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CloudStack

18 Sep 2024 [Daniel Augusto Veronezi Salvador / Shane]

## Description:
Apache CloudStack (ACS) is an IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) cloud
orchestration platform. ACS manages many types of hypervisors, storage, and
networking devices.

## Project Status:
Current project status: Ongoing, with high activity.
Issues for the board: None.

## Membership Data:
Apache CloudStack was founded on 2013-03-20 (11 years ago)
There are currently 138 committers and 56 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 9:4.

Community changes, past quarter:
No new PMC members. Last addition was Slavka Peleva on 2024-04-08.
No new committers. Last addition was Kiran Chavala on 2024-04-09.

## Project Activity:

Software development/management activity:

- The current version of Apache CloudStack is 4.19.1.1;

- The versions released in the past quarter are:
  - 4.19.1.1: 2024-08-06
  - 4.18.2.3: 2024-08-06
  - 4.19.1.0: 2024-07-19
  - 4.18.2.2: 2024-07-19
  - 4.19.0.2: 2024-07-05
  - 4.18.2.1: 2024-07-05

- We released 5 security patches (4.18.2.1, 4.18.2.2, 4.18.2.3, 4.19.0.2,
 and 4.19.1.1) to solve 5 vulnerabilities.

- The community is planning to release Apache CloudStack 4.20.0.0 by the end
  of September.
  - The schedule changed from the last report because the community is
    working on some features that require more time to finish and test the
    changes.

Meetups and Conferences:
- The CloudStack community will attend the Community Over Code NA 2024, and
 there are 6 talks related to CloudStack confirmed to the track
 "CloudStack, cloud, and runtime".

- CloudStack European User Group is scheduled for September 12, 2024, in
  Frankfurt, Germany: https://cloudstack.apache.org/blog/cseug-2024/

- CloudStack Collaboration Conference 2024 is planned for November 20-22,
  2024, in Madrid, Spain: https://www.cloudstackcollab.org/


## Community Health:

- There were no new committers and PMC members added since the previous
 report; however, we are currently discussing the invitation of new
 committers and PMC members.

- We are evaluating some potential trademark issues. For now, we will not take
 actions over them; however, we will keep monitoring the situation and act if
 necessary.

19 Jun 2024 [Daniel Augusto Veronezi Salvador / Rich]

## Description:
Apache CloudStack (ACS) is an IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) cloud
orchestration platform. ACS manages many types of hypervisors, storage, and
networking devices.

## Project Status:
Current project status: Ongoing, with high activity.
Issues for the board: None.

## Membership Data:
Apache CloudStack was founded on 2013-03-20 (11 years ago)
There are currently 138 committers and 56 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 9:4.

Community changes, past quarter:
- Slavka Peleva was added to the PMC on 2024-04-08
- Kiran Chavala was added as committer on 2024-04-09
- Rene Peinthor was added as committer on 2024-04-05

## Project Activity:

Software development/management activity:

- The current version of Apache CloudStack is 4.19.0.1;

- The community is planning to release Apache CloudStack 4.20.0.0 in August.
 - The schedule changed from the last report because the community is also
   working towards releasing an update for 4.19 at the end of June, which
   affects the 4.20 schedule.

- The version 4.18.2.0 was released on April 25, 2024.

- We released two security patches (4.18.1.1 and 4.19.0.1) to solvce 3
 vulnerabilities.

- A new version (v2.16.1) of the Go SDK for CloudStack was released on May 20,
 2024.

- The CloudStack Kubernetes provider does not have a new version since 2021.
 However, the community is planning to release version 1.1.0 later this
 month.

- A new version (v0.5.0) of the Go SDK for CloudStack was released on April 9,
 2024.

- A new version (v6.4.0) of the CloudStack CLI was released on March 21, 2024.

Meetups and Conferences:
- Some PMC members, committers, and contributors attended and presented talks
 at CloudStack's track on the Community Over Code EU 2024.

- Although we missed the call for tracks for Community Over Code NA 2024,
 which finished in December 2023, we engaged with the conference planners and
 joined the track "Cloud and runtime". Then, the track was renamed to
 "CloudStack, cloud, and runtime" due to the expressivity of the CloudStack
 community on the submitted talks. There are 7 talks related to CloudStack
 approved for the Community Over Code NA 2024.

- CloudStack European User Group is scheduled for September 12, 2024, in
 Frankfurt, Germany: https://cloudstack.apache.org/blog/cseug-2024/

- CloudStack Collaboration Conference 2024 is planned for November 20-22,
 2024, in Madrid, Spain: https://www.cloudstackcollab.org/. Call for
 presentation is open: https://docs.google.com
 /forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdzhEy-v68wyVQcBY3AnQT7OeDVs4xnfvlt3wIlLxV50dP11w/viewform


## Community Health:

Statistics:
- According to the reporter tool, the Community Health Score (Chi) is 10.00
 (Super Healthy). Following are the past quarter's statistics:
 - dev@cloudstack.apache.org had a 25% decrease in traffic in the past
   quarter (628 emails compared to 828)
 - issues@cloudstack.apache.org had a 43% decrease in traffic in the past
   quarter (92 emails compared to 159)
 - marketing@cloudstack.apache.org had a 24% decrease in traffic in the past
   quarter (13 emails compared to 17)
 - users@cloudstack.apache.org had a 6% decrease in traffic in the past
   quarter (994 emails compared to 1057)
 - 419 commits in the past quarter (-44% change)
 - 40 code contributors in the past quarter (-9% change)
 - 315 PRs opened on GitHub, past quarter (-6% change)
 - 234 PRs closed on GitHub, past quarter (-20% change)
 - 165 issues opened on GitHub, past quarter (-24% change)
 - 183 issues closed on GitHub, past quarter (28% increase)

 Although we see a general decrease in the interactions in the past quarter,
 there are no current concerns regarding that, as some quarters are busier
 than others. Also, we expect that some interactions decrease while the
 project matures.

- There are new PMC members and committers added since the previous report.


- The community is discussing improving its policies regarding cadence of
 releases, policies for introducing disruptive
 features, and removing deprecated methods, technologies, and designs.
 The discussion is being held on GitHub:
 https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/discussions/8970 (the messages
 are also sent by email by GitHub Discussion).

20 Mar 2024

Change the Apache CloudStack Project Chair

 WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Rohit Yadav
 (rohit) to the office of Vice President, Apache CloudStack, and

 WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of
 Rohit Yadav from the office of Vice President, Apache CloudStack, and

 WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache CloudStack
 project has chosen by vote to recommend Daniel Augusto Veronezi
 Salvador (gutoveronezi) as the successor to the post;

 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Rohit Yadav is relieved and
 discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice
 President, Apache CloudStack, and

 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Daniel Augusto Veronezi Salvador be and
 hereby is appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache CloudStack,
 to serve in accordance with and subject to the direction of the Board
 of Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until death, resignation,
 retirement, removal or disqualification, or until a successor is
 appointed.

 Special Order 7B, Change the Apache CloudStack Project Chair,
 was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.

20 Mar 2024 [Rohit Yadav / Willem]

## Description:
Apache CloudStack (ACS) is an IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) cloud
orchestration platform. ACS manages many types of hypervisors, storage, and
networking devices.

## Project Status:
No issues to report.

## Membership Data:
Apache CloudStack was founded 2013-03-20 (11 years ago).

There are currently 136 committers and 55 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 9:4.

Community changes, past quarter:
- Harikrishna Patnala was added to the PMC on 2024-01-15
- Alexandre Mattioli was added as committer on 2024-01-12
- João Jandre Paraquetti was added as committer on 2023-12-19
- Vishesh Jindal was added as committer on 2024-02-27
- Vladimir Petrov was added as committer on 2023-12-11

## Project Activity:

- The Apache CloudStack project released the current LTS version 4.19.0.0 on 6th
February 2024. https://cloudstack.apache.org/blog/cloudstack-4.19.0.0-release/

- The previous LTS version received an updated release to 4.18.1.0 on 12th
September, 2023.

- Apache CloudStack 4.20.0 is the next major release the community is working
towards, with RC1 to be cut in June 2024. The maintenance release 4.19.1 is
targeted for June, 4.18.2 is targeted for late March. João Jandre has
volunteered to serve as release manager for 4.20 and 4.18.2 releases. Suresh
Anaparti has volunteered to serve as release manager for 4.19.1.

- Apache CloudStack Terraform Provider v0.5.0 is targeted for March led by Kiran
Chavala as the release manager. The v0.6.0 release is also discussed for later
in the year.

- Apache CloudStack CloudMonkey CLI is also being discussed for its next
release.

- The PMC is actively discussing new PMC Candidates and new committers. There
are new PMC members and committers added since the previous report.

- The project has successfully migrated to a new website
https://cloudstack.apache.org

- Community participated in the CloudStack and Ceph Day Netherlands 2024 in
Amsterdam on February 22, 2024.
https://ceph.io/en/community/events/2024/cloudstack-and-ceph-day-netherlands/

- The community organised its CloudStack India User Group meetup in Hyderabad on
23rd February 2024. https://cloudstack.apache.org/blog/csiug-2024-hyd-roundup/

- The community is participating in the CloudFest 2024 from 18-21 March in Rust,
Germany. https://cloudstack.apache.org/blog/cloudfest-2024/

- Other upcoming events this year include the following:
 - Apache CloudStack is participating with a track at Community over Code EU
 - CloudStack European User Group is scheduled for September 12th in Frankfurt,
   Germany
 - CloudStack Collaboration Conference 2024 is planned for Nov 20-22 in Madrid
   Spain

- The CloudStack PMC Chair rotation was voted on in early March. A resolution to
 the Apache Board was submitted to confirm Daniel Salvador to the role.

## Community Health:

Apropos of the activity report; the project is considered healthy.

- According to the apache statistics, the project achieved the Community Health
 Score (Chi): 10.00 (Super Healthy)

- Commit activity:
 720 commits in the past quarter (32% increase)
 42 code contributors in the past quarter (17% decrease)
- GitHub PR activity:
 314 PRs opened on GitHub, past quarter (18% increase)
 266 PRs closed on GitHub, past quarter (12% decrease)
- GitHub issues:
 195 issues opened on GitHub, past quarter (20% increase)
 131 issues closed on GitHub, past quarter (55% increase)

- Mailing lists Statistics:
 dev@cloudstack.apache.org had a 81% increase in traffic in the past quarter
 (889 emails compared to 489)
 issues@cloudstack.apache.org had a 1588% decrease in traffic in the past
 quarter (152 emails compared to 9)
 marketing@cloudstack.apache.org had a 13% decrease in traffic in the past
 quarter (14 emails compared to 16)
 users@cloudstack.apache.org had a 72% increase in traffic in the past quarter
 (1092 emails compared to 633)

## Releases:

Recent releases:

- 4.19.0.0 was released on 2024-02-06.
- 4.18.1.0 was released on 2023-09-12.
- 4.18.0.0 was released on 2023-03-20.
- 4.17.2.0 was released on 2022-12-16.

20 Dec 2023 [Rohit Yadav / Craig]

## Description:

Apache CloudStack (ACS) is an IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) cloud
orchestration platform. ACS manages many types of hypervisors, storage, and
networking devices.

## Project Status:

No issues to report.

## Membership Data:

- There are currently 133 committers and 54 PMC members in this project.
- The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 9:4.

PMC changes:
- Most recently added PMC member:
 Abhishek Kumar was added to the PMC on 2023-11-23



Committer base changes:
- Most recently added committers: Bryan Lima
 Bryan Lima was added as committer on 2023-11-30
 Vladimir Petrov was added as committer on 2023-12-11

## Project Activity:

- The Apache CloudStack project released the current LTS version
4.18.0.0 on 20th March 2023. 4.18.1.0 was released on 2023-09-12.

- Apache CloudStack 4.19.0 is the next major release the
community is working towards, with RC1 to be cut in Dec 2023.

- Next releases, 4.18.2.0 and 4.20.0.0, are being discussed
in the community.

- The PMC is actively discussing new PMC Candidates and new
committers. There are one new PMC member and two new committers
added since the previous report.

- PMCs have voted to have download.cloudstack.org point to CDN77
sponsored CDN and caching services, making CloudStack repository
downloads faster for users.

- PMC and the community have voted to try and adopt Github Discussions
as a users forum alongside the users mailing list.

- The project is working to migrate to a new website that uses the same
Docusauras static-site generator as the blog. This is work in progress and
shared with the community for feedback and review of the proposed design.
The staging site is accessible at https://cloudstack.staged.apache.org

- The annual community organised CloudStack Collaboration Conference 2023
was successfully held during November 23-24th in Paris and online.
https://cloudstack.apache.org/blog/ccc2023-roundup

- Along with the Ceph community, the next CloudStack community event is
announced to be the CloudStack and Ceph Day Netherlands 2024 in Amsterdam
on Thursday, February 8, 2024. Registration and CFP is open for this event.
https://ceph.io/en/community/events/2024/cloudstack-and-ceph-day-netherlands/

- We have an approved CloudStack Track for Community Over Code Europe, 2024
and we're actively seeking for talks submissions for the same.

- The next CloudStack India User Group (CSIUG) meetup is being
discussed to be organised in Feb-March 2024.

## Community Health:

Apropos of the activity report; the project is considered healthy.

- According to the apache statistics, the project achieved the
Community Health Score (Chi): 10.00 (Super Healthy)

- Commit activity:
520 commits in the past quarter (63% increase)
53 code contributors in the past quarter (43% increase)
- GitHub PR activity:
257 PRs opened on GitHub, past quarter (7% increase)
287 PRs closed on GitHub, past quarter (22% increase)
- GitHub issues:
153 issues opened on GitHub, past quarter (7% increase)
79 issues closed on GitHub, past quarter (-44% change)

- Mailing lists Statistics:
 - dev@cloudstack.apache.org had a 31% increase in traffic
 in the past quarter (602 emails compared to 459)
 - issues@cloudstack.apache.org had a 54% decrease in traffic
 in the past quarter (7 emails compared to 15)
 - marketing@cloudstack.apache.org had a 41% decrease in traffic
 in the past quarter (16 emails compared to 27)
 - users@cloudstack.apache.org had a 25% increase in traffic
 in the past quarter (629 emails compared to 502)

- Recent releases:
 - 4.18.1.0 was released on 2023-09-12.
 - 4.18.0.0 was released on 2023-03-20.
 - 4.17.2.0 was released on 2022-12-16.

20 Sep 2023 [Rohit Yadav / Sharan]

## Description:

Apache CloudStack (ACS) is an IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) cloud
orchestration platform. ACS manages many types of hypervisors, storage, and
networking devices.

## Project Status:

No issues to report.

## Membership Data:

- Apache CloudStack was founded 2013-03-20 (10 years ago)
- There are currently 131 committers and 53 PMC members in this project.
- The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 9:4.

Community changes, past quarter:
- Daniel Augusto Veronezi Salvador was added to the PMC on 2023-09-05
- John Bampton was added as committer on 2023-08-01
- Sina Kashipazha was added as committer on 2023-08-25

## Project Activity:

- The Apache CloudStack project released the current LTS version
4.18.0.0 on 20th March 2023 and 4.18.1.0 on 12th September 2023.

- The previous LTS version received an updated release to 4.17.2.0 on
16th December, 2022.

- Apache CloudStack 4.19.0 is the next major release the
community is working towards, with a tentative release timeline
in Q4 of 2023.

- The PMC is actively discussing new PMC Candidates and new
Committers. There are two new committers added since the
previous report.

- The project is working to migrate to a new website that uses the
same static-site generator as the blog. This is work in progress and
shared with the community for feedback, review and testing. The
staging site is accessible at https://cloudstack.staged.apache.org

- Community organised one-day CloudStack India User-Group meetup
in Bangalore on 18th August 2023.

- The annual community organised CloudStack Collaboration conference
has been announced with registration and CFP open. The two-day hybrid
event will be taking place on November 23-24th in Paris and online.
https://www.cloudstackcollab.org

## Community Health:

Apropos of the activity report; the project is considered healthy.

- According to the apache statistics, the project achieved the
Community Health Score (Chi): 10.00 (Super Healthy)
- Commit activity:
 315 commits in the past quarter (-10% decrease)
 37 code contributors in the past quarter (15% increase)
- GitHub PR activity:
 230 PRs opened on GitHub, past quarter (14% increase)
 230 PRs closed on GitHub, past quarter (21% increase)
- GitHub issues:
 132 issues opened on GitHub, past quarter (-19% change)
 135 issues closed on GitHub, past quarter (6% increase)

- Mailing lists statistics:
 dev@cloudstack.apache.org had a 26% decrease in traffic
in the past quarter (432 emails compared to 580)
 issues@cloudstack.apache.org had a 87% decrease in
traffic in the past quarter (15 emails compared to 114)
 marketing@cloudstack.apache.org had a 26% decrease in
traffic in the past quarter (26 emails compared to 35)
 users@cloudstack.apache.org had a 20% decrease in traffic
in the past quarter (502 emails compared to 620):

## Releases:

Latest:
- 4.18.1.0 was released on 12th September 2023 -- EOL 1st Oct 2024.
- 4.18.0.0 was released on 20th March 2023 -- EOL 1st Oct 2024.

Reaching EOL:
- 4.17.2.0 was released on 16th December 2022 -- EOL 1st Jan 2024.

21 Jun 2023 [Rohit Yadav / Bertrand]

## Description:

Apache CloudStack (ACS) is an IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) cloud
orchestration platform. ACS manages many types of hypervisors, storage, and
networking devices.

## Project Status:

No issues to report.

## Membership Data:

- There are currently 129 committers and 52 PMC members in this project.
- The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 9:4.

PMC changes:
- Most recently added PMC member: Ivet Petrova was added to the PMC on
2023-02-10.

Committer base changes:
- There are no new committers since the last report.
- Most recently added committers: Ivet Petrova and Slavka Peleva, both
added as committers on 18 December 2021.

## Project Activity:

- The Apache CloudStack project released the current LTS version
4.18.0.0 on 20th March 2023.

- The previous LTS version received an updated release to 4.17.2.0 on
16th December, 2022.

- Apache Cloudstack 4.18.1 and 4.19.0 are the next releases the
community is working towards, with a tentative release timeline
discussed during Q3 and Q4 of 2023.

- The PMC is actively discussing new PMC Candidates and new
Committers. There are no new PMC members or committers added since the
previous report.

- The Apache CloudStack old Roller based blog has been successfully
migrated to a static-site generator based system published at
https://cloudstack.apache.org/blog.

- The project is now working to migrate to a new website that uses the
same static-site generator as the blog. This is work in progress and
shared with the community for feedback, review and testing. The
staging site is accessible at https://cloudstack.staged.apache.org

- The annual community organised CloudStack Collaboration conference
has been announced with registration and CFP open. The two-day hybrid
event will be taking place on November 23-24th in Paris and online.
https://www.cloudstackcollab.org

## Community Health:

Apropos of the activity report; the project is considered healthy.

- According to the apache statistics, the project achieved the
Community Health Score (Chi): 7.15 (Healthy)

- Commit activity:
 341 commits in the past quarter (7% increase)
 31 code contributors in the past quarter (-24% change)
- GitHub PR activity:
 171 PRs opened on GitHub, past quarter (-28% change)
 160 PRs closed on GitHub, past quarter (-33% change)
- GitHub issues:
 149 issues opened on GitHub, past quarter (-3% change)
 116 issues closed on GitHub, past quarter (-9% change)

- Mailing lists Statistics:
-- dev@cloudstack.apache.org had a 9% increase in traffic in the past
quarter (609 emails compared to 554):
-- issues@cloudstack.apache.org had a 2800% increase in traffic in the
past quarter (116 emails compared to 4):
-- marketing@cloudstack.apache.org had a 33% increase in traffic in
the past quarter (36 emails compared to 27):
-- users@cloudstack.apache.org had a 0% increase in traffic in the
past quarter (630 emails compared to 624):

## Releases:

Latest:
- 4.18.0.0 was released on 20th March 2023 -- EOL 1st Oct 2024.

Reaching EOL:
- 4.17.2.0 was released on 16th December 2022 -- EOL 1st Jan 2024.
- 4.17.1.0 was released on 26th September 2022 -- EOL 1st Jan 2024.
- 4.17.0.1 was released on 18th July 2022 -- EOL 1st Jan 2024.
- 4.17.0.0 was released on 7th June 2022 -- EOL 1st Jan 2024.

22 Mar 2023

Change the Apache CloudStack Project Chair

 WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Simon Weller
 (sweller) to the office of Vice President, Apache CloudStack, and

 WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of
 Simon Weller from the office of Vice President, Apache CloudStack, and

 WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache CloudStack
 project has chosen by vote to recommend Rohit Yadav (rohit) as the
 successor to the post;

 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Simon Weller is relieved and
 discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice
 President, Apache CloudStack, and

 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Rohit Yadav be and hereby is appointed to
 the office of Vice President, Apache CloudStack, to serve in accordance
 with and subject to the direction of the Board of Directors and the
 Bylaws of the Foundation until death, resignation, retirement, removal
 or disqualification, or until a successor is appointed.

 Special Order 7D, Change the Apache CloudStack Project Chair,
 was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.

22 Mar 2023 [Simon Weller / Willem]

## Description:
Apache CloudStack (ACS) is an IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) cloud
orchestration platform. ACS manages many types of hypervisors, storage, and
networking devices.

## Issues:
No issues to report.

## Membership Data:
Apache CloudStack was founded 2013-03-19 (10 years ago) There are currently
129 committers and 52 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio
is roughly 9:4.

PMC changes:
- Most recently added PMC member: Ivet Petrova was added to the PMC on
 2023-02-10.

Committer base changes:
- There are no new committers since the last report.
- Most recently added committers: Ivet Petrova and Slavka Peleva, both added
 as committers on 18 December 2021.

## Project Activity:
- The Apache CloudStack project released the current LTS version 4.17.2.0 on
 the 16th of December 2022.

- The previous LTS version received an updated release to 4.16.1.1 on July
 18th, 2022.

- Apache Cloudstack 4.18.0 is in Release Candidate (RC) status with numerous
 new features being tested by the community.

- The PMC is actively discussing new PMC Candidates and new Committers. Thus
 far, 1 new PMC member has been added since the discussions commenced. We
 expect additional vote threads to be started in the coming days.

- The PMC is currently discussing the possibility of moving to external
 hosting for the website and blog, with the ASF decommissioning the current
 Roller blog system.

- The CloudStack PMC Chair rotation was voted on in early March. A resolution
 to the Apache Board was submitted to confirm Rohit Yadav to the role.

## Community Health:
Apropos of the Project Activity report; the project is considered healthy.

- According to the apache statistics, the project achieved the
 Community Health Score (Chi): 7.15 (Healthy)

## Releases:

Latest:
- 4.17.2.0 was released on 16th December 2022 -- EOL 1st Jan 2024.
- 4.17.1.0 was released on 26th September 2022 -- EOL 1st Jan 2024.
- 4.17.0.1 was released on 18th July 2022 -- EOL 1st Jan 2024.
- 4.17.0.0 was released on 7th June 2022 -- EOL 1st Jan 2024.

Reaching EOL:
- 4.16.1.1 was released on 18th July 2022 -- EOL 1st June 2023.
- 4.16.1.0 was released on 7th March 2022 -- EOL 1st June 2023.
- 4.16.0.0 was released on 15th November 2021 -- EOL 1st June 2023.

21 Dec 2022 [Simon Weller / Sharan]

## Description:
Apache CloudStack (ACS) is an IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) cloud
orchestration platform. ACS manages many types of hypervisors, storage, and
networking devices.

## Issues:
No issues to report.

## Membership Data:
Apache CloudStack was founded 2013-03-19 (10 years ago)
There are currently 130 committers and 52 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 5:2.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Nicolás Vázquez on 2021-08-01.
- No new committers. Last addition was Ivet Petrova on 2021-12-17.

## Project Activity:
- The Apache CloudStack project released the current LTS version 4.17.2.0 on
 16th December 2022.

- The previous LTS version received an updated release to 4.16.1.1 on July
 18th, 2022.

- Apache Cloudstack 4.18.0 is currently approaching Release Candidate status,
 with an expected RC release in January, 2023.

- The community hosted a 3-day hybrid (online and in-person) Cloudstack
 Collaboration Conference in mid November in Sofia, Bulgaria. The event was a
 success with over 400 attendees total and over 70 in-person participants
 from all around the world. It was a fantastic event and an opportunity to
 reflect on 10 years of CloudStack under guidance from the Apache Foundation.

- Over the next quarter, the CloudStack PMC will be actively looking at
 community activity to potentially vote on new committer and PCM members.

## Community Health:
Apropos of the activity report; the project is considered healthy.

Here are some highlights based on the ASF Project Statistics for Apache
CloudStack. Data gathered on December 15th at the ASF Project Statistics site
https://reporter.apache.org/wizard/statistics?cloudstack.

These statistics combined indicate that the project is healthy.
- According to the apache statistics, the project achieved the Community
 Health Score (Chi): 5.51 (Healthy)

- Github Statistics:
-- PR activity: 157 PRs opened on GitHub, past quarter (-9% change) 129 PRs
  closed on GitHub, past quarter (-23% change)
-- Issues: 104 issues opened on GitHub, past quarter (-8% change) 54 issues
  closed on GitHub, past quarter (-56% change)
-- Commits: 458 commits in the past quarter (-9% decrease) 35 code
  contributors in the past quarter (12% increase)

- Mailing lists Statistics:
-- dev@cloudstack.apache.org had a 32% decrease in traffic in the past quarter
  (684 emails compared to 998).
-- marketing@cloudstack.apache.org had a 38% decrease in traffic in the past
  quarter (33 emails compared to 53).
-- users@cloudstack.apache.org had a 18% decrease in traffic in the past
  quarter (609 emails compared to 740).

## Releases:
Latest:
- 4.17.2.0 was released on 16th December 2022 -- EOL 1st Jan 2024.
- 4.17.1.0 was released on 26th September 2022 -- EOL 1st Jan 2024.
- 4.17.0.1 was released on 18th July 2022 -- EOL 1st Jan 2024.
- 4.17.0.0 was released on 7th June 2022 -- EOL 1st Jan 2024.

Reaching EOL:
- 4.16.1.1 was released on 18th July 2022 -- EOL 1st June 2023.
- 4.16.1.0 was released on 7th March 2022 -- EOL 1st June 2023.
- 4.16.0.0 was released on 15th November 2021 -- EOL 1st June 2023.

21 Sep 2022 [Simon Weller / Sander]

## Description:
Apache CloudStack (ACS) is an IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) cloud
orchestration platform. ACS manages many types of hypervisors, storage, and
networking devices.


## Issues:
No issues to report.

## Membership Data:
Apache CloudStack was founded 2013-03-19 (9 years ago) There are currently 130
committers and 52 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 5:2.

PMC changes:
- No new PMC member was added since the last report.
- Most recently added PMC member: Nicolás Vázquez was added to the PMC on
 1 August 2021.

Committer base changes:
- There are no new committers since the last report.
- Most recently added committers: Ivet Petrova and Slavka Peleva, both added
 as committers on 18 December 2021.

## Project Activity:
- The Apache CloudStack project released the current LTS version 4.17.0.1 on
 July 18th, 2022.
- The previous LTS version received an updated release to 4.16.1.1 on July
 18th, 2022.
- LTS version 4.17.1.0 is currently in the release candidate phase.

- CloudStack has seen a considerable increase of traffic for our GitHub
 issues. As our community embraces this functionality, more discussions are
 occurring here than on the mailing lists. This could be one reason we've
 seen a continued decline in email list usage.

-  We participated in the GSOC again this year and have 3 projects in the
  final evaluation phase. Based on the ongoing assessment, we expect to see 2
  of 3 completed - OAUTH 2.0 based SSO and safe shutdown/restart of
  CloudStack.

- The community will be hosting a 3-day hybrid (online and in-person)
 Cloudstack Collaboration Conference on 14-16th November in Sofia, Bulgaria.
 A subset of the PMC will be selecting talks for the event in the coming
 weeks. 24 talking slots are available for the event and we've had extensive
 interest. Thus far, we have 74 community members who have signed up to
 attend, either in-person or virtually, with the expectation that it will
 grow considerably once the agenda has been published. The community has also
 managed to secure multiple sponsors for the event.

## Community Health:
Apropos of the activity report; the project is considered healthy.

Here follows some highlights based on the ASF Project Statistics for Apache
CloudStack. Data gathered on September 9th at the ASF Project Statistics site
https://reporter.apache.org/wizard/statistics?cloudstack.

These statistics combined indicate that the project is healthy.
- According to the Apache statistics, the project achieved the Community
 Health Score (Chi): 5.51 (Healthy)

- Github Statistics:
-- PR activity: 175 PRs opened on GitHub, past quarter (-37% change) 158 PRs
  closed on GitHub, past quarter (-44% change)
-- Issues: 111 issues opened on GitHub, past quarter (29% increase) 122 issues
  closed on GitHub, past quarter (74% increase)
-- Commits: 516 commits in the past quarter (13% increase) 29 code
  contributors in the past quarter (-27% change)

- Mailing lists Statistics:
-- dev@cloudstack.apache.org had a 32% decrease in traffic in the past quarter
  (684 emails compared to 998)
-- marketing@cloudstack.apache.org had a 38% decrease in traffic in the past
  quarter (33 emails compared to 53).
-- users@cloudstack.apache.org had a 18% decrease in traffic in the past
  quarter (609 emails compared to 740).

## Releases:

Latest:
- 4.17.0.1 was released on 18th July 2022 -- EOL 1st Jan 2024.
- 4.17.0.0 was released on 7th June 2022 -- EOL 1st Jan 2024.
- 4.16.1.1 was released on 18th July 2022 -- EOL 1st June 2023.
- 4.16.1.0 was released on 7th March 2022 -- EOL 1st June 2023.
- 4.16.0.0 was released on 15th November 2021 -- EOL 1st June 2023.

Reaching EOL:
- 4.15.2.0 was released on 20th September 2021 -- EOL 1st July 2022.
- 4.15.1.0 was released on 5th July 2021 -- EOL 1st July 2022.
- 4.15.0.0 was released on 22nd January 2021 -- EOL 1st July 2022.

15 Jun 2022 [Simon Weller / Roman]

## Description:
Apache CloudStack (ACS) is an IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) cloud
orchestration platform. ACS manages many types of hypervisors, storage, and
networking devices.

## Issues:
No issues to report.

## Membership Data:
- There are currently 130 committers and 52 PMC members in this project.
- The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 5:2.

Community changes, past quarter:
- There are no new PMC members since the last report.
-- Most recently added PMC member: Nicolás Vázquez on 2021-08-01.
- There are no new committers since the last report.
-- Most recently added committer: Ivet Petrova on 2021-12-18.

## Project Activity:
- The Apache CloudStack project released the current LTS version 4.16.1 on
 March 7th, 2022.
- The community is working towards the next LTS release 4.17.0.0. A release
 candidate is currently being voted on and it may pass prior to the board
 meeting.
- The PMC voted on a new PMC chair that was subsequently approved by the
 board.
- The CloudStack project is continuing work on the Google Summer of Code 2022.
 We have multiple community members engaged to mentor and are currently in
 the community bonding phase. We have 3 students working on 3 different
 mid-sized projects this year:
-- Yashika Sarkar: Add the ability to Safely Shutdown / restart CloudStack
-- Daman Arora: CloudStack Terraform Provider. Add datasources for the
  existing resources
-- Pritam Neog: OAuth 2.0 based SSO integration in CloudStack
- A well attended and successful CloudStack European User Group (CSEUG)
 meeting was held on April 7th. The CSEUG was a virtual get together for the
 European CloudStack Community, hosting 260+ attendees from 25 countries. The
 event hosted 10 sessions from leading CloudStack experts, users and skilful
 engineers from the open-source world, which included: technical talks, user
 stories, new features and integrations presentations and more.
- The community will be hosting a 3-day hybrid (online and in person)
 Cloudstack Collaboration Conference on 14-16th November in Sofia, Bulgaria.

## Community Health:
Apropos of the activity report; the project is considered healthy.

Here follows some highlights based on the ASF Project Statistics for Apache
CloudStack. Data gathered on June 1st at the ASF Project Statistics
https://reporter.apache.org/wizard/statistics?cloudstack.

These statistics combined indicate that the project is healthy.
- According to the Apache statistics, the project achieved the Community
 Health Score (Chi): 7.96 (Healthy)

- Github Statistics:
-- PR activity: 292 PRs opened on GitHub, past quarter (30% increase) 299 PRs
  closed on GitHub, past quarter (17% increase)
-- Issues: 90 issues opened on GitHub, past quarter (-15% change) 77 issues
  closed on GitHub, past quarter (-49% change)
-- Commits: 460 commits in the past quarter (-5% decrease) 40 code
  contributors in the past quarter (14% increase)

- Mailing lists Statistics:
-- dev@cloudstack.apache.org had a 32% decrease in traffic in the past quarter
  (684 emails compared to 998)
-- issues@cloudstack.apache.org had a 93% decrease in traffic in the past
  quarter (1 emails compared to 14), we are using GitHub "issues".
-- marketing@cloudstack.apache.org had a 38% decrease in traffic in the past
  quarter (33 emails compared to 53).
-- users@cloudstack.apache.org had a 18% decrease in traffic in the past
  quarter (609 emails compared to 740).

## Releases:
Latest:
- 4.16.1.0 was released on 7th March 2022 -- EOL 1st May 2023.
- 4.16.0.0 was released on 15th November 2021 -- EOL 1st May 2023.
- 4.15.2.0 was released on 20th September 2021 -- EOL 1st July 2022.
- 4.15.1.0 was released on 5th July 2021 -- EOL 1st July 2022.
- 4.15.0.0 was released on 22nd January 2021 -- EOL 1st July 2022.
- 4.14.1.0 was released on 4th of March 2021 -- EOL 1st January 2022.

Reaching EOL:
- 4.15 will reach EOL on 1st July 2022, it was released on 19th January 2021.

16 Mar 2022

Change the Apache CloudStack Project Chair

 WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Gabriel Beims
 Bräscher (gabriel) to the office of Vice President, Apache CloudStack,
 and

 WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of
 Gabriel Beims Bräscher from the office of Vice President, Apache
 CloudStack, and

 WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache CloudStack
 project has chosen by vote to recommend Simon Weller (sweller) as the
 successor to the post;

 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Gabriel Beims Bräscher is relieved
 and discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of
 Vice President, Apache CloudStack, and

 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Simon Weller be and hereby is appointed to
 the office of Vice President, Apache CloudStack, to serve in accordance
 with and subject to the direction of the Board of Directors and the
 Bylaws of the Foundation until death, resignation, retirement, removal
 or disqualification, or until a successor is appointed.

 Special Order 7B, Change the Apache CloudStack Project Chair,
 was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.

16 Mar 2022 [Gabriel Beims Bräscher / Sam]

## Description:

Apache CloudStack (ACS) is an IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) cloud
orchestration platform. ACS manages many types of hypervisors, storage, and
networking devices.

## Issues:

No issues to report.

## Activity:

- The Apache CloudStack project is pleased to announce that the LTS
 maintenance release 4.16.1.0 has passed its release candidate vote phase.
 The release official announcement is on the way.

- The community is working towards the next LTS release 4.17.0.0, with a
 volunteer Release Manager and proposed roadmap.

- The PMC will be sending a resolution for the board to approve (or reject) by
 the next monthly meeting (March 2022) regarding proceeding with a rotation
 in the PMC Chair.

- The CloudStack project is preparing for the Google Summer of Code 2022,
 arranging volunteers to mentor, students, and topics to be submitted. More
 details will be registered in the next report.

- The CloudStack project is pleased to announce the release of Apache
 CloudStack Terraform Provider v0.4.0, enabling CloudStack to be integrated
 with Terraform. This is the first release after it has been brought under
 the Apache license.

## Health report:

Apropos of the activity report; the project is considered healthy.

Here follows some highlights based on the ASF Project Statistics for Apache
CloudStack. Data gathered on March 7th at the ASF Project Statistics
https://reporter.apache.org/wizard/statistics?cloudstack.

These statistics combined indicate that the project is healthy.
- According to the apache statistics, the project achieved the Community
 Health Score (Chi): 8.37 (Healthy)

- Github Statistics:
-- PR activity: 212 PRs opened on GitHub, past quarter (-9% change) 246 PRs
  closed on GitHub, past quarter (6% change)
-- Issues: 100 issues opened on GitHub, past quarter (-31% change) 145 issues
  closed on GitHub, past quarter (38% increase)
-- 477 commits in the past quarter (-7% decrease)
-- 33 code contributors in the past quarter (-5% change)

- Mailing lists Statistics:
-- dev@cloudstack.apache.org had a 32% decrease in traffic in the past quarter
  (684 emails compared to 998).
-- issues@cloudstack.apache.org had a 93% decrease in traffic in the past
  quarter (1 email compared to 14), we are using GitHub "issues".
-- marketing@cloudstack.apache.org had a 38% decrease in traffic in the past
  quarter (33 emails compared to 53).
-- users@cloudstack.apache.org had a 18% decrease in traffic in the past
  quarter (609 emails compared to 740).

## Project Composition:
- There are currently 130 committers and 52 PMC members in this project.
- The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 5:2.

PMC changes:
- No new PMC member was added since the last report.
- Most recently added PMC member: Nicolás Vázquez was added to the PMC on
 2021-08-01.

Committer base changes:
- There are two new committers since the last report.
- Most recently added committers: Ivet Petrova and Slavka Peleva, both added
 as committers on 18 December 2021.

## Releases:

Latest:
- 4.16.0.0 was released on 15th November 2021 -- EOL 1st May 2023.
- 4.15.2.0 was released on 20th September 2021 -- EOL 1st July 2022.
- 4.15.1.0 was released on 5th July 2021 -- EOL 1st July 2022.
- 4.15.0.0 was released on 22nd January 2021 -- EOL 1st July 2022.
- 4.14.1.0 was released on 4th of March 2021 -- EOL 1st January 2022.

Reaching EOL:
- 4.15 will reach EOL on 1st July 2022, it was released on 19th January 2021.

15 Dec 2021 [Gabriel Beims Bräscher / Roy]

## Description:

Apache CloudStack (ACS) is an IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) cloud
orchestration platform. ACS manages many types of hypervisors, storage, and
networking devices.

## Issues:

No issues to report.

## Activity:
- The Apache CloudStack project is pleased to announce the LTS maintenance
 release of CloudStack 4.15.2.0

- The Apache CloudStack project is pleased to announce the new LTS release,
 CloudStack 4.16.0.0

- The Apache CloudStack project is pleased to announce that the first-ever
 virtual CloudStack Collaboration Conference gathered a broad audience from
 users and contributors across the world. It happened on 9th - 12th November
 2021. A few numbers regarding the event: 48 talks; 40 speakers; average
 unique views of 43 per talk; average views per talk of 74 (including
 replays).

- The CloudStack PMC is evaluating a few names to be invited to join the
 committers.

- The CloudStack project is pleased to announce that the participation at the
 Google Summer of Code 2021 resulted in four successful projects [1,2] by the
 four students: Apurv, Junxuan, Bikram, and Sangwoo. The mentors were: Pearl,
 David, Suresh, Bobby, Hari, and Nicolas.
 [1] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/GSoC+2021
 [2] https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/pulls?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Apr+label%3Agsoc2021

## Health report:

Apropos of the activity report; the project is considered healthy.

Here follows some highlights based on the ASF Project Statistics for Apache
CloudStack. Data was gathered on December 3rd at the ASF Project Statistics
[3].
 [3] https://reporter.apache.org/wizard/statistics?cloudstack.

These statistics combined indicate that the project is healthy.
- According to the apache statistics, the project achieved the Community
 Health Score (Chi): 9.60 (Super Healthy)
- More than 4 emails per day to all mailing lists combined in the past
 quarter.
- New members added to the LDAP committee group within the last six months
- New committer(s) invited within the last six months
- New releases (4.16.0) in the past 6 months.

- Github Statistics:
-- PR activity: 227 PRs opened on GitHub, past quarter (-12% change) 227 PRs
  closed on GitHub, past quarter (-24% change)
-- Issues: 144 issues opened on GitHub, past quarter (26% increase) 107 issues
  closed on GitHub, past quarter (-17% change)
-- 562 commits in the past quarter (1% increase)
-- 39 code contributors in the past quarter (21% increase)

- Mailing lists Statistics:
-- dev@cloudstack.apache.org had a 9% decrease in traffic in the past quarter
  (830 emails compared to 911).

-- issues@cloudstack.apache.org had a 43% decrease in traffic in the past
  quarter (8 emails compared to 14). The issues mailing list has been
  decreasing consistently over time, mostly due to the fact that we are using
  GitHub "issues" instead of JIRA. Additionally, users that would report
  issues to the community via the issues@cloudstack.a.o (or
  users@cloudstack.a.o) now are creating issues in GitHub, which helps
  developers and the Release Manager(s) to track milestones and bugs/features
  to be merged in major or maintenance releases; additionally, issues are
  linked to the Pull Requests and, consequently, the Commits that fixed them.

-- marketing@cloudstack.apache.org had a 7% decrease in traffic in the past
  quarter (45 emails compared to 48).

-- users@cloudstack.apache.org had a 2% increase in traffic in the past
  quarter (758 emails compared to 736). The users mailing list is stable,
  even with the decreasing of users reporting issues at this ML.

## Project Composition:
- There are currently 128 committers and 52 PMC members in this project.
- The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 2:1.

PMC changes:
- No new PMC member was added since the last report.
- Most recently added PMC member: Nicolás Vázquez was added to the PMC on
 2021-08-01.

Committer base changes:
- No new committers were added since the last report.
- Most recently added committers: David Jumani, Daniel Augusto Veronezi
 Salvador, and Pearl Dsilva; added on 2021-07-06.

## Releases:

Latest:
- 4.16.0.0 was released on 15th November 2021 -- EOL 1st May 2023.
- 4.15.2.0 was released on 20th September 2021 -- EOL 1st July 2022.
- 4.15.1.0 was released on 5th July 2021 -- EOL 1st July 2022.
- 4.15.0.0 was released on 22nd January 2021 -- EOL 1st July 2022.
- 4.14.1.0 was released on 4th of March 2021 -- EOL 1st January 2022.

Reaching EOL:
- 4.14.X.0 will reach EOL on 1st January 2022, it was released on 26th May
 2020.

15 Sep 2021 [Gabriel Beims Bräscher / Roy]

## Description:

Apache CloudStack (ACS) is an IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) cloud
orchestration platform. ACS manages many types of hypervisors, storage, and
networking devices.

## Issues:

No issues to report.

## Activity:

- The Apache CloudStack project is pleased to announce the LTS maintenance
 release of CloudStack 4.15.1.0.

- 4.15.2.0 has been discussed and agreed by the community to be worked upon
 (quick minor release).

- Kubernetes Provider 1.0.0 has  passed its release vote, published on docker
 hub, and soon it will be announced.

- The Apache CloudStack CloudMonkey 6.2.0 is in the release process. We will
 soon have it released.

- The community is working towards the next LTS release 4.16.0.0 (Q3-Q4 2021).

- GSoC 2021: all 4 students had passed mentors mid-term evaluation and have
 submitted their pull requests, now the program is coming to completion with
 final evaluation by mentors during 23-30 Aug next week.

- Terraform codebase has been imported, passed IP clearance, a release to be
 worked upon soon (Hari volunteered to be the RM).

- The Apache CloudStack has been working to align with the Inclusive naming
 initiative (such as we see in diversity@apache). As an example, we already
 migrated the default branch from "master" to "main" and have been updating
 documentation and the codebase.


- The project has been discussing alternatives to update the CloudStack
 website. The main goals with such a move would be to bring a newer look to
 the website as well as make it easier to edit; thus, being open to anyone to
 contribute with the project website, regardless of any development skills.
 However, so far none of the discussed approaches meet all the requirements
 to be published in the
 'apache/cloudstack-www' repository and also be friendly to contributors with
  no development background.

- The Apache CloudStack is pleased to announce the virtual CCC (CloudStack
 Collaboration Conference) that is scheduled for 9-12 November 2021.


## Health report:

Apropos of the activity report; the project is considered healthy.

Here follows some highlights based on the ASF Project Statistics for Apache
CloudStack. Data were obtained on September 1st, via
[https://reporter.apache.org/wizard/statistics?cloudstack].

These statistics combined indicate that the project is healthy.
- According to the apache statistics, the project achieved the Community
 Health Score (Chi): 10.00 (Super Healthy)
- More than 4 emails per day to all mailing lists combined in the past
 quarter.
- New members added to the LDAP committee group within the last six months
- New committer(s) invited within the last three months
- New releases (4.15.1) in the past 6 months.

- Github Statistics:
-- PR activity: 248 PRs opened on GitHub, past quarter (-6% change) 278 PRs
  closed on GitHub, past quarter (1% increase)
-- Issues: 112 issues opened on GitHub, past quarter (12% increase) 120 issues
  closed on GitHub, past quarter (-10% change)
-- Commits: 529 commits in the past quarter (-23% decrease)
-- Code contributors: 34 in the past quarter (-12% change)

- Mailing lists Statistics:
-- dev@cloudstack.apache.org had a 20% increase in traffic in the past quarter
  (901 emails compared to 749).
-- issues@cloudstack.apache.org had an 80% decrease in traffic in the past
  quarter (14 emails compared to 69), we encourage the use of github
  "issues".
-- marketing@cloudstack.apache.org had a 35% decrease in traffic in the past
  quarter (52 emails compared to 80).
-- users@cloudstack.apache.org had a 10% increase in traffic in the past
  quarter (781 emails compared to 705).

## PMC changes:

- Currently 52
- There is one new PMC member added since the last report.
- Most recently added PMC member: Nicolás Vázquez was added to the PMC on
 2021-08-01.

## Committer base changes:

- Currently 128
- There are three new committers since the last report.
- the last vote for committers was done on 2021-06-30.
- Most recently added committers: David Jumani, Daniel Augusto Veronezi
 Salvador, and Pearl Dsilva were added as committers on 2021-07-06.

## Releases:

Latest:
- 4.15.1.0 was released on 5th July 2021    -- EOL 1st July 2022.
- 4.15.0.0 was released on 22nd January 2021 -- EOL 1st July 2022.
- 4.14.1.0 was released on 4th of March 2021 -- EOL 1st January 2022.

Reaching EOL:
- 4.13.1.0 reached EOL on 1st May 2021, it was released on 2nd May 2020.

16 Jun 2021 [Gabriel Beims Bräscher / Roman]

## Description:

Apache CloudStack (ACS) is an IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) cloud
orchestration platform. ACS manages many types of hypervisors, storage, and
networking devices.

## Issues:

No issues to report.

## Activity:

- The Apache CloudStack project is pleased to announce the major release of
 CloudStack 4.15 with a modern new Primate UI and will deprecate the legacy
 UI in the upcoming release 4.16.

- The Apache CloudStack project is pleased to announce the LTS maintenance
 releases of CloudStack 4.14.1.

- The community is working on maintenance release 4.15.1.0 (expected to Q2-Q3
 2021) and new feature release 4.16.0.0 (Q3-Q4 2021) are underway.

- The Apache CloudStack is pleased to announce that we got an Autoscaler
 provider/plugin merged in the Kubernetes project [1,2].

- The Apache CloudStack is participating in the Google Summer of Code
 (GSoC2021) and four students have been accepted. The four students have
 started interacting with their mentors, the community, and understanding the
 project and the source code in May during their community bonding period,
 which will last till early June after which they'll start the coding work.

- The Apache CloudStack is working in order to align with the Inclusive naming
 initiative (such as we see in diversity@apache,
 https://inclusivenaming.org/, GitHub initiatives, etc). As an example, we
 are moving the default branch from "master" to "main" as well as discussing
 future steps and terms to be updated.

- Following the initiative of maintaining the Terraform provider for the
 Apache CloudStack, Hashicorp has suggested donating their codebase. The
 project and PMC voted and have accepted the proposal to accept the codebase
 to continue its further maintenance and releases and currently working on
 the process of code donation.

- As normally done in the past years at the Apache CloudStack, the PMC Chair
 (VP) was changed in March, maintaining a cycle of new VPs each year ensuring
 a healthy rotation and diversity.

[1]https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/Cluster+Autoscaler+for+CloudStack+Kubernetes+Service

[2]https://github.com/kubernetes/autoscaler/tree/master/cluster-autoscaler/cloudprovider/cloudstack

## Health report:

Apropos of the activity report; the project is considered healthy.

Here follows some highlights based on the ASF Project Statistics for Apache
CloudStack [data obtained on June 3rd, via
https://reporter.apache.org/wizard/statistics?cloudstack].

These statistics combined indicate that the project is healthy.

- More than 4 emails per day to all mailing lists combined in the past
 quarter.
- However, there were no new committers invited for more than six months.
- Also, we had no new members were added to the PMC for more than a year.
- New releases (4.14.1 & 4.15.0) in the past 6 months.

- Github Statistics:

-- PR activity: 257 PRs opened on GitHub, past quarter (18% increase) 267 PRs
  closed on GitHub, past quarter (67% increase)

-- issues: 98 issues opened on GitHub, past quarter (18% increase) 121 issues
  closed on GitHub, past quarter (14% increase)

-- commit activity: 682 commits in the past quarter (-63% decrease) 39 code
  contributors in the past quarter (-13% change)

It is worthy of mentioning that recently the project marketing efforts have
been growing.

In the past quarter, there has been a substantial increase in e-mails and
discussions towards enhancing the project’s marketing (e.g. improve activity
over social media, review the website, be present in online events,
participate in interviews, etc).

As an example, the marketing@cloudstack.apache.org ML had an 855% increase in
traffic in the past quarter (86 emails compared to 9).

## PMC changes:

- Currently 51.
- No new PMC members have been added since the last report.
- Most recently added PMC member:

Andrija Panic, Gabriel Beims Bräscher, Bobby Stoyanov, Nathan Johnson, Sven
Vogel on July 17st 2019.

## Committer base changes:

- Currently 125
- the last vote for committers was done on Oct 27st 2020.
- Most recently added committers: Abhishek Kumar, Rakesh Venkatesh, Suresh
 Anaparti, and Hoang Nguyen on Oct 27th 2020.

## Releases:

Latest:
- 4.15.0.0 was released on 22nd January 2021 -- EOL 1st July 2022.
- 4.14.1.0 was released on 4th of March 2021 -- EOL 1st January 2022.

Reaching EOL:
- 4.13.1.0 reached EOL on 1st May 2021, it was released on 2nd May 2020.

17 Mar 2021

Change the Apache CloudStack Project Chair

 WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Sven Vogel
 (svogel) to the office of Vice President, Apache CloudStack, and

 WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of
 Sven Vogel from the office of Vice President, Apache CloudStack, and

 WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache CloudStack
 project has chosen by vote to recommend Gabriel Beims Bräscher
 (gabriel) as the successor to the post;

 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Sven Vogel is relieved and
 discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice
 President, Apache CloudStack, and

 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Gabriel Beims Bräscher be and hereby is
 appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache CloudStack, 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 CloudStack Project Chair,
 was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.

17 Mar 2021 [Sven Vogel / Roman]

Apache CloudStack (ACS) is an IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) cloud
orchestration platform. ACS manages many types of hypervisors, storage
and networking devices.

## Issues:

No issues to report.

## Activity:

- The Apache CloudStack project is pleased to announce the major
release of CloudStack 4.15 with a modern new Primate UI and will
deprecate the legacy UI in the upcoming release 4.16

- The Apache CloudStack project is pleased to announce the LTS
maintenance releases of CloudStack 4.14.1

- The community is work on maintenance release 4.15.1.0 and new
feature release 4.16 are underway

- The CloudStack PMC is open to nominations for the next VP and there
will be a vote from 12th of March

## Health report:

- Apropos of the activity report; the project is considered healthy

## PMC changes:

- Currently 51
- no new PMC members were added since last report.
- Most recently added PMC members:
 Andrija Panic, Gabriel Beims Bräscher, Bobby Stoyanov,
 Nathan Johnson, Sven Vogel on July 17st 2019

## Committer base changes:

- Currently 125
- last vote for committers was done on Oct 27st 2020

- Most recently added committers: Abhishek Kumar, Rakesh Venkatesh,
 Suresh Anaparti and Hoang Nguyen on Oct 27st 2020

## Releases:
- 4.15 was released on 22nd January 2021
- 4.14.1 was released on 4th of March 2021

16 Dec 2020 [Sven Vogel / Sander]

## Description:

Apache CloudStack (ACS) is an IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) cloud
orchestration platform. ACS manages many types of hypervisors, storage
and networking devices.

## Issues:

No issues to report.

## Activity:

- The Apache CloudStack project is pleased to announce the releases of
 CloudStack 4.14.0 and 4.13.1. Apache CloudStack 4.14.0 is the latest new
 LTS release while 4.13.1 is a maintenance release of the 4.13 LTS branch.

- the community is currently working on the release of the Apache CloudStack
 4.15 (RC1) and the first GA candidate of the new UI (Primate)

## Health report:

- Apropos of the activity report; the project is considered healthy

## PMC changes:

- Currently 51
- no new PMC members were added since last report.
- Most recently added PMC member:  Andrija Panic, Gabriel Beims Bräscher,
 Bobby Stoyanov, Nathan Johnson, Sven Vogel on July 17st 2019

## Committer base changes:

- Currently 125
- a new vote for committers was done on Oct 27st 2020
- Most recently added committers: Abhishek Kumar, Rakesh Venkatesh,
 Suresh Anaparti and Hoang Nguyen on Oct 27st 2020

## Releases:

- 4.14 was released on 26th May 2020

16 Sep 2020 [Sven Vogel / Justin]

## Description:

Apache CloudStack (ACS) is an IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) cloud
orchestration platform. ACS manages many types of hypervisors, storage
and networking devices.

## Issues:

No issues to report.

## Activity:

- The Apache CloudStack project is pleased to announce the releases of
CloudStack 4.14.0 and 4.13.1.
Apache CloudStack 4.14.0 is the latest new LTS release while 4.13.1 is
a maintenance release of the 4.13 LTS branch.

- the community is actually working on the release of the Apache
CloudStack 4.15 and the first GA candidate of the new UI (Primate)

- The PMC as a whole decided stop maintaining a separate security list
and move the CloudStack security related issues to the ASF Security
Team and private lists for more visibility.
explanation and justification to the Apache Board of Directors:

The PMC had a security@ list which was by definition separate to the
PMC private@ list. Because of this, the PMC was not directly aware of
issues. we don't have a dedicated security team and the sizes/scope of
our project does not really warrant one. the removing of the
CloudStack security@ list and having security@apache.org raise any
issues directly with the PMC was the next logical step.

## Health report:

- Apropos of the activity report; the project is considered healthy

## PMC changes:

- Currently 51
- no new PMC members were added since last report.
- Most recently added PMC member:
  Andrija Panic, Gabriel Beims Bräscher, Bobby Stoyanov, Nathan
  Johnson, Sven Vogel on July 17st 2019

## Committer base changes:

- Currently 121
- no new committers members were added since last report.
- Most recently added committers: Sven Vogel on March 18th 2019 and
 Dennis Konrad on March 21st 2019

## Releases:

- 4.14 was released on 26th May 2020

17 Jun 2020 [Sven Vogel / Patricia]

## Description:

Apache CloudStack (ACS) is an IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) cloud
orchestration platform. ACS manages many types of hypervisors, storage
and networking devices.

## Issues:

- The PMC as a whole decided to stop maintaining a separate security list
and move the CloudStack security related issues to the ASF Security
Team and private lists for more visibility.

## Activity:

- The community UI SIG bears fruit with the release the first
 technical preview of the new UI (Primate).
- The Apache CloudStack project is pleased to announce the releases of
 CloudStack 4.14.0 and 4.13.1.
 - Apache CloudStack 4.14.0 is the latest new LTS release while 4.13.1 is
   a maintenance release of the 4.13 LTS branch.
 - 4.14.0.0 has over 15 major new features, and over 200 enhancements and
   fixes since 4.13.0. 4.13.1 adds around 40 fixes since release of 4.13.0.

## Health report:

- Apropos of the activity report; the project is considered healthy

## PMC changes:

- Currently 51
- no new PMC members were added since last report.
- Most recently added PMC member:
    Andrija Panic, Gabriel Beims Bräscher, Bobby Stoyanov, Nathan
    Johnson, Sven Vogel on July 17st 2019

## Committer base changes:

- Currently 121
- no new committers members were added since last report.
- Most recently added committers:
    Sven Vogel on March 18th 2019 and Dennis Konrad on March 21st 2019

## Releases:

- 4.14 was released on 26th May 2020

18 Mar 2020

Change the Apache CloudStack Project Chair

 WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Paul Angus (paul_a)
 to the office of Vice President, Apache CloudStack, and

 WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of Paul
 Angus from the office of Vice President, Apache CloudStack, and

 WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache CloudStack
 project has chosen by vote to recommend Sven Vogel (svogel) as the
 successor to the post;

 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Paul Angus is relieved and
 discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice
 President, Apache CloudStack, and

 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Sven Vogel be and hereby is appointed to
 the office of Vice President, Apache CloudStack, to serve in accordance
 with and subject to the direction of the Board of Directors and the
 Bylaws of the Foundation until death, resignation, retirement, removal
 or disqualification, or until a successor is appointed.

 Special Order 7A, Change the Apache CloudStack Project Chair,
 was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.

18 Mar 2020 [Paul Angus / Roman]

## Description:
The mission of CloudStack is the creation and maintenance of software related
to Infrastructure as a Service solution

## Issues:
No issues to report.

## Membership Data:
Apache CloudStack was founded 2013-03-20 (7 years ago)
There are currently 121 committers and 51 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 2:1.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Nathan Johnson on 2019-07-17.
- No new committers. Last addition was Dennis Konrad on 2019-03-19.

## Project Activity:
- A large cross-community project to create a new UI for CloudStack is
nearing completion.
- The next new release of CloudStack (4.14) should reach code freeze
on 13th March.  This has been delayed due to the number of major new
features that will come with it.
- The PMC has voted for their next Chair (Sven Vogel), a resolution to
this effect has been put forward to the board for the next meeting.
- Work has begun on updating the CloudStack Collaboration Conference
website to reflect its presence at this year's ApacheCon NA in new
orleans.

## Community Health:
Community health is good (some new committers would be nice). There is a lot
of development activity wrt new features as well as closing issues and PRs.

Taking into account reduced user activity over the winter break, stats look
good (to me).

- dev@cloudstack.apache.org had a 68% increase in traffic in the past quarter
(1177 emails compared to 699)
- issues@cloudstack.apache.org had a 66% increase
in traffic in the past quarter (10 emails compared to 6)
- marketing@cloudstack.apache.org had a 65% decrease in traffic in the past
quarter (15 emails compared to 42)
- users@cloudstack.apache.org had a 36%
decrease in traffic in the past quarter (247 emails compared to 383)
- users-cn@cloudstack.apache.org had a 30% decrease in traffic in the past
quarter (7 emails compared to 10)
- 2 issues opened in JIRA, past quarter (no change)
163 commits in the past quarter (36% increase)
- 32 code contributors in the past quarter (45% increase)
- 134 PRs opened on GitHub, past quarter (8% increase)
- 192 PRs closed on GitHub, past quarter (106% increase)
- 70 issues opened on GitHub, past quarter (-13% decrease)
- 80 issues closed on GitHub, past quarter (321% increase)

18 Dec 2019 [Paul Angus / Myrle]

## Description:
Apache CloudStack (ACS) is an IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) cloud
orchestration platform. ACS manages many types of hypervisors, storage and
networking devices.

## Issues:
- The security ‘team’ is triaging a number of issues, progress is slow but
 steady.

## Activity:
-  the community has voted to accept two new sub-projects within CloudStack:
  https://github.com/apache/cloudstack-primate (see below)
  https://github.com/apache/cloudstack-kubernetes-provider (the CloudStack
  provider was removed from Kubernetes core code by the Kubernetes community
  as part of a ‘streamlining of the core’ exercise – the provider will now be
  maintained separately by the CloudStack community)
- The community has coalesced behind the development of an all-new UI
 (Primate). It is hoped that the use of modern tools and a modern interface
 will encourage a new wave of users and developers to get involved.  The
 outgoing UI is somewhat antiquated. A special interest group (SIG)  holds
 bi-weekly meetings and reports updates on dev@. Certainly, some ‘new faces’
 have got involved in the UI’s development already.
- A ‘winter’ LTS release would be expected in early Q1 next year, but no
 announcement has been made along those lines yet.

## Health report:
- Apropos of the activity report; the project is considered healthy

## PMC changes:
- Currently 51
- no new PMC members were added since the last report. The following members
 were added in the previous quarter: Andrija Panic, Gabriel Beims Bräscher,
 Bobby Stoyanov, Nathan Johnson, Sven Vogel

## Committer base changes (2 added since the last report):
- Currently 121 committers
- Most recently added committers: Sven Vogel on March 18th 2019 and Dennis
 Konrad on March 21st 2019

## Releases:
- 4.13 was released on 24th September 2019

18 Sep 2019 [Paul Angus / Rich]

## Description:
Apache CloudStack (ACS) is an IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) cloud
orchestration platform. ACS manages many types of hypervisors, storage and
networking devices.

## Issues:
- Mark Thomas is progressing the renewal of the CloudStack trademark
 registration
- We received notification from ‘Read The Docs’ that they would be adding
 ‘paid for’ advertising to all pages of rendered documentation. Upon
 consultation with the Board, we opted out of this advertising. nb: ASF will
 work to develop a reciprocal relationship with Read The Docs to honourably
 use Read The Docs for ‘free’

## Activity:
- The Apache CloudStack project received a Newsweek award for ‘Best Business
 Tools 2019’ in the category ‘Cloud’
- PMC has discussed a number of committers/contributors for ‘promotion’ to
 committership or PMC, which resulted in 5 new PMC members
- Many of the project’s members have been working to prepare for the
 CloudStack Collaboration Conference within ApacheCon. We had 22
 presentations covering new features in-development or recently completed as
 well as sessions on how to use specific features in CloudStack and features
 at a PoC stage.
- The project has benefited from the very recent ‘announcement’ that Apple
 uses CloudStack to underpin many of its services. We hope that will bring a
 bump in interest in the project, which we will endeavour to convert into
 contributors
- The community discussed dropping IRC as an ‘advertised’ communication
 channel as ‘no one’ hangs out there any more.
- As the community has just released a major version and has just had a large
 conference, it is now ‘getting back to business’.

## Health report:
- Apropos of the activity report; the project is healthy

## PMC changes:
- Currently 51
- PMC members added since the last report:
- Andrija Panic
- Gabriel Beims Bräscher
- Bobby Stoyanov
- Nathan Johnson
- Sven Vogel

## Committer base changes (2 added since the last report):
- Currently 121 committers
- Most recently added committers: Sven Vogel on March 18th 2019 and Dennis
 Konrad on March 21st 2019

## Releases:
- Release 4.11.3 (LTS release)
- Release 4.13.0.0 (New LTS release should be fully released by the time of
 board meeting)

19 Jun 2019 [Paul Angus / Daniel]

## Description:

Apache CloudStack (ACS) is an IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) cloud
orchestration platform. ACS manages many types of hypervisors, storage and
networking devices.

## Issues:
- None

## Activity:
- CloudStack Collab Conf for Brazil took place on Friday, April 26th
 (co-hosted with The Developers Conference (
  http://www.thedevelopersconference.com.br)).
- The community is currently working on 4.11.3
- Paul Angus was nominated by the PMC to become the next (now current)
 Chair/VP of the Apache CloudStack Project, which was ratified by the Apache
 Board on May 15th 2019

## Health report:
- The community is currently working on 4.13 (forthcoming LTS) and
 4.11.3, (bug fixes to current LTS)
- Planning is underway for a CloudStack Collab Conf in Las Vegas
 (September). CFP was over-subscribed, 24 presentations were accepted

## PMC changes:
- Currently 46 PMC members
- Most recently added PMC member was Syed Ahmed on Sun Oct 08 2017

## Committer base changes (2 added since last report):
- Currently 121 committers
- Most recently added committers: Sven Vogel on March 18th 2019 and Dennis
 Konrad on March 21st 2019

## Releases:
- Release 4.12.0 on April 4th 2019


Kind regards Paul Angus

20 Mar 2019

Change the Apache CloudStack Project Chair

 WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Mike Tutkowski
 (mtutkowski) to the office of Vice President, Apache CloudStack, and

 WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of Mike
 Tutkowski from the office of Vice President, Apache CloudStack, and

 WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache CloudStack project has
 chosen by vote to recommend Paul Angus (paul_a) as the successor to the post;

 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Mike Tutkowski is relieved and discharged
 from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice President, Apache
 CloudStack, and

 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Paul Angus be and hereby is appointed to the
 office of Vice President, Apache CloudStack, 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 CloudStack Project Chair,
 was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.

20 Mar 2019 [Mike Tutkowski / Bertrand]

## Description:
Apache CloudStack (ACS) is an IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) cloud
orchestration platform. ACS manages many types of hypervisors, storage and
networking devices.

## Issues:

## Activity:
- The community is currently working on RC testing 4.12. We have also
 organized a CloudStack Collab Conf for Brazil on Friday, April 26th
 (co-hosted with The Developers Conference
 (http://www.thedevelopersconference.com.br)).

## Health report:
- Version 4.12.0 is in the process of RC testing.
- Planning is underway for a CloudStack Collaboration Conference co-located
 with ApacheCon in Las Vegas (September).

## PMC changes:
- Currently 46 PMC members (one removed since last report per his request)
- Most recently added PMC member was Syed Ahmed on Sun Oct 08 2017

## Committer base changes (no change since last report):
- Currently 119 committers
- Most recently added committer was Boris Stoyanov on Wed Dec 12 2018

## Releases:
- Release 4.11.2.0 on Nov 13 2018

19 Dec 2018 [Mike Tutkowski / Phil]

## Description:
Apache CloudStack (ACS) is an IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) cloud
orchestration platform. ACS manages many types of hypervisors, storage and
networking devices.

## Issues:

## Activity:
- There has been one new release (4.11.2.0) since the previous report.
- We held a CloudStack Collaboration Conference within ApacheCon in September
 in Montreal.

## Health report:
- Version 4.12.0 is in development.
- Planning is underway for CloudStack Collaboration Conferences next year in
 Brazil and Las Vegas
- Planning on holding virtual dev sync-ups on a regular interval (fist one
 expected in January 2019)

## PMC changes:
- Currently 47 PMC members (same as of the previous report)
- Most recently added PMC member was Syed Ahmed on Sun Oct 08 2017

## Committer base changes (an increase of two people since the previous
  report):
- Currently 119 committers
- Most recently added committer was Boris Stoyanov on Wed Dec 12 2018

## Releases (one release since the previous report):
- Release 4.11.2.0 on Nov 13 2018

19 Sep 2018 [Mike Tutkowski / Brett]

## Description:
Apache CloudStack (ACS) is an IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) cloud
orchestration platform. ACS manages many types of hypervisors, storage and
networking devices.

## Issues:

## Activity:
- One new release (4.11.1.0) since the previous report.

## Health report:
- Version 4.12.0 is in development.
- Version 4.11.2 is in development.
- All seems healthy

## PMC changes:

- Currently 47 PMC members (same as of the last report)
- Most recently added PMC member was Syed Ahmed on Sun Oct 08 2017

## Committer base changes:

- Currently 117 committers (same as of the last report)
- Most recently added committer was Dag Sonstebo on Mon Mar 19 2018

## Releases (one release since the previous report):

- Release 4.11.1.0 on June 21 2018

20 Jun 2018 [Mike Tutkowski / Rich]

## Description: Apache CloudStack (ACS) is an IaaS (Infrastructure as a
  Service) cloud orchestration platform.  ACS manages many types of
  hypervisors, storage and networking devices.

## Activity:
- One new release (4.9.3.1) since the previous report.

## Health report:
- Version 4.12.0 is in development.
- Version 4.11.1 is in the RC process.
- All seems healthy

## PMC changes:

- Currently 47 PMC members (same as of the last report)
- Most recently added PMC member was Syed Ahmed on Sun Oct 08 2017

## Committer base changes:

- Currently 117 committers (up by one since the last report)
- Most recently added committer was Dag Sonstebo on Mon Mar 19 2018

## Releases:

- Release 4.11.0 on Mon Feb 12 2018
- Release 4.10.0 on Fri Sep 1 2017
- Release 4.9.3.1 on Fri Mar 29 2018
- Release 4.9.3.0 on Tue Sep 12 2017 member added. I think I was getting
 conflicting information from different sources.

21 Mar 2018

Change the Apache CloudStack Project Chair

 WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Wido den
 Hollander (widodh) to the office of Vice President, Apache CloudStack,
 and

 WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of
 Wido den Hollander from the office of Vice President, Apache
 CloudStack, and

 WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache CloudStack
 project has chosen by vote to recommend Mike Tutkowski (mtutkowski) as
 the successor to the post;

 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Wido den Hollander is relieved
 and discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of
 Vice President, Apache CloudStack, and

 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Mike Tutkowski be and hereby is appointed
 to the office of Vice President, Apache CloudStack, 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 CloudStack Project Chair,
 was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.

21 Mar 2018 [Wido den Hollander / Bertrand]

## Description:
   Apache CloudStack (ACS) is an IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) cloud
   orchestration platform.  ACS manages many types of hypervisors, storage
   and networking devices.

## Issues:
   there are no issues requiring board attention at this time

## Activity:
 - Mike Tutkowski (mtutkowski) was elected as the new VP of the CloudStack project
   The resolution has been filed at the board

## Health report:
 - Version 4.11 was released recently and the project is now working towards
   the 4.12 release. All seems healthy

## PMC changes:

 - Currently 47 PMC members.
 - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
 - Last PMC addition was Syed Ahmed on Mon Oct 09 2017

## Committer base changes:

 - Currently 116 committers.
 - No new committers added in the last 3 months

## Releases:

 - Release 4.11.0 on Mon Feb 12 2018
 - Release 4.10.0 on Fri Sep 1 2017
 - Release 4.9.3.0 on Tue Sep 12 2017

## Mailing list activity:

 - users@cloudstack.apache.org:
    - 1110 subscribers (up 8 in the last 3 months):
    - 700 emails sent to list (630 in previous quarter)

 - dev@cloudstack.apache.org:
    - 722 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
    - 728 emails sent to list (483 in previous quarter)

 - announce@cloudstack.apache.org:
    - 524 subscribers (up 9 in the last 3 months):
    - 0 emails sent to list (0 in previous quarter)

 - issues@cloudstack.apache.org:
    - 236 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
    - 5349 emails sent to list (2034 in previous quarter)

 - marketing@cloudstack.apache.org:
    - 238 subscribers (up 3 in the last 3 months):
    - 9 emails sent to list (11 in previous quarter)

 - press@cloudstack.apache.org:
    - 13 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months)


## JIRA activity:

 - 133 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
 - 168 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months

## Social Media
  At 12th March 2018:
  - The CloudStack Twitter (@cloudstack) account has 34,800 followers (+"00 since last report)
  - The Github mirror of CloudStack repository has 548 stars (+37) and 608 forks (+2)

20 Dec 2017 [Wido den Hollander / Bertrand]

## Description:
  Apache CloudStack (ACS) is an IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) cloud
  orchestration platform.  ACS manages many types of hypervisors, storage
  and networking devices.

## Issues:
   There are a few outstanding trademark issues:

   [1] http://www.cloudstackservices.com/
   [2] http://cloudstacksolutions.com
   [3] http://cloudstack.co.uk/


   [1],[2] were rasied by Rafael Weingärtner in Sept 17
   [3] was raised by Giles Sirett in March 2017


   After the PMC took action it was escalated to trademarks@ but no follow-up was
   detected by the PMC.

   These infringements still exist

## Activity:
   No new release since the last report. The project is busy with gearing up for the 4.11
   release which is scheduled for Q1 2018

## Health report:
   The project has a Release Manager for the 4.11 release (Rohit Yadav)

   A user group meeting was held in Germany in November

   The project is also talking about a Conference again in 2018. Location is not known yet

## PMC changes:

 - Currently 47 PMC members.
 - Syed Ahmed was added to the PMC on Mon Oct 09 2017

## Committer base changes:

   Rohit Yadav is a false positive as his username/Apache ID was renamed recently

 - Currently 116 committers.
 - New commmitters:
    - Frank Maximus was added as a committer on Thu Oct 12 2017
    - Gabriel Beims Bräscher was added as a committer on Wed Nov 15 2017
    - Marc-Aurèle Brothier was added as a committer on Fri Sep 22 2017
    - Nathan Johnson was added as a committer on Fri Sep 22 2017
    - Rohit Yadav was added as a committer on Wed Dec 06 2017

## Releases:

 - Release 4.10.0 on Fri Sep 1 2017
 - Release 4.9.3.0 on Tue Sep 12 2017

## Mailing list activity:

 - users@cloudstack.apache.org:
    - 1103 subscribers (down -5 in the last 3 months):
    - 644 emails sent to list (502 in previous quarter)

 - dev@cloudstack.apache.org:
    - 724 subscribers (down -14 in the last 3 months):
    - 514 emails sent to list (485 in previous quarter)

 - announce@cloudstack.apache.org:
    - 516 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months):
    - 0 emails sent to list (0 in previous quarter)

 - issues@cloudstack.apache.org:
    - 238 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
    - 2246 emails sent to list (675 in previous quarter)

 - marketing@cloudstack.apache.org:
    - 235 subscribers (down -2 in the last 3 months):
    - 11 emails sent to list (17 in previous quarter)

 - press@cloudstack.apache.org:
    - 13 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months)


## JIRA activity:

 - 112 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
 - 44 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months

## Social Media
  At 12th December 2017:
  - The CloudStack Twitter (@cloudstack) account has 34,500 followers (+400 since last report)
  - The Github mirror of CloudStack repository has 511 stars (+25) and 606 forks (+16)

20 Sep 2017 [Wido den Hollander / Brett]

## Description: Apache CloudStack (ACS) is an IaaS (Infrastructure as a
Service) cloud orchestration platform. ACS manages many types of hypervisors,
storage and networking devices.

## Issues: there are no issues requiring board attention at this time

## Activity: With project has released version 4.9.3 (LTS) and 4.10 since the
last report.

At 12th September 2017:
- The CloudStack Twitter (@cloudstack) account has 34,100 followers
- The Github mirror of CloudStack repository has 486 stars and 590 forks

## Health report:
Inside the project a discussion is going on if and how the project needs to
attract additional committers.

Is more diversity needed? Can you nominate or vote for a person working at the
same company? These are questions we are trying to answer.

## PMC changes:

- Currently 46 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Rene Moser on Mon Mar 27 2017

## Committer base changes:

- Currently 112 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Nicolás Vázquez at Fri Nov 25 2016

## Releases:
- Release 4.10.0 on Fri Sep 1 2017
- Release 4.9.3.0 on Tue Sep 12 2017

## Mailing list activity:

- users@cloudstack.apache.org:
- 1109 subscribers (down -3 in the last 3 months):
- 555 emails sent to list (471 in previous quarter)

- dev@cloudstack.apache.org:
- 738 subscribers (down -2 in the last 3 months):
- 495 emails sent to list (2067 in previous quarter)

- announce@cloudstack.apache.org:
- 514 subscribers (up 14 in the last 3 months):
- 0 emails sent to list (0 in previous quarter)

- issues@cloudstack.apache.org:
- 239 subscribers (up 5 in the last 3 months):
- 687 emails sent to list (1767 in previous quarter)

- marketing@cloudstack.apache.org:
- 237 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months):
- 21 emails sent to list (10 in previous quarter)

- press@cloudstack.apache.org:
- 14 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months)

## JIRA activity:

- 117 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 55 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months

21 Jun 2017 [Wido den Hollander / Shane]

## Description:
   Apache CloudStack (ACS) is an IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) cloud
   orchestration platform.  ACS manages many types of hypervisors, storage
   and networking devices.

## Issues:
   there are no issues requiring board attention at this time

## Activity:
 - CloudStack is now using Apache Gitbox to host the Git repositories on
   Github. Committers seem very happy with easier merging of PRs and the ability
   to add milestones and labels to PRs

## Health report:
 - Release 4.10 is currently in RC5 which has one blocker. Project is working hard
   on releasing 4.10 since there are a lot of open PRs for 4.11 which are waiting to
   be merged.

 - Apache Con / CloudStack Conference took place in Miami in May and was a succes.
   Lot's of committers showed up and participated in discussions and presented talks

## PMC changes:

 - Currently 46 PMC members.
 - New PMC members:
    - Rene Moser was added to the PMC on Mon Mar 27 2017
    - Wei Zhou was added to the PMC on Mon Mar 27 2017

## Committer base changes:

 - Currently 112 committers.
 - No new committers added in the last 3 months
 - Last committer addition was Nicolás Vázquez at Fri Nov 25 2016

## Releases:

 - Last release was 4.9.2.0 on Thu Jan 05 2017
 - Last release was 4.8.1 on Mon Aug 15 2016

## Mailing list activity:

 - TODO Please explain what the following statistics mean
   for the project. If there is nothing significant in the figures, omit this
   section.

 - users@cloudstack.apache.org:
    - 1112 subscribers (down -3 in the last 3 months):
    - 482 emails sent to list (523 in previous quarter)

 - dev@cloudstack.apache.org:
    - 740 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
    - 2094 emails sent to list (4186 in previous quarter)

 - announce@cloudstack.apache.org:
    - 500 subscribers (up 10 in the last 3 months):
    - 0 emails sent to list (0 in previous quarter)

 - issues@cloudstack.apache.org:
    - 234 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
    - 1800 emails sent to list (4038 in previous quarter)

 - marketing@cloudstack.apache.org:
    - 235 subscribers (down -2 in the last 3 months):
    - 10 emails sent to list (51 in previous quarter)

 - press@cloudstack.apache.org:
    - 13 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months)


## JIRA activity:

 - 125 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
 - 102 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months

15 Mar 2017 [Wido den Hollander / Bertrand]

## Description:

   Apache CloudStack (ACS) is an IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) cloud
   orchestration platform.  ACS manages many types of hypervisors, storage
   and networking devices.

## Issues:

 - Project is still waiting to participate in the 'Github as Master' Beta
   to provide the project access to Github features (CI, labels) without
   being an anomaly in what Apache is supporting.

## Activity:

 - Project is preparing for a good presence at ApacheCon USA in Miami
 - Working hard on getting stable releases out
 - Still figuring out how to further automate testing of CloudStack
 - In both the 4.8 and 4.9 series releases were made in the last few months
   and the first VOTE round for 4.10 failed, but RC2 will be voted on next
   week

## Health report:

 - Project is healthy. Lots of commits coming in and releases being prepared
 - Discussions inside the PMC about new potential committers
 - Main focus is still stability. Quality over quantity

## PMC changes:

 - Wido den Hollander (widodh) is the new VP for the project
 - Currently 44 PMC members.
 - New PMC members:
    - Paul Angus was added to the PMC on Fri Jan 13 2017
    - Simon Weller was added to the PMC on Fri Jan 13 2017

## Committer base changes:

 - Currently 112 committers.
 - No new committers added in the last 3 months
 - Last committer addition was Nicolás Vázquez at Fri Nov 25 2016

## Releases:

 - Last release was 4.9.2.0 on Thu Jan 05 2017

## Mailing list activity:

 - users@cloudstack.apache.org:
    - 1115 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months):
    - 554 emails sent to list (726 in previous quarter)

 - dev@cloudstack.apache.org:
    - 740 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
    - 4696 emails sent to list (3985 in previous quarter)

 - announce@cloudstack.apache.org:
    - 487 subscribers (up 11 in the last 3 months):
    - 0 emails sent to list (2 in previous quarter)

 - issues@cloudstack.apache.org:
    - 234 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months):
    - 4565 emails sent to list (3248 in previous quarter)

 - marketing@cloudstack.apache.org:
    - 233 subscribers (down -2 in the last 3 months):
    - 54 emails sent to list (38 in previous quarter)

 - press@cloudstack.apache.org:
    - 13 subscribers (down -2 in the last 3 months)

## JIRA activity:

 - 168 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
 - 342 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months

27 Feb 2017

Change the Apache CloudStack Project Chair

 WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Will Stevens
 (swill) to the office of Vice President, Apache CloudStack, and

 WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation
 of Will Stevens from the office of Vice President, Apache CloudStack,
 and

 WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache CloudStack
 project has chosen by vote to recommend Wido den Hollander (widodh)
 as the successor to the post;

 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Will Stevens is relieved and
 discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office
 of Vice President, Apache CloudStack, and

 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Wido den Hollander be and hereby is
 appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache CloudStack, 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 7F, Change the Apache CloudStack Project Chair,
 was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.

21 Dec 2016 [Will Stevens / Marvin]

## Description:
   Apache CloudStack (ACS) is an IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) cloud
   orchestration platform.  ACS manages many types of hypervisors, storage
   and networking devices.

## Issues:
 - The outstanding JIRA issue [1] has been closed in favor of a different
   resolution.  Instead of moving `apache/cloudstack` to
   `apachecloudstack/cloudstack`, we will likely be participating in the Beta
   of the new Github As Master initiative which Apache is working on.  This
   will give us access to the Github features we are looking for without
   being an anomaly in what Apache is supporting.
 - We are working with the ASF Infra team to finally get access to the racked
   servers which were donated by Citrix to Apache CloudStack for testing.  It
   has been a slow process, but Greg is working with us to finally make these
   resources available to us.

## Activity:
 - ACS is continuing its focus on testing and release tooling.  Our release
   cadence has intentionally slowed in favor of improving test coverage and
   stability of the large number of different deployment scenarios.  The
   developers at ShapeBlue have built and open sourced a tool called Trillian
   which allows us to automate and more accurately test the ACS features in
   many different deployment scenarios.  We have been integrating this tool
   into our development workflow to better validate the impact of proposed
   pull requests and to verify the functionality.
 - We currently have 3 releases which are in the final RC process; 4.10.0,
   4.9.1 and 4.8.2.  Since we have slowed the release cycle a bit in order to
   improve the test coverage and deployment scenarios, these releases are
   quite large.
 - The intentional slowdown in the release cycle is not a reflection of
   inactivity, but instead, more focus on the quality of the releases for all
   the different deployment scenarios ACS is used in.  You will notice that
   the activity on the dev@ list has actually more than doubled since the
   previous quarter.
 - We continue to rely heavily on the features of Github for managing and
   and merging changes into our source tree.  The majority of our
   communication around the code is actually done inline in the proposed pull
   requests as well as in the comments of the pull requests.  We look forward
   to being able to use additional Github features such as `Status` and
   `Labels`, once the new Github As Master program is available, to improve
   our workflow even more.

## Health report:
   The ACS project is very healthy.  We have a lot of activity and recently
   we have been able to focus on some of the challenges facing a project of
   our complexity.  The slowing of the release cycle so we could focus on
   improving the testability and test automation will produce a better
   experience for our users.

## PMC changes:

 - Currently 42 PMC members.
 - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
 - Last PMC addition was Rafael Weingärtner on Sun Apr 24 2016

## Committer base changes:

 - Currently 112 committers.
 - New commmitters:
    - Nicolás Vázquez was added as a committer on Fri Nov 25 2016
    - Sergey Levitskiy was added as a committer on Fri Nov 25 2016
    - Syed Ahmed was added as a committer on Fri Oct 07 2016

## Releases:

 - Last releases were 4.9.0 and 4.8.1 around Aug 15 2016

## Mailing list activity:
   We have had a lot of activity on our mailing lists recently.  You will
   notice that our dev@ list has doubled in activity from our previous
   quarter.  That is partly because the previous quarter was down a bit
   because of an extended code freeze, but in general, the mailing lists have
   been very active.

 - users@cloudstack.apache.org:
    - 1115 subscribers (down -8 in the last 3 months):
    - 743 emails sent to list (639 in previous quarter)

 - dev@cloudstack.apache.org:
    - 740 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
    - 4883 emails sent to list (2342 in previous quarter)

 - announce@cloudstack.apache.org:
    - 476 subscribers (down -7 in the last 3 months):
    - 2 emails sent to list (1 in previous quarter)

 - issues@cloudstack.apache.org:
    - 232 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
    - 4129 emails sent to list (1334 in previous quarter)

 - marketing@cloudstack.apache.org:
    - 235 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months):
    - 41 emails sent to list (84 in previous quarter)

 - press@cloudstack.apache.org:
    - 15 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months)


## JIRA activity:

 - 176 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
 - 40 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months

[1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-12078

21 Sep 2016 [Will Stevens / Greg]

## Description:
   Apache CloudStack (ACS) is an IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) cloud
   orchestration platform.  ACS manages many types of hypervisors, storage
   and networking devices.

## Issues:
 - The PMC currently has a Jira ticket open [1] with Infra to have the Github
   mirror `apache/cloudstack` moved to `apachecloudstack/cloudstack`.
   This initiative was approved in May 2016 and all my attempts to move
   this activity forward have been unsuccessful.  This is a priority
   issue for our project and we need it addressed ASAP with a clear path
   forward.

## Activity:
 - The 4.9.0 and 4.8.1 versions have been released after a bit of a slow
   spring.
 - The release schedule has had quite a bit of work and we have a proposal
   for the release schedule in the works right now [2].  We hope to have a
   more predictable release schedule going forward, so this is a good first
   step.
 - The community/users have been requesting a project feature roadmap, so we
   have started work on it [3].

## Health report:
   The project is healthy.  The mailing list has been active other than a
   small lull while the branches were frozen for stabilizing and releasing
   4.9.0.  In addition to the normal continued development of the project, we
   have been looking into better support the users of the project and
   increase adoption.  Two items which users / potential users have brought
   up as deficiencies is the lack of an LTS release and the lack of a project
   feature roadmap.  We are working to address both of these issues to better
   position the project to potential users.

## PMC changes:

 - Currently 42 PMC members.
 - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
 - Last PMC addition was Rafael Weingärtner on Sun Apr 24 2016

## Committer base changes:

 - Currently 109 committers.
 - No new committers added in the last 3 months
 - Last committer addition was Simon Weller at Tue Apr 26 2016

## Releases:

 - 4.9.0 was released on Fri Aug 12 2016
 - 4.8.1 was released on Mon Aug 15 2016

## Mailing list activity:

 - We had a drop in mailing list participation due to the master branch being
   frozen for an extended period as we got the details of the massive 4.9.0
   release stabilized and shipped.  The mailing list activity picked up to
   its normal rate as soon as the branches were unfrozen.

 - users@cloudstack.apache.org:
    - 1122 subscribers (down -3 in the last 3 months):
    - 693 emails sent to list (932 in previous quarter)

 - dev@cloudstack.apache.org:
    - 737 subscribers (down -4 in the last 3 months):
    - 2527 emails sent to list (6000 in previous quarter)

 - announce@cloudstack.apache.org:
    - 483 subscribers (down -36 in the last 3 months):
    - 1 emails sent to list (0 in previous quarter)

 - issues@cloudstack.apache.org:
    - 230 subscribers (down -2 in the last 3 months):
    - 1460 emails sent to list (3343 in previous quarter)

 - marketing@cloudstack.apache.org:
    - 233 subscribers (down -5 in the last 3 months):
    - 85 emails sent to list (165 in previous quarter)

 - press@cloudstack.apache.org:
    - 14 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months)


## JIRA activity:

 - 83 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
 - 55 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months


[1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-12078
[2] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/%5BPROPOSAL%5D+2016-2017+Release+Cycle+and+Calendar
[3] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/Roadmap

There is concern that approving the Cloudstack PMC request for getting the 'apache/cloudstack' repository moved to 'apachecloudstack/cloudstack' will set a precedent that we don't necessarily want.

@Greg follow up to make sure infra understand exactly what will be done and whether we want to use this as an example of services that infra can support

15 Jun 2016 [Will Stevens / Greg]

## Description:
   Apache CloudStack (ACS) is an IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) cloud
   orchestration platform.  ACS manages many types of hypervisors, storage
   and networking devices.


## Issues:

 - The PMC currently has a Jira ticket open with Infra to have the Github
   mirror `apache/cloudstack` moved to `apachecloudstack/cloudstack`.
 - Once the move described by the above Jira ticket is done, the ACS project
   will be able to better manage the implementation of our CI initiative.


## Activity:

 - We had a slow down in releases in the first half of this year due to not
   having a Release Manager.  We have resolved this and we are actively
   working to get back to a consistent release schedule.
 - A CloudStack Collaboration Conference was held in Montreal from June 1-3.
   The event went very well and the community was engaged and supportive.
   Videos from the event will be published soon so the broader community who
   where not able to attend are able to take advantage of the content.
 - A CloudStack Collaboration Conference is scheduled to be hosted in Brazil
   on Sept 29-30, we are not aware of any ASF conflicts at this time.
 - We are actively reviewing some community contributed artwork for "powered
   by apache cloudstack".  The current "powered by apache" trademark
   templates do not represent our brand very well, so we are reviewing some
   alternatives.  The artwork in question is currently available here:
   [http://poweredbycloudstack.bitcloud.cloud/](http://poweredbycloudstack.bitcloud.cloud/)
 - It still remains to be seen if the Accelerite purchase of CloudPlatform
   from Citrix will impact the ACS community in any way.  We are hopeful that
   the change will enable the CloudPlatform developers to more actively
   collaborate with the ACS project.  We will remain diligent to make sure
   there are no conflicts of interest for the ACS project.
 - The Schuberg Philis fork of Apache CloudStack does not seem to be
   negatively affecting the ACS project in a substantial way.  Their
   developers were very active in our community and the development process,
   so we definitely miss their direct contribution.  They have remained
   relatively active in the community and have been periodically backporting
   bug fixes for our project.
 - We continue to focus on improving the CI workflow and tools available for
   testing the ACS software.  This activity is expected to continue getting a
   lot of focus over the remainder of the year.
 - We are working to make the release cycle less dependant on a single person
   as release manager and are working to add more structure around the
   release process.
 - We are in the early stages of introducing an LTS release of the ACS
   software every 6 months to better address the enterprise use case for our
   software.
 - We are in the early stages of working out how to best publish a roadmap
   for the project and who is working on what.  The lack of a roadmap and
   inconsistency in our release schedule have been hightlighted as a
   potential barriers for adoption of our software, so we are actively
   working to address these areas.


## Health report:

 - Committee Health score: 10.00 (Super Healthy) from reporter.apache.org
 - The community, in general, seems to be in concensus on the different
   topics we need to be focusing on as a project.  Primarily testability and
   CI workflows, and consistency in our release schedule.  The move of our
   `apache/cloudstack` github repository to the `apachecloudstack` github org
   will help us better address these areas, so we are eager for that to take
   place.


## PMC changes:

 - Currently 42 PMC members.
 - Rafael Weingärtner was added to the PMC on Sun Apr 24 2016


## Committer base changes:

 - Currently 109 committers.
 - Simon Weller was added as a committer on Tue Apr 26 2016


## Releases:

 - The 4.9 release is in final preparation for release
 - Security releases 4.5.2.1, 4.6.2.1, 4.7.1.1, 4.8.0.1 on Fri Jun 10 2016
 - Latest release was 4.8.0 on Tue Jan 26 2016
 - Update release was 4.7.1 on Mon Jan 25 2016


## Mailing list activity:

 - The mailing list activity is stable and reflects the healthy project
   status.


## JIRA activity:

 - 103 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
 - 89 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months

18 May 2016

Change the Apache CloudStack Project Chair

 WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Sebastien
 Goasguen (sebgoa) to the office of Vice President, Apache CloudStack,
 and

 WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of
 Sebastien Goasguen from the office of Vice President, Apache
 CloudStack, and

 WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache CloudStack
 project has chosen by vote to recommend Will Stevens (swill) as
 the successor to the post;

 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Sebastien Goasguen is relieved
 and discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of
 Vice President, Apache CloudStack, and

 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Will Stevens be and hereby is appointed
 to the office of Vice President, Apache CloudStack, to serve in
 accordance with and subject to the direction of the Board of Directors
 and the Bylaws of the Foundation until death, resignation, retirement,
 removal or disqualification, or until a successor is appointed.

 Special Order 7D, Change the Apache CloudStack Project Chair,
 was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.

18 May 2016 [Sebastien Goasguen / Brett]

## Objective:
 The purpose of this report is to expedite the process of moving the GitHub
 mirror from `apache/cloudstack` to `apachecloudstack/cloudstack` as per the
 details outlined in this report.  We would like to request that the ASF Board
 consider this report and approve the move.  We would also request that the
 ASF Infra team engage with us and do the actual transfer.

## Description:
 Apache CloudStack (ACS) is an IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) cloud
 orchestration platform.  ACS manages many types of hypervisors, storage and
 networking devices. Due to the infrastructure complexity, testing and
 validating ACS is a time consuming and costly endeavor.  Our community is
 willing to share the labor and costs associated with building distributed and
 automated testing environments, but we are facing many challenges with the
 available automation integration points.

## Issue:
 Apache CloudStack has been making extensive use of GitHub pull requests and
 they have become integral in the development workflow in our community.  The
 ACS GitHub repository is a mirror of the ASF repository, which is used as the
 source of truth for the project code and only committers can contribute to
 the ASF repository.  Currently the ACS GitHub repository is under the
 `apache` GitHub organization.  Unfortunately, due to the lack of permissions
 on specific repositories inside a GitHub organization, no changes can be made
 to a single repository without being applied to all repositories under that
 organization.  This has become a problem for our project because we do not
 have access to features such as being able to Label pull requests or add
 post commit hooks in order to kick off Continuous Integration runs when a
 branch changes, to give a couple examples.

 The ACS PMC has proposed and voted on a resolution to move the ACS GitHub
 mirror out of the `apache` GitHub organization and into the
 `apachecloudstack` GitHub organization.  The commit workflow will not change
 and the ASF git repository will remain the source of truth for the project.
 Both the ASF Infra team and members of the ACS PMC will have ownership rights
 on the `apachecloudstack` GitHub organization.

 There are many motivating factors for this change, a few of which are briefly
 outlined in the following list:
 - The Release Management of the ACS project has been a daunting task due to
   a highly manual process, with very few hooks for support from the greater
   community or through automation.  The RM task is currently a full time job,
   making it difficult to find individuals willing to step up to the RM role.
   This has had a negative impact on our project because periods of time
   without a RM gives the impression that the project is stagnant.
 - The ability to use GitHub Labels will make a huge difference for our
   project by enabling the greater community to help manage the status of
   different pull requests and let the release manager focus more on the PRs
   that are ready.
 - Being able to use the GitHub Status features on pull requests will help us
   better integrate the results from distributed CI runs into the workflow.
 - Being able to setup GitHub Hooks such as the `post-commit-hook` will enable
   us to better automate the distributed hardware CI integrations provided by
   different community members, ensuring the code quality is maintained.
 - The ability to close PRs that are no longer relevant without having to
   track down the author to have them do it will help a lot in making sure the
   PRs that are open are valid.

 This is not an exhaustive list, but a few items which will make a huge impact
 on the sustainability of our project.

 In addition to the details outlined above, moving the GitHub `cloudstack`
 repository to the `apachecloudstack` GitHub organization, enables us to
 consolidate all of the different cloudstack related projects into a single
 organization.  This will enable the community to better organize itself and
 the maintain the other projects or documentation directly related to ACS.

 Here is an incomplete list of projects currently being maintained
 independently which we would like to move into the `apachecloudstack` GitHub
 organization once we have moved the `cloudstack` repository:
 - cloudstack-cloudmonkey
 - cloudstack-www
 - cloudstack-docs
 - cloudstack-docs-install
 - cloudstack-docs-rn
 - cloudstack-docs-admin
 - cloudstack-ec2stack
 - cloudstack-gcsstack

## Progress:
 This initiative has been slowly moving forward over the past few months.
 Here is a breakdown of our current status:
 - All parties are in agreement with the decision to make the move [1][2][3].
 - I have talked to GitHub support about getting the `mirror` setup after the
   move.  They said that a user who has admin access to both organizations can
   email them after the transfer and they will setup the mirror for us.
 - I have setup the `apachecloudstack` GitHub organization.
 - I have added Sam Ruby, Chris Mattmann and David Nalley (as well as some PMC
   members) as owners of the `apachecloudstack` GitHub organization.

## Next Steps:
 We are now at the final steps to get this done.  Here are the remaining tasks
 in order to move this forward.
 - Get a list of the ASF Infra members who should be added to the
   `apachecloudstack` GitHub organization as owners.
 - Do the transfer of the `cloudstack` GitHub repository from the `apache`
   GitHub organization to the `apachecloudstack` GitHub organization.
 - Contact GitHub support to update the mirror so the repository at
   `apachecloudstack/cloudstack` is a mirror of the source of truth ASF git
   repository.

Please feel free to reach out to us on the private@ mailing list if you have any
questions or to work out any other final logistics.

-Will Stevens

[1] http://markmail.org/message/4an7nivshnndo25c?q=list:org%2Eapache%2Eincubator%2Ecloudstack-%2A+apache-cloudstack/cloudstack
[2] http://markmail.org/message/53ct2mma4x4jm6s2?q=list:org%2Eapache%2Eincubator%2Ecloudstack-%2A+External+fork+of+Cloudstack
[3] http://markmail.org/message/2phudhgcjjo236ay?q=list:org%2Eapache%2Eincubator%2Ecloudstack-%2A+External+fork+of+Cloudstack

Board approves pending VP Infra approval

A number of participants on the call provided additional insight on the ASF provenance requirements. Will expressed an interest in working with people on this.

16 Mar 2016 [Sebastien Goasguen / Sam]

## Description:
Apache CloudStack is an IaaS (“Infrastracture as a Service”) cloud
orchestration platform.


## Issues:
- CloudStack community wants to experiment with a pure GitHub approach to our
 version control and CI.
- We took control of https://github.com/cloudstack which we did not own before
 (Github transferred ownership to members of the PMC).
- The PMC seeks guidance from the board on GitHub integration and would like
 to know what the plan and timeline is (if there is one) on operating an ASF
 project out of GitHub.
- The Whimsy experiment on Github appears totally opaque to us and we don’t
 know what the status or plan is.

## Activity:
- Large increase of releases with 4 since December due to a new commit workflow
- CloudStack conference Brazil announced for Sept 29-30, no ASF conflicts as
 we know it.
- Citrix CloudPlatform business was sold to Accelerite, this may impact
 CloudStack
- Schuberg Philis as forked CloudStack (interim report sent to board on
 February 16th) (Annex A).
- Increased focus on CI and investigation of solutions outside of ASF infra.

## Health report:
- Committee Health score: 9.60 (Super Healthy) from reporter.apache.org
- Slight increase of registered participants in all mailing lists
- Slight decrease in number of emails sent on MLs.
- Significant decrease in commits while we searched for a new RM
- Increase in speed of releases as we adopted new workflow

## PMC changes:

- Currently 41 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Erik Weber on Wed Nov 18 2015

## Committer base changes:

- Currently 108 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Rafael Weingärtner at Wed Dec 09 2015

## Releases:

- 4.6.2 was released on Thu Dec 17 2015
- 4.7.0 was released on Thu Dec 17 2015
- 4.7.1 was released on Tue Jan 26 2016
- 4.8.0 was released on Tue Jan 26 2016

## Mailing list activity:

- users@cloudstack.apache.org:
  - 1145 subscribers (up 9 in the last 3 months):
  - 873 emails sent to list (848 in previous quarter)
  - significant decrease in the last week

- dev@cloudstack.apache.org:
  - 763 subscribers (up 13 in the last 3 months):
  - 3996 emails sent to list (6360 in previous quarter)
  - downward trend

## JIRA activity:

- 148 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 72 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months


Annex A
——————

This interim report was sent to the board on February 16th with no response:

Dear Board,

The CloudStack report is not due until next round of reports, but I wanted to
report two partially related items:

1.  Schuberg-Philis a company where a significant number of CloudStack
committers happens to work has forked CloudStack. The fork has received media
attention [3], hence this interim report to let the board know that we are
indeed well aware of the situation.

A detail account of the company’s reasoning is described in [1].  Their fork
is available on Github at [2].

A fork by a company of an ASF software is a non-issue (there are other
cloudstack forks) and our community is very thankful to Schuberg Philis for
many years of strong support, either through community events (organizing and
sponsoring) or through their indirect commitment via committers who happens to
have a $dayjob at Schuberg.

2.  Through private discussions with committers who happen to have a $dayjob
at SBP, our lack of privileges/control on our github mirror has played *some*
role in this fork and created frustration. ( It is not to say that better
github control would have prevented the fork, but it might have allowed us to
resolve short term issues giving us time to work on longer term ones).

There is a risk that similar frustration grows within our community and that
developers accustomed to working on github decide to work directly on the SBP
fork or their own, thereby fragmenting our community.


Actionable items for the board:

We have not heard any reports on the status of Whimsy’s testing of github but
we would welcome being allowed to join any testing phase or if the boards
sides in favor of operating an ASF project directly on Github, we would
quickly vote in our community to decide on such a move.

Best,

[1] https://www.cupfighter.net/2016/01/welcome-mission-critical-cloud
[2] https://github.com/MissionCriticalCloud/cosmic
[3] http://www.networkworld.com/article/3028065/hybrid-cloud/schuberg-philis-forks-cloudstack-what-happens-next.html

@Sam: Get more (actionable) information on github fork

16 Dec 2015 [Sebastien Goasguen / Chris]

## Description:
   Apache CloudStack is an IaaS (“Infrastracture as a Service”) cloud
   orchestration platform.

## Issues:
- Looking closely at the results of the GitHub experiment as CloudStack is
  using github heavily for its contribution including from committers.
- The github discussion is totally opaque to non ASF members
- Still looking for Docker hub integration
- The community will most likely start thinking about releasing official
  binaries
- The community will soon face an issue that we will be able to cut releases
  faster than we can vote, hence a discussion on continuous release will be
  needed.
- There are no other issues requiring board attention at this time

## Activity:
- CloudStack conference was held in Dublin in October collocated with
  Linuxcon/Mesoscon. Event was a success and showed stable community 150
  attendees, great content, solid sponsors.
- CloudStack conference 2016 will be in Sao-Paulo organized by the University
  of Sao Paulo one of the leading users of CloudStack. The community is
  thriving there hence the fous on latin-america.
- New commit workflow is showing its results. 4.6.0 was released in Nov 14
  2015 , 4.6.1 and 4.6.2 (under vote) shortly thereafter. And 4.7.0 is out for
  VOTE with 4 new key features such as Nuage SDN enhancements and quota
  plugin.

## Health report:
 -
- Committee Health score: 10.00 (Super Healthy) from reporter.apache.org
- Participation on mailing lists is stable
- Cycle of releases is increasing

## PMC changes:

 - Currently 40 PMC members.
 - Erik Weber was added to the PMC on Wed Nov 18 2015

## Committer base changes:

 - Currently 108 committers.
 - New commmitters:
    - Boris Schrijver was added as a committer on Fri Nov 06 2015
    - Rafael Weingärtner was added as a committer on Wed Dec 09 2015

## Releases:

 - 4.6.0 was released on Sat Nov 14 2015

## Mailing list activity:

 - users@cloudstack.apache.org:
    - 1138 subscribers (down -15 in the last 3 months):
    - 904 emails sent to list (1086 in previous quarter)

 - dev@cloudstack.apache.org:
    - 747 subscribers (down -16 in the last 3 months):
    - 6844 emails sent to list (4798 in previous quarter)

 - announce@cloudstack.apache.org:
    - 471 subscribers (up 15 in the last 3 months):
    - 0 emails sent to list (0 in previous quarter)

 - issues@cloudstack.apache.org:
    - 226 subscribers (down -5 in the last 3 months):
    - 6004 emails sent to list (3467 in previous quarter)

 - press@cloudstack.apache.org:
    - 14 subscribers (down -2 in the last 3 months)

 - marketing@cloudstack.apache.org:
    - 226 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
    - 108 emails sent to list (62 in previous quarter)


## JIRA activity:

 - 311 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
 - 159 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months

-Sebastien

16 Sep 2015 [Sebastien Goasguen / Chris]

## Description:
 Apache CloudStack is an IaaS (“Infrastracture as a Service”) cloud
 orchestration platform.

## Activity:
- The CloudStack project continues to release new software at a steady pace.
- We have adopted a new commit workflow for our master branch.  Trying to
 stabilize master and make it the releasable branch.  All commits to master
 must now be reviewed and given two LGTM + green Travis tests before being
 merged. While this slows down development, our hope is that it increases
 stability and reduces time between releases.
- EC2stack which went through IP clearance is now going through its first
 release VOTE
- We have added Docker images for our main components
 (simulator, management server, marvin, ec2stack, cloudmonkey)
- We have held two CloudStack day events collocated with Linuxcon, attendance
 has been poor.  CloudStack conference Europe is scheduled for Oct 8-9 in
 Dublin, this is a multi-day event.  It seems that the collocation with
 linuxcon is not providing the cross-pollination hoped for and despite the
 good number of registrations there is a significant number of no shows.

## Health report:
- Committee Health score: 9.60 (Super Healthy) from reporter.apache.org
- Participation on mailing lists is stable
- Participation in CloudStack day events has been poor so far this year
- Cycle of releases is healthy

## Issues:
- A slight note that ASF infra should make sure to pay attention to Docker Hub
 integration and the use of it to house ASF software images.
- The CloudStack “marketing alliance” effort which had been discussed
 at length has stalled with no further discussions.
- There are no other issues requiring board attention at this time

## LDAP committee group/Committership changes:

- Currently 106 committers and 39 LDAP committee group members.
- New LDAP committee group members:
  - Nux was added to the LDAP committee group on Mon Jun 15 2015
  - Wilder Rodrigues was added to the LDAP committee group on Thu Jul 02
    2015
  - Bruno Demion was added to the LDAP committee group on Mon Jun 15 2015
  - Remi Bergsma was added to the LDAP committee group on Tue Aug 11 2015
  - Karen Vuong was added to the LDAP committee group on Thu Jul 02 2015
- Last committer addition was Marco Sinhoreli at Wed May 13 2015

## Releases:

- 4.4.4 was released on Wed Jun 24 2015
- 4.5.2 was released on Tue Aug 25 2015

- CloudMonkey 5.3.2 was released on Thu Aug 27 2015

- EC2stack 0.8.0 was released on Mon Sep 9 2015

- Working on 4.6.0 release with new commit workflow

## Mailing list activity:

- users@cloudstack.apache.org:
  - 1158 subscribers (up 13 in the last 3 months):
  - 1041 emails sent to list (1352 in previous quarter)

- dev@cloudstack.apache.org:
  - 764 subscribers (up 11 in the last 3 months):
  - 4971 emails sent to list (4507 in previous quarter)

- announce@cloudstack.apache.org:
  - 452 subscribers (up 20 in the last 3 months):
  - 0 emails sent to list (0 in previous quarter)

- issues@cloudstack.apache.org:
  - 231 subscribers (down -3 in the last 3 months):
  - 3313 emails sent to list (2488 in previous quarter)

- press@cloudstack.apache.org:
  - 16 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months)

- marketing@cloudstack.apache.org:
  - 225 subscribers (up 5 in the last 3 months):
  - 68 emails sent to list (229 in previous quarter)

## JIRA activity:

- 253 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 163 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months

17 Jun 2015 [Sebastien Goasguen / Sam]

Project health score as reported by reporter.apache.org: 10 (super healthy)

## Description:
   Apache CloudStack is an IaaS (“Infrastracture as a Service”) cloud
   orchestration platform.

## Activity:

Aside from new releases and new committers/PMC members.
The project voted and carried out IP clearance for two software:
-Ec2stack
-Gcestack

They are Amazon AWS EC2 and Google GCE API interfaces to the CloudStack API.

Following this addition, a large portion of code was removed from the current
CloudStack codebase.

A plan for 2015 is now available at:
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/2015+Plan

And a roadmap is being developed at:
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/Roadmap

Two major events occurred this quarter:

* CloudStack Day Austin. ~80 attendees
* CloudStack Day Tokyo. ~100 attendees

## Issues:

there are no issues requiring board attention at this time

## PMC/Committership changes:
- Currently 106 committers and 34 PMC members in the project.
- Rohit Yadav was added to the PMC on Fri Apr 03 2015
- New commmitters:
- Pierre-Yves Ritschard was added as a committer on Tue Mar 31 2015
- Funs Kessen was added as a committer on Tue Apr 14 2015
- Rene Moser was added as a committer on Tue Mar 31 2015
- Marco Sinhoreli was added as a committer on Wed May 13 2015
- Gaurav Nandkumar Aradhye was added as a committer on Fri Apr 17 2015
- Karen Vuong was added as a committer on Tue Mar 10 2015
- Harikrishna Patnala was added as a committer on Mon Mar 09 2015
- Remi Bergsma was added as a committer on Thu Apr 30 2015

## Releases:

- 4.4.3 was released on Fri Mar 20 2015
- 4.5.1 was released on Sun May 10 2015

## Mailing list activity:
- users@cloudstack.apache.org:
 - 1147 subscribers (down -10 in the last 3 months):
 - 1286 emails sent to list (1611 in previous quarter)
- dev@cloudstack.apache.org:
 - 753 subscribers (down -13 in the last 3 months):
 - 4454 emails sent to list (2846 in previous quarter)
- marketing@cloudstack.apache.org:
 - 221 subscribers (up 4 in the last 3 months):
 - 195 emails sent to list (252 in previous quarter)
- announce@cloudstack.apache.org:
 - 433 subscribers (up 35 in the last 3 months):
 - 0 emails sent to list (1 in previous quarter)
- issues@cloudstack.apache.org:
 - 234 subscribers (up 11 in the last 3 months):
 - 2460 emails sent to list (1964 in previous quarter)
- press@cloudstack.apache.org:
 - 16 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months)

## JIRA activity:
- 236 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 364 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months

18 Mar 2015

Change the Apache CloudStack Project Chair

 WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Hugo Trippaers
 to the office of Vice President, Apache CloudStack, and

 WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation
 of Hugo Trippaers from the office of Vice President, Apache CloudStack,
 and

 WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache CloudStack
 project has chosen by vote to recommend Sebastien Goasguen as the
 successor to the post;

 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Hugo Trippaers is relieved and
 discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office
 of Vice President, Apache CloudStack, and

 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Sebastien Goasguen be and hereby is
 appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache CloudStack, to
 serve in accordance with and subject to the direction of the
 Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until
 death, resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification, or
 until a successor is appointed.

 Special Order 7G, Change the Apache CloudStack Project Chair,
 was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.

18 Mar 2015 [Hugo Trippaers / Bertrand]

DESCRIPTION
Apache CloudStack is open source software designed to deploy and manage
large networks of virtual machines, as a highly available, highly scalable
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud computing platform.

ISSUES

The board has a resolution on it's agenda for this meeting to change
the Apache CloudStack PMC chair (special order G).

CURRENT ACTIVITY
* The community is still working on the next major release (4.5.0) of Apache
CloudStack. The fourth release candidate was voted to become the release on
march 5. A critical bug has been identified post release and the community
is working on preparing the 4.5.1 release to address this bug.
* Apache CloudStack CloudMonkey 5.3.1 was released on Mar 4 2015. Apache
CloudStack CloudMonkey is a CLI tool for interacting with Apache
CloudStack and is distributed separate from Apache CloudStack
* The community making steps to structurally improved the development
process with regards to quality insurance. The community has asked a small
group to work on a way of working proposal.
* Two maintenance releases have been done for both the 4.3 and the 4.4
branch.

RELEASES
Apache CloudStack 4.4.2 was released on Dec 10, 2014.
Apache CloudStack 4.3.2 was released on Jan 9, 2015.
Apache CloudStack 4.5.0 was released on Mar 5, 2015.
Apache CloudStack CloudMonkey 5.3.1 was released on Mar 4, 2015

COMMUNITY
Including the following additions, CloudStack has 100 (+4) committers and
33 (+1) PMC members.

New Committers:
Erik Weber (erikw) - Dec 11
Wilder Rodriques (ekho) - Feb 25
Harikrishna Patnala (harikrishna) - Mar 3
Karen Vuong (karenv) - Mar 7

New PMC Members:
Will Stevens (swill) - Feb 17

The Apache CloudStack project is a decent volume community, activity
on the mailing-list has been dropping steadily over the last few months. Current
mailing-list numbers are less than 50% of similar months a year earlier.

dev@ msgs = Dec: 1190, Jan: 796, Feb: 870
users@ msgs = Dec: 570, Jan: 436, Feb: 543
issues@ msgs = Dec: 1131, Jan: 380, Feb: 750
commits@ msgs = Dec: 659, Jan: 519, Feb: 566
marketing@ msgs = Dec: 21, Jan: 92, Feb: 102
users-cn@ msgs = Dec: 97, Jan: 155, Feb: 49

17 Dec 2014 [Hugo Trippaers / Doug]

DESCRIPTION
Apache CloudStack is open source software designed to deploy and manage
large networks of virtual machines, as a highly available, highly scalable
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud computing platform.

ISSUES

CVE-2014-7807: Apache CloudStack unauthenticated LDAP binds, Dec 8 2014

CURRENT ACTIVITY
* The community is working on the next major release (4.5.0) of Apache CloudStack.
The first release candidate is available already.
* Ongoing efforts in fixing bugs and findings from static code analysis
resulted in a number of bug fixes to existing branches.
* Apache CloudStack CloudMonkey 5.3.0 was released on Nov 11 2014. Apache
CloudStack CloudMonkey is a CLI tool for interacting with Apache
CloudStack and is distributed separate from Apache CloudStack
* Apache CloudStack 4.4.1 was released Oct 23 2014. This maintenance release
is followed by a second maintenance release numbered 4.4.2 at Dec 10 2014. Release
4.4.2 fixes the vulnerability reported in CVE-2014-7807
* The community enjoyed a very successful European CloudStack
Collaboration Conference (CCCEU). CCCEU in Budapest. The new format including
a full day single room track and poster sessions seemed to work out well.
* The community is still struggling with way to improve quality and prevent master
from breaking. Multiple efforts including improved automated testing and work flow
enhancements are being executed and/or proposed. There is no clear consensus other
than the generic agreement that the current situation leaves ample room for
improvement.


RELEASES
Apache CloudStack 4.4.1 was released on Oct 23, 2014.
Apache CloudStack 4.4.2 was released on Dec 10, 2014.
Apache CloudStack CloudMonkey 5.3.0 was released on Nov 11, 2014

COMMUNITY
Including the following additions, CloudStack has 96 committers and 32 (+3)
PMC members.

New Committers:
-

New PMC Members:
Ian Duffy (duffy) - Sep 29
Pierre-Luc Dion (pdion891) - Sep 29
Rajani Kuruturi (rajani) - Oct 16

The Apache CloudStack project remains a high volume community:

dev@ msgs = Nov: 1322, Oct: 1054, Sep: 1421
users@ msgs = Nov: 670, Oct: 557, Sep: 481
issues@ msgs = Nov: 1933, Oct: 1011, Sep: 1671
commits@ msgs = Nov: 1039, Oct: 696, Sep: 826
marketing@ msgs = Nov: 70, Oct: 60, Sep:69
users-cn@ msgs = Nov: 120, Oct: 46, Sep: 61

17 Sep 2014 [Hugo Trippaers / Ross]

DESCRIPTION
Apache CloudStack is open source software designed to deploy and manage
large networks of virtual machines, as a highly available, highly scalable
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud computing platform.

ISSUES

None

CURRENT ACTIVITY
* The community is working on maintenance releases for both the 4.3.0 and
 the 4.4.0 releases.
* The agreed release schedule is not met at the moment as we regularly identify
 quality issues in pending releases. This is an ongoing process, but slowly
 we are improving our QA processes and introducing more testing capabilities.
* Apache CloudStack CloudMonkey 5.2.0 was released on Aug 28 2014. Apache
 CloudStack CloudMonkey is a CLI tool for interacting with Apache
 CloudStack and is distributed separate from Apache CloudStack
* Apache CloudStack 4.4.0 was released July 26 2014. Some issues were
 identified with this release after the release. The community decided
 not to market this release to a big audience and work on a maintenance
 release immediately.
* The community is working with The Linux Foundation to prepare
 the second European CloudStack Collaboration Conference
 (CCCEU). CCCEU will planned following ApacheCon in
 Budapest from November 19 till 21. It will have a new format
 which will hopefully engage more users and developers.
* The CloudStack PMC was approached with a request to approve an outside
 organization being formed in order for companies to pool resources together
 to help promote Apache CloudStack. This included a specific request to use
 the term CloudStack within the name of the organization. The PMC voted to
 approve that request, but also consulted trademarks@ to get advice on how to
 handle the situation.
 The response led us to the decision to not formally approve the use of our
 mark, but to point the requester to the ASF's domain name policy.
 As a followup action, the PMC was asked to communicate its general agreement
 to the concept of a trade organization being independently formed to help
 promote our project. The PMC did that via an email to the "parent"
 organization that is currently being considered by these companies as the
 home for the CloudStack Alliance.


RELEASES
Apache CloudStack 4.4.0 was released on July 26, 2014.
Apache CloudStack CloudMonkey 5.2.0 was released on Aug 28, 2014

COMMUNITY
Including the following additions, CloudStack has 96 (+5) committers and
29 (+1) PMC members.

New Committers:
Amogh Vasekar (amoghvk) - May 29
Pierre-Luc Dion	(pdion891) - June 5
Will Stevens (swill) - June 16
Santhosh Edukulla (santhoshedukulla) - June 24
Rajani Karuturi (rajani) - July 17

New PMC Members:
Mark R. Hinkle (mrhinkle) - July 3

The Apache CloudStack project remains a high volume community:

dev@ msgs = Jun: 1852, Jul: 1555, Aug: 1613
users@ msgs = Jun: 663, Jul: 710, Aug: 640
issues@ msgs = Jun: 1386, Jul: 1381, Aug: 1635
commits@ msgs = Jun: 700, Jul: 790, Aug: 808
marketing@ msgs = Jun: 251, Jul: 189, Aug:99
users-cn@ msgs = Jun: 54, Jul: 133, Aug: 73

18 Jun 2014 [Hugo Trippaers / Bertrand]

DESCRIPTION
Apache CloudStack is open source software designed to deploy and manage
large networks of virtual machines, as a highly available, highly scalable
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud computing platform.

ISSUES

None

CURRENT ACTIVITY
* The community is working on the CloudStack 4.4.0 release. In the original
 planning the release should have been pushed out already. The delay is
 caused by testers identifying multiple blocking issues.
* Apache CloudStack CloudMonkey 5.1.0 was released on May 16 2014. Apache
 CloudStack CloudMonkey is a CLI tool for interacting with Apache
 CloudStack and is distributed separate from Apache CloudStack
* The community is working with The Linux Foundation to setup
 the second European CloudStack Collaboration Conference
 (CCCEU). CCCEU will planned following ApacheCon in
 Budapest from November 19 till 21.
* The Japanese user group is sending activity reports to the
 mailing-list. This gives the non-Japanese part of the community an
 insight on what they are doing and promotes cooperation worldwide
 across language barriers.
* Our change in documentation format seems to have significantly
 improved the workflow for contributions, and we are now seeing an
 increase in the overall diversity and amount of doc contributions.
* The Apache CloudStack PMC has voted in favor of licensing
 our marks to an external organization dedicated to promoting the
 Apache CloudStack project and ecosystem. We have forwarded the request
 for legal support in the drafting of a licensing agreement to VP Brand
 Management.
* The decision above is meant as a complement to foundation and
 project-level awareness efforts. Several members of the PMC had a call
 with Sally on Thursday, May 1st, to ensure that she had the necessary
 background to help with a marketing strategy for the project. We are
 looking forward to the next steps with Sally on this front.
* During ApacheCon, the project had engaged with the Infra team regarding
 our infrastructure needs for a build environment independent from a
 single vendor. Since that time, several members of the PMC has been
 working to pull together a specific proposal to share with Infra. At
 this point in time, we are still collating quotes and designs into a
 meaningful proposal.

RELEASES
Apache CloudStack 4.3.0 was released on March 25, 2014.
Apache CloudStack CloudMonkey 5.1.0 was released on May 16, 2014

COMMUNITY
Including the following additions, CloudStack has 91 (+5) committers and
28 (+2) PMC members.

New Committers:
Demetrius Tsitrelis (demetriust)- April 1
Lucian Paul (nux) - April 7
Paul Angus (paul_a) - April 12
Yoshikazu Nojima (ynojima) - April 19
Saksham Srivastava (saksham) - May 29

New PMC Members:
Alena Prokharchyk (alena1108) - April 22
Go Chiba (gochiba) - April 22

The Apache CloudStack project remains a high volume community:

dev@ 761 729(+32) subs / msgs = Mar: 2262, Apr: 1772, May: 1734
users@ 1042(-59) subs / msgs = Mar: 668, Apr: 871, May: 597
issues@ 192(+15) subs / msgs = Mar: 894, Apr: 1312, May: 1692
commits@ 202(+8) subs / msgs = Mar: 1782, Apr: 809, May: 901
marketing@ 178(+15) subs / msgs = Mar: 31, Apr: 129, May: 109
users-cn@ 508(+40) subs / msgs = Mar: 415, Apr: 150, May: 137

16 Apr 2014 [Hugo Trippaers / Brett]

DESCRIPTION
Apache CloudStack is open source software designed to deploy and
manage large networks of virtual machines, as a highly available,
highly scalable Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud computing
platform.

CURRENT ACTIVITY

As this is an out of cycle report, and we just reported last month,
this report does not include all of the typical elements.

The CloudStack community has just held its Collaboration Conference
in Denver, and would like to report that the event was a success. The
fact that it was co-located with ApacheCon for the first time was a
significant improvement on past events. Primarily, this is because it
offered an opportunity for the CloudStack community to better
integrate into the larger ASF family (and for ASF community members to
learn more about CloudStack). We would like to thank the board, the
executive officers and specifically Rich for his support.

19 Mar 2014

Change the Apache CloudStack Project Chair

 WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Chip Childers
 to the office of Vice President, Apache CloudStack, and

 WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of
 Chip Childers from the office of Vice President, Apache CloudStack,
 and

 WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache CloudStack
 project has chosen by vote to recommend Hugo Trippaers as the
 successor to the post;

 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Chip Childers is relieved and
 discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice
 President, Apache CloudStack, and

 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Hugo Trippaers be and hereby is
 appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache CloudStack, to serve
 in accordance with and subject to the direction of the Board of
 Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until death, resignation,
 retirement, removal or disqualification, or until a successor is
 appointed.

 Special Order 7B, Change the Apache CloudStack Project Chair,
 was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.

19 Mar 2014 [Chip Childers / Roy]

DESCRIPTION
Apache CloudStack is open source software designed to deploy and manage
large networks of virtual machines, as a highly available, highly scalable
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud computing platform.

ISSUES

The board has a resolution on it's agenda for this meeting to change
the Apache CloudStack PMC chair (special order B).

CURRENT ACTIVITY
* The community is finalizing our Apache CloudStack 4.3.0 release. This
 release was delayed from the community's initial target for a release date,
 due to an issue with how we were treating a specific dependency during the
 default build of the software. This issue was identified by the PMC and has
 been resolved. We are actively testing our latest RC now.
* The project was informed that the Citrix-hosted realhostip.com DNS resolver
 service will be going offline this summer. It is currently used by
 CloudStack installations as a default installation configuration option.
 Best practice for production installations include changing this to a
 local solution, however we are aware that many installations do not make
 this change. We will be informing our user community of this news during
 our 4.3.0 release announcement, and have already committed a patch that
 removes the need for this external service from 4.3.0 onward.
* The project is about to go into feature freeze for Apache CloudStack 4.4.0.
* The documentation has made the proposed transition from the publican
 docbook format to .rst format. It is too early to tell if this had the
 desired effect on lowering the barriers for user contributions.
* The community is working with TLF to organize the upcoming CCC14NA
 conference in Denver, with the event obviously being co-located with
 ApacheCon NA.

RELEASES
Apache CloudStack 4.2.1 was released on January 10, 2014.

COMMUNITY
Including the following additions, CloudStack has 86 committers and 26 PMC
members.

New Committers:
Sanjay Tripathi (sanjaytripathi) - Jan 9
Mark Hinkle (mrhinkle) - Jan 24
Chris Suich (csuich2) - Feb 6

New PMC Members:
Giles Sirret (giles) - Jan 21
Mike Tutkowski (mtutkowski) - Feb 4

The Apache CloudStack project remains a high volume community:

dev@ 761 729(+32) subs / msgs = Dec: 1298, Jan: 1977, Feb: 1691
users@ 1042(-59) subs / msgs = Dec: 514, Jan: 516, Feb: 474
issues@ 192(+15) subs / msgs = Dec: 3028, Jan: 2607, Feb: 943
commits@ 202(+8) subs / msgs = Dec: 1023, Jan: 1311, Feb: 884
marketing@ 178(+15) subs / msgs = Dec: 63, Jan: 91, Feb: 18
users-cn@ 508(+40) subs / msgs = Dec: 83, Jan: 64, Feb: 38

18 Dec 2013 [Chip Childers / Roy]

DESCRIPTION

Apache CloudStack is open source software designed to deploy and manage
large networks of virtual machines, as a highly available, highly
scalable Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud computing platform.

ISSUES

No issues for the board at this time.

CURRENT ACTIVITY

* The community is actively working on both Apache CloudStack 4.3.0
 (feature release) and Apache CloudStack 4.2.1 (bug fix release).

* The project accepted a donation of a plugin for CloudStack to orchestrate
 networks provided by the OpenContrail software from Juniper Networks.

* A large number of new features, integrations and bug fixes continue to be
 committed to the repository, so we remain a healthy and growing project.

* The community participated actively in the CloudStack Collaboration Conference
 EU in Amsterdam in early November. The event was quite successful, both in terms
 of drawing in new members to our community, as well as providing an opportunity
 for the Apache CloudStack community to work with a number of other projects
 (notably Apache Libcloud and Gluster). Close to 400 people attended the event.

* We have broken out our CLI tool, CloudMonkey, from the main CloudStack git
 repository, and we have made our first release of that software in September.

* We have broken the product documentation out from the main source code repository,
 with the specific intent of being able to have the documentation release /
 publishing process be faster and easier than the code itself.  There is also
 a proposal being discussed to change from the publican docbook format to .rst
 format in the hope that this will lower the barriers for user contributions.

RELEASES
* Apache CloudStack CloudMonkey 5.0.0 was released on September 24, 2013
* Apache CloudStack 4.2.0 was released on October 1, 2013.

COMMUNITY

Including the following additions, CloudStack has 83 committers and 24 PMC members.

New Committers:
* Nguyen Anh Tu (tuna)
* Sowmya Krishnan (sowmya)
* Sanjeev Neelarapu (sanjeev)
* Srikanteswararao Talluri (talluri)
* Girish Shilamkar (girish)
* Giles Sirett (giles)

New PMC Members:
* Daan Hoogland (dahn)
* Animesh Chaturvedi (animesh)

Brett Porter had decided to leave the PMC during this quarter.

The Apache CloudStack project remains a high volume community:
* dev@ 729(+55) subs / msgs = Sep: 2072, Oct: 2272, Nov: 1520
* users@ 1101(+163) subs / msgs = Sep: 742, Oct: 937, Nov: 750
* issues@ 177(+30) subs / msgs = Sep: 1419, Oct: 2423, Nov: 1987
* commits@ 194(+13) subs / msgs = Sep: 1314, Oct: 1873, Nov: 1510
* marketing@ 163(+30) subs / msgs = Sep: 141, Oct: 108, Nov: 201
* users-cn@ 468(+45) subs / msgs = Sep: 169, Oct: 122, Nov: 268

18 Sep 2013 [Chip Childers / Jim]

DESCRIPTION

Apache CloudStack is open source software designed to deploy and manage
large networks of virtual machines, as a highly available, highly
scalable Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud computing platform.

ISSUES

CURRENT ACTIVITY

* The community continues to work on new features, continued architectural
 improvements and bug fixes. Most focus has been on our 4.2.0 release.

* Due to the high volume of emails on both dev@ and users@, Daan (dahn) has
 been providing the dev@ list with a responsiveness report listing questions
 that are unanswered (helping get them answered).

* The community participated actively in the CloudStack Collaboration Conference
 in Santa Clara in June. A second collaboration conference is scheduled for Nov
 in Amsterdam (this has been shared with trademarks@), and the planning includes
 many PMC members, committers and community members.

* Our community goal of having "time-based" feature releases continues to be
 challenging, due to the level of testing required to ensure that we are not
 introducing regressions into the software. Automated testing has continued to
 improve, but the community is also discussing how infrastructure changes could
 help manage the code quality with such a high rate of change.

* We have broken out our CLI tool, CloudMonkey, from the main CloudStack git
 repository, and will be working toward independent releases of that software.

* We are discussing breaking the product's documentation out into it's own
 repository, as well as potentially changing the format of the documentation
 source as a potential way to reduce the learning curve for new documentation
 contributors.

RELEASES
* 4.1.1 was released on August 6, 2013.
* 4.2.0 has passed the vote, and will be announced shortly.

COMMUNITY

Including the following additions, CloudStack has 74 committers and 23 PMC members.

New Committers:
* Jayapal Reddy Uradi (jayapal)
* Mike Tutkowski (mtutkowski)
* Toshiaki Hatano (haeena)
* Kirk Kosinski (kirk)
* Venkata Siva Vijayendra Bhamidipati (vijayendrabvs)
* Dave Cahill (dcahill)
* Daan Hoogland (dahn)
* Ian Duffy (duffy)

New PMC Members:
* Ilya Muyasev (ilya)

The Apache CloudStack project remains a high volume community:
* dev@ 674(+58) subs / msgs = Jun: 2192, Jul: 2865, Aug: 2362
* users@ 938(+115) subs / msgs = Jun: 737, Jul: 1262, Aug: 1200
* issues@ 147(+26) subs / msgs = Jun: 3325, Jul: 7065, Aug: 7666
* commits@ 181(+14) subs / msgs = Jun: 2304, Jul: 2883, Aug: 2147
* marketing@ 133(+34) subs / msgs = Jun: 233, Jul: 140, Aug: 109
* users-cn@ 423(+123) subs / msgs = Jun: 232, Jul: 181, Aug: 259

19 Jun 2013 [Chip Childers / Shane]

DESCRIPTION

Apache CloudStack is open source software designed to deploy and manage
large networks of virtual machines, as a highly available, highly
scalable Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud computing platform.

RELEASES
* 4.1.0 was released on June 4, 2013.
* 4.1.1 and 4.2.0 are in progress.

CURRENT ACTIVITY

* The schedule for 4.2.0 was modified after a rather long debate about
 schedules that culminated in a committer VOTE thread. Features
 continued to be reviewed and merged into master in anticipation of a
 4.2.0 branch being cut.
* Following our 4.1.0 release, Ilya has stepped up to be the release
 manager for 4.1.x bug-fix releases.
* The CloudStack security team has been formed, and our reporting
 instructions have been posted to
 http://cloudstack.apache.org/security.html (and linked from the
 ASF-wide security page, as requested after last month's board report).
* The community is conducting a user survey, in an attempt to gather
 some statistics about our install base.
* Very active discussions are happening around three different (but
 related) storage framework features, aiming at a consistent set of
 architectural changes between the features.
* The community continues to prepare for our CloudStack Collaboration
 Conference, to be held June 23 through 25.
* The GSOC students and mentors have begun to actively engage with each
 other (and the rest of the community).

COMMUNITY

Including the following additions, CloudStack has 67 committers and
22 PMC members.

New Committers:
* Sangeetha Hariharan (sangeethah)
* Phong Nguyen (pnguyen)
* Devdeep Singh (devdeep)
* Sailaja Mada (sailajamada)
* Venkata Swamy (swamy)
* Wei Zhou (weizhou)

New PMC Members:
* John Burwell (jburwell)

The Apache CloudStack project remains a high volume community:
* dev@ 616 subs / 2494 msgs in May
* users@ 823 subs / 583 msgs in May
* issues@ 121 subs / 3015 msgs in May
* commits@ 166 subs / 4627 msgs in May
* marketing@ 99 subs / 336 msg in May
* users-cn@ ~300 subs / 219 msgs in May

ISSUES

No issues for the board at this time.

15 May 2013 [Chip Childers / Rich]

DESCRIPTION

Apache CloudStack is open source software designed to deploy and manage
large networks of virtual machines, as a highly available, highly
scalable Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud computing platform.

RELEASES
* 4.0.2 was released on April 24, 2013
** CVE-2013-2756 and CVE-2013-2758 were addressed in the 4.0.2 release
* The community is still finalizing our 4.1.0 release.

CURRENT ACTIVITY

* The 4.1.0 release has been slow in getting finalized, due to upgrade
 bugs from older (2.x) versions of the software. Issues with the
 upgrade path is actually helping to inspire some new contributors to
 engage with the project.
* New features continuing to merge into master for an eventual 4.2.0
 release, and a schedule has been set for that release.
* There has been an increase in commits, merge requests and patch
 requests that include the test automation requested by the community.
* The community is working on plans for the upcoming CloudStack
 Collaboration Conference (June).
* Seven GSOC proposals have been seen on the dev@ list, and we are
 working to help the proposers in refining their understanding of the
 projects.
* The project has created a security@ list for use in coordinating
 security vulnerabilities and is working to refine it's security report
 handling processes.

COMMUNITY

Including the following additions, CloudStack has 61 committers and 21
PMC members.

New Committers added in April:
* Bruno Demion
* Go Chiba
* Clayton Weise
* Isaac Chiang
* Phong Nguyen

New PMC Members added in April:
* Prasanna Santhanam

The Apache CloudStack project remains a high volume community:
* dev@ 609 subs / ~2600 msgs in Apr
* users@ 782 subs / ~800 msgs in Apr
* issues@ 109 subs / ~2400 msgs in Apr
* commits@ 166 subs / ~3300 msgs in Apr
* marketing@ 85 subs / ~260 msg in Apr
* users-cn@ ~300 subs / ~260 msgs in Apr

ISSUES

AI: Rich to follow up on the security list

17 Apr 2013 [Chip Childers / Greg]

Apache CloudStack is open source software designed to deploy and manage
large networks of virtual machines, as a highly available, highly
scalable Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud computing platform.

RELEASES

* The last release of Apache CloudStack was 4.0.1-incubating (Feb 12, 2013)
* The community is currently finalizing two new releases: 4.0.2 and 4.1.0

CURRENT ACTIVITY

Our graduation checklist is mostly complete, pending some final resource
transfers from Citrix to the ASF. We had positive press coverage of the
graduation announcement (examples: [http://s.apache.org/csgradpress]).
Special thanks to infra@ for their rapid response to our graduation
related change requests and press@ for the release announcement
support.

* New features continuing to merge into master for our 4.2.0 release.

* Post 4.1.0, the community plans to begin outreach to various Linux
distros for official packaging.

* Improved automated unit and integration test coverage is a major area
of community focus.

* Lots of marketing related activity is in progress this month (website
redesign, CloudStack University initiative, community member talk
submissions)

COMMUNITY

Five new committers were added to the project since graduating:

* Hiroaki Kawai
* Ahmad Emneina
* Geoff Higginbottom
* Animesh Chaturvedi
* Ilya Musayev

The Apache CloudStack project remains a high volume community:
* dev@ 566 subs / ~2000-3000 msg/month
* users@ 732 subs / ~800 msg/month
* issues@ 93 subs / ~3400 msgs in Mar
* commits@ 163 subs / >2500 msg/month
* marketing@ 79 subs / ~460 msg in Mar
* users-cn@ 279 subs / ~140 msgs in Mar

ISSUES

* The community is currently working to improve the way that individuals
that happen to be managers of other community members interact with the
community as a whole, ensuring that there is plenty of opportunity for
managers to help support the project in an employer agnostic way. No
board action is requested for this issue at this time.

20 Mar 2013

Establish the Apache CloudStack Project

 WHEREAS, the Board of Directors deems it to be in the best interests
 of the Foundation and consistent with the Foundation's purpose to
 establish a Project Management Committee charged with the creation
 and maintenance of open-source software, for distribution at no
 charge to the public, related to providing and supporting
 Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud computing platforms.

 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management Committee
 (PMC), to be known as the "Apache CloudStack Project", be and hereby
 is established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation; and be it
 further

 RESOLVED, that the Apache CloudStack Project be and hereby is
 responsible for the creation and maintenance of software related to
 providing and  supporting Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud
 computing platforms.

 RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache CloudStack" 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
 CloudStack Project, and to have primary responsibility for
 management of the projects within the scope of responsibility of the
 Apache CloudStack 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
 CloudStack Project:

     * Joe Brockmeier <jzb@apache.org>
     * Will Chan <willchan@apache.org>
     * Chip Childers <chipchilders@apache.org>
     * Mohammad Nour El-Din <mnour@apache.org>
     * Sebastien Goasguen <sebgoa@apache.org>
     * Matt Richard Hogstrom <hogstrom@apache.org>
     * Wido den Hollander <widodh@apache.org>
     * Alex Huang <ahuang@apache.org>
     * Jim Jagielski <jim@apache.org>
     * Alex Karasulu <akarasulu@apache.org>
     * John Kinsella <jlk@apache.org>
     * Kevin Kluge <kluge@apache.org>
     * Olivier Lamy <olamy@apache.org>
     * David Nalley <ke4qqq@apache.org>
     * Brett Porter <brett@apache.org>
     * Noah Slater <nslater@apache.org>
     * Marcus Sorensen <mlsorensen@apache.org>
     * Edison Su <edison@apache.org>
     * Hugo Trippaers <hugo@apache.org>
     * Chiradeep Vittal <chiradeep@apache.org>

 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Chip Childers be
 appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache CloudStack, 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 CloudStack 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
 CloudStack Project; and be it further

 RESOLVED, that the Apache CloudStack Project be and hereby is tasked
 with the migration and rationalization of the Apache Incubator
 CloudStack podling; and be it further

 RESOLVED, that all responsibilities pertaining to the Apache
 Incubator CloudStack podling encumbered upon the Apache Incubator
 Project are hereafter discharged.

 Special Order 7D, Establish the Apache CloudStack Project, was
 approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors voting. Bertrand
 did not vote.

16 Jan 2013

CloudStack is an IaaS (“Infrastructure as a Service”) cloud orchestration
platform.

CloudStack has been incubating since 2012-04-16.

A list of the three most important issues to address in the move towards
graduation

 1. Continuing to build the community and increase diversity, while
    effectively managing the overall scale of the project.
 2. Ensuring all deliberation, decision-making, and development is
    happening openly and collaboratively.
 3. Transfer trademark, etc. to Apache

Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?

 No issues at this time

How has the community developed since the last report?

 We have noticed a trend of features for CloudStack being developed
 outside of the Apache CloudStack community and "thrown over the
 wall." We are identifying features that may not have been developed
 appropriately and requiring contributors to either demonstrate that
 they have been discussed and developed in the open, or requiring IP
 clearance for those features. We have also opened discussion about
 this on the -dev mailing list and ensuring that committers
 understand the obligations to development in the open.

 The project has continuted to grow and has added several new PPMC
 members and committers since October:

 - Edison Su, Alex Huang, Hugo Trippaers, Chiradeep Vittal, and
   Joe Brockmeier have joined the PPMC since October.

 - Rohit Yadav, Marcus Sorensen, Gavin Lee, Sudha Ponnaganti, Kelcey
   Damage, Min Chen, and Sebastien Goasguen have become committers.

 Members of the CloudStack community have been active in promoting the
 project since the last report, with members giving talks about Apache
 CloudStack at USENIX LISA, CPOSC, ApacheCon EU, LinuxCon EU, and other
 events.

 The CloudStack Collaboration Conference (sponsored primarily by
 Citrix) was a fairly successful first conference. More than 300
 people attended the event, held November 30 - December 2 in Las
 Vegas at The Venetian.

How has the project developed since the last report?

 The first release, 4.0.0-incubating, was announced on November 6th.

 The CloudStack.org domain now points to Apache infrastructure.

 4.0.1 and 4.1.0 are currently in development. The community has
 decided to work on a time-based release cycle for feature releases,
 with 4.1.0 expected at the beginning of April. Feature releases will
 follow a four-month cycle thereafter.

Signed-off-by:
Jim Jagielski: [ ](cloudstack)
J. Daniel Kulp: [ ](cloudstack)
Alex Karasulu: [ ](cloudstack)
Olivier Lamy: [ ](cloudstack)
Brett Porter: [ ](cloudstack)
Matt Hogstrom: [ ](cloudstack)
Mohammad Nour El-Din: [X](cloudstack)


Shepherd notes:
 Looks great! Progress is still needed on the mentioned issues,
 but there seem to be no major, insurmountable obstacles on the
 way to graduation.

17 Oct 2012

CloudStack is an IaaS (“Infrastracture as a Service”) cloud orchestration
platform. CloudStack has been in incubation since 2012-04-16

A list of the three most important issues to address in the move towards
graduation

 1. Continuing to build the community and increase diversity
 2. Shipping a release
 3. Transfer trademark, etc. to Apache

Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of?

 No issues at this time

How has the community developed since the last report?

 The project has continued to improve its diversity, adding
 Chip Childers, John Kinsella, and Wido den Hollander to the PPMC
 and 3 new committers since the month of August. (Mice Xia, Jason
 Bausewein, and Joe Brockmeier.) We have also taken on a new mentor,
 Noah Slater.

 Contributors and committers have been active in promoting CloudStack
 at events, such as LinuxCon, Ohio LinuxFest, PuppetConf, a get-together
 at Schuberg Philis, and a number of other events.

 The community is participation at LinuxCon EU and ApacheCon EU and
 a number of other events through the remainder of 2012.

 Citrix is acting as primary sponsor of a CloudStack Collaboration
 Conference for November 30 through December 2 in Las Vegas. The
 conference is open to the community, and programming for the event
 will be chosen by a committee that includes members of the CloudStack
 community outside Citrix.

How has the project developed since the last report?

 The pending 4.0 release has been branched. The project has made a great
 deal of progress towards the 4.0 release, handling a number of technical
 issues (such as a move to Maven) and resolving almost all known legal
 issues that would pose an obstacle to a release. The sole remaining
 blocker is under discussion and should be resolved shortly.

 The Jira instance for CloudStack was stood up in early September. License
 checks have been automated to ensure that we remain compliant with Apache
 guidelines going forward.

Signed-off-by: nslater, mfranklin

15 Aug 2012

A list of the three most important issues to address in the move
towards graduation

 1. Licensing work
 2. Finishing up the move of CloudStack infrastructure resources to the ASF.
 3. Shipping a release.

Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware
of?

 No issues at this time

How has the community developed since the last report?

 CloudStack has added 6 new committers in the month of July.

 We had BOF and hackathon time at OSCON, which was a positive benefit for
 those committers who attended, particularly in being able to delve into
 issues around incubation, branding, and licensing. Additionally two
 committers presented tutorials at OSCON one focused on end users deploying
 CloudStack and the other focused on developers hacking on CloudStack, both
 had great attendance.

 We have also had some offers of contribution from people at Bitergia who are
 interested in contributing the work that they have done around metrics.
 which was a very encouraging start to growing the community.

How has the project developed since the last report?

 Lots of modularization has been injected into CloudStack, which makes some
 of our licensing issues far less of a problem as we can merely turn the
 affected code off by default.

 The wiki has begun migration to an ASF hosted wiki instance.

 One of the CloudStack committers provided a dramatically easier way to be
 able to test and develop for CloudStack in the form a completely contained
 CloudStack environment that can be run as a VirtualBox VM. Much additional
 enhancement has been contributed to this making the process easier and
 easier to update.

 We also saw the movement of documentation from binary .docx files to
 DocBook XML; while this effort isn't complete it does permit folks to far
 more easily collaborate, as well as providing a far better interface
 for l10n.

Signed-off-by: brett, jukka, jim

25 Jul 2012

CloudStack is an IaaS (“Infrastracture as a Service”) cloud orchestration
platform. CloudStack has been in incubation since 2012-04-16

The top 3 issues to address to move towards graduation:

 - CloudStack's source still contains works that are prohibited for release
   under ASF guidelines
 - Performing a release
 - Migration of infrastructure (bug tracker, CI, websites, etc)

How has the community developed since the last report:

 As of the time of this report at least one new committer has been added.
 Additionally, a number of previously unknown developers have begun making
 substantial quantities of bug fixes and even working on new functionality.

How has the project developed since the last report:

 The project itself continues to deal with process questions as well as
 learning how to operate in the new environment. A good deal of work has
 been happening on resolving the problems in the code base around licensing,
 though not currently close to finishing.

Signed off by mentor: jim

20 Jun 2012

CloudStack is an IaaS (“Infrastracture as a Service”) cloud orchestration
platform. CloudStack has been in incubation since 2012-04-16

CloudStack has been in the incubator for approximately 1.5 months. Mailing
lists have migrated, accounts for the initial committers have been set up,
and the initial code drop/git repo has been setup. Many new names are now
participating in conversations on the mailing lists, with several of them
volunteering to help move things along. The number of submitted patches from
'new names' in the month of May is in the double digits, and range from
trivial one line fixes to two major patches with over 1,000 changed lines
each. The community is beginning to exercise some of its decision making
power by deciding about release tempo, future version schemes and numbers,
and a number of other internal plumbing issues. Much remains to be done in
preparation for the initial release, and those tasks are being identified.
We also have a number of external resources (bug tracker, wiki, CI) that
are still awaiting migration.

Top 3 Issues to address in move towards graduation

 - The project is using source and binaries with a number of
   non-ASF-approved licenses. This needs remediation.

 - Diversity of the contributor base still needs to be expanded.

 - While we are making progress, there still remains a number of large
   pieces (bug tracker, wiki, test infra) that still need to be migrated
   to ASF infrastructure.

Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of?

 No issues that we are aware of at this point.

How has the community developed since the last report?

 See the above narration, but generally speaking the community is beginning
 to exercise its decision making powers, largely around internal plumbing
 issues at the moment. We are also seeing a number of new developers
 submitting patches.

How has the project developed since the last report?

 The project continues to have many issues to tackle for its first release
 and is identifying and moving forward on those issues. Work continues on
 solutions to remove the need to massive (or any) amount of additional
 hardware to test/develop with in an effort to lower the barrier to
 participate.

Signed off by mentor:

16 May 2012

CloudStack is an IaaS (“Infrastracture as a Service”) cloud orchestration
platform. CloudStack has been in incubation since 2012-04-16

Overview:

 Cloudstack just entered the incubator a couple of weeks ago. Since then,
 the mailing list has been setup  and discussions have started to migrate
 from the existing list to the ASF-hosted list, with several 'new names'
 participating including one of those 'new names' submitting a patch.
 Currently, the code repository and bulk of existing infrastructure is still
 hosted by Citrix, but the community is looking forward to getting that
 moved to Apache as soon as possible.

A list of the most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:

 1. The base level of infrastructure migration has begun but still has far
    to be finished. At present the mailing lists exist, but wiki, project
    website, source repository, bug tracker, etc still need to be brought
    up and migrated. In many ways we are blocked on further progress by
    lack of account creation for initial committers.

 2. Diversity of the contributor base still needs to be expanded - this was
    identified as an issue in the proposal, and remains one, though we are
    encouraged by a seeming uptick (we've been in incubation for less than
    a week, so trends are indeed difficult to identify at this point) in
    interest on the mailing lists from previously uninvolved individuals.

 3. The project needs a working process definition.  What is the review
    process for contributions, recommendations for engaging before writing
    large amounts of code, etc.

 4. The project is using source and binaries with a number of
    non-ASF-approved licenses.  This needs remediation.

Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of?

 No issues that we are aware of at this point.

How has the community developed since the last report?

 There has been no previous report - so nothing to report here.

How has the project developed since the last report?

 There has been no previous report - so nothing to report here.

Signed off by mentor: brett, dkulp, jim