCon: a full OFBiz track has been included in the schedule at
ApacheCon Europe 2014 in Budapest: the six presentations will cover a range of
business and technical topics; the 6 speakers are from all over Europe (Czech
Republic, France, Italy and The Netherlands).
* mailing list traffic and commit rates are steady
*Infra/Legal*
We have no issues that require Board assistance.
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Attachment AH: Report from the Apache Olingo Project [Stephan Klevenz]
Apache Olingo is an effort to provide an implementation of the OASIS
OData (Open Data) specification in Java, and Javascript (and possibly
other languages). The project has graduated in April 2014.
* When did the project last make any releases?
The latest release is version 2.0.0 and was built on 2014-07-11.
* Describe the overall activity in the project over the past quarter.
Olingo community is working on support for OASIS OData 4.0 standard, is in
discussion for the first 4.0 release and is doing the maintenance for OData 2.0
which is already released. The project has a healthy community and is getting
more stakeholders. Mailing list and Jira do show constant traffic.
* When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
The PMC is still initial after graduation in April 2014:
Last PMC member: 2014-03-19
Last committer: 2014-02-10
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Attachment AI: Report from the Apache OODT Project [Sean Kelly]
DESCRIPTION
Apache OODT is a software framework as well as an architectural style for the
rapid construction of scientific data systems. It provides components for
data capture, curation, metadata extraction, workflow management, resource
management, and data processing.
RELEASES/DEVELOPMENT
• OODT-0.6 on 2013-07-17
• OODT-0.5 on 2012-12-25
We resolved 40 issues in JIRA [1] since our last report as we gear up for
OODT-0.7.
Our development mailing lists remain popular, while the user list shows less
activity. The table below lists the number of postings by list, by month,
in 2014:
List Jul Aug Sep
---- --- --- ---
dev 198 192 17
user 25 7 0
COMMUNITY
Latest committers and PMC members:
• Michael Starch (starchmd) 2014-07-14 (committer and PMC member)
• Tyler Palsulich (tpalsulich) 2014-07-22 (committer and PMC member)
PRESS
The NASA Orbiting Carbon Observatory [2] mission launched into Earth orbit on
2014-07-02. Apache OODT (as well as Apache Tika [3]) powers its ground data
system.
Similarly, the NASA Airborne Snow Observatory [4], which uses aircraft-based
laser radar (LIDAR) to measure snowpack. Apache OODT is a core component that's
pivotal in this mission that's understanding California drought [5].
[1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OODT
[2] http://oco.jpl.nasa.gov/
[3] http://tika.apache.org/
[4] http://aso.jpl.nasa.gov/
[5] http://s.apache.org/1li
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Attachment AJ: Report from the Apache OpenMeetings Project [Sebastian Wagner]
This report was due for the board meeting in August 2014.
Apache OpenMeetings provides video conferencing, instant messaging, white
board, collaborative document editing and other groupware tools using API
functions of the Red5 Streaming Server for Remoting and Streaming.
== Releases ==
Version 3.0.2 has been released. Version 3.0.2 is the second bugfix release
of Apache OpenMeetings. There is currently a vote running for 3.0.3 and it is
expected to be released some time in September.
== Activity ==
The constant activity in mailing list, jira and commits.
The process of migrating OpenMeetings from Ant/Ivy to a Maven module build is
complete. Also the website at http://openmeetings.apache.org is re-build
using more or less the same content but using the Maven website templates.
Trunk is already version 3.1.x. Version 3.1.x reduces the amount of Flash
used again. While version 3.0.x is still using OpenLaszlo and the entire
conference room is using Flash, in version 3.1.x only the video containers
are Flash. The rest of the conference room is build using HTML5. Also this
version will build those Flash components using Apache Flex.
Infra team provided a demo server to the project. We are still in the process
of installing some of the SSL components of OpenMeetings.
The idea is to expand the automated testing in the next 6-12 months with a
Selenium test suite that runs against that server. And to integrated that
into the daily builds and release process.
== Community ==
There is constant activity in the mailing list however no new members have
been voted into a PMC role.
== Infrastructure ==
No outstanding issue. We have seen that there is some work ongoing to provide
a SSL certificate for Apache projects for code signing (INFRA-3991). We are
following that to integrate it into our build process.
== Board ==
There are no outstanding issues requiring board attention.
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Attachment AK: Report from the Apache OpenNLP Project [Joern Kottmann]
The Apache OpenNLP library is a machine learning based toolkit for the
processing of natural language text. It supports the most common NLP
tasks, such as tokenization, sentence segmentation, part-of-speech tagging,
named entity extraction, chunking, parsing, and coreference resolution.
These tasks are usually required to build more advanced text processing
services.
Development
------------------
The development team remains active, but the activity decreased over
the summer month. The 1.6.0. release is still not out but will hopefully
be finished this year. Most open issues for it are solved.
Community
---------------
The community remains active and there is good traffic on the lists.
There are no new PMC members and there have been no PMC/PPMC additions
since the project moved to Apache.
Vinh Khuc (May), Tommaso Teofili (April) and Rodrigo Agerri (March) have
become committers in the first half of 2014.
Releases
------------
The last release OpenNLP 1.5.3 was released on 15.4.2013.
Issues
--------
There are no board-level issues at this time.
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Attachment AL: Report from the Apache OpenWebBeans Project [Mark Struberg]
Apache OpenWebBeans 1.x is an ALv2-licensed implementation of the "Contexts
and Dependency Injection for the Java EE platform" specification which is
defined as JSR-299 (CDI-1.0).
OpenWebBeans 2.x will also implement the CDI-1.1 and CDI-1.2 (MR)
specifications(JSR-346) and also CDI-2.0 (JSR-365).
Board Issues
There are no issues requiring board attention this time.
Development
Development continues in trunk to implement CDI 1.2 as OpenWebBeans-1.5.x.
Members of the community also actively contribute to the CDI-2.0 JavaEE
specification which has been filed as JSR-365.
New Releases
OpenWebBeans 1.2.6 on 2014-06-22
Discussions.
Nothing which requires board attention.
We discussed that we will likely rename our trunk from owb-2.0.x to owb-1.5.x
as there is a new CDI-2.0 specification and we would like to have the OWB
numbers align with the spec version.
Community
Community activity is fine. We are working towards CDI-1.2 and are already
passing more than 900 TCK tests.
A short note: this is part of JavaEE7 but we don't have any licensing issues
as both the CDI spec and it's TCK are ALv2 licensed.
We are currently watching a new contributor who shipped very valuable fixes
and is working on TCK issues.
Last Committer: Karl Kilden on Oct 29th, 2013
Last PMC addition: Thomas Andraschko and Jean-Louis Monteiro on 2014-05-28
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Attachment AM: Report from the Apache Perl Project [Philippe M. Chiasson]
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Attachment AN: Report from the Apache Pig Project [Cheolsoo Park]
Description:
Pig is a platform for analyzing large data sets that consists of a
high-level language for expressing data analysis programs, coupled
with infrastructure for evaluating these programs. The salient
property of Pig programs is that their structure is amenable to
substantial parallelization, which in turns enables them to handle
very large data sets.
Releases:
* 0.13.0: released in July 2014 that includes several new features as follows:
** Pluggable execution engines
** Auto-local mode optimization
** Direct-fetch optimization
** Blacklisting and whitelisting operators
** Accumulo storage
Community:
* 420 subscribers to the dev mailing list (417 in the last report)
* 1163 subscribers to the user mailing list (1153 in the last report)
* The PMC has now 15 members and the project counts 9 additional committers
** New committer: Lorand Bendig on 06/14/2014
** New pig-on-spark branch committers: Mayur Rustagi and Praveen Rachabattuni
on 08/29/2014
Status of branding checklist:
Project Naming and Description: DONE
Website Navigation Links: DONE
Trademark Attributions: DONE
Logos and Graphics: NOT STARTED
Project Metadata: NOT STARTED
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Attachment AO: Report from the Apache Pivot Project [Roger Whitcomb]
Apache Pivot is a platform for building installable Internet
applications (IIAs). It combines the enhanced productivity and
usability features of a modern user interface toolkit with the
robustness of the Java platform.
Status:
Project activity is about the same as last quarter, but with some
increased developer activity. We are targeting a new maintenance
release next month, and still preparing for the next major release.
User mailing list activity (maybe because of summer holidays) has
been slower than usual.
There has been recent discussion about creating a "Powered By
Pivot" section on the web site to try to build some developer
interest.
There were 6 new issues created this quarter, and 8 resolved.
Board Issues:
None that I know of.
Releases:
Last release was 2.0.4, published 19-May-2014.
Branding/Naming issues:
None.
Legal issues:
None.
Infrastructure Issues/Needs:
Still do not have a definitive answer about Apache Extras, but we
are still able to use the current setup.
Community:
Last Committer Piotr Kolaczkowski (pkolaczk) was created 09 May 2012.
Latest PMC Changes: Greg Brown (gbrown) went Emeritus on 10 Sept 2013,
Martijn Dashorst (dashorst) went Emeritus in July 2012.
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Attachment AP: Report from the Apache POI Project [Yegor Kozlov]
Apache POI is a Java library for reading and writing Microsoft Office file
formats.
Releases
--------
POI 3.11-beta2 released in August 2014
POI 3.10.1 released in August 2014
POI 3.11-beta1 released in July 2014
Community
---------
Uwe Schindler (uschindler) was added to POI PMC in August 2014.
Project Status
---------
Apache POI continues to be an active project, both in terms of
community and development. Traffic on the mailing lists has been
steady in the last 3 months.
Most patches are applied without much delay.
General Comments
----------------
There are no issues that require Board attention.
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Attachment AQ: Report from the Apache Portals Project [David Sean Taylor]
Apache Portals is a project for building freely available and interoperable
portal software. With the Pluto project, we provide a reference implementation
for the Java portlet standard. The Jetspeed project is a full feature
enterprise open source portal. The Portals Applications project is dedicated
to providing robust, full-featured, commercial-quality, and freely available
portlet applications.
Releases:
Very close to releasing Jetspeed 2.3.0, 2.2.3, and APA WebContent-2
March 6, 2013 - Portals Apps Web Content 1.3
October 10, 2011 - Portals Jetspeed 2.2.2
26 September 2011 - Portals Pluto 2.0.3
Committer/PMC:
Neil Griffin, working on Pluto
Security updates:
None
Community update:
Pluto team is now implementing Portlet 3.0 TCK (Test Compatibility Kit and
Portlet 3.0 RI
Jetspeed team finalizing releases expected release date October:
- Jetspeed 2.3.0 - Java 7 trunk
- Jetspeed 2.2.3 - Java 6 maintenance release
We are down to only a few bugs and open issues for both releases
APA Portals Applications team expects to release APA Web Content in October
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Attachment AR: Report from the Apache ServiceMix Project [Gert Vanthienen]
Apache ServiceMix is a flexible, open-source integration container that
unifies the features and functionality of Apache ActiveMQ, Camel, CXF and
Karaf to provide a complete, enterprise-ready ESB powered by OSGi.
Project Status
The project focus of Apache ServiceMix is the assembly of the integration
container, the actual functionality is being maintained in related projects
like Apache Karaf, Apache CXF and Apache Camel.
With all the version upgrades and the JIRA notifications that go with it,
we decided to create a separate issues@ list to make it easier for people
to notice and contribute to the actual discussions at the dev@ list.
Activity on the mailing lists and in JIRA has been a bit slow over the
summer, but is picking up again now that we're planning to do new releases.
There are no outstanding issues requiring board attention.
Community
Since our last board report, we voted in 1 new committer, Wim Verreydt.
We also invited Krzysztof Sobkowiak to join the PMC.
Community Objectives
After the initial few 5.0.x and 5.1.x releases, the goal is to keep a
steady release schedule and keep up with new fix releases of our
dependency projects.
We're also working towards further 5.x releases and a 6.0.0 release to
provide our users with major version upgrades of Karaf, Camel, CXF, ...
Releases
- Apache ServiceMix 5.0.2 in June
- Apache ServiceMix 5.1.0 in June
- Apache ServiceMix 5.0.3 in July
- Apache ServiceMix 5.1.1 in July
- A set of 35 OSGi bundles in August
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Attachment AS: Report from the Apache Shiro Project [Les Hazlewood]
Apache Shiro is a powerful and flexible open-source application security
framework that cleanly handles authentication, authorization, enterprise
session management and cryptography.
We have no issues that require Board assistance at this time.
Releases:
- No new releases since our previous 1.2.3 bugfix release on
25 February 2014. A 1.3 release may be on the horizon as an interim
before 2.0, but most recent development work has targeted the 2.0
branch.
Community & Project:
- Mailing list traffic remains steady compared to last quarter.
- Efforts towards a 2.0 distribution remain active on a separate dev branch.
Changes are nearly complete, and we hope to make a 2.0 release this quarter or
early next.
Last PMC Member voted in: Brian Demers on 20 May 2013
Last committer voted in: Jared Bunting on 29 Jul 2012
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Attachment AT: Report from the Apache SIS Project [Adam Estrada]
Apache SIS is a spatial framework that enables better representation of
coordinates for searching, data clustering, archiving, or any other
relevant spatial needs.
Development:
Implemented Record based on ISO 19103 (Geographic
information - Conceptual schema language). This is Fortran-like
construct needed for the implementation of other ISO standards.
Implemented Feature model based on ISO 19109 (Geographic information -
Rules for application schema). Feature is aimed to be the container of
most data handled by Apache SIS. Update SIS implementation of ISO 19115
standard (Geographic information - Metadata - part 1: Fundamentals) from
version 2003 to version 2014[1]. Began the port of Coordinate
Transformation code from Geotk to Apache SIS.
Community:
Christina Hough has volunteered to translate the developer
guide draft from French to English[2]. This developer guide is still
very incomplete, but the existing parts explain in details the process
of mapping international standards to Apache SIS API. Some updates from
version 2003 to 2014 of ISO 19115 were contributed by Rémi Maréchal.
Some of above-cited SIS work required synchronization with GeoAPI[3]. As
of August 27th, Christina has finished documenting all of the user's guide.
Branding:
No activity
Issues:
No activity
Releases:
We can not release before the update to ISO 19115:2014 is
fully completed, because partially-completed works make some API
inconsistent. After the update will be completed, we will propose a
release.
Press:
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) offered us to write an entry
for their blog after the ApacheCon. Unfortunately we missed time for
doing that.
[1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SIS-94
[2] http://s.apache.org/LGY
[3] http://www.geoapi.org
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Attachment AU: Report from the Apache Sling Project [Carsten Ziegeler]
Apache Sling is an OSGI-based scriptable web framework that uses a Java
Content Repository, such as Apache Jackrabbit, to store and manage content.
There are no issues which require board attention at the moment.
Community
Good activity level overall, contributions from different people continue.
One new committer: Stefan Seifert
Releases
Apache Sling Auth Core 1.2.0 (September 8th, 2014)
Apache Sling Models API 1.1.0
Apache Sling Models Impl 1.1.0,
Apache Sling Crankstart Launcher,
Apache Sling Health Check Annotations 1.0.2,
Apache Sling Health Check Core 1.1.2,
Apache Sling Health Check JUnit Bridge 1.0.2,
Apache Sling Health Check Samples 1.0.6 (September 5th, 2014)
Apache Sling Default GET Servlets 2.1.10,
Apache Sling Explorer 1.0.4 (September 1st, 2014)
Apache Sling API 2.8.0,
Apache Sling JCR Resource 2.3.8,
Apache Sling i18n 2.2.10,
Apache Sling Installer Core 3.5.4,
Apache Sling JCR Installer 3.1.8,
Apache Sling File Installer 1.0.4 (August 31st, 2014)
Apache Sling JSON Library 2.0.8,
Apache Sling Default POST Servlets 2.3.6 (August 28th, 2014)
Apache Sling Commons Mime 2.1.6,
Apache Sling Commons OSGi 2.2.2 (August 19th, 2014)
Apache Sling Tenant 1.0.2 (August 18th, 2014)
Apache Sling Apache Sling Auth Core 1.1.8,
Apache Sling Auth Selector 1.0.6,
Apache Sling Form Based Authentication 1.0.6,
Apache Sling OpenID Authentication 1.0.4,
Apache Sling Query 2.0.0 (August 11th, 2014)
Apache Sling Auth Core 1.1.8,
Apache Sling Auth Selector 1.0.6,
Apache Sling Form Based Authentication 1.0.6,
Apache Sling OpenID Authentication 1.0.4 (August 11th, 2014)
Apache Sling Eventing 3.3.12 (August 8st, 2014)
Apache Sling Parent 20 (August 1st, 2014)
Apache Sling Discovery Impl 1.0.10 (July 29th, 2014)
Apache Sling Engine 2.3.4,
Apache Sling Launchpad Base 4.4.1-2.5.2 (July 26th, 2014)
Apache Sling Testing Tools 1.0.8 (July 22nd, 2014)
Apache Sling Service User Mapper 1.0.4,
Apache Sling Compat Servlets 1.0.2 (July 14th, 2014)
Apache Sling Settings 1.3.2,
Apache Sling Scripting JSP 2.1.4,
Apache Sling Scripting Java 2.0.10 (July 13th, 2014)
Apache Sling Scripting Thymeleaf 0.0.2,
Apache Sling Authentication XING API 0.0.2,
Apache Sling Authentication XING Login 0.0.2,
Apache Sling Authentication XING OAuth 0.0.2 (July 11th, 2014)
Apache Sling Installer Core 3.5.2,
Apache Sling Installer Configuration Factory 1.0.14,
Apache Sling Models API 1.0.2,
Apache Sling Models Impl 1.0.6 (July 2nd, 2014)
Apache Sling Eclipse IDE 1.0.0 (July 1st, 2014)
Apache Sling IDE Tooling 1.0.2 (June 29th, 2014)
Apache Sling Scripting JavaScript Support 2.0.14 (June 23rd, 2014)
Apache Sling SLF4J MDC Filter 1.0.0,
Apache Sling Classloader Leak Detector 1.0.0 (June 9th, 2014)
Apache Sling Bundle JCR Install Archetype 1.0.2,
Apache Sling Tooling Support Install 1.0.0,
Apache Sling Bundle Archetype 1.0.2,
Apache Sling Servlet Archetype 1.0.2 (June 4th, 2014)
Documentation and infrastructure
Website has moved to Apache CMS
Dist folder has moved to svn
Project Branding is tracked in SLING-2696.
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Attachment AV: Report from the Apache SpamAssassin Project [Kevin A. McGrail]
SpamAssassin is a mail filter to identify spam. It is an intelligent
email filter which uses a diverse range of tests to identify unsolicited
bulk email, more commonly known as Spam. These tests are applied to
email headers and content to classify email using advanced statistical
methods. In addition, SpamAssassin has a modular architecture that
allows other technologies to be quickly wielded against spam and is
designed for easy integration into virtually any email system.
Releases
--------
3.4.0 was released on 2014-02-11.
Our rules releases have been restored publishing 63 rule sets.
The release of 3.4.1 is pending and expected on or about Sept 30th.
No other releases for this quarter.
Community & Development
-----------------------
The most recent addition to our PMC is Adam Katz added on 2013-01-30.
The most recent addition to the committers is Joe Quinn added on
2014-02-27.
We still have 3 contributors invited to submit a CLA on the project and
begin moving towards committer karma with commits passed through to
current committers to vet and apply showing good community development
health.
Our RuleQA dev list has been active and community support is good.
The project users' list is active; questions get asked and answered.
The project dev list has been active with both committers and community
members contributing.
We still need to get our Jenkins build slave working under FreeBSD
instead of Solaris1 (Bug 6887).
Project Branding Requirements
-----------------------------
IN PROCESS - Logos and Graphics : include TM, use consistent
product logo on your site
NOTE: Pending TM being added to one version of the logo to make
the announcement for the new logo
No other Branding issues known but we look forward to the Powered by
Apache logo!
Issues
------
SA was asked to clarify a previous report item mentioned.
In SpamAssassin, the ASF software product is the hammer.
However, the SpamAssassin rules published by the project are the nails.
With SA v3.3.0, we separated the rules from the code to make it so we
could more readily use an update infrastructure donated by anti-spam
community members to deliver daily rule updates.
As spam evolves, one of the tools that has grown to heavy use is called
an RBL or Real-time Blocklist also know as a DNSBLs because the
underlying technology that has been leveraged to deliver the RBL
world-wide is DNS-based.
I have begun the framework at
https://raptor.pccc.com/raptor.cgim?template=RBL with the intention to
run this under the project if permitted. My concern is that this is
less of a "software" and more of a support resource.
As such, is this something that the ASF would support or would the board
frown on such an item?
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Attachment AW: Report from the Apache Stanbol Project [Fabian Christ]
Apache Stanbol provides a set of reusable components for semantic content
management.
There are no issues which require board attention at the moment.
The project is performing well and the development is going towards
version 1.0.
The Stanbol project is participating in this year's Google Summer of Code
(GSoC) program. Initially we had 4 active projects. 3/4 GSoC project were
successful. One dropped before mid term because the student disappeared
right after the start.
The three successful projects are
1. Enhancement Workflows. Enterprise Integration Patterns in
Apache Stanbol (STANBOL-1008)
Student: Antonio David Perez Morales
Mentors: Florent André, Rafa Haro
2. Integrate YAGO2 and AIDA NED with Apache Stanbol (STANBOL-1384)
Student: Chalitha Perera
Mentor: Rafa Haro
3. Speech to Text Enhancement Engine for Apache Stanbol
(STANBOL-1007)
Student: Suman Saurabh
Mentor: Andreas Kuckartz
All three projects have provided patches with the results. Those will
be integrated to the Stanbol code base with the help of the Mentors
and the Students.
Subscribers on the dev list: 217
No new committers or PMC members were elected.
Last new committer was
Antonio David Perez Morales on Jan 14th, 2014
Last stack release was:
Apache Stanbol 0.12 on Mar 2nd, 2014
Last component release was:
Apache Stanbol Partial Security Release RC2 on June 5th, 2014
org.apache.stanbol.commons.security.reactor-20140602
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Attachment AX: Report from the Apache Synapse Project [Hiranya Jayathilaka]
Apache Synapse is a high performance, flexible, lightweight
Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and a mediation framework.
Community
=========
No new committers or PMC members were nominated this quarter. Latest
Synapse committer was elected on December, 2013. Latest Synapse PMC
member was elected on December, 2013.
Releases
========
There have been no new releases during this period.
The last release of Synapse is version 2.1, which was released on
January, 2012.
We continue to engage with the Apache Axis2 community to get the
necessary upstream projects and libraries released, so we can proceed
with a Synapse 3.0 release. The response from the Axis2 team has
been very positive, but the progress is somewhat slow. In the
meantime we are discussing alternative ideas for speeding up the
Synapse 3.0 release.
Board issues
============
None identified.
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Attachment AY: Report from the Apache Tajo Project [Hyunsik Choi]
Apache Tajo is a robust big data relational and distributed data warehouse
system for Apache Hadoop. Tajo is designed for low-latency and scalable ad-hoc
queries, online aggregation, and ETL (extract-transform-load process) on
large-data sets stored on HDFS (Hadoop Distributed File System) and other data
sources. By supporting SQL standards and leveraging advanced database
techniques, Tajo allows direct control of distributed execution and data
flow across a variety of query evaluation strategies and optimization
opportunities.
Status
===============
There are no outstanding issues requiring board attention.
Current Activity
===============
Committers and contributors have been actively contributed codes.
Since last release in May 2014, we resolved 258 issues.
The recent development issues are as follows:
* Implemented OffHeapRowBlock which reduces GC overheads during query
processing
* Improved multiple distinct aggregation using multi-level evaluation tree
* Added TajoMaster HA
* Implemented runtime byte code generation for more CPU efficient evaluation
Community
==============
There are no board-level issues.
Mailng list:
* dev@tajo.apache.org: 96 subscribers
* user@tajo.apache.org: 34 subscribers
Releases
===============
Last release 0.8.0 in May 5, 2014.
The last committers or PMC members elected
===========================================
Last new committer: Hyoungjun Kim <hjkim@apache.org> on 2014/08/06.
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Attachment AZ: 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.
There was significant momentum in the community to wrap up the
0.5.0 release over the past month with over 130 jiras resolved.
The 0.5.0 release was announced on Sept 5th. It is a developer
focused release that stabilizes the APIs and improves the
debugging experience for Tez applications. Some of the
important features of this release were:
* Stable APIs
* Better Documentation
* Support for Local mode to aid debugging
* Addition of Performance debugging tools
* New intermediate data format to improve performance
RELEASES
0.4.1-incubating released on July 15, 2014.
0.5.0 released on Sept 5, 2014
COMMUNITY
Auth: 31 PMC members and 32 committers ( as of Sep 06 2014).
Additions since last report:
Committers: Jonathan Eagles ( added Aug 11, 2014 )
Jira: Last 30 days: 150 jiras created, 138 resolved.
Mailing Lists: user@ - 122, dev@ - 135 subscribers.
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Attachment BA: Report from the Apache Tiles Project [Greg Reddin]
Apache Tiles is a free open-sourced templating framework for modern Java
applications. Based upon the Composite pattern it is built to simplify the
development of user interfaces.
The Tiles project continues to move at a slow pace, but work is ongoing. In the
last quarter the project has produced one release:
* Tiles-Request 1.0.5 GA
The community for Tiles remains the same. The same one or two people
have been continuing to do much of the development for Tiles. There
remains a little traffic in the users list and in the issue tracker and
these are responded to and/or fixed usually within a week or two. The
Spring community, and stackexchange.com, are the most active inputs to
the community.
We have not added any new committers or PMC members since 2012. Attempts
continue to build the active community. A paper was submitted to
ApacheConEU without any luck. Otherwise the community is small and slow,
but still present and active.
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Attachment BB: Report from the Apache Tomcat Project [Mladen Turk]
General:
Continued healthy activity across multiple components and
responsiveness on both dev and user lists.
Issues:
The Apache Tomcat PMC continues to monitor the progress of the
discussions with Oracle regarding regaining access to the TCKs.
After a brief burst of activity at the end of April / beginning
of May this appears to have stalled again.
Releases:
* Apache Tomcat 8.0.9 - stable, 2014-06-26
* Apache Tomcat 8.0.10 (not released)
* Apache Tomcat 8.0.11 - 2014-08-26
* Apache Tomcat 8.0.12 - 2014-09-06
* Apache Tomcat 7.0.55 - 2014-07-29
* Apache Tomcat Native 1.1.31 - 2014-07-08
Development:
There was lots of development activity on Apache Tomcat 7
and Apache Tomcat 8. We had first stable release of Apache
Tomcat 8.
Community:
Ian Darwin requested to step down from his PMC membership and
went emeritus.
Security:
CVE-2013-4444 - Important: Remote Code Execution
In very limited circumstances, it was possible for an attacker
to upload a malicious JSP to a Tomcat server and then trigger
the execution of that JSP. While Remote Code Execution would
normally be viewed as a critical vulnerability, the circumstances
under which this is possible are, in the view of the Tomcat
security team, sufficiently limited that this vulnerability is
viewed as important.
Trademark:
Detailed status:
https://svn.apache.org/repos/private/pmc/tomcat/trademark-status.txt
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Attachment BC: Report from the Apache UIMA Project [Marshall Schor]
Apache UIMA's mission: the creation and maintenance of open-source
software related to the analysis of unstructured data, guided by the
UIMA Oasis Standard.
Dates:
14 July 2014 last release
12 Mar 2013 last PMC addition
24 Dec 2013 last Committer addition
2 Releases:
16 July 2014 UIMA-AS (Asynchronous Scaleout support for UIMA) 2.6.0 released
http://uima.apache.org/news.html#16 July 2014
12 June 2014 uimaFIT 2.1.0 released
http://uima.apache.org/news.html#12 June 2014
Other Activity:
UIMA DUCC (Distributed UIMA Cluster Controller) work is very active and
progressing toward a next release.
Core UIMA is close to being able to add JSON serialization, in support
of the trend toward Cloud deployments.
UIMA Ruta (Rule-based script language supported by Eclipse tooling) is
about to release the next version (vote underway).
The mailing lists are fairly active, and normal
bug finding/fixing work continues.
Community:
A workshop with a strong focus on UIMA was held in conjunction with COLING 2014,
the International Conference on Computational Linguistics, and UIMA Ruta
was demonstrated here as well. http://uima.apache.org/coling14.html
Several new contributers have started contributing, especially to Ruta.
Issues:
No Board level issues at this time.
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Attachment BD: Report from the Apache VCL Project [Andy Kurth]
DESCRIPTION
VCL is a modular cloud computing platform which dynamically provisions and
brokers remote access to compute resources including virtual machines,
bare-metal computers, and resources in other cloud platforms. A self-service
web portal is used to request resources and for administration. VCL became a
TLP on June 20, 2012.
CURRENT ACTIVITY
* The next release of VCL planned for late September or early October.
* Development is on track. Several JIRA issues have been closed.
* A major overhaul of the web code is nearly complete including support for
multiple web servers [1] and class-based resources [2].
* Work is nearly complete to add OpenStack provisioning support to VCL [3].
* Work is complete to add support for Windows 8.x/2012 [4] images and VMware
ESXi 5.5 provisioning [5].
RELEASES
None
COMMUNITY
Subscribers to the user list: 162
Posts to user list, 6/14-8/14: 113
Subscribers to the dev list: 136
Posts to dev list, 6/14-8/14: 168
Committers: 8
PMC members: 7
ISSUES
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time
[1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VCL-5
[2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VCL-776
[3] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VCL-590
[4] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VCL-770
[5] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VCL-771
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Attachment BE: Report from the Apache VXQuery Project [Till Westmann]
Apache VXQuery implements a parallel XML Query processor.
ISSUES
There are no issues that require the board's attention at this time.
STATUS
Apache VXQuery graduated from the incubator in July.
In the last month the activities were mostly around releasing the first
non-incubating release (on Sep 7) and 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
As the first non-incubating release is out we will again focus on completing
the engine and on growing the community. The next planned step towards
growing the community is to publish a paper on Apache VXQuery and thus
hopefully increase the visibility of the project.
RELEASES
Apache VXQuery 0.4 was released on Sep 7, 2014
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Attachment BF: Report from the Apache Whirr Project [Andrew Bayer]
Apache Whirr is a library for running services like Hadoop or ZooKeeper in the
cloud.
Releases:
No new releases this quarter. Last release was 0.8.2, April 2013.
Community:
The PMC composition did not change, and we had no new committers since
the last report. The last PMC change was the addition of Andrew Bayer
in November of 2012, and the last new committer was Graham Gear, also
in November of 2012.
Issues:
Discussions were had with the jclouds PMC about merging the Whirr core
code into jclouds as part of moving Whirr to the Attic - doesn't sound
like that's going to happen. So it's probably time to move Whirr to
the Attic.
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Attachment BG: Report from the Apache Wicket Project [Martijn Dashorst]
Apache Wicket is a Java framework for creating highly dynamic,
component oriented web applications.
Things worthy of note:
- Released Wicket 6.16.0, 7.0.0-M2, 1.5.12, 7.0.0-M3, 6.17.0
- Nutch Google Summer of Code delivered admin interface using Wicket
- ApacheCon EU 2014 has 3 Wicket presentations
- No new committers or members were added in this period
- Fixed CVE-2014-3526
- Apache's Nexus repository availability spotty
Date last committer/PMC member added: 12 July 2013
Nutch GSoC
Fjodor Vershinin participated in the Google Summer of Code this year
and created an administrative interface for Apache Nutch using Wicket.
ApacheCon EU
Martijn Dashorst will present 3 sessions at ApacheCon EU in Budapest:
- Wicket Puzzlers
- Wicket and Java EE Sitting in a Tree
- Apache Wicket: 10 Years and Beyond
Apache's Nexus Repository
As a release manager I (Martijn Dashorst) have had a very tough time
attempting to prepare and release our project due to the spotty
availability of the Nexus repository. So much that it took a couple of
days investment on my part to circumvent connectivity issues (e.g.
INFRA-7984) during this release, but previous releases were plagued as
well by Nexus. The Nexus instability has become a liability for us even
though we release about once a month or two months: it usurps an
inordinate amount of time preparing and completing a release.
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Attachment BH: Report from the Apache Wink Project [Luciano Resende]
Apache Wink is a project that enables development and consumption of
REST style web services. The core server runtime is based on the
JAX-RS (JSR 311) standard. The project also introduces a client
runtime which can leverage certain components of the server-side
runtime. Apache Wink delivers component technology that can be easily
integrated into a variety of environments.
There are no issues that require Board attention at the moment.
Community:
The Wink project has a small community which is not very active. We have
had discussions on how to increase community activity, and the initial
suggestion, that was to start working on JAX-RS 2.0 implementation didn’t
sustain itself for long. Having said that, I believe Wink is a mature project
with active users and we should not consider any retirement actions at the
moment. Last svn activity shows couple patches being applied towards wink
website in August, but actually no code change since december 2013.
Releases:
* Last release was Apache Wink 1.4.0 which was released on September 15, 2013
Committers or PMC changes:
* Voted Gerhard Petracek was added as a Wink committer in August 2013.
Trademark/Branding:
* No known issues.
Legal Issues:
* None
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Attachment BI: Report from the Apache ZooKeeper Project [Flavio Junqueira]
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Attachment BJ: Report from the Apache Tuscany Project [Jean-Sebastien Delfino]
Apache Tuscany is an SOA framework based on OASIS OpenCSA and SCA.
ISSUES
- Community activity is very low.
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 is low with 15 messages on the user list and 11
messages on the dev list in 2014.
- There were no commits in 2014.
- A discussion thread was started on Aug 16 [1] on both user and dev lists to
request community input on new development plans. Only one response so far
from a PMC member suggesting a new release to pick up updated dependencies.
- The current PMC chair indicated on the private list his intention to step
out of the PMC and asked for volunteers to replace him as he is too busy
with other work. No response from other PMC members so far.
BRANDING
- The project needs to update logos with ™ and review the project DOAP file.
[1] http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/tuscany-dev/201408.mbox/%3cCA+5QmYDn4GSv32rxJntVOZ+7oerm_wjxY5kaqUiVG0GntVZDdA@mail.gmail.com%3e
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