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# Apache Axis 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. ## Membership Data: Axis was created on 2001-01-19 (23 years ago). It is listed as established in 2009-12 but really the first Apache commit was in 2001. There are currently 63 committers and 62 PMC members in this project, a vote in 2010 made all committers automatically PMC members. One PMC member resigned. Community changes, past quarter: - Currently 62 PMC/ 63 Committers 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. ## Project Activity: Recent releases: - Axis 2/Java 1.8.2 was released on July 14, 2022. - Axis 2/Rampart 1.7.1 was released on July 30, 2017. - Axis 2/C 1.6 was released on April 20, 2009. - Axis 1.4 was last released in 2006. ## Project state: Ongoing, with moderate activity ## Health report: An upcoming Axis2 release is waiting on an Apache Axiom release from the Apache Web Services project. Several Axis committers are also committers in the Web Services project. See AXIOM-506. We are preparing all the SSH and GPG release prerequisites. Both an Axiom and Axis2 release is imminent. Our sub project Apache Rampart - an implementation of WS-Security standards - had song unit tests via a community contribution from GitHub PR's. See RAMPART-449. Beyond GitHub PR's we continue to get developer interest and we offer a low bar to be a committer.me long standing expired certificates fixed this past quarter and the last step is fixing the remaini See AXIS2-6043. Our continued progress to make Axis2 a contemporary and relevant JSON engine as demanded by our day jobs is shown this past quarter by improving our documentation and examples for our new Spring Boot 3 and Wildfly 32 support that includes jakarta. Axis2 C PMC member Bill Blough last commit to axis-axis2-c-core was Feb 12 17:06:52 2023. At least some of our Java committers are looking at our C/C++ support as the latter shows increasing signs of interest at our day jobs for performance orientated requirements. We expect commits to axis-axis2-c-core this upcoming quarter. ## Axis2 java Jira issues opened in the last 90 days: 4 ## Axis2 java Jira issues closed in the last 90 days: 3
# Apache Axis 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. ## Membership Data: Axis was created on 2001-01-19 (23 years ago). It is listed as established in 2009-12 but really the first Apache commit was in 2001. There are currently 63 committers and 62 PMC members in this project, a vote in 2010 made all committers automatically PMC members. One PMC member resigned. Community changes, past quarter: - Currently 62 PMC/ 63 Committers 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. ## Project Activity: Recent releases: - Axis 2/Java 1.8.2 was released on July 14, 2022. - Axis 2/Rampart 1.7.1 was released on July 30, 2017. - Axis 2/C 1.6 was released on April 20, 2009. - Axis 1.4 was last released in 2006. ## Project state: Ongoing, with moderate activity ## Health report: Development for the upcoming Axis2 1.8.3 release finally has completed in our long transition to jakarta and also from httpclient4 to httpclient5 - the latter took months longer than expected as Axis2 uses the httpclient5 API for functionality and testing that goes deep into their architecture. We still have an outstanding OSGI issue that currently is triaged out of the next Axis2 release because we lack volunteers who use it, while being difficult to support. The next preliminary step for an Axis2 release is an Apache Axiom release from the Apache Web Services project, in which several Axis committers are also committers in that project. A large amount of work in Axiom to support the Axis2 move to jakarta recently completed. A major refactoring has also completed of our sub project Apache Rampart - an implementation of WS-Security standards - that was required from commits upgrading OpenSAML from 2.x to 4.3.0, and Apache WS-WSS4J from 1.6 to 3.0.0. Rampart currently has no active committers that uses it in their own projects. However, we did receive a very significant set of pull requests from a contributor, See RAMPART-449. The schedule for this upcoming quarter is: Rampart release off of Axis2 1.8.2--> Axiom release --> Axis2 1.8.3 --> Rampart release off of Axis2 1.8.3. We continue to lack committer growth. We had a big contribution to Axis2 this past quarter - see https://github.com/apache/axis-axis2-java-core/pull/589 . Rampart as mentioned in RAMPART-449 received help but that individual turned down a committer role. Another individual reached out to help Axis2 this past quarter, but never responded after given the 'new committer' link. Our continued progress to make Axis2 a contemporary and relevant JSON engine as demanded by our day jobs - some of us moved off of SOAP years ago - is the best chance Axis has for committer growth going forward. Axis2 C PMC member Bill Blough continues to help users on the mailing list and he also participates in release votes. ## Axis2 java Jira issues opened in the last 90 days: 3 ## Axis2 java Jira issues closed in the last 90 days: 1
# Apache Axis 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. ## Membership Data: Axis was created on 2001-01-19 (22 years ago). It is listed as established in 2009-12 but really the first Apache commit was in 2001. There are currently 63 committers and 62 PMC members in this project, a vote in 2010 made all committers automatically PMC members. One PMC member resigned. Community changes, past quarter: - Currently 62 PMC/ 63 Committers 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. ## Project Activity: Recent releases: - Axis 2/Java 1.8.2 was released on July 14, 2022. - Axis 2/Rampart 1.7.1 was released on July 30, 2017. - Axis 2/C 1.6 was released on April 20, 2009. - Axis 1.4 was last released in 2006. ## Project state: Ongoing, with moderate activity ## Health report: Development continues in Axis2 Java for the transition to jakarta and also from httpclient4 to httpclient5 as described in AXIS2-6051. We are about 80% done. A major refactoring continues of our sub project Apache Rampart - an implementation of WS-Security standards - that was required from commits upgrading OpenSAML from 2.x to 4.3.0, and Apache WS-WSS4J from 1.6 to 3.0.0. More pull requests were received for Rampart. See RAMPART-449. Challenges for this project includes no active committers use Rampart in their own projects. We continue to get interest in our upcoming releases and have asked volunteers to become committers in AXIS2-6051 and RAMPART-449. One individual reached out, a vote passed though they never followed thru with an accept reply and stopped responding to emails. Axis2 C PMC member Bill Blough continues to help users on the mailing list and he also participates in release votes. ## Axis2 java Jira issues opened in the last 90 days: 3 ## Axis2 java Jira issues closed in the last 90 days: 1
# Apache Axis 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. ## Membership Data: Axis was created on 2001-01-19 (22 years ago). It is listed as established in 2009-12 but really the first Apache commit was in 2001. There are currently 63 committers and 62 PMC members in this project, a vote in 2010 made all committers automatically PMC members. One PMC member resigned. Community changes, past quarter: - Currently 62 PMC/ 63 Committers 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. ## Project Activity: Recent releases: - Axis 2/Java 1.8.2 was released on July 14, 2022. - Axis 2/Rampart 1.7.1 was released on July 30, 2017. - Axis 2/C 1.6 was released on April 20, 2009. - Axis 1.4 was last released in 2006. ## Project state: Ongoing, with moderate activity ## Health report: In this past quarter, committers in the Axis2 project who are also committers in the Apache Web Services sub project Axiom committed fixes in the latter project as described in Jira issue AXIOM-506 - a prerequisite to move Axis2 Java off of javax packages and into jakarta. See AXIS2-6051 for the discussion on the Axis2 side, which resulted in commits this quarter that changed hundreds of files and with a lot of work passed our unit tests. Work continues on the major refactoring of our sub project Apache Rampart - an implementation of WS-Security standards - that was required from commits upgrading OpenSAML from 2.x to 4.3.0, and Apache WS-WSS4J from 1.6 to 3.0.0. Rampart got a huge help this past quarter by a contribution that fixed unit test problems that were difficult to debug. See RAMPART-449. Challenges for this project includes no active committers use Rampart on their own projects. The code contributions of two individuals in RAMPART-449 indicate likely committer candidates and we are planning invitations. Releases are planned this upcoming quarter in the order of Apache Axiom, Apache Axis2, and Apache Rampart. Axis2 will continue to expand its JSON based features in its next release and in general JSON developers are the best chance of future growth in the project. Axis2 C PMC member Bill Blough continues to help users on the mailing list and he also participates in release votes. ## Axis2 java Jira issues opened in the last 90 days: 2 ## Axis2 java Jira issues closed in the last 90 days: 1
# Apache Axis 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. ## Membership Data: Axis was created on 2001-01-19 (22 years ago). It is listed as established in 2009-12 but really the first Apache commit was in 2001. There are currently 63 committers and 62 PMC members in this project, a vote in 2010 made all committers automatically PMC members. One PMC member resigned. Community changes, past quarter: - Currently 62 PMC/ 63 Committers 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. ## Project Activity: Recent releases: - Axis 2/Java 1.8.2 was released on July 14, 2022. - Axis 2/Rampart 1.7.1 was released on July 30, 2017. - Axis 2/C 1.6 was released on April 20, 2009. - Axis 1.4 was last released in 2006. ## Health report: In this past quarter, there was further progress made adapting Apache Axiom SNAPSHOT release changes as described in Jira issue AXIOM-506 into Axis2 Java. Related work this next quarter is expected to culminate in the complete move of Axis2 off of the old javax packages and into new jakarta packages. See AXIS2-6051. Work continues on passing the unit tests after a major refactoring effort of Apache Rampart - an implementation of WS-Security standards - that was required from commits upgrading OpenSAML from 2.x to 4.3.0, and Apache WS-WSS4J from 1.6 to 3.0.0. See RAMPART-449. There is developer interest in adding OpenAPI support, also known as Swagger, that may result in commits this next quarter. It is an example of Axis further moving into contemporary Open Source JSON based REST frameworks that we expect will attract committers in a way that legacy SOAP no longer can. A question was raised about it being five years since our last committer was added. We made an offer for a committer this past quarter but nothing came of it. We have a strong candidate that has submitted patches in RAMPART-449. We plan to make an offer this quarter as we vote for a Rampart release. Long term, our bet is that Axis can transition into a modern and competitive REST based JSON framework, as shown by our increasing spring-boot support and potentially offering OpenAPI integration. Axis2 C PMC member Bill Blough continues to help users on the mailing list and he also participates in release votes. ## Axis2 java Jira issues opened in the last 90 days: 4 ## Axis2 java Jira issues closed in the last 90 days: 1
# Apache Axis 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. ## Membership Data: Axis was created on 2001-01-19 (22 years ago). It is listed as established in 2009-12 but really the first Apache commit was in 2001. There are currently 63 committers and 62 PMC members in this project, a vote in 2010 made all committers automatically PMC members. One PMC member resigned. Community changes, past quarter: - Currently 62 PMC/ 63 Committers 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. ## Project Activity: Recent releases: - Axis 2/Java 1.8.2 was released on July 14, 2022. - Axis 2/Rampart 1.7.1 was released on July 30, 2017. - Axis 2/C 1.6 was released on April 20, 2009. - Axis 1.4 was last released in 2006. ## Health report: This past quarter a lot of progress was made adapting Apache Axiom SNAPSHOT release changes into Axis2. Work has also started on AXIOM-506, a requirement for moving Axis2 off of the old javax packages and into new jakarta packages. See AXIS2-6051. Separately, a major refactoring effort of Apache Rampart - an implementation of WS-Security standards - has resulted in commits upgrading OpenSAML from 2.x to 4.3.0, and Apache WS-WSS4J from 1.6 to 3.0.0. See RAMPART-449. Axis2 C PMC member Bill Blough continues to help users on the mailing list and he also participates in release votes. ## Axis2 java Jira issues opened in the last 90 days: 2 ## Axis2 java Jira issues closed in the last 90 days: 0
# Apache Axis 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. ## Membership Data: Axis was created on 2001-01-19 (22 years ago). There are currently 63 committers and 62 PMC members in this project, a vote in 2010 made all committers automatically PMC members. One PMC member resigned. Community changes, past quarter: - Currently 62 PMC/ 63 Committers 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. ## Project Activity: Recent releases: - Axis 2/Java 1.8.2 was released on July 14, 2022. - Axis 2/Rampart 1.7.1 was released on July 30, 2017. - Axis 2/C 1.6 was released on April 20, 2009. - Axis 1.4 was last released in 2006. ## Health report: Work continues on the upcoming release of our sub-project Rampart, an implementation of WS-Security standards that are quite old now. Rampart was last released in 2017. No active committers have maintained the project much since. However, we did receive a patch fron the community that renewed interest in development. As it turns out some important dependencies were not addressed in the patch and the changes required are enormous - namely upgrading OpenSAML from 2.x to 4.3.0 and Apache WS-WSS4J from 1.6 to 3.0.0. We'll have commits in the next few days showing progress. See RAMPART-449 for the full discussion. We may have a potential committer. For the upcoming quarter concerning Axis2, we'll be looking for some type of path forward to culminate the move from javax packages to jakarta. There is a strong interest for jakarta packages within the Axis community. See AXIS2-6051. While we tried to get ahead of this in AXIOM-506 a few years back, that effort is stalled for the moment. Our goal this quarter is to figure something out. Axis2 C PMC member Bill Blough continues to help users on the mailing list and he also participates in release votes. ## Axis2 java Jira issues opened in the last 90 days: 3 ## Axis2 java Jira issues closed in the last 90 days: 1
# Apache Axis 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. ## Membership Data: Axis was created on 2001-01-19 (21 years ago). There are currently 63 committers and 62 PMC members in this project, a vote in 2010 made all committers automatically PMC members. One PMC member resigned. Community changes, past quarter: - Currently 62 PMC/ 63 Committers 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. ## Project Activity: Recent releases: - Axis 2/Java 1.8.2 was released on July 14, 2022. - Axis 2/Rampart 1.7.1 was released on July 30, 2017. - Axis 2/C 1.6 was released on April 20, 2009. - Axis 1.4 was last released in 2006. ## Health report: This past quarter we focused on the upcoming release of our sub-project Rampart, an implementation of WS-Security standards that are quite old now. Rampart was last released in 2017. No active Axis committers appear to be using Rampart in their own projects so not much was happening. However, the community has been asking for a release that addresses dependency updates and one individual made a large patch contribution. See RAMPART-449 for the full discussion. The Axis2 Java git source repo has seen numerous commits this past quarter to support the development snapshot of Apache Axiom 2.0 - several Axis committers are also committers for the Apache Web Services project at ws.apache.org. Axis2 C PMC member Bill Blough continues to help users on the mailing list and he also participates in release votes. ## Axis2 java Jira issues opened in the last 90 days: 6 ## Axis2 java Jira issues closed in the last 90 days: 1
# Apache Axis 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. ## Membership Data: Axis was created on 2001-01-19 (21 years ago). There are currently 63 committers and 62 PMC members in this project, a vote in 2010 made all committers automatically PMC members. One PMC member resigned. Community changes, past quarter: - Currently 62 PMC/ 63 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. ## Project Activity: Recent releases: - Axis 2/Java 1.8.2 was released on July 14, 2022. - Axis 2/Rampart 1.7.1 was released on July 30, 2017. - Axis 2/C 1.6 was released on April 20, 2009. - Axis 1.4 was last released in 2006. ## Health report: This past quarter we released Axis2 Java 1.8.1 and shortly afterwards 1.8.2. On the agenda for next quarter is fixing a few different IDE plugin problems, and a release of Rampart - a Java implementation of several WS-Sec* standards. The Axis project lacks committer growth due to that SOAP and XML have been out of fashion for several years now. We continue to promote our JSON support via documentation to reverse the trend. Axis2 C PMC member Bill Blough continues to help users on the mailing list and he also participates in release votes. ## Axis2 java Jira issues opened in the last 90 days: 6 ## Axis2 java Jira issues closed in the last 90 days: 2
# Apache Axis 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. ## Membership Data: Axis was created on 2001-01-19 (21 years ago). There are currently 63 committers and 62 PMC members in this project, a vote in 2010 made all committers automatically PMC members. One PMC member resigned. Community changes, past quarter: - Currently 62 PMC/ 63 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. ## Project Activity: Recent releases: - Axis 2/Java 1.8.0 was released on August 1, 2021. - Axis 2/Rampart 1.7.1 was released on July 30, 2017. - Axis 2/C 1.6 was released on April 20, 2009. - Axis 1.4 was last released in 2006. ## Health report: We currently have a vote open for the next Axis2 Java release, 1.8.1. Several of the Axis2 PMC are also on the Apache Webservices project PMC, and Apache Axiom 1.4.0 was released a few weeks ago as a prerequisite for Axis2 Java 1.8.1. The main features of the Axis2 Java 1.8.1 release are dependency updates, documentation updates, improved Java 9 module support, improved Java 18 support, lots of bug fixes, and the removal of the last unit test dependencies of Log4j 1.x. The Axis project lacks committer growth due to that SOAP and XML have been out of fashion for several years now. We continue to promote our JSON support via documentation to reverse the trend and we are seeing more users of this feature on the mailing list. Apache Rampart is a Java implementation of several WS-Sec* standards. See RAMPART-449 for the status and release discussion. We expect Rampart to be released soon after the next Axis2 release. Axis2 C PMC member Bill Blough continues to help users on the mailing list and he also participates in release votes. ## Axis2 java Jira issues opened in the last 90 days: 8 ## Axis2 java Jira issues closed in the last 90 days: 12
# Apache Axis 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. ## Membership Data: Axis was created on 2001-01-19 (20 years ago). There are currently 63 committers and 62 PMC members in this project, a vote in 2010 made all committers automatically PMC members. One PMC member resigned. Community changes, past quarter: - Currently 62 PMC/ 63 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. ## Project Activity: Recent releases: - Axis 2/Java 1.8.0 was released on August 1, 2021. - Axis 2/Rampart 1.7.1 was released on July 30, 2017. - Axis 2/C 1.6 was released on April 20, 2009. - Axis 1.4 was last released in 2006. ## Health report: Work continues on (AXIS2-5857) Log4j 1.x has reached EOL, which actually concerns merely a JMS transport unit test dependency of an ancient version of Apache Qpid from 2012. We upgraded to Log4j 2.x on the last release (1.8.0) however there are still some unit test dependencies of Log4j 1.x. Upgrading Apache Qpid for this test requires quite a bit of refactoring but it's underway. We expect to have an imminent Axis2 Java release to get documentation updates, security updates regarding jar dependencies, and bug fixes to our users. Apache Rampart is a Java implementation of several WS-Sec* standards. See RAMPART-449 for the status and release discussion. We expect Rampart to be released soon after the next Axis2 release. The Axis project lacks committer growth due to that SOAP and XML have been out of fashion for several years now. We continue to promote our JSON support to reverse the trend, which mirrors what is rapidly growing in our day jobs. Axis2 C PMC member Bill Blough continues to help users on the mailing list and he also participates in release votes. ## Axis2 java Jira issues opened in the last 90 days: 10 ## Axis2 java Jira issues closed in the last 90 days: 8
# Apache Axis 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. ## Membership Data: Axis was created on 2001-01-19 (20 years ago). There are currently 63 committers and 62 PMC members in this project, a vote in 2010 made all committers automatically PMC members. One PMC member resigned. Community changes, past quarter: - Currently 62 PMC/ 63 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. ## Project Activity: Recent releases: - Axis 2/Java 1.8.0 was released on August 1, 2021. - Axis 2/Rampart 1.7.1 was released on July 30, 2017. - Axis 2/C 1.6 was released on April 20, 2009. - Axis 1.4 was last released in 2006. ## Health report: Axis2 Java released 1.8.0 this past August, and a follow up release is planned for the next quarter concerning issues AXIS2-6016 and AXIS2-6009. Apache Rampart is a Java implementation of several WS-Sec* standards. Rampart is also scheduled for a release next quarter, so those users can upgrade to the latest Axis2 version. See RAMPART-449 for the status and release discussion. The Axis project lacks committer growth due to that SOAP and XML have been out of fashion for several years now. We continue to promote our JSON support to reverse the trend, which mirrors what is rapidly growing in our day jobs. Axis2 C PMC member Bill Blough continues to help users on the mailing list and he also participates in release votes. ## Axis2 java Jira issues opened in the last 90 days: 5 ## Axis2 java Jira issues closed in the last 90 days: 1
# Apache Axis 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. ## Membership Data: Axis was created on 2001-01-19 (20 years ago). There are currently 63 committers and 62 PMC members in this project, a vote in 2010 made all committers automatically PMC members. One PMC member resigned. Community changes, past quarter: - Currently 62 PMC/ 63 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. ## Project Activity: Recent releases: - Axis 2/Java 1.8.0 was released on August 1, 2021. - Axis 2/Rampart 1.7.1 was released on July 30, 2017. - Axis 2/C 1.6 was released on April 20, 2009. - Axis 1.4 was last released in 2006. ## Health report: This is mostly a resend of last months report - which was not found automatically due to a lack of [REPORT] in the subject of the email sent to board@apache.org. The Rampart content is new. Axis2 Java has released 1.8.0. The main features are up to date dependencies and a transition of the projects future to be more JSON focused instead of SOAP. The project lacks committer growth due to that SOAP and XML have been out of fashion for several years now. The following actions were taken in the 1.8.0 release to reverse the trend, that mirrors what is occurring in our day jobs: AXIS2-6003 Support Moshi as an alternative to GSON for JSON support AXIS2-6006 JSON springboot userguide The latter issue supplies a complete WAR webapp for a servlet container in our userguide, that explains how to use JSON and REST in Axis2 based web services with contemporary trends such as Spring Security and Spring Boot: http://axis.apache.org/axis2/java/core/docs/json-springboot-userguide.html Apache Rampart is an Axis project that provides implementations of several WS-Sec* specifications. In order for Rampart users to upgrade to Axis2 1.8.0, a Rampart release is required that supports the same dependencies as the latest Axis2 Java core release. See RAMPART-449 for the status and release discussion. Axis2 C PMC member Bill Blough continues to help users on the mailing list and he also participates in release votes. ## Axis2 java Jira issues opened in the last 90 days: 8 ## Axis2 java Jira issues closed in the last 90 days: 14
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## 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. ## Membership Data: Axis was created on 2001-01-19 (20 years ago). There are currently 63 committers and 62 PMC members in this project, a vote in 2010 made all committers automatically PMC members. One PMC member resigned. Community changes, past quarter: - Currently 62 PMC/ 63 Commiters members. - No new committers were added in the last 90 days, last committer added was Bill Blough on December 7th 2017, later added to the PMC on May 9th 2018. ## Project Activity: Recent 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. ## Health report: Axis2 Java is focused on our 1.8 release. This project has a Maven snapshot dependency on Apache Axiom, and we are working with that project for an Axiom release. See the thread below: https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rb18a2c9f20ba477f0f13e811d334cc8ac073bf52f321dab7faaf4e10%40%3Cdev.ws.apache.org%3E The main focus of the Axis2 Java release is support for the latest JDK's, modernizing our dependencies, and replacing libraries where necessary for contemporary features - for example: - AXIS2-6003 Support Moshi as an alternative to GSON for JSON support Concerning JSON, we continue to focus new development in this area as our day jobs move away from SOAP. We expect to gain committer growth by improving the support of JSON provided by Axis2. Axis2 C PMC member Bill Blough has no updates to report this past quarter, though he has indicated that he expects progress again next quarter. - Axis2 java Jira issues opened in the last 90 days: 8 - Axis2 java Jira issues closed in the last 90 days: 6
# Apache Axis 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. ## Membership Data: Axis was created on 2001-01-19 (20 years ago). There are currently 63 committers and 62 PMC members in this project, a vote in 2010 made all committers automatically PMC members. One PMC member resigned. Community changes, past quarter: - Currently 62 PMC/ 63 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. ## Project Activity: Recent 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. ## Health report: This was a good quarter for Axis2 as our project's most prolific PMC member by commits, Andreas Veithen, became more active in the project once again and helped greatly by settting up GitHub Dependabot and fixed some issues with our recent dependancy upgrades. Also fixed this past quarter is JDK 11 compliation support and beyond by removing some features such as XDoclet that are no longer available in later JDK's. The project lacks committer growth because most of our users are using Axis2 for SOAP. We remain hopeful that as JSON and REST become more popular, Axis2 can transistion to that user base. Concerning JSON, our implementation is based on GSON though the newer alternative Moshi is likely to be contributed for JSON support since our day jobs are rapidly moving to Moshi. We have started a thread on the dev mailing list concerning the outstanding reamining items that need to be resolved for the next Axis2 release. Axis2 C PMC member Bill Blough activity includes "working on Axis2 C last quarter for my employer (mostly rampart related), but I still need to clean up and merge the changes into the repo. " ## Axis2 java Jira issues opened in the last 90 days: 2 ## Axis2 java Jira issues closed in the last 90 days: 16
# Apache Axis 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. ## Membership Data: Axis was created on 2001-01-19 (19 years ago). There are currently 63 committers and PMC members in this project, a vote in 2010 made all committers automatically PMC members. Community changes, past quarter: - 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. ## Project Activity: Recent 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. ## Health report: As Axis commemorates our 20th year this upcoming quarter since the projects first commit, we continue to have moderate activity of new and existing users posting to the mailing lists and creating Jira issues. Our goal for the next Axis2 java release is JDK 11 compilation, and upgrades of dependencies. Notable upgrades this past quarter include moving to log4j2, switching from com.sun.xml.bind to org.glassfish.jaxb, and fixing the WSDL2Code.sh script for JDK 9 and later. Documentation improvements this past include our Spring Framework integration guide. JSON based web services doc improvements are in progress. Both of these areas are key to growing our community and increasing committer growth. Axis2 C PMC member Bill Blough continued to make progress this past quarter, by working on fixes to the Rampart security components. java-dev@axis.apache.org had a 189% increase in traffic in the past quarter (136 emails compared to 47): java-user@axis.apache.org had a 7700% increase in traffic in the past quarter (78 emails compared to 1): 10 issues opened in JIRA, past quarter (150% increase) 8 issues closed in JIRA, past quarter (100% increase) 14 commits in the past quarter (-26% decrease)
# Apache Axis 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. ## Membership Data: Axis was created on 2001-01-19 (19 years ago). There are currently 63 committers and PMC members in this project, a vote in 2010 made all committers automatically PMC members. Community changes, past quarter: - 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. ## Project Activity: Recent 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. ## Health report: As Axis approaches our 20th year as an Apache project, this past quarter we continued to have slow but steady progress by having at least three PMC members make commits. Our Axis user lists and Jira activity this past quarter indicates that we continue to have users. We typically see them when they are migrating their legacy applications to newer servers and dependencies. The Axis2 Java commits this past quarter included upgrades of many of our dependenices, as requested by Jira issue AXIS2-5984. We continue to make commits related to supporting JDK 9 and later. Our goal for the next release is JDK 11 compilation, including reworking the custom code we have for Javdoc and XDoclet. For Axis2 java, most of our users are using legacy SOAP so we are lacking committer growth. The plan to attract new users is by better highlighting our Axis2 JSON and Rest support in the upcoming release that we expect by the end of the year. We expect that some planned Spring Boot docs will also bring in new users. Axis2 C PMC member Bill Blough continued to make good progress this past quarter, as shown by 14 commits and 4 closed Jira issues. ## Axis2 java Jira issues closed in the last 90 days. AXIS2-5983, AXIS2-5984 ## Axis1 java Jira issues closed in the last 90 days. AXIS-2938, AXIS-2939 (closed issue, helped clarify the fix). ## Axis2 C Jira issues closed in the last 90 days. AXIS2C-1600, AXIS2C-1603, AXIS2C-1638, AXIS2C-1674
## 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. ## Membership Data: Axis was created on 2001-01-19 (19 years ago). There are currently 63 committers and PMC members in this project, a vote in 2010 made all committers automatically PMC members. Community changes, past quarter: - 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. ## Project Activity: Recent 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. ## Health report: We have enough PMC to cut releases. Axis2 is a mature project, but still actively maintained. The goals for the next Axis2 Java release continue to be JDK 11 support, by removing the remaining deprecated com.sun dependencies from the code base. This past quarter we moved Axis 1.x Java, Axis2 Java, and Axis2 C from svn to github. A big thanks to Bill Blough for making it happen, and Andreas Veithen for fixing the Java unit tests. Most of our users are running legacy SOAP services based on XML, so we are lacking committer growth. As our day jobs move to JSON, we continue to improve our docs and support for JSON based REST web services in order to gain new users. We continue to receive patches from the community, including AXIS2-5724. Axis2 C PMC member Bill Blough has "identified/tagged a lot of issues that should probably be addressed before the next release". The communication continues to be good. ## JIRA Activity for Axis2 java - 2 JIRA tickets created in the last 90 days. - 3 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 90 days.
# Apache Axis 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. ## Membership Data: Axis was created on 2001-01-19 (19 years ago). There are currently 63 committers and PMC members in this project, a vote in 2010 made all committers automatically PMC members. Community changes, past quarter: - 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. ## Project Activity: Recent 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. ## Health report: We have enough PMC to cut releases. Axis2 is a mature project, but still actively maintained. There continued to be light but consistent traffic of new users this past quarter on the Axis2 Java users mailing list. While best known for SOAP, the future of Axis2 Java is with JSON and REST. AXIS2-5943 applied some JSON message related bug fixes and fixes for the JSON samples. Also, docs were added on how to send JSON via Curl as an HTTP client for REST based web services. The goals for the next Axis2 Java release continue to be JDK 11 support, by removing the remaining deprecated com.sun dependencies from the code base. Time was spent this past quarter on trying to get the nightly builds via Travis working again - which depend on github syncing with our svn repo but that stopped working. Discussions about our Github future (with 3+ PMC members) are currently occurring on java-dev@axis.apache.org. Axis2 C PMC member Bill Blough was "in the middle of making some bugfixes/improvements to the build system" this past quarter. The communication continues to be good. ## JIRA Activity for Axis2 java - 3 JIRA tickets created in the last 90 days. - 3 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 90 days.
# Apache Axis 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. ## Membership Data: Axis was created on 2001-01-19 (18 years ago). There are currently 63 committers and PMC members in this project, a vote in 2010 made all committers automatically PMC members. Community changes, past quarter: ## 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. We received and applied several patches this past quarter, see AXIS-2935 and AXIS2-5969. There was light but consistent traffic of new users this past quarter on the Axis2 users mailing list. While best known for SOAP, the future of Axis2 is with JSON and REST - which it supports well though its not well documated nor does it yet have the modern auto config features that would make it easier for new users. Work continues on removing the com.sun classes from the Axis2 client code, so it can run on JDK 11 which the server code now supports. The axis 1.4 branch, last released in 2006, has had several security patches applied however its far from being able to run on JDK 11, which would also be a compelling reason to upgrade for those users that remain. Axis2 C PMC member Bill Blough has continued his progress via upgrading the build system this past quarter. The communication continues to be good. ## 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 for Axis2 java - 11 JIRA tickets created in the last 90 days. - 3 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 90 days.
# 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. ## Membership Data: According to SVN, Apache Axis was created on 2001-01-19 (18 years ago). There are currently 63 committers and PMC members in this project, a vote in 2010 made all committers automatically PMC members. ## 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. Most of our users are using legacy SOAP services so we are lacking new committers. We expect to grow our community by better docs on Axis2 with JSON and REST. The most significant event this past quarter was receiving and applying patches for both Axis 1.x and Axis2 concerning JDK 11 support. See AXIS-2929 and AXIS2-5935. Axis2 C PMC member Bill Blough has continued his progress via commits and Jira issues this past quarter. The communication continues to be good. ## 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 for Axis2 java - 7 JIRA tickets created in the last 90 days. - 2 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 90 days.
# 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. Most of our users are using legacy SOAP services so we are lacking new committers. Our first priority continues to be responding to emails from security@apache.org, for both Java Axis2 and Axis 1.x (last released in 2006). Because of our mature code bases, we expect the security issues to become less frequent in the near future. At that point we can better grow our community by better docs in areas more relevant today, such as REST and GSON. Axis2 has excellent support already in those areas but there are few code examples. Axis2 C PMC member Bill Blough has continued his progress via commits and Jira issues this past quarter. ## 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 - 8 JIRA tickets created in the last 90 days. - 4 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 90 days.
@Danny: pursue a roll call for Axis
# 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. Most of our users are using legacy SOAP services so we are lacking new committers. A committer offer was made this past quarter to an individual who declined. As our day jobs move more into REST and JSON, we will continue to use Axis2 for this and expect to grow our community by better docs and examples in that area. Axis2 C added a new committer, Bill Blough, this past December 2017 and so far that is helping the project pick up speed. There was more progress via commits and Jira issues this past quarter. Bill has indicated he expects his activity to increase this next quarter. ## 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 - 7 JIRA tickets created in the last 90 days. - 3 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 90 days.
# 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.
# 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 1.7.8 (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. We continue to receive patches from new users. The vast majority of recent mailing list traffic comes in two forms: security issues found by researchers and users static analysis tools such as Veracode, and migration issues from old releases that are long unsupported. Going forward the web service trends in the industry are REST, JSON and annotation driven development via JSR 181 POJO Web Services - all things Axis2 has excellent support for however the docs are lacking to tie it all together. Our day jobs have already moved in this direction, and recently we have seen users figuring out that since they are already using Axis2 for SOAP they can also use it for REST and JSON. We see an opportunity to grow our community via better docs in this area. A Spring Boot starter kit is planned for the next quarter, the idea being one maven dep instead of literally 25 separate Jars and also code based auto configuration of the most common use cases. Axis2 C added a new committer this past December 2017, and so far that is helping the project pick up speed. There was more progress via commits and Jira issues this past quarter. Indications are that an Axis 2 C 1.7 release could happen by the end of the year. There are indications via various user list threads and Jira issues that an Axis2 Java 1.7.9 release is likely to happen this upcoming quarter. ## 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 1.7.8 was released on May 19, 2018. - Axis 2/C 1.6 was released on April 20, 2009. - Axis 1.4 was last released in 2006. ## JIRA Activity - 10 JIRA tickets created in the last 90 days. - 11 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 90 days.
# Apache Axis2 Board Report, June 2018 ## 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 1.7.8 (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. We continue to receive patches from various new users/contributors. As the IT industry moves in droves from SOAP to JSON, Axis2 Java and my day job are no exception and while Axis2 has an excellent REST / GSON module its lacking docs and examples so its not used much. This next quarter the Axis2 teams expects to discuss bugfixes, docs and future direction to this module. Another trend is Spring Boot and some projects like Log4j2 I notice has starter kits. This next quarter we will be looking at what a starter kit for our project would look like. Axis 1.x has not been released since 2006 however one committer, Andreas Veithen, has been very active in that repo for several years. No decision has been made on a release schedule however several open threads are currently in progress concerning what a release may look like at this point. Axis2 C added a new committer this past December 2017, and so far that is helping the project pick up speed. Indications are that a 1.7 release could happen by the end of the year. ## 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 May 9th 2018. ## Releases: - Axis 2/Java 1.7.8 was released on May 19, 2018. - Axis 2/C 1.6 was released on April 20, 2009. - Axis 1.4 was last released in 2006. ## JIRA Activity - 11 JIRA tickets created in the last 90 days. - 6 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 90 days.
# Apache Axis2 Board Report, March 2018 ## 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 1.7.7 (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. We continue to receive patches from various new users/contributors. Axis2 Java put out several releases in 2017. Lately the focus has been responding to mailing list questions and Jira issues concerning end users automated penetration testing by various 3rd party tools. Several email threads occurred with security@apache.org this past 30 days concerning Axis2 Java and also Axis Java 1.x (last release was 2006). Jira issues have been created (AXIS2-5910 , AXIS2-5911) , emails have been sent to the original sender, and internal discussions are in progress. Axis 1.x is likely to have a new release after all. RHEL 6 and 7 distribute it so its widely a problem at our day jobs. There are numerous security issues - several already fixed by community submitted patches and in SVN. An additional challenge for a release will be the migration off of the unsupported httpclient 3.x libs, to httpclient4. Axis2 C added a new committer this past December 2017, and so far that is helping the project pick up speed. Possibly the Java team that knows C (myself for example) , could help get a release in motion. The Java team needs to get past the security issues first, then revisit how we can help the C team. ## PMC/Committer changes: - Currently 63 PMC/Commiters members. - No new committers were added in the last 30 days, last committer added was Bill Blough on December 7th 2017. ## Releases: - Axis 2/Java 1.7.7 was released on November 22, 2017. - Axis 2/C 1.6 was released on April 20, 2009. - Axis 1.4 was last released in 2006. ## JIRA Activity - 4 JIRA tickets created in the last month. - 0 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last month.
# 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 1.7.7 (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. We continue to receive patches from various new users/contributors. Axis2 Java put out several releases in 2017. Lately the focus has been responding to mailing list questions and Jira issues concerning end users automated penetration testing by various 3rd party tools. Axis2 C has had commits and discussions in the last 30 days concerning migrating the Guththila tests to GTest. ## PMC/Committer changes: - Currently 63 PMC/Commiters members. - No new committers were added in the last 30 days, last commiter added on December 7th 2017. ## Releases: - Axis 2/Java 1.7.7 was released on November 22, 2017. - Axis 2/C 1.6 was released on April 20, 2009. ## JIRA Activity - 3 JIRA tickets created in the last month. - 2 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last month.
# Apache Axis2 Board Report, January 2018 ## 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 1.7.7 (stable) - Maintenance only. - Axis2 1.8 (development) ## Health report: We have enough PMC to cut releases. Axis2 is a mature project, but still actively maintained. We continue to receive patches from various new users/contributors. ## PMC/Committer changes: - Currently 63 PMC/Committers members. - No new committers were added in the last 30 days. Last committer was added in December 2017. ## Releases: - Axis 2/Java 1.7.7 was released on November 22, 2017. - Axis 2/C 1.6 was released in April 2009. ## JIRA Activity - 3 JIRA tickets created in the last month. - 18 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last month.
# Apache Axis2 Board Report, December 2017
## 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 1.7.7 (stable)
- Maintenance only.
- Axis2 Java 1.8 (development)
## Health report:
We have enough PMC to cut releases. Axis2 is a mature project, but still actively
maintained.
A new PMC chair was accepted by the board last month (Robert Lazarski).
We continue to receive patches from various new users/contributors.
## PMC/Committer changes:
- Currently 63 PMC/Commiters members.
- A new committer was added in the last 30 days, Bill Blough on December 7th 2017.
## Releases:
- Axis 2/Java 1.7.7 was released on November 22, 2017.
- Axis2 C Project and Sub-projects, recently added a new committer and there are road map to 1.7 discussions - Apr 2009
## JIRA Activity
- 3 JIRA tickets created in the last month.
- 0 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last month, patches and code
discussions are in review for the created issues.
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Deepal Jayasinghe Smith (djayasinghe) to the office of Vice President, Apache Axis, and WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of Deepal Jayasinghe from the office of Vice President, Apache Axis, and WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Axis project has chosen by vote to recommend Robert Lazarski (rlazarski) as the successor to the post; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Deepal Jayasinghe is relieved and discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice President, Apache Axis, and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Robert Lazarski be and hereby is appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Axis, 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 7E, Change the Apache Axis Project Chair, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
## 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 1.7.6 (stable) - Maintenance only. - Axis2 1.8 (development) ## Health report: We have enough PMC to cut releases. Axis2 is a mature project, but still actively maintained. We expect to have a new PMC chair accepted by the board this month (Robert Lazarski). Most of the emails on the Axis2 user mailing list, and Jira issues created in the last 3 months, have received timely responses. We continue to receive patches from various new users/contributors. ## PMC/Committer changes: - Currently 62 PMC/Commiters members. - No new committers were added in last three months (last addition was in June 2016). ## Releases: - Axis 2/Java 1.7.6 was released on July 30, 2017. ## JIRA Activity - 33 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months. - 24 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months.
@Mark: follow up with PMC; ask them to report for the next two months
No report was submitted.
Shane to communicate that the board will be expecting a chair change resolution next month; if no such resolution is received, the board will proceed to move the project to the Attic.
No report was submitted.
No report was submitted.
@Shane: work with the Axis community to help with governance issues
## 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: - We need to find a volunteer for PMC chair, we tried few times but could not able to find a volunteer (with current workload I have limited time to work on the project). ## PMC/Committer changes: - Currently 62 PMC/Commiters members. - No new committers were added in last three month (last addition was in June 2016.). ## Releases: - Axis 2/Java 1.7.5 was released on May 06, 2017.
@Shane: contact the project and strongly encourage them to propose a new chair and report next month
No report was submitted.
## 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:
- Axis2/C and its sub-projects are inactive and we need to consider moving
that to Attic as well. We will move them to Attic before next board
meeting.
- We need to find a volunteer for PMC chair (with current workload I have
limited time to work on the project).
## PMC/Committer changes:
- Currently 62 PMC/Commiters members.
- No new committers were added in last three month (last addition was in
June 2016.).
## Releases:
- No new releases in last three months. Last Axis2 release was on October,
21 2016 (Axis2 Java 1.7.4).
## 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: - Axis2/C project is becoming inactive and we need to consider moving that to Attic as well. We moved another inactive project (Axis1) to attic on August, 2016 [1]. PMC will discuss the matter in the mailing list and update the board in next board report. ## PMC/Committer changes: - Currently 62 PMC/Commiters members. - No new committers were added in last three month (last addition was in June 2016.). ## Releases: - Axis2 Java 1.7.4 - October, 21 206. This release includes fixes for vulnerabilities affecting the admin console as well as a dependency on an Apache HttpClient version affected by known security vulnerabilities (CVE-2012-6153 and CVE-2014-3577). - Axis2 C Project and Sub-projects - Apr 2009 [1] : https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ATTIC-16
## 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 stacks as well as Axis1). ## Issues: - Axis PMC received Apache Axis2 Vulnerability [VR-436], after evaluating the report we realized the claim is about an optional module which can be disable via Axis2 to configuration file (axis2.xml). In addition, recommendation for that module is only for debugging and not for production use. - In previous meeting board requested to report on many inactive sub-projects and we have moved Axis1 project to Attic. - Regarding other inactive project (i.e., Axis2 C and its sub projects) we had a discussion regarding moving some of the inactive projects to Attic and also had a vote regarding the same [1]. During the discussion [2] three individuals (Rafael Bronzeri, Giorgio Zoppi and Sendil Rajendhran) came forward to contribute to the project and now we have given them the opportunity and watching the progress. Unfortunately we do not see enough progress and if no progress is made, we will try to move Axis2 C projects (and its sub-projects) to Attic as well. ## Activity: - A new PMC member/committer was added. ## PMC/Committer changes: - Currently 62 PMC/Commiters members. - Rafael Bronzeri was added as a PMC member/Committer in June 2016. ## Releases: - Axis2 Java Project and Sub-projects - May 30, 2016. - Axis2 C Project and Sub-projects - Apr 2009 [1] http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/axis-c-dev/201604.mbox/%3c571A4272.7040109@gmail.com%3e [2] http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/axis-c-dev/201604.mbox/%3c5718EA04.2020000@gmail.com%3e
No report was submitted.
Mark: also concerned about holding retirement votes on private list
## 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 stacks as well as Axis1). ## Issues: - There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. However, board requested to report on many inactive sub-projects as stated in previous report, we had a discussion regarding moving some of the inactive projects to Attic and also had a vote regarding the same [1]. During the discussion [2] three individuals (Rafael Bronzeri, Giorgio Zoppi and Sendil Rajendhran) came forward to contribute to the project and now we have given them the opportunity and watching the progress. Now, we have granted Rafael Axis committer access and he contributes to Axis C. ## Activity: - A new PMC member/committer was added. ## PMC/Committer changes: - Currently 62 PMC/Commiters members. - Rafael Bronzeri was added as a PMC member/Committer in June 2016. ## Releases: - No releases since last report (since last June, 2016) [1] - http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/axis-c-dev/201604.mbox/%3c571A4272.7040109@gmail.com%3e [2] - http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/axis-c-dev/201604.mbox/%3c5718EA04.2020000@gmail.com%3e
@Mark: Get an improved report for next month
## 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 stacks).
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
However, we had a discussion regarding moving some of the inactive projects to Attic and also had a vote regarding the same [1].
During the discussion [2] three individuals (Rafael Bronzeri, Giorgio Zoppi and Sendil Rajendhran)
came forward to contribute to the project and now we have given them the opportunity and watching the progress.
If no progress is made we will move the projects to Attic.
## Activity:
- Received Security Disclosure - Persistent Cross-Site Scripting in Apache Axis2 ( CVE-2010-3981).
We addressed it and released the fixed code. Kudos to Andreas for quick fix and the release.
- Axis PMC was able to release the most waited Axis2 1.7.3 release..
## PMC/Committer changes:
- Currently 61 PMC/Commiters members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was on July 7 2015
## Releases:
- Apache Axis2 1.7.3 (May 30, 2016)
## Community activities
- User list - 16 emails.
- Dev list - 554 emails ( 157 - Apr, 209-May, 188-June)
- Commits - 188 commits.
[1] - http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/axis-c-dev/201604.mbox/%3c571A4272.7040109@gmail.com%3e
[2] - http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/axis-c-dev/201604.mbox/%3c5718EA04.2020000@gmail.com%3e
@Mark: follow up with PMC and get an improved report for next month
## 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 stacks). ## Issues: - There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Activity: - Activities around Axis2 Java remained the same, however noticeable activeness around Axis C project after attic proposal. Few contributors created a plan on contributing to the project, as PMC we will keep watching closely to provide the support they need. - Release of Axis2 1.7.2. ## PMC/Committer changes: - Currently 61 PMC/Commiters members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was on July 7 2015 ## Releases: - Apache Axis2 1.7.2 (May 02, 2016)
Report was not approved
@Mark: explain to Axis PMC what the board is looking for in a report
No report was submitted.
No report was submitted.
## 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 stacks).
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
However, before the next board report we will try to take some decisions
for many of inactive projects (including Axis2 C).
## Activity:
- Axis PMC was able to release the most waited Axis2 1.7 release,
huge kudos should go to Andreas for driving the release.
## PMC/Committer changes:
- Currently 61 PMC/Commiters members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was on July 7 2015
## Releases:
- Apache Rampart 1.7.0 (January 18, 2016)
- Apache Axis2 1.7.0 (January 18, 2016)
## Description The Apache Axis project is responsible for the creation and maintenance of software related to the Axis Web Services frameworks and subsidiary components. ## Issues: - There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. However, it is worth mentioning that Axis2 is ready to release 1.7 and it would be based on current trunk. ## Activity: - 2releases since the last report in November. ## PMC/Committers changes: - Currently 61 PMC/Commiters members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Hiranya Jayathilaka on July 7 2015 ## Releases: - Apache Rampart 1.6.4 (December 28, 2015) - Apache Axis2 1.6.4 (December 28, 2015) ## Mailing list activity: - user list - 31 emails conversations. - dev list - was also active with releases related threads. ## JIRA activity: - 9 Jira issues created in the last 3 months - 7 Jira issues closed/resolved in the last 3 months
@Jim: Please report again next month
The Apache Axis project is responsible for the creation and maintenance of software related to the Axis Web Services frameworks and subsidiary components. Community ========= The level of participation in both dev and user lists are relatively active. Releases ======================== No Axis/Java releases for this quarter, however the team is working on release for a sub-project Apache Rampart 1.6.3. Last releases: Axis2/Java: June 2015 Issues =========================== There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. Development ========================= Number of commits > 80 (Axis2/Java) Number of JIRA issues (Created 17, Resolved 7) Thanks, Deepal
@Jim: please report next month on the Axis/Synapse relationship and release issue
The Apache Axis project is responsible for the creation and maintenance of software related to the Axis Web Services frameworks and subsidiary components. Community ========= The level of participation in both dev and user lists are relatively active. Last Committer/PMC- Hiranya Jayathilaka (7/2015) Releases ======================== No Axis/Java releases for this quarter, however the team is working towards next release by working on releases for dependent projects. We are also making some progress towards Axis2/C release. Last releases: Axis2/Java: June 2015 Issues =========================== There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. Development ========================= Number of commits – 49 (Axis2/Java) Number of JIRA issues (Created 11, Resolved 7)
The trunk and the 1.6 branch have been fixed so that they are buildable with Java 7, removing an important obstacle from the release process. An Axis2 1.6.3 release is finally out with 7 binding and 1 non-binding votes, so we had no problem of finding quorum to vote on the release. That is clear evidence that the project is able to provide sufficient oversight over releases. Regarding the security issue reported on Axis 1.4 (with the subject “security vulnerability in axis 1.4”) was bogus and we were unable to reproduce it. We have already responded back to the person who reported the issue as well as security@apache.org. In terms of development we have closed over 75 issues (applied many pending patches) and received several new patches. Community =========== During past few weeks Axis2 was able to boost it community participation, both user and developer lists were quite active. More importantly we were able to bring three new contributors (Asanka Dissanayake, Andun Sameera, Ravi Undupitiya) and they have already started contributing to the project. Axis2/c project also got a new community (Nadir Amra, Giorgio Zoppi, Rinil Rushab, and Ilya Tutski) around it and have created a roadmap for the project and they have agreed to work toward it. We also voted Hiranya (from Synapse) as an Axis committer with 14 binding votes. This is another evidence that Axis has enough quorum to keep the project active. Issues =========== We have started discussion on moving inactive sub-projects to Attic or Archive. We will include the resolution in next board report. Given the progress we have made in the project we would like to see the possibility of switching back to quarterly report schedule.
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors deems it no longer in the best interest of the Foundation to continue the Apache Axis project due to inactivity NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Apache Axis 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 Axis Project; and be it further RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache Axis" is hereby terminated; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache Axis PMC is hereby terminated Special Order 7A, Terminate the Apache Axis Project, was tabled.
The Apache Axis project is responsible for the creation and maintenance of software related to the Axis Web Services frameworks and subsidiary components. Axis project consists of multiple sub projects: Axis2 (Java), Axis2 (C), Rampart (Java), Rampart (C), Sandesha, Sandesha2 (C), Savan, and Axis. Community ========= Level of participation on developer community is none, and board raised several concerns on health of the project. User community was somewhat active but level of participation was significantly low compared what it used to be. Releases ======================== No major releases for all the core and sub projects. Axis2 Java was waiting a release from WS project (Apache AXIOM) and it came available on 6/12/2015. Now we will push forward an Axis2 release (probably the last release before moving to attic). Alone with Axis2 many of other sub projects will also have their own releases. Last releases: Axis2/Java: April 2012 Rampart/Java: April 2012 Sandesha2/Java: April 2012 Axis2 Transports/Java: December 2009 Axis/Java: April 2006 Axis2/C: Apr 2009 Rampart/C: May 2009 Sandesha/C: Oct 2007 Savan/C: May 2007 Axis/C++ 1.x: March 2006 Issues =========================== Due to the lack of developer participation Axis project cannot stand alone, one possible proposal would be to merge Axis with WS PMC (it was the case before), in the same time if Synapse community thinks they can also move to WC PMC, we should be able to get enough level of active participation.
@Sam if nothing positive happens by next month, the board will vote on a resolution to move the project to the attic
No report was submitted.
There doesn't appear to be enough energy in this project. No response to requests.
Seems to be some synergy with Synapse.
@Sam: follow up with Axis PMC.
The Apache Axis project is responsible for the creation and maintenance of software related to the Axis Web Services frameworks and subsidiary components. Community ========= The level of participation in dev/PMC community was considerably low, while there were some activities in user community. No new committers (PMC members) during last quarter. Releases ======================== Apache Synapse is waiting for an Axis2 release and now Axis2 is also waiting an Axiom release from WS project. The good news is WS is working on it and hopefully we will get it soon. Soon after Axiom release we will do a release. Axis2 release will include (Rampart, Sandesha2 as well). Last releases: =================== Axis2/Java: April 2012 Rampart/Java: April 2012 Sandesha2/Java: April 2012 Axis/Java: April 2006 Axis2/C: Apr 2009 Rampart/C: May 2009 Axis/C++ 1.x: March 2006 Issues =========================== There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
@Sam: Need to resolve issues with Synapse PMC; please report next month
No report was submitted.
The Apache Axis project is responsible for the creation and maintenance of software related to the Axis Web Services frameworks and subsidiary components. Community ========= The level of participation in dev community is considerably low. No new committers (PMC members) during last quarter. Releases ======================== No releases for this quarter, and currently we are planning for Axis2 java release. We are also waiting for two release from WS project (Axiom and Woden) which are needed for Axis2 release. Last releases: Axis2/Java: April 2012 Rampart/Java: April 2012 Sandesha2/Java: April 2012 Axis2 Transports/Java: December 2009 Axis/Java: April 2006 Axis2/C: Apr 2009 Rampart/C: May 2009 Sandesha/C: Oct 2007 Savan/C: May 2007 Axis/C++ 1.x: March 2006 Issues =========================== There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. Development ========================= Number of commits - 5 (Axis2 java)
No report was submitted.
No report was submitted.
@Brett: pursue a report for Axis
The Apache Axis project is responsible for the creation and maintenance of software related to the Axis Web Services frameworks and subsidiary components. Community ========= The level of participation in user community is consistent and healthy.However, developer community is fairly quiet for the period (commits, JIRA, and dev lists). No new committer/PMC was added for the period. Releases ======================== There was a continues request from Synapse community for an Axis2 release, due to the lack of resources in Axis community we could not able to fulfill the request. However, there is an ongoing discussion on getting help from Synapse community to push forward the release. Last releases: Axis2/Java: April 2012 Rampart/Java: April 2012 Sandesha2/Java: April 2012 Axis2 Transports/Java: December 2009 Axis/Java: April 2006 Axis2/C: Apr 2009 Rampart/C: May 2009 Sandesha/C: Oct 2007 Savan/C: May 2007 Axis/C++ 1.x: March 2006 Notes =========================== Apache Attic completed our request of moving inactive Axis sub projects to Attic. Issues =========================== There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
The Apache Axis project is responsible for the creation and maintenance of software related to the Axis Web Services frameworks and subsidiary components. This August Axis2 completed its 10th year journey. Community ========= The level of participation is consistent and healthy. User mailing list continue to be active, while we observed a fair amount of traffic in developer list. Releases ======================== No releases for this quarter, and limited time and resources have become a blocker for the release. Last releases: Axis2/Java: April 2012 Rampart/Java: April 2012 Sandesha2/Java: April 2012 Axis2 Transports/Java: December 2009 Axis/Java: April 2006 Axis2/C: Apr 2009 Rampart/C: May 2009 Sandesha/C: Oct 2007 Savan/C: May 2007 Axis/C++ 1.x: March 2006 Issues =========================== There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
@Chris: pursue a proper report for Axis for next month
The Apache Axis project is responsible for the creation and maintenance of software related to the Axis Web Services frameworks and subsidiary components. Community ========= Isuru Suriarachchi was voted as a PMC member in this quarter. The level of participation is consistent and healthy. Both user and developer mailing lists continue to be active with a fair amount of traffic. Releases ======================== No releases for this quarter. Last releases: Axis2/Java: April 2012 Rampart/Java: April 2012 Sandesha2/Java: April 2012 Axis2 Transports/Java: December 2009 Axis/Java: April 2006 Axis2/C: Apr 2009 Rampart/C: May 2009 Sandesha/C: Oct 2007 Savan/C: May 2007 Axis/C++ 1.x: March 2006 Issues =========================== There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
AI Rich: Is the community really healthy? Seems Synapse is asking for a release.
The Apache Axis project is responsible for the creation and maintenance of software related to the Axis Web Services frameworks and subsidiary components. Community ========= No new committers or PMC members were nominated this quarter. The level of participation is consistent and healthy. Both user and developer mailing lists continue to be active with a fair amount of traffic. Releases No releases for this quarter. Last releases: Axis2/Java: April 2012 Rampart/Java: April 2012 Sandesha2/Java: April 2012 Axis2 Transports/Java: December 2009 Axis/Java: April 2006 Axis2/C: Apr 2009 Rampart/C: May 2009 Sandesha/C: Oct 2007 Savan/C: May 2007 Axis/C++ 1.x: March 2006 Issues There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
DESCRIPTION The Apache Axis project is responsible for the creation and maintenance of software related to the Axis Web Services frameworks and subsidiary components. RELEASES No releases for this quarter. Last releases: Axis2/Java: April 2012 Rampart/Java: April 2012 Sandesha2/Java: April 2012 Axis2 Transports/Java: December 2009 Axis/Java: April 2006 Axis2/C: Apr 2009 Rampart/C: May 2009 Sandesha/C: Oct 2007 Savan/C: May 2007 Axis/C++ 1.x: March 2006 Inactive/abandoned subprojects: Savan/Java, Kandula [PMC has voted to move these projects to Attic] CURRENT ACTIVITY * PMC has voted to move inactive projects to Attic and a JIRA issue is created (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-7025). ISSUES * There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
DESCRIPTION The Apache Axis project is responsible for the creation and maintenance of software related to the Axis Web Services frameworks and subsidiary components. RELEASES No releases for this quarter. Last releases: Axis2/Java: April 2012 Rampart/Java: April 2012 Sandesha2/Java: April 2012 Axis2 Transports/Java: December 2009 Axis/Java: April 2006 Axis2/C: Apr 2009 Rampart/C: May 2009 Sandesha/C: Oct 2007 Savan/C: May 2007 Axis/C++ 1.x: March 2006 Inactive/abandoned subprojects: Savan/Java, Kandula CURRENT ACTIVITY * Finding inactive sub-projecs and move them to attic. COMMUNITY * PMC Members/Committers: Alex Mantaut, Kishanthan Thangarajah * We completed the process of PMC chair rotation, and elected a new chair. ISSUES * There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Andreas Veithen to the office of Vice President, Apache Axis, and WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of Andreas Veithen from the office of Vice President, Apache Axis, and WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Axis project has chosen by vote to recommend Deepal Jayasinghe as the successor to the post; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Andreas Veithen is relieved and discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice President, Apache Axis, and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Deepal Jayasinghe be and hereby is appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Axis, 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 7C, Change the Apache Axis Project Chair, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
The Apache Axis project is responsible for the creation and maintenance of software related to the Axis Web Services frameworks and subsidiary components. No releases this quarter. Last releases: Axis2/Java: April 2012 Rampart/Java: April 2012 Sandesha2/Java: April 2012 Axis2 Transports/Java: December 2009 Axis/Java: April 2006 Axis2/C: Apr 2009 Rampart/C: May 2009 Sandesha/C: Oct 2007 Savan/C: May 2007 Axis/C++ 1.x: March 2006 Inactive/abandoned subprojects: Savan/Java, Kandula Project branding status per subproject: Axis2/Java: OK Rampart/Java: OK Sandesha2/Java: OK Axis2 Transports/Java: not OK; this subproject is in the process of being merged into Axis2/Java and will disappear as a distinct subproject Axis/Java: OK C/C++ subprojects: no progess because of lack of activity in these subprojects svnpubsub migration status: both the Web site and the dist area have been migrated Community: * New committer/PMC member: Shameera Rathnayaka, Alex Mantaut * We started the process of PMC chair rotation; a resolution to change the Axis PMC chair will likely be proposed to the board for the next board meeting
AI: Doug: discuss inactive sub-projects with PMC
No report was submitted.
The Apache Axis project is responsible for the creation and maintenance of software related to the Axis Web Services frameworks and subsidiary components. No releases this quarter. Last releases: * Axis2/Java: April 2012 * Rampart/Java: April 2012 * Sandesha2/Java: April 2012 * Axis2 Transports/Java: December 2009 * Axis/Java: April 2006 * Axis2/C: Apr 2009 * Rampart/C: May 2009 * Sandesha/C: Oct 2007 * Savan/C: May 2007 * Axis/C++ 1.x: March 2006 Inactive/abandoned subprojects: Savan/Java, Kandula Project branding status per subproject: * Axis2/Java: OK * Rampart/Java: OK * Sandesha2/Java: OK * Axis2 Transports/Java: not OK; this subproject is in the process of being merged into Axis2/Java and will disappear as a distinct subproject * Axis/Java: not OK; the current site (from 2006) will be replaced by a 1.4.1-SNAPSHOT site which will be compliant * C/C++ subprojects: no progess because of lack of activity in these subprojects svnpubsub migration status: * The Web site has already been migrated to svnpubsub. * Migration of the dist area to svnpubsub not yet done. Community: * No issues requiring board attention.
The Apache Axis project is responsible for the creation and maintenance of software related to the Axis Web Services frameworks and subsidiary components. No releases this quarter. Last releases: * Axis2/Java: April 2012 * Rampart/Java: April 2012 * Sandesha2/Java: April 2012 * Axis2 Transports/Java: December 2009 * Axis/Java: April 2006 * Axis2/C: Apr 2009 * Rampart/C: May 2009 * Sandesha/C: Oct 2007 * Savan/C: May 2007 * Axis/C++ 1.x: March 2006 Inactive/abandoned subprojects: Savan/Java, Kandula Project branding status per subproject: * Axis2/Java: OK * Rampart/Java: OK * Sandesha2/Java: OK * Axis2 Transports/Java: not OK; this subproject is in the process of being merged into Axis2/Java and will disappear as a distinct subproject * Axis/Java: not OK; the current site (from 2006) will be replaced by a 1.4.1-SNAPSHOT site which will be compliant * C/C++ subprojects: no progress because of lack of activity in these subprojects svnpubsub migration status: * The Web site has already been migrated to svnpubsub. * Migration of the dist area to svnpubsub not yet done. Community: * No issues requiring board attention.
The Apache Axis project is responsible for the creation and maintenance of software related to the Axis Web Services frameworks and subsidiary components. No releases this quarter. Last releases: * Axis2/Java: April 2012 * Rampart/Java: April 2012 * Sandesha2/Java: April 2012 * Axis2 Transports/Java: December 2009 * Axis/Java: April 2006 * Axis2/C: Apr 2009 * Rampart/C: May 2009 * Sandesha/C: Oct 2007 * Savan/C: May 2007 * Axis/C++ 1.x: March 2006 Inactive/abandoned subprojects: Savan/Java, Kandula Project branding status per subproject: * Axis2/Java: OK * Rampart/Java: OK * Sandesha2/Java: OK * Axis2 Transports/Java: not OK; will likely be merged into Axis2/Java and disappear as a distinct subproject (vote in progress) * Axis/Java: not OK; the current site (from 2006) will be replaced by a 1.4.1-SNAPSHOT site which will be compliant * C/C++ subprojects: not OK; Nadir Amra will look into this svnpubsub migration status: * The Web site has been successfully migrated to svnpubsub. * Migration of the dist area to svnpubsub will start soon. Community: * No issues requiring board attention.
AI Doug follow up regarding inactive projects
The Apache Axis project is responsible for the creation and maintenance of software related to the Axis Web Services frameworks and subsidiary components. Releases this quarter: * Axis2/Java 1.6.2 (RM: Sagara Gunathunga) * Rampart/Java 1.6.2 (RM: Sagara Gunathunga) * Sandesha2/Java 1.6.2 (RM: Sagara Gunathunga) Last releases for other subprojects: * Axis2 Transports/Java: December 2009 * Axis/Java: April 2006 * Axis2/C: Apr 2009 * Rampart/C: May 2009 * Sandesha/C: Oct 2007 * Savan/C: May 2007 * Axis/C++ 1.x: March 2006 Inactive/abandoned subprojects: Savan/Java, Kandula Branding checklist for subprojects with releases in the last quarters (Axis2/Java, Rampart/Java, Sandesha2/Java): * Project Naming And Descriptions: OK * Website Navigation Links: OK * Trademark Attributions: OK * Logos and Graphics: TM not yet included in product logos * Project Metadata: OK Not yet compliant: * Axis2/Java Transports * Axis/Java * C/C++ subprojects * Project homepage (needs review anyway) Community: * No issues requiring board attention.
The Apache Axis project is responsible for the creation and maintenance of software related to the Axis Web Services frameworks and subsidiary components. Releases this quarter: * Sandesha2/Java 1.6.1 (RM: Andreas Veithen) Last releases for other subprojects: * Axis2/Java: August 2011 * Rampart/Java: October 2011 * Axis2 Transports/Java: December 2009 * Axis/Java: April 2006 * Axis2/C: Apr 2009 * Rampart/C: May 2009 * Sandesha/C: Oct 2007 * Savan/C: May 2007 * Axis/C++ 1.x: March 2006 Inactive/abandoned subprojects: Savan/Java, Kandula Branding checklist for subprojects with releases in the last quarters (Axis2/Java, Rampart/Java, Sandesha2/Java): * Project Naming And Descriptions: OK * Website Navigation Links: OK * Trademark Attributions: OK * Logos and Graphics: TM not yet included in product logos * Project Metadata: OK Not yet compliant: * Axis2/Java Transports * Axis/Java * C/C++ subprojects * Project homepage (needs review anyway) Community: * No issues requiring board attention. * We voted in a new committer/PMC member: Amila Jayasekara
The Apache Axis project is responsible for the creation and maintenance of software related to the Axis Web Services frameworks and subsidiary components. Releases this quarter: * Rampart/Java 1.5.2 (RM: Andreas Veithen) * Rampart/Java 1.6.1 (RM: Andreas Veithen) Last releases for other subprojects: * Axis2/Java: August 2011 * Sandesha2/Java: June 2011 * Axis2 Transports/Java: December 2009 * Axis/Java 1.x: April 2006 * Axis2/C: Apr 2009 * Rampart/C: May 2009 * Sandesha/C: Oct 2007 * Savan/C: May 2007 * Axis/C++ 1.x: March 2006 Inactive/abandoned subprojects: Savan/Java, Kandula Planned releases for next quarter: Sandesha2/Java 1.6.1, Axis2/Java 1.6.2 Committer diversity: during the reporting period, 11 committers did a total of 210 commits, with two committers accounting for 87% of all commits. 8 of the 11 active committers are affiliated with a single company (WSO2). However, 57% of the commits were done by committers not affiliated with that company. Branding checklist for subprojects with releases in the last two quarters (Axis2/Java, Rampart/Java, Sandesha2/Java): * Project Naming And Descriptions: OK * Website Navigation Links: OK * Trademark Attributions: OK * Logos and Graphics: TM not yet included in product logos * Project Metadata: OK Not yet compliant: * Axis2/Java Transports * C/C++ subprojects * Project homepage (needs review anyway) Community: * No issues requiring board attention. * No new committers/PMC members (during the reporting period). * A couple of non committers have contributed several good quality patches. * Several Axis2 related sessions were held during ApacheCon NA 2011, including 2 talks, 2 tutorials, a fast feather talk and a BoF.
Props for the nice diversity statistics.
Releases this quarter: * Axis2/Java 1.5.6 (RM: Andreas Veithen) * Axis2/Java 1.6.1 (RM: Andreas Veithen) Last releases for other subprojects: * Sandesha2/Java: June 2011 * Rampart/Java: June 2011 * Axis2 Transports/Java: December 2009 * Axis2/C: Apr 2009 * Rampart/C: May 2009 * Sandesha/C: Oct 2007 * Savan/C: May 2007 * Axis/C++ 1.x: March 2006 Inactive/abandoned subprojects: Axis/Java 1.x, Savan/Java, Kandula Planned releases for next quarter: Sandesha2/Java 1.6.1, Rampart/Java 1.5.2 and 1.6.1, Axis2/C 1.7.0 Branding checklist for subprojects with releases in the last two quarters (Axis2/Java, Rampart/Java, Sandesha2/Java): * Project Naming And Descriptions: OK * Website Navigation Links: OK * Trademark Attributions: OK * Logos and Graphics: TM not yet included in product logos * Project Metadata: OK Not yet compliant: * Axis2/Java Transports * C/C++ subprojects * Project homepage (needs review anyway) Community: * No new committers/PMC members. * No issues requiring board attention. * We worked closely with the Geronimo folks to produce an Axis2 release with several fixes required for Geronimo 3.0. * Sagara Gunathunga started an initiative to make it easier for new people to start contributing to the Axis2/Java project. * The Axis PMC was incorrectly mentioned in the last infra report as having ignored requests to clean up the /dist area. We were able to settle the issue with the infra team. We keep two versions of (only) the following subprojects in the /dist area: Axis2/Java (1.5.x and 1.6.x), Rampart/Java (1.5.x and 1.6.x) and Sandesha2/Java (1.4.x and 1.6.x).
Inactive sub-projects might belong in the Attic. AI Bertrand: discuss Attic with PMC.
Releases this quarter: Axis2/Java 1.6.0 (RM: Sagara Gunathunga) Sandesha2/Java 1.6.0 (RM: Sagara Gunathunga) Rampart/Java 1.6.0 (RM: Sagara Gunathunga) Axis2/Java 1.5.5 (RM: Andreas Veithen) Failed releases: Axis2/Java Transports 1.6.0: incorrect packaging and non conformance to the branding guidelines Last releases for other subprojects: Axis2/C: Apr 2009 Rampart/C: May 2009 Sandesha/C: Oct 2007 Savan/C: May 2007 Axis/C++ 1.x: March 2006 Inactive/abandoned subprojects: Axis/Java 1.x, Savan/Java, Kandula Branding checklist for projects with releases in the last two quarters (Axis2/Java, Rampart/Java, Sandesha2/Java): Project Naming And Descriptions: product names are used as nouns according to the older version of the guidelines; needs to be changed to conform to the latest version Website Navigation Links: OK Trademark Attributions: OK Logos and Graphics: TM not yet included in product logos Project Metadata: OK Not yet compliant: Axis2/Java Transports (will be done for the 1.6.0 release) C/C++ subprojects Project homepage (needs review anyway)
Noirin wants to have a "Community: nothing to report" comment if only to avoid being hassled by the board.
AI: Jim follow up with Axis PMC chair to improve this.
Releases this quarter: * Axis2/Java 1.5.4 (December; RM: Andreas Veithen) * Sandesha2/Java 1.4 (December; RM: Andreas Veithen) * Rampart/Java 1.5.1 (January; RM: Selvaratnam Uthaiyashankar) For these releases, the Sandesha2 and Rampart builds were updated to use the Nexus staging process and to adhere to the latest ASF release requirements. Status of the TLP migration: * We now have a real home page. Kudos to Chanaka Jayasena for working on this. * For the 1.4 release, the Sandesha2/Java site has been overhauled and is now fully migrated to the Axis TLP. * Some subprojects still use or refer to resources of the Web Services project. To be addressed during next quarter. Community is healthy. During this quarter, WSO2 organized three hackathons: * December 21-22, focusing on Axis2/Java and Rampart. * January 4-6, focusing on blockers and high priority issues for Axis2/Java. * January 18, 20 and 21, focusing on fixing JAX-WS issues in Axis2. The Apache project branding requirements have been implemented for all sub projects that have seen a release during this quarter (except for the "TM" in the project logos). New committers: * Thilina Mahesh Buddhika * Eranga Jayasundera
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Glen Daniels to the office of Vice President, Apache Axis, and WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of Glen Daniels from the office of Vice President, Apache Axis, and WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Axis project has chosen by vote to recommend Andreas Veithen as the successor to the post; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Glen Daniels is relieved and discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice President, Apache Axis, and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Andreas Veithen be and hereby is appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Axis, 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. This resolution was approved unanimously by roll call vote.
Tiny report this quarter. * Axis2 1.5.3 was released on November 12th. Thanks to Andreas for Release Managing. * Community participation continues to be light but steady. JIRAs are being raised, responded to, and resolved, though our backlog is still quite large. * Website has been moved over to axis.apache.org, with new cleaner look. No other board-level issues at this time.
We voted to release Axis2/Java 1.5.2, which is currently in progress with Andreas Veithen as RM. As mentioned in June, Axis2 core is now fully Nexus enabled, and this will be our first official release using the new system. HUGE props to Andreas for shouldering the brunt of the work cleaning and polishing our POMs in order to get that going. We need to do the same to our other subprojects. Two new committers (Lori Van Gulick and Lahiru Gunathilake) were voted in, and they are both also automatically PMC members based on our current policy. Community participation is light but steady. We could be responding to user concerns a tad faster, but things are going fine, JIRAs being fixed, etc. Yes, we still need to finish moving our website over to axis.apache.org from ws.apache.org so that poor Gavin can get rid of that lingering open JIRA. No other board-level issues to raise.
Axis has been pretty active this quarter, with steady list traffic and good progress being made in a couple of directions (see below). No new committers/PMC members, nor anything aside from that covered below requiring board attention. * Security Advisory After discovering a DTD-based vulnerability in Axis2, Andreas Veithen spearheaded a fix, and released the following message pointing to an advisory document and a patch. The fix will be built in to our next releases (see below). http://s.apache.org/CVE-2010-1632 We also fixed an XSS vulnerability which was discovered externally. * Upcoming Releases We are working on both a 1.5.2 maintenance release (so that we have a complete package containing the security fixes) and a larger-scale 1.6 release with fixes and new features. * Infra Axis2 is now happily building in Hudson and using Nexus for SNAPSHOTs. We'll be doing our first release using Nexus as soon as 1.5.2 is ready to go. * Lingering Transition Issues (or "The JIRA that Would Not Die") Yes, we're talking about https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-2441. We hope to get the last bits of Axis stuff moved over or archived in SVN, and the website revamped, in the next month or two. Shout out to Gavin for trying to keep us moving here.
Greg clarified that the security vulnerability was discovered and handled internally.
With the invaluable help of Gavin [insert much kowtowing and genuflecting here] and the infra team, the Axis project is now plugging away... but with a few loose ends still to tie. In particular we really need to get our new website happening, and a few last tricky SVN bits from WS need to find a home. We also need to get modernized and finish hooking up the whole Hudson/Nexus framework for our builds. That said, we're rolling along fine for now. Activity on the new mailing lists is picking up on both the C and Java sides now that people have gotten used to the switch from WS. Development activity has also ramped up, with a number of people diving in to our long JIRA backlog. We added a bunch of stragglers from the WS project to our PMC, and settled on a policy where committership == PMC membership, which we think should create a greater feeling of ownership on the part of our committers going forward. No releases this month, nor any other particulars that require board attention. I believe this is our final monthly report as a newly minted TLP, and we now switch over to quarterly.
The Axis project is still in slow startup mode. Our initial mailing lists are set up, but not the subproject ones yet, and Gavin has been helping us start the infra work for webspace and moving SVN. We have some reasonably complex SVN rejiggering happening, and that should be in progress now. Hope to be reporting a fully spun-up project next time. Nothing that requires board attention at this time.
This is the initial board report for the new Axis PMC. Cc'ing the WS PMC for only this first report. I recently submitted https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-2441 after a good bit of discussion on the WS PMC list about the correct way to set up the new PMC and handle the SVN structure, mailing lists, and migration. While there are still open questions as to how our new SVN layout will work (or rather, how to cleanly transition old code to a new structure), I think we should be able to get started on moving the mail traffic and the website over to their new locations soon. After the requisite bumps involved in getting set up, I'm expecting 2010 to be a good focused year for Axis2 development, and that we'll wrap up Axis1 in a few months time.
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 related to the Axis Web Services frameworks and subsidiary components for distribution at no charge to the public. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Apache Axis Project", be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache Axis Project be and hereby is responsible for the creation and maintenance of software related to the Axis Web Services frameworks and subsidiary components; and be it further RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache Axis" 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 Axis Project, and to have primary responsibility for management of the projects within the scope of responsibility of the Apache Axis 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 Axis Project: * Afkham Azeez <afkham@gmail.com> * Ajith Ranabahu <ajith.ranabahu@gmail.com> * Aleksander Slominski <aslom@cs.indiana.edu> * Amila Suriarachchi <amilaSuriarachchi@gmail.com> * Dimuthu Gamage <dimuthu@apache.org> * Jarek Gawor <jgawor@gmail.com> * Keith Chapman <keithgchapman@gmail.com> * Milinda Pathirage <milinda@apache.org> * Nandana Mihindukulasooriya <nandana@apache.org> * Paul Fremantle <pzf@apache.org> * Prabath Siriwardena <prabath@apache.org> * Richard Scheuerle <scheu@us.ibm.com> * Jeff Barrett <barrettj@us.ibm.com> * Andreas Veithen <andreas.veithen@gmail.com> * Sanjiva Weerawarana <sanjiva@opensource.lk> * Senaka Fernando <senakafdo@gmail.com> * Nandika Jayawardana <nandika@apache.org> * Saminda Abeyruwan <samindaa@gmail.com> * Samisa Abeysinghe <samisa@apache.org> * Selvaratnam Uthaiyashankar <shankar@apache.org> * Damitha Kumarage <damitha@apache.org> * Bill Nagy <nagy@watson.ibm.com> * Sumedha Rubasinghe <sumedha@apache.org> * Thilina Gunarathne <thilina@apache.org> * Ruwan Linton <ruwan@apache.org> * Dinesh Premalal <dinesh@apache.org> * Upul Godage <upul@apache.org> * Srinath Perera <hemapani@apache.org> * Dimuthu Leelarathne <muthulee@apache.org> * Supun Kamburugamuva <supun@apache.org> * Ruchith Fernando <ruchithf@apache.org> * Lahiru Sandakith <sandakith@apache.org> * Eran Chinthaka <chinthaka@apache.org> * David Illsley <davidillsley@apache.org> * Glen Daniels <gdaniels@apache.org> NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Glen Daniels be appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Axis, to serve in accordance with and subject to the direction of the Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until death, resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification, or until a successor is appointed; and be it further RESOLVED, that the initial Apache Axis PMC be and hereby is tasked with the creation of a set of bylaws intended to encourage open development and increased participation in the Apache Axis Project; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache Axis Project be and hereby is tasked with the migration and rationalization of Apache Web Services sub-projects: * Axis1 * Axis1/C++ * Axis2/Java * Axis2/C * Rampart * Sandesha * Kandula * Savan * WS-Commons Transports and be it further RESOLVED, that all responsibilities pertaining to the Apache Apache Web Services sub-projects mentioned above encumbered upon the Apache Web Services Project are hereafter discharged. Special Order 7D, Establish the Apache Axis Project, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.