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Droids aims to be an intelligent standalone robot framework that allows to create and extend existing droids (robots). Droids has been incubating since 2008-10-09. Shepherd/Mentor notes: johndament: Did not report. Podling seems to be in bad shape. Prior reports indicated similar issues.
Droids aims to be an intelligent standalone robot framework that allows to create and extend existing droids (robots). Droids has been incubating since 2008-10-09. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Activity 2. Name Search Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? None. Name search needs to be concluded. Availability looks better this quarter for completing that task. How has the community developed since the last report? No change How has the project developed since the last report? No Change Date of last release: 2012-10-15 When were the last committers or PMC members elected? 2012-05-07 Signed-off-by: [x](droids) Thorsten Scherler [x](droids) Richard Frovarp Shepherd/Mentor notes: Chris Mattmann: Droids has been incubating for quite a while - is it time to graduate or retire?
Droids aims to be an intelligent standalone robot framework that allows to create and extend existing droids (robots). Droids has been incubating since 2008-10-09. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Activity 2. Name Search Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? None. We need to continue the name search. Branding has replied to the issue and provided additional searches that need to performed. It is hoped that these can be finished in the new couple weeks. How has the community developed since the last report? No change. How has the project developed since the last report? No change. Date of last release: 2012-10-15 When were the last committers or PMC members elected? 2012-05-07 Signed-off-by: [ ](droids) Thorsten Scherler [x](droids) Richard Frovarp
Droids aims to be an intelligent standalone robot framework that allows to create and extend existing droids (robots). Droids has been incubating since 2008-10-09. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Activity 2. Name Search Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? None. The previous goal of the name search has began. Ant Elder is assisting us in the search. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PODLINGNAMESEARCH-59 How has the community developed since the last report? No change. How has the project developed since the last report? No change. Date of last release: 2012-10-15 When were the last committers or PMC members elected? 2012-05-07 Signed-off-by: [x](droids) Thorsten Scherler [x](droids) Richard Frovarp
Droids aims to be an intelligent standalone robot framework that allows to create and extend existing droids (robots). Droids has been incubating since 2008-10-09. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Activity 2. Name Search Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? None. The previous goal of conducting the name search was not met due to time availability. Outlook is much more promising this quarter. How has the community developed since the last report? No change. Name search is one big outstanding piece to complete, and it is rather intimidating. It is hoped that one of the more experienced individuals will have time to complete it this quarter. That should help with participation once the final name is known. How has the project developed since the last report? No change. Date of last release: 2012-10-15 When were the last committers or PMC members elected? 2012-05-07 Signed-off-by: [x](droids) Thorsten Scherler [X](droids) Richard Frovarp
Droids aims to be an intelligent standalone robot framework that allows to create and extend existing droids (robots). Droids has been incubating since 2008-10-09. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Activity 2. Name Search Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? None. The goal is to complete the name search this quarter. How has the community developed since the last report? No change. Name search is one big outstanding piece to complete, and it is rather intimidating. It is hoped that one of the more experienced individuals will have time to complete it this quarter. That should help with participation once the final name is known. How has the project developed since the last report? No change. Date of last release: 2012-10-15 When were the last committers or PMC members elected? 2012-05-07 Signed-off-by: [x](droids) Thorsten Scherler [X](droids) Richard Frovarp
Droids aims to be an intelligent standalone robot framework that allows to create and extend existing droids (robots). Droids has been incubating since 2008-10-09. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Activity Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? None, beside the real low traffic on mailing list and source code commits. How has the community developed since the last report? No changes to community. How has the project developed since the last report? The project has been very quiet / dormant for the past half year. Date of last release: 2012-10-15 When were the last committers or PMC members elected? 2012-05-07 Signed-off-by: [X](droids) Thorsten Scherler [X](droids) Richard Frovarp Shepherd/Mentor notes: John Ament (johndament): Droids is a long standing podling, with a robust code base but without much need for frequent releases. I think graduating into an existing TLP (not their own TLP) would be a good resolution, it helps avoid some of the over head of many binding votes to carry on while still maintaining an area to work in. The people working on droids were fast to respond and give feedback on what's happening, but like is mentioned the list is not very active (in the past 6 months, the main conversations going on were around status of the project).
Droids aims to be an intelligent standalone robot framework that allows to create and extend existing droids (robots). Droids has been incubating since 2008-10-09. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Activity Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? None How has the community developed since the last report? No changes to community. How has the project developed since the last report? The project has been very quiet / dormant for the past quarter. Date of last release: 2012-10-15 When were the last committers or PMC members elected? 2012-05-07 Signed-off-by: [ ](droids) Thorsten Scherler [x](droids) Richard Frovarp
Droids aims to be an intelligent standalone robot framework that allows to create and extend existing droids (robots). Droids has been incubating since 2008-10-09. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Activity Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? None How has the community developed since the last report? There has been no change in the community. The summer months have been very quiet. There are enough active people for a viable PMC. How has the project developed since the last report? Quiet quarter. Date of last release: 2012-10-15 Signed-off-by: [ ](droids) Thorsten Scherler [x](droids) Richard Frovarp Shepherd notes:
Droids aims to be an intelligent standalone robot framework that allows to create and extend existing droids (robots). Droids has been incubating since 2008-10-09. Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: 1. Activity Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of? None How has the community developed since the last report? There has been no change in the active members of the community. There are enough active people to form a viable PMC. How has the project developed since the last report? Development this quarter has been slow after the flury of development last quarter. The codebase has a decent level of maturity, so a lot of changes isn't expected. Please check this [ ] when you have filled in the report for Droids. Signed-off-by: Thorsten Scherler: [X](droids) Richard Frovarp: [X](droids) Shepherd notes:
Droids aims to be an intelligent standalone robot framework that allows to
create and extend existing droids (robots).
Droids has been incubating since 2008-10-09.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Diversity is still an issue for the podling. Activity has picked up in
the recent months, helping with the diversity of those involved.
2. A different name is most likely needed. Droid is now largely associated
with Android.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of?
None.
How has the community developed since the last report?
Commons was approached to see if that was a viable option for graudation.
It is unsure that would be a good fit. Other TLPs may be a better fit,
but it is unknown how sub-projects would be handled or if they would be
allowed.
Development activity has picked up in the past two months, since just
before Christmas. Most of the development is by one developer, but others
have been involved. If this level of activity continues for the next month,
Droids may be ready for graduation.
How has the project developed since the last report?
Development activity has greatly increased in the recent months.
There have been strides to make the code base cleaner, and easier to use.
Signed-off-by:
Thorsten Scherler: [x](droids)
Richard Frovarp: [x](droids)
Shepherd notes:
Droids is an Incubator project arrived from Apache Labs. Droids entered incubation on October, 2008. It's an intelligent standalone robot framework that allows one to create and extend existing web robots. Issues before graduation : Diversity is still an issue for the podling. More activity will help the diversity problem. Commons was very recently contacted to see what options exist for graduating into Commons and if it would be beneficial for both communities. Recent Activity: Apache Droids incubating 0.2 was released on August 9th, 2012. This marks the second release for the project. Members of the community met up at ApacheCon EU to discuss ideas and options. In accordance with ASF guidelines, no voteable decisions were made during those discussions. Signed-off-by: rfrovarp, bimargulies
Droids is an Incubator project arrived from Apache Labs. Droids entered incubation on October, 2008. It's an intelligent standalone robot framework that allows one to create and extend existing web robots. Issues before graduation : Diversity is still an issue for the podling. More activity will help the diversity problem. Activity is still an issue for the podling. The podling has attempted to make its second release. However, it is having difficulty securing the necessary votes from IPMC members. The difficulty in making a release discourages activity. It was discussed on general@i.a.o by IPMC members after last quarter's report that it might be possible to graduate into Commons. The project has not approached the Commons PMC about this possibility at this time, but will be explored in the next quarter. Signed-off-by: rfrovarp, mfranklin, jukka IPMC comments: jukka: two consecutive quarters with low activity, +1 to approaching Commons
Droids is an Incubator project arrived from Apache Labs. Droids entered incubation on October, 2008. It's an intelligent standalone robot framework that allows one to create and extend existing web robots. Tobias Rübner has been voted in and added as a committer and PPMC member. Issues before graduation : Diversity is still an issue for the podling. The addition of Tobias is a step towards remedying that. Signed off by mentor: rfrovarp
Droids is an Incubator project arrived from Apache Labs. Droids entered incubation on October, 2008. It's an intelligent standalone robot framework that allows one to create and extend existing web robots. Richard Frovarp has been added as a mentor to the project. IP clearance has been taken care of and was done prior to the release that was performed. That issue should not have been in the last report. Issues before graduation : The biggest obstacle for graduation is obtaining a diverse group of active committers. 95% of the commits over the past 6 months were by a single committer. The project needs to engage the committers that exist and identify new people to bring into the project. The goal for the next quarter is to elicit more activity. Signed off by mentor: rfrovarp, thorsten
Droids is an Incubator project arrived from Apache Labs. Droids entered incubation on October, 2008. It's an intelligent standalone robot framework that allows one to create and extend existing web robots. The last three months have been focused on our first official release, which we finally did. The long hold off has been a bit of a community burner, let us hope that we sparkle the spirit we had in the last report. Issues before graduation : * IP clearance
Droids is an Incubator project arrived from Apache Labs. Droids entered incubation on October, 2008. It's an intelligent standalone robot framework that allows one to create and extend existing web robots. The last three months have been focused on our first official release, which we finally did. The long hold off has been a bit of a community burner, let us hope that we sparkle the spirit we had in the last report. Issues before graduation : * IP clearance
Droids is an Incubator project arrived from Apache Labs. Droids entered incubation on October, 2008. It's an intelligent standalone robot framework that allows one to create and extend existing web robots. The last three months have been very productive and focused on our first official release. However a discussion on the general incubator list raised concern about the absence of binding votes of IPMC members. This leaded to abort the first release. In the last member meeting we selected one of our Droids committer as member and he subscribed now to the incubator PMC to have a binding vote as well. Issues before graduation : * Do a release * IP clearance
Droids is an Incubator project arrived from Apache Labs. Droids entered incubation on October, 2008. It's an intelligent standalone robot framework that allows one to create and extend existing web robots. The last three months have been very productive for the project since mailing and issue tracking activity have been very good. Our two new committer have driven our first release which is planed for this month. More people appeared on the mailing list and especially one dev is driving constantly enhancement in our issue tracker. Issues before graduation : * IP clearance
Droids is an Incubator project arrived from Apache Labs. Droids entered incubation on October, 2008. It's an intelligent standalone robot framework that allows one to create and extend existing web robots. After the question to close the project coming from the board many quite user/devs step forward and expressed their desire to prevent that from happening. The last three months have been very productive for the project since mailing and issue tracking activity have been very good. Two new committer has entered the project and started to commit. Issues before graduation : * Do a release * IP clearance
DID NOT REPORT.
Droids is an Incubator project arrived from Apache Labs. Droids entered incubation on October, 2008. It's an intelligent standalone robot framework that allows one to create and extend existing web robots. What we've completed in the last months: * new elected committers: Bertil Chapuis and Richard Frovarp, there have been a miss-understanding of the vote calling for this committers. We have to redo them on the general list. * many people have joined the last three month and the incoming patches are getting applied by a couple of "old committers" * release preparation are under going, but stop due to the lack of a release manager Issues before graduation : * Do a release * IP clearance
Droids is an Incubator project arrived from Apache Labs. Droids entered incubation on October, 2008. It's an intelligent standalone robot framework that allows one to create and extend existing web robots. What we've completed in the last months: * new elected committers: Bertil Chapuis and Richard Frovarp; * the community has organized a community day to fix nearly all open tickets with patch * release preparation are under going Issues before graduation : * Do a release * IP clearance
Droids is an Incubator project arrived from Apache Labs. Droids entered incubation on October, 2008. It's an intelligent standalone robot framework that allows one to create and extend existing web robots. What we've completed in the last months: * new elected committer Javier Puerto is waiting since over three month for account creation; * more people sending patches; * the community is trying to organize a community day to fix current tickets Issues before graduation : * Do a release * Grow community * IP clearance
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Droids is an Incubator project arrived from Apache Labs. Droids entered incubation on October, 2009. It's an intelligent standalone robot framework that allows one to create and extend existing web robots. Things are charging along in Droids. We have a new committer "Mingfai Ma" with new ideas and another real life use case. He committed some ideas to the sandbox which are going steady into the core distribution. More people are subscribed lately to the mailing list and we received some patches from different new developers. The patches had been incorporated in our repository already. Still the focus is on evolving the design and building a larger community. = Empire-db = Empire-db is a relational data persistence component that aims to overcome the difficulties, pitfalls and restrictions inherent in traditional Object Relational Management (ORM) approaches. Empire-db is on the Apache Incubator since July 2008. Recent activities: Following a rather quiet period in April and May development activities have significantly improved in June and July. The main goal of the development team was to finally complete the release of the Empire-db-2.0.5 release including Maven project management. The new release is now in the staging area and we are currently waiting for our mentors to approve the release, before we move on to get approval of the IPMC. Community aspects: Recently code submissions from outside the current development team were received by users from different countries and backgrounds. The submissions are currently under review and are under consideration for an upcoming release. This gives us reasons to believe that the community is growing and demand for Empire-db is rising.
Droids is an Incubator project arrived from Apache Labs. Droids entered incubation on October, 2009. It's an intelligent standalone robot framework that allows one to create and extend existing web robots. Things are charging along in Droids. The presentations had been successfully seeded interest in Droids at both BarCamp and Lightning Talks at ApacheCon EU. In the weeks after the ApacheCon more people subsrcibed to the mailing list and we received quite a lot of patches from Mingfai Ma. The patches had been incooperated in our repository already. One of the initial 3 committers has gone inactive. Now the focus is on evolving the design and building a larger community.
** DID NOT REPORT **
Droids is a new Incubator project recently arrived from Apache Labs (end October). It's an intelligent standalone robot framework that allows one to create and extend existing web robots. Things have been quiet this month in Droids. We focus on evolving the design and building a larger community. = Empire-db = Empire-db is a relational data persistence component that aims to overcome the difficulties, pitfalls and restrictions inherent in traditional Object Relational Management (ORM) approaches. Empire-db is on the Apache Incubator since July 2008. Recent activity: After the acceptance and publication of the first Apache release in October there has been a discussion going on about what would be the most important improvement for the upcoming release. A suggestion was made to provide a Maven like distribution that will allow to access and build Empire-db with Maven instead of the classic .jar file distribution with Ant build files. While the benefits of this suggestion were soon agreed upon on the developer mailing list, this started a long and verbose discussion on how to go about the issue. Ideas ranged from a basic and slow transition to a Maven big bang. Since the core development team had no experience with Maven it was also necessary to find someone with the skills to get it right. We were happy to find a community member who was capable and willing to perform this task. After different transition models have been discussed he was given the freedom to decide on the most suitable approach. Since then the Maven transition has been going on in a different SVN branch that is planned to be merged with the trunk for the next release. Besides that the developers participated in discussions and blogs about relational data persistence on non Apache sites such as www.theserverside.com. An interesting article here http://fromapitosolution.blogspot.com/2008/12/criticism-of-java-persistence. html proves that this is still a hot topic with many who could benefit from Emipre-db. Plans for the future are: * Finish the Maven transition and provide a Maven style release * Provide further documentation and example applications Community aspects: For the transition to a Maven style distribution we were happy to find a new committer for our project. Francis De Brabandere who we believe has excellent Maven skills offered his services and was accepted by the current development team and the mentors.
Droids is a new Incubator project recently arrived from Apache Labs (end October). It's an intelligent standalone robot framework that allows one to create and extend existing web robots. Things have been quiet this month in Droids. We focus on evolving the design and building a larger community.
Droids is a new Incubator project recently arrived from Apache Labs (end October). It's an intelligent standalone robot framework that allows one to create and extend existing web robots. Things are charging along in Droids. The code has been moved over in SVN, a website setup, JIRA project migrated and a wiki location defined. There is much coding and redesign activity from the initial 3 committers and Thorsten successfully seeded interest in Droids at both BarCamp and FastFeather Talks at ApacheCon US. Now the focus is on evolving the design and building a larger community. = Empire-db = Empire-db is a relational data access layer offering special benefits over other solutions through string-free dynamic query generation, metadata access and improved compile-time safety. Empire-db has been accepted to the incubator in July 2008. Recent activity: In October only a few minor bug fixes and improvements for both the core database component and the Struts2 extensions library have been provided. Still on our list is the maven support for the upcoming 2.0.5 release. Another idea is to provide an example for how to integrate Web-Services in a Web-Application using Empire-db's metadata capabilities. There are also plans for providing integration with Apache Wicket, which could be a new subproject just like the Empire-db Struts2 extensions. This however is a task that would take a few months to develop. Community aspects: In order to increase our community and make people more aware of the capabilities and benefits of Empire-db we have submitted a proposal for a presentation at the Apache Con Europe 2009 in Amsterdam. We are waiting to hear from the conference committee any time soon.