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WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache DirectMemory project has chosen by vote to recommend moving the project to the attic; and WHEREAS, the Board of Directors deems it no longer in the best interest of the Foundation to continue the Apache DirectMemory project due to lack of developer interest; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Apache DirectMemory project is hereby terminated; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Attic PMC be and hereby is tasked with oversight over the software developed by the Apache DirectMemory Project; and be it further RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache DirectMemory" is hereby terminated; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache DirectMemory PMC is hereby terminated. Special Order 7D, Terminate the Apache DirectMemory Project, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
Apache DirectMemory is an off-heap cache implementation for the JVM * General Information As no one volounteered to take over the PMC chair role we decided to move the project to the attic * Issues Development is stuck since long time and developer's appeal is lost. No one, including me, seems to have time to devote to the project * Committers or PMC members change Last added PMC PMC member was Noctarius (Cristoph Engelbert) on 2013-09-25 * Releases Release 0.2 has seen the light on 2013-09-17
Apache DirectMemory is an off-heap cache implementation for the JVM * General Information We had only one contact on the developer's list since april. A formal votation has been made about retiring to the attic and it held only 3 votes (all in favour of retirement). Some team members discussed proposals to improve documentation in order to improve our appeal to developers and a call for help has been submitted to the developers list but nothing much happened. I proposed to step back as PMC chair but no one volunteered to take over the role * Issues Development is stuck since long time and developer's appeal is lost. No one, including me, seems to have time to devote to the project. I honestly think it's time to retire the project or, at least, for me to retire as PMC chair * Committers or PMC members change Last added PMC PMC member was Noctarius (Cristoph Engelbert) on 2013-09-25 * Releases Release 0.2 has seen the light on 2013-09-17
@Rich: need a resolution for the Attic
Apache DirectMemory is an off-heap cache implementation for the JVM * General Information Development and mailing lists traffic are mostly quiet. I think that, more than a real report, the project needs some real activity * Issues The project is not seeing any active contribution nor any real world usage * Committers or PMC members change Last added PMC PMC member was Noctarius (Cristoph Engelbert) on 2013-09-25 * Releases Release 0.2 has seen the light on 2013-09-17
Apache DirectMemory is an off-heap cache implementation for the JVM * General Information Development and mailing lists traffic are mostly quiet. * Issues No known issues at the time * Committers or PMC members change Last added PMC PMC member was Noctarius (Cristoph Engelbert) on 2013-09-25 * Releases Release 0.2 has seen the light on 2013-09-17
@Brett: Need a real report for this project
No report was submitted.
No report was submitted.
No report was submitted.
Apache DirectMemory is an off-heap cache implementation for the JVM * General Information Development and mailing lists traffic are mostly quiet * Issues No known issues at the time * Committers or PMC members change Last added PMC member was Noctarius (Cristoph Engelbert) on 2013-09-25 * Releases Release 0.2 has seen the light on 2013-09-17
@Sam: Follow up with a more complete report next month
No report was submitted.
@Chris: pursue a report for DirectMemory
Apache DirectMemory is an off-heap cache implementation for the JVM * General Information Development and mailing lists traffic are mostly quiet. The PMC is thinking about ways to improve popularity and adoption of the project and some proposals have been made * Issues No known issues at the time * Committers or PMC members change Last added PMC member was Noctarius (Cristoph Engelbert) on 2013-09-25 * Releases Release 0.2 has seen the light on 2013-09-17
No report was submitted.
Apache DirectMemory is an off-heap cache implementation for the JVM * General Information Development and mailing lists traffic are mostly quiet, an attempt is being made to revive the integration with JCS thread * Issues No known issues at the time * Committers or PMC members change Last added PMC PMC member was Noctarius (Cristoph Engelbert) on 2013-09-25 * Releases Release 0.2 has seen the light on 2013-09-17
Apache DirectMemory is an off-heap cache implementation for the JVM * General Information Development and mailing lists traffic are mostly quiet, we are working on a minor (fix) 0.2.1 release * Issues No known issues at the time * Committers or PMC members change Last added PMC member was Noctarius (Cristoph Engelbert) on 2013-09-25 * Releases Release 0.2 - 2013-09-17 Release 0.1 - 2012-07-09
No report was submitted.
Apache DirectMemory is an off-heap cache implementation for the JVM * General Information DirectMemory is being evaluated by project jackrabbit for integration of off-heap memory into OAK. Another, more performant back-end implementation is being contributed by noctarius * Issues Development is not moving really fast and adoption is still quite limited to other apache projects - although more than some interesting integrations have been contributed. Any help would be appreciated, though, in suggestions, spreading the word, testing and facilitating the adoption of the platform * Committers or PMC members change Noctarius has been added as a new PMC member on 2013-09-25 * Releases Release 0.2 has seen the light on 2013-09-17 - this is the first one since we left incubation
Apache DirectMemory is an off-heap cache implementation for the JVM * General Information DirectMemory is being evaluated by project jackrabbit for integration of off-heap memory into OAK. Another, more performant back-end implementation is being contributed by noctarius * Issues Development is not moving really fast and adoption is still quite limited to other apache projects - although more than some interesting integrations have been contributed. It has to be said that DirectMemory is a niche product - its target is people and organizations that need to enable their application to handle large (gigabytes) quantities of objects into memory and it competes in the same space of terracotta, jboss, memcached and other big players with strong corporate backing and sponsorship. We feel that we accomplished at least, being the first open source offheap cache implementation, the goal to bring big memory to the masses, forcing, in a way, companies to offer free tiers of commercial products (as bigmemory go). We feel that we are moving, although slowly, and we are making things move. Any help would be appreciated, though, in suggestions, spreading the word, testing and facilitating the adoption of the platform * Releases No releases since july 2012. Release 0.2 is planned for the end of the month - this will be the first one since we left incubation
Apache DirectMemory is an off-heap cache implementation for the JVM. It features direct memory management (a-la BigMemory) to enable efficient handling of a large number of java objects without affecting JVM garbage collection performance. * General Information DirectMemory is being evaluated by project jackrabbit for integration of off-heap memory into OAK. New back-end implementation is being contributed by the members (thaks, noctarius). * Releases No releases since last report. Corrections has been made to the last released documentation
Report was not approved due to lack of detail.
Apache DirectMemory is an off-heap cache implementation for the JVM. It features direct memory management (a-la BigMemory) to enable efficient handling of a large number of java objects without affecting JVM garbage collection performance. * General Information Community interest seems to be still alive, a new contribution/merge has been proposed. Not much happening in the ML and in SVN * Releases No releases since we left incubation (last one was in sept. 2012) and still far away from the first one.
Apache DirectMemory is an off-heap cache implementation for the JVM. It features direct memory management (a-la BigMemory) to enable efficient handling of a large number of java objects without affecting JVM garbage collection performance. * General Information Community interest seems to be still high but nothing serious happened in code and in the mailing list except for a proposal to contribute some benchmarks and performance testing that, since we are still far away from a release, could really help. * New Committers * None * Project Branding Requirements Already completed. * Issues No board level issues at this time.
AI: Doug: let PMCs know to leave off branding from board reports unless there are issues
Apache DirectMemory is an off-heap cache implementation for the JVM. It features direct memory management (a-la BigMemory) to enable efficient handling of a large number of java objects without affecting JVM garbage collection performance. * General Information Community interest is still high, we are receiving interesting proposals and questions in the mailing list. Some DirectMemory related or based projects are being initiated as well and added as subprojects On the "down" side we are still far away from a release. * New Committers * Christoph Engelbert * Project Branding Requirements Already completed. * Issues No board level issues at this time.
Apache DirectMemory is an off-heap cache implementation for the JVM. It features direct memory management (a-la BigMemory) to enable efficient handling of a large number of Java objects without affecting JVM garbage collection performance. Community interest has increased since TLP graduation, we are receiving interesting contributions on the mailing list. A proposal to join forces with another interesting although young project (the lightning serializer) has been accepted by the author and it is going to be defined as a subproject. Synergies with other projects are being explored too (kryo, another serializer, at the end DirectMemory is all about serializing objects in off-heap memory and back). We are probably better defining the technical direction of the project even though there's still plenty of work to do.
Apache DirectMemory is an off-heap cache implementation for the JVM. It features direct memory management (a-la BigMemory) to enable efficient handling of a large number of java objects without affecting JVM garbage collection performance. DirectMemory graduated August 15th and not much happened since - except for the payoff that has been considerably shortened. Next steps will be in gathering community and development team proposals to better identify a direction for our efforts (which has sometimes been an issue, as pointed out during the graduation voting process) and, maybe, spread adoption (which is very limited at the moment regardless of the good number of integrations developed). All tasks regarding TLP graduation have been completed (including svnpubsub for both distribution and site deployment).
AI Bertrand: what does "payoff that has been considerably shortened" mean?
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 an off-heap cache for the Java platform NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management Committee (PMC), to be known as the "The Apache DirectMemory Project", be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation; and be it further RESOLVED, that The Apache DirectMemory Project be and hereby is responsible for the creation and maintenance of software related to a second level off-heap cache; and be it further RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, DirectMemory" 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 DirectMemory Project, and to have primary responsibility for management of the projects within the scope of responsibility of The Apache DirectMemory 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 DirectMemory Project: * Ioannic Canellos (iocanel) * Maurizio Cucchiara (mcucchiara) * Christian Grobmeier (grobmeier) * Olivier Lamy (olamy) * Raffaele P. Guidi (raffaeleguidi) * Simone Gianni (simoneg) * Simone Tripodi (simonetripodi) * Tommaso Teofill (tommaso) * Benoit Perroud (bperroud) NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Raffaele P. Guidi be and hereby is appointed to the office of Vice President, DirectMemory, 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 DirectMemory Project be and hereby is tasked with the migration and rationalization of the Apache Incubator DirectMemory podling; and be it further RESOLVED, that all responsibility pertaining to the Apache Incubator DirectMemory podling encumbered upon the Apache Incubator PMC are hereafter discharged. Special Order 7C, Establish the Apache DirectMemory Project, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
(incubating since October 2011) Apache DirectMemory is a multi layered cache implementation featuring off-heap memory management (a-la BigMemory) to enable efficient handling of a large number of java objects without affecting JVM garbage collection performance. There is only one important issue to address in the move towards graduation Understanding process/decision making guidelines (new committer process is undergoing testing, release process still yet to be worked out) Any issues that the Incubator PMC or ASF Board might wish/need to be aware of None How has the community developed since the last report Tasks and proposals contributed by non-committers How has the project developed since the last report. - A first public release 0.1-incubating has been done. - A talk of DirectMemory has been presented at DevoXX France (thanks to Olivier Lamy and Benoit Perroud). Slides (in French) are available at http://www.slideshare.net/benoitperroud/direct-memory-3devoxxfr201220418-12607286 - A talk of DirectMemory has been presented (thanks to Benoit Perroud) at Java User Group Lausanne. Slides are available at http://www.slideshare.net/benoitperroud/direct-memory-jugl20120308-12607297 - A talk of Direct has been presented at BreizhCamp (thanks to OlivierLamy). Slides are available at http://www.slideshare.net/olamy/heapoff-wtf Signed off by mentor: Olivier Lamy Shepherd: Benson Margulies
(incubating since October 2011) Apache DirectMemory is a multi layered cache implementation featuring off-heap memory management (a-la BigMemory) to enable efficient handling of a large number of java objects without affecting JVM garbage collection performance. There is only one important issue to address in the move towards graduation - understanding process/decision making guidelines (new committer process is undergoing testing, release process still yet to be worked out) Any issues that the Incubator PMC or ASF Board might wish/need to be aware of - None How has the community developed since the last report - Tasks and proposals contributed by non-committers - The team has up-voted a new committer How has the project developed since the last report. - An important contribution (the integration with EHCache, the most used caching system) could spread adoption and community attention - A talk of DirectMemory should be presented at DevoXX France (thanks to Olivier Lamy) Signed off by mentor: twilliams
(incubating since October 2011) Apache DirectMemory is a multi layered cache implementation featuring off-heap memory management (a-la BigMemory) to enable efficient handling of a large number of java objects without affecting jvm garbage collection performance. A list of the three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation. 1) closed - Branding requirements have been met and modified logos and artwork have been published 2) Understanding process/decision making guidelines (new committer process is undergoing testing, release process still yet to be worked out) Any issues that the Incubator PMC or ASF Board might wish/need to be aware of - None - we are going well even having lost one mentor (but always hope he'll keep in touch ;) How has the community developed since the last report - Tasks and proposals contributed by non-committers - The team is voting a new committer How has the project developed since the last report. - Some examples are being added to the code base including another interesting integration with Apache Solr
(incubating since October 2011) Apache DirectMemory is a multi layered cache implementation featuring off-heap memory management (a-la BigMemory) to enable efficient handling of a large number of java objects without affecting jvm garbage collection performance A list of the three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation. 1) Ensure branding requirements are met. 2) Ensuring IP is cleared. 3) Understanding process/decision making guidelines: release process/new committer process. Any issues that the Incubator PMC or ASF Board might wish/need to be aware of - No issue How has the community developed since the last report - Some new interested persons have shown up on the mailing lists - Patches contributed by non-committers - Discussion about a potential new committer How has the project developed since the last report. - Healthy activity on 3rd parties integrations such as Apache Karaf and Apache Commons JCS.
(incubating since October 2011) Apache DirectMemory is a multi layered cache implementation featuring off-heap memory management (a-la BigMemory) to enable efficient handling of a large number of java objects without affecting jvm garbage collection performance A list of the three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation. 1) Ensure branding requirements are met. 2) Ensuring IP is cleared. 3) Understanding process/decision making guidelines: release process/new committer process. Any issues that the Incubator PMC or ASF Board might wish/need to be aware of - No issue How has the community developed since the last report - Some new interested persons have shown up on the mailing lists - Patches contributed by non-committers - Discussion about a potential new committer How has the project developed since the last report. - Healthy activity on 3rd parties integrations such as Apache Karaf and Apache Commons JCS.