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Board of Directors Meeting Minutes
November 19, 2014
1. Call to order
The meeting was scheduled for 10:30am Pacific and began at 10:35
when a sufficient attendance to constitute a quorum was
recognized by the chairman.
Other Time Zones:
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20141119T1830&msg=ASF+Board+Meeting
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
Bertrand Delacretaz
Ross Gardler
Jim Jagielski
Chris Mattmann
Brett Porter
Sam Ruby
Greg Stein
Directors Absent:
none
Executive Officers Present:
none
Executive Officers Absent:
Craig L Russell
Guests:
Sean Kelly
Jake Farrell
Hadrian Zbarcea
Daniel Gruno (absent)
Shane Curcuru
Chip Childers
Andrew Bayer
David Nalley
Tony Stevenson
Henri Yandell
James W. Carman
Joe Brockmeier
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 October 15, 2014
See: board_minutes_2014_10_15.txt
Approved by General Consent.
4. Executive Officer Reports
A. Chairman [Brett]
Over the last few weeks, there has been quite a bit of activity
celebrating the 15 year anniversary of the ASF. With such a long list
of achievements, there is much that every contributor to the ASF can
be proud of! We look to the future with excitement about what is still
to come.
B. President [Ross]
Fundraising is our biggest concern this month. Nobody over there is picking up
the dropped balls. Melissa is doing her best to keep things moving (and is
doing a fantastic job). However, we need people to take ownership of
relationships with individual sponsors. Especially our top level sponsors.
Because of this lack of ownership in the last month it was unfortunate that a
small number of invoices were sent out for renewals without anyone having
contact the sponsor in advance. As can be expected this was not received well.
I have reached out to the sponsors in question and apologized. I do not
believe there is any harm done. However, as with (almost) every month I need
to request that Directors volunteer to manage our relationship with one or
more key sponsor if they are able to do so.
In order to make this relationship management easier VP Marketing will be
producing an annual report with quarterly updates. Over the last year we have
been changing our processes to ensure that data for such a report is easily
accessible. At this point we believe that a report containing timely and
detailed information from all presidents committees, plus the treasurers
office will be relatively easy to create.
There is no report from Fundraising this month. Other than the above I believe
the renewal of $75k of sponsorship (3 sponsors) is the key item to report
(thanks to Melissa for ensuring this keeps moving).
I intend to appoint, immediately after this board meeting (assuming no
objections), both Jim Jagielski and Hadrian Zbarcea as VP of Fundraising. The
goal here is to enable Jim and Hadrian to act in tandem. Upayavira
reports that titles to the sponsors are important, which is why I'm taking the
unusual step of creating two positions rather than just expanding the
committee. I feel that we really need the experience of Jim in budget planning
and strategizing, but we also need the additional time and energy of Hadrian.
Whilst I could, and until now have, taken on this role I want to move my focus
away from Fundraising and towards other aspects that require attention
(specifically focusing on the medium to long term plans rather than the short
term implementation – as per my report last month). This setup is designed to
allow me to do that.
Brand Management is moving in the direction desired by the board (with my
support). That is it is decentralizing in order to ensure a faster decision
making process and also to enable VP Brand Management to focus more on broader
policy issues (such as improving event branding policy which is underway) and
edge cases. In this month’s report VP Brand management says:
"Counsel confirms that we can legally delegate ability to provide project
brand use permissions to PMCs and their VPs directly; however they also
note that this may have risks - depending on how well PMCs manage this
- with our long-term ability to defend our brands."
I look to VP Brand Management to try to ensure that our policies are clear
enough to ensure that we are able to defend our brands appropriately and offer
my support in doing so.
Marketing and Publicity continues to proceed. The Powered By Apache logo's
have been well received, a couple of projects that were missing in the initial
round have been added. A series of three posts describing how the foundation
works have been published (from the Chairman, President and EVP).
Three designs proposals for a new home page (not a new site) were submitted
for comment. Predictably there were many conflicting opinions, but all valid
and helpful. Sally has collated this feedback and is working to include it in
an updated design. I want to thank Sally for managing a very inclusive process
in what could so easily have become a fruitless bike-shedding exercise.
However, given the extent and range of feedback it is possible this work will
not be completed until January.
Infrastructure has had a less eventful month and thus VP Infra reports "This
month saw us paying back large portions of technical debt." Last month both I
and the Chair reported that VP Infra was asking for a longer term view on
where the foundation is heading with respect to budget management and
infrastructure expenditure specifically. As can be seen above in my discussion
re fundraising my hope is to be able to turn my attention to this planning in
the coming months as I start to ramp up on budget planning for the next FY.
No report from the Travel Assistance Committee was submitted. However the EA
report indicates everything is in order for ApacheCon EU.
Additionally, please see Attachments 1 through 6.
@Jim: discuss reporting responsibilities for VP Fundraising
@Hadrian: discuss reporting responsibilities for VP
Fundraising
C. Treasurer [Chris]
A press release for Virtual’s 15th year anniversary was coordinated
with VP, Press and Marketing, and with the President. Treasurer’s
Office was kept in the loop.
Treasurer’s Office coordinated with Lynsey Chaplik from Virtual to
process the forms for Apache Corporate Credit Cards. Form was
submitted and cards should be available soon.
Virtual is trying to coordinate a call to deal with the following
open action items:
1. Closing all of the Wells Fargo accounts
2. Obtaining credit
card statements from some of the
officers to correctly account for the expenses
3. Engaging both the CPA firm and Virtual for the 2014 990
4. Valuing the Bitcoin donation
5. 6 month P&L review to forecast
the remaining 6 months of 2015
Treasurer anticipates a call in the next month or so to address the
items.
At the request of the EVP, Virtual and the Treasurer’s Office
provided a one slide summary of Treasurer categories of expenses
for ApacheCon EU 2014.
Income and Expenses for October 2014 CASH BASIS
Current Balances:
Citizens Checking $216,900
Amazon Payments $15,811
Paypal - ASF $39,623
Wells Fargo Checking - ASF $861,482
Wells Fargo Savings $288,080
Total Checking/Savings $1,421,897
Income Summary:
Public Donations $11,249
Sponsorship Program $10,000
Interest Income $24
Total Income $21,273
Expense Summary:
Infrastructure $37,986
Sponsorship Program $-
Publicity $8,381
Brand Management $4,731
Conferences $-
Travel Assistance Committee $-
Treasury Services $3,100
General & Administrative $9,644
Total Expense $63,841
Net Income $(42,568)
D. Secretary [Craig]
A malfunction in the computer program that prepares incoming documents for
processing by the secretary has contributed to delays in handling ICLAs,
CCLAs, and grants. Apologies to everyone whose documents have been delayed.
The problem may have been resolved. Secretary is working through the backlog
of approximately 55 documents.
In October, 60 iclas, one ccla, and two grants were received and processed.
E. Executive Vice President [Rich]
ApacheCon Europe ended a short time ago. The attendee reception
is going on while this meeting is occurring. We had just shy of
300 in attendance. People seem very pleased with the event so
far (as of this writing).
On Monday evening, we had a birthday cake for the 15th
anniversary of the Foundation. On a personal note, I was sorry
that more of you were not present for that.
It's now time to start working on ApacheCon Austin. Discussions
in Budapest have identified some things that we might try to
increase PMC participation in that event. We're also trying to
reach out to the earliest participants in the httpd project,
since ApacheCon Austin will be held on the 20th anniversary of
the first release of httpd. Brian Behlendorf has agreed to do a
keynote with his thoughts about the past, but more about the
future, of the Foundation. We are now looking for additional
keynotes.
F. Vice Chairman [Greg]
I have been tasked to shepherd the discussion/research on our
practices around contracting with service providers. There is
nothing to report at this time, but progress will occur and be
reported for the December report.
Executive officer reports approved as submitted by General Consent.
5. Additional Officer Reports
A. VP of W3C Relations [Andy Seaborne / Bertrand]
See Attachment 7
B. Apache Legal Affairs Committee [Jim Jagielski]
See Attachment 8
C. Apache Security Team Project [Mark Cox / Chris]
See Attachment 9
Additional officer reports approved as submitted by General Consent.
6. Committee Reports
A. Apache Abdera Project [Ant Elder / Sam]
No report was submitted.
@Sam: pursue a report for Abdera
B. Apache Ambari Project [Yusaku Sako / Doug]
See Attachment B
C. Apache Ant Project [Conor MacNeill / Jim]
No report was submitted.
D. Apache Buildr Project [Alex Boisvert / Ross]
See Attachment D
E. Apache Cassandra Project [Jonathan Ellis / Greg]
See Attachment E
F. Apache Clerezza Project [Hasan Hasan / Brett]
See Attachment F
G. Apache Cocoon Project [Thorsten Scherler / Rich]
See Attachment G
H. Apache Community Development Project [Ulrich Stärk / Greg]
See Attachment H
I. Apache Continuum Project [Brent Atkinson / Jim]
See Attachment I
J. Apache CouchDB Project [Jan Lehnardt / Doug]
See Attachment J
K. Apache Creadur Project [Brian Fox / Bertrand]
See Attachment K
L. Apache DeltaSpike Project [Gerhard Petracek / Brett]
See Attachment L
M. Apache DirectMemory Project [Raffaele P. Guidi / Chris]
No report was submitted.
@Chris: pursue a report for DirectMemory
N. Apache Empire-db Project [Francis De Brabandere / Sam]
See Attachment N
O. Apache Etch Project [Martin Veith / Rich]
See Attachment O
P. Apache Flume Project [Arvind Prabhakar / Ross]
See Attachment P
Q. Apache Forrest Project [David Crossley / Jim]
See Attachment Q
@Ross: come up with plan with david nalley
R. Apache Giraph Project [Avery Ching / Rich]
No report was submitted.
@Rich: pursue a report for Giraph
S. Apache Gora Project [Lewis John McGibbney / Ross]
See Attachment S
T. Apache Hama Project [ChiaHung Lin / Greg]
See Attachment T
U. Apache HTTP Server Project [Eric Covener / Brett]
See Attachment U
V. Apache HttpComponents Project [Asankha Perera / Doug]
See Attachment V
W. Apache Incubator Project [Roman Shaposhnik / Sam]
See Attachment W
X. Apache jUDDI Project [Alex O'Ree / Chris]
See Attachment X
Y. Apache Kafka Project [Jun Rao / Bertrand]
See Attachment Y
Z. Apache Knox Project [Kevin Minder / Ross]
See Attachment Z
AA. Apache Lenya Project [Richard Frovarp / Chris]
See Attachment AA
@Chris: Summarize comments and follow on the dev list.
AB. Apache Libcloud Project [Tomaz Muraus / Bertrand]
See Attachment AB
AC. Apache Logging Project [Christian Grobmeier / Sam]
See Attachment AC
AD. Apache ManifoldCF Project [Karl Wright / Greg]
See Attachment AD
AE. Apache Marmotta Project [Jakob Frank / Brett]
See Attachment AE
AF. Apache Mesos Project [Benjamin Hindman / Jim]
See Attachment AF
AG. Apache Oltu Project [Antonio Sanso / Doug]
See Attachment AG
AH. Apache Oozie Project [Mohammad Islam / Rich]
See Attachment AH
AI. Apache Open Climate Workbench Project [Michael James Joyce / Sam]
See Attachment AI
AJ. Apache OpenJPA Project [Pinaki Poddar / Brett]
No report was submitted.
@Brett: pursue a report for OpenJPA
AK. Apache OpenMeetings Project [Sebastian Wagner / Doug]
See Attachment AK
@Bertrand: follow up on the WeNeedYou page issues.
AL. Apache Perl Project [Philippe M. Chiasson / Chris]
No report was submitted.
@Jim: pursue a report for Perl
AM. Apache Phoenix Project [James R. Taylor / Greg]
See Attachment AM
AN. Apache POI Project [Yegor Kozlov / Bertrand]
No report was submitted.
AO. Apache Qpid Project [Gordon Sim / Ross]
See Attachment AO
AP. Apache River Project [Patricia Shanahan / Jim]
See Attachment AP
AQ. Apache Roller Project [Dave Johnson / Rich]
See Attachment AQ
AR. Apache Santuario Project [Colm O hEigeartaigh / Chris]
See Attachment AR
AS. Apache SIS Project [Adam Estrada / Ross]
See Attachment AS
AT. Apache Spark Project [Matei Zaharia / Greg]
See Attachment AT
AU. Apache Storm Project [P. Taylor Goetz / Bertrand]
See Attachment AU
AV. Apache Stratos Project [Lakmal Warusawithana / Rich]
See Attachment AV
AW. Apache Subversion Project [Greg Stein]
See Attachment AW
AX. Apache Syncope Project [Francesco Chicchiricco / Brett]
See Attachment AX
AY. Apache TomEE Project [David Blevins / Jim]
See Attachment AY
AZ. Apache Turbine Project [Thomas Vandahl / Sam]
See Attachment AZ
BA. Apache Tuscany Project [Jean-Sebastien Delfino / Doug]
No report was submitted.
@Doug: pursue a report for Tuscany
BB. Apache Velocity Project [Nathan Bubna / Rich]
See Attachment BB
@Rich: Ping them to make sure they've got enough people
active.
BC. Apache Xalan Project [Steven J. Hathaway / Jim]
See Attachment BC
BD. Apache Xerces Project [Michael Glavassevich / Bertrand]
See Attachment BD
BE. Apache XML Graphics Project [Chris Bowditch / Brett]
See Attachment BE
Committee reports approved as submitted by General Consent.
7. Special Orders
A. Change the Apache Qpid Project Chair
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Gordon Sim
to the office of Vice President, Apache Qpid, and
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the
resignation of Gordon Sim from the office of Vice President,
Apache Qpid, and
WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Qpid
project has chosen by vote to recommend Robbie Gemmell as the
successor to the post;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Gordon Sim is relieved
and discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the
office of Vice President, Apache Qpid, and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Robbie Gemmell be and hereby is
appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Qpid, 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 Qpid Project Chair, was
approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
B. Establish the Apache DeviceMap Project
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors deems it to be in the best
interests of the Foundation and consistent with the Foundation's
purpose to establish a Project Management Committee charged with
the creation and maintenance of open-source software, for
distribution at no charge to the public, related to the
maintenance and expansion of a data repository related to devices,
their operating systems and web browsers, and an API for
classifying said features.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management
Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Apache DeviceMap Project", be
and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation;
and be it further
RESOLVED, that the Apache DeviceMap Project be and hereby is
responsible for the maintenance and expansion of a data repository
related to devices, their operating systems and web browsers, and
an API for classifying said features; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache DeviceMap" 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
DeviceMap Project, and to have primary responsibility for
management of the projects within the scope of responsibility of
the Apache DeviceMap 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
DeviceMapProject:
* Reza Naghibi <rezan@apache.org>
* Werner Keil <wkeil@apache.org>
* Eberhard Speer Jr. <esjr@apache.org>
* Radu Cotescu <radu@apache.org>
* Bertrand Delacretaz <bdelacretaz@apache.org>
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Reza Naghibi be
appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache DeviceMap, 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 DeviceMap 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
DeviceMap Project; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the Apache DeviceMap Project be and hereby is
tasked with the migration and rationalization of the Apache
Incubator DeviceMap podling; and be it further
RESOLVED, that all responsibilities pertaining to the Apache
Incubator DeviceMap podling encumbered upon the Apache Incubator
Project are hereafter discharged.
Special Order 7B, Establish the Apache DeviceMap Project, was
approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
C. Establish the Apache Drill 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 interactive
analysis of large-scale datasets.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management Committee (PMC), to
be known as the "Apache Drill Project", be and hereby is established pursuant
to Bylaws of the Foundation; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the Apache Drill Project be and hereby is responsible for the
creation and maintenance of software related to interactive analysis of
large-scale datasets; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache Drill" 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 Drill Project, and to have primary
responsibility for management of the projects within the scope of
responsibility of the Apache Drill 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 Drill
Project:
* Jacques Nadeau <jacques@apache.org>
* Tomer Shiran <tshiran@apache.org>
* Ted Dunning <tdunning@apache.org>
* Jason Frantz <jason@apache.org>
* MC Srivas <srivas@apache.org>
* Keys Botzum <kbotzum@apache.org>
* Julian Hyde <jhyde@apache.org>
* Tim Chen <tnachen@apache.org>
* Mehant Baid <mehant@apache.org>
* Jinfeng Ni <jni@apache.org>
* Venki Korukanti <venki@apache.org>
* Jason Altekruse <json@apache.org>
* Aditya Kishore <adi@apache.org>
* Parth Chandra <parthc@apache.org>
* Aman Sinha <amansinha@apache.org>
* Steven Phillips <smp@apache.org>
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Jacques Nadeau be appointed to
the office of Vice President, Apache Drill, 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 Apache Drill Project be and hereby is tasked with the
migration and rationalization of the Apache Incubator Drill podling; and be it
further
RESOLVED, that all responsibilities pertaining to the Apache Incubator Drill
podling encumbered upon the Apache Incubator Project are hereafter discharged.
Special Order 7C, Establish the Apache Drill Project, was
approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
D. Change the Apache HTTP Server Project Management Committee
WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee (PMC) of the Apache HTTP
Server project has chosen by vote to recommend the removal of the
persons listed immediately below from the PMC due to extended
inactivity in the project and lack of a positive response to remain
an active member of the PMC:
Aaron Bannert <aaron@apache.org>
Ben Laurie <ben@apache.org>
Chuck Murcko <chuck@apache.org>
Doug MacEachern <dougm@apache.org>
Erik Abele <erikabele@apache.org>
Joshua Slive <slive@apache.org>
Ken Coar <coar@apache.org>
Manoj Kasichainula <manoj@apache.org>
Martin Kraemer <martin@apache.org>
Maxime Petazzoni <maxime@apache.org>
Ralf S. Engelschall <rse@apache.org>
Sander Striker <striker@apache.org>
Wilfredo Sanchez <wsanchez@apache.org>
Yoshiki Hayashi <yoshiki@apache.org>
Rasmus Lerdorf
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the persons listed immediately
above are relieved and discharged from the duties and responsibilities
of the Apache HTTP Server PMC but are welcome to return upon their
request.
Special Order 7D, Change the Apache HTTP Server Project
Management Committee, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors
present.
E. Establish the Apache Falcon 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 a Big Data management platform
covering data pipelines, data motion, data lifecycle management, data
discovery & governance.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management Committee
(PMC), to be known as the "Apache Falcon Project", be and hereby is
established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the Apache Falcon Project be and hereby is responsible
for the creation and maintenance of software related to a Big Data
management platform covering data pipelines, data motion, data
lifecycle management, data discovery & governance; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache Falcon" 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 Falcon
Project, and to have primary responsibility for management of the
projects within the scope of responsibility of the Apache Falcon
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 Falcon
Project:
* Srikanth Sundarrajan <sriksun@apache.org>
* Venkatesh Seetharam <venkatesh@apache.org>
* Shwetha GS <shwethags@apache.org>
* Shaik Idris <shaikidris@apache.org>
* Sanjay Radia <sanjay@apache.org>
* Sharad Agarwal <sharad@apache.org>
* Amareshwari SR <amareshwari@apache.org>
* Samarth Gupta <samarthg@apache.org>
* Rishu Mehrothra <rishumehrothra@apache.org>
* Arpit Gupta <arpit@apache.org>
* Suhas Vasu <suhas.vasu@apache.org>
* Jean-Baptiste Onofre <jbonofre@apache.org>
* Ruslan Ostafiychuk <rostafiychuk@apache.org>
* Raghav Kumar Gautam <raghav@apache.org>
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Srikanth Sundarrajan be
appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Falcon, 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 Falcon 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 Falcon Project;
and be it further
RESOLVED, that the Apache Falcon Project be and hereby is tasked with
the migration and rationalization of the Apache Incubator Falcon
podling; and be it further
RESOLVED, that all responsibilities pertaining to the Apache
Incubator Falcon podling encumbered upon the Apache Incubator Project
are hereafter discharged.
Special Order 7E, Establish the Apache Falcon Project, was
tabled.
F. Establish the Apache MetaModel 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 data access framework, providing a
common interface for exploration and querying of different types
of datastores.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management
Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Apache MetaModel Project",
be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the
Foundation; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the Apache MetaModel Project be and hereby is
responsible for the creation and maintenance of software
related to data access framework, providing a common interface
for exploration and querying of different types of datastores;
and be it further
RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache MetaModel" 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 MetaModel Project, and to have primary responsibility
for management of the projects within the scope of
responsibility of the Apache MetaModel 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 MetaModel Project:
* Alberto Rodriguez <ardlema@apache.org>
* Ankit Kumar <ankitkumar2711@apache.org>
* Arvind Prabhakar <arvind@apache.org>
* Henry Saputra <hsaputra@apache.org>
* Juan Jose van der Linden <delostilos@apache.org>
* Kasper Sørensen <kaspersor@apache.org>
* Matt Franklin <mfranklin@apache.org>
* Noah Slater <nslater@apache.org>
* Sameer Arora <sarora@apache.org>
* Tomasz Guzialek <tomaszguzialek@apache.org>
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Kasper Sørensen
be appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache MetaModel, 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 MetaModel 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 MetaModel Project; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the Apache MetaModel Project be and hereby
is tasked with the migration and rationalization of the Apache
Incubator MetaModel podling; and be it further
RESOLVED, that all responsibilities pertaining to the Apache
Incubator MetaModel podling encumbered upon the Apache Incubator
Project are hereafter discharged.
Special Order 7F, Establish the Apache MetaModel Project, was
approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
G. Establish the Apache BookKeeper 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 logging.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management
Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Apache BookKeeper Project",
be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the
Foundation; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the Apache BookKeeper Project be and hereby is
responsible for the creation and maintenance of software
related to distributed, fault-tolerant, and high-performance logging;
and be it further
RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache BookKeeper” 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 BookKeeper
Project, and to have primary responsibility for management of the projects
within the scope of responsibility of the Apache BookKeeper 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 BookKeeper Project:
* Sijie Guo (sijie@apache.org)
* Flavio Junqueira (fpj@apache.org)
* Ivan Kelly (ivank@apache.org)
* Rakesh Radhakrishnan (rakeshr@apache.org)
* Ben Reed (breed@apache.org)
* Uma Maheswara Rao G (umamahesh@apache.org)
* Jiannan Wang (jiannan@apache.org)
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Ivan Kelly
be appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache BookKeeper, 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 BookKeeper 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
BookKeeper Project; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the Apache BookKeeper Project be and hereby
is tasked with the migration and rationalization of the Apache
BookKeeper subproject; and be it further
RESOLVED, that all responsibilities pertaining to the Apache
BookKeeper subproject encumbered upon the Apache ZooKeeper
Project are hereafter discharged.
Special Order 7G, Establish the Apache BookKeeper Project, was
approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
8. Discussion Items
9. Review Outstanding Action Items
* Brett: Remind PMCs to report on dates
Status: still to do now that guidelines are updated with more detail
* Greg: Any info about the community? [ ACE ]
Status:
* Chris: The report identifies a problem with no resolution... [ Deltacloud ]
Status:
* Chris: Please clarify what "voted on" means [ James ]
Status:
* Chris: Is PMC member discussion still ongoing? [ JMeter ]
Status:
* Chris: Clarify volunteer comment. [ Tcl ]
Status:
* Jim: send message to all PMCs re: health of projects, new committers,
new PMC members
Status: Drafted
* Jim: why is a certificate needed for release? [ Logging ]
Status: Resolved (see report)
* Rich: work with PMC to help resolve conflicts [ Flex ]
Status:
* Jim: ask SpamAssassin to discuss budget issues with treasurer [ SpamAssassin ]
Status: Done.
* Chris: does the project have enough committers to make releases? [ BVal ]
Status:
* Greg: the report states a problem but no plan to address it [ Deltacloud ]
Status:
* Sam: follow up with PMC fo clarification on the relationship
between the addons and the project [ Isis ]
Status:
* Greg: find out if TCK is holding up progress [ MyFaces ]
Status:
* Chris: need more detail in the report; seems like a cut/paste from
previous reports [ OpenJPA ]
Status:
10. Unfinished Business
11. New Business
12. Announcements
13. Adjournment
Adjourned at 11:41 a.m. (Pacific)
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ATTACHMENTS:
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Attachment 1: Report from the Executive Assistant [Melissa Warnkin]
I'm keeping this month's report short...
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 credit cards. Application has been submitted
to Citizens Bank for a $30k monthly limit – cards should be received by the
end of the month. A special thank you to Lynsey from Virtual for her
assistance!
• You can refer back to my previous board reports re renewals, if you’d like.
Due to the lack of response, I’ve sent out the past-due and upcoming renewals,
which one company did not take kindly to. Ross will elaborate, I’m sure.
• Discussions underway for a CRM for Fundraising – no update here – I haven’t
received a proposal from Hot Wax Media yet.
• Knowledge transfer has initiated between myself and Hadrian/Jim wrt to the
Fundraising activities.
• WANdisco reached out on the Nov 3rd to reinstate their silver membership.
From start to finish, all was said and done in three days (and that includes
payment!)
• HP requested their renewal invoice early ApacheCon Europe:
• TAC: All flights booked; rooming assignments have been finalized and a wire
transfer has been requested
• BarCamp: Work ongoing w/updating wiki, etc. Lewis McGibbney has been
instrumental in making this happen – thank you, Lewis!
• Sent materials list to Annie (LF) for what is needed onsite
• “Ask Me” pins, and stickers (advertising the 15th anniversary logo) have
been ordered
Misc:
• Stickers sent to Nithya Ruff, SanDisk, per David’s request. The package was
just returned today due to non-sufficient postage – will re-send.
• Craigslist donation acknowledgment letter sent to Tiffany, per her request.
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Attachment 2: Report from the VP of Brand Management [Shane Curcuru]
A request for licensing a project brand for a larger, long lived
event is generating some discussion as to what level of policy
compliance is desired for major events. I expect we will resolve
these next month, continuing similar to past agreements.
Our registration application for the HADOOP mark in Korea has been
preliminarily refused by the examiner due to a pre-existing HADOOP
registration for a similar software product; we will work with counsel
and the Hadoop PMC to see what impact this has. Note that Korea is a
"first-to-file" country, meaning whoever successfully *files* a
trademark first typically secures rights to it.
Counsel confirms that we can legally delegate ability to provide project
brand use permissions to PMCs and their VPs directly; however they also
note that this may have risks - depending on how well PMCs manage this
- with our long-term ability to defend our brands.
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Attachment 3: Report from the VP of Fundraising [Upayavira]
Fundraising activities continued normally. See Melissa's report for more details.
We are on track with the renewal reminders. Hadrian and Melissa had a couple of
brainstorming chats on the tools and processes to use. They will continue in the
coming weeks after ACEU. Records show a $75k income from the Sponsorship
Program since the last board meeting.
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Attachment 4: Report from the VP of Marketing and Publicity [Sally Khudairi]
I. Budget: HALO Worldwide has purchased an expanded set of pre-paid press
releases with NASDAQ GlobeNewswire at a locked-in, discounted rate for a
24-month timeframe (expires end of 2016). The payments will be due in January
2015 (for the 2014-2015 Fiscal Year) and July 2015 (for the 2015-2016 Fiscal
Year). Sally Khudairi will be submitting the invoices for payment through the
Whimsy application once received. She has also secured a 15% discount off any
additional releases we may need to issue during this timeframe should the
pre-paid set run out.
II. Fundraising/Branding/Marketing liaison: Sally continues to fine-tune the
"Powered by Apache" mark with select Apache projects that are updating their
logos. She has also forwarded an initial set of three designs created by
HotWax Media for a new homepage in celebration of the ASF's 15th Anniversary.
Seeing that there is significant feedback to incorporate, there's a chance
that this project may need to be pushed to launch in January. Sally has also
worked with ASF Chairman Brett Porter, President Ross Gardler, and Executive
Vice President Rich Bowen on blog posts to highlight the Foundation for its
anniversary.
III. Press Releases: the following formal announcements were issued via the
newswire service, ASF Foundation Blog, and announce@apache.org during this
timeframe:
- 5 November 2014 --The ASF @ 15 --Sponsorship and Stewardship-- The Apache
Software Foundation's Sponsors Help Bolster 15 Years of Open Source Innovation
and Community Leadership
- 29 October 2014 --The ASF @ 15 --Chairman's Statement-- The Apache Software
Foundation Marks 15 Years of Open Source Innovation and Community Leadership
- 22 October 2014 --Announcing Apache™ CloudStack™ v4.4.1
- 21 October 2014 --The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache™ Tajo™
v0.9
IV. Informal Announcements: 11 items were tweeted on @TheASF. In addition,
Sally continues to publish a weekly "News Roundup" of all news sent to
announce@apache.org and announce@apachecon.com, and continues to promote
ApacheCon and any co-located events, such as Cassandra Days and the CloudStack
Collaboration Conference.
V. Future Announcements: Sally is working with Rich Bowen on the third and
final executive blog post for ASF @ 15, and is also preparing a 15-year
summary press release. She is also working with an upcoming announcement for
Apache CloudStack. 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 6 media requests, and will be
contributing content to BlackDuck's OSDelivers and RedHat's OpenSource.com
blogs. The ASF received 2,799 press clips over this time period, vs. last
month's clip count of 1,655.
VII. Analyst Relations: Apache was mentioned in 31 write-ups by Gartner, 5
reports by Forrester, 1 write-up by GigaOM, 6 reports by 451 Research/Yankee
Group, and 6 reports by IDC. We are in the process of fact-checking an
upcoming vendor report by Forrester on private Cloud software.
VIII. ApacheCon liaison: Sally has worked on graphics revision for Melissa
Warnkin to produce the ASF's booth, signage, giveaways, etc. She is also
preparing a marketing & publicity year-in-review snapshot for the State of the
Feather presentation at ApacheCon Europe. In addition, she is coordinating
promotion opportunities with the Linux Foundation team.
IX. (Non-ASF) Industry Events and Outreach liaison: none at this time.
X. Newswire accounts: we now have 36 pre-paid press releases with NASDAQ
GlobeNewswire through the end of 2016, 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:
==========
Joe Schaefer has resigned from Infrastructure Committee (and root@)
Finances:
==========
$250 for AWS
Operations Action Items:
========================
none
Short Term Priorities:
======================
* Wiki outages - As highlighted in the October Infra report we have been
running into issues with the MoinMoin wiki. This degradation is caused
by severe disk IO load on the machine that hosts this service. This is
complicated by the fact that this same machine also hosts the US web
mirror for the foundation and projects as well as the mail-archives
service. Additional fallout has been that publishing website updates
has tremendous delays for websites on the US mirror. We think that much
of the sudden IO load increase is due to the machines ZFS-filesystem
growing to ~90%. Because of Copy-on-write nature of ZFS, and the
allocation switches that happen when a volume begins approaching
capacity, performances several degrades. We evaluated all of the
services on the host, and our initial analysis was that we'd be best
served by separating the web sites for projects and the foundation.
During the course of doing that, we've discovered that a large number
of projects were distributing artifacts and publishing their website
using a long-deprecated (February 2012 deprecation) method. This, and
other factors, have complicated the process, but today I am happy to
report that we now have an easily replicable webserver definition in
configuration management that allow us to easily deploy any number of
webserver hosts in short order, and paid off a large amount of
technical debt in the process, as well as having the newer members of
our team understand well the entire website process from checkin to
publication. This has dramatically improved the wiki situation, though
it has revealed some underlying issues with the wiki that will need to be
dealt with.
Long Range Priorities:
======================
Monitoring
----------
While we continue to work on monitoring, and have far to go, this
month yielded two major improvments. The first in disk capacity alerting, and
the other in failed array management. This is not yet pervasive in our
infrastructure, but is a start towards that end.
Automation
----------
This month resulted in a large step forward as a number of services
are
now able to be deployed in an automated fashion and in configuration
management. Many of these have been in-process for a month or longer.
to include the following services:
* committers mail-relay
* all project and Foundation websites
* rsyncd.apache.org (mirror distribution)
* host provisioning dashboard
* inbound email MXes
Resilience
----------
The work done around automation has given us our first critical
services that we can easily replicate and deploy multiple. To give you an idea
of scale we can deploy an external email exchanger, completely configured, in
less
than 10 minutes, or all of the project websites in about 3 hours (largely
bound by having to download all of the site content)
Technical Debt
--------------
This month saw us paying back large portions of technical debt. Of particular
interest is the shuttering of legacy means of publishing releases and websites
that were deprecated almost 3 years ago. We also were able to decouple a large
number of very tightly bound services.
General Activity:
=================
It is worth noting that part of the new monitoring systems we have in place
keep an eye on the status of internal disks and disk arrays. On the 30th
October we were notified into our HipChat room that the machines that
services as our svn master had a bad disk in its array. One contractor
went to the datacenter to replace the disk with a spare from our inventory
whilst another contractor configured and onlined the disk, re-adding it to the
pool. A hardware issue being notified to being replaced and back online
all in the same day.
Code Signing
------------
Two more releases were signed this month, both from Tomcat.
Three additional projects (Logging (Chainsaw), OpenOffice, and OpenMeetings)
are now setup and enabled to sign artifacts, though most are still testing.
Uptime Statistics:
==================
Overall, uptime has seen an increase in 0.30% compared to
last month, putting uptime for the october-november period at a record high
99.82% overall. The total recorded uptime stats since we started measuring it
are as follows (weeks 27 through 46):
Type: Target: Reality: Target Met:
---------------------------------------------------------
Critical services: 99.50% 99.97% Yes
Core services: 99.00% 99.77% Yes
Standard services: 95.00% 98.14% Yes
---------------------------------------------------------
Overall: 98.00% 99.36% Yes
---------------------------------------------------------
For details on each service as well as average response times, see
http://s.apache.org/uptime
Contractor Details:
===================
Daniel Gruno:
Non-JIRA related issues worked on:
- Explored and implemented a rewrite of our DNS system
- Miscellaneous help/guidance for new staffers
- Collated www+tlp server stats for an overview of our traffic/request
rates
- Worked on setting up Chaos as a disk array for Phanes (for unified
logging)
- On-call duties
- Assisted Geoff in moving rsync'ed data to svn for web sites
- Helped tweak httpd instance on tlp-us-east to cope with the request load
- Tweaked status.apache.org, added hard-coded notice about wiki.a.o
- Fixed dependency issues with Whimsy
- Deprecated SSLv3 on all SSL terminators in response to POODLE
Geoffrey Corey:
Non-JIRA related issues worked on:
- Finished migrating all tlp sites into puppet and new tlp host
- Migrated lingering projects using rsync for artifacts distribution to
using svnpubsub for distribution
- Clean up retired sites with correct redirects for www.a.o/dist to their
attic pages
- Decommission/surplus the old hermes hardware
- Replace disk in erris
JIRA related tasks:
- Resolved 11 JIRA tickets
- Renamed incubator project optiq to calcite
Gavin McDonald:
- Worked on 52 Jira Tickets, closing 27.
- Infra commits SVN - 40
- On Call duties.
- Work with new contractors on various issues.
- Resolve queries from IRC, HipChat and Email (no jira tickets)
- Updating more Ubuntu machines/vms for Bash vuln.
- Worked more on upgrading pkgng FreeBSD machines.
- Continue Work on improving Pass rate of builds, liaising with projects as
neccessary.
- Configure new disk into Eris Array.
- Adding packages to all Jenkins slaves via ansible is now working fine. Work
started
on doing the samd for Buildbot slaves.
Chris Lambertus:
- Closed 9 jira tickets
- First on-call
- Created new VM for status.a.o migration to Cloud (RAX)
- Began work on evaluating backup and disaster recovery processes
- Noted & resolved problems with zfs on abi causing failed backups
- upgraded abi to FreeBSD 10.0
- purged extraneous zfs snapshots
- analysis and evaluation of tools for improved backups
- implemented collectd puppet module (monitoring)
- added circonus monitors for new tlp (monitoring)
- begin work on oceanus cloudstack eval
- secmail.py troubleshooting & repair
- MX incubator list troubleshooting with Tony
- metis disk replacement PERC troubleshooting with Tony
Tony Stevenson
- Working on several major priorities:
- eos - The main US webserver has slowly over time grown it's disk
capacity
usage levels - most recently growing over the threshold at which ZFS
suffers from significant performance penalties. Disk capacity cant
easily
be increased and eos is scheduled for EOL so the short term goal was to
tidy up the data on disk. This was acheived by moving some of the older
static data to eris. See work by others on the overall status of
retiring
eos. Also see below commentary on a wiki migration PoC.
- abi - The host in Traci.net (FL) that we have been using for an offsite
copy of data for a number of years had suddently become increasingly
unusable and jobs were failing. This was primarily caused by a failure
in
removing old data snapshots. This essentially stemmed from the period
when hermes had to be rebuilt. A lot of triaging of old copies of data
had to be done this was done in conjunction with others notably cml@
- hermes - Fixed a long standing issue with a faulty disk on the dungeon
master that hosts hermes. Also worked on better manaaging the incoming
mail queue as on occasion it backlogs and has a compound effect on
genuine mail delivery.
- chaos (host where ELK is to be part-deployed) this work was delayed
until
AC EU giuven the more urgent issues on eos and abi.
- MX - After the unsuccessful attempt to migrate the MXes to new hosts run
from AWS EC2, several lessons have been learnt and we have fixed all but
one of these at the time of writing this report. The last fix is more
complicated and needs significant testing to sign off, and then we need
to expose this change to the mailing lists affected so that they are
kepy
in the loop, though we are aiming for a completely transparent cutover
when we came to implement it.
- As part of the bigger piece of work to unpick all the services on
(and dependant upon) eos I have started work on setting up a PoC that will
host the moinmoin wiki service (wiki.apache.org) in AWS EC2. This is
making
good progress and a data synchronisation should begin during AC EU
allowing
the team to see it working during the F2F on the Saturday after AC EU.
- More puppet work creating new and adding 3rd part modules further
extending
the puppet managed aspects of our machines.
- secretary@ workbench issues, this was seemingly related to a corrupt mbox
file on minotaur. Moving this aside and having clr@ manually process the
period allowed us to re-enable the automatic service, allbeit at a much
slower frequency than before.
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Attachment 6: Report from the Apache Travel Assistance Committee [Gavin McDonald]
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Attachment 7: Report from the VP of W3C Relations [Andy Seaborne]
HTML5 has been published as a REC.
Nothing to report this month that is directly relevant to the Foundation.
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Attachment 8: Report from the Apache Legal Affairs Committee [Jim Jagielski]
A few questions regarding usage of the Apache iCLA and external licenses
were asked and answered. I will be speaking at the PLI Open Source and Free
Software 2014 event in San Francisco on Dec. 10th. Discussions regarding
the TCK issues have been rebooted.
No issues requiring board attention or action at this time.
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Attachment 9: Report from the Apache Security Team Project [Mark Cox]
September 2014
3 Support question
1 Security vulnerability question, but not a vulnerability report
11 Vulnerability reports to security@apache.org
3 [tomcat] (1 invalid)
2 [site] rejected
1 [cordova]
1 [httpd] rejected
1 [james]
1 [activemq]
1 [solr]
1 [qpid]
8 Vulnerability reports to projects own security lists
3 [cloudstack]
2 [oo]
1 [trafficserver]
1 [hadoop]
1 [hive]
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Attachment A: Report from the Apache Abdera Project [Ant Elder]
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Attachment B: Report from the Apache Ambari Project [Yusaku Sako]
Apache Ambari simplifies provisioning, managing, and monitoring of Apache
Hadoop clusters.
Since the last report in Aug 2014, the community has been focused on the
1.7.0 release which will include resolution of more than 1500 JIRAs; a release
vote should be called within a week.
A major infrastructure improvement was made to set up automated Jenkins
jobs for running automated checks and unit tests on patches posted as well as
post-commit unit test runs that push results directly to relevant JIRAs;
this has helped the community to maintain a code base in which unit test
breakages are rare exceptions rather than the rule.
Mailing Lists:
* user@ambari.apache.org: 265 subscribers (+19 since last report)
* dev@ambari.apache.org: 163 subscribers (+15 since last report)
Releases:
* 2014-07-16 1.6.1
* 2014-05-25 1.6.0
Committers:
* 2014-10-27 Added Robert Nettleton
* 2014-10-02 Added Scott Creeley
* 2014-09-22 Added Jun Aoiki
PMC:
* 2013-11-20 Added 37 initial PMC members upon establishing TLP
Issues:
* There are no board-level issues at this time.
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Attachment C: Report from the Apache Ant Project [Conor MacNeill]
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Attachment D: Report from the Apache Buildr Project [Alex Boisvert]
Apache Buildr is a Ruby-based build system for Java-based applications,
including support for Scala, Groovy and a growing number of JVM languages and
tools.
There were no releases since our last board report; our latest release (1.4.20)
happened in August (2014-08-23).
Development and community activity (mailing lists, bug reports, etc.) remains
relatively low. Our last committer/PMC change happened in October 2013.
We have no issues that require board attention
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Attachment E: Report from the Apache Cassandra Project [Jonathan Ellis]
Cassandra is a distributed database providing massive scalability,
high performance, and high availability.
Releases:
2.0.10 25 Aug 2014
2.1.0 11 Sep 2014
2.0.11 24 Oct 2014
2.1.1 24 Oct 2014
2.1.2 10 Nov 2014
Development:
2.1 is released with optimized repair [1] and off-heap memtables [2]
joining user-defined types [3] and collection indexing [4]. Counters
have been rewritten [5], and compaction has been tuned to be
page-cache-aware [6].
Community:
September saw 1,800 Cassandra users (and another 1,000 online) attend
the 2014 Cassandra Summit in San Francisco. This represents a sold
out venue, up from the 1,100 from 2013. Videos are up at [7] and a
good writeup is at [8].
Most recent committer and PMC changes:
Joshua McKenzie was added as committer on 29 Jul 2014.
Aleksey Yeshchenko was added as PMC member on 7 Aug 2014.
[1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-5351
[2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-6694
[3] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-5590
[4] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-4511
[5] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-6504
[6] http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/compaction-improvements-in-cassandra-21
[7] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqcm6qE9lgKJkxYZUOIykswDndrOItnn2
[8] http://doanduyhai.wordpress.com/2014/09/17/feedback-from-sf-cassandra-summit/
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Attachment F: Report from the Apache Clerezza Project [Hasan Hasan]
DESCRIPTION
Apache Clerezza is an OSGi-based modular application and a set of components
(bundles) for building RESTFul Semantic Web applications and services.
ISSUES FOR THE BOARD
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
RELEASE
Latest release (partial-release-20130710) was created on 10.07.2013
The typhandlerspace-feature is being released
TODO: Put it in http://apache.org/dist/clerezza/
ACTIVITY
Various improvements and bug fixes in source codes including:
- Added support for other text encodings beside UTF-8 for
Resultset message body writers (CLEREZZA-929)
- Made Triple Collections as services optional (CLEREZZA-939)
- Improved Virtuoso (rdf.virtuoso.storage) based storage provider
(CLEREZZA-930, CLEREZZA-936, CLEREZZA-945)
Noteworthy to mention is that Clerezza Virtuoso provider is running in
production as of Monday 3th november 2014 for the Dutch government.
Currently the Virtuoso database already contains around 14,000 graphs
rising by approx. 150 graphs a day.
- Discussion around the release process, the preferred version would have
been a self service GIT solution for many small repos, The working solution
was an update to the maven release plugin so that we can easily release
single modules.
COMMUNITY
Latest change was addition of a new committer and PMC member on 16.08.2013
INFRASTRUCTURE
- Website: updated download page
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Attachment G: Report from the Apache Cocoon Project [Thorsten Scherler]
Apache Cocoon 3 is a major rewrite of Cocoon 2.2. Like Cocoon 2 it is based
around the concept of pipelines and sitemaps and it is very similar to Cocoon
2.2 in many respects but is slimmed down and designed to be easily used with
Java code (= no frameworks required!). On top of this, Cocoon 3 has the goal
of becoming the best available platform for RESTful webservices and web
applications.
Issues needing board attention: nothing
Changes in the PMC membership:
None.
Last modified: 2012/10/21 (change of PMC chair)
Community
Traffic on users and devs list had been lighter then the last quarter. Some
users asked about different issues in the different versions of cocoon.
Various devs attended the questions and provided solutions.
We had again problems with a jira spammer "ROY Assink" which open/comment/...
on issues with spam messages, different PMC member removed the comment and
reverted the doing.
Releases
2.1.10 has been released on 2013/03/20.
Development
None
Security issues reported:
None.
Progress of the project:
We need to release a new version of cocoon 3 and cocoon 2.2 but still no
committer has stepped up yet to do so.
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Attachment H: Report from the Apache Community Development Project [Ulrich Stärk]
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.
Since artifacts produced by ComDev are usually documentation on our website which is writable for
all Apache committers, we usually do not add committers to the ComDev project.
Google Summer of Code
---------------------
GSoC is over. Of the initial 42 students 36 passed the midterm evaluations and 35 passed the final
evaluations.
Uli and Suresh attended the mentor summit and will soon start discussion on some topics that came up
in talks with fellow mentors and students at the summit regarding project participation within
Apache (which is low), visibility of GSoC within Apache projects, and lack of response from projects
directly approached by students that wanted to participate in GSoC.
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 making progress with feedback coming mostly from the OpenOffice
community. It is unclear to us what the next steps to be taken are and who is responsible for
driving them. While historically responsiblity for Apache Extras was with ComDev it now seems to be
with VP Infra but this is unclear.
Invoices
--------
Once all travel costs are known we will approach fundraising and treasurer to invoice Google for
mentor stipends and travel reimbursement.
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Attachment I: Report from the Apache Continuum Project [Brent Atkinson]
Apache Continuum is an enterprise-ready continuous integration server with
features such as automated builds, release management, role-based security,
and integration with popular build tools and source control management
systems.
Activity on the mailing lists and in the issue tracker was low as expected.
The last project release was Continuum 1.4.2 on June 13, 2014. The last
committer was added December 8, 2010 and the last PMC member was added on
September 2, 2012.
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Attachment J: Report from the Apache CouchDB Project [Jan Lehnardt]
Description
Apache CouchDB is a database that uses JSON for documents, JavaScript
for MapReduce queries, and regular HTTP for an API.
Releases
1.6.1 (2014-09-03)
http://docs.couchdb.org/en/latest/whatsnew/1.6.html#version-1-6-1
Recent Activity
- preperartion for CouchDB 2.0 GA release starting
- increased marketing activity for CouchDB 2.0
- BigCouch merge is in full progress
- Fauxton webinterface work in full progress
- many new committers and one new PMC member
- a lot of marketing activities like AdvocatHub and press release
for upcoming CouchDB 2.0
- various CouchDB talks at ApacheCon
Community
Including the following additions, CouchDB has 42 committers and
12 PMC members.
New committers:
- Benjamin Bastian
- Ben Keen
- Christian Hogan
- Javier Candeira
- Sebastian Rothbucher
New PMC members:
- Robert Kowalski
Mailing list stats:
announce
207 subscribers (0)
2 message since August (1)
user
1344 subscribers (-24)
758 messages since August (+437)
erlang
186 subscribers (+12)
4 messages since August (+4)
replication
63 subscribers (+5)
51 messages since August (+40)
l10n
41 subscribers (+5)
13 messages since August (+12)
marketing
42 subscribers (+6)
368 messages since August (-43)
dev
574 subscribers (-12)
3411 messages since August (+2563)
commits
98 subscribers (-6)
2885 messages since August (+711)
Issues
There are recently no issues we would like to address to the board
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Attachment K: Report from the Apache Creadur Project [Brian Fox]
Apache Creadur creates and maintains a suite of open source software
related to the auditing and comprehension of software distributions.
Any language and build system are welcomed.
Status
------
There has been a small amount of activity on the project. Recently the
Jenkins builds were fixed due to problems maintaining a JDK5 based
build. Discussions are ongoing about discontinuing support for Java 5.
We have had a successful release of Apache Rat 0.11 in August.
Community
---------
The last committer was elected in August, 2012.
In September 2013 Phil Ottlinger was elected to join the PMC.
There are numerous improvements and bug reports coming in via Jira and
a few pull requests which are good indicators of a growing community
of users. There is also a distributed wrapper for Rat available on
github[1]
[1] https://github.com/chrismattmann/drat
Releases
--------
Apache Rat 0.11 was released in August, 2014
Apache Rat 0.10 was released in September, 2013.
Community Objectives
--------------------
Release Apache Whisker 0.1
Find more committers
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Attachment L: Report from the Apache DeltaSpike Project [Gerhard Petracek]
Apache DeltaSpike is a portable JSR-299 CDI
(Contexts and Dependency Injection for Java) Extension library
which contains lots of useful tools and helpers
which are missing in the CDI core spec.
DeltaSpike is not a CDI-container itself, but a portable
Extension library which can run on all CDI-containers!
DeltaSpike is tested and runs on many Java EE Servers like
Apache TomEE, Red Hat JBoss Application Server, JBoss Wildfly,
Oracle WebLogic, Oracle Glassfish, IBM WebSphere, and also on
simple Servlet containers like Apache Tomcat or Jetty in combination
with either JBoss Weld or Apache OpenWebBeans.
Community
---------
* No new Committers (since May 2014)
* No new PMC Members (since May 2013)
We receive contributions from the community on a regular basis.
DeltaSpike won a "Duke's Choice Award".
We have received the first donations from the Red Hat
documentation team. The documentation was converted to
AsciiDoc and moved to our Git-Repository
(integrated with the Apache CMS).
Releases
--------
* DeltaSpike 1.0.2 (17/August/14)
* DeltaSpike 1.0.3 (21/September/14)
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Attachment M: Report from the Apache DirectMemory Project [Raffaele P. Guidi]
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Attachment N: Report from the Apache Empire-db Project [Francis De Brabandere]
Apache Empire-db is a relational database abstraction layer that
allows developers to take a more SQL-centric approach in application
development than traditional ORM frameworks. Its focus is to allow
highly efficient database operations in combination with a maximum of
compile-time-safety and DBMS independence.
Progress of the project
The project keeps getting attention from new users, although at a slow
rate. We also see a lot of value in the fact that Empire-DB is easily
extendible which allows users to adapt it to their needs without the
need for a new 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
No releases since last report.
Latest release was Apache-Empire-db 2.4.3 released on 20/Aug/2014
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Attachment O: Report from the Apache Etch Project [Martin Veith]
Apache Etch is a cross-platform, language- and transport-independent
RPC-like framework for building and consuming network services.
BOARD ISSUES
There are no Board-level issues at this time.
RELEASES
* Apache Etch 1.4.0 was released on August, 06 2014.
ACTIVITY
* Activity during summer time was even reduced, as in last reports the activity on
the mailing list and in the repository is still low.
* We got some good feedback from the community regarding the cpp binding.
* Talk about "Enabling lot With Apache Etch and Coap" hold by Giorgio Zoppi at
the ApacheCon Europe in November. With this talk we hope to make more potential
users and developers aware of our project.
COMMITTERS OR PMC MEMBERS CHANGE
* No changes regarding PMC or committers composition since graduation
in January 2013.
* No changes in our committer and user base. We were able to get
exactly three binding PMC votes for the last release.
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Attachment P: Report from the Apache Flume Project [Arvind Prabhakar]
DESCRIPTION
Apache Flume is a distributed, reliable, and available system for
efficiently collecting, aggregating, and moving large amounts of log
data to scalable data storage systems such as Apache Hadoop's HDFS.
RELEASES
* The last release of Flume was version 1.5.0.1, released on June
16, 2014.
* A maintenance release version 1.5.1 is currently underway.
CURRENT ACTIVITY
* A total of 26 issues have been filed, and 42 issues have been
resolved between the period starting August 4, 2014 and November 4,
2014.
* Approximately 1147 messages were exchanged on the dev list in the
past three months, while a total of 526 were exchanged on the user
list in this period.
COMMUNITY
* The last time a new committer was added to the project was on
September 24, 2013.
* The last time a new PMC member was elected for the project was
on November 4, 2014.
* The current PMC affiliations are: Apple (2), Cloudera (9),
CyberAgent (1), Data Fueled (1), Hortonworks (1), Maas Global
Solutions (1), ScalingData (1), StreamSets (1), Vanderbilt
University (1), Zymergen (1), Not Specified (2)
* Currently there are:
- Total of 253 subscribers to the developer list
- Total of 599 subscribers to the user list
- Total of 24 committers
- Total of 21 PMC members
ISSUES
* There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
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Attachment Q: Report from the Apache Forrest Project [David Crossley]
Apache Forrest mission is software for generation of aggregated multi-channel
documentation maintaining a separation of content and presentation.
Issues needing board attention:
None.
Changes in the PMC membership:
None.
Last modified: 2013-04-08
Most recent addition: 2009-06-09
New committers:
None.
Most recent addition: 2009-06-09
General status:
The most recent release is 0.9 on 2011-02-07.
No activity on the user mail list.
On the dev mail list there was a plea for help from a person who we have
seen in the past, seeking assistance with one of the more recent parts of
Forrest, the Dispatcher. Those who know a bit about this did not help, so
it fell to our Chair to attempt assistance. Along the way the poster
encountered a semi-related issue which was never fully resolved. Thanks to
his persistence and followup, it seems that this may now be fixed.
The only other activity on the dev mail list was one PMC member attending
to an alert from our Gump server.
While researching the issue mentioned above, it came to my attention again
that there are a number of ASF projects that utilise Forrest for their
project websites, but are having some difficulties. Rather than seek our
assistance, they rant on their project mail lists and issue trackers, which
spreads misguided and ill-founded comments.
I reckon that this behaviour has done incredible damage to our project.
I do not have the inclination to address this, so will just refer to some
past attempts:
http://www.apache.org/foundation/records/minutes/2009/board_minutes_2009_11_18.txt
Sent email to all ASF Forrest-using projects.
Explained how the Forrest project manages our own docs.
Explained the Anakia output plugin, to export content to basic xml format.
http://www.apache.org/foundation/records/minutes/2010/board_minutes_2010_11_17.txt
Announce Markdown output plugin.
Announce FAQ regarding Java 6+.
http://www.apache.org/foundation/records/minutes/2012/board_minutes_2012_08_15.txt
Reminder to Forrest-using projects about Markdown output.
At this quarter, one other PMC member responded to my draft report.
This confirms that there are just sufficient people hanging around for us
to potentially be able to make a decision or encourage new contributors.
Project status:
Idle. 3 people have indicated presence, so has barely sufficient oversight.
Security issues reported:
None.
Progress of the project:
Tidied SVN to fix problems with svn:ignore properties that had Windows
line-endings.
As part of the dev list assistance, fixed the projectInfo plugin to enable
resources to be found on Windows machines when using the Dispatcher Plugin
(part of FOR-1108, FOR-1188).
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Attachment R: Report from the Apache Giraph Project [Avery Ching]
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Attachment S: Report from the Apache Gora Project [Lewis John McGibbney]
The Apache Gora open source framework provides an in-memory data model and
persistence for big data. Gora supports persisting to column stores, key
value stores, document stores and RDBMSs, and analyzing the data with
extensive Apache Hadoop MapReduce support.
Project Releases
The last release of Gora (0.5) was on 20th September, 2014.
Overall Project Activity since last report
Consistent and encouraging. We see most activity happening
on the dev@ list which is normal. Additionally since the 0.5
release we've seen a number of communities that depend on
Gora upgrade. We've seen a number of issues identified
in use of Gora downstream and reported back to us. This is
encouraging meaning that more people are adopting the software.
Work is ongoing to have Gora implemented within Apache
OODT as an object-to-datastore abstraction for the OODT
FileManager component.
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
Damien Raude-Morvan was elected as PMC member and committer
on 2014-08-03 (yyyy-mm-dd).
How has the community developed since the last report?
We have recently seen users of Gora within the Apache Giraph
community coming to our user@ list. This follows upgrade of
the giraph-gora component to the new 0.5 release.
Mailing list members are as follows
user@: from 64 --> 64
dev@: from 74 --> 73
commits@ from 27 --> 25
Changes to PMC & Committers
Nothing to report
PMC and Committer diversity
We currently have committers from a wide variety of Apache projects
including, Nutch, Tika, OODT, Camel, Solr, Accumulo, Whirr, Hadoop,
Any23, Climate & HBase (this is not an exhaustive list). We also have
committers from many other projects outside of Apache.
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Attachment T: Report from the Apache Hama Project [ChiaHung Lin]
Project Status
--------------
Patch HAMA-907 related to Max-Flow Algorithm is merged to trunk.
HAMA-919 is purposed to improve memory efficiency and increase performance.
FT is still in progress.
Community
---------
dev@ list: 110
user@ list: 184
The last PMC addition: Aug 4, 2013
The last committer addition: Aug 19, 2014
Community Objectives
--------------------
Before moving to 1.x, fault tolerance would be the main objective goal.
Releases
--------
The last release of Hama (0.6.4) was on 5th March 2014.
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Attachment U: Report from the Apache HTTP Server Project [Eric Covener]
Project Description
===================
The Apache HTTP Server Project develops and maintains an
open-source HTTP server for modern operating systems.
Issues for the Board
====================
There are no outstanding issues that require the board's attention.
Releases
========
We've had one maintenance release of our older of two
branches (2.2.x) to roll up security fixes
released this year in our current release (2.4.x)
* 2.2.29 : Released on September 9, 2014
Bug reports
===========
* Encountered 51 bugs with activity, 26 new, 20 closed/fixed
* Previously:
Encountered 143 bugs with activity, 57 new, 40 closed/fixed)
Community
=====================
* Steve Hay (mod_perl PMC) was added as a committer.
* We have brought back a resolution for PMC cleanup from
our previous report with some more detail as requested.
* Date of last new committer : October 2014 (Steve Hay)
* Date of last new PMC member: July 2013 (Ben Reser)
* Overall development activity continues to slow, with the focus on
the maintenance of 2.4.x which is making its way into various
httpd distributions.
* Jeff Trawick has tried to bootstrap some discussions of promoting
HTTPD 2.4, but nothing that has caught on yet.
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Attachment V: Report from the Apache HttpComponents Project [Asankha Perera]
The Apache HttpComponents project is responsible for creating and maintaining a
toolset of low-level Java components focused on HTTP and associated protocols.
Status
Overall the project remains active.
Releases
- HttpComponents Client for Android 4.3.5 was released on the 15th of August 2014
- HttpCore 4.4-beta1 was released on the 22nd of September 2014
- HttpClient 4.4-beta1 was released on the 29th of September 2014
- HttpAsyncClient 4.1-beta1 was released on the 17th of October 2014
- HttpCore 4.3.3 GA was released on the 22nd of October 2014
- HttpClient 4.3.6 GA was released on the 6th of November 2014
Community
Michael Osipov <michaelo at apache.org> has been voted in and accepted
invitation to join the project as a committer.
The community remains small but active, but has good user interaction on the mailing lists
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Attachment W: 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 34 podlings under incubation this month. No projects are
currently voting on graduation. The incubator added HTrace and Taverna
as two new incubating project.
* Community
New IPMC members:
People who left the IPMC:
* New Podlings
Ignite
Taverna
HTrace
* Graduations
The board has motions for the following:
Drill
DeviceMap
Falcon
* Releases
The following releases were made since the last Incubator report:
Apache Calcite 0.9.1 (incubating)
Apache Flink 0.7.0-incubating
* IP Clearance
FlatSpark for Apache Flex
Sling Resource Editor contribution
* Legal / Trademarks
None
* Infrastructure
None
* Miscellaneous
HDT is currently discussing retirement.
ODF Toolkit discussed retirement, ultimately decided to remain active for now.
NPanday seems to have begun struggling once again. It is likely that IPMC will
recommend considering a retirement option.
Ripple is struggling to build community and recently discussed whether it ought
to retire or not. Ross Gardler volunteered to step up as a Ripple mentor and
report back on the path forward in six months. An additional issue with Ripple's
Node.js-based artifacts is the lack of clear indication that they are coming
from an incubating project and NOT a TLP. Ross is looking into fixing that as well.
Slider's report didn't have a mentor sign off.
-------------------- Summary of podling reports --------------------
* Still getting started at the Incubator
Ignite
Taverna
HTrace
* Not yet ready to graduate
No release:
REEF
Droids
Community growth:
BatchEE
Flink
Sirona
Slider
Twill
* Ready to graduate
Blur
The Board has motions for the following:
Drill
* Considering retirement or other alternatives to graduation
Hadoop Development Tools
ODF Toolkit
* Did not report, expected next month
NPanday
Ripple
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Table of Contents
BatchEE
Blur
Droids
Flink
Hadoop Development Tools
Ignite
ODF Toolkit
REEF
Ripple
Sirona
Twill
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BatchEE
BatchEE projects aims to provide a JBatch implementation (aka JSR352) and a
set of useful extensions for this specification.
BatchEE has been incubating since 2013-10-03.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Increase the community
2. Improve our documentation
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
No, activity is somewhat low recently, but that is due most of the
involved people are also active in other ASF projects which needed
some attention lately.
How has the community developed since the last report?
We got a few patches from both IBMers and 'new' community members.
How has the project developed since the last report?
BatchEE already gets used in real world projects.
It is now also part of Apache TomEE-2.0 which will target
JavaEE-7 as soon as we get the JavaEE TCK.
Please note that the TCK issue doesn't affect BatchEE as
the JSR-352 spec and TCK are licensed under ALv2 (txs IBM!).
Date of last release:
2014-08-09 batchee-0.2-incubating
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
during inubation. We got a few contributions though.Signed-off-by:
[ ](batchee) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
[ ](batchee) Olivier Lamy
[X](batchee) Mark Struberg
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
Did not report on time. May be procedural issue with last release
(no general@i vote taken) asked on dev mailing list to clarify.
--------------------
Blur
Blur is a search platform capable of searching massive amounts of data
in a cloud computing environment.
Blur has been incubating since 2012-07-24.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. None in terms of Incubator criteria; we are on the verge of a very
stable version and would like to get that out the door prior to
graduation.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
The notarized trademark document referred to in past board reports has
now been signed.
How has the community developed since the last report?
We continue to be small but active.
- Subscriptions: user@ - 60[-1]; dev@ - 66[-1]
How has the project developed since the last report?
We have two main efforts going on over the past quarter: 1) we've made
numerous improvements to stabilize the original platform at really
large scale. 2) we've been refining the ideas around the new major
feature - which will introduce a new abstraction in distributed search
- mentioned in our previous report.
We're pleased to have seen some new folks show up and contribute bug
reports and patches.
Date of last release:
2014-07-29
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
2014-07-28
Signed-off-by:
[ ](blur) Doug Cutting
[X](blur) Patrick Hunt
[X](blur) Tim Williams
--------------------
Droids
Droids aims to be an intelligent standalone robot framework that allows to
create and extend existing droids (robots).
Droids has been incubating since 2008-10-09.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Activity
2. Name Search
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
None. The previous goal of the name search has began. Ant Elder is
assisting us in the search.
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PODLINGNAMESEARCH-59
How has the community developed since the last report?
No change.
How has the project developed since the last report?
No change.
Date of last release:
2012-10-15
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
2012-05-07
Signed-off-by:
[x](droids) Thorsten Scherler
[x](droids) Richard Frovarp
--------------------
Flink
Flink is an open source system for expressive, declarative, fast, and
efficient data analysis. Flink combines the scalability and programming
flexibility of distributed MapReduce-like platforms with the efficiency, out-
of-core execution, and query optimization capabilities found in parallel
databases. Flink was originally known as Stratosphere when it entered the
Incubator.
Flink has been incubating since 2014-04-14.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Community growth
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?
Two new committers were voted into the project: Márton Balassi and Gyula
Fóra. There were presentations on Flink at the VLDB keynote, a meetup in
Stockholm (more than 150 participants), one in Pasadena, CA and two
meetups in Berlin. There are upcoming talks in Palo Alto, CA and at the
Apache Con in Budapest. The dev@flink mailing list had more than 300
messages on average in the last months. The user@ list 124 in October.
How has the project developed since the last report?
Flink has released two major versions (0.6-incubating and 0.7-incubating)
in the last three months. (There was also a minor bugfix release for the
0.6-incubating release). The Apache MRQL (incubating) project has added
support for running programs with Flink. There is an effort within the
Flink community to integrate with Apache Tez.
Date of last release:
2014-10-26
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
2014-09-06
Signed-off-by:
[ ](flink) Sean Owen
[x](flink) Ted Dunning
[ ](flink) Owen O'Malley
[X](flink) Henry Saputra
[ ](flink) Ashutosh Chauhan
[X](flink) Alan Gates
--------------------
Hadoop Development Tools
Eclipse based tools for developing applications on the Hadoop platform
Hadoop Development Tools has been incubating since 2012-11-09.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Build Community
2. Get more activity
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
- The projects lacks activity in all respects, there's currently a
discussion thread to consider a retirement option
How has the community developed since the last report?
- Not much activity has happened over the last quarter
How has the project developed since the last report?
- The project has not made any progress over the last couple of months
Date of last release:
- August 2014
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
- November 2013
Signed-off-by:
[ ](hadoopdevelopmenttools) Suresh Marru
[ ](hadoopdevelopmenttools) Chris Mattmann
[X](hadoopdevelopmenttools) Roman Shaposhnik
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
There's talks of retirement on the list.
--------------------
Ignite
A unified In-Memory Data Fabric providing high-performance, distributed in-
memory data management software layer between various data sources and user
applications.
Ignite has been incubating since 2014-10-01.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Finish migration to Apache process.
2. Grow active and healthy community around Apache Ignite product.
3. Get on a stable release schedule and have 3 successful product releases.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
None at the moment.
How has the community developed since the last report?
This is the 1st report for the Ignite project, so the community only has
all the initial committers.
How has the project developed since the last report?
- ICLAa are signed for all PPMC members and committers
- Software grant from of the source code from GridGain to ASF is signed
and submitted.
- PPMC chair is elected – Dmitriy Setrakyan
- Project bootstrap completed (Jira, GIT, SVN pubsub, Nexus)
- Initial code import started
Date of last release:
No releases yet: the code is still in the migration phase
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
10/01/2014 Initial committers were added.
Signed-off-by:
[X](ignite) Branko Čibej
[X](ignite) Konstantin Boudnik
[ ](ignite) Henry Saputra
[X](ignite) Roman Shaposhnik
[ ](ignite) Michael Stack
--------------------
ODF Toolkit
Java modules that allow programmatic creation, scanning and manipulation of
OpenDocument Format (ISO/IEC 26300 == ODF) documents
ODF Toolkit has been incubating since 2011-08-01.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Grow the community in terms of committers
2. Have regular releases
3. Decide if we would like to be a top level project or join an existing
project, or move to the attic.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
We've been discussing moving the project to the attic. What little
discussion there has been on this was generally against the idea.
Disussions are ongoing.
How has the community developed since the last report?
We have made a release but there has been little activity since then.
We need to attract more members and publicizing the project in the ODF
Plugfest was suggested as a means of doing so.
How has the project developed since the last report?
There have been some user issues reported and responded to.
Some new problems reported, no fixes applied yet.
Date of last release:
2014-06-02
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
2012-10-29
Signed-off-by:
[x](odftoolkit) Rob Weir
[ ](odftoolkit) Sam Ruby
[x](odftoolkit) Nick Burch
[ ](odftoolkit) Yegor Kozlov
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
There were talks on the list about retirement, due to lack of participation.
It seems to have stirred up some new interest, so we'll need to continue to
monitor.
--------------------
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. Update the existing project web site and figure out how to transfer it
to the ASF infrastructure. (REEF-4)
2. Update the license-related documentation to be match ASF standards
(REEF-16)
3. Do a first Apache release (after 2)
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
How has the community developed since the last report?
* We have received our first contributions via pull requests on GitHub
How has the project developed since the last report?
* The Microsoft code base has been moved to ASF infrastructure
* All maven artifacts and java package names have been moved to the
org.apache.reef namespace
Date of last release:
None yet
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
None yet
Signed-off-by:
[X](reef) Chris Douglas
[ ](reef) Chris Mattmann
[ ](reef) Ross Gardler
[ ](reef) Owen O'Malley
--------------------
Sirona
Monitoring Solution.
Sirona has been incubating since 2013-10-15.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
None
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
None
How has the community developed since the last report?
Not a lot.
How has the project developed since the last report?
Development was focused on rewriting the UI to a new technology
Date of last release:
2014-06-26
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
None since the start of the incubation process.
Signed-off-by:
[X](sirona) Olivier Lamy
[ ](sirona) Henri Gomez
[ ](sirona) Jean-Baptiste Onofre
[ ](sirona) Tammo van Lessen
[ ](sirona) Mark Struberg
--------------------
Slider
Slider is a collection of tools and technologies to package, deploy, and
manage long running applications on Apache Hadoop YARN clusters.
Slider has been incubating since 2014-04-29.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Increasing community diversity
2. Completing podling name search
3. Building a user 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?
We have added one committer / PMC member, Gour Saha.
We're getting some independent users/developers on our list, including
some initial contributions and some bug reports. As an example, we
have some contributed patches for command line improvements and bug
reports around user experience improvement.
How has the project developed since the last report?
Development and mailing lists have been active, working towards a
major upcoming release. A service registry has been redesigned and
contributed to Yarn (see YARN-913), and Slider continues to help
drive improvements needed for long-lived services in Yarn.
The current plan is to release Slider version 0.60 in November.
Thanks to the Accumulo, HBase, and Storm community, application packages
for all the three are now updated to work with Slider 0.60, Hadoop 2.6,
and secured clusters in general. Moreover, HBase and Storm packages for
Windows are also already developed.
Date of last release:
2014-07-21
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
2014-09-22
Signed-off-by:
[ ](slider) Arun C Murthy
[ ](slider) Devaraj Das
[ ](slider) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
[ ](slider) Mahadev Konar
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
--------------------
Taverna
Taverna is a domain-independent suite of tools used to design and execute
data-driven workflows.
Taverna has been incubating since 2014-10-20.
The podling is currently working through the bootstrap process.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Bootstrap at ASF.
2. Build community.
3. Migrate large existing codebase and processes.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
None.
How has the community developed since the last report?
(First report)
* Mailing lists are setup.
* Currently, getting CLAs on file and accounts created.
How has the project developed since the last report?
(First report)
Date of last release:
None so far.
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
Initial committers.
Signed-off-by:
[X](taverna) Andy Seaborne
[ ](taverna) Chris Mattmann
[ ](taverna) Suresh Srinivas
[ ](taverna) Suresh Marru
[ ](taverna) Marlon Pierce
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Twill
Twill is an abstraction over Apache Hadoop YARN that reduces the complexity of
developing distributed applications, allowing developers to focus more on
their business logic
Twill has been incubating since 2013-11-14.
Top three items to resolve before graduation:
1. More committers from different organizations.
2. Regular releases.
3. Increase adoption.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
- None at this time.
How has the community developed since the last report?
- 8 new JIRA issues filed since last report (2014-08-01)
- 7 JIRA issues resolved since last report (2014-08-01)
- Subscribers to the dev list up from 52 in August to 58 in November.
- the project voted on and adopted a logo
(https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TWILL-102)
How has the project developed since the last report?
- Version 0.4.0-incubating RC3 being voted upon
Date of last release:
- 2014-08-20: 0.3.0-incubating
What are the plans for the next period?
- Encourage contributions from active users
- Identify potential committers
- Improve documentation and website
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
- No new committers since incubation.
Signed-off-by:
[ ](twill) Arun C Murthy
[ ](twill) Tom White
[X](twill) Patrick Hunt
[ ](twill) Andrei Savu
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
I see normal activity on the dev@ mailing list. At least on mentor is
active on the dev@ list.
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Attachment X: Report from the Apache jUDDI Project [Alex O'Ree]
jUDDI (pronounced "Judy") is an open source Java implementation of the
Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration (UDDI v3) specification for
(Web) Services. The jUDDI project includes Scout. Scout is an implementation
of the JSR 93 - Java API for XML Registries 1.0 (JAXR).
jUDDI
- Low traffic on the mailing lists this quarter.
Scout
- No release this period, not really any development took place.
- Very low volume of JAXR related questions on the mailing list.
Last PMC addition and new committer April 3, 2013 (Alex O'Ree)
Last Release jUDDI-3.2.0, Feb 5, 2014
There are no issues that require the boards attention at this time.
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Attachment Y: Report from the Apache Kafka Project [Jun Rao]
Apache Kafka is a distributed pub/sub system for efficiently collecting and
delivering a large number of messages to both offline and online systems.
Development
===========
We released Kafka 0.8.2 beta. The highlights in this release include (1) a java-based
new producer, which provides better performance and a cleaner api; (2) a more scalable
Kafka-based offset storage management; (3) automated leader balancing and controlled
shutdown; (4) delete topic support; (5) more than 100 bug fixes and improvements. We
expect to release 0.8.2 final by end of Nov.
Community
===========
Lots of activities in the mailing list. kafka-user has 431, 383, 563 emails in Aug,
Sep and Oct, respectively (up from 429 in Jan). kafka-dev has 1129, 1257, 1633 emails
in Aug, Sep and Oct (about the same as 1357 in Jul). A new committer is
being voted now. The voting thread was started on Nov 11, 2014.
Releases
===========
0.8.2 beta was released on Oct 27, 2014.
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Attachment Z: Report from the Apache Knox Project [Kevin Minder]
# Description
The Knox Gateway is a REST API gateway for securing Hadoop REST APIs at the perimeter.
# Issues
None
# Status
* Announced the 0.5.0 release on 11-04-2014
* Discussing the next release as 0.5.1 for bug fixes
* Graduation approved by board February 19, 2014
* Completed tasks required of graduating projects
# Releases
* 0.5.0: 2014-11-4
* 0.4.0: 2014-04-21
* 0.3.0: 2013-10-13 (Incubating)
# Development Activity
* Community has just released version 0.5.0 and is beginning to discuss the need for 0.5.1
* Jira: 301 total, +61 -41 (last 90 days)
* Git (Source): 52 commits over last 90 days
* SVN (Site & Docs): 35 commits over last 90 days
# Community Activity
## Contributors Added
* 2 new contributors engaged with multiple patches contributed.
## Membership Changes
* We have an outstanding invitation to a contributor to become a committer and PMC member.
## Mailing List Activity
* user@knox: 10 messages over last 90 days
* dev@knox: 348 messages over last 90 days
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Attachment AA: Report from the Apache Lenya Project [Richard Frovarp]
The Apache Lenya CMS is a Cocoon based XML/XHTML content management
system.
Issues:
No board level issues at this time.
Development:
No new releases this quarter.
Last release: 2.0.4 on 2011-03-14
Community:
Last change to community was PMC addition in October 2011.
Activity:
Another quarter of no activity. Two quarters ago the PMC was polled to
determine if enough PMC members were still involved to have a
successful vote if one were raised and enough PMC members responded
that they were involved.
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Attachment AB: Report from the Apache Libcloud Project [Tomaz Muraus]
Libcloud is a Python library that abstracts away the differences among
multiple cloud provider APIs.
Issues
There are no issues that require the board's attention at this time.
Releases
There we no releases during this time-frame, but a voting thread for
0.16.0 release has just been started.
Community
- No new committers or PMC members have joined the team.
- Latest PMC addition - Sebastien Goasguen (sebgoa) on February 17th, 2014
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Attachment AC: Report from the Apache Logging Project [Christian Grobmeier]
The Apache Logging Services Project creates and maintains open-
source software related to application logging.
Currently there are no issues, which require the board’s attention.
- Community
Log4j 2 remains an active project. The overall
community is healthy and friendly.
Log4cxx is still active at the Incubator. A first release
is in discussion.
After three years the Infra ticket:
* https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-3991
was eventually closed (Thanks, Infra!) which unblocks
a new Chainsaw release.
In general, all subprojects are healthy.
- Project Branding Requirements
All components except Chainsaw meet the branding requirements.
We will fix the Chainsaw branding with the next release.
- Last three community changes
* Matt Sicker joined as PMC Member on Aug 10 2014
* Bruce Brouwer joined as a Committer on May 16 2014
* Matt Sicker joined as a Committer on Mar 01 2014
We have asked long time inactive members if they want to go emeritus.
The following committers/PMC members have chosen to do so in August:
* Curt Arnold
* Nicko Cadell
* Ceki Gülcü
* Jacob Kjome
* Paul Smith
The board was notified and the according records were deleted after
72 hours period.
- Releases
* Log4j 2.1.0 (Oct 28, 2014)
* Log4j 2.0.2 (Aug 22, 2014)
* Log4j 2.0.1 (Aug 05, 2014)
- Subproject summaries
Log4j 2: Active. Moved to Git recently.
Log4j 1: No activity. Needs to be considered for EOL.
Log4net: Almost no activity, but questions on the mailing lists are answered.
Log4cxx: Active in the Incubator. Release is considered.
Log4php: Less activity.
Chainsaw: Ready for a new release.
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Attachment AD: Report from the Apache ManifoldCF Project [Karl Wright]
ManifoldCF PMC Chair: Karl Wright (kwright@apache.org)
Date: November 2014
Project description
==============
ManifoldCF is an effort to provide an open source framework for connecting
source content repositories like Microsoft Sharepoint and EMC Documentum,
to target repositories or indexes, such as Apache Solr, OpenSearchServer
or ElasticSearch. ManifoldCF also defines a security model for target repositories
that permits them to enforce source-repository security policies.
Releases
========
ManifoldCF graduated from the Apache Incubator on May 16, 2012. Since then, there
have been eight major releases, including a 1.7 release on August 24, 2014, and a
point release 1.7.1 on September 22, 2014. The next major release is scheduled for
December 31, 2014.
Committers and PMC membership
=============================
The last committer we signed up was Alessandro Benedetti (abenedetti), on
October 10, 2014.
Mailing list activity
=====================
Mailing list has been very active, with a wide range of topics. Most of our connectors
now have significant use cases and constituencies, and the connector family
continues to grow. Dev list comments for this period centered around ManifoldCF 2.0
development, and backwards compatibility issues, as well as voting for the major 1.7
release. There were plenty of people looking for integration advice as well.
Committer and external contributions have been significant this cycle. I am unaware
of any mailing-list question that has gone unanswered.
Outstanding issues
==================
None known.
Branding
========
We have reviewed the site branding guidelines and believe we are now compliant with
these, with the possible exception of (TM) signs in logos from other Apache products
that don't have any such marks. Hopefully we will be able to correct this issue
soon.
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Attachment AE: Report from the Apache Marmotta Project [Jakob Frank]
Apache Marmotta, an Open Platform for Linked Data.
Apache Marmotta was founded in December 2012 and has graduated from the
Incubator in November 2013.
We successfully accomplish our first Google Summer of Code project
(Implementation of the LDP service for Apache Marmotta based on
SPARQL 1.1, MARMOTTA-444). Unfortunately after the end of the program
we have not managed to keep the student working and maintaining the
alternative implementation his project provided.
Linked Data Platform 1.0 is moving to W3C Last Call, and Apache Marmotta
continues activelly contributing to the technology providing one of the
reference implementations: http://s.apache.org/4RN
Apache Marmotta was presented in a half-day tutorial at the ISWC 2014. The 25
participants were introduced into "Marmotta as a linked data server", the LDP
1.0 implementation and SPARQL-MM extensions. http://s.apache.org/glR
Sept and Oct have been two very busy months on the users mailing list, with
questions about documentation but also bug-reports. We are trying to migrate
candidates to the dev-list for contributions and as candidates to grow the
community.
Subscribers to the projects mailing list:
dev@marmotta.a.o: 73 subscribers (-3 since last report, 2014-08)
users@marmotta.a.o: 86 subscribers (+3 since last report, 2014-08)
Releases
2014-05-20 (3.2.1)
2014-04-09 (3.2.0)
Committers & PMC
Peter Ansell (committer&PMC, 2013-06-24)
Raffaele Palmieri (committer&PMC, 2013-05-21)
Issues for the Board
There are no Board-level issues at this time.
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Attachment AF: Report from the Apache Mesos Project [Benjamin Hindman]
Apache Mesos is a cluster manager that provides resource sharing and
isolation across cluster applications.
## General ##
The state of the project seems healthy, we continue with about 1
release every month, and the user and dev email lists continue to gain
grow in activity.
## Releases ##
* Apache Mesos 0.20.0 (2014-08-18)
* Apache Mesos 0.20.1 (2014-09-18)
* Apache Mesos 0.21.0 (2014-11-13)
## Community ##
* 400/261 created/resolved JIRA issues in last 90 days.
* 181/138 created/resolved JIRA issues in last 30 days.
* user@mesos.apache.org: 276 messages in August, 253 in September,
209 in October. The average has been growing into the ~200 per
month range.
* dev@mesos.apache.org: 1286 messages in August, 1281 in September,
2059 in October. The average has fluctuated between 1000 and 2000.
* ApacheCon Europe: Dave Lester hosted a hackathon and Tim St Clair
gave a talk.
* Many more Mesos User Groups (MUG) have been created. There is now
one in London. Benjamin Hindman and Ken Sipe spoke there in August
and September. The MUG in the Bay Area has hosted ~1 meetup per
month (and two in November!).
* We continue to add companies to our Powered By page. Please see
http://mesos.apache.org/documentation/latest/powered-by-mesos for
the growing list!
## Issues ##
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
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Attachment AG: Report from the Apache Oltu Project [Antonio Sanso]
DESCRIPTION
Oltu is a project to develop a Java library which provides an API
specification for, and an unconditionally compliant implementation of the
OAuth v2.0 specifications. OAuth is a mechanism that allows users to
authenticate and authorise access by another party to resources they control
while avoiding the need to share their username and password credentials.
MILESTONES
Apache Oltu 1.0 was released on March 3rd 2014.
CURRENT ACTIVITY
The core part of the project related to 'The OAuth 2.0 Authorization
Framework' (RFC 6749) is pretty stable due the fact RFC 6749 is now a
standard.
A stable version 1.0 was released on March 3rd 2014. We have extended the
coverage for the IETF JOSE specifications (that is strictly correlated to
OAuth 2) as JWS
(https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-jose-json-web-signature-36). The
current intention is to extend the coverage to the JWE part.
Users activity is growing slowly but steadily (the user@ mailing list has got
new messages from new users). We got some feedback from some users about our
not too clear documentation.
Hence we are planning to improve this area.
COMMUNITY
PMC composition has not changed since graduation We have voted one new
committer since graduation (3rd March 2013)
ISSUES
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
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Attachment AH: Report from the Apache Oozie Project [Mohammad Islam]
Apache Oozie is a system for managing and scheduling workflows that run different
types of Hadoop jobs (such as MapReduce, Pig, Hive and Sqoop) as well as system
specific jobs (such as Java programs and shell scripts).
RELEASES
* No new release in this quarter. Next Apache Oozie version (4.1.0) is almost ready.
CURRENT ACTIVITY
* Development activity continues as can be seen from the following JIRA report:
http://s.apache.org/b3R (since last report, Aug 2014)
COMMUNITY
* No new PMC member added since last report.
* Committers composition has not changed since last report.
* Currently there are:
- Total of 416 (+48) subscribers to the user list
- Total of 125 (+2) subscribers to the developer list
- Total of 17 committers (+0)
- Total of 13 PMC members (+0)
ISSUES
* There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
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Attachment AI: Report from the Apache Open Climate Workbench Project [Michael James Joyce]
Apache Open Climate Workbench is a tool for scalable comparisons of remote
sensing observations to climate model outputs.
Project Activity:
Development activity on the project has been great since the last reporting
period. The 0.4 release was pushed out in September and represented huge
progress on the project. It was by far the largest release the project has
had.
Progress on the 0.5 release has been consistent and a number of
key issues have been handled. The release is being discussed on the list
currently and an RC should be out soon. The project is also discussing
a move out of 0.y releases and pushing our first full 1.0 release.
We recently added Ross Laidlaw as a PMC member and committer on the project.
He has contributed a ton to the project in the last few months and helped
immensely with the 0.5 release.
Issues for the Board:
None
When was the last release:
0.4 - 11 September 2014
0.5 - Release currently being discussed on list. First RC should be out soon.
When was the last committer or PMC member elected:
Ross Laidlaw - 6 November 2014
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Attachment AJ: Report from the Apache OpenJPA Project [Pinaki Poddar]
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Attachment AK: Report from the Apache OpenMeetings Project [Sebastian Wagner]
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 3.0.3 has been released in September. Version 3.0.3 is the third minor
release of Apache OpenMeetings. v3.0.3 also included some improvements like
updating the code of the underlying Red5 streaming libraries and in the
recordings component.
We are ready to release 3.0.4 with the signed web start application (release
is currently blocked by broken RTMPT screen client, working with Red5 dev
community to resolve this)
== Activity ==
The constant activity in mailing list, jira and commits.
A new initiative has been started to gather statistic on usage of
OpenMeetings. The community is asked to fill out a questionaire, this is
captured in the project website at
http://openmeetings.apache.org/WeNeedYou.html.
There is also a previously shelved activity around finding a new logo for
OpenMeetings reactivated see http://openmeetings.apache.org/CallForLogo.html.
There is ongoing work to migrate more components from Flash to HTML5 and
reduce as a long term goal to migrate all components away from Flash.
== Community ==
Peter Dähn has been voted as a new member to the PMC (30th of October).
Maxim Solodovnik is going to the ApacheCon EU and do a presentation about
OpenMeetings.
== Infrastructure ==
No outstanding issue.
== Board ==
There are no outstanding issues requiring board attention.
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Attachment AL: Report from the Apache Perl Project [Philippe M. Chiasson]
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Attachment AM: Report from the Apache Phoenix Project [James R. Taylor]
Phoenix is a relational database layer for accessing NoSQL datastores
such as Apache HBase for low latency applications. It is accessed as a
JDBC driver and supports querying and managing NoSQL tables using SQL.
Releases:
2014-08-28 3.1.0
2014-08-28 4.1.0
2014-10-31 3.2.0
2014-10-31 4.2.0
Recent Activity:
Last release introduces statistics collection to improve query
performance and provide a foundation for cost-based query
optimization.
258 JIRAs were created and 255 were resolved in the past three months.
PMC/Committers:
Ravi Magham (ravimagham) was elected as a committer on 2014-08-12.
Last PMC member was elected on 2014-04-08.
Community:
User list activity increased 54% (128 -> 197 msg/mo) over previous three months
Dev list activity increased 60% (636 -> 1052 msg/mo) over previous three months
User subscribers increased 56% (135 -> 211 subscribers) from June
Dev subscribers increased 41% (72 -> 102 subscribers) from June
Board Issues:
None
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Attachment AN: Report from the Apache POI Project [Yegor Kozlov]
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Attachment AO: Report from the Apache Qpid Project [Gordon Sim]
Apache Qpid™ is a project focused on creating software based on the
Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP), currently providing a
protocol engine library, message brokers written in C++ and Java,
client libraries for C++, Java (including JMS), .Net, Python, Perl and
Ruby and a message 'router'.
* Releases:
Qpid 0.30 was released on 26th September 2014. Qpid Proton 0.8 was
released on 6th November 2014.
The most recent release of Qpid Dispatch Router, 0.2, was on 14th
April 2014.
* Community:
The main developer and user lists continue to be active. JIRAs are
being raised and addressed.
Tim Bish (already a committer on the ActiveMQ project) became a
committer on the Qpid project on 15th September. Božo Dragojevic
became a committer on 16th September 2014.
There were no new additions to the PMC since the last report. The last
addition to the PMC was Fraser Adams who joined on 6th March, 2014.
* Development
- CVE-2014-3629 was reported, a fix was made available and an
announcement made
- The new AMQP 1.0 compliant JMS client work is going well. Tim Bish
and Robbie Gemmell have combined efforts on this.
- For greater clarity, we changed our process a little for the 0.30
Qpid release. This comprises several different components, though
they all share the same svn tree at present. Where previously we had
voted for the release as a whole, we now vote separately on each
individual components sources, to ensure that every component that
gets released has been sufficiently verified.
* Issues:
The Qpid PMC has voted[1] to change the Chair. See the resolution
submitted for the board's approval in 7A above.
[1] https://mail-search.apache.org/pmc/private-arch/qpid-private/201411.mbox/browser
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Attachment AP: Report from the Apache River Project [Patricia Shanahan]
Apache River is a Java-based Service Oriented Architecture,
implementing the Jini Specification and Jini Technology Starter
Kit originally donated by Sun Microsystems.
ISSUES FOR THE BOARD
There are no board-level issues at this time
RELEASES
Apache River 2.2.2 was released on November 18, 2013
Apache River 2.2.1 was released on May 2, 2013.
COMMUNITY
The last change in the PMC was in June 2014, when Patricia Shanahan
returned from emeritus to active status as a committer and PMC member.
A new user has brought to the attention of the PMC some issues in the
"Getting Started" web pages that may be a barrier to attracting new
users and to community involvement. Patricia Shanahan plans to follow
up on this, and will report further next quarter.
ACTIVITY
There has been limited activity this quarter due to work and personal
commitments. Some timing-dependent bugs have been fixed. Another test
failure may be due to inappropriate test conditions.
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Attachment AQ: Report from the Apache Roller Project [Dave Johnson]
Apache Roller is a full-featured, Java-based blog server that works
well on Tomcat and MySQL, and is known to run on other Java servers
and relational databases. The ASF blog site at blogs.apache.org runs on
Roller 5.0.3, Tomcat and MySQL.
Issues
No board issues at this time.
Releases
The latest release of Apache Roller is v5.1.0, which was released
on August 25, 2014 and features internal architectural changes
and a new mobile theming feature. The announcement is here:
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-roller-user/201408.mbox/%3C53FB8963.2050500@apache.org%3E
Community
The Roller community is small but active these days, busy with a new
release and fielding support questions about that release.
The last new PMC member and committer who joined is Gaurav Saini
who joined on July 3, 2014.
This quarter, like most recent quarters, there has been a slow but steady
stream of bug fixes, re-factorings and improvements to the Roller code
base, documentation and the wiki.
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Attachment AR: Report from the Apache Santuario Project [Colm O hEigeartaigh]
The Apache Santuario project is aimed at providing implementation of
security standards for XML.
There was one new release of the Apache XML Security for Java project over the
last quarter, 2.0.2. This was a minor release that fixes a couple of bugs with
the streaming XML security code introduced in 2.0.0, and contains a few
dependency upgrades.
There were 21 commits to the trunk branch of the Java project in the last
quarter - so fairly quiet, but issues continue to be logged + fixed. There
are no issues or concerns to report to the board.
Last committer addition: Marc Giger, July 2012.
Last PMC addition: Marc Giger, April 2013.
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Attachment AS: 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: Completed developer guide translation from French to English. The
developer guide itself is still incomplete, but at least the versions in the
two languages now have the same content.
Completed the upgrade of metadata classes from ISO 19115:2003 to ISO
19115:2014
Code on branches break backward compatibility in some areas where the standard
changed in an incompatible way.
Code on trunk is backward compatible, but this forced us to sacrifice some
features from the new standards. Those new features are available on the
branches and will be merged to trunk at a moment not yet determined.
New contributor (Marc Le Bihan) started a refactoring of the “Shapefile”
reader as a partial JDBC implementation.
Marc Le Bihan added the ticket “DBase 3 - JDBC : Simple WHERE CLAUSE and
Integer, Double field support” [1]
Community:
Added Marc Le Bihan to PMC
Branding:
Preparing a talk for the next Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) meeting about
ISO 19115 upgrade applied to GeoAPI, with Apache SIS to be cited as a proof
of concept.
Issues:
None
Releases:
Targeting a release around December 10th. Waiting for the OGC meeting before
the release give us a chance to perform last minute fixes if discussion with
other OGC members show that we got some aspects wrong in our ISO 19115:2014
work.
Press:
None
[1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SIS-184
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Attachment AT: Report from the Apache Spark Project [Matei Zaharia]
Apache Spark is a fast and general engine for large-scale data processing. It
offers high-level APIs in Java, Scala, and Python as well as a rich set of
libraries including stream processing, machine learning, and graph analytics.
Project status:
This has been an eventful three months for Spark. Some major happenings are:
- We posted our 1.1.0 release in September, with contributions from 171
developers (our largest number yet). Major features were performance and
scalability optimizations, JSON import and schema inference in Spark SQL,
feature extraction and statistics libraries, and a JDBC server.
- We recently cut a release branch and started QA for Spark 1.2.0, which
is targeted for release in December.
- Apache Spark won this year's large-scale sort benchmark
(http://sortbenchmark.org/), sorting 100 TB of data 3x faster than the
previous record. It tied with a MapReduce-like system optimized for sorting.
- The community voted to implement a maintainer model for reviewing some
modules, where changes in architecture and API should be reviewed by a
maintainer before a merge (http://s.apache.org/Dqz). There was concern
from some external commenters (Greg Stein, Arun Murthy, Vinod Vavilapalli)
that this reduces the power of each PMC member (requiring a review from a
specific set of people); we are looking to test how this works and possibly
tweak the model.
Releases:
Our last few releases were:
September 11, 2014: Spark 1.1.0
August 5, 2014: Spark 1.0.2
July 23, 2014: Spark 0.9.2
July 11, 2014: Spark 1.0.1
Committers and PMC:
The last committers and PMC members were added August 12, 2014
(Joseph Gonzalez and Andrew Or).
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Attachment AU: Report from the Apache Storm Project [P. Taylor Goetz]
DESCRIPTION
APACHE Storm is a distributed, fault-tolerant, and high-performance realtime
computation system that provides strong guarantees on the processing of
data.
RELEASES
* The last release of Apache Storm was version 0.9.2-incubating, released
on June 25, 2014. This was an Apache Incubator release.
CURRENT ACTIVITY
* Version 0.9.3 is currently in a release candidate cycle.
* The developer and user lists continue to be active, and JIRAs are being
created and addressed.
* Development activity continues on both the master and security branches.
COMMUNITY
* Storm added 4 PMC/Committer members on September 27, 2014 (Note: These
members were voted in during incubation, and added as PMC members post-
graduation via board NOTICE).
* There were no new additions to the PMC since the last report.
ISSUES
* There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
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Attachment AV: Report from the Apache Stratos Project [Lakmal Warusawithana]
Apache Stratos is a highly-extensible Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) framework
that helps run Apache Tomcat, PHP, and MySQL applications and can be extended
to support many more environments on all major cloud infrastructures.
Releases
* Last release - Apache Stratos 4.0.0 released on June 20th
Community and development
* Two new committer/PMC member added
* 5 developer preview milestones for up coming 4.1.0 release.
* Conducted 8 public hangouts for educate technology used in Apache Stratos
* PMC's were spoken at CloudOpen NA, CloudOpen Europe,WSO2Con US, QconSF and
JaxLondon about Apache Stratos
* Mailing list activity on dev@ was at 739 messages in August, 1146 messages
in September, 1073 messages in October.
* 87 commits in August, 382 commits in September, 520 commits in October
New Committer/PMC member addition
* Rajkumar Rajaratnam - 2014.10.06
* Lasindu Charith - 2014.10.06
Issues
* There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
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Attachment AW: Report from the Apache Subversion Project [Greg Stein]
Apache Subversion exists to be universally recognized and adopted as
an open-source, centralized version control system characterized by
its reliability as a safe haven for valuable data; the simplicity of
its model and usage; and its ability to support the needs of a wide
variety of users and projects, from individuals to large-scale
enterprise operations.
* Board Issues
There are no Board-level issues of concern.
* Community
The community has been working through some issues on features to be
included (or not) in the upcoming 1.9 release. It has been
difficult, and tensions have risen, but it appears the impasse has
been resolved and focus on a release can resume.
Regarding the above, it should be noted that the VP (Greg) declared
a past veto as closed/not-applicable, with the intent of moving the
community forward, and repairing the discussion/dynamic. The PMC
members involved seem to alright with that decision, and certainly
retain their rights/desires to reinstate a veto upon the changes and
features, should they find them suspect for a release.
Our last PMC addition was February 2014, and our last (non-PMC)
committer was added in July 2013.
* Releases
No releases have been made since our report in August.
Current releases are:
1.8.10 -- Current series, released on August 11, 2014.
1.7.18 -- Prior series, receives maintenance/security patches,
released on August 11, 2014.
1.9.0-alpha2 -- Future series, released on April 4, 2014.
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Attachment AX: Report from the Apache Syncope Project [Francesco Chicchiricco]
Apache Syncope is an Open Source system for managing digital identities in
enterprise environments, implemented in JEE technology.
Status
There are no outstanding issues requiring board attention.
Community
The mailing lists' traffic is again on rise, mainly because of recent release of
new major version 1.2.0; also the number of subscribers to user@ and dev@ has
slightly increased if compared to last quarter.
New and coming users are asking for support and reporting bugs; in some cases
patches are also provided, fact that can constitute ground for discussion about
inviting new committers.
We are currently in the process of fixing the bugs identified for 1.2.0,
planning the next maintenance release 1.2.1.
No actual plan has been made yet about next major release, except for some
sporadic discussions.
Last committer addition (Andrea Patricelli) is dated March 2014.
Last addition to PMC (Guido Wimmel) is dated April 2014.
Releases since last report
* 1.2.0-M1 (Sep 8th, 2014)
* 1.2.0 (Oct 3rd, 2014)
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Attachment AY: Report from the Apache TomEE Project [David Blevins]
Apache TomEE delivers enterprise application containers and services
based on, but not limited to the Enterprise JavaBeans Specification
and Java Enterprise Edition Specifications.
Major news includes the conversion of the project from svn to git.
Motivation includes the number of pull requests has grown and forks of
the git mirror in Github are up to nearly 200. Most of the "new
blood" showing up on the are more comfortable with git. With new
faces arriving more and more frequently, we're hoping this helps them
contribute and helps us track and incorporate those contributions.
Time to start having some talks about adding contributors.
The project was given a Duke's Choice award from Oracle this JavaOne
and a Geek Choice award from ZeroTurnaround. The growing popularity
is a strong contributing factor for the new faces.
Apache TomEE 1.7.1 was released this September and is a maintenance
release for the Java EE 6 codebase. Work on Java EE 7 in TomEE 2.0
continues moving forward. Hope of getting a Java EE 7 TCK still
remains.
Last release was 1.7.1 on 2014-09-15. Last committer was added
November 2013. Last PMC addition was 2010-08-26.
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Attachment AZ: Report from the Apache Turbine Project [Thomas Vandahl]
Apache Turbine is a servlet based framework that allows experienced Java
developers to quickly build web applications. Turbine allows you to
personalize the web sites and to use user logins to restrict access to parts
of your application.
Turbine is a matured and well established framework that is used as the base
of many other projects.
Status
The Turbine project has again seen low levels of activity in the last quarter.
The Turbine project has no board-level issues at this time.
Community changes
No new committers were voted in since the last board report.
The last change to the committer base was the addition of Georg Kallidis
(2012/09/19).
No new PMC members were voted in since the last board report.
The last change to the PMC was the addition of Georg Kallidis (2013/09/30).
Turbine core project
A few commits have been done in the core project.
The last released component was the parent POM (2013/09/25).
Fulcrum component project
No activity has been taken place in the Fulcrum project.
The last released component was Fulcrum json 1.0.0 (2014/04/07)
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Attachment BA: Report from the Apache Tuscany Project [Jean-Sebastien Delfino]
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Attachment BB: Report from the Apache Velocity Project [Nathan Bubna]
Apache Velocity is a java template engine and related projects.
RELEASES
* Last release was master POM, May 2012
* Last noteworthy release was Engine in 2010
CURRENT ACTIVITY
* No commits or releases.
COMMUNITY
* Last committer added April 28, 2013
* Mailing list activity was higher than usual, responses were quick.
* Most questions on StackOverflow seem to concern Velocity integrations, not Velocity itself.
* Frederick Brier contacted us about contributing major 2.0-type revisions he's done.
We advised him, but neither CLA nor code has materialized.
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Attachment BC: Report from the Apache Xalan Project [Steven J. Hathaway]
The Apache Xalan Project develops and maintains libraries and programs
that transform XML documents using XSLT standard stylesheets. Our subprojects
use the Java and C++ programing languages to implement the XSLT libraries.
The Xalan project will have a representative at ApacheCon EU 2014.
Xalan is a mature project, but we are hoping to acquire more committers
who can upgrade the project to address the newer XPath and XSLT standards.
ISSUES FOR THE BOARD
None.
CURRENT ACTIVITY
Xalan is a mature product. There is little development activity other
than patch maintenance.
Discussion continues on how to implement XSLT 2 specifications in
the Java subproject. Patch maintenance is still being done.
Quality assurance builds for the Xalan-C project are currently stalled.
We plan to pursue the build efforts after the ApacheCon EU 2014.
MEMBERSHIP
Changes in the PMC membership:
None.
Last new committer:
May 2014
PROJECT RELEASES
Xalan Java 2.7.2 April 15, 2014
Xalan C/C++ 1.11 October 31, 2012
Publishing of project releases was refreshed Oct 30, 2014.
OTHER ISSUES
Moving the original XML parent project to the Attic has caused some
frustration on the mailing lists, but these have mostly been overcome.
We still get messages posted to the old XML project with Xalan
as subprojects. Moderating these messages has helped.
Documentation links in the Xalan and subproject website pages are
corrected as the problems and issues become known. There is still
some effort being made to have the web pages made easier to maintain.
BRANDING ISSUES
None.
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Attachment BD: Report from the Apache Xerces Project [Michael Glavassevich]
Xerces-J
A potential security issue was reported to the PMC in early
November. It appears that it may have already been fixed and
are seeking confirmation from the reporter.
A couple defects were fixed in the XML Schema implementation.
Otherwise it has been relatively quiet.
Mailing list traffic has been low; roughly 90 posts on the
j-dev and j-users lists since the beginning of August 2014.
No new releases this quarter. The latest release is
Xerces-J 2.11.0 (November 30th, 2010).
Xerces-C
It has been a quiet three months with no development activity.
Mailing list traffic has been very low; roughly 35 posts on the
c-dev and c-users lists since the beginning of August 2014.
There was no news on the anticipated 3.2 release or discussion
of it this quarter. The latest release is Xerces-C 3.1.1
(April 27th, 2010).
Xerces-P
Nothing in particular to report. There was no development
activity over the reporting period.
XML Commons
Responded to a question regarding XML Commons artifacts on Maven
Central. No other activity over the reporting period.
Committer / PMC Changes
No new committers in the last quarter. The most recent committers
were elected in July 2008 (Xerces-C) and May 2009 (Xerces-J).
No new PMC members in the last quarter. The last two additions to
the PMC were in May 2010.
Two committers (who are also PMC members) committed changes to
SVN in the last quarter.
Apache Project Branding Requirements
The project logo still needs a "TM" to be added to it.
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Attachment BE: Report from the Apache XML Graphics Project [Chris Bowditch]
The Apache XML Graphics Project is responsible for software intended for
the creation & maintenance of the conversion of XML formats to graphical
output & related software components.
== Issues for the Board ==
No issues at present.
== Community ==
Last new committer: Simon Steiner on 2014/04/11
Last new PMC member: Luis Bernardo on 2013/03/04
== XML GRAPHICS COMMONS ==
23 separate commits to SVN, most of which were related to the release,
but 2 were for general bug fixes.
There was 1 release this quarter; Version 2.0
The latest release is 2.0 (3 October 2014)
== FOP ==
61 separate commits to SVN. This is a mixture of feature development;
Complex Script support in SVG and bug fixes. Luis Bernardo also created
a branch for a prototype implementation of fo:float. The next release is
currently dependent on the PDFBox v2.0 release. I note from PDFBox's
October Report this has been deferred, so we may need to try and refactor
our code to use the 1.8.x branch instead. The PMC still needs to discuss
this and decide.
The FOP User list has a slow but steady stream of questions being raised
and answered; 90 e-mails in total. The FOP Team invested some time to
switch from using GUMP to the Apache Jenkins buildbot for continuous
integration.
There were no releases this quarter
The latest release is 1.1 (20 October 2012)
== BATIK ==
23 separate commits to SVN. Some of these were related to the release, but
some are due to the development of Complex Script Support in SVG. We have
also been working towards a release. We ran the test suite and discovered a
large percentage of the tests are failing, so we are currently reviewing
the failures and trying to resolve them before we do the release.
There were no releases this quarter.
The latest version is 1.7 (6 January 2008)
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