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Board of Directors Meeting Minutes
August 15, 2018
1. Call to order
The meeting was scheduled for 10:30am Pacific and began at 10:32
when a sufficient attendance to constitute a quorum was
recognized by the chairman.
Other Time Zones: https://timeanddate.com/s/3k2v
The meeting was held via teleconference, hosted by Doug Cutting
and Cloudera.
IRC #asfboard on irc.freenode.net was used for backup purposes.
2. Roll Call
Directors Present:
Shane Curcuru
Bertrand Delacretaz
Isabel Drost-Fromm
Ted Dunning
Brett Porter
Roman Shaposhnik
Phil Steitz
Mark Thomas
Directors Absent:
Rich Bowen
Executive Officers Present:
Tom Pappas
Sam Ruby
Daniel Ruggeri
Craig L Russell
Matt Sicker
Ulrich Stärk - joined at 11:13
Executive Officers Absent:
Ross Gardler
Guests:
Daniel Gruno
Geoff Macartney
Greg Stein
Jim Jagielski - joined at 10:50
Kevin A. McGrail
Sharan Foga
3. Minutes from previous meetings
Published minutes can be found at:
http://www.apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html
A. The meeting of July 18, 2018
See: board_minutes_2018_07_18.txt
Approved by General Consent.
4. Executive Officer Reports
A. Chairman [Phil]
This month, we had a lot of good discussion on some core issues facing
the foundation, including contributions from quite a few members. I
would like to thank those who are participating constructively and
encourage all to, as Rich reminded us, consistently assume positive
intent and encourage others to express their views and develop
policies and plans in an atmosphere of mutual respect and support.
Let's try to stay focused on the issues in context today rather than
"who gets to decide" or "how things have always been" or explicit or
implicit ad hominems. We are all often individually wrong. The
strength of our software and our foundation rests on our ability to
get things right when we work together.
This month we had some very good reports. Geode, Sycope and HTTP
Server all received positive comments. In several cases, Directors
encouraged PMCs to share solutions to problems more broadly. All are
encouraged to participate in comdev and to consider "Success at
Apache" blog posts to share ideas on what works. The usual comments
about keeping things public, adding committers and ensuring sufficient
PMC oversight were made on a few reports this month, as well as some
comments on omitting statistics unless they support a point being
made. A good example of digging into the stats to really assess
community health and future trajectory can be found in this month's
HTTP Server report.
B. President [Sam]
Issues for the board: none
There are a number of meta-issues that the board should be aware of /
overseeing and that every ASF Member is welcome to chime in on. The
common theme is documenting policy/procedure. Areas include credit
cards, GDPR, expense guidelines, endorsement policy, and use of tools
such as G Suite. There is continuing tweaks being made to the
targeted sponsorship program. All are making progress, and I will
continue to monitor each and prod as necessary should any one of them
stall.
Also coming up next month is a number of things: first
results/recommendations on an Endowment, early input to a six month
review of hiring of a Fundraiser, and input to the five year plan.
Financial summary: income is on budget, expenses are under budget.
Some of the under-budget expenses are due to timing considerations
(TAC, Conferences) meaning that the money will be spent, just not yet.
The other major expense under-run is infrastructure which is looking
to hire.
Brand Management is operating normally.
Fundraising is on track. Event revenue as reported in the Treasurer's
report is just over $70K, and in the Fundraising report is reported as
about $174K. The difference is Accounts Receivable. Rich and Ruth
are scrambling, but we need to do a better job in future events to
make sure that potential revenue doesn't fall through the cracks.
Finance is continuing to make slow but steady progress. I'll touch
bases with Tom to ensure that we have what we need for next month.
Additionally, please see Attachments 1 through 7.
C. Treasurer [Ulrich]
The Treasurer has worked with the President to create a credit card
policy governing the use of ASF-issued credit cards. This addresses as
finding that came up during our audit. Existing card holders will be
asked shortly to submit a signed copy.
During the discussions about our new credit card policy it became
apparent that we need clarity on our receipt handling policies. I am
therefore preparing a request to our CPAs to give us an authoritative
answer on how we should handle receipts. This is afterwards to be
merged into our existing policy around invoice handling.
Virtual Report:
Here is a summary of the Foundation’s Financial performance for the
first three months of FY19;
Operating Cash on July 31st, 2018 was $2,042.5K, which is up $58.7K
from last month’s ending balance (June 18) of $1,983.8K. Total
Cash as of July 31st, 2018 is $3,435.4K ( includes the Pineapple and
restricted Donation). The July 2018 ending Operating cash balance of
$2,042.5K represents an Operating cash reserve of 12.9 months based
on the FY19 conservative Cash forecast average monthly spending of
$158.1K/month. The ASF reserve continues to be very healthy for an
organization of the ASF’ s size.
Reviewing the YTD Cash P&L, the ASF, with regard to Income, it was up
vs budget but down vs FY18. With regard to the Income vs Budget,
YTD, we are up $4Kin total. Compared to FY18 the variance is due to
the timing of when Sponsor payments arrived FY18 vs FY19. We are
however ahead in Conference income, again based on timing which
offsets some of the sponsorship variance FY19 YTD. YTD expenses,
through July 31st, 2018 are under budget by $208.2K, with all depts
being under budget. Infra as noted in the Board summary is $75K
under budget due to Timing of hiring of staff, timing of Travis CL
bill and timing of Lease web invoices. Brand Management is under by
$78.6K. We have moved these expenses forward in the Cash Forecast,
as we have done with all the depts, since we are only one quarter
into the new Fiscal year. We will continue to review on a monthly
basis for variances to Budget.
Regarding Net Income (NI), YTD FY 19 the ASF finished with a -
<$13.1K> NI vs a budgeted negative <$225.3K> NI or $212.2K ahead of
Budget, NI, for FY19 at this point in the Fiscal year. This was
attributable to timing of Sponsor payments offset by more
underspending, vs the FY19 Budget. As we are through Q1 of the
Fiscal year, this type of result is not A-typical and we will
continue to monitor it as we move into of Q2 FY19.
Current Balances:
Boston Private Checking Account 2,250,000.00
Citizens Money Aprket 966,756.03
Citizens Checking 215,684.98
Paypal - ASF 2,934.06
Total Checking/Savings 3,435,375.07
Jul 2018 Budget Variance
Income Summary:
Inkind Revenue 0.00 0.00 0.00
Public Donations 988.07 3,121.88 -2,133.81
Sponsorship Program 126,000.00 45,000.00 81,000.00
Event Revenue 45,550.00 0.00 45,550.00
Programs Income 0.00 0.00 0.00
Conference Income 0.00 0.00 0.00
Other Income 1,247.35 703.38 543.97
Interest Income 418.76 1,161.83 -743.07
Total Income 174,204.18 49,987.09 124,217.09
Expense Summary:
In Kind Expense 0.00 0.00 0.00
Infrastructure 58,603.83 82,128.32 -23,524.49
Programs Expense 0.00 0.00 0.00
Publicity 37,270.58 14,146.22 23,124.36
Brand Management 4,264.71 8,166.67 -3,901.96
Conferences 0.00 40,000.00 -40,000.00
Travel Assistance Committee 0.00 20,000.00 -20,000.00
Fundraising 11,167.00 17,333.34 -6,166.34
Treasury Services 3,395.00 3,475.00 -80.00
General & Administrative 404.28 1,918.32 -1,514.04
Total Expense 115,105.40 187,167.87 -72,062.47
Net Income 59,098.78 -137,180.78 196,279.56
YTD 2019 Budget Variance
Income Summary:
Inkind Revenue 0.00 0.00 0.00
Public Donations 6,818.98 13,672.77 -6,853.79
Sponsorship Program 255,371.47 310,000.00 -54,628.53
Event Revenue 70,550.00 0.00 70,550.00
Programs Income 0.00 0.00 0.00
Conference Income 0.00 0.00 0.00
Other Income 2,282.40 5,297.38 -3,014.98
Interest Income 1,420.97 3,463.93 -2,042.96
Total Income 336,443.82 332,434.08 4,009.74
Expense Summary:
In Kind Expense 0.00 0.00 0.00
Infrastructure 176,288.47 251,384.96 -75,096.49
Programs Expense 0.00 0.00 0.00
Publicity 100,037.68 101,567.45 -1,529.77
Brand Management 14,326.42 24,500.01 -10,173.59
Conferences 1,429.21 80,000.00 -78,570.79
Travel Assistance Committee 0.00 30,000.00 -30,000.00
Fundraising 42,986.75 52,000.02 -9,013.27
Treasury Services 12,685.00 12,575.00 110.00
General & Administrative 1,739.98 5,666.47 -3,926.49
Total Expense 349,493.51 557,693.91 -208,200.40
Net Income -13,049.69 -225,259.83 212,210.14
D. Secretary [Craig]
After discussions with infra and legal, changes have been made to the
release distribution policy to remove SHA-1 and replace it with
SHA-512 or SHA-256 for new releases.
In July, 47 ICLAs, four CCLAs, and three grants were received and
filed.
E. Executive Vice President [Ross]
I have received three separate keynote invitations for events in
China. Two of them fall in the same week (late Oct). I have yet to
confirm my availability, but I do plan to accept these two and reject
the first. I'll reach out to others should the first conference ask
for other ASF representatives. The topic of both keynotes are the
Apache Way with a request to explore how Chinese developers should get
involved.
Infrastructure
==============
Running under budget due to open headcount. Hiring process is in
starting.
Team will be present at ACNA18.
Evaluating alternatives to HipChat - primary goal is to satisfy infra
needs but the team are also considering wider foundational
requirements.
Marketing and Publicity
=======================
Some vendor payments were missed and this may need to be made out of
band. However, these are all budgeted items.
Onboarding of two new Fundraising Ambassadors will take place at
ACNA18.
Created two media partnerships for promotion of ApacheCon.
PR and AR proceeds as normal.
Conferences
===========
ApacheCon NA is in Montreal, Canada, September 24th - 27th.
Registration currently stands at approx 200, but most registrations
come in the last month.
Planning for ACNA19 is progressing well with venue and date selection
almost complete. A preliminary conference management proposal is
expected very soon.
DC Roadshow event is likely to be delayed until Nov.
Other events are progressing slowly.
TAC
===
No report from TAC at time of writing.
VP TAC has requested an relatively high limit to their credit card to
assist in flight and hotel bookings. In the past this was handled by
our EA who worked through various avenues to secure necessary funds.
President is working with VP TAC to ensure an appropriate limit and
safeguards are put in place.
F. Vice Chairman [Shane]
While we have several conduct and etiquette guides for our
communities, there is a lack of clear explanations of which lists to
use or how to escalate concerns at the Foundation level or across
projects. Focus areas for the fall will be drafting guides for
effective communications.
Updated services available listing and working to announce those and
release policy improvements recently made by infra and other Members.
Executive officer reports approved as submitted by General Consent.
5. Additional Officer Reports
A. VP of W3C Relations [Andy Seaborne / Rich]
See Attachment 8
B. Apache Legal Affairs Committee [Chris Mattmann / Roman]
See Attachment 9
C. Apache Security Team Project [Mark J. Cox / Mark]
See Attachment 10
D. VP Data Privacy [Chris Mattmann / Phil]
See Attachment 11
Additional officer reports approved as submitted by General Consent.
6. Committee Reports
Summary of Reports
The following reports required further discussion:
# Creadur [mt]
# Impala [rb]
# Incubator [ps]
# MetaModel [rb]
# Perl [rs]
A. Apache Ambari Project [Jayush Luniya / Brett]
See Attachment A
B. Apache Ant Project [Jan Materne / Phil]
See Attachment B
C. Apache Avro Project [Thiruvalluvan M. G. / Bertrand]
See Attachment C
D. Apache BookKeeper Project [Sijie Guo / Shane]
See Attachment D
E. Apache Brooklyn Project [Geoff Macartney / Isabel]
See Attachment E
F. Apache Buildr Project [Antoine Toulme / Ted]
See Attachment F
G. Apache Cassandra Project [Nate McCall / Phil]
See Attachment G
H. Apache Clerezza Project [Hasan Hasan / Brett]
See Attachment H
I. Apache Cocoon Project [Cédric Damioli / Rich]
See Attachment I
J. Apache Community Development Project [Sharan Foga / Bertrand]
See Attachment J
K. Apache CouchDB Project [Jan Lehnardt / Roman]
See Attachment K
L. Apache Creadur Project [Brian E Fox / Ted]
See Attachment L
@Mark: Follow up with project as to current status
M. Apache DeltaSpike Project [Mark Struberg / Isabel]
See Attachment M
N. Apache DRAT Project [Chris Mattmann / Shane]
See Attachment N
O. Apache Drill Project [Arina Ielchiieva / Mark]
See Attachment O
P. Apache Empire-db Project [Rainer Döbele / Phil]
See Attachment P
Q. Apache Flume Project [Mike Percy / Mark]
See Attachment Q
R. Apache Forrest Project [David Crossley / Isabel]
See Attachment R
S. Apache FreeMarker Project [Dániel Dékány / Ted]
See Attachment S
T. Apache Geode Project [Mark Bretl / Rich]
See Attachment T
U. Apache Giraph Project [Dionysios Logothetis / Brett]
See Attachment U
V. Apache Gora Project [Lewis John McGibbney / Roman]
See Attachment V
W. Apache Groovy Project [Guillaume Laforge / Shane]
See Attachment W
X. Apache Hama Project [Chia-Hung Lin / Bertrand]
See Attachment X
Y. Apache HTTP Server Project [Daniel Gruno / Phil]
See Attachment Y
Z. Apache HttpComponents Project [Asankha Chamath Perera / Isabel]
See Attachment Z
AA. Apache Ignite Project [Denis A. Magda / Ted]
See Attachment AA
AB. Apache Impala Project [Jim Apple / Mark]
See Attachment AB
AC. Apache Incubator Project [Justin Mclean / Rich]
See Attachment AC
@Phil: follow up with IPMC on missing podling reports
AD. Apache jUDDI Project [Alex O'Ree / Roman]
See Attachment AD
AE. Apache Juneau Project [James Bognar / Brett]
See Attachment AE
AF. Apache Kafka Project [Jun Rao / Shane]
See Attachment AF
AG. Apache Kibble Project [Rich Bowen]
See Attachment AG
AH. Apache Knox Project [Larry McCay / Bertrand]
See Attachment AH
AI. Apache Kylin Project [Luke Han / Isabel]
See Attachment AI
AJ. Apache Lens Project [Amareshwari Sriramadasu / Mark]
See Attachment AJ
AK. Apache Libcloud Project [Tomaž Muraus / Phil]
See Attachment AK
AL. Apache Logging Services Project [Matt Sicker / Roman]
See Attachment AL
AM. Apache ManifoldCF Project [Karl Wright / Bertrand]
See Attachment AM
AN. Apache Marmotta Project [Jakob Frank / Ted]
No report was submitted.
@Ted: pursue a report for Marmotta
AO. Apache MetaModel Project [Kasper Sørensen / Rich]
See Attachment AO
AP. Apache Oozie Project [Gézapeti / Shane]
See Attachment AP
AQ. Apache Open Climate Workbench Project [Michael James Joyce / Brett]
No report was submitted.
@Brett: pursue a report for Open Climate Workbench
AR. Apache Perl Project [Philippe Chiasson / Isabel]
No report was submitted.
@Jim: perhaps the httpd project would be willing to adopt
mod_perl as a sub-project?
AS. Apache Phoenix Project [Josh Elser / Shane]
See Attachment AS
AT. Apache POI Project [Dominik Stadler / Ted]
See Attachment AT
AU. Apache Qpid Project [Robert Gemmell / Mark]
See Attachment AU
AV. Apache Ranger Project [Selvamohan Neethiraj / Bertrand]
See Attachment AV
AW. Apache REEF Project [Byung-Gon Chun / Phil]
See Attachment AW
AX. Apache River Project [Peter Firmstone / Rich]
See Attachment AX
AY. Apache RocketMQ Project [Xiaorui Wang / Roman]
See Attachment AY
AZ. Apache Roller Project [David M. Johnson / Brett]
See Attachment AZ
BA. Apache Santuario Project [Colm O hEigeartaigh / Roman]
See Attachment BA
BB. Apache Serf Project [Bert Huijben / Mark]
No report was submitted.
@Mark: pursue a report for Serf
BC. Apache SIS Project [Martin Desruisseaux / Phil]
See Attachment BC
BD. Apache Spark Project [Matei Alexandru Zaharia / Bertrand]
See Attachment BD
BE. Apache Stanbol Project [Fabian Christ / Shane]
No report was submitted.
BF. Apache Subversion Project [Stefan Sperling / Isabel]
See Attachment BF
BG. Apache Syncope Project [Francesco Chicchiriccò / Ted]
See Attachment BG
BH. Apache SystemML Project [Jon Deron Eriksson / Brett]
See Attachment BH
BI. Apache Traffic Control Project [David Neuman / Rich]
See Attachment BI
BJ. Apache Turbine Project [Georg Kallidis / Brett]
See Attachment BJ
BK. Apache Usergrid Project [Todd Nine / Isabel]
No report was submitted.
@Isabel: is Usergrid ready for the attic?
BL. Apache Velocity Project [Nathan Bubna / Roman]
See Attachment BL
BM. Apache Whimsy Project [Sam Ruby / Rich]
No report was submitted.
BN. Apache Xalan Project [Steven J. Hathaway / Bertrand]
No report was submitted.
BO. Apache Xerces Project [Michael Glavassevich / Phil]
No report was submitted.
@Phil: pursue a report for Xerces
BP. Apache XML Graphics Project [Clay Leeds / Ted]
See Attachment BP
Committee reports approved as submitted by General Consent.
7. Special Orders
## Resolution to change the chair of a project
A. Change the Apache Polygene Project Chair
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Paul Merlin
(paulmerlin) to the office of Vice President, Apache Polygene, and
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation
of Paul Merlin from the office of Vice President, Apache Polygene, and
WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Polygene
project has chosen by vote to recommend Jiri Jetmar (jiri) as
the successor to the post;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Paul Merlin is relieved and
discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office
of Vice President, Apache Polygene, and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Jiri Jetmar be and hereby is
appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Polygene, 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 Polygene Project Chair,
was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
B. Establish the Apache HAWQ 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 Hadoop native SQL query engine that
combines the key technological advantages of an MPP database
with the scalability and convenience of Hadoop.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management
Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Apache HAWQ Project",
be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the
Foundation; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the Apache HAWQ Project be and hereby is
responsible for the creation and maintenance of software
related to a Hadoop native SQL query engine that
combines the key technological advantages of an MPP database
with the scalability and convenience of Hadoop;
and be it further
RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache HAWQ" 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 HAWQ Project, and to have primary responsibility
for management of the projects within the scope of
responsibility of the Apache HAWQ 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 HAWQ Project:
* Alan Gates <gates@apache.org>
* Alexander Denissov <adenissov@apache.org>
* Amy Bai <abai@apache.org>
* Atri Sharma <atri@apache.org>
* Bhuvnesh Chaudhary <bhuvnesh2703@apache.org>
* Bosco <bosco@apache.org>
* Chunling Wang <wangchunling@apache.org>
* David Yozie <yozie@apache.org>
* Ed Espino <espino@apache.org>
* Entong Shen <entong@apache.org>
* Foyzur Rahman <foyzur@apache.org>
* Goden Yao <godenyao@apache.org>
* Gregory Chase <gregchase@apache.org>
* Hong Wu <xunzhang@apache.org>
* Hongxu Ma <interma@apache.org>
* Hubert Zhang <hubertzhang@apache.org>
* Ivan Weng <iweng@apache.org>
* Jesse Zhang <jz@apache.org>
* Jiali Yao <jyao@apache.org>
* Jun Aoki <jaoki@apache.org>
* Kavinder Dhaliwal <kavinder@apache.org>
* Lav Jain <lavjain@apache.org>
* Lei Chang <lei_chang@apache.org>
* Lili Ma <lilima@apache.org>
* Lirong Jian <jian@apache.org>
* Lisa Owen <lisao@apache.org>
* Ming Li <mli@apache.org>
* Mohamed Soliman <msoliman@apache.org>
* Newton Alex <nalex@apache.org>
* Noa Horn <nhorn@apache.org>
* Oleksandr Diachenko <odiachenko@apache.org>
* Paul Guo <paulguo@apache.org>
* Radar Da Lei <rlei@apache.org>
* Roman Shaposhnik <rvs@apache.org>
* Ruilong Huo <huor@apache.org>
* Shivram Mani <shivram@apache.org>
* Shubham Sharma <outofmemory@apache.org>
* Tushar Pednekar <tushar_pednekar@apache.org>
* Venkatesh Raghavan <vraghavan78@apache.org>
* Vineet Goel <vvineet@apache.org>
* Wen Lin <wlin@apache.org>
* Xiang Sheng <xsheng@apache.org>
* Yi Jin <yjin@apache.org>
* Zhanwei Wang <wangzw@apache.org>
* Zhenglin Tao <ztao1987@apache.org>
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Lei Chang
be appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache HAWQ, 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 HAWQ 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 HAWQ Project; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the Apache HAWQ Project be and hereby
is tasked with the migration and rationalization of the Apache
Incubator HAWQ podling; and be it further
RESOLVED, that all responsibilities pertaining to the Apache
Incubator HAWQ podling encumbered upon the Apache Incubator
Project are hereafter discharged.
Special Order 7B, Establish the Apache HAWQ Project, was
approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
8. Discussion Items
A. Synchronous meeting to kick off 5-year plan refresh
The idea is a f2f-like meeting, but virtual, open to all. Would like to
discuss format and timing.
Phil would like to kick off the 5 year plan now since having a
face-to-face at ACNA'18 is not feasible.
Is there a three-hour time slot when the directors can get together in
the next month (before ACNA'18)?
Bertrand: should have some preparation before the meeting
Phil: pick a time slot first; and then prepare materials to discuss;
the alternative is all asynchronous
Sam: one hour is probably do-able
Shane: a one-hour meeting with relevant directors and officers is a
good idea; face-to-face is not practical
@Phil: organize the agenda and synchronous meeting time
9. Review Outstanding Action Items
* Brett: pursue a report or Attic proposal for Xalan
[ Xalan 2018-02-21 ]
Status: waiting for response
* Shane: continue to discuss establishing a COI policy on board@
[ Adopting a well-known COI policy 2018-04-18 ]
Status: Done. (No longer an action item - this is part of Phil's
longer-term policy recodification work)
* Rich: ask for a new chair, due to chronic missed or late reports
[ Perl 2018-05-16 ]
Status: I'm not the shepherd this time, but I've pinged
private@perl.apache.org again and requested a report.
Hopefully they'll get one in on time, since there's still some
time left. Complete: (report submitted)
Jim J has volunteered to ask HTTP Server PMC if they would
consider absorbing Perl as a subproject.
* Phil: work with infrastructure (Greg) on plans for projects with
extraordinary requirements
[ Action Items 2018-05-16 ]
Status: no progress last month, will focus on this in coming month
* Phil: pursue a report for Any23
[ Any23 2018-06-20 ]
Status: Complete
* Brett: pursue a report for Stanbol
[ Stanbol 2018-06-20 ]
Status: waiting for response
* Mark: pursue a report for Twill
[ Twill 2018-06-20 ]
Status: Complete. A report was provided in July.
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 VP of Brand Management [Mark Thomas]
* ISSUES FOR THE BOARD
None.
* OPERATIONS
Confirmed that a proposed use of OPENOFFICE screenshots was nominative and
therefore acceptable.
Directed the HAWQ project towards Sally for advice on acceptable language when
referring to project 'creators'.
Directed separate enquiries about setting up sites to support KAFKA and
TINKERPOP to the relevant PMC.
Provided advice to ARROW regarding the ability to claim component names as
trademarks.
Approved use of Apache marks for MESOSCON.
There are currently 32 tasks being tracked/monitored by the brand management
team.
* REGISTRATIONS
A draft agreement to assign the NETBEANS marks has been received and passed to
our lawyers for review.
Work continues on the transfer of the SERVICECOMB registrations.
The OPENOFFICE registration for Argentina is due for renewal and will be
allowed to lapse.
* INFRINGEMENTS
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Attachment 2: Report from the VP of Fundraising [Daniel Ruggeri]
Fundraising continues to go well.
KAM is firewalling the ASF while doing work with other hats using Ross'
approach about "can we talk about this later" if it comes up.
Work for additional bronze ambassador support from Tom is still delayed
Committee meetings continue to occur monthly. Last was held on August 2nd.
Work helping fundraise sponsors for Apache Events is going well and to-date
tallies about $174K. No more fundraising to be done for AC2018.
Work with Hopsie on issues in the donation receipts and fraud prevention
continues.
Donation for Microsoft O365 back on track.
Visited SF with a visit to Twitter as a potential event space going well.
Too small for AC2019 but will make a fabulous roadshow. Anyone in SF want to
lead a roadshow?
Congrats to Sally for landing Tencent as a Platinum sponsor.
And Congrats to Ted Liu for renewing Alibaba as a Silver.
SK is providing Ambassador Training a mandatory requirement for Sponsorship
Ambassadors. Ted Liu and Craig Russell are queued to take this training
during AC18.
Targeted Sponsorship policy revised in light of the concern over the trusted
by logo given to a minor sponsor. The policy grandfathered the past items
and restricts them going forward. “The ASF does not allow endorsements,
official quotes, blogs, press releases, and similar public statements
regarding sponsorship in any manner except as specified as official benefits
of the sponsorship program. While existing blogs and endorsement are hereby
grandfathered as of August 2018, going forward, there are no sponsor benefits
for any sponsorship, targeted or normal, for values below bronze sponsorship
including in-kind donations for Infrastructure. All statements for
sponsorship shall continue to be vetted and approved by VP Press & Media
before publication.”
We have a concerted bad actor trying to get access to the ASF who has been
impersonating Phil Steitz. Please be careful.
The committee is looking at using CRM software for fundraising communications
with sponsors.
Corporate Items:
Certificate of Status from Delaware received
COR from IRS requested for Emerio sponsorship
D&O Insurance renewed
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Attachment 3: Report from the VP of Marketing and Publicity [Sally Khudairi]
[REPORT] ASF Marketing & Publicity - August 2018
I. Budget: we are on budget and on schedule. There are a few vendor
payments/reimbursements that missed the last payment processing cycle and may
need to be paid out of band.
II. Cross-committee Liaison: Sally Khudairi continues Sponsor ambassadorial
outreach with Fundraising, and will be onboarding and training Craig Russell
and Ted Liu as new Sponsor Ambassadors during ApacheCon in September. She has
been working with ASF Conferences and Community Development on promoting
ApacheCon, and supporting the ASF’s participation in several community events.
The latest "Success at Apache" post: "The Apache Legal Shield - A Pragmatic
View" is now live https://s.apache.org/tmi6 .
III. Press Releases: no formal announcements were issued via the newswire
service, ASF Foundation Blog, or announce@apache.org during this timeframe.
IV. Informal Announcements: 5 items were published on the ASF "Foundation"
Blog. 4 Apache News Round-ups were issued, with a total of 213 weekly
summaries published to date. We tweeted 17 items, and have 49K followers on
Twitter. We posted 6 items on LinkedIn, which garnered more than 18.3K organic
impressions.
V. Future Announcements: one announcement is in development. Projects planning
to graduate from the Apache Incubator as well as PMCs wishing to announce
major project milestones and "Did You Know?" success stories are requested to
contact Sally at <press@apache.org> with at least 2-weeks' notice for proper
planning and execution.
VI. Media Relations: we responded to 4 media queries. The ASF received 3,654
press clips vs. last month's clip count of 1,241. Media coverage of Apache
projects yielded 5,226 press hits vs. last month's 5,258. ApacheCon received
no press hits vs. last month's 113.
VII. Analyst Relations: we received one analyst query. Apache was mentioned in
8 reports by Gartner; 4 reports by Forrester; 9 reports by 451 Research; and
12 reports by IDC.
VIII. Graphics: Sally created new booth graphics for Solutions Hamburg, and is
preparing signage for ApacheCon. She also created a series of promotional
graphics for print and digital advertising for ApacheCon.
IX. Events liaison: Sally secured media partnerships with Linux Pro and ADMIN
magazines, and has launched a promotional campaign that includes print and
digital advertising, as well as email blasts and newsletters. Rich Bowen
authored a blog post that appeared in the Open Geospatial Consortium's
quarterly newsletter
http://newsletter.opengeospatial.org/issues/ogc-update-august-2018-126024 .
Sally is working with Apache Community Development regarding the ASF Booth at
the upcoming ApacheCon and Apache Roadshow. Sally will also be holding Media &
Analyst Training at ApacheCon for the 12th consecutive year. Two reporters
have registered to cover the event and participate in the training.
X. Newswire accounts: NASDAQ has sold its GlobeNewswire property to West; our
pre-paid contract and dissemination abilities remain intact. We have begun our
new pre-paid press release contract, and have 10 press releases remaining
through 2019.
# # #
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Attachment 4: Report from the VP of Infrastructure [David Nalley]
General
=======
Infrastructure is operating as expected, and has no current issues to
bring to the attention of the President or the Board.
Finances
========
Infrastructure is running under budget, primarily due to our open
headcount. Due to our continuing growth, we will start the process to
get that position filled.
Short Term Priorities
=====================
- Move svn-master.a.o
- Gitbox migrations
Long Range Priorities
=====================
- Starting work on Puppet v5 and Ubuntu LTS 18.04
- Continuing work on "hermes migration" (our core email server) from
its old box, to something maintainable
General Activity
================
- Our team has finalized travel to ACNA18 in Montreal, and will be
meeting with the community, along with lots of time with teammates.
- Now running a script to trim all Jenkins slave nodes of old
artifacts, which were especially problematic on a few small-disk
nodes that we are running. This should reduce the rash of tickets
that were filed about "out of disk" on the slave nodes.
- Investigating alternatives to HipChat, now that Atlassian sold the
product to Slack. The Infrastructure team needs a sophisticated chat
system for daily use, with a number of integration requirements. We
are working through the options to meet our needs, with an eye for
other uses throughout the Foundation.
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Attachment 5: Report from the VP of Conferences [Rich Bowen]
We are now about 40 days out from ApacheCon North America, which will be held
in Montreal, Canada, September 24th - 27th. Registration currently stands in the
low 200's, but we typically get more than half of our registration in the last
month, so I'm not yet concerned.
We are in the first stages of planning ApacheCon North America 2019, with
venue and date selection almost complete. We expect to have a preliminary
conference management proposal this week or next.
We have had some unexpected delays around the DC Roadshow event, which may now
be pushed back until mid-November.
Discussion continue slowly surrounding other events, including:
* 2019 Chicago roadshow
* Collaboration with JBCNConf in Barcelona
* 2019 Berlin ApacheCon
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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 Finance [Tom Pappas]
VP of Finance, July 2018 Report As with the June Report there has not
been a lot of Activity, though Kevin McGrail and I did have a phone
conversation with the JCF and I am finishing my notes for that meeting
which I will share. Also I met again with the AAF Wealth management
firm and they are preparing a proposal which I hope to have before the
Sept Board meeting. I will be on the call on Wed Aug 15th
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Attachment 8: Report from the VP of W3C Relations [Andy Seaborne]
Steve Blackmon (sblackmon@) has join the JSON-LD WG.
The Foundation was already participating (Adam Soroka, ajs6f@) in this WG so
no further commitment to the W3C WG participation agreement was needed.
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Attachment 9: Report from the Apache Legal Affairs Committee [Chris Mattmann]
This month I am announcing a transition plan that will round out this calendar
year. I have been in discussion with two ASF members both of which are
interested in transitioning to the VP, Legal role, and both members of the
Legal Committee.
I suggest to the Board the following plan of action:
1. Create an Assistant VP, Legal position. Just as we have an Assistant
Secretary, Legal issues are rising to the point where having a named
Assistant VP just makes sense to me and there is definitely interest.
2. The person I am considering nominating for Board consideration for VP,
Legal becomes available near the end of the calendar year. I recommend
appointing Assistant VP, Legal before then, at next month's meeting, and
then ensuring a smooth transition by replacing me in the December 2018
board meeting with my successor.
Outside of the above, legal questions are getting answers due to an influx of
great support from Hen Yandell and others on the Legal discuss list.
Besides that, VP, Legal is working with VP, Infra and the office of Data
Privacy to draft a data privacy plan and set of updates to the ASF mailing
list archival removal policy owned by the infra team. We are not done yet,
though some progress will be reported in the VP, Data Privacy report this
month.
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Attachment 10: Report from the Apache Security Team Project [Mark J. Cox]
Continued work on incoming security issues, keeping projects reminded
of outstanding issues, and general oversight and advice.
We have made a change in the way we handle the automated github
dependency security reports. We will continue to forward them to the
projects but we no longer track and chase them or include them in the
stats. This is because they were a huge time commitment for little
benefit (none of the issues have led to needed security releases
needed for projects).
Stats for July 2018:
16 [license confusion]
12 [support request/question not security notification]
Security reports: 32 (last months: 39, 55, 54)
8 [httpd]
3 [tomcat], [infrastructure]
2 [spark], [tika]
1 [ambari], [avro], [axis], [camel], [cayenne], [commons],
[cordova], [couchdb], [datafu], [db], [dubbo], [hadoop],
[hive], [jmeter], [logging], [openoffice], [ranger],
[trafficserver]
In total, as of 1st August, we're tracking 95 (last month: 113)
open issues across 42 projects, median age 112 (last month: 92)
days. 59 of those issues have CVE names assigned.
9 (last month: 10) of these issues, across 8 projects, are older
than 365 days. We continue to work with these projects to get
these closed out.
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Attachment 11: Report from the VP of Data Privacy [Chris Mattmann]
VP, Infra, VP, Data Privacy & Legal, and our counsel had a telecon on 7/19 and
discussed ASF strategy with respect to the EU's General Data Protection
Regulation (GDPR).
We have decided to continue with our updates to the infrastructure
team's mail archival policy and our policy and procedures for how we deal
with removal requests. The policy updates are currently under review by
Legal, and Data Privacy and we expect to publish them in the next month.
We have received a few GDPR requests, with only one current request being
actively worked, and few queued as far as I can tell (less than 5).
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Attachment A: Report from the Apache Ambari Project [Jayush Luniya]
## Description:
- Apache Ambari simplifies provisioning, managing, and monitoring of Apache
Hadoop clusters.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- Since the last report, the community successfully released Ambari 2.7.0
which resolved 887 issues and CVE-2018-8042.
- Ambari 2.7 provides significant performance improvements in managing large
clusters with across the board improvements in Ambari UI, Ambari Core
Framework and Ambari Metrics System.
- Deployment for future Ambari 3.0 release remains very active in
branch-feature-AMBARI-14714 that will significantly revamp the Ambari
architecture.
- The community hosted a meetup event on June 18th in San Jose where Ambari
committers and contributors gave presentations and demos on various Ambari
features and future improvements.
## Health report:
- The development community and engagement remains strong; we have 102
committers on the project, with 2 new committers added since the last
report.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 46 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Vivek Ratnavel Subramanian on Tue Mar 27 2018
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 102 committers.
- New commmitters:
- Krisztian Kasa was added as a committer on Thu Jun 21 2018
- Istvan Tobias was added as a committer on Mon May 28 2018
## Releases:
- 2.7.0 was released on Tue Jul 17 2018
## Mailing list activity:
- Apache Ambari has moved from ReviewBoard to GitBox for code reviews and
hence there is no activity on reviews@ambari.apache.org
- dev@ambari.apache.org:
- 298 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 46 emails sent to list (144 in previous quarter)
- issues@ambari.apache.org:
- 46 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 3786 emails sent to list (4714 in previous quarter)
- reviews@ambari.apache.org:
- 59 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
- 0 emails sent to list (7 in previous quarter)
- user@ambari.apache.org:
- 483 subscribers (down -2 in the last 3 months):
- 87 emails sent to list (69 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 621 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 558 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment B: Report from the Apache Ant Project [Jan Materne]
## Activity:
- First tries to cut a release for IvyDE.
- First steps to move from FindBugs to SpotBugs, because FB seems to be
inactive.
- As Maven explained in detail in their last report, we also fixed the Zip
Slip vulnerability. The archive tasks now support an attribute where the
user could configure that resulting files can't be located outsite the
desired target directory.
## Health report:
For Ant we feel healthy enough to apply patches, and get a release done. But
basically we are in "maintenance mode". There isn't much development
- but it increased since last report.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 23 PMC members.
- Magesh Umasankar was (re)added to the PMC on Fri Jul 06 2018
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 30 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Gintas Grigelionis at Sat Aug 05 2017
## Releases:
- 1.9.12 was released on Fri Jun 22 2018
- Ant 1.10.4 was released on Fri Jun 22 2018
- Ant 1.10.5 was released on Fri Jul 13 2018
- Ant 1.9.13 was released on Fri Jul 13 2018
- AntUnit 1.4 was released on Mon Jun 25 2018
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Attachment C: Report from the Apache Avro Project [Thiruvalluvan M. G.]
Apache Avro is a data serialization system with a compact binary format. It is
used for storing and transporting schema driven serialized data. The unique
features of Avro include automatic schema resolution - when the reader's
expected schema is different from the actual schema with which the data was
serialized the data is automatically adapted to meet reader's requirements.
The project has had reasonable amount activities during the June quarter 2018
46 JIRA tickets opened by 36 developers
21 Pull requests opened in Github by 19 contributors
18 JIRA tickets resolved
7 Pull requests merged
Status as of Aug 13, 2018
110 Open pull requests
573 Open issues in JIRA
The main focus of the work are bug fixes and a very few feature enhancements.
No major extension/enhancement is in the works.
Last release: version 1.8.2 20th May 2017.
Next planned release: 1.8.3 Sep 2018
Last time a new committer elected: 24 Jul 2018: Srujan Narkedamalli
Problems: The rate at which we resolve issues is not good enough There has
been no release for over a year. User community should probably be frustrated
with the lack of fix for the problems. Our plan to make a release in May did
not materialize.
Action plan: Release the next version in Sep 2018. Prod committers to look
into outstanding issues in order to resolve them. Engage with the contributors
and those reporting issues so that they continue to contribute and maybe
become committers one day.
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Attachment D: Report from the Apache BookKeeper Project [Sijie Guo]
## Description:
BookKeeper is a scalable, fault-tolerant, and low-latency storage service
optimized for append-only workloads. It has been used as a fundamental service
to build high available and replicated services in companies like Twitter,
Yahoo and Salesforce. It is also the log segment store for Apache
DistributedLog and message store for Apache Pulsar.
Apache DistributedLog is a high-level API and service layer for Apache
BookKeeper, providing easier access to the BookKeeper primitives. It is a
subproject of Apache BookKeeper.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- 4.7.1 was released on Tue Jun 19 2018
- 4.8.0 was scheduled to be release in August. It is delayed due to some
discussions around metadata upgrade.
- Apache Pulsar (incubating) has fully integrated with the official
BookKeeper release 4.7.0. The growth of Pulsar community also help grow the
adoption of BookKeeper.
- Deep integration between Pulsar and BookKeeper, for example Pulsar
Functions integration with bookkeeper table service. This helps building
the ecosystem around BookKeeper.
## Health report:
- Development continues at a steady pace. We are merging multiple PRs per day
on average.
- Mailing list and slack discussions are brisk, in particularly around the
active projects.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 15 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Enrico Olivelli on Thu Feb 22 2018
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 21 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Andrey Yegorov at Fri Feb 09 2018
## Releases:
- 4.7.1 was released on Tue Jun 19 2018
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@bookkeeper.apache.org:
- 105 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 132 emails sent to list (327 in previous quarter)
- distributedlog-commits@bookkeeper.apache.org:
- 12 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 2 emails sent to list (2 in previous quarter)
- distributedlog-dev@bookkeeper.apache.org:
- 42 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 0 emails sent to list (0 in previous quarter)
- distributedlog-issues@bookkeeper.apache.org:
- 9 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 2 emails sent to list (67 in previous quarter)
- distributedlog-user@bookkeeper.apache.org:
- 26 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 0 emails sent to list (0 in previous quarter)
- issues@bookkeeper.apache.org:
- 9 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 2088 emails sent to list (3044 in previous quarter)
- user@bookkeeper.apache.org:
- 117 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months):
- 39 emails sent to list (41 in previous quarter)
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Attachment E: Report from the Apache Brooklyn Project [Geoff Macartney]
## Description:
- Apache Brooklyn is a software framework for modelling, monitoring and
managing cloud applications through autonomic blueprints.
## Issues:
- there are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity:
- Development continues with a regular turnover of pull requests submitted
and merged.
- We are happy to announce [1] that our users at Fujitsu, UShareSoft, and
Cloudsoft have generously sponsored the contribution of a new and modern UI
for Apache Brooklyn. This is based on the previously-proprietary Cloudsoft
AMP UI, for those of you familiar with that.
- As part of the work for the new UI, we have overhauled the scripts we use
to generate LICENSE/NOTICE file inclusions, to be sure to include all the
required licenses, distinguish between source and binary licenses, and
support auto-recognition of license by Github [2].
## Health report:
- The project continues with a regular turnover of pull requests and commits.
Development is continuing and users are feeding back their problems and
feature suggestions.
- We continue to monitor our community for potential new committers and PMC
members with the aim of regularly adding individuals. On this occasion, we
have been delighted to welcome Duncan Grant as a new committer to the
project. Duncan has been a consistent contributor for a long time not only
in terms of code and docs contributions to Brooklyn but also through code
reviews and responding to requests and queries on IRC. He has a very good
knowledge of Brooklyn.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 15 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Thomas Bouron on Tue Oct 31 2017
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 16 committers.
- Duncan Grant was added as a committer on Wed Jun 13 2018
## Releases:
- Last release was 0.12.0 on Wed Sep 27 2017
- We had previously discussed doing a 1.0 release around this time, but with
the introduction of the new UI it seems prudent to allow some time for any
integration issues to be uncovered and fixed, after which we can release
1.0 with the new look.
## JIRA activity:
- 10 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 9 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
## References
[1]
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/a3b2bf134 0b18a17b50dd9cb0c2c7c148b3971c527c1651518735210@%3Cdev.brooklyn.apache.org%3E
[2]
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/c39969e01 8570c11d18546df154cb1768544b29768775f9d27619b72@%3Cdev.brooklyn.apache.org%3E
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Attachment F: Report from the Apache Buildr Project [Antoine Toulme]
## Description:
Apache Buildr is a build system for Java-based applications, including
support for Scala, Groovy and a growing number of JVM languages and
tools. We wanted something that’s simple and intuitive to use, so
we only need to tell it what to do, and it takes care of the rest.
But also something we can easily extend for those one-off tasks, with
a language that’s a joy to use. And of course, we wanted it to be
fast, reliable and have outstanding dependency management.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
The project is moving at a slow pace with a few commits in the last months.
## Health report:
The project has been stable for a long while and the space of build tools
for Java projects has been overall stagnant for a number of years.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 7 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Peter Donald on Tue Oct 15 2013
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 9 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Tammo van Lessen at Fri Aug 08 2014
## Releases:
- Last release was 1.5.6 on May 12th 2018
## Mailing list activity:
We're seeing some modest pickup in activity.
- users@buildr.apache.org:
- 126 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
- 5 emails sent to list (15 in previous quarter)
- dev@buildr.apache.org:
- 49 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 17 emails sent to list (9 in previous quarter)
- ci@buildr.apache.org:
- 12 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 0 emails sent to list (0 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 2 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 0 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment G: Report from the Apache Cassandra Project [Nate McCall]
## Description:
The Apache Cassandra database is the right choice when you need scalability
and high availability without compromising performance. Linear scalability and
proven fault-tolerance on commodity hardware or cloud infrastructure make it
the perfect platform for mission-critical data. Cassandra's support for
replicating across multiple datacenters is best-in-class, providing lower
latency for your users and the peace of mind of knowing that you can survive
regional outages.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
We have spent this quarter working on preparations for getting the community
involved and excited about the upcoming release of 4.0. This effort includes:
- Agreeing upon the timeline for a feature freeze
- Updating our site to add a blog section with our first community submitted
blog
- Adding a Confluence space to track testing progress towards 4.0
In other news, we filed CVE-2018-8016 for a regression vulnerability.
Fortunately this had already been fixed in the latest release by the time the
issue was identified and the CVE created.
## PMC changes:
- There are currently 27 PMC members.
- Benjamin Lerer was voted onto the PMC. If no objections from the board are
received, he will be invited to join shortly.
- Last PMC addition was Sam Tunnicliffe on Tue Apr 03 2018
## Committer base changes:
- There are Currently 50 committers.
- No new committers have been added in the last 3 months
- The last committer addition was Jay Zhuang on 2018-02-27
## Releases:
We recently had three releases across the following versions
- 2.2.13 was released on Wed Aug 01 2018
- 3.0.17 was released on Wed Aug 01 2018
- 3.11.3 was released on Wed Aug 01 2018
## Mailing list activity:
Mail list activity is down from the previous quarter. We see this as a
function having no new major releases in conjunction with a focus on getting
4.0 ready to freeze. Mail list interactions remain healthy with a core group
of contributors answering questions.
dev@cassandra.apache.org:
- 1628 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months):
- 306 emails sent to list (671 in previous quarter)
user@cassandra.apache.org:
- 3060 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 910 emails sent to list (1406 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 185 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 132 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment H: Report from the Apache Clerezza Project [Hasan Hasan]
DESCRIPTION
Apache Clerezza models the RDF abstract syntax in Java and provides supports
for serializing, parsing, and managing triple collections, as well as a tool
to generate the source code of a Java class with constants for an ontology
described in RDF. Apache Clerezza components are OSGi-based and have the
purpose to ease building of Semantic Web applications and services.
ISSUES FOR THE BOARD
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
RELEASE
Latest release was partial-release-201604 created on May 13, 2016.
ACTIVITY
Refactoring of the 'reunited' branch of Apache Clerezza is ongoing.
COMMUNITY
Latest change was addition of a new committer and PMC member on 16.08.2013.
INFRASTRUCTURE
Latest update of the Apache Clerezza Website was in February 2018.
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Attachment I: Report from the Apache Cocoon Project [Cédric Damioli]
## Description:
Web development framework: separation of concerns, component-based.
## Issues:
there are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity:
The most recent release is 2.1.12 on 2013-03-14 A few JIRA issues opened or
resolved since last report. A little activity on both users and dev
mailing-lists, in any case more than the previous quarter. The project is
mainly in maintenance mode.
Last board feedback asked if there are at least 3 active PMC members.
Following discussion shows that the answer is positive. Last board report,
back in May, was the opportunity to gather metrics about Cocoon usage. It
appears from maven statistics that we still have 60k downloads per month. A
PMC member also pointed to INFRA-15406 which may provide a way to have
download statistics for non-Maven artifacts. We still have to figure out how
to use them. I also proposed to cut a 2.1.x release, but haven't yet found
the time to do it.
## PMC changes:
None. Most recent addition: 2012-07-06
## Committer base changes:
None. Most recent addition: 2012-07-06
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Attachment J: Report from the Apache Community Development Project [Sharan Foga]
# Description:
The Community Development PMC is responsible for helping people become
involved with Apache Projects
## Issues:
No issues require board attention at the moment.
Please note that a response to the board feedback on our last report was sent
on 16th July 2018 [1]
## Activity:
Apache EU Roadshow / FOSS Backstage
The co-located Apache EU Roadshow with
FOSS Backstage was successful. Links to all videos, photos and presentations
from the event can be found on the event website [2]. We asked for and have
already received feedback from attendees to help us improve any future events.
FeatherCast
During the EU Roadshow several interviews were recorded with
speakers or attendees. As well as audio, video interviews were recorded. A
short series of interviews called 'Board Conversations' was also launched
where ASF Board Members can talk about their role.
OpenExpo Madrid
We participated again at the Open Expo Europe in Madrid. We
had a booth and also several presentations about open source, community
development and the Apache Way. Feedback from our volunteers about the event
was very positive. Our involvement here at this event has been a good way to
spread the ASF message to Spanish speaking audiences.
OSCON
It has been a while since we participated at OSCON and so were very
happy to have a booth and several ASF related presentations there. The booth
had a constant stream of visitors and the stock of stickers/giveaways ran out
quickly.
Other Events
We have been invited to participate in three Codemotion events
later this year in Berlin, Milan and Madrid and are looking for speakers and
volunteers to help out.
For the second year in a row we have been invited to participate at Solutions
Hamburg. This time as well as presentations we will also have an Apache booth.
We are still looking for booth volunteers to help out at this event.
## Health report:
With the increased event participation activity, we have an ongoing need for
volunteers to help out at events. We are seeing new people beginning to
volunteer at a regional level. To help support this we are now locating
banners and other booth related supplies at various locations so have setup a
page to give more visibility [3].
## PMC changes:
- Currently 26 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Maxim Solodovnik on Wed Mar 28 2018
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 27 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Maxim Solodovnik at Wed Mar 28 2018
## Releases:
- No release data could be found
## Mailing list activity:
Although we have an increase in subscribers, out mailing list traffic is
lower. This could partly due to the annual holiday period.
- dev@community.apache.org:
- 846 subscribers (up 31 in the last 3 months):
- 358 emails sent to list (703 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 4 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 1 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
[1] https://s.apache.org/5zcg
[2] https://s.apache.org/qtJt
[3] https://s.apache.org/JgMu
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Attachment K: Report from the Apache CouchDB Project [Jan Lehnardt]
## Description:
- CouchDB is a HTTP/JSON Database with unique data replication
## Issues:
- there are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity:
- Major update, released 2.2.0 with many new features and long awaited
bugfixes as well as a sizeable number of significant perofmance
improvements.
- Started in-depth roadmap planning, which brought 30+ new issues in
with extensive discussions on many new features and improvements.
- Joan "wohali" Touzet represents us at ApacheCon in Toronto with two
talks.
## Health report:
- We had a decent push on getting the latest release out and activity
is currently as expected in post-release and late-summer timeframes.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 15 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Nick Vatamaniuc on Tue Nov 07 2017
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 63 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Peng Hui Jiang at Sat Mar 03 2018
## Releases:
- 1.7.2 was released on Tue Jul 10 2018
- 2.1.2 was released on Tue Jul 10 2018
- 2.2.0 was released on Tue Aug 07 2018
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Attachment L: Report from the Apache Creadur Project [Brian E 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
------
No significant changes since last report.
Creadur is primarily used by other Apache projects to help check for
conformity to ASF standards. This is why the project team is primarily
comprised of members and committers from other ASF projects. The risk of the
project foundering is therefore very low despite the ongoing lack of progress.
If someone has an itch to scratch, it will no doubt get fixed.
Community
---------
In September 2016 Karl Heinz Marbaise was elected to join the PMC /
Commit.
Releases
--------
Apache Rat 0.12 was released in June, 2016 Apache Rat 0.11 was
released in August, 2014 Apache Rat 0.10 was released in September,
2013.
-----------------------------------------
Attachment M: Report from the Apache DeltaSpike Project [Mark Struberg]
## Description:
Apache DeltaSpike is a suite of portable CDI (Contexts & Dependency
Injection) extensions intended to make application development easier when
working with CDI and Java EE. Some of its key features include:
- A core runtime that supports component configuration, type safe messaging
and internationalization, and exception handling.
- A suite of utilities to make programmatic bean lookup easier.
- A plugin for Java SE to bootstrap both JBoss Weld and Apache OpenWebBeans
outside of a container.
- JSF integration, including backporting of JSF 2.2 features for Java EE 6.
- JPA integration and transaction support.
- A Data module, to create an easy to use repository pattern on top of JPA.
- Quartz integration
Testing support is also provided, to allow you to do low level unit testing of
your CDI enabled projects.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
Summer kicked in. So we had a little less activity over the last 2 months.
Still nothing to be worried. We are trying to get 1.9.0 released in the
next weeks.
We now finally switched our codebase to Java8 as minimum requirement
but will keep an 1.8.x branch for people who are still left with Java7.
## Health report:
As already mentioned: we have a stable user base and are mostly doing small
enhancements right now.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 19 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Harald Wellmann on Thu May 19 2016
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 34 committers.
- Alexander Falb was added as a committer on Wed Aug 01 2018
## Releases:
- 1.8.2 was released on Tue May 22 2018
## Mailing list activity:
- users@deltaspike.apache.org:
- 177 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 16 emails sent to list (157 in previous quarter)
- dev@deltaspike.apache.org:
- 97 subscribers (down -2 in the last 3 months):
- 137 emails sent to list (257 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 11 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 11 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
-----------------------------------------
Attachment N: Report from the Apache DRAT Project [Chris Mattmann]
## Description:
- Apache DRAT is a distributed, parallelized (Map Reduce) wrapper around
Apache RAT™ and other code auditing tools to allow it to complete on large
code repositories of multiple file types.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- Ahmed Ifhaam our amazing GSOC 2018 student revolutionized the Proteus DRAT
web interface, combining the separate D3 viz app (historical over all
repos) with the cockpit-style, run DRAT a repo at a time and see what's
going on app. With his updates and work we will be able to release a DRAT
1.0 soon.
- Chris has been working hard along with Tom Barber to merge and test Ahmed's
code and provide feedback.
- The work leading up to DRAT 1.0 and the new Proteus web I/F written in
Vue.js from our GSOC 2018 project revealed a severe stability bug in Apache
OODT 1.2.2, leading to an Apache OODT 1.2.3 patch release to fix it and to
stabilize DRAT.
## Health report:
- The activity is up big time, and there are many people commenting on the
Github issues and pull requests. Chris has done a lot of work to get the
issue tracker cleared up in prep for a 1.0 release.
- The plan is when we are done with this sprint for GSOC 2018 and Ahmed's
work is finally wrapped up, we will deploy an update at
http://drat.apache.org/demo/ and also to http://drat.apache.org/asfgit/. We
will probably move on to give the website some love.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 13 PMC members.
- New PMC members:
- Nipurn Doshi was added to the PMC on Tue Jun 12 2018
- Thejan Wijesinghe was added to the PMC on Sun Jun 10 2018
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 13 committers.
- New commmitters:
- Nipurn Doshi was added as a committer on Wed Jun 13 2018
- Thejan Wijesinghe was added as a committer on Mon Jun 11 2018
## Releases:
- There have been no releases yet, but we are planning on a 1.0 in the Fall.
## Mailing list activity:
- Much more mailing list development activity and conversation has been
occuring mainly surrounding GSOC 2018, and surrounding issues including the
Apache OODT 1.2.3 patch released uncovered by Apache DRAT testing.
- dev@drat.apache.org:
- 16 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 216 emails sent to list (73 in previous quarter)
- issues@drat.apache.org:
- 10 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months)
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Attachment O: Report from the Apache Drill Project [Arina Ielchiieva]
## Description:
- Drill is a Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud
Storage.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- Apache Drill 1.14.0 was released. The release provides the following many
new features and improvements besides numerous bug fixes:
- Decimal data type enhancements
- Generic Logfile Format Plugin
- Image Metadata Format Plugin
- Official Drill Docker Container
- Spill to disk for the Hash Join implementation
- Drill Plugins Handler
- Support CGROUPs resource management
- Support Phonetic and String Distance functions
## Health report:
- The project is healthy. Development activity as reflected in the pull
requests and JIRAs is good.
- Activity on the dev and user mailing lists are stable.
- Two new committers and one new PMC member were added in the last period.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 20 PMC members.
- Vitalii Diravka was added to the PMC on Tue Jun 26 2018
- Arina Ielchiieva was elected as new PMC Chair on Wed Jul 30 2018
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 45 committers.
- New commmitters:
- Padma Penumarthy was added as a committer on Mon Jun 18 2018
- Timothy Farkas was added as a committer on Fri May 25 2018
## Releases:
- 1.14.0 was released on Sat Aug 04 2018
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@drill.apache.org:
- 432 subscribers (down -4 in the last 3 months):
- 2444 emails sent to list (2549 in previous quarter)
- issues@drill.apache.org:
- 19 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 5097 emails sent to list (3418 in previous quarter)
- user@drill.apache.org:
- 605 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 375 emails sent to list (339 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 281 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 224 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
-----------------------------------------
Attachment P: Report from the Apache Empire-db Project [Rainer Döbele]
## Description:
- Apache Empire-db is a relational database access engine that takes an
SQL-centric approach in contrast to object-relational-mapping like with JPA
It encapsulates the functionality of a RDBMS in a powerful, vendor
independent, intuitive and maintenance friendly API providing a maximum of
compile-time-safety.
## Issues:
- there are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- Activity has been low partially due to holidays, but we have had some fixes
and improvements. We are about to publish a new release within the next
three months.
## Health report:
- The project remains healthy.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 10 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Jan Glaubitz on Sun Jul 10 2016
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 9 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Jan Glaubitz at Mon Oct 05 2015
## Releases:
- Last release was 2.4.6 on Tue Jan 17 2017
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@empire-db.apache.org:
- 36 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 6 emails sent to list (20 in previous quarter)
- user@empire-db.apache.org:
- 54 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 3 emails sent to list (6 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 1 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 3 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
-----------------------------------------
Attachment Q: Report from the Apache Flume Project [Mike Percy]
## 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.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
This quarter:
- Support for writing to Apache HBase 2.0 was committed
- Several bugs were fixed
- The web site got a minor face lift
## Health report:
- The project has been fairly slow lately, most likely due to committers
having moved on to other things
- A couple new contributors have outstanding pull requests
## PMC changes:
- Currently 23 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Denes Arvay on Mon Nov 06 2017
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 31 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Attila Simon at Sat Nov 04 2017
## Releases:
- Last release was 1.8.0 on Wed Oct 04 2017
- There are no releases being planned at this time
## Mailing list activity:
The issues@ list finally got added to the web site
- dev@flume.apache.org:
- 280 subscribers (down -4 in the last 3 months):
- 36 emails sent to list (45 in previous quarter)
- issues@flume.apache.org:
- 9 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 135 emails sent to list (113 in previous quarter)
- user@flume.apache.org:
- 670 subscribers (down -4 in the last 3 months):
- 14 emails sent to list (21 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 30 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 7 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
-----------------------------------------
Attachment R: Report from the Apache Forrest Project [David Crossley]
Apache Forrest mission is software for generation of aggregated multi-channel
documentation maintaining a separation of content and presentation.
Issues needing board attention:
None.
Changes in the PMC membership:
None.
Last modified: 2013-04-08
Most recent addition: 2009-06-09
New committers:
None.
Most recent addition: 2009-06-09
None on the horizon.
General status:
The most recent release is 0.9 on 2011-02-07.
Please see the status notes for the previous report.
Apart from the initial preparation for a potential release, there has been
no activity.
Project status:
This quarter i did not get a chance to send a draft report to the project,
so could not do my normal procedure to determine if anyone is listening.
Security issues published:
None.
Progress of the project:
Late in the quarter an old committer has commenced the early phases of the
release process. One PMC member has assisted.
-----------------------------------------
Attachment S: Report from the Apache FreeMarker Project [Dániel Dékány]
## Description:
Apache FreeMarker is a template engine, i.e. a generic tool to generate text
output based on templates. Apache FreeMarker is implemented in Java as a class
library for programmers.
FreeMarker 2 (the current stable line) produces releases since 2002. The
FreeMarker project has joined the ASF in 2015, and graduated from the
Incubator in early 2018.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
Activity was low in the last months. There was some site updates regarding EU
regulations, and transition from http://try.freemarker.org to
https://try.freemarker.apache.org is done.
## Health report:
Activity is relatively low but steady, as it's usual for this project. User
question (mostly on StackOverflow) and new Jira issues are being answered
promptly. The long term goal is continuing the ongoing development on the 3.0
branch, so that the project can innovate and the code base can become much
cleaner (and more attractive for new committers), instead of being blocked by
15 years of historical baggage. (Meanwhile, the backward compatible 2.x branch
must be maintained, and produce releases.)
## PMC changes:
- Currently 7 PMC members.
- No changes since the graduation on 2018-03-21
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 7 committers.
- No changes since the graduation on 2018-03-21
## Releases:
- 2.3.28 was released on Wed Apr 04 2018
-----------------------------------------
Attachment T: Report from the Apache Geode Project [Mark Bretl]
## Description:
Apache Geode provides a database-like consistency model, reliable transaction
processing and a shared-nothing architecture to maintain very low latency
performance with high concurrency processing.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- We held up releasing v1.7.0 in favor of fixing more bugs and making our
tests more reliable. We closed out 40% of the open test bugs (out of 220)
and removed the ‘FlakyTest’ category from 136 tests.
- We integrated our pre-commit tests directly into GitHub PR checks. This
makes it super easy for committers and contributors to run and review test
results.
- We’ve optimized test runtimes for pull requests to get results in less than
an hour. If someone were to run the same tests on a laptop it would take
over 18h.
- We upgraded the project build tools to Gradle 4.9 in preparation for
supporting Java 11.
- We merged a contribution to add thread monitoring and take action if a
thread appears to hang.
- We discussed improvements to handling of the default SSL context.
- We discussed improvements to allow customizable trust boundaries for
securing OQL method invocations.
- The Geode PMC discussed and approved a Geode session track at the
SpringOnePlatform conference (see https://springoneplatform.io/2018/geode).
- Community member Addison Huddy posted a series of seven (and counting)
youtube videos on “Geode by Example”.
## Health report:
- We’ve had a number of excellent contributions from new community members in
the last three months. Although the PMC did not add any committers this
quarter we should definitely review and discuss adding new committers soon.
- By increasing test speed, reliability, and ease of access we have lowered
the barriers for new contributions and community participation.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 46 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Dick Cavender on Tue Feb 20 2018
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 87 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Michael W. Dodge at Wed Jan 24 2018
## Releases:
- Last release was 1.6.0 on Fri May 04 2018
## Mailing list activity:
Mailing lists have remained active and have maintained consistent usage
levels.
- dev@geode.apache.org:
- 183 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 683 emails sent to list (793 in previous quarter)
- issues@geode.apache.org:
- 54 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 2991 emails sent to list (6890 in previous quarter)
- user@geode.apache.org:
- 242 subscribers (down -9 in the last 3 months):
- 141 emails sent to list (148 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 349 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 330 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
-----------------------------------------
Attachment U: Report from the Apache Giraph Project [Dionysios Logothetis]
## Description:
- Giraph is a Bulk Synchronous Parallel framework for writing programs that
analyze large graphs on a Hadoop cluster. Giraph is similar to Google's
Pregel system.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- Continued to clean-up old JIRA issues that had been resolved or were not
relevant any more.
- An improvement on the use of Kryo for serialization.
- Fixes in the Jenkins build, including the site build, and cleanup of unused
profiles.
- Small activity on documentation & logging from a new user.
## Health report:
- Committee Health score: 5.51 (Healthy)
- Following-up from the previous report, we had discussed with a team from
the industry, that was planning to start using and contributing to Apache
Giraph. However, this was delayed, and their current plan is to resume
engagement in the next quarter.
- We were planning to do a release with their help. If this delays further,
we will do a release in the next quarter.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 13 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Dionysios Logothetis on Sun Apr 22 2018
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 20 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Dionysios Logothetis at Mon Apr 23 2018
## Releases:
- Last release was 1.2.0 on Thu Oct 20 2016
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@giraph.apache.org:
- 276 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 76 emails sent to list (142 in previous quarter)
- user@giraph.apache.org:
- 447 subscribers (down -2 in the last 3 months):
- 14 emails sent to list (4 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 7 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 36 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
-----------------------------------------
Attachment V: Report from the Apache Gora Project [Lewis John McGibbney]
## Description:
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, distributed in-memory key/value stores,
in-memory data grids, in-memory caches, distributed multi-model stores,
and hybrid in-memory architectures.
Gora also enables analysis of data with extensive Apache Hadoop MapReduce
and Apache Spark support.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
Due to two ongoing GSoC projects, activity has been refreshingly active.
Additionally, recently, a Pig module was sent via a PR. This is under
review.
## Health report:
The Gora project is in a healthy state with review-then-commit
practice being demonstrated time and time again. The PMC is
engaging in community grown initiatives e.g. GSoC and we will
look to open up the PMC books post-successful conclusion of the
current projects.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 26 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Cihad Guzel on Tue Mar 13 2018
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 26 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Cihad Guzel at Wed Mar 14 2018
## Releases:
- Last release was 0.8 on Mon Sep 18 2017
## Mailing list activity:
As always, most of our communication happens on dev@, nothing new here.
- dev@gora.apache.org:
- 73 subscribers (down -2 in the last 3 months):
- 138 emails sent to list (194 in previous quarter)
- user@gora.apache.org:
- 75 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 5 emails sent to list (17 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 1 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 2 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
-----------------------------------------
Attachment W: Report from the Apache Groovy Project [Guillaume Laforge]
## Description:
Apache Groovy is a multi-faceted programming language for the Java platform.
Groovy is a powerful, optionally typed and dynamic language, with static-
typing and static compilation capabilities, aimed at multiplying developers’
productivity thanks to a concise, familiar and easy to learn syntax. It
integrates smoothly with any Java program, and immediately delivers to your
application powerful features, including scripting capabilities, Domain-
Specific Language authoring, first class functional programming support
and runtime and compile-time meta-programming.
## Issues:
There are no new issues requiring board attention at this time.
Outstanding issue:
- The last steps to completing the website migration are still outstanding.
## Activity:
- This quarter, 257 commits were contributed from 22 contributors
including 12 non-committer contributors (12 new).
- Apache Groovy was downloaded 27M+ times the past three months
(May / June / July), across Maven Central and Bintray JCenter,
for a total of 54M+ since the beginning of the year.
Generally, 2/3 of the downloads are from Maven Central vs 1/3
from Bintray JCenter. There is still a lot of users downloading
the latest 2.4.x releases, almost as much as the 2.5.x ones.
But it is nice to see that about 10% of the downloads are from
users trying our 3.0 alphas.
## Health report:
- Committee Health score: 10.00 (Super Healthy)
- Our release train velocity has been maintained, and there seems to be a
healthy level of discussion about project direction on the mailing lists.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 11 PMC members.
- Andres Almiray was added to the PMC on Thu May 31 2018
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 19 committers.
- Remko Popma was added as a committer on Sat Jul 07 2018
## Releases:
- 2.5.0 was released on Wed May 30 2018
- 2.5.0-rc-3 was released on Tue May 22 2018
- 2.5.1 was released on Fri Jul 13 2018
- 2.6.0-alpha-4 was released on Tue Jun 26 2018
- 3.0.0-alpha-3 was released on Tue Jun 26 2018
## Mailing list activity:
- Small increase in subscribers over the period otherwise nothing to report
## JIRA activity:
- 159 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 133 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
-----------------------------------------
Attachment X: Report from the Apache Hama Project [Chia-Hung Lin]
## Description:
- Apache Hama is a framework for Big Data analytics based on the Bulk
Synchronous Parallel paradigm
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity:
- A branching for further componentization core module is underway, preparing
for 0.8.0 release.
## Health report:
- One new committer joined the community.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 10 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Behroz Sikander on Mon Feb 01 2016
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 18 committers.
- Last committer addition was YoungWoo Kim at Sun May 20 2018
## Releases:
- Last release was hama-0.7.1 on Sun Mar 13 2016
-----------------------------------------
Attachment Y: Report from the Apache HTTP Server Project [Daniel Gruno]
## Description:
The Apache HTTP Server Project is an effort to develop and maintain an
open-source HTTP server for modern operating systems including UNIX and
Windows. The goal of this project is to provide a secure, efficient and
extensible server that provides HTTP services in sync with the current
HTTP standards.
## Issues:
There are absolutely no issues requiring board attention at this time!
## Activity:
Nothing too exciting, considering it's been summer and activity has
been lower than in other quarters. We released 2.4.34 and work has been
done on TLS 1.3 integration, JSON logging and fixing up core modules.
## Health report:
The project is healthy, albeit at a slower pace due to summer holidays.
A quick count yielded 14 active PMC members during this quarter, so
plenty of oversight. We managed to squeeze in 420 commits from 19
authors - a slight (and understandable) drop from previous quarter. In
terms of people doing the heavy load, we've been at a steady figure of
5-6 for the past two years, with no visible sign of that changing.
Basically, this means we have around 6 people doing the main work, and
some 25 others assisting with lighter contributions. The majority of
active contributors have more than 5 years of contribution experience
with the project - coupled with the rate of new committers, this seems
to be a sign of a good amount of contributor retention within the
project. We added two new contributors in this quarter, as listed in
the next paragraph. Bugzilla and mail activity remains very stable in
terms of the number of contributors - the number of tickets/emails has,
as stated before, been lower during the summer time. As we are part of
the Kibble experiment[1], we also have insight into the general mood of
the project over time, and while there are signs of a somewhat brazen
and rough tone sometimes, the past few months have seen an uptick
towards a happier mood (except for on the users list, but that is to be
expected, as that's where all the problems and cries for help would
go).
[1] https://demo.kibble.apache.org/
## PMC changes:
- We currently have 53 members on the PMC.
- Hank Ibell was added to the PMC on Tue Jul 10 2018
## Committer base changes:
- There are currently 122 committers.
- New commmitters:
- Hank Ibell was added as a committer on Tue Jun 26 2018
- Sebastian Bazley was added as a committer on Sat Jul 14 2018
## Releases:
- 2.4.34 was released on Mon Jul 16 2018
## Mailing list activity:
Nothing particularly worthy of note here. A dip in traffic,
likely due to summer time, but the number of contributors have been
very steady.
-----------------------------------------
Attachment Z: Report from the Apache HttpComponents Project [Asankha Chamath Perera]
## Description:
- The Apache HttpComponents project is responsible for creating and
maintaining a toolset of low-level Java components focused on HTTP and
associated protocols
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
- There are several casual contributors to the project but unfortunately
no one who merit committership on the project.
## Activity:
- The team is currently working toward completing HttpCore 5.0 and
HttpClient 5.0 BETA development phase and reaching GA milestone.
## Health report:
- Overall the project remains active. Although established in late 2007
the project remains stable and active as seen by JIRA and Emails.
- The number of emails could be seen as low, but it is stable like the state
of the project, and we still have interested people contributing.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 9 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Michael Osipov on Mon Aug 24 2015
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 18 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Julian Sedding at Fri Sep 30 2016
## Releases:
- HttpAsyncClient 4.1.4 GA was released on Mon Jul 23 2018
- HttpClient 4.5.6 GA was released on Mon Jul 09 2018
- HttpCore 4.4.10 GA was released on Tue Jul 03 2018
-----------------------------------------
Attachment AA: Report from the Apache Ignite Project [Denis A. Magda]
## Description:
- Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and
processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming
workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity:
- Ignite 2.5 and 2.6 were released. The versions introduced
massive scalability feature, machine learning capabilities,
Spark DataFrames integration and many more improvements.
- Ignite community has been working on the growth and
diversity. A new committer and PMC member was accepted.
There are many more promising contributors who might become
committers and PMC members soon.
## Health report:
- 10.00 (Super Healthy) according to reporter.apache.org
## PMC changes:
- Currently 25 PMC members.
- Andrey N. Gura was added to the PMC on Sun Jun 24 2018
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 37 committers.
- Ivan Rakov was added as a committer on Wed May 09 2018
## Releases:
- 2.5 was released on Mon May 28 2018
- 2.6.0 was released on Mon Jul 16 2018
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@ignite.apache.org:
- 382 subscribers (up 19 in the last 3 months):
- 3460 emails sent to list (3501 in previous quarter)
- ci@ignite.apache.org:
- 5 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months)
- issues@ignite.apache.org:
- 35 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 7547 emails sent to list (7362 in previous quarter)
- services@ignite.apache.org:
- 7 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months)
- user@ignite.apache.org:
- 698 subscribers (up 28 in the last 3 months):
- 1874 emails sent to list (1544 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 764 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 540 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
-----------------------------------------
Attachment AB: Report from the Apache Impala Project [Jim Apple]
## Description:
Impala is a high-performance distributed SQL engine.
## Issues:
As mentioned in the May report, Impala asked Google to add a disclaimer to
their "IMPALA: Scalable Distributed DeepRL in DMLab-30"[0] acknowledging that
the ASF owns the Impala trademark. Google had declined to do so, but as of
June 5th, they
"made a decision to launch the code by reference to its full name
(Importance Weighted Actor-Learner Architecture) - i.e. we will no longer be
using the acronym IMPALA".
A project named "Palo" was accepted into the Incubator as "Doris". It is based
on a forked Impala code base and a few Impala PMC members have expressed
concern about some of their previous practices from a community-oriented
perspective. These were addressed directly by the Palo/Doris community in the
incubation proposal and there will hopefully be upcoming opportunities for
both projects to start more direct contributions to each other.
## Activity:
The previous three months had 364 patches to the master branch, while this
three-month period had 350.
Prominent work in the last three months includes:
- The release of Impala 3.0
- The start of a very large effort to enable Impala to run without catalogd,
which can sometimes be a bottleneck
- A number of improvements to developer workflow, including documentation
build changes and improvements to automate our CI system even more
- The addition of fine-grained privileges
A new book with multiple chapters about Impala was published,
"Next-Generation Big Data: A Practical Guide to Apache Kudu, Impala, and
Spark", by Butch Quinto.
## Health report:
The project remains healthy and the cadence of most metrics (number of
commits, emails, releases) is steady compared to previous quarters.
One notable change is user@, which declined in volume by roughly 64%. The
previous quarter, some large threads dominated user@:
- A user inquiry on local join vs. exchange (10%)
- A user inquiry on installation on Ubuntu (10%)
- A user inquiry on admission control (7%)
- A user inquiry on memory estimation (10%)
## PMC changes:
- Currently 26 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Philip Zeyliger on Sun Apr 22 2018
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 42 committers.
- New committers:
- Attila Jeges was added as a committer on Fri May 18 2018
- Zoltán Borók-Nagy was added as a committer on Fri May 04 2018
- Csaba Ringhofer was added as a committer on Mon May 28 2018
- Fredy Wijaya was added as a committer on Mon Jun 25 2018
- Gabor Kaszab was added as a committer on Fri May 18 2018
- Jin Chul Kim was added as a committer on Fri May 18 2018
## Releases:
- 3.0.0 was released on Sun May 06 2018
## Mailing list activity:
Mailing lists metrics that held very steady:
- dev@: 341 emails (309 in previous quarter)
- issues@: 932 emails (929 in previous quarter)
- reviews@: 6250 emails (6502 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 419 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 418 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
-----------------------------------------
Attachment AC: Report from the Apache Incubator Project [Justin Mclean]
= Incubator PMC report for August 2018 =
=== Timeline ===
||Wed August 01 ||Podling reports due by end of day ||
||Sun August 05 ||Shepherd reviews due by end of day ||
||Sun August 05 ||Summary due by end of day ||
||Tue August 07 ||Mentor signoff due by end of day ||
||Wed August 08 ||Report submitted to Board ||
||Wed August 15 ||Board meeting ||
=== Shepherd Assignments ===
||Dave Fisher ||Joshua ||
||Dave Fisher ||SDAP ||
||Drew Farris ||Druid ||
||Drew Farris ||Tamaya ||
||John Ament ||PageSpeed ||
||John Ament ||S2Graph ||
||Justin Mclean ||Heron ||
||P. Taylor Goetz ||Annotator ||
||P. Taylor Goetz ||SensSoft ||
||P. Taylor Goetz ||Unomi ||
||Timothy Chen ||Airflow ||
||Timothy Chen ||BatchEE ||
||Timothy Chen ||Doris ||
||[none] ||ECharts ||
||[none] ||Edgent ||
||[none] ||Gossip ||
||[none] ||Milagro ||
||[none] ||Pony Mail ||
||[none] ||Ratis ||
||[none] ||Spot ||
||[none] ||Toree ||
=== Report content ===
{{{
Incubator PMC report for August 2018
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 presently 52 podlings incubating. During the month of July,
podlings executed 7 distinct releases and there are several ongoing votes
and releases for August. A couple of podlings need to ask again for IPMC
votes and some votes are still ongoing. We added two new IPMC members.
The HAWQ project is graduating, and serval others are heading towards
graduation. We had one project, Gossip, in the process of retiring to the
attic. Joshua needs to be chased up as they voted to graduate but haven't
done so yet and failed to report.
There were two IP clearances.
Again a number of podlings (8) didn't report and Pony Mail has failed to
report for the 3rd time in a row. I'll reach out again to Pony Mail but it
may require board attention given that lists.apache.org runs off it.
One report (Airflow) is currently missing sign off but hopefully that will be
fixed by the time the board meets.
Independently I reached out to the the Spark project and they have improved
their LICENSE and NOTICE so the incubator should have less issues in
podlings copying what they were doing.
* Community
New IPMC members:
Ignasi Barrera
Lars Francke
People who left the IPMC:
None
* New Podlings
Doris
* Podlings that failed to report, expected next month
Annotator
Joshua
Milagro
PageSpeed
Pony Mail
S2Graph
SensSoft
Tamaya
Toree # submitted late, but included
* Graduations
The board has motions for the following:
HAWQ
* Releases
The following releases entered distribution during the month of
August:
Gobblin 0.12.0
Amaterasu 0.2.0
OpenWhisk 0.9.0
Skywalking 5.0.0-beta2
Ratis 0.2.0
Mxnet 1.2.1
Netbeans 9.0
* IP Clearance
SCIMple
brooklyn-ui-angular
* Legal / Trademarks
None
* Infrastructure
None
* Miscellaneous
None
* Credits
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Table of Contents
Airflow
Annotator
BatchEE
Doris
Druid
ECharts
Edgent
Gossip
Heron
Joshua
Milagro
PageSpeed
Pony Mail
Ratis
S2Graph
SDAP
SensSoft
Spot
Tamaya
Unomi
----------------------------------------------------------------------
--------------------
Airflow
Airflow is a workflow automation and scheduling system that can be used to
author and manage data pipelines.
Airflow has been incubating since 2016-03-31.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1.Once we make a release with the licensing fix we will move forward with
graduation.
2.
3.
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?
1. Since our last podling report 5 months ago (i.e. between March
28 & August 5, inclusive), we grew our contributors from 427 to 512
2. Since our last podling report 5 months ago (i.e. between March
28 & August 5, inclusive), we resolved 554 pull requests (currently at
2834 closed
PRs)
3. Since being accepted into the incubator, the number of companies
officially
using Apache Airflow has risen from 30 to 183, 34 new from the last
podling
report 5 months ago.
How has the project developed since the last report?
See above : 554 PRs resolved, 85 new contributors, & 34 new companies
officially using it. We have also added 2 new committers : Kaxil Naik on
May 7 & Tao Feng on Aug 3.
How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
[ ] Initial setup
[ ] Working towards first release
[ ] Community building
[x] Nearing graduation
[ ] Other:
Date of last release:
2017-12-15
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
2 new committers : Kaxil Naik on May 7 & Tao Feng on Aug 3
Signed-off-by:
[ ](airflow) Chris Nauroth
Comments:
[ ](airflow) Hitesh Shah
Comments:
[ ](airflow) Jakob Homan
Comments:
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
--------------------
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:
Guess None, Mark started the process.
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?
Community is quite stable since there was no new version of the spec.
How has the project developed since the last report?
Same as previous point.
How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
[ ] Initial setup
[ ] Working towards first release
[ ] Community building
[X] Nearing graduation
[ ] Other:
Date of last release:
2017-12-01
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
2015-12-01 Reinhard Sandtner
Signed-off-by:
[X](batchee) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
Comments:
[ ](batchee) Olivier Lamy
Comments:
[ ](batchee) Mark Struberg
Comments:
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
--------------------
Doris
Doris is a MPP-based interactive SQL data warehousing for reporting and
analysis.
Doris has been incubating since 2018-07-18.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Initial Setup
2. Release Process
3. Community Building
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?
This is the first report and initial setup is ongoing.
How has the project developed since the last report?
The SGA was received.
How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
[X] Initial setup
[ ] Working towards first release
[ ] Community building
[ ] Nearing graduation
[ ] Other:
Date of last release:
XXXX-XX-XX
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
Initial committers are being onboarded.
Signed-off-by:
[X](doris) Dave Fisher
Comments:
[ ](doris) Luke Han
Comments:
[ ](doris) Willem Jiang
Comments:
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
--------------------
Druid
Druid is a high-performance, column-oriented, distributed data store.
Druid has been incubating since 2018-02-28.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Plan and execute our first Apache release.
2. Move the website to Apache infrastructure.
3. Expanding the community and adding more committers
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?
- A healthy, constant flow of bug fixes, quality improvements and new
features are still ongoing at https://github.com/apache/incubator-druid.
- Our next community meetup has been scheduled for August 8.
How has the project developed since the last report?
- This report covers activity since the May 2018 report.
- Source has been migrated to Apache infrastructure.
- License header updates are almost complete.
- Since the last report there have been 93 commits from 20 individuals.
- We have released 0.12.1, a non-incubator release.
- We currently preparing a 0.12.2 non-incubator bug fix release for our
users.
- We intend for our next major release, 0.13.0, to be our first incubator
release.
How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
[ ] Initial setup
[X] Working towards first release
[ ] Community building
[ ] Nearing graduation
[ ] Other:
Date of last release:
- Druid 0.12.1 on 2018-06-08 (non-Apache release)
- No official Apache release yet since beginning Apache Incubation
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
- Project is still functioning with the initial set of committers.
Signed-off-by:
[x](druid) Julian Hyde
Comments: Project is active and healthy; I am confident that the
first ASF release will occur soon.
[x](druid) P. Taylor Goetz
Comments: Podling is doing well and progressing toward their first
release.
[ ](druid) Jun Rao
Comments:
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
--------------------
ECharts
ECharts is a charting and data visualization library written in JavaScript.
ECharts has been incubating since 2018-01-18.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Complete releasing the v4.1.0 version, which is the first version
since incubation.
2. Release website at https://echarts.apache.org/
3. N/A
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?
N/A
How has the project developed since the last report?
N/A
How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
[ ] Initial setup
[ ] Working towards first release
[x] Community building
[ ] Nearing graduation
[ ] Other:
Date of last release:
2018-8-4
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
N/A
Signed-off-by:
[ ](echarts) John D. Ament
Comments:
[ ](echarts) Daniel Gruno
Comments:
[ ](echarts) Kevin A. McGrail
Comments:
[X](echarts) Dave Fisher
Comments: Going to need to provide guidance on filling out this
report. Too much N/A.
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
--------------------
Edgent
Apache Edgent is a programming SDK and micro-kernel style runtime
that can be embedded in gateways and small footprint edge devices enabling
local, real-time, analytics on the continuous streams of data coming
from equipment, vehicles, systems, appliances, devices and sensors of
all kinds (for example, Raspberry Pis or smart phones). Working in
conjunction with centralized analytic systems, Apache Edgent provides
efficient and timely analytics across the whole IoT ecosystem: from the
center to the edge.
Edgent has been incubating since 2016-02-29.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Create and expand a diverse community of contributors and committers
around the Edgent project.
2. Attracting at least another independent committer/ppmc member.
3. Finding further real world users of Edgent
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
Community participation, implying interest in Edgent, continues
to be an issue. One of the two active committer/PPMC members has
retired at the end of February and the level of their continuing
participation is has been significantly reduced since then. When a
security problem had been brought up on the private list, not a single
response from a second PPMC had been received.
How has the community developed since the last report?
* An article on Apache PLC4X has been published in the German iX magazine.
This article co-featured Apache Edgent
(https://www.heise.de/select/ix/2018/8/1533352444905693)
* The previous JavaSPEKTRUM article was published on the codecentric blog
and is now free to read for all.
(https://blog.codecentric.de/2018/06/edge-computing-industrial-iot-apache-ed
gent-apache-plc4x/)
* Total, we have 77 subscribers to our mailing list, an increase
of 1 since the last report.
* It was almost silent on the mailing lists until two new names popped up
asking question about a week ago.
How has the project developed since the last report?
* Even if no vulnerabilities were found in Edgent, we updated some of our
Dependencies no longer depend on third party artifacts that might
contain
problems.
* According to JIRA, 1 new issue was added and none were resolved
in the last 90 days
* 2 commits were made in the last 90 days.
How would you assess the podling's maturity?
After withdrawal of most of the active committers and PPCM members
currently
a new committer and PPMC base has to be built. We are still very hopeful
that
we will be able to accomplish this task.
[ ] Initial setup
[ ] Working towards first release
[X] Community building
[ ] Nearing graduation
[ ] Other:
Date of last release:
2017-12-14 Apache Edgent 1.2.0
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
In August 2017, we added Christofer Dutz as a new committer
and PPMC member.
Signed-off-by:
[ ](edgent) Daniel Debrunner
Comments:
[ ](edgent) Luciano Resende
Comments:
[X](edgent) Justin Mclean
Comments:
[ ](edgent) John D. Ament
Comments:
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
--------------------
Heron
A real-time, distributed, fault-tolerant stream processing engine.
Heron has been incubating since 2017-06-23.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Removal of binaries from code base (this is already completed)
2. Moving from com.twitter.heron to org.apache.heron namespace (this is
already completed)
3. How to publish the binary artifacts into the Apache Maven repo
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
We had an issue with scheduling to get the report done on time. We will
work to correct this for the next period.
How has the community developed since the last report?
The community has been increasing steadily. The community has been asking
questions through the mailing list and slack channels. The supporting
community has responded with answers to questions asked. We have also had
new individuals come into help with cleaning the project from an outside
perspective. It's been very helpful to the committers.
How has the project developed since the last report?
There have been mainly bug fixes and improvements to existing features.
Some to note are
* Fixing issue with downloader for Nomad
* Updating to the latest Dhalion version
* Updating of Dockerfiles and docker build scripts
* Updates to the documentation
* Updates to Helm charts
* Added a S3 uploader
How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
[ ] Initial setup
[X] Working towards first release
[ ] Community building
[ ] Nearing graduation
[ ] Other:
Date of last release:
No Apache releases as of yet.
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
N/A. Still working towards bootstrapping the project..
Signed-off-by:
[ ](heron) Jake Farrell
Comments:
[ ](heron) Jacques Nadeau
Comments:
[ ](heron) Julien Le Dem
Comments:
[X](heron) P. Taylor Goetz
Comments:
I'm concerned about lack of activity on the public mailing lists.
Decisions are being made, I just don't know where (Slack?). I'll be leaning
on the podling to be more publicly transparent.
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
--------------------
Ratis
Ratis is a java implementation for RAFT consensus protocol
Ratis has been incubating since 2017-01-03.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Work towards a GA release.
2. Establish a release cadence.
3. More committers, PPMC members.
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?
7 new contributors have been added. Total 50 contributors currently.
2 new committers have been added. Total 20 committers currently.
How has the project developed since the last report?
Ratis-0.2.0 release was made available on 15-July-2018.
18 new commits.
Apache HBase community members have shown interest in using Ratis for WAL.
How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
[X] Initial setup : Mostly done, some improvements to pre-commit, nightly
processes needed.
[ ] Working towards first release : 0.2.0 release done recently, planning
started for a GA release.
[ ] Community building : New contributors and committers are being added.
More users are showing interest.
[ ] Nearing graduation : GA release, and community diversity are needed.
[ ] Other:
Date of last release:
2018-07-15
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
2018-07-18
Signed-off-by:
[ ](ratis) Chris Nauroth
Comments:
[ ](ratis) Jakob Homan
Comments:
[X](ratis) Uma Maheswara Rao G
Comments: I feel overall project is doing good and there were healthy
community discussions happening for integrating/using this project with
other Apache top level projects other than Apache Hadoop.
[ ](ratis) Devaraj Das
Comments:
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
--------------------
SDAP
SDAP is an integrated data analytic center for Big Science problems.
SDAP has been incubating since 2017-10-22.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Grow community
2. Make formal SDAP (Incubating) releases
3. Evangelize SDAP as an integrated data analytic center for Big Science
problems
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?
For the last quarter, again SDAP has been heavily advertised
at/in tons of Earth Science technology forums.
Members of SDAP team demonstrated the software at the ESIP
Summer 2018 meeting in Tucson, AZ with the aim of growing
community.
How has the project developed since the last report?
The project is around a month or so away from making it's first
Incubating release. Development is ongoing and positive.
How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
[X] Initial setup
[X] Working towards first release
[X] Community building
[ ] Nearing graduation
[ ] Other:
Date of last release:
XXXX-XX-XX
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
Kevin M Gill was elected on 2018-03-05
Signed-off-by:
[ ](sdap) Jörn Rottmann
Comments:
[ ](sdap) Raphael Bircher
Comments:
[ ](sdap) Suneel Marthi
Comments:
[X](sdap) Lewis John McGibbney
Comments:
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
--------------------
Spot
Apache Spot is a platform for network telemetry built on an open data model
and Apache Hadoop.
Spot has been incubating since 2016-09-23.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. More activity in the User and Dev mail lists
2. Revive Community activity (Discussion, commits)
3. Develop a better release process
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
Lack of community discussion and activity is being addressed.
How has the community developed since the last report?
Started Bi-weekly (2 weeks) project wide community live meetings to try to
revive development on the project.
How has the project developed since the last report?
Community revival is underway. Bi-weekly meetings are taking place in order
to achieve momentum in the project. Goals are to prioritize Pull Requests
and promote the creation of new features in the community.
How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
[ ] Initial setup
[ ] Working towards first release
[X] Community building
[ ] Nearing graduation
[ ] Other:
Date of last release:
2017-09-08
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
2018-01-18
Signed-off-by:
[ ](spot) Jarek Jarcec Cecho
Comments:
[ ](spot) Brock Noland
Comments:
[ ](spot) Andrei Savu
Comments:
[X](spot) Uma Maheswara Rao G
Comments: Recently there was some improvement in discussions and
conducting community meetings etc.
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
--------------------
Toree
Toree provides applications with a mechanism to interactively and remotely
access Apache Spark.
Toree has been incubating since 2015-12-02.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1.More discussion and engagement on the mailing list as opposed to
"gitter"
3.Continue to make releases
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
* We have discussed couple times about inactive mentors, and we will
most likely start a process to replace those with new more available
ones so that we can get our release and graduate process more smoothly.
How has the community developed since the last report?
* The community has been working on the 0.2.0 release,
and a new RC6 is waiting for IPMC approval.
How has the project developed since the last report?
* Regular cadence of community activity, with some increase on
mailing list activity. Having said that, lots of questions and
interactions are still happening in a very active fashion on the
"gitter chat community" but we were able to get some of those
discussions turning into JIRAs on the project.
How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
[ ] Initial setup
[ ] Working towards first release
[x] Community building
[x] Nearing graduation
[ ] Other:
Date of last release:
* 2017-02-21
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
* Ryan Blue was added to the PMC on 2017-04-03
Signed-off-by:
[x](toree) Luciano Resende
Comments:
[ ](toree) Reynold Xin
Comments:
[ ](toree) Hitesh Shah
Comments:
[ ](toree) Julien Le Dem
Comments:
[x](toree) Ryan Blue
Comments:
--------------------
Unomi
Unomi is a reference implementation of the OASIS Context Server
specification
currently being worked on by the OASIS Context Server Technical Committee.
It
provides a high-performance user profile and event tracking server.
Unomi has been incubating since 2015-10-05.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Keep a good pace of releases
2. Improve communication around the project and improve project web site
3. Add new PPMC members to satisfy graduation requirements
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
None
How has the community developed since the last report?
We have some new contributors that we are hoping to add the PPMC soon
so that we can satisfy graduation requirements.
How has the project developed since the last report?
Version 1.3.0-incubating is waiting on the vote of the IPMC and
hopefully should be released real soon.
How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
[ ] Initial setup
[ ] Working towards first release
[ ] Community building
[X] Nearing graduation
[ ] Other:
Date of last release:
2017-09-20 (with new version 1.3.0 waiting on IPMC vote)
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
2018-04-09
Signed-off-by:
[ ](unomi) Bertrand Delacretaz
Comments:
[X](unomi) Jean-Baptiste Onofre
Comments:
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
}}}
-----------------------------------------
Attachment AD: Report from the Apache jUDDI Project [Alex O'Ree]
## Description:
- jUDDI (pronounced "Judy") is an open source Java implementation of the
Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration (UDDI v3) specification
for (Web) Services. The jUDDI project includes Scout. Scout is an
implementation of the JSR 93 - Java API for XML Registries 1.0 (JAXR).
## Issues:
- There are no issues that require the board's attention at this time.
## Activity:
- jUDDI - last release was 22 NOV 2017. Little development has taken place
since then.
## Health report:
- Low development activity is a factor for low mailing list volume, but in
all likelihood, it's from a general lack of interest in the protocol.
- There are enough active PMC members to approve releases and respond to
potential security issues. There were no issues raised since the last
report.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 7 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Alex O'Ree on Sun Mar 17 2013
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 7 committers.
- No new changes to the committer base since last report.
## Releases:
- Last release was 3.3.5 on Wed Nov 22 2017
## /dist/ errors: 14
- These errors are for older versions of jUDDI in which a former PMC's gpg
key expired. The key has been refreshed however the previous releases will
probably not be resigned.
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@juddi.apache.org:
- 71 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 6 emails sent to list (50 in previous quarter)
- user@juddi.apache.org:
- 111 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
- 5 emails sent to list (8 in previous quarter)
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Attachment AE: Report from the Apache Juneau Project [James Bognar]
## Description:
- Juneau is a cohesive Java ecosystem consisting of POJO serializers and REST
client and server APIs.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- Currently in the process of developing v7.2.0 which will be a major release
providing significant new Swagger annotation functionality.
## Health report:
- Project usage has been steady and consistent, but interest in committers
joining the project has been non-existent. However, we continue to make
major improvements to the code and plan on creating a new release soon.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 9 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Craig L Russell on Tue Oct 17 2017
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 9 committers.
- No new changes to the committer base since last report.
## Releases:
- Last release was 7.1.0 on Wed Mar 07 2018
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Attachment AF: Report from the Apache Kafka Project [Jun Rao]
Apache Kafka is a distributed streaming platform for efficiently storing and
processing a large number of records in real time.
Development
===========
We shipped 4 releases this quarter. The major release was 2.0.0, which
includes 40 KIPs and more than 240 fixes. This release includes major features
such as prefixed ACL, OAuth authentication, improved replication protocol to
avoid log divergence, better error control in Connect, better secret
configuration in Connect, and header support in Streams. This is also the
release where we dropped Java 7 support.
We are working on new features such as improving the consumer offset
semantics, making the log cleaner more robust, allowing the broker to
prioritize controller requests, etc.
Community
===========
Lots of activities in the mailing list. We have 2735 subscribers in the user
mailing list, up 69 in the last 3 months. We have 990 emails in the user
mailing list in the last 3 months, a bit less than the 1027 in the previous
cycle. We have 1212 subscribers in the dev mailing list, up 68 in the last 3
months. We have 3074 emails in the dev mailing list in the last 3 months, much
higher than the 2367 in the previous cycle (likely due the releases).
The vote for a new PMC member Dong Lin pased on Aug. 4, 2018. We are waiting
for the board notice peroid before sending an invitation. We didn't elect any
new committer this cycle. Some concern on committer diversity have been raised
in the private mailing list. We are reviewing our committer guidelines now and
will resume the committer nomination soon. We last elected a new committer on
Mar. 28, 2018.
Releases
===========
2.0.0 was released on Jul. 30, 2018.
1.1.1 was released on Jul. 20, 2018.
0.11.0.3 was released on Jul. 4, 2018.
0.10.2.2 was released on Jul. 4, 2018.
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Attachment AG: Report from the Apache Kibble Project [Rich Bowen]
## Description:
Apache Kibble is a suite of tools for collecting, aggregating and
visualizing activity in software projects. http://kibble.apache.org/
## Issues:
There are no issues that require the board's attention
## Health and Activity:
After several months of silence, discussion has started back up on the dev
list, with discussion of mood and sentiment analysis.
There was also a brief discussion of getting feedback from our pilot projects.
Overall, the project remains quiet, but appears to be reemerging from a summer
lumber.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 12 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Rafael Weingärtner on Fri Dec 08 2017
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 12 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Rafael Weingärtner at Sat Dec 09 2017
## Releases:
- Kibble has not yet made a release, but an off-list (IRC) conversation
started about the desirability of doing one.
## Mailing list activity:
The lists were almost entirely silent over the summer, but discussion is now
starting back up again.
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Attachment AH: Report from the Apache Knox Project [Larry McCay]
## Description:
- The Apache Knox Gateway is a REST API Gateway for interacting with Apache
Hadoop clusters. The Knox Gateway provides a single access point for all
REST/HTTP interactions with Apache Hadoop clusters.
## Issues:
- there are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity:
- In July Apache Knox 1.1.0 was released. This marked the largest release so
far in terms of resolved JIRAs at around 175.
- We identified cloud usecases as an important feature set via our KIP-11
wiki one pager. Though we have had to defer much of this to later releases
due to concentration on other useability and management features.
- We have identified the need for a quick 1.2.0 release to focus on some
previously planned cloud usecases as well as a few from the community that
were discussed during 1.1.0 release close down.
## Health report:
- Activity on the email lists, JIRAs and commits appear to continue to grow
and seem rather healthy. Community Health Score 7.15.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 17 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Kevin Risden on Mon Apr 02 2018
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 21 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Kevin Risden at Tue Apr 03 2018
## Releases:
- Last release was 1.1.0 on Wed Jul 30 2018
## Mailing list activity:
- Some inflation in the dev@ emails due to Jenkins errors
- dev@knox.apache.org:
- 95 subscribers (up 6 in the last 3 months):
- 1154 emails sent to list (885 in previous quarter)
- user@knox.apache.org:
- 130 subscribers (up 9 in the last 3 months):
- 213 emails sent to list (158 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 114 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 110 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment AI: Report from the Apache Kylin Project [Luke Han]
## Description:
Apache Kylin is an open source Distributed Analytics Engine designed
to provide SQL interface and multi-dimensional analysis (OLAP) on
Hadoop supporting extremely large datasets.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity:
- 2018/07/28 Apache Kylin meetup @ Shanghai
- 2018/07/14 Shaofeng Shi presented Kylin on AWS User Group Shanghai
- 2018/07/03 Dong Li presented Kylin + Superset on ELE.ME tech event
- 2018/06/30 Chen Zhang and Shaofeng Shi presented Kylin use case
on AWS Summit 2018 Shanghai
- 2018/06/23 Apache Kylin meetup @ Shenzhen
- 2018/06/19 Dong presented Kylin on roraringelephant.org (live video)
- 2018/05/26 Luke Han presented Apache Way and Kylin at 2050 Con.
- 2018/05/27 Yiming Liu presented Apache Community experience on 2050 Con.
- 2018/05/11 Dong Li presented Kylin in the cloud on DTCC 2018
## PMC changes:
- Currently 20 PMC members.
- Zhong Yanghong was added to the PMC on Thu Aug 02 2018
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 32 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Julian Pan at Wed Apr 18 2018
## Releases:
- 2.3.2 was released on Sun Jul 08 2018
- 2.4.0 was released on Sat Jun 23 2018
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@kylin.apache.org:
- 418 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months):
- 573 emails sent to list (643 in previous quarter)
- issues@kylin.apache.org:
- 93 subscribers (up 5 in the last 3 months):
- 1551 emails sent to list (1407 in previous quarter)
- user@kylin.apache.org:
- 350 subscribers (up 9 in the last 3 months):
- 126 emails sent to list (324 in the previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 114 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 159 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment AJ: Report from the Apache Lens Project [Amareshwari Sriramadasu]
## Description:
Lens provides an Unified Analytics interface. Lens aims to cut the Data
Analytics silos by providing a single view of data across multiple tiered data
stores and optimal execution environment for the analytical query. It
seamlessly integrates Hadoop with traditional data warehouses to appear like
one.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- Added SPENGO authentication for Lens API
- Enable SSL/TLS between Lens server and client
- Python3 compatibility issues fixed
## PMC changes:
- Currently 18 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Puneet Gupta on Tue Sep 20 2016
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 23 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Rajitha R at Fri Feb 09 2018
## Releases:
- Last release was 2.7 on Tue Feb 06 2018
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Attachment AK: Report from the Apache Libcloud Project [Tomaž Muraus]
## Description:
Libcloud is a Python library that abstracts away the differences among
multiple cloud provider APIs.
## Issues:
There are no issues which require board attention at this time.
## Activity:
The activity has dropped a bit over the summer, but the project still
received a fair amount of activity and contributions.
In the end of June, Rick van de Loo has joined us as a new committer.
Last release was 2.3.0 in March and quite a lot of changes have accumulated
in trunk / master since then so we will be releasing a new version (2.4.0)
in the near future.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 14 PMC members.
- Quentin Pradet was added to the PMC on Mon May 14 2018
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 21 committers.
- Rick van de Loo was added as a committer on Tue Jun 26 2018
## Releases:
- 2.3.0 was released on March 03, 2018
- 2.2.1 was released on September 21, 2017
- 2.2.0 was released on September 04, 2017
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Attachment AL: Report from the Apache Logging Services Project [Matt Sicker]
## Description:
- The Apache Logging Services Project creates and maintains open-source
software related to the logging of application behavior and released at no
charge to the public.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- We cut our very first release of a new logging component called Log4j
Audit. This provides an audit logging framework on top of Log4j2 which can
be used as broadly as for auditing purposes or even as specialized as for
distributed trace logging. Log4j Audit contains a catalog editor as well to
help predefine audit events shared by all your applications.
- We made a new bugfix release of Log4j 2 while we continue to brainstorm on
where we'd like to see Log4j 3 go in the future.
- We invited Carter Kozak to join the PMC who has accepted and joined. Thanks
for all your hard work, Carter!
- We have a new Log4j API for Scala release in the works that migrates its
build system from Maven to SBT along with a large reduction in duplicate
code between different versions of Scala thanks to SBT's cross compilation
support.
- We have a new Log4j API for Kotlin component almost ready to release.
Thanks to Raman Gupta for developing the initial version of this component!
## Health report:
- The project remains active and healthy. Mailing list activity remains about
the same as last quarter.
- Over the past 90 days, there were about 75 issues reported and 42 closed
across all the Apache Logging Services projects. The bulk of this activity
is from Log4j2.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 14 PMC members.
- Carter Kozak was added to the PMC on Sun Jul 29 2018
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 33 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Carter Kozak at Wed Mar 28 2018
## Releases:
- LOG4J-Audit-1.0.0 was released on Sat Jun 16 2018
- LOGJ-2.11.1 was released on Sun Jul 22 2018
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Attachment AM: Report from the Apache ManifoldCF Project [Karl Wright]
Project description
==============
ManifoldCF is an effort to provide an open source framework for connecting
source content repositories like Microsoft Sharepoint and EMC Documentum, to
target repositories or indexes, such as Apache Solr, OpenSearchServer or
ElasticSearch. ManifoldCF also defines a security model for target
repositories that permits them to enforce source repository security policies.
Releases
========
ManifoldCF graduated from the Apache Incubator on May 16, 2012. Since then,
there have been numerous major releases, including a 2.10.0 release on April
19, 2018. The next major release is scheduled for August 30, 2018.
Committers and PMC membership
=============================
We nominated and approved Markus Schuch as a PMC member on 12/29/2017. We did
not sign up any new committers this quarter. We continue to be on the lookout
for new PMC members and committers. We expect some GSOC students to be
potential new committers once their projects are completed.
Mailing list activity
=====================
Mailing list activity has been moderate to active this quarter. Development
has involved some long-running projects, but also a fair number of workarounds
to project dependency issues. ManifoldCF has a very large number of
dependencies due to its nature, and many of those dependencies have poor
practices concerning issues like classloader hygiene, which impact ManifoldCF
strongly.
Issues reported have been centered mainly on bugs and on GSOC students this
quarter. I am unaware of any mailing list question that has gone unanswered.
Outstanding issues
==================
No outstanding infrastructure issues are known at this time.
Branding
========
No new branding-related activity to report.
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Attachment AN: Report from the Apache Marmotta Project [Jakob Frank]
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Attachment AO: Report from the Apache MetaModel Project [Kasper Sørensen]
Report from the Apache MetaModel project [Kasper Sørensen]
## Description:
Providing a common interface for discovery, exploration of metadata and
querying of different types of data sources.
## Issues:
- there are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity:
- We've made a single release in the start of this reporting period.
- Other than that, it's been very quiet.
## Health report:
- The project is in questionable health. There is not a lot of momentum but
also not any big issues per se.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 11 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Dennis Du Krøger on Mon Sep 05 2016
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 13 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Jörg Unbehauen at Thu May 03 2018
## Releases:
- 5.1.0 was released on Tue Jun 26 2018
## JIRA activity:
- 8 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 4 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment AP: Report from the Apache Oozie Project [Gézapeti]
## Description:
- Oozie is a workflow scheduler system to manage Apache Hadoop jobs.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- Fluent Job API (OOZIE-2339) is submitted. This will make creating and
managing Oozie workflows easier by providing Java API to create them.
- A new action type (Git Action) is close to commit
- Significant effort went into stabilizing junit tests, the pre-commit
hook and upgrading dependencies
- Discussion about release 5.1.0 have been started. There is agreement to
ship it soon so the Fluent Job API is released.
## Health report:
- Project is healthy with development activity in multiple areas (new
action types, server side resource management)
- Activity is up from the previous quarter both on mailing lists and Jira.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 21 PMC members.
- Andras Piros was added to the PMC on Thu Jun 21 2018
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 24 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Andras Piros at Tue Oct 17 2017
- 2 contributors are close to being invited as committers
## Releases:
- Last release was 5.0.0 on Thu Apr 05 2018
## JIRA activity:
- 80 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 88 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment AQ: Report from the Apache Open Climate Workbench Project [Michael James Joyce]
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Attachment AR: Report from the Apache Perl Project [Philippe Chiasson]
--- mod_perl --
No new mod_perl 2.x releases since 2016-10.
-- Activity --
mod_perl continues to be a healthy development community, though
as a mature and stable product development moves at a naturally
slower pace than in years past. Bugs are found and discussed and
fixes are applied with due consideration for our production userbase.
-- Users --
The mod_perl users list is seeing little activity, as usual.
Patches and bug reports are few, but keep on coming.
-- Commiters --
Currently 22 committers.
No new changes to the committer base since last report.
Last Commiter addition was Jan Kaluza in April 2013
-- PMC --
Currently 11 PMC members.
No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
Last PMC addition was Steve Hay on Wed Feb 29 2012
-----------------------------------------
Attachment AS: Report from the Apache Phoenix Project [Josh Elser]
## Description:
- Apache Phoenix enables SQL-based OLTP and operational analytics for Apache
Hadoop
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity:
- Two major release: 4.14.0 and 5.0.0. The former targeted HBase-0.98 and
1.x major release lines, the latter targeted HBase-2.0.
- Post 4.14, we've decided to stop releases versions of Phoenix that support
HBase 0.98 and 1.1 releases as the HBase project has made a similar
decision on creating more releases of those versions.
- Created a new mailing list, issues@phoenix, to reduce overall traffic to
dev@phoenix.
- Held PhoenixCon on June 18th in San Jose, California, USA concurrently
with HBaseCon (same day, same space). We had roughly 150 people in
attendance at the events, with 10 Phoenix-specific talks given. Feedback
was overall positive. Recordings are available at
https://phoenix.apache.org/phoenixcon-archives.html for those who were
unable to physically attend the event.
- We've added two new PMC members and one new committer since our last
report.
## Health report:
- Things largely remain the same for the project. As HBase continues to
evolve into newer versions, it requires us to do the same in Phoenix. We
have continued activity in the project and I believe things look OK for
the future.
- Continuing to support and grow new contributors is a challenge.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 27 PMC members.
- New PMC members:
- Pedro Boado was added to the PMC on Thu Jun 07 2018
- Vincent Poon was added to the PMC on Thu Jun 07 2018
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 36 committers.
- Ohad Shaham was added as a committer on Fri Jun 08 2018
## Releases:
- 4.14.0 was released on Fri Jun 08 2018
- 5.0.0 was released on Sat Jul 14 2018
## Mailing list activity:
- List activity is largely consistent with previous months. There is a
slight down-tick in volume to users@phoenix.
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Attachment AT: Report from the Apache POI Project [Dominik Stadler]
Report from the Apache POI committee [Dominik Stadler]
## Description:
- Apache POI is a Java library for reading and writing Microsoft Office file
formats
The Apache POI PMC now also oversees development of the XMLBeans project:
XMLBeans is a tool that allows you to map XML files to generated Java
classes via XML Schema definitions.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity:
- Overall there is progress towards a 4.0.0 release, discussion is underway
about the remaining fixes/changes that should be included before starting
the release process.
The main item of having a new release of XMLBeans was finally resolved by
re-establishing XMLBeans from the attic under our PMC.
We released XMLBeans 3.0.0 with a number of important fixes which are
required for Apache POI, but are likely also important for any other
project which uses XMLBeans.
Some discussion is still underway how to handle/evolve/report XMLBeans in
the future, for now it is reported as sub-project here while we work out
the details.
Suport for Java 10+ is provided now by rewriting the Zip-Bomb-Functionality
on top of commons-compress.
A number of bug-fixes and smaller enhancements were merged, quite a number
of these were provided by non-committers via GitHub PullRequests.
## Health report:
- There is discussion of bug reports/features via bugzilla and a number of
requests which indicate that the popularity of Apache POI is still very
good. Questions via email or on Stackoverflow usually get answers quickly.
Bug influx was moderate this quarter, however also bug-fix rate is not very
high, probably most "easy wins" are already resolved now and thus mostly
hard to fix bugs remain.
Bug influx for XMLBeans is very low because it is a stable project in
maintenance-mode and was re-activated only a short while ago.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 30 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Alain Béarez on Tue Nov 21 2017
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 37 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Alain Béarez at Mon Nov 20 2017
## Releases:
- Last release was 3.17 on Wed Sep 13 2017
## Mailing list activity:
- Some subscribers left, probably because Apache POI is a stable project with
a more or less constant user-base
- dev@poi.apache.org:
- 232 subscribers (down -2 in the last 3 months):
- 492 emails sent to list (556 in previous quarter)
- general@poi.apache.org:
- 125 subscribers (down -5 in the last 3 months):
- 6 emails sent to list (3 in previous quarter)
- user@poi.apache.org:
- 592 subscribers (down -10 in the last 3 months):
- 93 emails sent to list (71 in previous quarter)
## Bugzilla Statistics:
### Apache POI
- 38 Bugzilla tickets created in the last 3 months
- 26 Bugzilla tickets resolved in the last 3 months
- 512 bugs are open overall (+12)
- Having 137 enhancements (+1)
- Thus having 375 actual bugs (+11)
- 98 of these are waiting for feedback (+3)
- Thus having 277 actual workable bugs (+8)
- 5 of the workable bugs have patches available (+-0) Distribution of
workable bugs across components: {HSSF=80, XSSF=70, HWPF=37, SS Common=36,
XWPF=17, SXSSF=12, XSLF=7, POI Overall=6, HPSF=3, POIFS=3, HSLF=2, HPBF=1,
HSMF=1, OPC=1, SL Common=1}
### Apache XMLBeans
- 183 open issues
- no new open issues since 2007 for now
- Bug 385 74%
- Improvement 72 13%
- New Feature 40 7%
- Wish 9 1%
- Task 6 1%
- Test 2 0%
- Sub-task 2 0%
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Attachment AU: Report from the Apache Qpid Project [Robert Gemmell]
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, a message router,
and client libraries for C, C++, Go, Java/JMS, Python, and Ruby.
# Releases:
- Qpid JMS AMQP 0-x 6.3.1 was released on 18th May 2018.
- Qpid Proton 0.23.0 was released on 26th May 2018.
- Qpid Broker-J 7.0.4 was released on 31st May 2018.
- Qpid Dispatch 1.1.0 was released on 11th June 2018.
- Qpid JMS 0.33.0 was released on 14th June 2018.
- Qpid Broker-J 7.0.5 was released on 15th June 2018 [1].
- Qpid Broker-J 7.0.6 was released on 22nd June 2018.
- Qpid JMS 0.34.0 was released on 28th June 2018.
- Qpid Proton 0.24.0 was released on 29th June 2018.
- Qpid Dispatch 1.2.0 was released on 2nd July 2018.
- Qpid Proton-J 0.27.2 was released on 17th July 2018.
- Qpid Proton-J 0.28.0 was released on 17th July 2018.
- Qpid JMS AMQP 0-x 6.3.2 was released on 18th July 2018.
- Qpid JMS 0.35.0 was released on 23rd July 2018.
- Qpid Proton-J 0.27.3 was released on 7th August 2018.
- Qpid Proton-J 0.28.1 was released on 7th August 2018.
[1] Broker-J 7.0.5 addressed CVE-2018-8030.
# Community:
- The main user and developer mailing lists continue to be active and JIRAs
are being raised and addressed, in line with prior activity levels.
- There were no new committer additions in this quarter.
The most recent new committer is Chris Richardson, added on 15th Nov 2017.
- There were no new PMC additions in this quarter.
The most recent new PMC member is Ganesh Murthy, added on 30th Jan 2017.
# Development:
- Work on Qpid Dispatch 1.3.0 nears completion, incorporating various
bug fixes and improvements, with a candidate now under vote for release.
- Work continues on Qpid Broker-J 7.1.0, adding various improvements to the
7.0.0 base and refining the test suite following the AMQP 0-x JMS client
being made independent. Bug fixes continue to be backported to the 7.0.x
and 6.x lines for intermediate releases as needed, with a Broker-J 7.0.7
release likely soon.
- Proton-C and its language bindings had their 0.23.0 and 0.24.0 releases,
incorporating various bug fixes and improvements, and reorganising the
source tree to better accommodate its contents. Various additional
improvements and bug fixes have been made since and a 0.25.0 release is
likely later in the month.
- The AMQP 1.0 JMS client had its 0.33.0 to 0.35.0 releases, adding some new
functionality, fixing some bugs, and including changes to improve
performance. Work continues on more toward a 0.36.0 release soon.
- Proton-J saw 0.27.2 to 0.28.1 releases to incorporate various improvements
and fixes useful to dependent client/broker/other components, and work
continues on more as they arise.
# Issues:
There are no Board-level issues at this time.
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Attachment AV: Report from the Apache Ranger Project [Selvamohan Neethiraj]
## Description:
- The Ranger project is a framework to enable, monitor and manage
comprehensive data security across the Hadoop platform.
## Issues:
- there are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity:
- Community has released Apache Ranger 1.1.0 and working on new
features/improvements/bug fixes on the releases 2.0.0 and 1.x
- Jira: +86(added) -65(resolved) over last 3 months
- Git (Source): 53 commits over last 3 months
- SVN (ranger site updates): 2 commits over last 3 months
## Health report:
- Released Apache Ranger 1.1.0 with 20+ improvements to Apache Ranger and lot
of bug fixes
- Working on new features/improvements/bug fixes on the releases 2.0.0 and
1.x
## PMC changes:
- Currently 18 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Abhay Kulkarni on Fri Dec 15 2017
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 26 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Zsombor Gegesy at Sat Dec 09 2017
## Releases:
- Apache Ranger 1.1.0 was released on Mon Jul 09 2018
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@ranger.apache.org:
- 105 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 871 emails sent to list (1352 in previous quarter)
- user@ranger.apache.org:
- 173 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 67 emails sent to list (34 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 86 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 65 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment AW: Report from the Apache REEF Project [Byung-Gon Chun]
## Description:
- Apache REEF (Retainable Evaluator Execution Framework) is a library for
developing portable applications for cluster resource managers such as
Apache Hadoop YARN or Apache Mesos.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- Expand the support for REEF on Azure Batch including docker container
support for REEF
- Introduce new Java and .Net bridge modules
- Improve metric collection
## Health report:
- Overall, the community is healthy: the community has been achieving
important milestones and there is a constant flow of bug reports, fixes,
and discussions.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 22 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Doug Service on Fri Sep 29 2017
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 34 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Doug Service at Tue Apr 11 2017
## Releases:
- Last release was 0.16 on Thu Aug 10 2017
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@reef.apache.org:
- 85 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 577 emails sent to list (282 in previous quarter)
- user@reef.apache.org:
- 18 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 0 emails sent to list (0 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 26 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 9 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment AX: Report from the Apache River Project [Peter Firmstone]
## Description:
- Apache River provides a platform for dynamic discovery and lookup search of
network services. Services may be implemented in a number of languages,
while clients are required to be jvm based (presently at least), to allow
proxy jvm byte code to be provisioned dynamically.
## Issues:
- No significant issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- Minimal activity at present, initial work modular build structure has
commenced, awaiting to be populated with River 3.0 code.
Release roadmap:
River 3.1 - Modular build restructure (& binary release) River 3.2 - Input
validation 4 Serialization, delayed unmarshalling& safe ServiceRegistrar
lookup service.River 3.3 - OSGi support
## Health report:
- River is a mature codebase with existing deployments, it was primarily
designed for dynamic discovery of services on private networks. IPv4 NAT
limitations historically prevented the use of River on public networks,
however the use of IPv6 on public networks removes these limitations. Web
services evolved with the publish subscribe model of todays internet, River
has the potential to dynamically discover services on IPv6 networks, peer
to peer, blurring current destinctions between client and server, it has
the potential to address many of the security issues currently experienced
with IoT and avoid any dependency on the proprietary cloud for "things".
- Future Direction:
* Target IOT space with support for OSGi and IPv6 (security fixes required
prior to announcement)
* Input validation for java deserialization - prevents DOS and Gadget
attacks.
* IPv6 Multicast Service Discovery (River currently only supports IPv4
multicast discovery).
* Delayed unmarshalling for Service Lookup and Discovery (includes
SafeServiceRegistrar mentioned in release roadmap), so authentication can
occur prior to downloading service proxy's, this addresses a long
standing security issue with service lookup while significantly improving
performance under some use cases.
* Security fixes for SSL endpoints, updated to TLS v1.2 with removal of
support for insecure cyphers.
* Secure TLS SocketFactory's for RMI Registry, uses the currently logged in
Subject for authentication. The RMI Registry still plays a minor role in
service activation, this allows those who still use the Registry to
secure it.
* Maven build to replace existing ant built that uses classdepandjar, a
bytecode dependency analysis build tool.
* Updating the Jini specifications.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 12 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Dan Rollo on Fri Dec 01 2017
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 16 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Dan Rollo at Thu Nov 02 2017
## Releases:
- Last release was River-3.0.0 on Thu Oct 06 2016
## Mailing list activity:
- Relatively quiet.
- dev@river.apache.org:
- 94 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 10 emails sent to list (39 in previous quarter)
- user@river.apache.org:
- 92 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 3 emails sent to list (3 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 1 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 0 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment AY: Report from the Apache RocketMQ Project [Xiaorui Wang]
## Description:
- Apache RocketMQ is a distributed messaging and streaming platform with low
latency, high performance and reliability, trillion-level capacity and
flexible scalability.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- Three projects in GSoC finish second evaluation. one failure due to
student’s not full-time involved, the others passed.
- Apache RocketMQ 4.3 released, in this release, we not only added some new
features such as the transactional message without external dependencies,
but also enhanced some of the original features, such as improved broker
registration performance, added a fast failure mechanism for pulling message
requests. more details see release note,
http://rocketmq.apache.org/release_notes/release-notes-4.3.0/.
- Apache RocketMQ meetup Shenzhen, China.
- Von Gosling presented Apache Way and RocketMQ at QCon Beijing, LinuxCon
Beijing, 2050 Con Hanzhou.
- New two Committers discussion in the PMC.
## Health report:
Within the past three months:
- 48 GitHub pull requests were opened and 41 were closed
- 66 commits were made by 21 authors, 17 authors were not committers
## PMC changes:
- Currently 10 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Bruce Snyder on Wed Sep 20 2017
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 15 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Wei Zhou at Mon Oct 09 2017
## Releases:
- ROCKETMQ-4.3.0 was released on Tue Jul 31 2018
## Mailing list activity:
We have disabled the JIRA system so the issues mailing list has no activity.
- users@rocketmq.apache.org:
- 141 subscribers (up 20 in the last 3 months):
- 112 emails sent to list (80 in previous quarter)
- dev@rocketmq.apache.org:
- 121 subscribers (up 13 in the last 3 months):
- 725 emails sent to list (532 in previous quarter)
- issues@rocketmq.apache.org:
- 58 subscribers (up 8 in the last 3 months):
- 0 emails sent to list (279 in previous quarter)
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Attachment AZ: Report from the Apache Roller Project [David M. Johnson]
## Description:
] 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. Latest release is 5.2.0 and the ASF blog site at blogs.apache.org
runs on Roller 5.1.2 Tomcat and MySQL.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity:
- Some progress made on new Struts-Bootstrap implementation of UI.
- Some progress on bug fixes and small improvements.
## Health report:
- Community is made-up of part-time volunteers with limited time to devote to
Roller.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 5 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Kohei Nozaki on Sun Dec 06 2015
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 8 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Kohei Nozaki at Mon Mar 09 2015
## Releases:
- Last release was 5.2.0 on Sun Nov 05 2017
## Mailing list activity:
Subscriber counts could be taken to mean there is still some interest in
Apache Roller. The low email counts reflec the low level of development and
user-support activity.
- dev@roller.apache.org:
- 154 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 5 emails sent to list (20 in previous quarter)
- user@roller.apache.org:
- 275 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
- 4 emails sent to list (3 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 6 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 4 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment BA: Report from the Apache Santuario Project [Colm O hEigeartaigh]
## Description:
- Library implementing XML Digital Signature Specification & XML Encryption
Specification.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- There were three new releases over the last quarter. Version 2.1.2 of the
XML Security for Java project was released. This contained a number of bug
fixes as well as some enhancements to get the streaming XML Security code
working with MTOM.
There were two new releases of the XML Security for C++ project. Version
2.0.0 was a new major version of the library. A user reported a potential
denial of service attack which was then fixed and released as version 2.0.1.
## Health report:
- Apache Santuario is a mature and stable project that has reached a point
where not too many fixes are required, as it is a set of implementations
of some specifications that are quite old now. It is actively managed by
the PMC.
Some discussion has taken place on the private mailing list to bring some
new members onto the PMC. We expect further action on this over the coming
quarter.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 6 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Marc Giger on Wed Apr 03 2013
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 16 committers.
- No new changes to the committer base since last report.
- Last committer addition was Marc Giger in July 2012.
## Releases:
- Apache Santuario - XML Security for Java 2.1.2 was released on Tue Jun 12
2018
- Apache Santuario XML-Security C++ 2.0.0 was released on Tue Jun 26 2018
- Apache Santuario XML-Security C++ 2.0.1 was released on Thu Aug 02 2018
## JIRA activity:
- 6 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 7 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment BB: Report from the Apache Serf Project [Bert Huijben]
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Attachment BC: Report from the Apache SIS Project [Martin Desruisseaux]
## Description:
Apache Spatial Information System (SIS) is a Java library for developing
geospatial applications. SIS enables better representation of spatial objects
for searching, archiving, or other relevant spatial needs. The base of the SIS
library is modelled according international standards published jointly by the
Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and the International Organization for
Standardization (ISO).
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
Commits in the last months include work in the storage of geographic features
in database, addition of Mollweide projection, improvement of JSR-363 (Units
of Measurement) implementation. We still have a few regressions to fix before
we can release SIS 1.0.
The Google Summer of Code project [1] is close to completion. Integration into
Apache SIS code base has not yet started (except for small parts), but we hope
to do that before the end of this year.
The source code repository migrated from Subversion to Git. We received a
first GitHub pull request from a student of San-Francisco.
Not an Apache SIS activity but related: the most well-known open source
library in Apache SIS domain, GDAL/Proj4, raised $144,000 for resolving some
long-standing problems in their library [2]. Their fund-raising page cites
Apache SIS as a source of inspiration in the "Technical details" section. Most
GDAL/Proj4 problems they want to solve were already resolved in Apache SIS for
years. However GDAL/Proj4 is a C/C++ library (SIS is in Java) and have a much
larger ecosystem of projects using their library, which explain their
capability to raise funds for work that duplicates existing Apache SIS
capabilities. We plan to make a presentation of their work (as observer) in
the Open Geospatial Meeting of September and see if we can converge to some
common API between Apache SIS and Proj4. Following that, we may include this
discussion in the "Which geospatial API for the cloud?" talk at Apache
Conference in Montréal.
## Health report:
The project is reported healthy according the Apache Committee Report Helper.
## PMC changes:
Currently 20 PMC members. No new PMC members added in the last 3 months. Last
PMC addition was Johann Sorel on September 7, 2017.
## Committer base changes:
Currently 21 committers. No new committers added in the last 3 months. Last
committer addition was Johann Sorel at Thu Mar 31 2016.
## Releases:
0.8 was released on November 24, 2017. Next release will be 1.0, maybe in
September.
## Mailing list activity:
dev@sis.apache.org:
* 71 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months):
* 85 emails sent to list (35 in previous quarter)
user@sis.apache.org:
* 48 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
* 3 emails sent to list (15 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
13 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months 9 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in
the last 3 months
[1] https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/a41a 483914623af15106b63c0f5c0d81a233325a57866f042f7844e0@%3Cdev.sis.apache.org%3E
[2] https://gdalbarn.com/
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Attachment BD: Report from the Apache Spark Project [Matei Alexandru Zaharia]
Apache Spark is a fast and general engine for large-scale data processing. It
offers high-level APIs in Java, Scala, Python and R as well as a rich set of
libraries including stream processing, machine learning, and graph analytics.
Project status:
- We made several maintenance releases in the past 3 months,
including Spark 2.3.1, 2.2.2 and 2.1.3, to fix various bugs and
issues present in the past 3 released branches.
- We are close to cutting a branch for Spark 2.4, which will then
go through community testing over the next several weeks to
produce RCs and then the final release. Spark 2.4 is slated to
include several large features, such as a barrier execution mode
to run MPI-like machine learning computations in Spark jobs,
various improvements to the millisecond-latency Continuous
Processing mode for Structured Streaming, and much of the
groundwork for supporting Scala 2.12.
Trademarks:
- We are continuing engagement with various organizations.
Latest releases:
- July 2nd, 2018: Spark 2.2.2
- June 29th, 2018: Spark 2.1.3
- June 8th, 2018: Spark 2.3.1
Committers and PMC:
- The latest committer was added on March 22nd, 2018
(Zhenhua Wang).
- The latest PMC member was added on Jan 12th, 2017
(Xiao Li).
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Attachment BE: Report from the Apache Stanbol Project [Fabian Christ]
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Attachment BF: Report from the Apache Subversion Project [Stefan Sperling]
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 is healthy and active. New features are being designed
and developed, and bug reports are being handled. Our user support
forums (Email and IRC) receive questions and answers regularly.
Our last committer additions happened in October 2017:
Pavel Lyalyakin who has been contributing to the project's website.
Troy Curtis Jr who has been contributing to SVN's Python 3 bindings.
* Releases
We have released Subversion 1.10.2 and 1.9.9 on July 20 2018.
The current supported releases are 1.10.2 and 1.9.9.
Several bug fixes for our stable release series have been proposed,
New patch releases can be expected in the near future.
We have changed our supported release policy. Our plan is to publish
new standard releases (SVN-1.x) every 6 months, with a bug-fix support
period of 12 months. Every 2 years, a long-term support (LTS) release
will be issued which receives bug fixes for a period of 4 years.
Subversion 1.11.0 is therefore expected in October 2018.
Our new release policy is documented in detail here:
https://subversion.apache.org/roadmap.html#release-planning
We have also changed our release signature requirements. Our previous
policy required 6 PGP signatures from PMC members, 3 of which count
for UNIX-like platforms and 3 of which count for Windows platforms.
The new policy requires at least 3 PGP signatures from PMC members,
where at least one signature counts for UNIX-like systems and another
one counts for a Windows system. See https://svn.apache.org/r1835191
and https://svn.apache.org/r1835195 for related changes made to our
policy documentation.
* Trademarks
The PMC has decided against renewing the Japanese trademark
registration for "SUBVERSION" (Reg No.5148681). This trademark
had been registered by CollabNet, Inc.
Corresponding registered trademarks for US and EU are still in place.
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Attachment BG: Report from the Apache Syncope Project [Francesco Chicchiriccò]
## Description:
Apache Syncope is an Open Source system for managing digital identities in
enterprise environments.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
The work for 2.1.0 was finalized.
Maintenance work (with feature addition) keeps going onto the 2_0_X and 2_1_X
branches, which will also likely lead soon to 2.1.1 and 2.0.10 releases.
Discussion around the features to work on next 3.0.0 needs to start on the
dev@.
## Health report:
Discussions about new features and improvements keep appearing and being
followed up in dev@.
Newcomers approach user@ and are getting supported by various members of the
community.
The numbers (ML subscribers and traffic) seem to support these trends.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 12 PMC members.
- Matteo Alessandroni was added as a PMC member on Fri Dec 22 2017
- Last PMC addition: Fri Dec 22 2017 (Matteo Alessandroni)
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 23 committers.
- New commmitters:
- Dima Ayash was added as a committer on Mon Jul 09 2018
- Lorenzo Di Cola was added as a committer on Mon Jul 09 2018
## Releases:
- 2.0.9 was released on Thu Jun 28 2018
- 2.1.0 was released on Thu Jul 05 2018
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Attachment BH: Report from the Apache SystemML Project [Jon Deron Eriksson]
## Description:
SystemML provides declarative large-scale machine learning (ML) that aims at
flexible specification of ML algorithms and automatic generation of hybrid
runtime plans ranging from single node, in-memory computations, to distributed
computations such as Apache Hadoop MapReduce and Apache Spark.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- The latest release, 1.1.0, was approved on March 28, 2018.
- No new committers were added this quarter.
- Release planning for 1.2 was discussed on the mailing list but no action has
been taken so far.
## Health report:
- Code activity is healthy with 232 commits in the last 3 months.
- Community growth is relatively healthy with our last new committer approved
in March.
- Communication is healthy on pull requests. Communication on the mailing list
is down but there were still 61 emails sent to the list this quarter.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 23 PMC members.
- No new PMC members have been added since we became a top-level project.
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 25 committers.
- Janardhan Pulivarthi was added as a committer on March 19, 2018.
## Releases:
- Version 1.1.0 was released on March 28, 2018.
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Attachment BI: Report from the Apache Traffic Control Project [David Neuman]
## Description:
- Apache Traffic Control can be used to build, monitor, configure, and
provision a large-scale content delivery network (CDN).
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity:
- Worked on defining scope and cadence for Traffic Control 3.0 release
- Started discussing a fall summit to get everyone together
- Named two new committers (Rawlin Peter and Dylan Volz)
- Identified the need for a 2.1 release, will work our RM to make it happen
## Health report:
- The project is healthy
## PMC changes:
- Currently 13 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 20 committers.
- New commmitters:
- Dylan Volz was added as a committer on Mon Jul 23 2018
- Rawlin Peters was added as a committer on Mon Jul 23 2018
## Releases:
- apache-trafficcontrol-2.2.0 was released on Mon Jun 25 2018
## Mailing list activity:
- Mailing list activity remains healthy. Since we had a release last month,
we can see that the dev@ posts are down and the users@ posts are up. This
is a sign of users deploying the new release.
- users@trafficcontrol.apache.org:
- 101 subscribers (up 10 in the last 3 months, 6 in the last month)
- 21 emails sent in the last month, 1 in the month prior
- dev@trafficcontrol.apache.org:
- 95 subscribers (up 3 in the last 3 months, 2 in the last month)
- 18 emails sent to the list (57 sent in the month prior)
## GitHub activity:
- 80 Pull requests submitted in the last 30 days (93 in the month prior)
- 80 Pull Requests merged in the last 30 days (85 in the month prior)
- 51 issues created in the last 30 days (27 in the month prior)
- 46 issues closed in the last 30 days(23 in the month prior)
- 214 stars on the Traffic Control repo
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Attachment BJ: Report from the Apache Turbine Project [Georg Kallidis]
## Description:
- 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.
## Issues:
- No board-level issues at this time.
## Activity:
- Git-Write migration of Turbine archetype subproject finished successfully.
- Some Bug reporting on mailing list.
- Turbine 5.0 major upgrade in progress: First commits + discussion started.
- Apache Db Torque ORM support request accepted ( related to Fulcrum Security
Torque ).
## Health report:
- The Turbine project has had a well above noise quarter activity.
- Code changes in Turbine Core/Fulcrum Components subprojects let expect one
or more releases in the next quarter(s).
- Need for active volunteers exist (e.g. documentation / module clean up),
but (community) collaboration is evident in dev mailing list discussion and
code changes.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 9 PMC members.
- Last PMC addition was Jeffery Painter on Sun Nov 12 2017.
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 11 committers.
- No new changes to the committer base since last report.
- Last committer addition was more than 2 years ago.
## Releases:
- Last release was Turbine 4.0.1 on Mon Mar 05 2018.
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Attachment BK: Report from the Apache Usergrid Project [Todd Nine]
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Attachment BL: Report from the Apache Velocity Project [Nathan Bubna]
## Description:
- Java-based template engine
## Issues:
- No issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- Moderate. Discussion on upcoming Tools release and various security risks
from dependencies.
## Health report:
- Project is stable and quiet. Maintenance issues and user questions are all
handled promptly, developers are talking, but no work happened.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 9 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Michael Osipov on Thu Jul 27 2017
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 14 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Michael Osipov at Mon Jan 30 2017
## Releases:
- None this period.
- Last release was Engine 2.0 GA, Aug 6, 2017.
## Mailing list activity:
- Lists are fairly quiet. Most users either don't have questions or find
answers on Stack Overflow.
- Developers discussing Tools 3 and dependency issues.
- dev@velocity.apache.org:
- 120 subscribers (down -3 in the last 3 months):
- 117 emails sent to list (14 in previous quarter)
- general@velocity.apache.org:
- 73 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 4 emails sent to list (4 in previous quarter)
- user@velocity.apache.org:
- 288 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
- 5 emails sent to list (7 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 8 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 31 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment BM: Report from the Apache Whimsy Project [Sam Ruby]
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Attachment BN: Report from the Apache Xalan Project [Steven J. Hathaway]
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Attachment BO: Report from the Apache Xerces Project [Michael Glavassevich]
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Attachment BP: Report from the Apache XML Graphics Project [Clay Leeds]
RE-SEND - now indicates 3 releases (previously 'buried' within XML Graphics
Project report)
## Description:
- 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:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- Three (3) releases during this period, one for each sub project
## Health:
- The level of community and developer activity remains at a
low level for a relatively mature product, albeit one
with a fair number of outstanding unresolved issues.
## PMC:
- No new PMC member during this period.
- Currently 11 PMC members.
- Last PMC addition was Simon Steiner on Jan 19 2016
## Committers:
- No new committer during this period.
- Currently 21 committers.
- Last committer addition was Matthias Reischenbacher, May 2015
## Releases:
- XMLGraphics Commons 2.2 was released on Mon May 23 2018
- XMLGraphics FOP 2.3 was released on Mon May 24 2018
- XMLGraphics Batik 1.10 was released on Tue May 23 2018
## Mailing Lists:
- Mailing lists has similar traffic to last period.
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