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Board of Directors Meeting Minutes
December 19, 2018
1. Call to order
The meeting was scheduled for 10:30am Pacific and began at 10:31
when a sufficient attendance to constitute a quorum was
recognized by the chairman.
Other Time Zones: https://timeanddate.com/s/3q86
The meeting was held via teleconference, hosted by Doug Cutting
and Cloudera.
IRC #asfboard on irc.freenode.net was used for backup purposes.
2. Roll Call
Directors Present:
Rich Bowen
Shane Curcuru
Bertrand Delacretaz
Isabel Drost-Fromm
Ted Dunning
Brett Porter
Roman Shaposhnik
Phil Steitz
Mark Thomas
Directors Absent:
none
Executive Officers Present:
Ross Gardler
Tom Pappas
Sam Ruby
Daniel Ruggeri
Matt Sicker
Executive Officers Absent:
Craig L Russell
Ulrich Stärk
Guests:
Daniel Gruno
Greg Stein
Jim Jagielski
Karen Miller
Kevin A. McGrail
Sally Khudairi
3. Minutes from previous meetings
Published minutes can be found at:
http://www.apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html
A. The meeting of November 21, 2018
See: board_minutes_2018_11_21.txt
Approved by General Consent.
4. Executive Officer Reports
A. Chairman [Phil]
This month, we continued some important discussions on where we are
going as a foundation, how we are going to operate and how Officers
and Directors should represent the foundation externally. We
continued slow progress on the 5-year plan update. My hope is that in
the coming month, we will make enough progress that as we enter budget
planning for the next fiscal year, we will have consensus views on
what our priorities are and we can use the draft plan update as a
guide in making budget decisions.
This month we received very good reports from Beam, Incubator, Olingo
and Pulsar. PMC chairs and other interested community members are
encouraged to look at these reports as examples of the kinds of things
we like to see in project reports. Comments this month focused on the
usual topics, reminding PMCs to discuss issues that we had seen on
private or dev lists, keeping things that can be public public, and
making sure that synchronous meetings get reported back to public
lists.
Best wishes to all for a joyous holiday season and many, many thanks
to all whose volunteer efforts have made this a great year for the
ASF!
B. President [Sam]
Overall, we continue to be significantly under budget in expenditures,
and ahead of plan in terms of income.
Brand Management is operating normally, and Finance has been quiet.
While I expect most areas input to to the upcoming five year plan to
be incremental changes, this will not be the case for Fundraising
where the team has been building an entirely new plan. Expect a draft
of that plan to be posted to board@, most likely by the end of the
year.
Additionally, please see Attachments 1 through 7.
C. Treasurer [Ulrich]
Operating Cash on Nov 30th, 2018 was $2,205.9K, which is up $36.4K
from last month's ending balance (Oct 18) of $2,169.5K. Total Cash
as of Nov 30th, 2018 is $3,599.8K ( includes the Pineapple and
restricted Donation) as compared to $1,611.7K on Nov 30th 2017. The
Nov 2018 ending Operating cash balance of $2,205.9K represents an
Operating cash reserve of 14 months based on the FY19 conservative
Cash forecast average monthly spending of $157.4K/month. The ASF
actual Operating reserve of 14 months at the end of Nov 2018 is ahead
of the budgeted 10.5 month reserve for YTD through Nov 2018. The ASF
Operating reserve continues to be very healthy for an organization of
the ASF' s size and Operating activity.
Reviewing the YTD Cash P&L, total Income, was ahead of FY 18, at this
point in the Fiscal year by $12.2K . As compared to the FY 19
Budgeted Income, YTD, we are ahead by $345.3K.
YTD expenses, through Nov 30th, 2018 are under budget by $254.1K. All
depts. are under budget, at the end of Nov 2018. There are still a
couple items worth mentioning, one being Infra, as noted in the Board
summary is $141.4K under budget due to the timing of hiring of staff
and not having to pay any Lease web invoices YTD. The other being TAC
at $45K under budget YTD for FY19. We have moved most of the dept
underspending forward in the Cash forecast and will be reviewing the
underspending with the departments as we move forward in FY19 Q3.
Regarding Net Income (NI), YTD FY 19 the ASF finished with a positive
$135.9K NI vs a budgeted negative <$463.5K> NI or $599.4K ahead of
Budget, NI, for FY19 at this point in the Fiscal year. This is
attributable to timing of some Sponsor payments offset by more
Donations than were budgeted as well as underspending in all depts
YTD, vs the FY19 Budget. At this point in the FY we are doing very
well, ahead in Revenue and well under budget in Expenses, even taking
timing variances into account. We will continue to monitor this as we
move further into FY19. With regard to FY18, we are outpacing revenue
but are also out pacing expenses ($230.2K), and therefore trailing NI
year over year, by $-218K, but again significantly ahead of FY19
budget in all categories.
Current Balances:
Boston Private CDARS Account 2,250,000.00
Citizens Money Aprket 1,066,750.68
Citizens Checking 281,663.74
Paypal - ASF 1,402.83
Total Checking/Savings 3,599,817.25
Nov-18 Budget Variance
Income Summary:
Inkind Revenue 0.00 0.00 0.00
Public Donations 7,504.09 7,828.94 -324.85
Sponsorship Program 105,000.00 20,000.00 85,000.00
Programs Income 0.00 0.00 0.00
Conference/Event Income 20,000.00 0.00 20,000.00
Other Income 0.00 0.00 0.00
Interest Income 679.97 1,444.93 -764.96
Total Income 133,184.06 29,273.87 103,910.19
Expense SumApry:
In Kind Expense 0.00 0.00 0.00
Infrastructure 50,335.96 78,128.32 -27,792.36
Programs Expense 0.00 0.00 0.00
Publicity 21,330.77 12,896.21 8,434.56
Brand Management 5,117.09 8,166.67 -3,049.58
Conferences 4,590.06 0.00 4,590.06
Travel Assistance Committee 0.00 0.00 0.00
Fundraising 11,257.67 17,333.34 -6,075.67
Treasury Services 3,350.00 3,475.00 -125.00
General & Administrative 1,773.28 2,137.15 -363.87
Total Expense 97,754.83 122,136.69 -24,381.86
Net Income 35,429.23 -92,862.82 128,292.05
YTD FY19 Budget Variance
Income Summary:
Inkind Revenue 0.00 0.00 0.00
Public Donations 142,032.14 39,459.31 102,572.83
Sponsorship Program 680,371.47 500,000.00 180,371.47
Programs Income 17,200.00 14,400.00 2,800.00
Conference/Event Income 248,227.95 184,000.00 64,227.95
Other Income 0.00 0.00 0.00
Interest Income 3,682.59 8,387.70 -4,705.11
Total Income 1,091,514.15 746,247.01 345,267.14
Expense SumApry:
In Kind Expense 0.00 0.00 0.00
Infrastructure 433,498.46 574,898.24 -141,399.78
Programs Expense 0.00 4,400.00 -4,400.00
Publicity 157,093.10 164,318.98 -7,225.88
Brand Management 36,992.59 57,166.69 -20,174.10
Conferences 197,012.10 200,000.00 -2,987.90
Travel Assistance Committee 0.00 45,000.00 -45,000.00
Fundraising 94,578.23 121,333.38 -26,755.15
Treasury Services 26,085.00 26,475.00 -390.00
General & Administrative 10,362.62 16,143.08 -5,780.46
Total Expense 955,622.10 1,209,735.37 -254,113.27
Net Income 135,892.05 -463,488.36 599,380.41
D. Secretary [Craig]
In November, 101 ICLAs and three grants were received and filed.
E. Executive Vice President [Ross]
Infrastructure
=============
Infrastructure is operating as expected.
Hiring remains a focus - there are many resumes to review.
GitBox migration is now active. Migration is currently voluntary, but
the expectation that it will become mandatory has been set. There is
currently no date upon which migration becomes mandatory.
Marketing and Publicity
=======================
Sally continues to handle sponsor outreach and renewal activities.
$593K secured in annual renewals thus far (excludes multi-year
invoicing/payments).
Individual Giving campaign launched
(https://s.apache.org/9cCy) during the Giving Tuesday global movement.
745 individuals donated nearly $80K since the program's launch last
year.
Q2 FY2019 quarterly report has also been published
https://s.apache.org/d2Fq .
Conferences
===========
Planning to open ACNA19 CFP in January.
Projects are invited to run their own
mini-conference/track/summit/other as we continue our march towards
ApacheCon being a convention of project conferences. 6 projects or
topic communities have responded so far.
ACEU19 planning has resumed, Myrle Krantz is leading the effort. The
event will be held in Berlin at the Kulturbrauerei.
The DC Roadshow (lead Kevin McGrail) has been rescheduled for Monday,
March 25th, 2019. We hope to re-launch promotion for this event soon.
Chicago Roadshow (lead Trevor Grant) on schedule for May 13-14 2019,
in Logan Square.
Travel Assistance Committee
===========================
No report submitted at the time of writing. However, I am aware of a
conversation regarding the provision of funds for a specific minority
group. Initially the TAC rejected this on the grounds that the
committee and process is not setup to allow such targeting. However, a
proposal has been made that would appear to add no significant
overhead on the TAC community and preserves the existing evaluation
criteria. This is still under consideration.
F. Vice Chairman [Shane]
No activities taken this month.
Executive officer reports approved as submitted by General Consent.
5. Additional Officer Reports
A. VP of W3C Relations [Andy Seaborne / Shane]
See Attachment 8
B. Apache Legal Affairs Committee [Roman Shaposhnik]
See Attachment 9
C. Apache Security Team Project [Mark J. Cox / Isabel]
See Attachment 10
D. VP of Data Privacy [Chris Mattmann / Bertrand]
No report was submitted.
Additional officer reports approved as submitted by General Consent.
6. Committee Reports
Summary of Reports
The following reports required further discussion:
# Fundraising [rs]
# Gump [rs]
# ServiceMix [rb]
A. Apache Allura Project [David Philip Brondsema / Rich]
See Attachment A
B. Apache Any23 Project [Lewis John McGibbney / Roman]
No report was submitted.
C. Apache Archiva Project [Olivier Lamy / Mark]
See Attachment C
D. Apache Atlas Project [Madhan Neethiraj / Brett]
See Attachment D
E. Apache Aurora Project [Jake Farrell / Phil]
No report was submitted.
F. Apache Axis Project [Robert Lazarski / Ted]
See Attachment F
G. Apache Bahir Project [Luciano Resende / Mark]
See Attachment G
H. Apache Beam Project [Kenneth Knowles / Shane]
See Attachment H
I. Apache Bigtop Project [Youngwoo Kim / Roman]
See Attachment I
J. Apache Bloodhound Project [Gary Martin / Bertrand]
No report was submitted.
K. Apache BVal Project [Matthew Jason Benson / Isabel]
See Attachment K
L. Apache Camel Project [Andrea Cosentino / Brett]
See Attachment L
M. Apache Cayenne Project [Michael Ray Gentry / Rich]
See Attachment M
N. Apache Chemistry Project [Florian Müller / Ted]
See Attachment N
O. Apache CloudStack Project [Mike Tutkowski / Phil]
See Attachment O
P. Apache Commons Project [Gary D. Gregory / Phil]
No report was submitted.
Q. Apache Cordova Project [Shazron Abdullah / Roman]
See Attachment Q
R. Apache cTAKES Project [Pei Chen / Isabel]
See Attachment R
S. Apache Curator Project [Jordan Zimmerman / Ted]
See Attachment S
T. Apache Eagle Project [Edward Zhang / Bertrand]
See Attachment T
U. Apache Falcon Project [Pallavi Rao / Shane]
See Attachment U
V. Apache Felix Project [Karl Pauls / Mark]
See Attachment V
W. Apache Flex Project [Tom Chiverton / Rich]
No report was submitted.
X. Apache Flink Project [Stephan Ewen / Brett]
See Attachment X
Y. Apache Griffin Project [William Guo / Mark]
See Attachment Y
Z. Apache Guacamole Project [Mike Jumper / Brett]
See Attachment Z
AA. Apache Gump Project [Stefan Bodewig / Roman]
See Attachment AA
AB. Apache Hama Project [Chia-Hung Lin / Rich]
No report was submitted.
AC. Apache HAWQ Project [Lei Chang / Phil]
See Attachment AC
AD. Apache Helix Project [Kishore G / Bertrand]
No report was submitted.
AE. Apache Hive Project [Ashutosh Chauhan / Ted]
See Attachment AE
AF. Apache Incubator Project [Justin Mclean / Shane]
See Attachment AF
AG. Apache Jackrabbit Project [Michael Dürig / Isabel]
See Attachment AG
AH. Apache Joshua Project [Tommaso Teofili / Bertrand]
See Attachment AH
AI. Apache Karaf Project [Jean-Baptiste Onofré / Brett]
See Attachment AI
AJ. Apache Labs Project [Danny Angus / Shane]
No report was submitted.
AK. Apache Lucene Project [Adrien Grand / Roman]
See Attachment AK
AL. Apache Lucene.Net Project [Shad Storhaug / Ted]
No report was submitted.
AM. Apache Mnemonic Project [Gang Wang / Mark]
See Attachment AM
AN. Apache Mynewt Project [Justin Mclean / Phil]
See Attachment AN
AO. Apache OFBiz Project [Jacopo Cappellato / Isabel]
See Attachment AO
AP. Apache Olingo Project [Michael Bolz / Rich]
See Attachment AP
AQ. Apache OODT Project [Imesha Sudasingha / Phil]
See Attachment AQ
AR. Apache Open Climate Workbench Project [Michael James Joyce / Shane]
See Attachment AR
AS. Apache OpenNLP Project [Jörn Kottmann / Ted]
See Attachment AS
AT. Apache OpenWebBeans Project [Mark Struberg / Bertrand]
See Attachment AT
AU. Apache Pig Project [Koji Noguchi / Roman]
See Attachment AU
AV. Apache Pivot Project [Roger Lee Whitcomb / Mark]
See Attachment AV
AW. Apache Polygene Project [Jiri Jetmar / Isabel]
No report was submitted.
AX. Apache Portable Runtime (APR) Project [Nick Kew / Brett]
See Attachment AX
AY. Apache Portals Project [David Sean Taylor / Rich]
See Attachment AY
AZ. Apache PredictionIO Project [Donald Szeto / Bertrand]
See Attachment AZ
BA. Apache Pulsar Project [Matteo Merli / Ted]
See Attachment BA
BB. Apache Royale Project [Harbs / Phil]
No report was submitted.
BC. Apache Sentry Project [Alex Kolbasov / Brett]
See Attachment BC
BD. Apache ServiceComb Project [Willem Ning Jiang / Roman]
See Attachment BD
BE. Apache ServiceMix Project [Krzysztof Sobkowiak / Mark]
See Attachment BE
BF. Apache Shiro Project [Les Hazlewood / Shane]
No report was submitted.
BG. Apache Sling Project [Robert Munteanu / Rich]
See Attachment BG
BH. Apache SpamAssassin Project [Sidney Markowitz / Isabel]
See Attachment BH
BI. Apache Stanbol Project [Fabian Christ / Mark]
No report was submitted.
BJ. Apache Storm Project [P. Taylor Goetz / Roman]
See Attachment BJ
BK. Apache Synapse Project [Isuru Udana / Brett]
See Attachment BK
BL. Apache Tajo Project [Hyunsik Choi / Shane]
No report was submitted.
BM. Apache Tiles Project [Michael Semb Wever / Isabel]
See Attachment BM
BN. Apache Tomcat Project [Mladen Turk / Ted]
See Attachment BN
BO. Apache Trafodion Project [Pierre Smits / Rich]
See Attachment BO
BP. Apache Twill Project [Terence Yim / Bertrand]
No report was submitted.
BQ. Apache UIMA Project [Marshall Schor / Phil]
See Attachment BQ
BR. Apache VCL Project [Josh Thompson / Rich]
See Attachment BR
BS. Apache Whimsy Project [Sam Ruby / Ted]
See Attachment BS
BT. Apache Wicket Project [Martijn Dashorst / Roman]
See Attachment BT
BU. Apache Xalan Project [Steven J. Hathaway / Bertrand]
No report was submitted.
BV. Apache Xerces Project [Michael Glavassevich / Brett]
See Attachment BV
BW. Apache XML Graphics Project [Clay Leeds / Phil]
See Attachment BW
BX. Apache Yetus Project [Allen Wittenauer / Isabel]
See Attachment BX
BY. Apache ZooKeeper Project [Flavio Paiva Junqueira / Shane]
See Attachment BY
Committee reports approved as submitted by General Consent.
7. Special Orders
A. Change the Apache Gora Project Chair
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Lewis John McGibbney
(lewismc) to the office of Vice President, Apache Gora, and
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation
of Lewis John McGibbney from the office of Vice President, Apache Gora,
and
WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Gora
project has chosen by vote to recommend Kevin Ratnasekera (djkevincr) as
the successor to the post;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Lewis John McGibbney is relieved and
discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office
of Vice President, Apache Gora, and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Kevin Ratnasekera be and hereby is
appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Gora, 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 Gora Project Chair, was
approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
B. Change the Apache Open Climate Workbench (OCW) Project Chair
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Michael James Joyce
(joyce) to the office of Vice President, Apache OCW, and
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation
of Michael James Joyce from the office of Vice President, Apache OCW,
and
WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache OCW
project has chosen by vote to recommend Huikyo Lee (huikyole) as
the successor to the post;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Michael James Joyce is relieved and
discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office
of Vice President, Apache OCW, and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Huikyo Lee be and hereby is
appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache OCW, to
serve in accordance with and subject to the direction of the
Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until
death, resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification, or
until a successor is appointed.
Special Order 7B, Change the Apache Open Climate Workbench
(OCW) Project Chair, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the
directors present.
C. Terminate the Apache Polygene Project
WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Polygene
project has chosen by vote to recommend moving the project to the
Attic; and
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors deems it no longer in the best
interest of the Foundation to continue the Apache Polygene project
due to inactivity;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Apache Polygene
project is hereby terminated; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the Attic PMC be and hereby is tasked with
oversight over the software developed by the Apache Polygene
Project; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache Polygene" is
hereby terminated; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the Apache Polygene PMC is hereby terminated.
Special Order 7C, Terminate the Apache Polygene Project, was
approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
D. Change the Apache Calcite Project Chair
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Michael Mior
(mmior) to the office of Vice President, Apache Calcite, and
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of Michael
Mior from the office of Vice President, Apache Calcite, and
WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Calcite project has
chosen by vote to recommend Francis Chuang (francischuang) as the successor to
the post;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Michael Mior is relieved and discharged
from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice President, Apache
Calcite, and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Francis Chuang be and hereby is appointed to the
office of Vice President, Apache Calcite, to serve in accordance with and
subject to the direction of the Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the
Foundation until death, resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification,
or until a successor is appointed.
Special Order 7D, Change the Apache Calcite Project Chair, was
approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
E. Terminate the Apache Tiles Project
WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Tiles
project has chosen by vote to recommend moving the project to the
Attic; and
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors deems it no longer in the best
interest of the Foundation to continue the Apache Tiles project
due to inactivity;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Apache Tiles
project is hereby terminated; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the Attic PMC be and hereby is tasked with
oversight over the software developed by the Apache Tiles
Project; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache Tiles" is
hereby terminated; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the Apache Tiles PMC is hereby terminated.
Special Order 7E, Terminate the Apache Tiles Project, was
approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
F. Establish the Apache Airflow 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 workflow automation and scheduling
that can be used to author and manage data pipelines.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management
Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Apache Airflow Project",
be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the
Foundation; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the Apache Airflow Project be and hereby is
responsible for the creation and maintenance of software
related to workflow automation and scheduling that can be
used to author and manage data pipelines; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache Airflow" 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 Airflow Project, and to have primary responsibility
for management of the projects within the scope of
responsibility of the Apache Airflow 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 Airflow Project:
* Alex Guziel <saguziel@apache.org>
* Alex Van Boxel <alexvanboxel@apache.org>
* Arthur Wiedmer <arthur@apache.org>
* Ash Berlin-Taylor <ash@apache.org>
* Bolke de Bruin <bolke@apache.org>
* Chris Riccomini <criccomini@apache.org>
* Dan Davydov <davydov@apache.org>
* Fokko Driesprong <fokko@apache.org>
* Hitesh Shah <hitesh@apache.org>
* Jakob Homan <jghoman@apache.org>
* Jeremiah Lowin <jlowin@apache.org>
* Joy Gao <joygao@apache.org>
* Kaxil Naik <kaxilnaik@apache.org>
* Maxime Beauchemin <maximebeauchemin@apache.org>
* Siddharth Anand <sanand@apache.org>
* Sumit Maheshwari <msumit@apache.org>
* Tao Feng <tfeng@apache.org>
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Bolke de Bruin
be appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Airflow, to
serve in accordance with and subject to the direction of the
Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until
death, resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification,
or until a successor is appointed; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the Apache Airflow Project be and hereby
is tasked with the migration and rationalization of the Apache
Incubator Airflow podling; and be it further
RESOLVED, that all responsibilities pertaining to the Apache
Incubator Airflow podling encumbered upon the Apache Incubator
Project are hereafter discharged.
Special Order 7F, Establish the Apache Airflow Project, was
approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
G. Change the Apache Lucene Project Chair
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Adrien Grand
(jpountz) to the office of Vice President, Apache Lucene, and
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of Adrien
Grand from the office of Vice President, Apache Lucene, and
WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Lucene project has
chosen by vote to recommend Cassandra Targett (ctargett) as the successor to
the post;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Adrien Grand is relieved and discharged
from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice President, Apache
Lucene, and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Cassandra Targett be and hereby is appointed to
the office of Vice President, Apache Lucene, 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 7G, Change the Apache Lucene Project Chair, was
approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
H. Change the Apache Cordova Project Chair
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Shazron Abdullah
(shazron) to the office of Vice President, Apache Cordova, and
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of
Shazron Abdullah from the office of Vice President, Apache Cordova, and
WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Cordova project
has chosen by vote to recommend Jesse MacFadyen (purplecabbage) as the
successor to the post;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Shazron Abdullah is relieved and
discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice
President, Apache Cordova, and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Jesse MacFadyen be and hereby is appointed
to the office of Vice President, Apache Cordova, 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 7H, Change the Apache Cordova Project Chair, was
approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
I. Change the Apache Fineract Project Chair
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Myrle Krantz
(myrle) to the office of Vice President, Apache Fineract, and
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of
Myrle Krantz from the office of Vice President, Apache Fineract, and
WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Fineract
project has chosen by vote to recommend Vishwas Babu A J (vishwasbabu)
as the successor to the post;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Myrle Krantz is relieved and
discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice
President, Apache Fineract, and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Vishwas Babu A J be and hereby is
appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Fineract, 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 7I, Change the Apache Fineract Project Chair,
was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
8. Discussion Items
9. Review Outstanding Action Items
* Phil: work with infrastructure (Greg) on plans for projects with
extraordinary requirements
[ Action Items 2018-05-16 ]
Status:
* Jim: perhaps the httpd project would be willing to adopt mod_perl as a
[ Perl 2018-08-15 ]
Status: As reported last 2 months, the httpd project would be willing
to take over some parts of the project, but not the entire
project. This was relayed to the Perl PMC. No response as of
this date. I consider this action CLOSED.
* Rich: pursue a report for Lucene.Net
[ Lucene.Net 2018-09-19 ]
Status: Sent a reminder. They haven't reported since June, when Shad
was made chair.
* Roman: is this project still viable?
[ Stanbol 2018-09-19 ]
Status:
* Roman: help the project with their request to add new pmc/committers
[ Xalan 2018-09-19 ]
Status:
* Phil: document process of reinstatement of emeritus members
[ Bylaws 4.5: Reinstatement of Membership of Emeritus Members 2018-09-19 ]
Status:
* Board: review CCLA discussion on legal-internal and provide input as
[ Legal Affairs 2018-11-21 ]
Status:
* Phil: draft strongly worded message on board list to PMCs that have
[ Security Team 2018-11-21 ]
Status: complete: Messages were sent on 12/13.
* Brett: follow up with Cocoon to encourage a release
[ Cocoon 2018-11-21 ]
Status:
* Sally: work with Sam and Tom to request more budget for stickers for events
[ Community Development 2018-11-21 ]
Status:
* Rich: follow up with the PMC and get a report next month
[ Hama 2018-11-21 ]
Status: Chia-Hung acknowledged on list that their November report was
rejected, but there doesn't appear to be any motion on writing
a report for December. Chia-Hung suggested possibly looking
for a new chair.
* Shane: pursue a report for HAWQ
[ HAWQ 2018-11-21 ]
Status: Done: They've reported.
* Mark: work to verify adequate oversight by PMC
[ Juneau 2018-11-21 ]
Status: Complete. Oversight confirmed via vote on 7.2.2 release on
November.
* Rich: pursue a report for Open Climate Workbench
[ Open Climate Workbench 2018-11-21 ]
Status: New chair resolution is in agenda. PMC pinged again - Shane.
* Bertrand: pursue a report for Polygene
[ Polygene 2018-11-21 ]
Status: done, Attic resolution is in
* Roman: work with the community on retiring Xalan
[ Xalan 2018-11-21 ]
Status:
* Rich: pursue a report for Xerces
[ Xerces 2018-11-21 ]
Status: Complete: Report was received.
* Mark: pursue a report for XML Graphics
[ XML Graphics 2018-11-21 ]
Status: Complete. We have a report for December. For the record, the
project did this without any prompting from me.
10. Unfinished Business
11. New Business
12. Announcements
13. Adjournment
Adjourned at 11:48 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
Responded to the following queries, liaising with projects as required:
- naming of local user group
- guidelines for 'founding individuals' (thanks Sally for providing the answer
we could point to)
- using logos in a presentation
- Kafka Summit
* REGISTRATIONS
No new registrations. Worked with counsel on responses to office actions for a
number of in-progress registrations.
* INFRINGEMENTS
Work continues to address a number of potential infringements.
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Attachment 2: Report from the VP of Fundraising [Daniel Ruggeri]
Fundraising continues well financially.
Our monthly committee meetings continue and our next meeting is on the 10th of
January and guests are welcome.
Financially, we continue to add more sponsors and fundraising goals are being
met or exceeded. With being under budget, gaining more sponsors and some
early sponsor payments, we are now $600K ahead of budget based on Net Income
for the Fiscal Year to Date with 10.5 months of reserves in our operating
accounts plus additional monies from Pineapple and the restricted donation
earmarked for the endowment.
An initial prospectus for ApacheCon EU 2019 was sent and we are currently
working on verbals for 4 platinum sponsors. Fundraising for ApacheCon EU 2019
and a Roadshow Event in Chicago as well as a combined event in Spain is also
under way. The DC Event has a new date of March 25th.
We encourage you to visit http://www.apache.org/foundation/thanks.html and
thank our sponsors any time the opportunity arises. As a charity, we rely
completely on their altruism.
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Attachment 3: Report from the VP of Marketing and Publicity [Sally Khudairi]
[REPORT] ASF Marketing & Publicity - December 2018
I. Budget: we are on budget and on schedule, with no vendor payments
outstanding.
II. Cross-committee Liaison: Sally Khudairi continues Sponsor outreach and
renewal activities, with $593K secured in annual renewals thus far (excludes
multi-year invoicing/payments). The annual Individual Giving campaign launched
https://s.apache.org/9cCy during the Giving Tuesday global movement. 745
individuals donated nearly $80K since the program's launch last year. The
latest "Success at Apache" post, "Cookie Monster", is live at
https://s.apache.org/cnSe . The Q2 FY2019 quarterly report has also been
published https://s.apache.org/d2Fq .
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: 7 items were published on the ASF "Foundation"
Blog. 4 Apache News Round-ups were issued, with a total of 230 weekly
summaries published to date. We tweeted 12 items, and have 51K followers on
Twitter, following the bot purge adjustment. We also hit a technical snag the
weekend before the "Individual Giving" campaign where Twitter's algorithms
caused our account to be shut down. Thanks to assistance from Jim Jagielski,
Saša Gargenta, Remy DeCausemaker, Ignasi Barrera, and Mohammad Almalkawi, our
account was restored just in time for Giving Tuesday. In addition, We posted 8
items on LinkedIn, which garnered more than 43.4K organic impressions.
V. Future Announcements: 4 announcements are 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 2 media queries. The ASF received 1,385
press clips vs. last month's clip count of 1,236. Media coverage of Apache
projects yielded 2,955 press hits vs. last month's 3.024. ApacheCon received 2
press hits.
VII. Analyst Relations: we received 3 analyst queries during this time. Apache
was mentioned in 4 reports by Gartner; 2 reports by Forrester; 2 reports by
451 Research; and 3 reports by IDC.
VIII. Graphics: planning for promotional materials, creative assets, and
Website refresh for the ASF's 20th Anniversary is underway. Sally created
high-resolution graphics for a print article in JAX Magazine, as well as
supporting images for a keynote presentation for Flink Forward China. The
images were generated by the analytics provided by Snoot.
IX. Events liaison: no third party events are planned at this time, however,
we are beginning to work with Virtual on ApacheCon North America 2019 and
newthinking for ApacheCon Europe 2019. Sally worked with ASF Secretary Craig
Russell on securing and creating his keynote presentation for Flink Forward
China, as well as the conference producers to ensure that they were in
compliance with the ASF’s policies on Apache project brand usage.
X. Newswire accounts: we have 4 pre-paid press releases remaining in our
contract with GlobeNewswire, which will auto-renew through December 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.
Short Term Priorities
=====================
- Move from HipChat over to Slack. We are signed into both platforms,
but much of our day-to-day work is still on HipChat.
- Perform a Jenkins/plugins upgrade.
- Hire new people.
Long Range Priorities
=====================
- Move to new email infrastructure.
General Activity
================
- GitBox migration is now active. Projects have been told they "must"
move eventually, and we're taking volunteers right now. Each
community can vote when a move is best for them, and we will migrate
them. When the flow of volunteers slows, we'll put out another call
and/or suggest a deadline when we'll perform a mandatory migration.
- Reviewing a huge number of resumes.
- Continued movement to rsync-based backups, so we can avoid paying
for a Zmanda license in January.
- The AOO wiki and forums have been migrated to new cloud hardware
(away from our VMware hosts at OSU/OSL), newer software, and the old
stuff has been decommissioned.
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Attachment 5: Report from the VP of Conferences [Rich Bowen]
ACNA19
This month we have made good progress towards ApacheCon North America
2019. Meetings have started with our producer. We are hoping to open
the CFP in January, as we're waiting for a new version of the CFP
system from our vendor.
We reached out to projects to offer them the opportunity to run their
own mini-conference, track, summit, or whatever they choose to call
it, as part of our event, as we continue our march towards ApacheCon
being a convention of project conferences. We have received requests
from 6 projects or topic communities, plus at least one which is
discussing it on their mailing list. Once we have a track/room grid
documented, we'll begin slotting these into the available space.
ACEU19
Meetings have resumed with our producer for ApacheCon Europe 2019.
Myrle Krantz is leading that effort, and is working with our producer
to nail down details. The event will be held in Berlin at the
Kulturbrauerei where we held our 2018 EU event.
DC Roadshow
The DC Roadshow has been rescheduled for Monday, March 25th, 2019. We
hope to re-launch promotion for this event soon.
Kevin McGrail is the lead for that event.
Chicago Roadshow
Trevor Grant continues to work towards a 2019 Roadshow in Chicago, May
13-14 2019, in Logan Square. Look for more details in the next month
or two.
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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]
For the month of November, not much activity on the Finance front,
though have been working with Fundraising on a few items with regard
to Sponsors
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Attachment 8: Report from the VP of W3C Relations [Andy Seaborne]
Nothing to report this month.
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Attachment 9: Report from the Apache Legal Affairs Committee [Roman Shaposhnik]
Legal Affairs committee for the past month has been mostly business as usual
with an average number of LEGAL jiras coming in and requiring our attention.
Assistant V.P., Legal Affairs and other members of a legal committee have been
doing excellent job at triaging legal JIRAs and making sure we make progress
on addressing our backlog. We are currently at 24 open (compared to 22 last
month) JIRAs with the oldest dating back to Jan 2017.
VP Brand Management did a really great job keeping committee posted on latest
developments around Common Clause and also keeping our pro-bono counsel in the
loop. There's currently no updates to be shared aside from what is already
reflected on: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-402
There's been an active discussion among Legal Committee members about what
configuration of mailing lists and aliases which would best satisfy the goal
of rigorously upholding attorney client privilege. Consensus on the best
course of action has not yet emerged.
Another useful discussion around official status of convenience binary
releases in the foundation appears to have converged and we hope to suggest
documentation updates based on its results.
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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.
Stats for November 2018:
5 [license confusion]
12 [support request/question not security notification]
Security reports: 34 (last months: 28, 32, 37)
10 [ofbiz]
2 [lucene], [struts]
1 [activemq], [ambari], [commons], [guacamole], [hadoop],
[hc], [httpd], [ignite], [incubator/netbeans], [infrastructure],
[kafka], [nifi], [openoffice], [pdfbox], [rocketmq], [roller],
[spark], [tika], [tomcat], [zeppelin]
In total, as of 1st December, we're tracking 93 (last month: 90)
open issues across 42 projects, median age 78 (last month: 73)
days. 53 of those issues have CVE names assigned.
7 (last month: 5) of these issues, across 6 projects, are older
than 365 days.
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Attachment 11: Report from the VP of Data Privacy [Chris Mattmann]
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Attachment A: Report from the Apache Allura Project [David Philip Brondsema]
## Description:
Apache Allura is an open source implementation of a software forge, a web site
that manages source code repositories, bug reports, discussions, wiki pages,
blogs, and more for any number of individual projects.
## Issues:
- No issues needing board attention.
## Activity:
- New discussions about making Allura mobile responsive, and reaction features
- Various improvements and fixes continue
- A some users/devs continue to be active on our list & tickets.
## Health report:
- Shalitha has provided many improvements and has joined the project
- Overall development remains slow but steady.
## PMC changes:
→ Shalitha Suranga was added to the PMC on Sun Oct 28 2018
→ Last PMC addition: Sun Oct 28 2018 (Shalitha Suranga)
→ Currently 16 PMC members.
## Committer base changes:
→ Shalitha Suranga was added as a committer on Mon Oct 29 2018
→ Last committer addition: Mon Oct 29 2018 (Shalitha Suranga)
→ Currently 16 committers.
## Releases:
→ 1.10.0 was released on Mon Oct 29 2018
→ 1.9.0 was released on Sun Sep 23 2018
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Attachment B: Report from the Apache Any23 Project [Lewis John McGibbney]
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Attachment C: Report from the Apache Archiva Project [Olivier Lamy]
## Description:
Apache Archiva software is an extensible repository management tool that
helps taking care of your own personal or enterprise-wide build artifact
repository.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity:
Minor activities. Migration of the website to gitpubusb
## Health report:
We have enough PMC to cut release.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 9 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Martin Stockhammer on Mon Apr 10 2017
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 21 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Martin Stockhammer at Thu Sep 22 2016
## Releases:
- Last release was 2.2.3 on Tue May 16 2017
## Mailing list activity:
- users@archiva.apache.org:
- 225 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
- 25 emails sent to list (2 in previous quarter)
- dev@archiva.apache.org:
- 105 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
- 23 emails sent to list (5 in previous quarter)
- issues@archiva.apache.org:
- 33 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
- 5 emails sent to list (6 in previous quarter)
- notifications@archiva.apache.org:
- 15 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
- 57 emails sent to list (39 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 D: Report from the Apache Atlas Project [Madhan Neethiraj]
## Description:
Apache Atlas is a scalable and extensible set of core foundational
governance services that enables enterprises to effectively and efficiently
meet their compliance requirements within Hadoop and allows integration with
the complete enterprise data ecosystem
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- released 0.8.3 on 10/31/2018
- released 1.1.0 on 09/17/2018
- working on 2.0.0 release, to support Hadoop 3, HBase 2, Solr 7, Kafka 2,
Hive 3
- updated to support Hadoop trusted-proxy authentication
- updated lineage UI to support entity-type specific icons, customizable
depth, option to hide process entities
- performance related fixes in Hive hook and notification processing
- model enhancements to support soft-ref
- export/import enhancements to create audit entries containing summary of
the operation
## Health report:
- 1 new contributor added in last 3 months: Nikhil Bonte
## PMC changes:
- Currently 33 PMC members
- No new PMC members added in last 3 months
- Last PMC member addition was on 6/21/2017
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 38 committers
- 1 new committer was added in last 3 months: Ramesh Mani
- Last addition to committer role was on 10/15/2018
## Releases:
2.0.0 plan to release by 12/31/2018
0.8.3 was released on 10/31/2018
1.1.0 was released on 09/17/2018
1.0.0 was released on 06/02/2018
0.8.2 was released on 02/05/2018
1.0.0-alpha was released on 01/25/2018
0.8.1 was released on 08/29/2017
0.8-incubating was released on 03/16/2017
0.7.1-incubating was released on 01/26/2017
0.7-incubating was released on 07/09/2016
0.6-incubating was released on 12/31/2015
0.5-incubating was released on 07/11/2015
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Attachment E: Report from the Apache Aurora Project [Jake Farrell]
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Attachment F: Report from the Apache Axis Project [Robert Lazarski]
# Apache Axis2 Board Report
## Description
The Apache Axis project is responsible for the creation and maintenance of
software related to the Axis Web Services frameworks and subsidiary components
(both Java and C).
## Issues
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity
- Axis2 Java 1.7.9 (stable)
- Maintenance only.
- Axis2 Java 1.8 (development)
- Axis2 C 1.7 (development)
## Health report:
We have enough PMC to cut releases. Axis2 is a mature project, but still
actively maintained.
This past quarter most if not all of the Jira issues created were because of
upgrades to new Axis2 versions and JDK upgrades.
Most of our users are using legacy SOAP services, to attract new committers
work has started on an 'auto configuration module' for spring boot, which
supplies a pom.xml for deps and programmatic initialization of REST based JSON
services if the axis2 jar is detected.
Axis2 C added a new committer, Bill Blough, this past December 2017 and so far
that is helping the project pick up speed. There wwa more progress via commits
and Jira issues this past quarter. Its been a decade since the last release
and while he has no ETA on the next one, the commits and resolved Jira issues
indicate that he is making good progress.
## PMC/Committer changes:
- Currently 63 PMC/Commiters members.
- No new committers were added in the last 90 days, last committer added was
Bill Blough on December 7th 2017 who also was added to the PMC on May 9th
2018.
## Releases:
- Axis 2/Java 1.7.9 was released on November 16, 2018.
- Axis 2/C 1.6 was released on April 20, 2009.
- Axis 1.4 was last released in 2006.
## JIRA Activity
- 9 JIRA tickets created in the last 90 days.
- 4 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 90 days.
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Attachment G: Report from the Apache Bahir Project [Luciano Resende]
Apache Bahir provides extensions to distributed analytic platforms such as
Apache Spark and Apache Flink. Currently, Bahir provides extensions to
multiple distributed analytic platforms, extending their reach with a
diversity of streaming connectors and SQL data sources.
Community Activity:
Apache Bahir community was very active in the last few months, we have
performed 5 releases, and added couple new members to our contributor list and
have seen a good flow of new pull requests and general activity.
Activities around Flink extensions are about back to normal levels with few
items being updated and discussed.
Issues:
* No known issues
Releases: 12/04/2018 - Bahir for Spark 2.3.2 12/04/2018 - Bahir for Spark
2.3.1 12/04/2018 - Bahir for Spark 2.3.0 09/13/2018 - Bahir for Spark 2.2.2
09/13/2018 - Bahir for Spark 2.1.3 06/27/2018 - Bahir for Spark 2.2.1
06/04/2018 - Bahir for Spark 2.1.2 08/22/2017 - Bahir for Spark 2.2.0
07/11/2017 - Bahir for Spark 2.1.1 05/24/2017 - Bahir for Flink 1.0 03/05/2017
- Bahir for Spark 2.1.0 01/28/2017 - Bahir for Spark 2.0.2 10/28/2016 - Bahir
for Spark 2.0.1
Committers or PMC changes (Currently 10 PMC / 38 committers) 10/20/2018 -
Prashant Sharma becomes Apache Bahir PMC 10/11/2018 - Joao Boto becomes Apache
Bahir committer 06/25/2018 - Zhihong Yu (Ted Yu) becomes Apache Bahir PMC
09/14/2017 - Esteban Laver becomes Apache Bahir committer 04/05/2017 - Robert
Metzger becomes Apache Bahir PMC 03/13/2017 - Christian Kadner becomes Apache
Bahir PMC 11/30/2016 - Christian Kadner voted as Apache Bahir committer
10/18/2016 - Robert Metzger voted as Apache Bahir committer
Trademark/Branding:
* No known issues.
Legal Issues:
* None
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Attachment H: Report from the Apache Beam Project [Kenneth Knowles]
## Description:
- Apache Beam is a unified programming model for both batch and streaming
data processing, enabling efficient execution across diverse distributed
execution engines and providing extensibility points for connecting to
different technologies and user communities.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity:
- We are happy to welcome a new integration: A Beam runner for Apache Nemo
(incubating) has been authored, and resides in the Nemo repository.
- The community held a 2-day Beam Summit London in October with 80 attendees,
mostly users. Considered a success, the community intends to hold more,
likely planning a bit more in advance.
- The project has also added a “Roadmap” to the website, to share with users
exciting developments underway that are otherwise only discoverable on
dev@. Based on a good discussion, it emphasizes how a roadmap for a
community driven ASF project differs from a commercial roadmap.
- Other recent community decisions include:
- Releasing “vendored” artifacts as an alternative to shading, much as
Apache Flink does.
- Clarifying the conditions under which Beam’s “rollback first” policy
applies. Notably, it does not apply to downstream (potentially
non-public) integrations.
- Send Jira and Jenkins notifications to separate lists issues@ and
builds@, respectively.
- Previously, the community agreed to establish a long-term support (LTS)
branch. This quarter, the 2.7 minor release family was chosen for a 6
month pilot.
- IP clearance has been completed for:
- Dataflow Java Worker
## Health report:
- Notable this quarter is greatly increased attention to the website and wiki
pages pertaining to onboarding new contributors.
- The dev@ and user@ mailing lists continue the prior modest linear growth
trend.
- Email volume to dev@ has increased markedly, especially noting that we have
rerouting all automated emails to issues@beam.apache.org and
builds@beam.apache.org.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 19 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Thomas Weise on Fri Jun 08 2018
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 46 committers.
- New commmitters:
- David Morávek was added as a committer on Mon Oct 29 2018
- Ankur Goenka was added as a committer on Mon Oct 22 2018
- Matthias Baetens was added as a committer on Mon Nov 26 2018
- Xinyu Liu was added as a committer on Mon Oct 15 2018
## Releases:
- Since the last report, Apache Beam has published two releases, with one
more currently in progress:
- 2.7.0 was released on Fri Sep 28 2018
- 2.8.0 was released on Thu Oct 25 2018
- 2.9.0 is in progress
- The community determined to start the release process every 6 weeks, and we
have stuck to this. The smaller gap between 2.7.0 and
2.8.0 is due to variance in the time to a final RC.
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@beam.apache.org:
- 575 subscribers (up 28 in the last 3 months):
- 1939 emails sent to list (1937 in previous quarter)
- user@beam.apache.org:
- 593 subscribers (up 17 in the last 3 months):
- 416 emails sent to list (559 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 881 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months (811 in the previous quarter)
- 622 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months (501 in the previous
quarter)
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Attachment I: Report from the Apache Bigtop Project [Youngwoo Kim]
## Description:
- Apache Bigtop is a software related to a system for integration, packaging,
deployment and validation of a big data management software distribution
based on Apache Hadoop.
## Issues:
- There are no issues at this time.
## Activity:
- Bigtop 1.3.0 was released on Sat Nov 17 2018. This release include the
AArch64 to supported architecture and also there are improvements and fixes
related to docker image, toolchains, smoke tests and support for recent
version of ecosystem projects.
- Youngwoo Kim was elected as the new PMC chair.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 27 PMC members.
- Jun He was added to the PMC on Sun Nov 25 2018
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 37 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Jun He at Fri Feb 23 2018
## Releases:
- 1.3.0 was released on Sat Nov 17 2018
## Mailing list activity:
- Activity is consistent. No significant trends to be identified.
- dev@bigtop.apache.org:
- 152 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 307 emails sent to list (177 in previous quarter)
- announce@bigtop.apache.org:
- 52 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 0 emails sent to list (0 in previous quarter)
- ci@bigtop.apache.org:
- 17 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
- 163 emails sent to list (78 in previous quarter)
- issues@bigtop.apache.org:
- 40 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 357 emails sent to list (441 in previous quarter)
- user@bigtop.apache.org:
- 180 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 17 emails sent to list (12 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 30 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 33 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment J: Report from the Apache Bloodhound Project [Gary Martin]
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Attachment K: Report from the Apache BVal Project [Matthew Jason Benson]
## Apache BVal Report December 2018 ##
- The Apache BVal project implements the Java EE Bean Validation
specification(s) and related extensions, and became a top-level project of
the foundation on February 15, 2012.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- During the past quarter we released Apache BVal 2.0.0 which delivers an
implementation of the latest 2.0 Bean Validation JSR specification.
- The recent release included code that, unless deliberately circumvented,
would prevent the behavior at the core of the security vulnerability reported
during Q2.
- The Bean Validation EG leadership has reached out to encourage us to obtain
official status as a conforming implementation. This is primarily a matter
of configuration tooling which we hope to address in a forthcoming point
release.
- We have received a small number of post-release bug reports which we intend
to address in the immediate future when the team's non-volunteer workload
permits.
## Health report:
- We retain a small core of developers with the desire to keep this project
afloat.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 13 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Romain Manni-Bucau on Mon Nov 18 2013
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 14 committers.
- No new changes to the committer base since last report.
## Releases:
- 2.0.0 was released on Sat Oct 27 2018
## Mailing list activity:
- Activity this quarter reflects the release process of version 2.0.0 and an
accompanying JIRA cleanup. Post-release saw some activity in response.
- dev@bval.apache.org:
- 42 subscribers (down -4 in the last 3 months):
- 118 emails sent to list (26 in previous quarter)
- user@bval.apache.org:
- 54 subscribers (down -2 in the last 3 months):
- 5 emails sent to list (2 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 11 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 21 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment L: Report from the Apache Camel Project [Andrea Cosentino]
## Description:
- Apache Camel is a powerful open source integration library based on
Enterprise Integration Patterns. Rules for Camel's routing engine can be
defined in either a Java based DSL or XML.
## Issues:
- there are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity:
- We are working on a new website. We are continuously moving pages from
confluence to github .adoc. We moved the security advisories and the release
notes too.
- We are continuing our work towards Apache Camel 3.0.0. We already have a new
branch with updated code for that.
- We announced the following vulnerability with the last releases:
http://camel.apache.org/security-advisories.data/CVE-2018-8041.txt.asc?version=1&modificationDate=1536746339000&api=v2
- We are discussing possible new committers and PMC members.
## Health report:
- The project is super healthy, active and stays at a high level
## PMC changes:
- Currently 32 PMC members.
- Nicola Ferraro is the last new PMC Member added since the last report
- Last PMC was added on Mon Jul 16 2018
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 63 committers.
- No new committers in the last 3 months.
- Dmitry Volodin was added as a committer on Sat May 19 2018
## Releases:
- 2.21.3 was released on Sun Oct 28 2018
- 2.22.1 was released on Fri Sep 07 2018
- 2.22.2 was released on Thu Nov 01 2018
- 2.23.0 was released on Thu Nov 29 2018
## Mailing list activity:
- users@camel.apache.org:
- 991 subscribers (down 15 in the last 3 months)
- 315 emails sent to list (316 in previous quarter)
- dev@camel.apache.org:
- 341 subscribers (down 18 in the last 3 months)
- 1155 emails sent to list (515 in previous quarter)
- issues@camel.apache.org:
- 84 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 1748 emails sent to list (2410 in previous quarter)
- notifications@camel.apache.org:
- 8 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months)
## JIRA activity:
- 204 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 152 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment M: Report from the Apache Cayenne Project [Michael Ray Gentry]
# Apache Cayenne Board Report, December 2018
## Description
Apache Cayenne is a Java database persistence framework. It takes a
distinct approach to object persistence and provides an ORM runtime,
remote persistence services, and a cross-platform GUI mapping/modeling
tool.
## Issues
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity
With the release of Cayenne 4.0, new development is focused on the
next milestone iteration.
- Cayenne 3.1.3 (aging)
- Maintenance only.
- Cayenne 4.0 (stable)
- Maintenance only.
- Cayenne 4.1M3 (development/milestone)
- Development continues on Cayenne 4.1M3.
## Health Report
Cayenne is healthy. Development activity is stable and and we have a
stable user and developer community.
## PMC Changes
- Currently 9 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months.
- Last PMC addition is Nikita Timofeev on Sun Jun 25 2017.
## Committer Base Changes
- Currently 23 committers.
- Last committer addition is Arseni Bulatski on Mon Dec 10 2018.
## Releases
- Cayenne 3.1.3 on Wed Jul 25 2018.
- Cayenne 4.0 on Mon Aug 20 2018.
- Cayenne 4.1.M2 on Wed Jul 25 2018.
## JIRA Activity
- 27 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months.
- 19 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months.
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Attachment N: Report from the Apache Chemistry Project [Florian Müller]
## Description:
Apache Chemistry is an effort to provide an implementation of the
CMIS
(Content Management Interoperability Services) specification in Java,
Python, PHP, .NET, Objective-C, and JavaScript (and possibly other
languages).
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
There was basically no activity in the last three months.
## Health report:
- We have a mature code base. No major development is expected.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 36 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Laurent Mignon on Sat Sep 23 2017
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 38 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Laurent Mignon at Wed Sep 20 2017
## Releases:
- Last release was cmislib 0.6.0 on Thu Aug 31 2017
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@chemistry.apache.org:
- 162 subscribers (down -3 in the last 3 months):
- 43 emails sent to list (31 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 5 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 3 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment O: Report from the Apache CloudStack Project [Mike Tutkowski]
## Description:
Apache CloudStack (ACS) is an IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) cloud
orchestration platform. ACS manages many types of hypervisors, storage and
networking devices.
## Issues:
## Activity:
- There has been one new release (4.11.2.0) since the previous report.
- We held a CloudStack Collaboration Conference within ApacheCon in September
in Montreal.
## Health report:
- Version 4.12.0 is in development.
- Planning is underway for CloudStack Collaboration Conferences next year in
Brazil and Las Vegas
- Planning on holding virtual dev sync-ups on a regular interval (fist one
expected in January 2019)
## PMC changes:
- Currently 47 PMC members (same as of the previous report)
- Most recently added PMC member was Syed Ahmed on Sun Oct 08 2017
## Committer base changes (an increase of two people since the previous
report):
- Currently 119 committers
- Most recently added committer was Boris Stoyanov on Wed Dec 12 2018
## Releases (one release since the previous report):
- Release 4.11.2.0 on Nov 13 2018
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Attachment P: Report from the Apache Commons Project [Gary D. Gregory]
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Attachment Q: Report from the Apache Cordova Project [Shazron Abdullah]
## Description:
- A platform for building native mobile applications using HTML, CSS and
JavaScript.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
We had three platform patch releases of Android (fixes to gradle repositories
and plugin compatibility) and one platform patch release for Windows (fixes
bugs related to the last major version release). There was no iOS platform
release nor any plugin releases.
There were two tool releases of the CLI (minor and patch release) to resolve
`npm audit` issues. This will be the last tool release before we move on to
Node 6 for the next major version.
## Health report:
Our status dashboard at http://status.cordova.io is mostly all green -
failures are usually due to external service issues that do device testing.
Our nightly builds have been extremely stable.
We are actively trying to resolve all existing issues in JIRA while also
maintaining all the new issues and pull requests in Github.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 94 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Bryan Ellis on Wed Jul 25 2018
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 97 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Bryan Ellis at Thu Jul 26 2018
## Releases:
- cordova-android@7.1.2 was released on Wed Nov 07 2018
- cordova-android@7.1.3 was released on Wed Nov 21 2018
- cordova-android@7.1.4 was released on Fri Nov 23 2018
- cordova-common@3.0.0 was released on Mon Nov 05 2018
- cordova-fetch@1.3.1 was released on Thu Sep 20 2018
- cordova-lib@8.1.0 was released on Thu Sep 20 2018
- cordova-lib@8.1.1 was released on Fri Oct 05 2018
- cordova-windows@6.0.1 was released on Fri Oct 05 2018
- cordova@8.1.0 was released on Wed Sep 26 2018
- cordova@8.1.2 was released on Sun Oct 07 2018
## JIRA activity:
- 0 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months (JIRA has been shut down)
- 276 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
## Github activity:
Issue close rate of 37%:
- 575 Github Issues created in the last 3 months
- 212 Github Issues closed in the last 3 months
PR close rate of 80%:
- 318 Github Pull Requests created in the last 3 months
- 253 Github Pull Requests closed/merged in the last 3 months
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Attachment R: Report from the Apache cTAKES Project [Pei Chen]
## Description:
Apache clinical Text Analysis and Knowledge Extraction System (cTAKES) is
an open-source natural language processing system for information extraction
from electronic medical record clinical free-text.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- Committee continues to work on the future release (4.0.1)
- Committee continues to work on bug fixes and improvements documented in Jira
## Health report:
- The community continues to be moderately active.
- There are new questions/suggestions from new users on the mailing lists
- There is steady increase in interest and growth in the community
based on the activity on the mailing lists
## PMC changes:
- Currently 31 PMC members.
- Gandhi Rajan was added to the PMC on Thu Jul 12 2018
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 38 committers.
- Last committer addition was Gandhi Rajan at Tue Nov 14 2017
## Releases:
- Last release was 4.0.0 on Apr 27 2017
- 3.2.2 was released on May 30 2015
- 3.2.1 was released on Dec 10 2014
## Mailing list activity:
There was an increase in number of subscribers to the dev and user @
mailing lists.
- dev@ctakes.apache.org:
- 260 subscribers (up 5 in the last 3 months):
- 34 emails sent to list (63 in previous quarter)
- user@ctakes.apache.org:
- 271 subscribers (up 6 in the last 3 months):
- 17 emails sent to list (46 in previous quarter)
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Attachment S: Report from the Apache Curator Project [Jordan Zimmerman]
## Description:
- Apache Curator is a Java/JVM client library for Apache ZooKeeper, a
distributed coordination service. It includes a highlevel API framework and
utilities to make using Apache ZooKeeper much easier and more reliable. It
also includes recipes for common use cases and extensions such as service
discovery and a Java 8 asynchronous DSL.
## Issues:
- there are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity:
- Interestingly, activity has picked up in the last few months. We've had
several good submissions and will be having a few releases soon.
## Health report:
- Same as before: we continue to mention both Curator and ZooKeeper are
slowing into maintenance mode
- Curator could still use another committer. We've seen your suggestions and
are considering options.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 12 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Fangmin Lv on Mon Mar 27 2017
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 12 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Fangmin Lv at Tue Mar 28 2017
## Releases:
- 2.13.0 was released on Sun Dec 02 2018
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@curator.apache.org:
- 56 subscribers (up 3 in the last 3 months):
- 204 emails sent to list (201 in previous quarter)
- user@curator.apache.org:
- 164 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months):
- 11 emails sent to list (17 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 10 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 5 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment T: Report from the Apache Eagle Project [Edward Zhang]
## Description:
- Apache Eagle is an open source analytics solution for identifying security
and performance issues instantly on big data platforms.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity:
- In Eagle dev mail list, an architecture improvement discussion was raised
which is about removing some existing components but focusing on alert policy
engine and some important data adaptors. The goal is to make Eagle to be
developed and used more easily. It may take some time to finish the discussion.
## Health report:
- Auto generated health score seems low. It could be due to no much commits or
jira issues which were created recently. Once after PMC/Committers have some agreement
on architecture improvements, the community activity should be back to normal.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 16 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Deng Lingang on Mon May 08 2017
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 18 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Jay Sen at Thu Mar 16 2017
## Releases:
- Last release was 0.5.0 on Sat Sep 09 2017
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@eagle.apache.org:
- 76 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 12 emails sent to list (8 in previous quarter)
- issues@eagle.apache.org:
- 19 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 17 emails sent to list (31 previous quarter)
- user@eagle.apache.org:
- 56 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 1 emails sent to list (1 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 1 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 1 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment U: Report from the Apache Falcon Project [Pallavi Rao]
ABOUT
Falcon is a data processing and management solution for Hadoop designed for
data motion, coordination of data pipelines, lifecycle management, and data
discovery. Falcon enables end consumers to quickly onboard their data and its
associated processing and management tasks on Hadoop clusters.
ISSUES
The project is not seeing much traction in the past few months and seems to
have run its course. Will initiate a discussion within the community on the
way forward. The summary of the next course of action will be available before
the next board meeting.
STATUS
After 0.11 release there have been no new feature asks from the community.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 17 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Sowmya Ramesh on Mon Jun 06 2016
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 25 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Sandeep Samudrala at Thu Mar 09 2017
## Releases:
- Last release was 0.11 on Tue Mar 13 2018
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@falcon.apache.org:
- 109 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
- 9 emails sent to list (43 in previous quarter)
- user@falcon.apache.org:
- 30 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 1 emails sent to list (1 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 V: Report from the Apache Felix Project [Karl Pauls]
## Description:
Apache Felix is a project aimed at implementing specifications from the OSGi
Alliance as well as implementing other supporting tools and technologies
aligned with OSGi technology.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- Existing implementations have been improved/enhanced based on community
feedback.
- Released 9 components (mostly bug fixes and OSGi R7 releated).
- Looking into accepting a "Health Check Framework" contribution from the
Apache Sling project.
## Health report:
- Overall the project is in good health.
- Questions on the user list are answered, development concerns are either
discussed on the mailing list or directly in the JIRA issues.
- The project as well as the OSGi community in general is still in the
process of adapting to JPMS and its long term impact.
- Attracting new committers needs to be a focus - we added one new committer
and we are about to add 3 more.
- We had no issues voting on releases and JIRA issues are generally addressed
promptly.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 26 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Raymond Augé on Thu May 03 2018
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 64 committers.
- Timothy James Ward was added as a committer on Tue Nov 13 2018
## Releases:
- maven-bundle-plugin-4.1.0 was released on Mon Oct 22 2018
- org.apache.felix.configadmin-1.9.10 was released on Wed Oct 17 2018
- org.apache.felix.configadmin-1.9.8 was released on Mon Oct 08 2018
- org.apache.felix.converter-1.0.2 was released on Tue Sep 25 2018
- org.apache.felix.dependencymanager-r13 was released on Mon Oct 22 2018
- org.apache.felix.dependencymanager-r14 was released on Sun Dec 02 2018
- org.apache.felix.http.sslfilter-1.2.6 was released on Thu Oct 18 2018
- org.apache.felix.scr-2.1.10 was released on Mon Oct 08 2018
- org.apache.felix.scr-2.1.12 was released on Wed Oct 17 2018
## Mailing list activity:
- users@felix.apache.org:
- 566 subscribers (down -3 in the last 3 months):
- 134 emails sent to list (117 in previous quarter)
- dev@felix.apache.org:
- 324 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
- 854 emails sent to list (659 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 75 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 67 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment W: Report from the Apache Flex Project [Tom Chiverton]
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Attachment X: Report from the Apache Flink Project [Stephan Ewen]
DESCRIPTION
Apache Flink is a distributed data streaming system for batch and streaming
data analysis on top of a streaming dataflow engine. Flink's stack contains
functional batch and streaming analysis APIs in Java and Scala and libraries
for various use cases.
Flink interacts and integrates with several Apache projects in the broader
ecosystem of data storage and computing, such as Apache Beam, Calcite,
Hadoop, Mesos, Kafka, HBase, Cassandra, and various others.
ISSUES
- There are no issues that require board attention.
STATUS AND ACTIVITY
- The Flink community has released the 1.7 release, with features such
as support for Scala 2.12, enhancements to Streaming SQL, Complex Event
processing, AWS S3, connectors, and recovery.
- The project has entered a phase of many discussions about breaking
changes and consolidation of batch and streaming APIs to fix some
shortcomings and technical complexity, due to the way the project evolved
organically over time.
- In the area of Streaming SQL, there is a fruitful collaboration with the
Apache Calcite project, which resulted for example in new streaming joins
and an integration of complex event processing and SQL.
- The program for the Flink Forward Beijing conference is available. Aside
from tech talks, there will be a keynote by Craig Russell about the ASF
and how to contribute to Apache projects.
COMMUNITY
No new PMC members were added since the last report.
The newest PMC member is Chesnay Schepler, joined on July 26th, 2017
Committers added since the last board report:
- Thomas Weise was added as a committer on November 21st, 2018
- Jamie Grier was added as a committer on December 13th, 2018
Flink currently has 43 committers and 19 PMC members.
RELEASES
The following releases were made since the last board report:
- 1.5.4 was released on September 20th, 2018
- 1.5.5 was released on October 29th, 2018
- 1.6.1 was released on September 20th, 2018
- 1.6.2 was released on October 29th, 2018
- 1.7.0 was released on November 30th, 2018
ACTIVITY ON JIRA / MAILING LISTS
Mailing lists continue to be very active:
- user@f.a.o (2239 mails/quarter)
- dev@f.a.o (1825 mails/quarter)
JIRA continues to be active as well, 807 JIRA tickets created, 569 JIRA
tickets resolved in the last 3 months.
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Attachment Y: Report from the Apache Griffin Project [William Guo]
## Description:
- Apache Griffin is an open source Data Quality solution for Big Data,
which supports both batch and streaming mode. It offers an unified process
to measure your data quality from different perspectives, helping you build
trusted data assets, therefore boost your confidence for your business.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- Griffin PMC are working on moving code/site from incubator to griffin
repository.
- Griffin will release 0.4.0 after the migration is done.
## Health report:
- The mails and commits activity are as good as usual.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 17 PMC members.
- Nick Sokolov is the last new PMC Member added since the last report
- Last PMC was added on Mon Sep 30, 2018
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 17 committers.
- New committers:
- Nick Sokolov was added as a committer on Sep 30, 2018
## Releases:
- 0.3.0 was released on Fri Sep 07, 2018
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@griffin.apache.org:
- 77 subscribes
- 284 emails sent by 29 people, divided into 143 topics in September.
- 393 emails sent by 44 people, divided into 66 topics in October.
- 205 emails sent by 48 people, divided into 43 topics in November.
## JIRA activity:
- 32 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 21 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment Z: Report from the Apache Guacamole Project [Mike Jumper]
## Description:
- Apache Guacamole is a clientless remote desktop gateway which supports
standard protocols like VNC, RDP, and SSH. We call it "clientless" because
no plugins or client software are required. Once Guacamole is installed on
a server, all you need to access your desktops is a web browser.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- Continuing contributions from the community.
- Multiple improvements to all supported protocols. New support for
Kubernetes.
- All known regressions previously blocking the 1.0.0 release have been fixed
and the first RC is being prepared for vote.
## Health report:
- The project is healthy. Development and community involvement continue to
be active.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 9 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Carl Harris on Sun Nov 19 2017
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 11 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Jim Chen at Thu Jun 21 2018
## Releases:
- Last release was 0.9.14 on Wed Jan 17 2018
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@guacamole.apache.org:
- 90 subscribers (up 8 in the last 3 months):
- 445 emails sent to list (383 in previous quarter)
- user@guacamole.apache.org:
- 320 subscribers (up 6 in the last 3 months):
- 358 emails sent to list (453 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 52 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 50 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment AA: Report from the Apache Gump Project [Stefan Bodewig]
Apache Gump is a cross-project continuous integration server. Gump's
intention isn't so much to be a CI server but rather a vehicle that
makes people look beyond their project's boundaries and helps the
projects to collaborate.
Gump is written in Python and supports several build tools and version
control systems. The Apache installation of Gump builds ASF as well
as non-ASF projects and their dependencies. It started in the Java
part of the foundation but also builds projects like APR, HTTPd and
XMLUnit.NET.
== Summary ==
No changes compared to the last quarter.
== Releases ==
Gump has never done any releases. One reason for this is that the ASF
installations of Gump work on the latest code base almost all of the
time following its "integrate everything continuously" philosophy.
== Activity ==
The Tomcat and Forrest communities are still using Gump actively.
== Changes to the Roster ==
All ASF committers have write access to the metadata that configure
the ASF installations.
The last changes to the PMC have seen Konstantin Kolinko and Mark
Thomas join in November 2014.
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Attachment AB: Report from the Apache Hama Project [Chia-Hung Lin]
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Attachment AC: Report from the Apache HAWQ Project [Lei Chang]
## Description:
HAWQ is a Hadoop native SQL query engine that combines the key technological
advantages of MPP database with the scalability and convenience of Hadoop.
HAWQ reads data from and writes data to HDFS natively. HAWQ delivers
industry-leading performance and linear scalability. It provides users the
tools to confidently and successfully interact with petabyte range data sets.
HAWQ provides users with a complete, standards compliant SQL interface.
## Issues:
None
## Activity:
1) Finalize the scope of 2.5.0.0 release community. The features will be
included in the 2.5.0.0 release are:
- New Feature: Support DDL for ORC as a native file format.
- New Feature: Support write ORC storage format.
- Bug fixes.
2) Finish part of feature for ORC support
3) Talks:
- Apache HAWQ Roadmap, The 17th North East Asia OSS Promotion Forum (Speaker:
Chang Lei)
- New Data warehouse & AI, Data Technology Carnival 2018 (Speaker: Yang Zhe)
- AI Anyone, World of Tech 2018 (Speaker: Liu Dawei)
- Intel Roundtable Seminar 2018 (Attendee: Song Yixu)
## PMC changes:
Last PMC addition was Amy Bai Kevin Monroe on April 24, 2018, Currently 36 PMC
members
## Committer base changes:
Last committer addition was Shubham Sharma on April 25, 2018, Currently 45
committers
## Releases: Last release was 2.4.0.0 on Sep 23, 2018
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Attachment AD: Report from the Apache Helix Project [Kishore G]
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Attachment AE: Report from the Apache Hive Project [Ashutosh Chauhan]
## Description:
- The Apache Hive (TM) data warehouse software facilitates querying and
managing large datasets residing in distributed storage.
## Issues:
- Apache Impala PMC found a trademark violation of Impala and Hive marks in a
press release issued by a company. An email has been sent by Impala PMC to
the said company asking to rectify the situation. We are waiting to hear
back from them.
## Activity:
- Steady stream of bug fixes, enhancements and new features trickling in the
project.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 47 PMC members.
- One addition in PMC this quarter : Zoltan Haindrich (Oct 29 2018)
## Committer changes:
- Currently 83 committers. 4 new committers this quarter.
→ Bharath Krishna : Nov 30 2018
→ Janaki Lahorani : Oct 02 2018
→ Mahesh Behera was : Nov 16 2018
→ Nishant Bangarwa : Mon Oct 15 2018
## Releases:
→ 2.3.4 was released on Sun Nov 04 2018
→ 3.1.1 was released on Wed Oct 31 2018
## Lists ;
- dev@hive.apache.org: - 884 subscribers (-2 this quarter):
- user@hive.apache.org: - 2225 subscribers (-16 this quarter):
## JIRA activity:
- 467 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 367 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment AF: Report from the Apache Incubator Project [Justin Mclean]
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Incubator PMC report for December 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 November,
podlings executed 11 distinct releases. We added 17 new IPMC members and
had 2 IPMC members retire.
Several podlings are heading towards graduation. We have also have several
new podlings with IotDB, Sharding Sphere, BRPC and Iceburg join our ranks
and two podlings Quickstep and ODF toolkit retire. ODF toolkit had spent 7
years in the incubator. Airflow look set to graduate and will be the 200th
active Apache project if no other TLP projects retire. BatchEE still seems
stuck in performing the last graduation steps.
Superset is slowly addressing its issues, but has still not made an Apache
release and has continued to make unofficial releases. A meeting has been
set up to try and sort out the issues as discussing them on the mailing
list doesn't seem to be working.
There were 2 IP clearances.
A number of podlings, despite prompting, failed to report and will be asked
to report next month.
The mentor situation has improved but we still have a number of podlings
(19) with less than 3 mentors.
An email was sent to the members list, to see if we can get more IPMC
members and several people stepped forward.
We also had a discussion about lowering the bar for IPMC members and seeing
how they potential candidates can be more easily recognised. While unusual
at the ASF, we've asked people to self identify, they will still be voted
on by the IPMC, and several have come forward and have been voted in.
Several had more than enough merit and had gone unnoticed or looked over
by the IPMC and in a couple of cases were extremely obvious candidates.
As a result of both of these we have 17 new IPMC members and several new
mentors.
One podling had to be reminded that a NOTICE needs to be sent to the IPMC
for any new PPMC members.
Moderators of the incubator mailing list had gone missing and 3 new
moderators have been added. Some IPMC members had previously missed being
signed up the private email list as a result of this.
A large number (100+) of IPMC members are not signed up to the private mail
list, each was sent emails asking them to sign up. A couple asked to be
removed from IPMC but the majority of those contacted have not signed up.
There's probably not much more that can be done about this.
Podlings rosters are now (with a few exceptions) mostly up-to-date.
The default podling bylaws/guidelines were posted to the board list, some
minor changes were made and have been accepted. Graduating podlings will be
pointed to these guidelines rather than encouraged to write their own.
* Community
New IPMC members:
- Chris Lambertus
- David Meikle
- Felix Cheung
- Furkan Kamaci
- Ioannis Canellos
- Jason Dai
- John Kinsella
- Kenneth Knowles
- Kishore G
- Koji Sekiguchi
- Myrle Krantz
- Paul King
- Shaofeng Shi
- Sheng Wu
- Vinayakumar B
- Von Gosling
- Woonsan Ko
People who left the IPMC:
- Mark Dwayne Womack
- Sean Busbey
* New Podlings
- BRPC
- Iceburg
- IotDB
- Sharding-Sphere
* Podlings that failed to report, expected next month
- Marvin-AI
- Pinot
* Graduations
- Apache Airflow
* Releases
The following releases entered distribution during the month of
November:
- PLC4X 0.2.0
- Weex 0.20.0
- MXNet version 1.3.1
- NetBeans 1.6 HTML/Java API
- Dubbo 2.6.5
- Release Airflow 1.10.1
- Heron 0.20.0
- NetBeans 10.0
- SkyWalking ersion 6.0.0
- Toree 0.3.0
- Ratis-thirdparty 0.1.0
* IP Clearance
- OpenWhisk Composer Python
- OpenWhisk Composer
* Legal / Trademarks
Some issues around the use of CC licensed content need clarification.
* Infrastructure
No issues.
* Miscellaneous
- More discussion on reviewing binary releases.
- UNICEF wants to bring an open source project to the ASF.
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Table of Contents
BRPC
Crail
Daffodil
Druid
Dubbo
Hivemall
Iceberg
IoTDB
Myriad
Nemo
Omid
OpenWhisk
Pony Mail
SAMOA
ShardingSphere
SINGA
SkyWalking
Spot
Superset
Taverna
Tephra
Warble
Zipkin
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BRPC
BRPC is an industrial-grade RPC framework for building reliable and
high-performance services.
BRPC has been incubating since 2018-11-13.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Collect the SGA and ICLAs of the Initial COmmitters
2. Create the Mailing Lists and Subscribe
3. Move the Repository under Apache.
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?
Just getting started. A little slowness on the Mentor / Champion side on
the setup.
How has the project developed since the last report?
First report.
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:
No Apache Releases.
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
None.
Have your mentors been helpful and responsive or are things falling
through the cracks? In the latter case, please list any open issues
that need to be addressed.
Mailing list creation fell through the cracks. Corrected now.
Signed-off-by:
[ ](brpc) Jean-Baptiste Onofre
[X](brpc) Kevin A. McGrail
[ ](brpc) Von Gosling
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
Dave Fisher: I wrote up this report and made the mailing list request.
Justin Mclean: LDAP and DNS also feel between the cracks. Mentors were
pinged but no response. I think it would be good for this project to
have an extra mentor.
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Crail
Crail is a storage platform for sharing performance critical
data in distributed data processing jobs at very high speed.
Crail has been incubating since 2017-11-01.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Community building: attract additional contributors from different
companies/affiliations
2. Further increase visibility / PR
3. Develop further fields of applicability of Crail, such as
efficient serverless computing
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware
of?
How has the community developed since the last report?
* Our twitter account "@ApacheCrail" now has 125 followers
* We have only 6 active contributors, here we hope
to improve.
How has the project developed since the last report?
* Second release is out, including binary release
* Bug fixes for second release.
* Better documentation using readthedoc
* Constant activities on bug fixes, quality improvements
at https://github.com/apache/incubator-crail
* The binary code release as part of the second release
sparked discussion on the general@incubator list,
clarifying the issues on how to handle those releases.
How would you assess the podling's maturity?
[ ] Initial setup
[ ] Working towards first release
[X] Community building
[ ] Nearing graduation
[ ] Other:
Date of last release:
12/05/2018
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
2017-11-01 (entering incubation)
Have your mentors been helpful and responsive or are things falling
through the cracks? In the latter case, please list any open issues
that need to be addressed.
* 2 of our mentors are very helpful and responsive. We had to remove
the third mentor Raphael Bircher due to inactivity.
Signed-off-by:
[x](crail) Julian Hyde
Comments: With two releases completed successfully, community
building is the main task for this project to get to
graduation. Welcome to Felix as a new mentor!
[x](crail) Luciano Resende
Comments:
[x](crail) Felix Cheung
Comments: (signing up as mentor)
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
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DLab
DLab is a platform for creating self-service, exploratory data science
environments in the cloud using best-of-breed data science tools.
DLab has been incubating since 2018-08-20.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Execute the SGA between EPAM and the ASF so code can be imported.
2. Move bug tracking system including project backlog to Apache issue
tracking system – in progress
3. Work toward an initial Apache release – in progress, first release
planned for EOY
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware
of?
Nothing at this point of time.
How has the community developed since the last report?
We are not at the stage of building community so far, but we hosted two
workshops recently and hope to have ˜2 potentials contributors from it.
Also we hosted two conferences and hope to have some contributors from it.
How has the project developed since the last report?
Initial committers have submitted their Apache ICLA, subscribed to all
mailing lists and created
Jira accounts. Functionality added:
· Added support of Java libraries installation
· Added support of Spark configuration from Web UI
· Implemented support for deployment into two VPC’s for AWS version
· Added support for DLab to not use public IP’s for MS Azure
· Redesign of DLab Web UI for roles management – in progress
· Update version of Zeppelin/Spark/EMR – in progress
· Scheduler in idle time – in progress
How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
[X] Initial setup
[X] Working towards first release
[ ] Community building
[ ] Nearing graduation
[ ] Other:
Date of last release:
This is going to be our first release. Target date EOY.
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
We are still operating with the set of initial committers.
Have your mentors been helpful and responsive or are things falling
through the cracks? In the latter case, please list any open issues
that need to be addressed.
Mentors are very helpful and try to resolve any issues immediately.
Open issues:
· None of contributors have access to create JIRA SCRUM/Kanban
boards (we have migrated the tickets, but can’t formaly create
a release/sprint)
Signed-off-by:
[X](dlab) P. Taylor Goetz
Comments:
[ ](dlab) Henry Saputra
Comments:
[ ](dlab) Konstantin I Boudnik
Comments:
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
Justin Mclean: Report was submitted past due date, mentors hadn't been
paying attention but should be now, however still missing sign-offs.
--------------------
Daffodil
Apache Daffodil is an implementation of the Data Format Description
Language (DFDL) used to convert between fixed format data and
XML/JSON.
Daffodil has been incubating since 2017-08-27.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Increase community growth and participation
2. Establish a frequent release schedule
3. Work with other Apache projects where Daffodil could provided extra
functionality
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
- None, though an extra mentor would be beneficial. We currently only
have 2 mentors.
How has the community developed since the last report?
- A couple questions were asked and answered on StackOverflow on
DFDL schema development using Daffodil
- Increased activity on the users@ mailing list from 4
non-committers, with topics such as potential bugs and DFDL schema
design best practices
- Mike Beckerle gave a Daffodil talk at ApacheCon Montreal
- Steve Lawrence gave a Daffodil talk at a local Meetup
- Mike Beckerle is scheduled to give a talk at a local Meetup in
December
- Steve Lawrence submitted a talk to the Apache Roadshow in DC,
which is now postponed
- Created a logo and twitter account: @ApacheDaffodil
- Updated Apache Spark integration, will be presented at a Meetup
for feedback and potential community growth
- Updated Apache NiFi integration and created a pull request with
Apache NiFi. Received positive feedback.
How has the project developed since the last report?
- 22 commits from 4 different developers
- 25 issues created, 46 issues resolved
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:
2018-09-05
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
- None, same as project incubation
Have your mentors been helpful and responsive or are things falling
through the cracks? In the latter case, please list any open issues
that need to be addressed.
- No issues
Signed-off-by:
[ ](daffodil) John D. Ament
Comments:
[X](daffodil) David Fisher
Comments: I'm seeing good user discussions about features and how to
use Daffodil. I'd like to see more on how to develop.
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
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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. Complete first Apache release (currently in voting phase of 0.13.0-rc4)
2. Move the website to Apache infrastructure
3. Continue to grow the community
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
None.
How has the community developed since the last report?
The Druid community has invited 10 active members from 7 different
organizations to participate as new committers. All 10 invitees have
accepted the invitation.
How has the project developed since the last report?
- Since the last report, we have had a total of 195 commits from 42
contributors
- We have released 0.12.3, a non-incubator bugfix release
- We have code frozen a 0.13.0 branch and are currently voting on final
release artifacts
- We have started work on moving the project pages from druid.io to
druid.apache.org
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 0.12.3 (non-Apache) was released on 2018-09-18.
- Druid 0.13.0-incubating has been proposed and is currently in the
voting phase
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
The Druid PPMC elected 10 new committers to the project on November 20,
2018.
Have your mentors been helpful and responsive or are things falling
through the cracks? In the latter case, please list any open issues
that need to be addressed.
They have been very helpful.
Signed-off-by:
[x](druid) Julian Hyde
Comments: It's taken a few iterations, but the first release looks like
it's just about to pass the vote. This was their biggest hurdle. They
mastered Apache governance a long while ago, and have built
community.
I'm not concerned about the weekly sync up meetings as long as they
continue to send out minutes and make decisions on the dev list.
After one more release this project should consider graduation.
[x](druid) P. Taylor Goetz
Comments: I agree with Julian. Though would recommend (but not demand)
three releases prior to graduation.
[x](druid) Jun Rao
Comments:
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
Dave Fisher: I'm somewhat concerned that the podling uses weekly sync
up meetings.
I am happy to see that Julian is gently steering them to use dev@
for decisions.
They have made non-Apache releases, but are now on rc4 of an
Apache release.
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Dubbo
Dubbo is a high-performance, lightweight, java based RPC framework.
Dubbo has been incubating since 2018-02-16.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Ensure more discussion and decision making to be happening on the
mailing list.
2. Release 2.7.0, the first release after package renaming.
3. Transfer more qualified external Dubbo ecosystem projects into Apache.
4. Add more committers and 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?
* New committer:
* Minxuan Zhuang has been voted as committer on 2018-09-11
* Jinkai Ma(majinkai) has been voted as committer on 2018-10-31
* Zhenqiang Yi(manzhizhen) has been voted as committer on 2018-11-05
* Victory Cao(cvictory) has been voted as committer on 2018-11-09
* Liandong Chen(purple-force) has been voted as committer on 2018-11-14
* Jeff Lv(Jeff-Lv) has been voted as committer on 2018-11-21
* New PMC member:
* Zonghai Shang(yiji) has been voted as pmc member on 2018-11-01
* Yong Zhu(diecui1202) has been voted as pmc member on 2018-12-03
* Github stats is growing rapidly since last report. as of Dec 3rd,
* number of stars has grown from 21126 to 22796.
* contributors has been grown from 119 to 144.
* number of forks has grown from 14625 to 15761.
* 14 new companies reported their using of Dubbo since last report, 118
in total
* Hangzhou Meetup was held on 2018-06-23: Online registration 500+,
on-site registration: 250
* Start transferring dubbo-samples project from external Dubbo ecosystem
into Apache, IP clearance process has been completed, SGA from Alibaba
has been submitted.
* The following projects has been added to external Apache Dubbo
ecosystem(http://github.com/dubbo, non-Apache repositories):
* dubbo-registry-nacos
* dubbo-benchmark
* egg-dubbo-rpc
* dubbo-remoting-js
These projects are being watched by Apache Dubbo PPMC and are planning
be moved to Apache once they meet the quality requirement.
* Dubbo has ranked Top 3 of most popular open source project in China in
2018. https://www.oschina.net/project/top_cn_2018
Since last report, the communities has welcomed 6 new committers and 2
new PPMC members. Comparing to last quarter, when we have 4 new
committers and no new PPMC members. The number of contributors have
grown from 119 to 144.
The following events have played key parts of helping the community to
grow:
0. Ian Luo and Jun Liu have delivered a a talk "Introducing Apache
Dubbo(Incubating): What is Dubbo and How it Works" in ApacheCon Montreal.
1. With a discussion with mentors in ApacheCon Montreal, the Dubbo
community and learned a lot about how to build the community. One key
takeaway is that to keep the bar for becoming a committer low.
2. Dave Fisher has becoming our new mentor.
3. Apache project meetup in ShangHai has been held in Oct 13th
4. Our mentor Justin has visited Alibaba, and give a talk on navigating
through the incubator process
5. COSCon'18 has been held in Shenzhen, China, where Craig L.Russell,
Dave Fisher, and Justin have delivered a lot of wonderful talks about ASF.
How has the project developed since the last report?
* Dubbo 2.6.4 is released on 2018-10-8
* Dubbo 2.6.5 is released on 2018-11-23
* Dubbo 2.7.0 is under development, a major feature called separation of
config metadata and registry metadata has almost been completed.
* New features of Dubbo-ops, e.g. complete support of service governance
for 2.6, and support for 2.7 has been added.
* Mailing list stats:
* 2018-09-01~2018-11-31: 663 emails, 68 participants, 118 topics
* 2018-06-01~2018-08-31 : 680 emails, 85 participants, 128 topics
* Github stats:
* 2018-09-01~2018-11-31: 182 issues closed, 190 pr closed
* 2018-06-01~2018-08-31 : 200 issues closed, 287 pr closed
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:
2018-11-23
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
Yong Zhu(diecui1202) has been voted as PPMC members on 2018-12-03
Have your mentors been helpful and responsive or are things falling
through the cracks? In the latter case, please list any open issues
that need to be addressed.
Mentors have been very helpful to guide the Dubbo community through
Apache way.
Signed-off-by:
[X](dubbo) Justin Mclean
Comments:
[X](dubbo) Mark Thomas
Comments:
[X](dubbo) David Fisher
Comments: Busy project.
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
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Hivemall
Hivemall is a library for machine learning implemented as Hive
UDFs/UDAFs/UDTFs.
Hivemall has been incubating since 2016-09-13.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. One or more Apache Releases as an Incubator project
2. Community growth (committers and users)
3. Documentation improvements
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?
* Github watchers/stars are gradually increasing:
181 stars as of Nov 27 (was 169 on Sept 3)
* Twitter account @ApacheHivemall followers are gradually increasing:
175 followers as of Nov 27 (was 154 on Sept 3)
How has the project developed since the last report?
* Prepared the second Apache release, v0.5.2.
Now voting started at general@i.a.o on Nov 27th.
https://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-general/201811.mbox/%3CC
AGJoAU%3D-aweJkZuP-%3DKp6XPjfAC%3Dv4Si%2B3mbx4L-4is_jTB_yg%40mail.gmail.com%
3E
Since the last report, we have
* In the last 3 months, we opened 13 JIRA issues and closed 17 JIRA
issues as seen in https://goo.gl/QFQEF5 (as of Nov 27)
Created Resolved
Sept 2018 4 10
Oct 2018 3 1
Nov 2018 7 6
* Created 14 Pull Requests and closed 12 Pull Requests between Sept 1st
and Nov 27th.
https://github.com/apache/incubator-hivemall/pulls?q=is%3Apr%20created%3A201
8-09-01..2018-11-27
https://github.com/apache/incubator-hivemall/pulls?q=is%3Apr%20closed%3A2018
-09-01..2018-11-27
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:
March 5, 2018.
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
- Elected Jerome Banks as a committer on April 2.
Have your mentors been helpful and responsive or are things falling
through the cracks? In the latter case, please list any open issues
that need to be addressed.
- New mentor Koji is active at mentoring and very helpful.
Signed-off-by:
[ ](hivemall) Xiangrui Meng
Comments:
[ ](hivemall) Daniel Dai
Comments:
[x](hivemall) Koji Sekiguchi
Comments: We're under the new release vote now. I met Makoto Yui in
person in Tokyo few days ago and I could find his comprehension of
Apache way is great! He leads the development team very well.
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
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Iceberg
Iceberg is a table format for large, slow-moving tabular data.
Iceberg has been incubating since 2018-11-16.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Get the SGA accepted.
2. Finish the name clearance.
3. Make the first Apache release.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
* Gitbox integration has helped a lot, although it is frustrating that
the team members are not allowed to configure the project and must go
through infra for every change.
* The traffic on the dev list from Github pull requests and issues is
pretty heavy. It would be nice to have emails from creation go to dev@,
while updates and resolutions would go the issues@.
How has the community developed since the last report?
This is the first report.
How has the project developed since the last report?
This is the first report.
Both the software grant and trademark agreements have been submitted.
Code has been imported and updated to use the ASF license header. LICENSE
and NOTICE files have been updated to comply with ASF policy.
Podling website is up at https://iceberg.apache.org.
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:
None yet
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
None yet
Have your mentors been helpful and responsive or are things falling
through the cracks? In the latter case, please list any open issues
that need to be addressed.
We're working through the issues as they come up.
Signed-off-by:
[X](iceberg) Ryan Blue
Comments:
[ ](iceberg) Julien Le Dem
Comments:
[X](iceberg) Owen O'Malley
Comments: I wrote the first pass of the report.
[X](iceberg) James Taylor
Comments:
[X](iceberg) Carl Steinbach
Comments:
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
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IoTDB
Apache IoTDB is a data store for managing large amounts of time series data
such as timestamped data from IoT sensors in industrial applications.
IoTDB has been incubating since 2018-11-18. Currently, the initial
committers are in the progress of signing ICLA and SGA.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Finishing SGA and ICLA
2. Prepare the official website and English documentation
3. Migrate the source code to Apache code repository
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
None
How has the community developed since the last report?
* The mail lists have been established.
* 6 subjects are discussed in dev mail list. There are 28 replies
totally.
* Attract a contributor from Apache Calcite.
How has the project developed since the last report?
* The initial committers are working for merging all existing PRs, so
that we can migrate the source code to Apache code repository easily (16
pr are merged)
* The initial committers are translating the user manual from Chinese to
English Version. (3/7 chapters are finished)
How would you assess the podling's maturity?
newborn
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
[X] Initial setup
[ ] Working towards first release
[ ] Community building
[ ] Nearing graduation
[ ] Other:
Date of last release:
N/A
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
N/A
Have your mentors been helpful and responsive or are things falling
through the cracks? In the latter case, please list any open issues
that need to be addressed.
The mentors give the project and committers much help and it is
responsive.
Signed-off-by:
[X](IoTDB) Christofer Dutz
Comments:
[X](IoTDB) Joe Witt
Comments:
[X](IoTDB) Justin Mclean
Comments:
[X](IoTDB) Willem Ning Jiang
Comments:
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
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Myriad
Myriad enables co-existence of Apache Hadoop YARN and Apache Mesos together
on the same cluster and allows dynamic resource allocations across both
Hadoop and other applications running on the same physical data center
infrastructure.
Myriad has been incubating since 2015-03-01.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. MYRIAD-280: Improve overall stability
2. MYRIAD-279: Reworking a new UI design
3. MYRIAD-278: Create test-suit
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
A new release is coming, the community is engaged in the process of
creating versions every quarter. The new PPMCs are beginners creating
releases in the Apache way, and probably they will need some kind of
assistance from the mentor side.
How has the community developed since the last report?
An increment of activity and newcomers with a desire to contribute, in
particular in the scope of the user interface, one of our main goals.
How has the project developed since the last report?
One of our main issues was solved (MYRIAD-264: Upgrade Mesos API to 1.5.x)
so a new version can be unlocked
How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
[ ] Initial setup
[X] Working towards first release
[X] Community building
[ ] Nearing graduation
[X] Other: new activity and feeling of project recovery.
Date of last release:
The 0.2.0 release was issued on Jun 29, 2016. The 0.3.0 release is
planned for the next days.
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
2018-05-22 New committer/PMC member Juan P. Gilaberte.
2018-03-28 New committer/PMC member Javi Roman.
Have your mentors been helpful and responsive or are things falling
through the cracks? In the latter case, please list any open issues
that need to be addressed.
Yes, really helpful. In particular Ted Dunning was really helpful in
the assistance of advice and guidelines.
Signed-off-by:
[ ](myriad) Benjamin Hindman
Comments:
[x](myriad) Ted Dunning
Comments:
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
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Nemo
Nemo is a data processing system to flexibly control the runtime behaviors
of a job to adapt to varying deployment characteristics.
Nemo has been incubating since 2018-02-04.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Grow the community: add new contributors/committers
2. Grow the user base
3. Develop a clear roadmap for graduation
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?
* Committers actively sent PRs and did code reviews
* Committers actively involved in mailing lists
* Committers started to interact with other communities
How has the project developed since the last report?
* Created the first release candidate (in the process of voting)
* Code donation to ASF
* Added Beam stream support
* Created a Beam Nemo runner
* Added Nemo Web UI
* Hardened the Nemo runtime (scheduling, data transfer, etc.)
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:
None yet.
In the process of voting for the first release.
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
None yet.
Have your mentors been helpful and responsive or are things falling
through the cracks? In the latter case, please list any open issues
that need to be addressed.
Yes. Our mentors have been helpful and responsive.
Signed-off-by:
[X](nemo) Davor Bonaci
Comments: the podling is doing really well; first release to come
shortly.
[ ](nemo) Hyunsik Choi
Comments:
[X](nemo) Byung-Gon Chun
Comments:
[X](nemo) Jean-Baptiste Onofre
Comments:
[ ](nemo) Markus Weimer
Comments:
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
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Omid
Omid is a flexible, reliable, high performant and scalable ACID
transactional
framework that allows client applications to execute transactions on top of
MVCC key/value-based NoSQL datastores (currently Apache HBase) providing
Snapshot Isolation guarantees on the accessed data.
Omid has been incubating since 2016-03-28.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Finish integration with Apache Phoenix – Omid side was implemented and
released.
2. Document additional features added for the integration with Apache
Phoenix, as well as, the low latency algorithm.
3. Get positive feedback from other projects currently in Apache.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
N/A
How has the community developed since the last report?
New committer, Yonatan Gottesman, was added to Omid’s community. Yonatan
is very active and contributed to the integration with Phoenix.
Moreover, Yonattan implemented the low latency version of Omid which is
currently part of release 1.0.0.
Integration with Apache Phoenix will be ready in a few days, early
December.
How has the project developed since the last report?
The vote for major release 1.0.0 passed successfully in the incubator
general list. This release includes all the Phoenix required features.
The release is currently being deployed to Nexus and a formal
announcement of the release will be send shortly.
Omid and Apache Phoenix integration is at its final stage. Omid release
1.0.0 includes all Phoenix required features, therefore, from the Omid
side, the integration with Phoenix is over.
The Phoenix code is also ready and currently located in a feature branch
that will be merged in a few days.
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:
2018-06-10
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
2018-09-25
Have your mentors been helpful and responsive or are things falling
through the cracks? In the latter case, please list any open issues
that need to be addressed.
Our mentors are very helpful and responsive. We appreciate their help.
Signed-off-by:
[X](omid) Alan Gates
Comments:
[x](omid) James Taylor
Comments:
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
Drew Farris (Shepherd) - Mentors active on the mailing lists, active
development, and progress towards graduation observed.
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OpenWhisk
OpenWhisk is an open source, distributed Serverless computing platform able
to execute application logic (Actions) in response to events (Triggers)
from external sources (Feeds) or HTTP requests governed by conditional
logic (Rules). It provides a programming environment supported by a REST
API-based Command Line Interface (CLI) along with tooling to support
packaging and catalog services. Additionally, it now provides options to
host the platform components as Docker containers on various Container
Frameworks such as Mesos, Kubernetes, and Compose.
OpenWhisk has been incubating since 2016-11-23.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Improve release automation to decrease manual steps in creating
release artifacts.
a. Release process/automation/documentation are here
https://github.com/apache/incubator-openwhisk-release).
b. We have made the initial releases of 12 core software components.
In the process we have developed some release automation, but there is a
need to further automate the process and formalize the mechanisms for
make
a coordinated release of all components.
2. Increase additional company and individual Contributors to maintain
all project repos. and address Issue / PR backlog.
3. Close legal transferred of Trademark handoff for "OpenWhisk" name and
logo to ASF
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware
of?
1. Issue backlog building on incubator-openwhisk is still a major issue
(partly due to #2 above). As of this report, the "open" issue backlog on
the "main" platform repo is 397 (up from 384 as of last report). The open
PR count on the main repo has held steady at around 30 (down from 50+ 6
months ago), but still 1/3 of the ready-to-merge PRs are more than 1
month old. The PR and Issue backlog on other project repositories is
generally much lower and of less concern than the Issue backlog on the
main repo.
2. Need to prioritize and work to reduce while advancing major proposals
around restructuring around abstractions to accommodate running on
Knative while enhancing support for better logging/scheduling and
performance testing enhancements.
3. Trying to add more active Committers to augment those who have
dropped off in their activity; however, we have reached an impasse where
potential new Contributor pull requests are not getting timely
reviews/merges. We have potential new Contribs. to front-end Runtimes we
will look to nominate ASAP, but we still lack back-end Contribs.
4. The project is still working on establishing an open staging
environment to enable proper testing without depending on closed testing
infrastructure at involved companies. Unfortunately, even after finally
arranging a corporate donation to the ASF in June to support this need,
it took until late October for Apache Infra to finish provisioning the
machines.
5. Formal hand-off of OpenWhisk trademark/logo from IBM needs to be
executed; need to identify process for this. See #3 above.
* Discussion started w/ Apache legal via "legal-discuss" mailing list
with subject "Trademark handoff for "OpenWhisk" name and logo".
* IBM intends to hand-off ownership of trademarks at time of
graduation.
6. Announcements from Google (Knative) in late July and AWS
(Firecracker) just last week apply pressure on our community in order to
both explain to developers/operators how OW is differentiated from, as
well as compatible with, both popular providers’ frameworks.
How has the community developed since the last report?
* dev mailing list activity – was relatively light with the main
discussion topics/activity being (reflected in comments below as well):
Golang runtime and new ActionLoop (runtime)
Interpretation of "main" for GoLang and ActionLoop docker images
Promises (or equivalent) in Python and GoLang
Submitted PR for hopefully now stable GoLang OpenWhisk runtime
Re: Completing the integration of the Go lang runtime
Contributing an actionloop based runtime for Python - and
creating an actionloop repo
The ActionLoop based runtime for Python3.6 for OpenWhisk is 5
times faster than the curre...
Donation of Composer to OW
Donation of ibm-functions/composer to Apache OpenWhisk
towards the first apache release of openwhisk-composer
Re: Donation of ibm-functions/composer to Apache OpenWhisk
Performance and Logging
Active acks from invoker to controller
Proposal to Remove Artifact Store Polling for Blocking
Invocations
Relieve CouchDB on high load
Release
OpenWhisk officially first-time released all the 12 modules
under Apache as incubator pro...
Re: [DISCUSSION]: Proposing to use 1.12.0 as the version for
all runtimes for the first-t...
Instruction documented to release openwhisk projects under
apache
Re: Change the package name into org.apache.openwhisk for
openwhisk modules
Other:
Autonomous Container Scheduler v2 proposal
* incubator-openwhisk Github stars: 3657 (+185 since last report)
* incubator-openwhisk GitHub forks: 692 (+40 since last report). Note
lots of more competing projects entering the Serverless space.
* Slack community:
* 1,072 members (+103 from last report). Very active in most
channels from both end users or the project and contributors
* To-date: 126,282 messages sent across all channels (+13956 since
last report)
* Analytics: https://openwhisk-team.slack.com/admin/stats
* The bi-weekly Zoom "Technical Interchange" continues to be well
received and attended.
Complete videos posted to OW YouTube channel and detailed notes to
our CWIKI.
YouTube Channel: Apache Meetings Playlist
CWiki Meeting Notes: OpenWhisk Technical Interchange Meeting Notes
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OPENWHISK/2018-09-12+OW+Tech+Int
erchange+-+Meeting+Notes
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OPENWHISK/2018-09-26+OW+Tech+Int
erchange+-+Meeting+Notes
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OPENWHISK/2018-10-10+OW+Tech+Int
erchange+Meeting+Notes
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OPENWHISK/2018-10-24+OW+Tech+Int
erchange+Meeting+Notes
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OPENWHISK/2018-11-07+OW+Tech+Int
erchange+Meeting+Notes
* New Contributors
* ICLAs received:
Manjiri Tapaswi <mptapasw@ncsu.edu>
Andreas Tsagkaropoulos <atsagkaropoulos@mail.ntua.gr>
Neeraj Laad <neeraj.laad@uk.ibm.com>
* Joined Community Interchange calls and introduced themselves:
Shawn Black: Architect at a reinsurance company in St. Louis.
Stanciu - at Adobe, joined runtime team a few weeks ago
Victor: Grad. student at USC. Working on a thesis on real-time
computing in the Cloud. Goal is looking into how to apply
real-time components into OpenWhisk.
Markus: now with Red Hat
Prabhash Rathnayake, intern at WSO2, proposed JIRA package to
catalog
How has the project developed since the last report?
Emphasis on these areas have been featured since last report:
Google Knative
Knative and the general popularity of Kubernetes is driving the
community to design and document how OW can be compatible with
Knative concepts of “Serving”, “Build” and “Eventing”. Primarily
we are increasing our friendliness to the Kube community to
hopefully attract more developers to help us by improving Kube
deployment docs and configs. for both developers and operators to more
easily “get started”. Proposals on Wiki have stalled since Sept. need
to revitalize the conversation.
Release process
Initial releases of all “core” repos (both back-end platform and
front-end tooling) are complete. We are adding the release of the
new IBM donation of Composer at the time of authoring this report
(currently undergoing IPMC VOTE).
Rename of all "packages" (lib.) names to "apache.org", see: Re:
Change the package name into org.apache.openwhisk for openwhisk
modules
We look forward to creating a unified release to assure we have a
major/minor version that is tested to be compat. with one another
(as now all are disparate releases).
Need more mentor help at getting release votes through IPMC.
Website revamp
Completed. Now linking in critical developer and operator docs. to
be friendlier and provide “how tos” / tutorials to teach OW key
features such including Web Actions, Provider samples, Added
“getting started” sections for Ruby and Swift, as well as for new
Docker Desktop (with Kubernetes).
Runtime updates:
ActionLoop (part of Go Runtime as of today), supports a general,
very fast mechanism for creating new Runtimes (or migrating
existing).
New runtime for the .NET language needs to be taken “over the
finish line"
See initial discussion: dotnet 2.1 Runtime for OpenWhisk
Composer
Passed IP Clearance, IPMC vote completed
http://incubator.apache.org/ip-clearance/openwhisk-composer-python.html
original IBM donated code was here:
https://github.com/ibm-functions/composer-python/
Other Notable discussions/changes/issues/features:
No update
How would you assess the podling's maturity? Please feel free to add your
own commentary.
[ ] Initial setup
[ ] Working towards first release (nearly complete, see above)
[X] Community building
[X] Nearing graduation
[ ] Other:
Comments:
Need greater variety of contributors and contributing companies;
especially on the “back-end” platform side and to align us with Knative.
Need more mentor help at getting release votes through IPMC with the
large # of components we have now.
Date of last release:
Links to latest component releases can be found here:
https://openwhisk.apache.org/downloads.html
Composer (new), v0.90 RC1, undergoing IPMC vote:
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/8b182e4b0ad7e402f4be61500285abedf440672
15a5d351bdaeb005b@%3Cdev.openwhisk.apache.org%3E
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
New Committers+PPMC:
None since last report
New Committers:
None since last report (PPMC will work on this)
Signed-off-by:
[X](openwhisk) Bertrand Delacretaz
Comments: I have asked on list for clarification on the "It seems that
Apache Infra. will not provide us servers" comment, to see what could
be done.
[X](openwhisk) Jim Jagielski
Comments:
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
Justin Mclean: There was a conversation that mentioned unapproved
releaseson the dev kist. This situation needs to be clarified.
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Pony Mail
Pony Mail is a mail-archiving, archive viewing, and interaction service,
that can be integrated with many email platforms.
Pony Mail has been incubating since 2016-05-27.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Growing Community
2. Working on release processes
3.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
Nothing of note
How has the community developed since the last report?
It's been very quiet. We have sufficient oversight, but the project has
not seen much new development.
There are outstanding bug reports, but to the best of my knowledge, no
vulnerabilities exist.
How has the project developed since the last report?
No noteworthy development since last report.
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:
2018-02-05
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
No new committers since last report.
Sharan Foga has joined as a mentor in August 2018.
Have your mentors been helpful and responsive or are things falling
through the cracks? In the latter case, please list any open issues
that need to be addressed.
Signed-off-by:
[ ](ponymail) John D. Ament
Comments:
[x](ponymail) Sharan Foga
Comments: Some work really needs to be done on community building to
get more people involved with the project. I suspect that there are
a few users within several ASF projects so reaching out to them for
feedback could be good way to get some interest started.
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
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SAMOA
SAMOA provides a collection of distributed streaming algorithms for the most
common data mining and machine learning tasks such as classification,
clustering, and regression, as well as programming abstractions to develop
new algorithms that run on top of distributed stream processing engines
(DSPEs).
It features a pluggable architecture that allows it to run on several DSPEs
such as Apache Storm, Apache S4, and Apache Samza.
SAMOA has been incubating since 2014-12-15.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Revitalize the project by resuming development
2. Enlarge the user base and contributing community
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
None
How has the community developed since the last report?
* Mailing list activity (September 2018 - November 2018):
* @dev: 30 messages
How has the project developed since the last report?
* 2 new PRs created
* Working on code for supporting Apache Heron
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:
2016-09-30
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
January 2018
Have your mentors been helpful and responsive or are things falling
through the cracks? In the latter case, please list any open issues
that need to be addressed.
Yes, the mentors have been helpful and responsive.
Signed-off-by:
[X](samoa) Alan Gates
Comments:
[ ](samoa) Ashutosh Chauhan
Comments:
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
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ShardingSphere
Sharding-Sphere is an ecosystem of transparent distributed database
middleware, focusing on data sharding, distributed transaction and database
orchestration.
ShardingSphere has been incubating since 2018-11-10.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Move codebase to Apache.
2. Upload website.
3. First ASF release.
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?
N/A(This is the first report.)
How has the project developed since the last report?
N/A(This is the first report.)
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:
2018-10-23 (before joining Apache Incubator.)
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
Have your mentors been helpful and responsive or are things falling
through the cracks? In the latter case, please list any open issues
that need to be addressed.
Signed-off-by:
[x](shardingsphere) Craig L Russell
Comments:
[ ](shardingsphere) Benjamin Hindman
Comments:
[X](shardingsphere) Willem Ning Jiang
Comments: shardingsphere is in the middle of moving the repo to Apache.
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
The migration of the repository has been deferred for a final release
outside Apache.
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SINGA
SINGA is a distributed deep learning platform.
SINGA has been incubating since 2015-03-17.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Release version 2.0 in December and integrate Rafiki code
2. Preparing for graduation
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SINGA-405
3.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
N/A
How has the community developed since the last report?
The dev email list is more activate with more users.
A new committer is nominated.
Number of emails from Sep to Dec.
Dec 2018, 23
Nov 2018, 71
Oct 2018, 51
Sep 2018, 14
How has the project developed since the last report?
We have developed a submodule of Singa, called Rafiki to provide
automated machine learning.
Two major features are developed for Singa, i.e., autograd (finished) and
onnx (almost done).
There are 265 Commits since last report (including the commits for
Rafiki).
How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
The system is getting stable and there are more and more users.
We are preparing the graduation process,
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SINGA-405, and are discussioning it
in the dev list.
[ ] Initial setup
[ ] Working towards first release
[ ] Community building
[X] Nearing graduation
[ ] Other:
Date of last release:
2018-06-06
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
2018-12-04
Have your mentors been helpful and responsive or are things falling
through the cracks? In the latter case, please list any open issues
that need to be addressed.
The mentors are helpful and have given the suggestions on graduation.
Signed-off-by:
[X](singa) Alan Gates
Comments:
[x](singa) Ted Dunning
Comments:
[ ](singa) Thejas Nair
Comments:
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
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SkyWalking
SkyWalking
Skywalking is an APM (application performance monitor), especially for
microservice, Cloud Native and container-based architecture systems.
Support observe system by distributed tracing agents/SDKs or through Service
Mesh telemetry data.
SkyWalking has been incubating since 2017-12-08.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. IP clearance.
3. First ASF release. (SkyWalking 5.0)
3. Further ASF culture and processes.
4. 5.x releases are stable for product, and have 5 open end users, at
least.
5. Support multiple languages agents/SDKs.
6. Integration with other pupolar OSS systems. Zipkin data format
supported.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
Have six Apache releases already. 5.0.0-alpha, 5.0.0-beta, 5.0.0-beta2,
5.0.0-RC2, 5.0.0-GA, 6.0.0-alpha
Started the `Graduate Apache SkyWalking (incubating) as a TLP` discussion
in IPMC. IPMC addressed a main issue before graduation, need to promote
more committers by given the number of contributors.
SkyWalking community has recognised, and voted/passed three new
committers, more committers are in discussion and voting process. The
PPMCs have learned from the graduation discussion.
How has the community developed since the last report?
1. SkyWalking is working with Istio community, in the 6.0.0-alpha
release, we support telemetry format from Istio.
2. Near 50 companies have confirmed they are using SkyWalking
through issue report or our powered-by page.
3. There are 74 people to contribute codes to our main repo. 17 more than
the last report.
4. Three new committors voted and joined. Wenbin Wang, Can Li and Jian
Tan.
5. A new UI project open source. https://github.com/TinyAllen/rocketbot.
It runs as a secondary choice and very cool UI for SkyWalking, by
following our query protocol.
6. baiyang, wangkai, liyuntao, ilucky, zhangkewei, and wangsheng added to
SkyWalking PPMC, because they are initial committers.
How has the project developed since the last report?
The project has a diverse community, many users, contributors are from
different companies.
There has been over 100 commits by more than 22 contributors in the three
months.
In 5.0.0-RC2 release milestones, there are 130 issues and pull requests
solved.
In 5.0.0-GA release milestones, there are 32 issues and pull requests
solved.
In 6.0.0-alpha release milestones, there are 202 issues and pull requests
solved.
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
[x] Nearing graduation
[ ] Other:
Date of last release:
5.0.0-GA 17 Oct 2018
6.0.0-alpha 14 Nov 2018
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
Dec. 2018
Have your mentors been helpful and responsive or are things falling
through the cracks? In the latter case, please list any open issues
that need to be addressed.
Signed-off-by:
[X](skywalking) Luke Han
Comments:
[ ](skywalking) Willem Ning Jiang
Comments:
[X](skywalking) Mick Semb Wever
Comments: 'issues to address' probably doesn't need to be so
technical, the board can presume technical momentum by release
frequency and new committers. Graduation is more dependent on the
ASF community dynamics. Adding the new committers for example.
[X](skywalking) Ignasi Barrera
Comments:
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
Drew Farris (shepherd) - Mentors active on mailing lists, active progress
towards graduation.
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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. Revive community activity (Discussion in mailing lists, increase
frequency of commits)
2. Make it easier for Devs to contribute to the project (e.g.
documentation, framework).
3. Developing a workflow in Spot that allows for intuitive analytics.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
We are currently down to 1 mentor. Although we put a request for an
additional mentor, we are not going to push the request until we wrap up
what we need to do for the next release. Once we have finished up work
and are ready to set up a vote we will push harder to invite another
mentor to help us with the process. We anticipate having a lot of
questions around the release process.
How has the community developed since the last report?
Since having pushed through some stagnant pull requests we have noticed a
little more activity. We are trying out different ways to make it easier
for developers to contribute. We are talking to users to understand what
pieces of Spot are important to them.
How has the project developed since the last report?
We have identified issues we think would block our release; mainly around
the ease of installation and use. We are doing some documentation
write-ups and code updates to make the Install process easier. We’re also
testing out setup on a VM with the aim to make it easier for developers to
contribute.
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:
2017-09-08
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
2018-01-18
Have your mentors been helpful and responsive or are things falling
through the cracks? In the latter case, please list any open issues
that need to be addressed.
Holding off on pushing for more mentors until we are ready to start the
official release process.
Signed-off-by:
[X](spot) Uma Maheswara Rao G
Comments: Project is seeking for additional mentors.
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
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Superset
Superset is an enterprise-ready web application for data exploration, data
visualization and dashboarding.
Superset has been incubating since 2017-05-21.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Project operations - There are 3 specific issues that have been
brought to our attention that we are committed to addressing:
Discussions happening offline from dev@superset.incubator.apache.org
(more below under issues that the Incubator PMC or ASF Board should be
aware of)
Unapproved releases (more below under issues that the Incubator PMC or
ASF Board should be aware of)
Trademark - Some research has been conducted here
https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/PODLINGNAMESEARCH/issues/PODLINGNAME
SEARCH-124 , but more details have been requested. The expected format
output described is not very prescriptive. Just commented asking for a
example of a well executed name search.
2. Plan and execute our first Apache release. Though we have been in
incubation for a year and a half, we are committed to planning and
following through on our first Apache release together with the community
by kicking off a discussion thread on dev@superset.incubator.apache.org
to align on the deliverables for the first Apache release.
3. Align on a long-term product roadmap with the broader Apache Superset
community. As a part of planning our first Apache release, we would also
like to build out the high-level roadmap for the project with a look
ahead of 1 year. We plan to create this by starting a discussion thread
on dev@superset.incubator.apache.org to work collaboratively on a vision
and roadmap for 2019.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC or ASF Board might wish/need to be aware
of?
* Discussions happening offline from email - The
dev@superset.incubator.apache.org email list has not been very active as
a channel of discussion. To be clear, this is both a result of 1) when
the list started, GitHub spammed the email list with notifications and
our hypothesis is that many people filtered this email alias 2) the Apache
email list does not support images making it challenging to support a
project that is UI-heavy as a tool for data visualization and 3) other
communication channels are being used to compliment the email list. On
#3, there is an open bi-weekly meeting for contributors and committers to
discuss issues (no decisions are made here - please see the update on
SIPs in the project development section) and while the link to the Google
Doc with the notes was posted to the dev@superset.incubator.apache.org
email list, we could have done a better job of posting the notes from the
meetings and we recognize that it is more challenging for some community
members who live in other timezones to participate. There are also two
reasonably active forums for live discussions (Slack Group
http://apache-superset.slack.com and Gitter Channel
https://gitter.im/airbnb/superset) however, we now know that casual
conversations should only happen on these channels and that the majority
of the discussion needs to happen via email. As a next step, we will
have an initial meeting with the Mentors, PPMC and Committers on
Thursday,
December 13th to figure out what it takes to address this issue and help
get the project on track. We will also use this meeting as an opportunity
to align across the PPMC and Committers about our obligations and
responsibilities as well as to receive coaching from our Mentors on the
Apache Way.
* Unapproved releases - Currently, committers working on the project have
not been following the proper procedures in discussing the content of
releases on the dev@superset.incubator.apache.org email list nor have we
been consistent in bringing releases to a vote. This negatively impacts
the ability of other community members to participate. We were uncertain
how to manage the LICENSE/COPYRIGHT files and how they relate to
convenience releases and we have struggled to understand how to proceed
with the name search requirement. That said, it doesn’t justify pushing
a release forward and at a minimum we will discontinue this practice. We
will also discuss this with our Mentors on 12/13 to receive coaching on
this topic.
* As mentioned earlier, having an Apache email list that doesn’t support
images makes it very challenging for our project. We would be interested
to know if the ASF Infrastructure Team has any plans to address this.
* We currently only have 3 active PMCs (1 inactive). We should strive to
add more PMCs to the project.
How has the community developed since the last report?
* Organic growth of our Github contributors (274->306), forks
(3627->3974),
watchers (1077->1157) and stars (20,519->22,097)
* Added Krist Wongsuphasawat as a new committer.
How has the project developed since the last report?
* We have been intentional in discussing and voting on issues using
GitHub (for SIPs) as it supports images (a current challenge with the
Apache email listserv) and held votes for them on the
dev@superset.incubator.apache.org list
* Faster, easier editing of datasources (adding new metrics, dimensions,
metadata) - We've now added the ability to modify datasources directly
from the Explore view.
* New time range filter with added simple default options, and relative
date filters.
* Url shortener for dashboards, for easier sharing.
* Improvements to the visualize flow - You can now go from a sql query
right to a chart without needing to configure columns.
* A healthy, constant flow of bug fixes, quality improvements and new
features, take a look at the project’s Pulse on Github for more details
How does the podling rate their own maturity.
[ ] Initial setup
[X] Working towards first release
[ ] Community building
[ ] Nearing graduation
[ ] Other:
Date of last release:
No official release yet since being voted into Apache
Incubation. (Planning for the first Apache release in Q1, 2019)
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
* Krist Wongsuphasawat - Committer (2018-11-06)
Signed-off-by:
[ ](superset) Ashutosh Chauhan
Comments:
[ ](superset) Luke Han
Comments:
[X](superset) Alan Gates
Comments: This is a very nice detailed report, thanks.
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
Justin Mclean: Thanks for recognising the issues this project faces
and taking steps towards fixing them.
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Taverna
Taverna is a domain-independent suite of tools used to design and execute
data-driven workflows.
Taverna has been incubating since 2014-10-20.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Re-engage PPMC members
2. Fix licence issues
3. Graduate
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
INFRA-16698 moved 2 repos out of Apache git although they are still
listed on https://git.apache.org/.
How has the community developed since the last report?
How has the project developed since the last report?
Clearing up the last couple of licence issues and merging or
removing pull requests. Project is ready for graduation
although more activity from PPMC and members would be good.
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:
2018-01-18
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
2018-02-26 (PPMC)
Have your mentors been helpful and responsive or are things falling
through the cracks? In the latter case, please list any open issues
that need to be addressed.
Mentors are helpful but a bit thin on the ground. Overly reliant on
a small number of them.
Signed-off-by:
[x](taverna) Andy Seaborne
Comments:
The project has two mentors showing any level of activity although as
the project is "about to graduate" it should be almost self-sufficent.
Graduation is possible though close to the minimum requirements;
more active PPMC members would be very helpful.
Due to lack of time I have to resign as mentor.
[ ](taverna) Marlon Pierce
Comments:
[x](taverna) Stian Soiland-Reyes
Comments:
PPMC has increased activity levels and are resolving remaining licensing
issues.
Agree with Andy that more of the PPMC members being active would be ideal.
[ ](taverna) Suresh Srinivas
Comments:
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
--------------------
Tephra
Tephra is a system for providing globally consistent transactions
on top of Apache HBase and other storage engines.
Tephra has been incubating since 2016-03-07.
Two most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Improve community engagement
2. Increase adoption
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
- None at this time.
How has the community developed since the last report?
- 1 new subscriber in dev mailing list since the last report
How has the project developed since the last report?
- Working on 0.16.0-incubating release
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:
2018-09-04
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
- None since coming to incubation
Have your mentors been helpful and responsive or are things falling
through the cracks? In the latter case, please list any open issues
that need to be addressed.
- Mentors are helpful and responsive
Signed-off-by:
[X](tephra) Alan Gates
Comments:
[X](tephra) James Taylor
Comments:
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
--------------------
Warble
a distributed endpoint monitoring solution where the agent is hosted on your
own hardware.
Warble has been incubating since 2018-06-11.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Engage initial committers.
2. Set core design and feature set, avoid creep of new features before
the core is complete.
3. Expand committers and community
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
None
How has the community developed since the last report?
Chris Lambertus has fully moved to role as mentor.
How has the project developed since the last report?
Development is still slow with plans to better engage
our existing devs.
How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
[X] Initial setup
[ ] Working towards first release
[X] Community building
[ ] Nearing graduation
[ ] Other:
Date of last release:
NA
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
NA
Have your mentors been helpful and responsive or are things falling
through the cracks? In the latter case, please list any open issues
that need to be addressed.
NA
Signed-off-by:
[ ](warble) Daniel Takamori
Comments:
[X](warble) Chris Lambertus
Comments:
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
--------------------
Zipkin
Zipkin is a distributed tracing system. It helps gather timing data needed
to troubleshoot latency problems in microservice architectures.
Zipkin has been incubating since 2018-08-29.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Finalize the migration of the GitHub repositories
2. Wrap up and agree upon release process, the draft discussion has been
started already
3. Plan to integrate one of the repositories (zipkin-karaf) with Apache
CI (Jenkins)
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
The podling is presently blocked on INFRA-16989 however from the ASF
side all concerns are cleared out.
How has the community developed since the last report?
The workshop regarding major Zipkin UI rework in planned on 3-7 of
December, 2018.
How has the project developed since the last report?
Not much progress to report since the repositories have not been migrated
yet.
The new mentor, Sheng Wu, has joined the project. Also, the team has
established a process to reflect project updates which is to create a
wiki at the same time as the incubator reports (called LastMonthInZipkin).
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:
N/A
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
2018-11-16
Have your mentors been helpful and responsive or are things falling
through the cracks? In the latter case, please list any open issues
that need to be addressed.
Not much involvement from the mentors for the past month.
Signed-off-by:
[X](zipkin) Michael Semb Wever
Comments:
[ ](zipkin) John D. Ament
Comments:
[ ](zipkin) Willem Ning Jiang
Comments:
[X](zipkin) Andriy Redko
Comments:
[x](zipkin) Sheng Wu
Comments:
IPMC/Shepherd notes:
}}}
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Attachment AG: Report from the Apache Jackrabbit Project [Michael Dürig]
## Description:
The Apache Jackrabbit™ content repository is a fully conforming
implementation of the Content Repository for Java™ Technology API
(JCR, specified in JSR 170 and 283). The Jackrabbit content repository is
stable, largely feature complete and actively being maintained. Jackrabbit
Oak is an effort to implement a scalable and performant hierarchical content
repository as a modern successor to the Apache Jackrabbit content
repository. It is targeted for use as the foundation of modern world-class
web sites and other demanding content applications. In contrast to its
predecessor, Oak does not implement all optional features from the JSR
specifications and it is not a reference implementation.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity:
Apache Jackrabbit Oak receives most attention nowadays. All maintenance
branches and the unstable development branch are continuously seeing moderate
to high activity.
We are running up to our 5th major release of Oak (1.10). Branching is
expected to happen early January.
A hackathon was held in Bucharest this quarter
(https://wiki.apache.org/jackrabbit/Oakathon%20November%202018) where many
ideas have been drafted and pondered. Amongst them improvements to our
release model and better CI coverage for components depending on 3rd party
services (i.e. cloud providers).
Apache Jackrabbit itself is mostly in maintenance mode with most of the work
going into bug fixing and tooling. New features are mainly driven by
dependencies from Oak.
## Health report:
The project is healthy with a continuous stream of traffic on all mailing
lists reflecting the activity of the respective component.
There is a wide range of topics being discussed on the dev and user lists as
well as on the various JIRA issues.
Commit activity is moderate to high mirroring the activity on the JIRA issues
and the desire of the individual contributors to bring the features in for Oak
1.10.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 52 PMC members.
- Woonsan Ko was added to the PMC on Tue Sep 25 2018
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 52 committers.
- Woonsan Ko was added as a committer on Tue Sep 25 2018
## Releases:
- Jackrabbit-2.14.6 was released on Thu Sep 06 2018
- Jackrabbit-2.17.6 was released on Mon Oct 01 2018
- Jackrabbit-2.17.7 was released on Fri Nov 23 2018
- Jackrabbit-2.18.0 was released on Fri Nov 30 2018
- Oak-1.2.30 was released on Tue Sep 11 2018
- Oak-1.4.23 was released on Wed Sep 26 2018
- Oak-1.6.14 was released on Wed Sep 12 2018
- Oak-1.6.15 was released on Wed Nov 14 2018
- Oak-1.8.8 was released on Tue Sep 25 2018
- Oak-1.8.9 was released on Mon Nov 05 2018
- Oak-1.9.10 was released on Thu Nov 01 2018
- Oak-1.9.11 was released on Mon Nov 12 2018
- Oak-1.9.12 was released on Mon Nov 26 2018
- Oak-1.9.9 was released on Tue Oct 09 2018
- Vault-3.2.4 was released on Thu Sep 27 2018
- Vault-3.2.6 was released on Fri Nov 30 2018
## JIRA activity:
- 236 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 235 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
-----------------------------------------
Attachment AH: Report from the Apache Joshua Project [Tommaso Teofili]
## Description:
Joshua is a statistical machine translation toolkit.
## Activity:
Joshua has been incubating from 2016-02-13 to 2018-10-03. The Joshua community
has been mostly silent since graduation resolution has passed. Since mid
December some more activity has been seen in the dev@ mailing list to perform
post graduation steps and discuss migration to Gitbox together with some Jira
activity / commits.
## PMC changes
-- No new PMC members in the last 3 months.
-- Currently 10 PMC members.
## Releases
-- Last release (6.1) is from June 22, 2017
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Attachment AI: Report from the Apache Karaf Project [Jean-Baptiste Onofré]
## Description:
- Apache Karaf provides a modern and polymorphic applications runtime,
multi-purpose (microservices, OSGi, etc).
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity:
- Once Karaf 4.2.2 will be released, master will become Karaf 4.3.x,
upgrading to OSGi R7.
- We are working on two new PoC for Karaf:
* Karaf Vineyard is a API management platform powered by Karaf, providing
API registry and gateway
* Karaf Winegrower is the new karaf boot name. The purpose is to provide a
complete framework/tool allowing developers to start very easily with the
Karaf ecosystem
- We also start discussion about improving the Karaf features service to
better leverage resources repositories.
## Health report:
- We can see interaction with different community (jclouds, OpenNMS, ...) and
a general activity increase especially from users community
- We also agree to define a cadence in Karaf runtime and subprojects release
cycle (every 3 months). It allows to include fixes/jira update most often
in release and gives a better roadmap to our users.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 17 PMC members.
- New PMC members added in the last 3 months: François Papon, Grzegorz
Grzybek
- Last PMC addition was François Papon & Grzegorz Grzybek on Mon Nov 29 2018
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 31 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Francois Papon at Sat May 19 2018
## Releases:
- 4.1.7 was released on Thu Nov 29 2018
- Cave 4.1.1 was released on Mon Sep 10 2018
- Cellar 4.0.5 was released on Sun Oct 14 2018
- Cellar 4.1.2 was released on Sun Oct 14 2018
- Decanter 2.1.0 was released on Tue Sep 11 2018
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@karaf.apache.org:
- 189 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months):
- 160 emails sent to list (163 in previous quarter)
- issues@karaf.apache.org:
- 43 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 1182 emails sent to list (890 in previous quarter)
- user@karaf.apache.org:
- 362 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
- 578 emails sent to list (500 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 139 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 123 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment AJ: Report from the Apache Labs Project [Danny Angus]
-----------------------------------------
Attachment AK: Report from the Apache Lucene Project [Adrien Grand]
## Description:
- Lucene Core is a search-engine toolkit
- Solr is a search server built on top of Lucene Core
## Issues:
- There are no new issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
We are in the process of releasing Lucene and Solr 7.6.
Lucene 7.6 most notably features better indexing of shapes via a KD tree that
we effectively use as a R-tree. Solr 7.6 is making first steps to discourage
users from using FieldCache to sort or compute facets and contains a number of
incremental improvements to the Stream Evaluator framework.
The release has been a bit frustrating due to the fact that our process
requires that tests pass for the artifacts to be built, yet Solr has a number
of tests that are flaky that forced the release manager to first disable these
tests, and then also attempt to build a new release multiple times until tests
pass. Release management is already challenging on its own so this is
something that needs fixing.
There have been efforts recently to improve stability of tests, but this was
only merged to the master and 7.x branches. So hopefully this issue that we
have had with 7.6 won't occur again when we want to release 7.7.
There are also discussions to release 8.0 in the near future. We wanted to
release 7.6 first but we now expect a branch to be cut any day and master to
move from 8.0 to 9.0.
Uwe Schindler, our "Generics and sophisticated Backwards Compatibility
Policeman", now has access to the OpenJDK bug tracker. We expect it to be
helpful in order to more quickly iterate with JDK developers in the future
when we report bugs.
## PMC changes:
- No new PMC members
- Last addition was Cao Mạnh Đạt on on April 2nd 2018
- Currently 49 PMC members.
## Committer base changes:
- Gus Heck was added as a committer on October 30th 2018
- Tim Allison was added as a committer on November 2nd 2018
- Currently 75 committers.
## Releases:
- Lucene/Solr 7.5.0 was released on September 24th.
- PyLucene 7.5.0 was released October 19th.
- There are ongoing discussions to release 7.6.0 and 8.0.0.
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Attachment AL: Report from the Apache Lucene.Net Project [Shad Storhaug]
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Attachment AM: Report from the Apache Mnemonic Project [Gang Wang]
Description:
Apache Mnemonic is an open-source Java library for durable object-oriented
programming on hybrid storage-class memory(e.g. NVM) space. it comes up
with durable object model (DOM) and durable computing model(DCM) and
takes full advantages of storage-class memory to simplify the code
complexity, avoid SerDe/(Un)Marshal, mitigate caching for constructing
next generation computing platform. Mnemonic makes the storing and
transmitting of massive linked objects graphs simpler and more efficient.
The performance tuning could also be mostly converged to a single point
of tuning place if based on Mnemonic to process and analyze
linked objects. The programmer is able to focus on the durable object
oriented business logic instead of worrying about how to normalize/join,
serDe(un)marshal, cache and storing their linked business objects
with arbitrary complexity.
Issues:
There are no board-level issues at the moment.
Activity:
In this period of reporting, A new major feature has being added to
Mnemonic code base that this new feature is to support PMDK that is the
new SDK that Intel® developed for their Intel® Optane™ technology.
The Intel® Optane™ technology is a unique combination of Intel®
3D XPoint™ memory media with Intel-built advanced system memory
controller, interface hardware, and software IP. Together, these
building blocks deliver a game-changing technology that presents new
computer architecture opportunities and computing possibilities
for a breadth of markets.
The deployment of PMDK requires special configuration for the system,
our community are working on that to preparing a stable PMDK runtime
and development environment with PMDK on varieties of Docker containers.
The community also considers about the Apache Flink integration with
Apache Mnemonic.
We have not yet get much activities and releases in this reporting
period, probably, the vacation, holidays & shopping seasons, but we have
a new committer joined our community.
Health Report:
Basically unchanged since the last report. Users are generally quiet
in public but development continues.
PMC Changes:
- Currently 13 PMC members.
- Last PMC joined in Jun. 2018
Committer Base Changes:
- Currently 14 committers.
- Last Committer joined in Dec. 2018
Releases:
- Last release was v0.12.0 on Sep. 2018
- Still active development on next major version (0.13.0)
JIRA Activity:
- 11 JIRA tickets created since the last report (Sep. 2018)
- Also 5 JIRA tickets closed/resolved this period
Sincerely,
Gang(Gary) Wang on behalf of the Apache Mnemonic PMC
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Attachment AN: Report from the Apache Mynewt Project [Justin Mclean]
## Description:
Mynewt is a real-time operating system for constrained embedded systems like
wearables, lightbulbs, locks and doorbells. It works on a variety of 32-bit
MCUs (microcontrollers), including ARM Cortex-M, RISC-V and MIPS
architectures.
## Issues:
None.
## Activity:
- Release 1.5.0 completed on Nov 5, 2018 following release 1.4.1 on July 1,
2018
- Community work in serval areas including encrypted flash support, new
Cortex-M3 and Cortex M-7 MCUs,logging enhancements, improved RTT
integration, common set of error codes for the I2C HAL, drivers for new
sensors and more.
- Travis Continuous Integration (CI) can now be used to build and test
Apache Mynewt on both Linux and OSX systems.
## Health report:
- PMC and committers are active
- Users questions and contributor's pull requests are quickly dealt with
- Promotion of Apache Mynewt at Embedded Linux Conference + OpenIoT Summit
Europe, Oct 2018
- Talk on MyNewt at ApacheCon in Montreal
- Talk at 2018 China Open Source Conference (which was live translated and
video recorded)
## PMC changes:
- Currently 19 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Aditi Hilbert on Wed Jun 21 2017
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 28 committers
- No new committers added or voted on since last report
## Releases:
- 1.5.0 was released on Nov 5, 2018
- 1.4.1 was released on July 1, 2018
- Making mcuboot the default bootloader for Apache Mynewt and splitting out
component nffs into a separate repo planned for next release
## Mailing list activity:
- Mailing list activity seeing new users and responders to questions asked
(esp. questions from newcomers)
- Mailing list exchanges are mostly around BLE, graceful shutdown, error
recovery and reporting, Mynewt 1.5 release, bootloaders.
- Mailing list average activity (# of topics, messages, people responding)
dropped by about a third compared to previous quarter.
- Slack activity up significantly and weekly/daily active users up 15% from
last period (from 362 to 415 active users)
## GitHub Issues activity:
- Issue types seen include change/feature requests, bug reports,
contributions/PR, Q&A
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Attachment AO: Report from the Apache OFBiz Project [Jacopo Cappellato]
## Description:
Apache OFBiz is an open source enterprise automation software project
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Highlights:
- Trademarks: since our last report we cleared the backlog of domains needing
our attention and provided an update to the Trademark team; note that for
one of the domains (ofbiz.de) the PMC's recommendation to the ASF was to ask
the current owner to transfer the domain to the foundation (since the owner
was willing to do so) and we filed a request for this [1]; after our request
was rejected by the ASF one of our PMC members, Michael Brohl, kindly
offered to get the ownership of the domain and redirect it to the project's
official web site
- Vulnerability reports: we are experiencing a remarkable increase in the
number of security vulnerability reports we receive; although this is great
because it means that there is interest in the OFBiz product and because
they are helping us to make OFBiz more solid, processing all these new
reports is also challenging for our security team; thus, in order to manage
them efficiently, we are trying to grow the security team and we are
discussing better ways to organize our work (e.g., using an issue tracker to
keep better track of the status of each reports, creating templates to help
us to promptly reply to various emails, etc...)
- Releases: we have published a new release for the 16.11 series; it is a bug
fix release that also addresses two security vulnerabilities (CVE-2018-8033
and CVE-2011-3600); since it is the 5th release of the series it is named
16.11.05; the stabilization of the new release branch, 17.12, is proceeding
well but we have not scheduled a publication date, yet;
- Various bug fixes and enhancements have been contributed and committed to
the trunk: a summary of the main changes is available as usual in the
project's blog [2]
- More details about the community activities are published in the official
blog [2], on Twitter [3] and other social media [4].
## Health report:
the committer and PMC base didn't change in the last quarter but we have some
candidates in our watchlist; the community is actively involved in improving
the trunk, fixing vulnerabilities, stabilizing the release branches and in
various discussions and support requests posted mostly in the mailing list and
in Jira
## PMC changes:
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Paul Foxworthy on Mon Mar 19 2018
- Currently 20 PMC members.
## Committer base changes:
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Aditya Sharma at Tue Jun 26 2018
- Currently 46 committers.
## Releases:
- 16.11.05 was released on Tue Oct 02 2018; it is a bug fix release that also
contains fixes for two security vulnerabilities: CVE-2018-8033 and
CVE-2011-3600
## Mailing list activity:
There is nothing significant to report in the mailing list activity and
statistics.
## JIRA activity:
- 145 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 160 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
## References
[1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-17163
[2] https://blogs.apache.org/ofbiz/
[3] https://twitter.com/ApacheOfbiz
[4] https://www.facebook.com/Apache-OFBiz-1478219232210477/
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Attachment AP: Report from the Apache Olingo Project [Michael Bolz]
## Description:
Apache Olingo is a Java and JavaScript library that implements the Open Data
Protocol (OData). Apache Olingo serves client and server aspects of OData. It
currently supports OData 2.0 and OData 4.0. The latter is the OASIS version of
the protocol: OASIS Open Data Protocol (OData) TC.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity:
- After the vote for the new Olingo VP the resolution to change the chair of
a project was sent to Apache Board. The Apache Board approved Special Order
7A, Change the Apache Olingo Project Chair, by Unanimous Vote of the
directors present.
- A planned activity is to start discussion about current (not) active and
possible new members in the Olingo PMC (beginning of 2019). This is also
related to last board report feedback:
> mt: It has been 18 months since the last PMC or committer addition.
> Is the PMC monitoring any potential candidates?
## Health report:
- The Olingo project is still healthy and has no issues that require board
involvement (beside already mentioned activity ).
- The V4 code line is on steady development also reflected in related
discussions on mailing list and new created JIRA items.
- The V2 code line has no new contributions but open and new created JIRA
items. Based on that last release was one year ago it is planned to do a
vote for a new minor maintenance release.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 13 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Ramesh Reddy on Thu Oct 08 2015
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 25 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Archana Rai at Fri May 26 2017
## Releases:
- Last release was 4.5.0 on Mon Aug 13 2018
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@olingo.apache.org:
- 88 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 163 emails sent to list (103 in previous quarter)
- user@olingo.apache.org:
- 203 subscribers (up 3 in the last 3 months):
- 6 emails sent to list (11 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 30 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 18 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment AQ: Report from the Apache OODT Project [Imesha Sudasingha]
## Description:
Apache OODT is a software framework as well as an architectural style for the
rapid construction of scientific data systems. It provides components for
data capture, curation, metadata extraction, workflow management, resource
management, and data processing.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- Last release was 1.2.5 on September 18th 2018
- A discussion is ongoing on plan to containerize OODT
- 1.9 release is yet to be made even though the required developments are
almost complete.
## Health report:
During this reporting period, there has been an increased activity due to
contributions from a new community member and active usage of OODT in user
projects. We plan to release 1.9 (which was delayed) in the coming reporting
period. Furthermore, we plan to containerize OODT components along with a
docker build. In addition to that, we are planning on what GSoC project ideas
to make available for GSoC 2019 and possible mentors.
Overall this period can be considered as an active period where new
contributions and active users were involved.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 45 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Imesha Sudasingha on Mon Aug 28 2017
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 46 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Imesha Sudasingha at Tue Aug 29 2017
## Releases:
- 1.2.5 was released on Thu Sep 13 2018
## Mailing list activity:
There was increased activity in this period due an ongoing discussion on
containerization, a new contributor fixing some bugs and some users actively
using OODT in their projects.
- dev@oodt.apache.org:
- 95 subscribers (up 3 in the last 3 months):
- 139 emails sent to list (118 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 10 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 4 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment AR: Report from the Apache Open Climate Workbench Project [Michael James Joyce]
Open Climate Workbench is a library for evaluating climate models on regional
and continental scales using observational datasets from a variety of sources.
* There are no Board-level issue at this time.
* Version 1.3.0 was released on April 23, 2018.
* The latest release version (version 1.3.0) and its application has been
published in Geoscientific Model Development (Lee et al.,
2018<https://www.geosci-model-dev.net/11/4435/2018/>). After the
release, several minor bugs have been reported and fixed.
* More than 100 students at Portland State University used OCW-based
software to learn about regional climate change in their physical
geography lab in October 2018.
* We are currently refactoring OCW by applying xarray and dask.
* The latest commit was made by a new committer on November 24, 2018/
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Attachment AS: Report from the Apache OpenNLP Project [Jörn Kottmann]
## Description:
- Apache OpenNLP is a machine learning based toolkit for the processing of
natural language text.
## Issues:
- There are no issues
## Activity:
- The activity on the 1.x branch of slowed down a bit and more time was spent
developing the future 2 version of OpenNLP based on Deep Learning concepts.
There are now proof-of-concepts for three NLP components.
- Suneel Marthi and Joern Kottmann will present at FOSDEM 2019 and BigData
Warsaw 2019 about Streaming pipelines for Neural Machine Translation
leveraging Apache OpenNLP for Language Detection, Tokenization, Sentence
Detection from an Apache Flink streaming pipelines.
## Health report:
- The project has a very active committer base and there’s healthy activity
on mailing lists.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 15 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Koji Sekiguchi on Tue Oct 10 2017
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 21 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Jeffrey T. Zemerick at Wed Apr 26 2017
## Releases:
- Last release was 1.9.0 on Mon Jul 02 2018
## Mailing list activity:
- The dev and user lists have the usual amount of activity.
- users@opennlp.apache.org:
- 448 subscribers (down -2 in the last 3 months):
- 23 emails sent to list (16 in previous quarter)
- dev@opennlp.apache.org:
- 237 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 7 emails sent to list (25 in previous quarter)
- issues@opennlp.apache.org:
- 51 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 82 emails sent to list (123 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 8 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 6 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment AT: Report from the Apache OpenWebBeans Project [Mark Struberg]
## Description:
Apache OpenWebBeans is an ALv2-licensed implementations of the
"Contexts and Dependency Injection for the Java EE platform"
specifications which are defined as JSR-299 (CDI-1.0), JSR-346
(CDI-1.1 and CDI-1.2 MR) and JSR-365 (CDI-2.0).
The OWB community also maintains a small server as
Apache Meecrowave subproject. Meecrowave bundles latest releases of
the ASF projects Tocmat9 + OpenWebBeans + CXF + Johnzon + log4j2.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
We got slightly less activity this quarter but still shipped a few
releases. We are currently preparing a maintenance release for
OWB-1.7.x (EE7 level) and OWB-2.0.9. Both for improved Java11
support.
Please keep in mind that the CDI-2.0 spec is now almost 3 years old.
So we are per definition in a maintenance mode.
## Health report:
Community is doing fine. We get feedback and tickets from our own
folks but also from random contributors.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 13 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Reinhard Sandtner on Mon Oct 09 2017
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 20 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was John D. Ament at Mon Oct 09 2017
## Releases:
- Meecrowave-1.2.4 was released on Tue Sep 25 2018
- OWB-2.0.8 was released on Mon Nov 12 2018
## Mailing list activity:
Interestingly the dev list saw more traffic while from the feeling
we did push a bit less things.
- dev@openwebbeans.apache.org:
- 68 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
- 293 emails sent to list (196 in previous quarter)
- user@openwebbeans.apache.org:
- 96 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
- 9 emails sent to list (5 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 42 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 38 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment AU: Report from the Apache Pig Project [Koji Noguchi]
## Description:
- Apache Pig is a platform for analyzing large data sets on Hadoop. It
provides a high-level language for expressing data analysis programs,
coupled with infrastructure for evaluating these programs.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity:
- We're behind on the next major release of 0.18.
From last board feedback
> rs: Last PMC member was added more than 2 years ago. This in
> conjunction with the number of committers being twice as PMC
> members make me think that perhaps some of these non-PMC
> committers may be active (and interested enough!) to be coach
> into PMC membership?
>
> Not having much activity among these non-PMC committers
> (if that's the case) would be a useful data point to know in the next report.
Overall activity is comparatively low for the past year as project is mostly
mature and stable. There are new features and enhancements being worked on,
but the pace is slow as we have fewer people working on Pig who also divide
their time contributing to other Apache projects.
## Health report:
- Mostly bug fixes and enhancements being worked on.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 17 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Koji Noguchi on Thu Aug 04 2016
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 31 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Nándor Kollár at Thu Sep 06 2018
## Releases:
- Last release was 0.17.0 on Thu Jun 15 2017
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@pig.apache.org:
- 364 subscribers (down -12 in the last 3 months):
- 337 emails sent to list (222 in previous quarter)
- user@pig.apache.org:
- 1070 subscribers (down -7 in the last 3 months):
- 3 emails sent to list (15 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 14 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 13 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment AV: Report from the Apache Pivot Project [Roger Lee Whitcomb]
Description:
Apache Pivot is an open-source platform for building installable
Internet applications (IIAs). It combines the enhanced productivity and
usability features of a modern user interface toolkit with the robustness of
the Java platform.
Issues:
There are no board-level issues at this time.
Activity:
Very little development activity this quarter, mostly due to my personal
issues (death of my wife). Otherwise same low level of user activity as
the past couple of years. We will need some serious work related to Java
applets being gone and the Nashorn engine going away soon as well.
Health report:
Basically unchanged for several years: development is ongoing, but users
are quiet.
PMC changes:
- Currently 7 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Niclas Hedhman on Wed Jan 13 2016
Committer base changes:
- Currently 9 committers.
- No new changes to the committer base since last report.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was more than 2 years ago
Releases:
- Last release was 2.0.5 on Mon Jul 03 2017
- Still active development on next major version (2.1.0).
Mailing list activity:
- dev@pivot.apache.org:
- 61 subscribers (down one in the last 3 months)
- 20 emails sent to list (44 in previous quarter)
- user@pivot.apache.org:
- 169 subscribers (down 2 in the last 3 months)
- 1 email sent to list (1 in previous quarter)
JIRA activity:
- 3 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- No JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment AW: Report from the Apache Polygene Project [Jiri Jetmar]
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Attachment AX: Report from the Apache Portable Runtime (APR) Project [Nick Kew]
## Description:
- The Apache Portable Runtime (APR) project creates and maintains
software libraries that provide a predictable and consistent interface
to underlying platform-specific implementations. There are three
sub-projects: APR, APR-UTIL and APR-ICONV, of which the first two
are the main focus of developer interest.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- Most of the activity this quarter has been around the bugfix
release in September. Apart from that, the project has
reverted to quiet and stable.
## Health report:
- The project remains quiet but healthy.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 41 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Evgeny Kotkov on Wed Sep 13 2017
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 67 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Evgeny Kotkov at Wed Sep 13 2017
## Releases:
- A bugfix release APR-1.6.5 was released on September 14th 2018.
No new releases of APR-UTIL or APR-ICONV.
## Mailing list activity (from reporter.apache.org):
- The subscriber base remains stable.
- dev@apr.apache.org:
- 328 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
- 91 emails sent to list (198 in previous quarter)
- bugs@apr.apache.org:
- 20 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 22 emails sent to list (37 in previous quarter)
## Bugzilla Statistics:
- 5 Bugzilla tickets created in the last 3 months
- 2 Bugzilla tickets resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment AY: Report from the Apache Portals Project [David Sean Taylor]
## Description:
Apache Portals exists to promote the use of open source portal technology. We
intend to build freely available and interoperable portal software in order to
promote the use of this technology. With the Pluto project, we provide a
reference implementation for the Java portlet standard. The Jetspeed project is
a full feature enterprise open source portal. The Portals Applications project
is dedicated to providing robust, full-featured, commercial-quality, and freely
available portlet applications.
## Activity:
Apache Portals has released 3 releases since the last report.
Pluto: Earlier this year, a Security Vulnerability Report was logged against Pluto 3.0.0 by the Apache Security Team (Mark J. Cox) titled “Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution”.
This issue has been fixed and is included in the June 21, 2018 Pluto version 3.0.1 release.
Pluto 3.0.1 was released June 21, 2018. This is the second GA release of Pluto conformant to the Java Portlet 3.0 Standard.
In addition, version 3.0.1 of generic-portlet-archetype and bean-portlet-archetype have been released.
No additional members since last report
12 Feb 2017 - Two new PMC members added
27 April 2017 - Apache Portals Pluto team released Pluto Maven Archetypes 3.0 to support to developing new portlets to the new 3.0 spec
## Mailing list activity:
Not much activity. Some discussions around TCK implementation on the Pluto list.
Low volume activity on the Jetspeed lists.
## Issues:
We have no board-level issues at this time.
## PMC/Committership changes:
Last Added PMC Members:
12 Feb 2017 - Scott Martin Nicklaus
12 Feb 2017 - Neil Griffin
Last Added Committers:
05 August 2016 Mohd Ahmed Kahn
11 Dec 2014 Martin Scott Nicklous
11 Dec 2014 Neil Griffin
## Releases:
Pluto 3.0.1 - 21 June 2018
Pluto Maven Portlet Archetype 3.0.1 - 21 June 2018
Pluto Maven Generic Archetype 3.0.1 - 21 June 2018
Pluto Maven Archetype 3.0.0 - 27 April 2017
Pluto 3.0.0 - 18 January 2017
Jetspeed 2.3.1- 09 May 2016
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Attachment AZ: Report from the Apache PredictionIO Project [Donald Szeto]
## Description:
- PredictionIO is an open source Machine Learning Server built on top of
state-of-the-art open source stack, that enables developers to manage and
deploy production-ready predictive services for various kinds of machine
learning tasks.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- Improved PySpark support.
- Most client SDKs have been updated.
- Successful GitBox migration of all repos.
- Re-architecture discussion towards version 1.0 started.
- Continued community support and driving for contributions.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 28 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Mars Hall on Fri Jul 28 2017
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 29 committers.
- No new changes to the committer base since last report.
- Last committer addition was Mars Hall on Fri Jul 28 2017
## Releases:
- 0.13.0 was released on Wed Sep 19 2018
## JIRA activity:
- 36 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 29 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment BA: Report from the Apache Pulsar Project [Matteo Merli]
## Description:
Pulsar is a highly scalable, low latency messaging platform running on
commodity hardware. It provides simple pub-sub semantics over topics,
guaranteed at-least-once delivery of messages, automatic cursor management for
subscribers, and cross-datacenter replication.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- The project has graduated as TLP on Sep. 19th.
- Several meetup and conferences talk on Pulsar
* Ivan Kelly has presented Pulsar at BigData Spain on Nov 15th
* A Pulsar intro talk was presented at LeadDevAustin
* Apache Pulsar meetup scheduled for Dec 15th in Shanghai
with talk from several members of community
* Sijie and Jia will present "Unifying the Batch and Stream Elastic Processing
with Apache Pulsar and Apache Flink" at Flink Forward in Beijing on Dec 20th.
- A patch release (2.2.1) is being prepared to address all the issues reported
in 2.2.0 release
- Work is ongoing for next release (2.3.0), scheduled for end of December for which
we plan to include:
* Apache BookKeeper 4.9.0
* Schema support for C++ and Python
* Token based authentication
## Health report:
- There is healthy grow in the community
- Activity on the Slack channel is still high, many first time users come
to ask questions while getting started. There are 103 weekly active users
on the channel, up from 92 in November.
- Several new developers have joined the community providing new
feature proposals that were discussed with the community and
finally contributed to the project. We have voted one new committer and we
plan to start discussion on more committers/PMC pipeline soon.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 23 PMC members
- No new PMC added in the last month -- All existing PPMC member have joined the PMC
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 24 committers
- 1 Committer added in the last month (Penghui Li - Dec 7th)
## Releases:
- 2.2.0 was released on Oct. 24th
## Mailing list activity:
- Activity on the mailing lists remains high with a mixture of new users,
contributors, and deeper more experienced users and contributors sparking
discussion and questions and filing bugs or new features.
- users@pulsar.apache.org:
- 84 subscribers (+5 from Nov 2018) - 32 emails sent to list in Nov (35 in Oct)
- dev@pulsar.apache.org:
- 80 subscribers (+5 from Nov 2018) - 40 emails sent to list in Nov (99 in Oct)
## GitHub activity:
- 144 PR from 24 contributors were merged in the last 1 month (up from 131)
- 57 Issues were created and 52 closed in the last 1 month
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Attachment BB: Report from the Apache Royale Project [Harbs]
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Attachment BC: Report from the Apache Sentry Project [Alex Kolbasov]
## Description:
Apache Sentry is a highly modular system for providing fine grained role based
authorization to both data and metadata stored on an Apache Hadoop Cluster.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity:
- 2.1.0 release complete.
- Started discussion about changing PMC chair
- Performance optimizations for HDFS sync functionality
- Work on importing and exporting Sentry data
## Health report:
- Development activity seems pretty consistent;
- New developers starting contributng to the project;
## PMC changes:
## PMC changes:
- Currently 38 PMC members.
- Na Li was added to the PMC on Mon Dec 10 2018
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 40 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Arjun Mishra at Fri Jul 06 2018
## Releases:
- 2.1.0 was released on Sun Sep 30 2018
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Attachment BD: Report from the Apache ServiceComb Project [Willem Ning Jiang]
## Description:
- ServiceComb is a full stack microservice framework which provides a set of
SDK's, Service Registry and Transaction Management Services for rapid
development of Cloud native applications.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- ServiceComb PMC did the first around graduate release this month.
- We began to hold the online community meeting[1] to discuss about the
roadmap of the project.
- ServiceComb saga will be rename to pack[2] to provide the TCC and Saga
supports in the pack architecture
[1]https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SERVICECOMB/Community+Meeting
[2]https://bit.ly/2zQqcWM
## Health report:
- The mails and commits activity are as good as usual.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 16 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 18 committers.
- New committers:
- Haishi Yao was added as a committer on Tue Nov 13 2018
- Jun Zhao was added as a committer on Tue Nov 13 2018
## Releases:
- ServiceComb Saga 0.2.1 on Nov 24, 2018
- ServiceComb Java-Chassis 1.1.0 on Dec 1, 2018
- ServiceComb Service-Center 1.1.0 on Dec 1, 2018
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@servicecomb.apache.org:
- This month, there were 197 emails sent by 25 people, divided into 27
topics
- 130 subscribers (up 19 in the last 3 months):
- 485 emails sent to list (535 in previous quarter)
- issues@servicecomb.apache.org:
- 8 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 2145 emails sent to list (2737 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 176 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 179 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment BE: Report from the Apache ServiceMix Project [Krzysztof Sobkowiak]
Description
===========
Apache ServiceMix is a flexible, open-source integration container that
unifies the features and functionality of Apache ActiveMQ, Camel, CXF and
Karaf to provide a complete, enterprise-ready ESB powered by OSGi.
Issues
======
There are no outstanding issues requiring board attention.
Activity
========
The project focus of Apache ServiceMix is the assembly of the integration
container, the actual functionality is being maintained in related projects
like Apache Karaf, Apache CXF, Apache Camel and Apache ActiveMQ.
- We have released 3 sets of OSGi bundles and some Specs bundles.
- We plan to migrate our repositories to gitbox during the next weeks.
- We should focus more intensively on ServiceMix assembly based on the newest
Apache Camel and Apache Karaf, what was a bit outstanding last months.
- We should focus on documentation and samples improvement.
Health report
=============
- Activity on the mailing lists and in JIRA is on the same level like in the
last period. We had some contributions.
PMC changes
===========
- Currently 21 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Andrea Cosentino on Wed Mar 15 2017
Committer base changes
======================
- Currently 50 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Andrea Cosentino at Sun Mar 13 2016
Releases
========
- Apache ServiceMix Bundles 2018.09 on September 23 2018
- Apache ServiceMix Bundles 2018.10 on November 06 2018
- Apache ServiceMix Specs (jaxb-api, jaxws-api) on November 19 2018
- Apache ServiceMix Bundles 2018.11 on December 06 2018
JIRA activity
=============
- 94 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 94 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment BF: Report from the Apache Shiro Project [Les Hazlewood]
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Attachment BG: Report from the Apache Sling Project [Robert Munteanu]
## Description:
Apache Sling™ is a framework for RESTful web-applications based on an
extensible content tree.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
Sling 11 was released on October 23, 2018 with a large number of fixes and
improvements.
We have also made a good number of module releases.
## Health report:
Good activity level overall, contributions from different people continue.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 26 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Andrei Dulvac on Mon Jul 30 2018
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 43 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was A. J. David Bosschaert at Fri Mar 09 2018
## Releases:
- Apache Sling App CMS 0.10.0 was released on Fri Sep 21 2018
- Apache Sling App CMS 0.11.0 was released on Fri Nov 09 2018
- Apache Sling App CMS 0.11.2 was released on Wed Nov 28 2018
- Apache Sling Capabilities 0.1.0 was released on Mon Nov 05 2018
- Apache Sling Capabilities JCR 0.1.0 was released on Mon Nov 05 2018
- Apache Sling Commons Log 5.1.10 was released on Mon Sep 10 2018
- Apache Sling Context-Aware Configuration API 1.1.2, Context-Aware
Configuration SPI 1.3.4, Context-Aware Configuration Impl 1.4.14 was
released on Wed Sep 05 2018
- Apache Sling Discovery Oak 1.2.28 was released on Fri Aug 31 2018
- Apache Sling Distributed Event Admin 1.1.4 was released on Fri Nov 09 2018
- Apache Sling File Optimization 0.9.2 was released on Wed Sep 12 2018
- Apache Sling Form Based Authentication Handler 1.0.12 was released on Fri
Oct 19 2018
- Apache Sling HTL Maven Plugin 1.2.0-1.4.0 was released on Tue Oct 02 2018
- Apache Sling HTL Maven Plugin 1.2.2-1.4.0 was released on Mon Nov 05 2018
- Apache Sling Installer Vault Package Install Hook was released on Mon Oct
15 2018
- Apache Sling JUnit Tests Teleporter 1.0.18 was released on Tue Oct 23 2018
- Apache Sling Jackrabbit JSR-283 Access Control Manager Support 3.0.2 was
released on Mon Sep 17 2018
- Apache Sling Jackrabbit UserManager Support 2.2.8 was released on Mon Sep
17 2018
- Apache Sling Launchpad Integration Tests 1.0.8 was released on Tue Oct 23
2018
- Apache Sling Launchpad Test Bundles 0.0.6 was released on Tue Oct 23 2018
- Apache Sling Launchpad Testing 11 was released on Tue Oct 23 2018
- Apache Sling Launchpad Testing Fragment Bundle 2.0.16 was released on Tue
Oct 23 2018
- Apache Sling Launchpad Testing Services 2.0.16 was released on Tue Oct 23
2018
- Apache Sling Launchpad Testing Services WAR 2.0.16 was released on Tue Oct
23 2018
- Apache Sling Launchpad Testing WAR 11 was released on Tue Oct 23 2018
- Apache Sling Models API 1.3.8 was released on Thu Nov 08 2018
- Apache Sling Resource Filter version 1.0.0 was released on Sun Sep 09 2018
- Apache Sling Scripting HTL Compiler 1.1.0-1.4.0 was released on Mon Nov 05
2018
- Apache Sling Scripting HTL Engine 1.0.56-1.4.0 was released on Tue Oct 02
2018
- Apache Sling Scripting HTL Engine 1.1.0-1.4.0 was released on Mon Nov 05
2018
- Apache Sling Scripting HTL JS Use Provider 1.0.28 was released on Mon Nov
05 2018
- Apache Sling Scripting HTL Java Compiler 1.1.0-1.4.0 was released on Mon
Nov 05 2018
- Apache Sling Scripting HTL Models Use Provider 1.0.28 was released on Mon
Nov 05 2018
- Apache Sling Scripting HTL Runtime 1.0.0-1.4.0 was released on Mon Nov 05
2018
- Apache Sling Scripting HTL Testing 1.0.14-1.4.0 was released on Mon Nov 05
2018
- Apache Sling Scripting HTL Testing Content 1.0.14-1.4.0 was released on Mon
Nov 05 2018
- Apache Sling Servlets Annotations 1.1.0 was released on Tue Sep 11 2018
- Apache Sling Servlets Get 2.1.34 was released on Fri Aug 31 2018
- Apache Sling Servlets Get 2.1.36 was released on Mon Sep 24 2018
- Apache Sling Slingshot Sample 0.9.0 was released on Mon Sep 17 2018
- Apache Sling Slingstart Archetype 1.0.8 was released on Tue Oct 23 2018
- Apache Sling Starter Application 11 was released on Tue Oct 23 2018
- Apache Sling Starter Content 1.0.2 was released on Fri Oct 19 2018
- Apache Sling Tenant 1.1.2 was released on Wed Sep 05 2018
- Apache Sling Testing JCR Mock 1.4.2, OSGi Mock 2.4.4 was released on Mon
Nov 19 2018
- Apache Sling Testing OSGi Mock 2.4.2, Sling Mock 2.3.4 was released on Mon
Sep 03 2018
## JIRA activity:
- 264 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 243 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment BH: Report from the Apache SpamAssassin Project [Sidney Markowitz]
Apache SpamAssassin report to Board for Dec 2018
SpamAssassin is a mail filter to identify spam. The project provides a
framework/engine and regular rule updates that reflect the changing nature of
spam email seen in the wild. Updated rules are generated through a combination
of hand crafted contributions and automated processing of spam and anonymized
processed non-spam that are contributed by volunteers.
Status and health report:
The project activities, including running of our rule update infrastructure
and our dev and user mailing lists, are continuing smoothly.
We are close to releasing SpamAssassin version 3.4.3.
We have added two new PMC members.
Releases:
The last release was Apache SpamAssassin version 3.4.2 on 16 September 2018.
We are close to releasing version 3.4.3 to address some issues that were
deferred, in part so we could quickly release security fixes in 3.4.2. After
we release 3.4.3 we expect to resume development in our main branch for 4.0.
Note that we maintain online rule updates that are continuously updated
through a combination of developer contributions and automated processing via
our mass-check facility.
Committer/PMC changes:
Most recent new committer:
Paul Stead (pds) 12 September 2018
New PMC members this quarter:
Giovanni Bechis (gbechis) 24 Sep 2018 Henrik Krohns (hege) 25 Sep 2018
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Attachment BI: Report from the Apache Stanbol Project [Fabian Christ]
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Attachment BJ: Report from the Apache Storm Project [P. Taylor Goetz]
## Description:
- Apache Storm is a distributed real-time computation system.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- Project activity has been relatively quiet this quarter, with a significant
uptick toward the end of the quarter as the community focuses on resolving
the remaining JIRA tickets necessary for the 2.0 release.
## Health report:
- New contributors continue to engage and that engagement tends to keep up
activity levels, even as some contributors move on.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 37 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Ethan Li on Tue Apr 10 2018
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 38 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Ethan Li at Wed Apr 11 2018
## Releases:
- Last release was 1.1.3 on Mon Jun 04 2018
## JIRA activity:
- 79 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 77 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment BK: Report from the Apache Synapse Project [Isuru Udana]
## Description:
Apache Synapse is a high performance, flexible, lightweight
Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and a mediation framework.
## Issues:
None identified.
## Activity:
There was a slight increase of the activity in the project compared to last quarter.
## Health report:
All PMC members and committers active on the project in the recent past got busy with their other work, so they couldn’t contribute to the project.
We hope to bring back the project to life at towards the end of the year during December vacation.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 27 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Prabath Ariyarathna on Thu May 04 2017
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 34 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Prabath Ariyarathna at Fri Feb 10 2017
## Releases:
- Last release was 3.0.1 on Sat Dec 09 2017
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@synapse.apache.org:
- 185 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
- 18 emails sent to list (5 in previous quarter)
- user@synapse.apache.org:
- 177 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 1 emails sent to list (3 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 2 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 2 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment BL: Report from the Apache Tajo Project [Hyunsik Choi]
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Attachment BM: Report from the Apache Tiles Project [Michael Semb Wever]
## Description:
Apache Tiles is a free open-sourced templating framework for Java
applications. Based upon the Composite pattern it is built to simplify
the development of user interfaces.
## Issues:
After discussion on both user and dev ML, a successful vote agreed to move
the project to the Apache Attic. The resolution has been added to the board
report as Special Order (E).
The vote results for the Attic move are found at
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/5d61f74e9ea0883c53c433d18b2416f0b415b671b988b65520de5004@%3Cdev.tiles.apache.org%3E
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Attachment BN: Report from the Apache Tomcat Project [Mladen Turk]
## Description:
- A Java Servlet, JavaServer Pages, Java WebSocket and Java
Unified Expression language specifications implementation.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity:
- Continued healthy activity across multiple components and
responsiveness on both dev and user lists.
- We recently started a community effort to expand our localisation
support by adding additional languages and expanding the coverage
of the existing languages, using web-based collaboration tool
(poeditor.com)
- We also had a constructive debate as to whether the translations
were valuable to our users or not.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 27 PMC members.
- Last addition May 2018
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 45 committers.
- Last addition May 2018
## Releases:
- Apache Tomcat 7.0.91 was released on Wed Sep 19 2018
- Apache Tomcat 7.0.92 was released on Thu Nov 15 2018
- Apache Tomcat 8.5.35 was released on Wed Nov 07 2018
- Apache Tomcat 9.0.13 was released on Wed Nov 07 2018
- Apache Tomcat JK Connector jk-1.2.46 was released on Sat Oct 13 2018
- Apache Tomcat Native 1.2.18 was released on Sun Oct 21 2018
- Apache Tomcat Native 1.2.19 was released on Thu Dec 06 2018
## Trademark:
- No new trademark issues in the last 3 months
and there are currently no outstanding trademark issues that the
Apache Tomcat PMC is working on.
- Detailed history is available at:
https://svn.apache.org/repos/private/pmc/tomcat/trademark-status.txt
## Security:
- Detailed status:
http://tomcat.apache.org/security.html
- Moderate: Open Redirect CVE-2018-11784
Version Affected
Apache Tomcat 9.0.0.M1 to 9.0.11
Apache Tomcat 8.5.0 to 8.5.33
Apache Tomcat 7.0.23 to 7.0.90
- Important: Information disclosure CVE-2018-11759
Version Affected
Apache Tomcat JK Connector jk-1.2.0 to jk-1.2.44
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Attachment BO: Report from the Apache Trafodion Project [Pierre Smits]
## Description:
- Apache Trafodion extends the Apache Hadoop ecosystem to guarantee
transactional integrity and operational workloads for new kinds of Big Data
applications.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- The community continued working on tickets and participating on the
Project's mailing list in line with previous months.
- Work continues on getting a new release out.
- The PMC onboarded one new member in this quarter.
- Focus of the PMC remains on growing the community, and is expected
to onboard two new members in next quarter.
## Health report:
- Subscriptions to the (public) mailing lists showed stable numbers
compared to previous quarter (for details see section Mailing List
activity below).
- Compared to previous quarter, the community involvement showed a
stable participation on the dev mailing list, while sharp declines
were noticed for the user mailing list and regarding notifications
for code review and ticket creation, comment and resolution (for
details see section Mailing List activity below).
- Despite the mentioned sharp declines, the PMC still regards the project
as being healthy.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 13 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Sandhya Sundaresan on Tue Aug 14 2018
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 24 committers.
- New commmitters:
- Sheng-Chen Ma was added as a committer on Mon Nov 05 2018
- Narendra Goyal was added as a committer on Mon Nov 05 2018
- Prashanth Vasudev was added as a committer on Tue Nov 13 2018
- Weiqing Xu was added as a committer on Thu Nov 08 2018
## Releases:
- Last release was 2.2.0 on Sat Mar 10 2018
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@trafodion.apache.org:
- 98 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 246 emails sent to list (227 in previous quarter)
- codereview@trafodion.apache.org:
- 25 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 221 emails sent to list (494 in previous quarter)
- issues@trafodion.apache.org:
- 34 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 370 emails sent to list (822 in previous quarter)
- user@trafodion.apache.org:
- 105 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 4 emails sent to list (14 in previous quarter)
- security@trafodion.apache.org:
- 6 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- Currently no automated insights in number of ml postings provided by
ComDev-reporter services.
- private@trafodion.apache.org:
- currently 20 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- Currently no automated insights in number of ml postings provided by
ComDev-reporter services.
## JIRA activity:
- 50 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 21 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
## Social media activity:
- Followers: 267 (+2)
- Tweets: 93 (+1)
- Likes: 73 (+0)
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Attachment BP: Report from the Apache Twill Project [Terence Yim]
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Attachment BQ: Report from the Apache UIMA Project [Marshall Schor]
Board report for Apache UIMA, for December 2018.
Apache UIMA's mission: the creation and maintenance of open-source software
related to the analysis of unstructured data, guided by the UIMA Oasis
Standard.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 16 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Lou DeGenaro on Mon May 02 2016
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 25 committers.
- Last new committer: Viorel Morari was added as a committer on Thu Sep 20
2018
## Releases:
2 releases of the main UIMA Java SDK were done;
- 2.10.3SDK was released on Wed Nov 28 2018
- 3.0.1SDK was released on Wed Nov 28 2018
Activity: We updated our project-wide parent POM to current levels, and
incorporated changes to accommodate Apache policies on changes to SHA1 / MD5
checksums.
We upgraded our build release process to work with Java 11, as well as Java
8. The Java SDK, uimaFIT, UIMA-AS, DUCC, RUTA are actively being worked on.
The UIMA C++ version, after a long while of no volunteers to work on it, has
sprung to life, with one new contributor working to upgrade it to current
levels and get the test cases working again.
Community: The community continues to be moderately active.
Issues: No Board level issues at this time.
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Attachment BR: Report from the Apache VCL Project [Josh Thompson]
## Description:
- VCL is a modular cloud computing platform which dynamically provisions and
brokers remote access to compute resources including virtual machines,
bare-metal computers, and resources in other cloud platforms. A
self-service web portal is used to request resources and for
administration. VCL became a TLP on June 20, 2012.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- The PMC is currently voting to extend committer invitations to the two
previously mentioned individuals.
## Health report:
- As per our normal state of things, we're very slowly creeping toward
getting a new release out.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 7 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Aaron Coburn on Tue Jun 19 2012
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 8 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Young Hyun Oh at Sun Dec 08 2013
## Releases:
- Last release was 2.5 on Thu Aug 17 2017
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@vcl.apache.org:
- 118 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 41 emails sent to list (14 in previous quarter)
- user@vcl.apache.org:
- 155 subscribers (down -2 in the last 3 months):
- 33 emails sent to list (1 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 2 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 2 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment BS: Report from the Apache Whimsy Project [Sam Ruby]
## Description:
Tools that help automate various administrative tasks or information lookup
activities
## Issues:
None
## Health report:
A relatively quiet couple of months, development wise. Apologies for the
missing and late report.
We continue to have more than adequate oversight, with two to three active
committers, and two to four occasional committers.
## Development:
- Update the secretary workbench to use different PDF manipulation tools as
an OS update applied a fix for a security issue that in turn made the
previous set of tools useless for the purposes needed by the workbench.
- Minor changes, mostly additional providing additional cross-checks and
reducing the backlog of issues.
## PMC and committer base:
- Currently 10 committers, all on the PMC.
- Last addition: Thu Jun 2017 (John D. Ament)
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Attachment BT: Report from the Apache Wicket Project [Martijn Dashorst]
Report from the Apache Wicket project [Martijn Dashorst]
Apache Wicket is an open source Java component oriented web application
framework.
## Noteworthy items:
- Wicket 8.2.0, 7.11.0 and 6.30.0 were released
- Wicket 8 is received very well, download statistics for Maven central keep
increasing and are reportedly more than doubled since last year
## Issues:
- No issues require board attention.
## Health report:
- The community is stable as is to be expected from a mature server side Java
web framework. We don't anticipate a sudden large growth or large decline.
- Questions to the user list and dev list are answered, resolved and
discussed.
- We keep on the look out for new committers and PMC members. The PMC is
aware that to keep the project healthy new blood is necessary, but are
realistic that server side Java web frameworks are not the newest and
hottest technologies at this time.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 30 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Maxim Solodovnik on Thu Apr 13 2017
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 31 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Maxim Solodovnik at Thu Apr 13 2017
## Releases:
- 8.2.0 was released on Mon Nov 12 2018
- 7.11.0 was released on Fri Nov 30 2018
- 6.30.0 was released on Mon Dec 10 2018
## Mailing list activity:
- Looking at these statistics, we can see an increase in activity not only in
downloads, but also on mailinglist activity as well. So usage of Wicket
seems steady and healthy.
- users@wicket.apache.org:
- 845 subscribers (down -8 in the last 3 months):
- 197 emails sent to list (150 in previous quarter)
- dev@wicket.apache.org:
- 348 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months):
- 285 emails sent to list (118 in previous quarter)
- announce@wicket.apache.org:
- 343 subscribers (down -12 in the last 3 months):
- 8 emails sent to list (0 in previous quarter)
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Attachment BU: Report from the Apache Xalan Project [Steven J. Hathaway]
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Attachment BV: Report from the Apache Xerces Project [Michael Glavassevich]
Xerces-J
There were some minor updates to the code. Most of the activity in the last
quarter was in JIRA (new bug reports from the community and discussion with
one of the developers).
Mailing list traffic has been low; roughly 50+ posts on the j-dev and j-users
lists since the beginning of September 2018.
No new releases since the previous report. The latest release is Xerces-J
2.12.0 (April 30th, 2018).
Xerces-C
A patch release (Xerces-C 3.2.2) was released in September to address some
build issues and a libcurl improvement. Since then the developers have been
responding to recent JIRA issues raised by the community.
Mailing list traffic has been moderate; roughly 110+ posts on the c-dev and
c-users lists since the beginning of September 2018.
The latest release is Xerces-C 3.2.2 (September 19th, 2018).
Xerces-P
Nothing in particular to report. There was no development activity over the
reporting period.
XML Commons
No activity over the reporting period.
Committer / PMC Changes
The most recent committers were added in April 2017 (Xerces-C) and May 2017
(Xerces-J).
No new PMC members since the last report. The most recent addition to the PMC
was in June 2016.
Three committers have committed changes to SVN since September 2018.
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Attachment BW: Report from the Apache XML Graphics Project [Clay Leeds]
Apache XML Graphics Project Board Report
==================================
The Apache XML Graphics Project is responsible for software intended for the creation
& maintenance of the conversion of XML formats to graphical output & related software
components.
ISSUES FOR THE BOARD
=====================
No issues at present.
ACTIVITY
========
No releases during this activity period.
PROJECT HEALTH REPORT
=======================
The level of community and developer activity remains at a consistent,
moderate, level with respect to the previous reporting period.
PMC CHANGES
=============
Currently 12 PMC members.
Simon Steiner was added to the PMC on Tue Jan 19 2016
Clay Leeds was approved for XML Graphics PMC Chair position on March 26, 2018.
Committers
==========
Currently 21 committers.
No new committers added in the last 3 months
Last committer addition was Matthias Reischenbacher at Wed May 13 2015
Most Recent Releases
==================
There were no releases in the last quarter.
XMLGraphics Commons 2.3 was released on Mon May 14, 2018
XMLGraphics FOP 2.3 was released on Mon May 14, 2018
XMLGraphics Batik 1.10 was released on Mon May 14, 2018
= SUB PROJECTS =
================
XML GRAPHICS COMMONS
====================
Community activity was light, although there were a few bugs resolved.
New Release?
------------
There were no releases this quarter.
Latest Release
--------------
XMLGraphics Commons 2.3 was released on Mon May 14, 2018
FOP
===
A number of patches have been processed and several bugs fixed.
New Release?
------------
There were no releases this quarter.
Latest Release
--------------
XMLGraphics FOP 2.3 was released on Mon May 14, 2018
BATIK
=====
No commits to SVN this quarter. A handful of new bugs have been reported by
users via JIRA
New Release?
------------
There were no releases this quarter.
Latest Release
--------------
XMLGraphics Batik 1.10 was released on Mon May 14, 2018
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Attachment BX: Report from the Apache Yetus Project [Allen Wittenauer]
## Description:
Apache Yetus provides libraries and tools that enable contribution and release
processes for software projects.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
There were three big changes in the project over the past quarter.
1) The project has moved to a Maven-based build system. This change will
enable the project to clean up a lot of automation, additional testing, and
lots of other exciting things. Before Maven, Yetus was built via a shell
script that lacked much functionality. Moving to a real build tool has been
on the TODO list for a very long time (YETUS-15!).
2) We've changed contributions to be Lazy Consensus with a 72-hour window.
This change was done primarily to unblock contributions that were having
trouble getting past the patch phase due to lack of review time. It is hoped
that this will increase project velocity. The release process is unchanged.
3) We've started publishing convenience artifacts on hub.docker.com. Combined
with other changes, the Docker images will hopefully increase project adoption
on services such as Circle CI, Travis CI, and GitLab CI in addition to more
traditional Jenkins shops now utilizing Docker.
## Health report:
As predicted, health-wise, this quarter was relatively quiet. With the above
changes combined with the forced relocation of ASF projects to Gitbox, the
next quarter may prove interesting and/or challenging.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 8 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Ajay Yadav on Thu Dec 01 2016
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 12 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Akira Ajisaka at Tue Feb 06 2018
## Releases:
- Last release was 0.8.0 on Wed Aug 29 2018
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@yetus.apache.org:
- 45 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 81 emails sent to list (62 in previous quarter)
- notifications@yetus.apache.org:
- 16 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 514 emails sent to list (584 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 43 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 40 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment BY: Report from the Apache ZooKeeper Project [Flavio Paiva Junqueira]
## Description:
Apache ZooKeeper is a system for distributed coordination. It enables
the implementation of a variety of primitives and mechanisms that are
critical for safety and liveness in distributed settings, e.g.,
distributed locks, master election, group membership, and configuration.
## Issues:
No issues requiring board attention.
## Activity:
- No new releases during the reporting period.
- Facebook hosted a ZooKeeper meetup on Nov. 08.
(https://www.facebook.com/zkmeetup)
- We had one issue reported to the security list, which is under
discussion.
## Health report:
- We added one new committer during the reporting period and we are
always on the look for new contributors who are interested in stepping
their community participation up.
- We had a significant growth in the dev list activity: 62% increase
compared to the previous quarter.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 13 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Michael Han on Wed Jun 21 2017
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 24 committers.
- Fangmin Lv was added as a committer on Wed Oct 24 2018
## Releases:
- Last release was 3.4.13 on Mon Jul 16 2018
## Mailing list activity:
We observed a 62% increase in the dev list traffic compared to the previous
reporting period, and a negligible decrease (3%) on the user list traffic. The
user has not been heavily used historically in this project historically.
- dev@zookeeper.apache.org:
- 501 subscribers (down -6 in the last 3 months):
- 3850 emails sent to list (2362 in previous quarter)
- user@zookeeper.apache.org:
- 1217 subscribers (down -3 in the last 3 months):
- 150 emails sent to list (155 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 70 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 69 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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