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## Description: The mission of the Apache Flex project is to create and maintain software related to the development of expressive web applications that deploy to all major browsers, desktops and devices (including smartphones, tablets and tv) ## Project Status: Current project status: Stable with little activity Issues for the board: None ## Membership Data: Apache Flex was founded 2012-12-19 (12 years ago) There are currently 67 committers and 45 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 3:2. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Greg Dove on 2023-03-03. - No new committers. Last addition was Greg Dove on 2016-09-07. ## Project Activity: No activity in the last quarter. Apache Flex BlazeDS 4.8.0 was released on 2023-04-17. flex-maven-tools/flex-sdk-converter 1.1.0 was released on 2023-02-20. Install Apache Flex 3.3.2 was released on 2018-07-09. ## Community Health: There has been no activity in the last quarter. There's nothing significant to report here.
## Description: The mission of the Apache Flex project is to create and maintain software related to the development of expressive web applications that deploy to all major browsers, desktops and devices (including smartphones, tablets and tv) ## Project Status: Current project status: The project is stable with little activity. Issues for the board: None ## Membership Data: Apache Flex was founded 2012-12-19 (12 years ago) There are currently 67 committers and 45 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 3:2. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Greg Dove on 2023-03-03. - No new committers. Last addition was Greg Dove on 2016-09-07. ## Project Activity: There has been very little activity in the last quarter. ## Community Health: There has been no changes in the community. Almost no email activity, but there was two PRs closed.
## Description: The mission of the Apache Flex project is to create and maintain software related to the development of expressive web applications that deploy to all major browsers, desktops and devices (including smartphones, tablets and tv) ## Project Status: Current project status: Project is stable Issues for the board: None ## Membership Data: Apache Flex was founded 2012-12-19 (11 years ago) There are currently 67 committers and 45 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 3:2. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Greg Dove on 2023-03-03. - No new committers. Last addition was Greg Dove on 2016-09-07. ## Project Activity: There was an issue with spam going undetected to the commits list. Apparently noone on the PMC was subscribed to that list and spam protection was not turned on. Infra turned on spam protection and at least one PMC member is now subscribed to that list. ## Community Health: Email activity has been very light. There has been little change for a long time.
## Description: The mission of the Apache Flex project is to create and maintain software related to the development of expressive web applications that deploy to all major browsers, desktops and devices (including smartphones, tablets and tv) ## Project Status: Current project status: The project is stable with little activity Issues for the board: None ## Membership Data: Apache Flex was founded 2012-12-19 (11 years ago) There are currently 67 committers and 45 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 3:2. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Greg Dove on 2023-03-03. - No new committers. Last addition was Greg Dove on 2016-09-07. ## Project Activity: There is little activity. There were some commits this quarter updating supported versions. ## Community Health: There was a slight uptick in activity this quarter, but it's still very low volume.
No report was submitted.
## Description: The mission of the Apache Flex project is to create and maintain software related to the development of expressive web applications that deploy to all major browsers, desktops and devices (including smartphones, tablets and tv) ## Project Status: Current project status: No recent ativity Issues for the board: None ## Membership Data: Apache Flex was founded 2012-12-19 (11 years ago) There are currently 67 committers and 45 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 3:2. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Greg Dove on 2023-03-03. - No new committers. Last addition was Greg Dove on 2016-09-07. ## Project Activity: Recent releases: Apache Flex BlazeDS 4.8.0 was released on 2023-04-17. flex-maven-tools/flex-sdk-converter 1.1.0 was released on 2023-02-20. Install Apache Flex 3.3.2 was released on 2018-07-09. ## Community Health: There has not been a lot of community activity. There was almost no activity on the dev@ list this past quarter. Some light discussion on the users@ list.
No report was submitted.
## Description: The mission of the Apache Flex project is to create and maintain software related to the development of expressive web applications that deploy to all major browsers, desktops and devices (including smartphones, tablets and tv) ## Project Status: Current project status: The project is stable with little activity Issues for the board: None ## Membership Data: Apache Flex was founded 2012-12-19 (11 years ago) There are currently 68 committers and 46 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 3:2. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Greg Dove on 2023-03-03. - No new committers. Last addition was Greg Dove on 2016-09-07. ## Project Activity: The is little activity. There was a bit of work done on BlazeDS this quarter and the website was updated with some BlazeDS information. - Apache Flex BlazeDS 4.8.0 was released on 2023-04-17. - flex-maven-tools/flex-sdk-converter 1.1.0 was released on 2023-02-20. - Install Apache Flex 3.3.2 was released on 2018-07-09. ## Community Health: No significant change. There has been a slight increase in activity this quarter mostly related to BlazeDS. - dev@flex.apache.org had a 18% increase in traffic in the past quarter (26 emails compared to 22) - 1 issue opened in JIRA, past quarter (100% increase) - 22 commits in the past quarter (175% increase) - 4 code contributors in the past quarter (no change) - 4 PRs opened on GitHub, past quarter (33% increase) - 3 PRs closed on GitHub, past quarter (300% increase)
## Description: The mission of the Apache Flex project is to create and maintain software related to the development of expressive web applications that deploy to all major browsers, desktops and devices (including smartphones, tablets and tv) ## Project Status: Current project status: Stable Issues for the board: None ## Membership Data: Apache Flex was founded 2012-12-19 (10 years ago) There are currently 68 committers and 46 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 3:2. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Greg Dove on 2023-03-03. - No new committers. Last addition was Greg Dove on 2016-09-07. ## Project Activity: A security update of BlazeDS was released on 2023-04-17. ## Community Health: The community is largely unchanged. There has been little activity since the chair change and the BlazeDS release.
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Olaf Krüger (okrueger) to the office of Vice President, Apache Flex, and WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of Olaf Krüger from the office of Vice President, Apache Flex, and WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Flex project has chosen by vote to recommend Harbs (harbs) as the successor to the post; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Olaf Krüger is relieved and discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice President, Apache Flex, and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Harbs be and hereby is appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Flex, 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 Flex Project Chair, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
## Description: The mission of the Apache Flex project is to create and maintain software related to the development of expressive web applications that deploy to all major browsers, desktops and devices (including smartphones, tablets and tv) ## Issues: No issues at this time. ## Membership Data: Apache Flex was founded 2012-12-19 There are currently 68 committers and 46 PMC members in this project. Of those PMC members an estimated 5 or 6 are active. Community changes, past quarter: - Greg Dove was added as a PMC member. - No new committers. Last addition was Greg Dove on 2016-09-07. ## Project Activity: The project is stable. There is a need to update BlazeDS for security updates and support more modern dependencies. One necessary dependency was released on February 21. There is currently an ongoing vote to release a new version of BlazeDS. Harbs was voted and requested to become the new chair pending the upcoming board meeting. ## Community Health: The project is stable and there's little activity. There is little discussion. It took longer than desired to fix the BlazeDS issue. That's mostly because very few PMC members have experience with that piece of code. Most of the recent discussion was involving BlazeDS and switching the chair.
## Description: The mission of the Apache Flex project is to create and maintain software related to the development of expressive web applications that deploy to all major browsers, desktops and devices (including smartphones, tablets and tv) ## Issues: BlazeDS Log4J dependencies ## Membership Data: Apache Flex was founded 2012-12-19 (10 years ago) There are currently 68 committers and 45 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 3:2. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Olaf Krüger on 2017-08-28. - No new committers. Last addition was Greg Dove on 2016-09-07. ## Project Activity: Some guys are working on a BlazeDS release in order to fix the Log4J issues. https://lists.apache.org/thread/5mjwoc6tt1wcq24hkwlfv18y99f92ppr ## Community Health: There is nearly no mailing list activity at the Flex lists. Some Flex related discussions are held at the Apache Royale lists. Olaf Krüger has resigned as chairman, Harbs is the only one who has offered to take on the task so far: https://lists.apache.org/thread/s70fn0fjopr5s7sx096wcfmvvx7j3ccz Note from Olaf: I am totally inactive on the Flex project since a very long time. It looks like the remaining community still wants to keep the project alive instead of retiring it. I have done my best to prepare this and previous reports.
No report was submitted.
## Description: The mission of the Apache Flex project is to create and maintain software related to the development of expressive web applications that deploy to all major browsers, desktops and devices (including smartphones, tablets and tv) ## Issues: ## Membership Data: Apache Flex was founded 2012-12-19 (10 years ago) There are currently 68 committers and 45 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 3:2. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Olaf Krüger on 2017-08-28. - No new committers. Last addition was Greg Dove on 2016-09-07. ## Project Activity: No changes have been made to the Flex framework for a long time. ## Community Health: There is nearly no mailing list activity at the Flex lists. Some Flex related discussions are held at the Apache Royale lists. The project is searching for a new chair.
No report was submitted.
## Description: The mission of the Apache Flex project is to create and maintain software related to the development of expressive web applications that deploy to all major browsers, desktops and devices (including smartphones, tablets and tv) ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention. ## Membership Data: Apache Flex was founded 2012-12-19 (9 years ago) There are currently 68 committers and 45 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 3:2. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Olaf Krüger on 2017-08-28. - No new committers. Last addition was Greg Dove on 2016-09-07. ## Project Activity: No changes have been made to the Flex framework for a long time and it is unlikely that another release will appear. We should think about retiring the project. ## Releases: - Apache Flex SDK 4.16.1 on 2017-11-25 - Apache Flex Installer 3.3.2 on 2018-07-14. ## Community Health: During the last quarter, there was no mailing list activity at dev and nearly no activity at users.
@Rich: follow up on project viability
## Description: The mission of the Apache Flex project is to create and maintain software related to the development of expressive web applications that deploy to all major browsers, desktops and devices (including smartphones, tablets and tv) ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention. ## Membership Data: Apache Flex was founded 2012-12-19 (9 years ago) There are currently 68 committers and 45 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 3:2. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Olaf Krüger on 2017-08-28. - No new committers. Last addition was Greg Dove on 2016-09-07. ## Project Activity: No changes have been made to the Flex framework for a long time and it is unlikely that another release will appear. Until now, no effort has been started in order to archive the project. ## Community Health: During the last quarter, there was no mailing list activity at dev and nearly no activity at users.
## Description: The mission of the Apache Flex project is to create and maintain software related to the development of expressive web applications that deploy to all major browsers, desktops and devices (including smartphones, tablets and tv) ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention. ## Membership Data: Apache Flex was founded 2012-12-19 (9 years ago) There are currently 68 committers and 45 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 3:2. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Olaf Krüger on 2017-08-28. - No new committers. Last addition was Greg Dove on 2016-09-07. ## Project Activity: No changes have been made to the Flex framework for a long time and it is unlikely that another release will appear. We maybe should think about archiving the project in 2022. ## Community Health: During the last quarter, there was nearly no mailing list activity at users and dev.
## Description: The mission of the Apache Flex project is to create and maintain software related to the development of expressive web applications that deploy to all major browsers, desktops and devices (including smartphones, tablets and tv) ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention. ## Membership Data: Apache Flex was founded 2012-12-19 (9 years ago) There are currently 68 committers and 45 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 3:2. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Olaf Krüger on 2017-08-28. - No new committers. Last addition was Greg Dove on 2016-09-07. ## Project Activity: No changes have been made to the Flex framework for a long time and it is unlikely that another release will appear. ## Community Health: During the last quarter, there was nearly no mailing list activity at users and dev.
## Description: The mission of the Apache Flex project is to create and maintain software related to the development of expressive web applications that deploy to all major browsers, desktops and devices (including smartphones, tablets and tv) ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention ## Membership Data: Apache Flex was founded 2012-12-19 (8 years ago) There are currently 68 committers and 45 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 3:2. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Olaf Krüger on 2017-08-28. - No new committers. Last addition was Greg Dove on 2016-09-07. ## Project Activity: No changes have been made to the Flex framework for a long time and it is unlikely that another release will appear. ## Community Health: Even the daily mailing list activity is decreasing, users still come back when issues needs to be resolved.
## Description: The mission of the Apache Flex project is to create and maintain software related to the development of expressive applications that deploy to desktops and devices (including smartphones, tablets and tv) ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention. ## Membership Data: Apache Flex was founded 2012-12-19 (8 years ago) There are currently 68 committers and 45 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 3:2. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Olaf Krüger on 2017-08-28. - No new committers. Last addition was Greg Dove on 2016-09-07. ## Project Activity: Flash has been blocked by Adobe since January 2021 and is therefore no longer available within the browser. The only remaining supported runtime is AIR, maintained by Harman. No changes have been made to the Flex framework for a long time and it is unlikely that another release will appear. ## Community Health: Even the daily mailing list activity is decreasing, users still come back when issues needs to be resolved.
## Description: The mission of the Apache Flex project is to create and maintain software related to the development of expressive web applications that deploy to all major browsers, desktops and devices (including smartphones, tablets and tv). ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Membership Data: Apache Flex was founded 2012-12-19 (8 years ago). There are currently 69 committers and 45 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 3:2. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Olaf Krüger on 2017-08-28. - No new committers. Last addition was Greg Dove on 2016-09-07. ## Project Activity: The website migration off the Apache CMS is still in process. The installer was broken and has been fixed. ## Community Health: The community is trying to help each other wherever it can, even if only a few active users are left.
## Description: The mission of the Apache Flex project is to create and maintain software related to the development of expressive web applications that deploy to all major browsers, desktops and devices (including smartphones, tablets and tv) ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Membership Data: Apache Flex was founded 2012-12-19 (8 years ago) There are currently 69 committers and 45 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 3:2. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Olaf Krüger on 2017-08-28. - No new committers. Last addition was Greg Dove on 2016-09-07. ## Project Activity: The community is evaluating options of migrating the Flex website. The current website is based on the Apache CMS which reaches its end-of-life. ## Community Health: A discussion about starting the process to attic the Flex project begun. There was no vote about it, but it seems that there's a consensus to not start the attic process as long as Harman will support Flex/AIR and as long our community is able to meet the Apache criteria for an active project.
## Description: Apache Flex is an application framework for easily building Flash-based applications for mobile devices, the browser and desktop. Because the FlashPlayer reaches its EOL at the end of 2020, we won't be able to target the browser with Flex after 2020. ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Membership Data: Apache Flex was founded 2012-12-19 (7 years ago) There are currently 69 committers and 45 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 3:2. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Olaf Krüger on 2017-08-28. - No new committers. Last addition was Greg Dove on 2016-09-07. ## Project Activity: After a few uncertainties, it turned out that Harman feels obliged to pay attention to Flex in case of AIR updates. Adobe has removed the entire Flex, AIR and Flash documentation from their website and put it into an accessable archive. The community started a discussion about saving this stuff and making it available through Apache. ## Community Health: There is nearly no activity on the dev list. On the users list, questions about the Flex framework itself are getting fewer. Most of the users list activity is related to AIR, recurring issues with the Flex installer and migration paths.
## Description: Apache Flex is an application framework for easily building Flash-based applications for mobile devices, the browser and desktop. Because the FlashPlayer reaches its EOL at the end of 2020, we won't be able to target the browser with Flex after 2020. ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Membership Data: Apache Flex was founded 2012-12-19 (7 years ago) There are currently 69 committers and 45 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 3:2. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Olaf Krüger on 2017-08-28. - No new committers. Last addition was Greg Dove on 2016-09-07. ## Project Activity: The latest AIR update breaks Flex. The community is discussing how to fix this issue. ## Community Health: Even the daily mailing list activity is decreasing, users still come back when issues needs to be resolved.
## Description: Apache Flex is an application framework for easily building Flash-based applications for mobile devices, the browser and desktop. Because the FlashPlayer reaches its EOL at the end of 2020, we won't be able to target the browser with Flex after 2020. ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Membership Data: Apache Flex was founded 2012-12-19 (7 years ago) There are currently 69 committers and 45 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 3:2. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Olaf Krüger on 2017-08-28. - No new committers. Last addition was Greg Dove on 2016-09-07. ## Project Activity: The "flex-dk-converter-maven-extension" was released in order to simplify Flex and Apache Royale builds. With this release current projects using this extension can simplify the command line instructions by removing "-s settings-template.xml" and not depending on that xml file anymore. That makes the build process less verbose and more easy for the users. ## Community Health: Activity on users list is still decreasing. Activity on dev list is increasing, mainly because of the latest Maven related activities.
## Description: Apache Flex is an application framework for easily building Flash-based applications for mobile devices, the browser and desktop. ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Flex runtimes The available, free to use Flex runtimes are the Adobe Flash Player and Adobe AIR. In 2017, Adobe already announced the EOL of the Flash Player for the end of 2020. Since June 2019, Harman has undertaken AIR platform support and feature development. Harman provides AIR on a commercial basis, with a free version available for certain eligible individuals/companies. [1] Users can subscribe to the Harman mailing list in order to get the latest AIR related news. ## Activity: Activity on the mailing lists among the users decreased by about an average of 50% the previous three months. It's obvious that the upcoming EOL of the FlashPlayer has an impact on Flex and its user base. Some folks migrate to AIR and stick with Flex, others porting their apps to other technologies. ## PMC changes: - Currently 45 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Olaf Krüger on Mon Aug 28 2017 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 69 committers. - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was Greg Dove at Wed Sep 07 2016 ## Releases: - Apache Flex SDK 4.16.1 on 2017-11-22 - Apache Flex Installer 3.3.2 on 2018-07-09. ## JIRA activity: - 3 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 0 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months [1] https://airsdk.harman.com/
## Description: Apache Flex is an application framework for easily building Flash-based applications for mobile devices, the browser and desktop. ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Flex runtimes The available, free to use Flex runtimes are the Adobe Flash Player and Adobe AIR. In 2017, Adobe already announced the EOL of the Flash Player for 2020. In May 2019, Adobe announced that it would transition ongoing platform support and feature development of AIR to Harman as of June 2019. [1][2] The community is discussing this profound change [3] and is waiting for more details to be published by Harman. ## Activity: Activity on the mailing list among the users stayed the same as in the previous three months. ## PMC changes: - Currently 45 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Olaf Krüger on Mon Aug 28 2017 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 69 committers. - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was Greg Dove at Wed Sep 07 2016 ## Releases: - Apache Flex SDK 4.16.1 on 2017-11-22 - Apache Flex Installer 3.3.2 on 2018-07-09. ## JIRA activity: - 1 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 0 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months [1] https://theblog.adobe.com/the-future-of-adobe-air/ [2] https://services.harman.com/partners/adobe [3] http://apache-flex-users.2333346.n4.nabble.com/Adobe-AIR-Maintenance-and-support-changes-td17766.html
## Description: Apache Flex is an application framework for easily building Flash-based applications for mobile devices, the browser and desktop. ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Activity: Activity on the mailing list among the users stayed the same as in the previous three months. We are responding when users have problems with downloading the SDK due to changes related to the MD5 signature on the Adobe side. Repositories of the project were migrated to gitbox. A vote on the move to the github wiki and github issues has received no majority [1]. There is an ongoing trademark issue that the PMC and trademarks are dealing with: The Xeptor issue is resolved, the MagicMotorsprot issue remains to be resolved. ## PMC changes: - Currently 45 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Olaf Krüger on Mon Aug 28 2017 - Dave Fisher resigned from PMC - Carol Frampton resigned from PMC - Olaf Krüger was approved as the new chair in January 2019 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 69 committers. - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was Greg Dove at Wed Sep 07 2016 ## Releases: - Apache Flex SDK 4.16.1 on 2017-11-22 - Apache Flex Installer 3.3.2 on 2018-07-09. ## JIRA activity: - 3 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 0 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months [1] http://apache-flex-development.2333347.n4. nabble.com/Vote-Moving-JIRA-issues-and-Confluence-Wiki-to-GitHub-td65616.html
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Tom Chiverton (tomc) to the office of Vice President, Apache Flex, and WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of Tom Chiverton from the office of Vice President, Apache Flex, and WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Flex project has chosen by vote to recommend Olaf Krüger (okrueger) as the successor to the post; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Tom Chiverton is relieved and discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice President, Apache Flex, and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Olaf Krüger be and hereby is appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Flex, 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 Flex Project Chair, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
## Description: Apache Flex is an application framework for easily building Flash-based applications for mobile devices, the browser and desktop. ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Activity: Activity on mailing list among the users stayed the same as in previous three months. We are taking care if users have problems with downloading SDK in case of changes related to MD5 signature on Adobe side. There is an ongoing trademark issue that the PMC and trademarks are dealing with. ## PMC changes: - Currently 47 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Olaf Krüger on Mon Aug 28 2017 - Scott Guthmann stepped down from the PMC due to changing careers - Tom Chiverton has posted at 2018-12-12 at private@ that he wants to step aside as chair - The community has proposed Olaf Krüger as new chair ## Committer base changes: - Currently 69 committers. - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was Greg Dove at Wed Sep 07 2016 ## Releases: - Apache Flex SDK 4.16.1 on 2017-11-22 - Apache Flex Installer 3.3.2 on 2018-07-09. ## JIRA activity: - 2 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 1 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
No report was submitted.
Apache Flex is an application framework for easily building Flash-based applications for mobile devices, the browser and desktop. RELEASES Apache Flex SDK Installer 3.3.2 - a bug fix release for an issue on Windows with large downloads. In order to work around this issue, the 32-bit based installer runs a 64-bit version of the installer now. Older Releases: -Apache Flex SDK 4.16.1 was released on 2017-11-22 -Apache Flex BlazeDS 4.7.3 was released on 3/31/17. -Apache Flex Tour De Flex Component Explorer 1.2 was released on 11/28/14. -Apache Flex Tool API 1.0.0 was released on 11/20/14 -Apache Flex Squiggly 1.1 was released on 10/26/14 ACTIVITY & COMMUNITY We are constantly helping users on dev and users list if any requests come out. Last PMC addition: Mon Aug 28 2017 Last committer addition: Wed Sep 07 2016 TRADEMARKS VP-Brand notified the PMC of three potentially infringing trademarks, and has instructed legal to oppose. SECURITY Nothing to report.
Apache Flex is an application framework for easily building Flash-based applications for mobile devices, the browser and desktop. RELEASES Apache Flex SDK Installer 3.3.1 was released on 2018-04-18 - this was an update to match the latest Flash Player SDK. Older Releases: -Apache Flex SDK 4.16.1 was released on 2017-11-22 -Apache Flex BlazeDS 4.7.3 was released on 3/31/17. -Apache Flex Tour De Flex Component Explorer 1.2 was released on 11/28/14. -Apache Flex Tool API 1.0.0 was released on 11/20/14 -Apache Flex Squiggly 1.1 was released on 10/26/14 ACTIVITY Dev@ has seen a recent uptick in emails, and user@ has also seen a sharp increase in posts. These seem to be driven largely by installer-related issues. Last PMC addition: Mon Aug 28 2017 (Olaf Krüger) Last committer addition: Wed Sep 07 2016 (Greg Dove) COMMUNITY The Apache Flex community feels like a calmer and more stable place, with conversations driven directly by features or bug reports rather than discussions over process. This suggests we're doing the right thing compared to a year ago. TRADEMARKS Nothing noted. SECURITY Nothing to report.
Apache Flex is an application framework for easily building Flash-based applications for mobile devices, the browser and desktop. RELEASES No new releases in the last quarter. Older Releases: -Apache Flex SDK Installer 3.3 was released on 2017-11-16 -Apache Flex SDK 4.16.1 was released on 2017-11-22 -Apache Flex BlazeDS 4.7.3 was released on 3/31/17. -Apache Flex Tour De Flex Component Explorer 1.2 was released on 11/28/14. -Apache Flex Tool API 1.0.0 was released on 11/20/14 -Apache Flex Squiggly 1.1 was released on 10/26/14 ACTIVITY There are still questions being asked on users@ and bugs being filed in JIRA. Activity on dev@ continues at it's reduced level since the Royal (https://royale.apache.org/) project split at the end of 2017. There are issues downloading a dependency from SourceForge. It is an MPL binary from Adobe. A migration to SHA1 checksums (per the updated Apache policy) is being discussed. COMMUNITY Flex is using the Wiki to draft Board reports successfully. TRADEMARKS Nothing noted. SECURITY Nothing to report.
Apache Flex is an application framework for easily building Flash-based applications for mobile devices, the browser and desktop. RELEASES Apache Flex SDK Installer 3.3 was released on 2017-11-16 This update provides a fix for an out of memory exception when user downloads the Apache Flex SDK with Adobe AIR versions greater than 23 on the Windows platform. Apache Flex SDK 4.16.1 was released on 2017-11-22 The Apache Flex SDK 4.16.1 is an update to Apache Flex SDK 4.16.0 that adds support for the latest Flash Player and AIR runtimes and some bug fixes. For more details, see the release notes at: http://www.apache.org/dist/flex/4.16.1/RELEASE_NOTES Older Releases: -Apache Flex BlazeDS 4.7.3 was released on 3/31/17. -Apache Flex Tour De Flex Component Explorer 1.2 was released on 11/28/14. -Apache Flex Tool API 1.0.0 was released on 11/20/14 -Apache Flex Squiggly 1.1 was released on 10/26/14 ACTIVITY Apache FlexJS was renamed to Royale and established as its own top level project at Apache. Since the Royale project was created, the dev community seems to be less active. The users list is still seeing questions quite often. The board approved a change of Flex PMC chair from Alex Harui to Tom Chiverton COMMUNITY Apache Flex investigates use of it's Wiki to draft Board reports. This should make the process easier and more co-operative for the community. The last committer was elected on 9/5/16. The last PMC member was elected on 8/28/17. We lost Christophe Herreman and Scott Delamater from the PMC. Both felt that they were inactive, and in at least one case no longer actively using Apache Flex. TRADEMARKS A company is promoting a software product called Flex that appears to be related to themes/styles for website visuals. Despite several attempts to contact them, they have not responded. The ASF VP Trademarks sent them an email on 11/3/16. There has not been any more signs of confusion from the community. Maybe we should just not pursue it any more? SECURITY Nothing to report.
@Mark: follow up on CVE actions
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Alex Harui (aharui) to the office of Vice President, Apache Flex, and WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of Alex Harui from the office of Vice President, Apache Flex, and WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Flex project has chosen by vote to recommend Tom Chiverton (tomc) as the successor to the post; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Alex Harui is relieved and discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice President, Apache Flex, and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Tom Chiverton be and hereby is appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Flex, 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 Flex Project Chair, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
Apache Flex is an application framework for easily building Flash-based applications for mobile devices, the browser and desktop. RELEASES -Apache FlexJS 0.8.0 was released on 6/25/17. -Apache Flex SDK 4.16.0 was released on 3/10/17. -Apache Flex BlazeDS 4.7.3 was released on 3/31/17. -Apache Flex Tour De Flex Component Explorer 1.2 was released on 11/28/14. -Apache Flex Tool API 1.0.0 was released on 11/20/14 -Apache Flex Squiggly 1.1 was released on 10/26/14 -Apache Flex Installer 3.2.0 was released on 6/23/15. ACTIVITY The past three months saw the release of Apache FlexJS 0.8.0. This belatedly fulfilled our obligation to remove org.json dependencies from our releases. On 7/25, Adobe announced the end-of-life for Flash Player in browsers in 2020. This eliminates a significant runtime environment for Apache Flex. This news resulted in a slight increase in interest in FlexJS and some new features were developed in response to user requests. The drop in mailing list and commit activity reported in the prior quarter seems to have been temporary. The Apache Flex Installer assists users in the downloading and expanding of the runtime prerequisites such as the Adobe AIR SDK and is having running out of memory dealing with increasingly large artifacts from Adobe. As such, there is a good chance that fewer successful installs are being tracked by the Apache Flex Installer as more folks may be opting for alternative ways to install our releases. COMMUNITY -Last committer as added on 9/5/16. A discussion started last quarter about a new candidate but that candidate has not been very active lately so the discussion seems to have been suspended. -Olaf Krüger was added to the PMC on 8/28/17. -A resolution to make Tom Chiverton the next Apache Flex chair has been presented to the board. -A proposal to create a new top-level project called Apache Royale has been presented to the board. Apache Royale will take responsibility for what is now Apache FlexJS and related repos. -Latest analytics include around 800 hits per day on the Website during the work week (less on weekends). It used to be closer to 1000 hits per day but better than the 500 hits per day reported last quarter. -There were more than 2700 installs of Apache Flex 4.16.0 since its release in March 2017. TRADEMARKS -A company is promoting a software product called Flex that appears to be related to themes/styles for website visuals. Despite several attempts to contact them, they have not responded. The ASF VP Trademarks sent them an email on 11/3/16. I did not see a response and their website is still up. What is the next step? SECURITY Nothing to report (finally).
Apache Flex is an application framework for easily building Flash-based applications for mobile devices, the browser and desktop. RELEASES -Apache Flex SDK 4.16.0 was released on 3/10/17. -Apache Flex BlazeDS 4.7.3 was released on 3/31/17. -Preparing to vote on Apache FlexJS 0.8.0. -Apache FlexJS 0.7.0 was released on 9/7/16. -Apache Flex Tour De Flex Component Explorer 1.2 was released on 11/28/14. -Apache Flex Tool API 1.0.0 was released on 11/20/14 -Apache Flex Squiggly 1.1 was released on 10/26/14 -Apache Flex Installer 3.2.0 was released on 6/23/15. ACTIVITY The past three months saw the release of Apache Flex SDK 4.16.0 and Apache Flex BlazeDS 4.7.3, the latter addressing CVE-2017-5641. Apache Flex SDK 4.16.0 contained a fix for FLEX-35123, an XSS issue reported in prior board reports. It is only exploitable in really old versions of Safari. We did not get a CVE for it. Maybe we should? It seems almost more academic than actual. Christofer Dutz organized the FlexJS Summit at ApacheCon. Several committers met for the first time and reportedly had a great time. A list of priorities for FlexJS and other products we release also came out of the summit. An attempt was made to get the Apache FlexJS 0.8.0 release out by the end of April in order to meet the org.json deadline, but many major bugs were found after feature freeze started on April 21 (known as "Last Call" on our dev@ list). We next tried to get the release out for ApacheCon, but as of May 31 we are still fixing bugs. There is something inefficient about the release process for Apache Flex releases. As the release manager for Apache FlexJS 0.8.0, it doesn't feel like the community focuses on trying to get the release out, but rather, reasons to put off the release. The Apache Flex SDK 4.16.0 only had 3 voters. And after it went out, we found out that the installer didn't work in some common scenarios. We are unable to reach quality in a timely manner. There have been no new volunteers to be Release Manager for several years now. Being RM is one of the things I dread doing. As I (Alex Harui, PMC Chair) file this report, we still won't have a release out since a couple of PMC members did not bother to examine the artifacts during "Last Call", waited for the RC to be posted, and now want major restructuring of the release artifacts. Mailing list activity on dev@ dropped by 30% around the end of March and remains down. Commit activity from folks who were active in the prior quarter is down as well. I am hopeful that this is because one committer ran out of time to contribute recently and the others finished most of the work on the libraries they were working on and are now building apps for their employers on top of those libraries. COMMUNITY -Last committer as added on 9/5/16. A discussion has started about a new candidate. -Yishay Weiss was added to the PMC on 1/20/17. -Latest analytics include a little less than 500 hits per day on the Website during the work week (less on weekends). It used to be closer to 1000 hits per day. -There were more than 2700 installs Apache Flex 4.16.0 since its release in March 2017. -More than 130,000 people have run the Tour De Flex application. Tour De Flex is a set of examples folks use to learn how to develop Flex applications. TRADEMARKS -A company is promoting a software product called Flex that appears to be related to themes/styles for website visuals. Despite several attempts to contact them, they have not responded. The ASF VP Trademarks sent them an email on 11/3/16. I did not see a response and their website is still up. What is the next step? -Trademarks@ notified us that a company in Europe is applying to register the word FLEX for a software product that runs gas stations, but still might cause confusion. The recommendation from trademarks@ and consensus from the Flex PMC is to have Apache counsel write them a nice letter asking them to limit the scope of their application to their industry.
@Mark: Take suggestions for improving communication back to the project
Apache Flex is an application framework for easily building Flash-based applications for mobile devices, the browser and desktop. RELEASES - Apache Flex FalconJX 0.7.0 was released on 9/7/16. - Voting still underway for Apache Flex SDK 4.16.0. - Preparing to vote on Apache Flex BlazeDS 4.7.3. - Apache Flex SDK 4.15.0 was released on 1/9/16. - Apache Flex BlazeDS 4.7.2 was released on 11/16/15. - Apache Flex Tour De Flex Component Explorer 1.2 was released on 11/28/14. - Apache Flex Tool API 1.0.0 was released on 11/20/14 - Apache Flex Squiggly 1.1 was released on 10/26/14 - Apache Flex Installer 3.2.0 was released on 6/23/15. ACTIVITY The past three months saw further increase in committer activity around FlexJS. FlexJS is the next generation of Flex that provides application developers with a highly productive framework and tool chain for developing web apps, mobile apps and desktop apps. Traditional Flex applications require Adobe Flash/AIR runtimes (or tools to pre-compile them to Android/IOS). FlexJS applications output HTML/JS/CSS and can even be used to create Apache Cordova applications. Christofer Dutz has taken the lead on the first ever FlexJS Summit at ApacheCon NA in Miami. About 6 other PMC members have helped to get the word out, and proposed talks. One new company announced on the dev list that they are planning to attend. So far, no other new names have stated that they will attend. A few new names have appeared on the mailing list, indicating that interest is up. There is at least one person we are watching as a potential committer candidate. COMMUNITY - Last committer as added on 9/5/16. - Yishay Weiss was added to the PMC on 1/20/17. - Latest analytics include a little less than 1000 hits per day on the website during the work week (less on weekends). - There were more than 16000 installs of Apache Flex 4.15.0 since its release in January 2016. - More than 115,000 people have run the Tour De Flex application. Tour De Flex is a set of examples folks use to learn how to develop Flex applications. TRADEMARKS - A company is promoting a software product called Flex that appears to be related to themes/styles for website visuals. Despite several attempts to contact them, they have not responded. The ASF VP Trademarks sent them an email on 11/3/16. I did not see a response and their website is still up. What is the next step?
Apache Flex is an application framework for easily building Flash-based applications for mobile devices, the browser and desktop. RELEASES - Apache Flex FalconJX 0.7.0 was released on 9/7/16. Voting underway for Apache Flex SDK 4.16.0. - Apache Flex SDK 4.15.0 was released on 1/9/16. - Apache Flex BlazeDS 4.7.2 was released on 11/16/15. - Apache Flex Tour De Flex Component Explorer 1.2 was released on 11/28/14. - Apache Flex Tool API 1.0.0 was released on 11/20/14 - Apache Flex Squiggly 1.1 was released on 10/26/14 - Apache Flex Installer 3.2.0 was released on 6/23/15. ACTIVITY The past three months saw a significant increase in committer activity around FlexJS. FlexJS is the next generation of Flex that provides application developers with a highly productive framework and tool chain for developing web apps, mobile apps and desktop apps. Traditional Flex applications require Adobe Flash/AIR runtimes (or tools to pre-compile them to Android/IOS). FlexJS applications output HTML/JS/CSS and can even be used to create Apache Cordova applications. A few new names have appeared, but none are at the point of being committer-candidates yet. But two existing committers have jumped in, making significant contributions to the UI toolkit by creating a library with a Material Design look-and-feel. COMMUNITY - Greg Dove was added as a committer. - No new PMC members this quarter either. - Last PMC addition was Josh Tynjala on Wed Sep 16 2015. Flex has recently attracted committers that show up for 3 months and just as we are thinking they are ready for PMC nomination, they go quiet. But I am encouraging one PMC member to nominate one recent committer so hopefully that will happen before the next report. - Latest analytics include a little less than 1000 hits per day on the website during the work week (less on weekends). - There were more than 14,000 installs of Apache Flex 4.15.0 since its release in January. - Almost 115,000 people have run the Tour De Flex application. Tour De Flex is a set of examples folks use to learn how to develop Flex applications. TRADEMARKS - A company is promoting a software product called Flex that appears to be related to themes/styles for website visuals. Despite several attempts to contact them, they have not responded. The ASF VP Trademarks sent them an email on 11/3/16. I did not see a response and their website is still up. What is the next step?
Apache Flex is an application framework for easily building Flash-based applications for mobile devices, the browser and desktop. RELEASES -Apache Flex FalconJX 0.6.0 was released on 4/3/16. Voting underway for Apache Flex FlexJS/FalconJX 0.7.0. -Apache Flex SDK 4.15.0 was released on 1/9/16. -Apache Flex BlazeDS 4.7.2 was released on 11/16/15. -Apache Flex Tour De Flex Component Explorer 1.2 was released on 11/28/14. -Apache Flex Tool API 1.0.0 was released on 11/20/14 -Apache Flex Squiggly 1.1 was released on 10/26/14 -Apache Flex Installer 3.2.0 was released on 6/23/15. ACTIVITY The past three months saw the creation of the first FlexJS job! FlexJS is the next generation of Flex that provides application developers with a highly productive framework and tool chain for developing web apps, mobile apps and desktop apps. Traditional Flex applications require Adobe Flash/AIR runtimes (or tools to pre-compile them to Android/IOS). FlexJS applications output HTML/JS/CSS and can even be used to create Apache Cordova applications. FlexJS continues to be the main focus of development. The new job was created by the employer of a current committer and both are now contributing to FlexJS as part of their $dayjob. Another committer-candidate has appeared as well, making significant contributions in the compiler, a place most folks don't like to go. A release vote is underway for our 0.7.0 release that includes Maven artifacts for the first time, which was the highest voted JIRA wish for Flex. COMMUNITY -Yishaw Weiss was added as a committer. Another vote on another candidate is in progress. -No new PMC members this quarter. -Last PMC addition was Josh Tynjala on Wed Sep 16 2015. We will probably promote a few new committers this quarter as we now have new committers that are more active. -Latest analytics include over 1000 hits per day on the website during the work week (less on weekends). -There were more than 11,000 installs of Apache Flex 4.15.0 since its release in January. -More than 100,000 people have run the Tour De Flex application. Tour De Flex is a set of examples folks use to learn how to develop Flex applications. TRADEMARKS -A company is promoting a software product called Flex that appears to be related to themes/styles for website visuals. Despite several attempts to contact them, they have not responded. In June, we asked Trademarks@ for advice on next steps. We have not heard back from Trademarks.
Apache Flex is an application framework for easily building Flash-based applications for mobile devices, the browser and desktop. RELEASES -Apache Flex FalconJX 0.6.0 was released on 4/3/16. -Apache Flex SDK 4.15.0 was released on 1/9/16. -Apache Flex BlazeDS 4.7.2 was released on 11/16/15. -Apache Flex Tour De Flex Component Explorer 1.2 was released on 11/28/14. -Apache Flex Tool API 1.0.0 was released on 11/20/14 -Apache Flex Squiggly 1.1 was released on 10/26/14 -Apache Flex Installer 3.2.0 was released on 6/23/15. ACTIVITY The past three months saw the first of what we hope are many "Apache FlexJS World Tour" events. In early April we invited people to attend a one- day orientation and hackathon on FlexJS, a version of Flex that is independent from the Adobe Flash Platform. Many folks attended on-line as well. Some potential committers are hopefully among them. In addition, 2 PMC members attended ApacheCon NA and reported larger than expected attendance. Most activity seems to be centered around FlexJS, with the main focus being on Maven Integration, plus efforts to show that FlexJS is a more efficient way to build applications with other JS frameworks and even for building Apache Cordova apps. New capabilities like XML support and source maps have also been added. COMMUNITY -Olaf Krüger was added as a committer. -No new PMC members this quarter. -Last PMC addition was Josh Tynjala on Wed Sep 16 2015. Committers not on the PMC haven't been highly active, so we have not discussed promoting any of them to the PMC at this time. -Latest analytics include over 1000 hits per day on the website during the work week (less on weekends). -There were more than 7000 installs of Apache Flex 4.15.0 since its release in January. -There were more than 200 installs of Apache FlexJS 0.6.0 since its release in April. -Over 71,000 people have run the Tour De Flex application. Tour De Flex is a set of examples folks use to learn how to develop Flex applications. TRADEMARKS -A company is promoting a software product called Flex that appears to be related to themes/styles for website visuals. Despite several attempts to contact them, they have not responded. We have asked Trademarks@ for advice on next steps.
Apache Flex is an application framework for easily building Flash-based applications for mobile devices, the browser and desktop. RELEASES -Apache Flex SDK 4.15.0 was released on 1/9/16. -Apache FlexJS 0.5.0 was released on 11/14/15. -Apache Flex FalconJX 0.5.0 was released on 11/14/15. -Apache Flex BlazeDS 4.7.2 was released on 11/16/15. -Apache Flex Tour De Flex Component Explorer 1.2 was released on 11/28/14. -Apache Flex Tool API 1.0.0 was released on 11/20/14 -Apache Flex Squiggly 1.1 was released on 10/26/14 -Apache Flex Installer 3.2.0 was released on 6/23/15. ACTIVITY The past three months saw the release of Apache Flex SDK 4.15.0. Bug fix activity continues on even after the release. There seems to be gradually increasing interest in FlexJS, a version of Flex that is independent from the Adobe Flash Platform. We continue to see new names with new questions. Some potential committers are hopefully among them. Three members of the PMC are hosting a FlexJS education and training event in San Francisco on April 4. One committer is working on distributing FlexJS as an NPM module. Work on Maven integration continues. 3 PMC members had presentations accepted for ApacheCon NA. The Flex community tried to coordinate a Client Track for ApacheCon with folks from the Cordova community, but apparently the Linux Foundation wasn't interested in having such a track since some presentations were rejected. A revamp of the flex.a.o website is underway. It isn't ready for branding review just yet. CODE ADOPTION In the prior report we discussed the adoption of non-ASF code bases that are already licensed under ALv2. I think the community will eventually undertake one or more of the adoptions utilizing advice from the board but it didn't happen this quarter simply from lack of a volunteer to make it happen. COMMUNITY -Andy Dufilie was added as a committer. -No new PMC members this quarter. -Last PMC addition was Josh Tynjala on Wed Sep 16 2015 -A few PMC members were nominated for ASF membership. -Latest analytics include a little over 1000 hits per day on the website during the work week (less on weekends). -There were more than 3000 installs of Apache Flex 4.15.0 since its release in January. -Almost 65,000 people have run the Tour De Flex application. Tour De Flex is a set of examples folks use to learn how to develop Flex applications. TRADEMARKS -In the last report, we reported that a company is promoting a software product called Flex that appears to be related to themes/styles for website visuals. Despite several attempts to contact them, they have not responded. We will start a thread on trademarks@ shortly to determine the next steps. -A trademark issue with a com.br website was handled and closed.
Apache Flex is an application framework for easily building Flash-based applications for mobile devices, the browser and desktop. RELEASES -Apache FlexJS 0.5.0 was released on 11/14/15. -Apache Flex FalconJX 0.5.0 was released on 11/14/15. -Apache Flex BlazeDS 4.7.2 was released on 11/16/15. -Apache Flex SDK 4.14.1 was released on 3/30/15. -Apache Flex Tour De Flex Component Explorer 1.2 was released on 11/28/14. -Apache Flex Tool API 1.0.0 was released on 11/20/14 -Apache Flex Squiggly 1.1 was released on 10/26/14 -Apache Flex Installer 3.2.0 was released on 6/23/15. ACTIVITY The past three months saw continued activity related to FlexJS, a version of Flex that is independent from the Adobe Flash Platform. After the release in mid-November, mailing list activity related to FlexJS feels like it has reached new heights with new names posting. Another security issue was discovered in the BlazeDS 4.7.1 release resulting in the Blaze 4.7.2 release. Meanwhile, a release manager has volunteered to release Apache Flex SDK 4.15.0 and there is activity around bug fixes to that code. Work on Maven integration continues. Mailing list traffic is down, but not an issue yet. At some point in time, a change to the CMS was made and when we updated our website with news of the FlexJS release, those changes affected the output from the mirrors.cgi and broke our installer. I was able to find a workaround and we'll have to eventually ship a new Installer release that uses JSON output from the cgi. 3 PMC members presented a Flex track at ApacheCon EU and discussion are underway for ApacheCon NA. CODE ADOPTION Based on threads on general@incubator and legal-discuss, we are now discussing the notion of adopting non-ASF code bases that are already licensed under ALv2. One code base is Swiz which was approved for donation by vote over two year ago and reported in prior board reports but was never completed probably because the donor was having trouble tracking everyone down who needed to sign the Software Grant. The other is AS3Commons, which is currently under discussion leading to a vote. The understanding we have is that a Software Grant is not needed to accept these code bases since they are under ALv2. We will contact the major contributors from each code base to make sure there aren't conflicts or other objections to have Apache Flex adopt this code. There is no community around these code bases right now as the major contributors have moved on to other projects so we will accept responses from the major contributors as speaking for the community. COMMUNITY -Josh Tynjala was added as a PMC member. -A discussion is underway about a new committer. -Latest analytics include a little less than 1000 hits per day on the website during the work week (less on weekends). -There were more than 17,500 installs of Apache Flex 4.14.1 since its release about nine months ago. -Almost 85,000 people have run the Tour De Flex application. Tour De Flex is a set of examples folks use to learn how to develop Flex applications. TRADEMARKS -The apacheflex.com site we reported in the prior two reports seems to be gone. We never received any response to our request other than the site finally going away. -A PMC member reported that a company is promoting a software product called Flex that appears to be related to themes/styles for website visuals. I used their contact page to deliver the standard trademark violation template just before writing up this report so they haven't had a chance to respond.
Apache Flex is an application framework for easily building Flash-based applications for mobile devices, the browser and desktop. RELEASES -Apache Flex Installer 3.2.0 was also released on 6/23/15. -Apache Flex BlazeDS 4.7.1 was released on 8/6/15. -Apache Flex SDK 4.14.1 was released on 3/30/15. -Apache Flex Tour De Flex Component Explorer 1.2 was released on 11/28/14. -Apache Flex Tool API 1.0.0 was released on 11/20/14 -Apache Flex Squiggly 1.1 was released on 10/26/14 -Apache FlexJS 0.0.2 was released on 7/17/14. -Apache Flex FalconJX 0.0.2 was released on 7/17/14. ACTIVITY The past three months saw continued activity related to FlexJS, a version of Flex that is independent from the Adobe Flash Platform. Some interesting new features were added, such as integration with the IntelliJ IDE and the ability to write low-level JavaScript applications in ActionScript. Stabilizing the code for release has taken longer than expected, but I expect the vote to start in September. Another distraction was responding to a CVE that resulted in the BlazeDS 4.7.1 release. Meanwhile, there is activity around various bug fixes to other Apache Flex releases and better Maven integration. Mailing list traffic is down, but not an issue yet. The recent changes to the mirrors.cgi broke our installer. Infra has put in a temporary workaround, but we will be forced to release a newer installer that uses the newer mirror JSON. COMMUNITY -Joseph Labrecque was added as a committer. -A vote is about to start on a new PMC member. -Latest analytics include a little less than 2000 hits per day on the website during the work week (less on weekends). -There were more than 12,500 installs of Apache Flex 4.14.1 since its release about two months ago. -Almost 75,000 people have run the Tour De Flex application. Tour De Flex is a set of examples folks use to learn how to develop Flex applications. TRADEMARKS -We discovered that yet another apacheflex.com site has been created. The last time (September 2013) it was resolved easily, but I guess someone else grabbed and is now using it. An email was sent, but no response. What should we do next?
Apache Flex is an application framework for easily building Flash-based applications for mobile devices, the browser and desktop. RELEASES -Apache Flex SDK 4.14.1 was released on 3/30/15. -Apache Flex BlazeDS 4.7 was released on 3/6/15. -Apache Flex Tour De Flex Component Explorer 1.2 was released on 11/28/14. -Apache Flex Tool API 1.0.0 was released on 11/20/14 -Apache Flex Squiggly 1.1 was released on 10/26/14 -Apache Flex Installer 3.1.0 was also released on 7/14/14. -Apache FlexJS 0.0.2 was released on 7/17/14. -Apache Flex FalconJX 0.0.2 was released on 7/17/14. ACTIVITY The past couple of months saw a dramatic increase in activity related to FlexJS, a version of Flex that is independent from the Adobe Flash Platform. Two new committers have joined in and at least two long-time committers increased their participation significantly. Meanwhile, other committers are working on the Installer, various bug fixes to other Apache Flex releases and better Maven integration. Adobe also donated a set of Flex documentation. That is being updated for our web site. COMMUNITY -Josh Tynjala and Kevin Godell were added as committers. -Latest analytics include a little less than 2000 hits per day on the website during the work week (less on weekends). We are seeing a slight downward trend. -There were more than 6000 installs of Apache Flex 4.14.1 since its release about two months ago. -Almost 60,000 people have run the Tour De Flex application. Tour De Flex is a set of examples folks use to learn how to develop Flex applications. TRADEMARKS -We discovered that yet another apacheflex.com site has been created. The last time (September 2013) it was resolved easily, but I guess someone else grabbed and is now using it. We are currently drafting a “friendly” email that we will send to an email address on their web site.
Apache Flex is an application framework for easily building Flash-based applications for mobile devices, the browser and desktop. RELEASES -Apache Flex SDK 4.14.0 was released on 1/26/14. -A vote for Apache Flex BlazeDS 4.7 was in progress. -Apache Flex Tour De Flex Component Explorer 1.2 was released on 11/28/14. -Apache Flex Tool API 1.0.0 was released on 11/20/14 -Apache Flex Squiggly 1.1 was released on 10/26/14 -Apache Flex Installer 3.1.0 was also released on 7/14/14. -Apache FlexJS 0.0.2 was released on 7/17/14. -Apache Flex FalconJX 0.0.2 was released on 7/17/14. ACTIVITY Activity in Apache Flex is becoming more diverse. While there is still work going on fixing bugs in the existing Adobe Flash Platform-dependent code base, and on FlexJS, a version of Flex that is independent from the Adobe Flash Platform, the past three months saw contributions to the Installer, the preparation of a BlazeDS release, and discussion leading towards a PMD release, a new Installer release, and a 4.14.1 bug fix release. In the past two months, it feels like activity has slowed a bit: - The gap is widening between bugs filed vs bugs fixed and the bug fix rate is slightly slowing. - We’ve had two months of lower email traffic on dev@, but that might just mean there are fewer long controversial discussions. - We only elected two new committers and didn’t promote anyone to the PMC. IP Issues In the course of reviewing the 4.14.0 release, we found several IP issues, one with the release artifacts itself, and the other in one of our Git repos. The source artifact was missing attribution for some of the W3C code we bundle from Batik. The binary artifact bundled other binaries and hadn’t copied all of the content from NOTICE files from the bundled binaries. We also found that some of the jar files in the binary artifact were missing or didn’t have the right LICENSE and NOTICE files bundled into the artifact. We think we’ve addressed all of these issues, but are wondering whether we have to go back and fix older releases. Also during the release review, a PMC member did a full review of one of the Git repos that has a subset of its files bundled into the source artifact. He discovered that some of the files that don’t go into the release had IP issues. These files were brought in during incubation, but because they never got released, they never got a serious IP review. I’m wondering if we missed a step before graduation where we were supposed to review every file. There are probably other files in other repos that might have the same issue. What is the priority level on doing such a review? The main issue was that there was public domain content in some of the test media that didn’t have attribution anywhere. There was much debate on how to deal with the headers on some of these files. There was also some content that was copyright to Adobe, the UN or NY Times. This content has been replaced. Adobe’s legal team was notified since the donated code came from a SourceForge repo and thus had the same missing attribution. Adobe chose a different way to provide attribution for the public domain content. Code Donation Update -Swiz donation is still pending. The donor has not filed the paperwork. The main issue was collecting signatures from the many major Contributors who have all moved on to new things. COMMUNITY -Aaron Nash, Maxim Solovodnik were added as a committers. -Latest analytics include around 2000 hits per day on the website during the work week (less on weekends). That’s about the same as previous report. -There were more than 4,500 installs of 4.14.0 in the month its release. -More than 40,000 people have run the Tour De Flex application. Tour De Flex is a set of examples folks use to learn how to develop Flex applications. -The number of people subscribed to the dev list has fallen from 854 about a year ago to 799 now.
@Chris: join the mail list to see if action needs to be taken to help and suggest discussing with comdev
Apache Flex is an application framework for easily building Flash-based applications for mobile devices, the browser and desktop. RELEASES - Apache Flex Tour De Flex Component Explorer 1.2 was released on 11/28/14. - Apache Flex Tool API 1.0.0 was released on 11/20/14 - Apache Flex Squiggly 1.1 was released on 10/26/14 - Apache Flex Tour De Flex Component Explorer 1.1 was released on 9/24/14. - Apache Flex Squiggly 1.0 was released on 9/3/14 - Apache Flex Installer 3.1.0 was released on 7/14/14. - Apache Flex SDK 4.13.0 was released on 7/16/14. - Apache Flex FlexUnit 4.2.0 was released on 4/13/14. - Apache FlexJS 0.0.2 was released on 7/17/14. - Apache Flex FalconJX 0.0.2 was released on 7/17/14. ACTIVITY Activity in Apache Flex is becoming more diverse. While there is still work going on fixing bugs in the existing Adobe Flash Platform-dependent code base, and on FlexJS, a version of Flex that is independent from the Adobe Flash Platform, there has been more tangible activity working on Maven support for the various releases, contributions to the Installer, Tour De Flex, the Squiggly Spell Checking library, Text Layout Framework, Android and IOS skins, and more. In the past three months we've continued to see: - Continued JIRA activity (more bugs raised than resolved however) - New committers and potential committers. Code Donation Update - Swiz donation is still pending. The donor has not filed the paperwork. - Mahmoud Ali and Bruno Pacola donated the FlatSpark theme. COMMUNITY - Mahmoud Ali, Bruno Pacola, Curtis Aube, Neil Madsen and Jorge Yabra were added as committers. - Tom Chiverton, Piotr Zarzycki, Chris Martin and Mihai Chira were promoted from committer to PMC member. - Latest analytics include around 2000 hits per day on the website during the work week (less on weekends). That’s about the same as previous report. - There were more than 10,000 installs of 4.13.0 since its release. - More than 20,000 people have run the Tour De Flex application. Tour De Flex is a set of examples folks use to learn how to develop Flex applications.
Apache Flex is an application framework for easily building Flash-based applications for mobile devices, the browser and desktop. RELEASES -Apache Flex Installer 3.1.0 was also released on 7/14/14. -Apache Flex SDK 4.13.0 was released on 7/16/14. -Apache FlexJS 0.0.2 was released on 7/17/14. -Apache Flex FalconJX 0.0.2 was released on 7/17/14. -Apache Flex Tour De Flex Component Explorer was released on 8/21/14. ACTIVITY Activity in Apache Flex is becoming more diverse. While there is still work going on fixing bugs in the existing Adobe Flash Platform-dependent code base, and on FlexJS, a version of Flex that is independent from the Adobe Flash Platform, there has been more tangible activity working on Maven support for the various releases, another release of the Installer that better tracks why Apache Flex installs have a high failure rate, the donated Tour De Flex was released, a release of a Spell Checking library is in progress, and a committer and recently-added committer are working on TLF Table support in a GitHub fork. Also, we reconfigured both the Flex SDK and FlexJS SDK install scripts to use download servers that are not blocked in China, and had the install scripts localized to Chinese, enabling what we hope will eventually become a significant population of users. On our website, China is not too far behind the US as the most frequent visitors. Adobe is starting to shutdown some of its Flex-related web sites. We had to reconfigure our installer to download some optional Flex dependencies from different servers, but installs of older Apache Flex releases are now broken. One a good note, Adobe did install redirects from its version of Tour De Flex to ours, resulting in a significant boost in traffic and attention. In the past three months we've continued to see: - Continued JIRA activity (more bugs raised than resolved however) - New committers and potential committers. Code Donation Update -Swiz donation is still pending. The donor has not filed the paperwork. -Judah Frangipane donated the Radii8 code base. It is a tool to help Apache Flex users design their UI. COMMUNITY -Chris Martin, Darkstone and Judah Frangipane were added as committers -Latest analytics include around 2000 hits per day on the website during the work week (less on weekends). That's slightly down from before. -There were more than 4,000 installs of 4.13.0 in the 6 weeks since its release. -There were more than 120 installs of FlexJS in the 6 weeks since its release. -There have now been more than 60,000 installs of the Apache Flex SDK.
@Rich: work with PMC to help resolve conflicts
Apache Flex is an application framework for easily building Flash-based applications for mobile devices, the browser and desktop. RELEASES -Apache Flex SDK 4.12.0 was released on 3/10/14. -Apache Flex SDK 4.12.1 was released on 5/02/14. -Apache Flex Installer 3.0.0 was also released on 5/02/14. -Apache Flex FlexUnit 4.2.0 was released on 4/15/14. -Apache FlexJS 0.0.1 was released on 4/23/14. -Apache Flex FalconJX 0.0.1 was released on 4/23/14. ACTIVITY Activity in Apache Flex continues to be in two main areas: improvements To the existing Adobe Flash Platform-dependent code base, and FlexJS, a version of Flex that is independent from the Adobe Flash Platform. There is another group working on Maven-related tools for the existing code base, and significant work on the Installer, which can now run a subset of Apache Ant in Adobe AIR without Java or Ant prerequisites. One committer has taken on integrating the multi-threaded debugger support into the development branch. Another committer and a potential Committer are working on TLF Table support. In the past three months we've continued to see: - Continued JIRA activity (more bugs raised than resolved however) - More committers becoming active again. - Fewer new folks contributing and eventually becoming committers. Other highlights: -Two committers gave presentations on Flex at ApacheCon 2014. -Seven committers gave presentations on Flex at the 360|Flex conference. Code Donation Update -Swiz donation is still pending. The donor has not filed the paperwork. -Adobe completed the donation of several Flex-related code bases, including the remaining pieces of BlazeDS, the TourDeFlex sample apps, the FlexPMD Project, the Squiggly spell checker, multi-threaded support in the Debugger, and several popular web articles. COMMUNITY -Piotr Zarzycki and Mihai Chira were added as committers -Carlos Rovira and Christopher Dutz were added to the PMC. -Latest analytics include over 2500 hits per day on the website during the work week (less on weekends). -There were more than 12,000 installs of 4.12.x since its release. -There were more than 300 installs of FlexJS.
Apache Flex is an application framework for easily building Flash-based applications for mobile devices, the browser and desktop. RELEASES -Apache Flex SDK 4.11.0 was released on 10/28/13. -Voting is in progress for SDK 4.12.0 -Apache Flex Installer 2.7.0 was also released on 10/28/13. -Voting is also in progress for Installer 3.0.0 which has the new capability to use Ant script syntax to drive the install process. ACTIVITY Activity in Apache Flex continues to be in two main areas: improvements to the existing Adobe Flash Platform-dependent code base, including the releases listed above, and prototyping ways to create a version of Flex that is independent from the Adobe Flash Platform. There is another group working on Maven-related tools for the existing code base. In the past three months we've seen: - Continued JIRA activity (more bugs raised than resolved however) - More committers becoming active again. - Fewer new folks contributing and eventually becoming committers. Other highlights: -Over 70 bugs have been fixed in 4.12.0. -Three committers will be giving presentations on Flex at ApacheCon 2014. Code Donation Update -FlexUnit was donated but has yet to be formulated into a release. -Swiz donation is still pending. The donator has not filed the paperwork. -BlazeDS donation paperwork was submitted but the code is not yet in the repo because it was discovered that some pieces were missing. We hope to get the missing pieces soon. The missing pieces are stuck in IP review at Adobe. COMMUNITY -One person who has been helpful on the mailing list and in JIRA was invited as a committer and declined. -No other candidates for new committer or promotions of committers to PMC in this reporting period. -A non-committer claims to be starting on a book about Apache Flex. -Latest analytics include over 3000 hits per day on the website during the work week (less on weekends). -There were more than 14,000 installs of 4.11.0 since its release. -It feels like there is more interest from users based on activity on users@. -Slight decrease in activity-level and number of committers working on SDK repo but more activity and committers working on FlexJS. -Several Apache Flex committers will be presenting at the 360 Flex conference in May TRADEMARKS -The new version of Flex is going to be called FlexJS. We have begun associating the TM symbol with FlexJS per advice from trademarks@ -This site is hopefully in compliance with Apache trademark policy http://www.madeinflex.com/terminos-legales/ INFRASTRUCTURE * I'm still hoping to find time to resolve INFRA-4380 (attachments in old Flex bugs).
Apache Flex is an application framework for easily building Flash-based applications for mobile devices, the browser and desktop. RELEASES Apache Flex SDK 4.11.0 was released on 10/28/13. Apache Flex Installer 2.7.0 was also released on 10/28/13. ACTIVITY Activity in Apache Flex continues to be in two main areas: improvements To the existing Adobe Flash Platform-dependent code base, including the releases listed above, and prototyping ways to create a version of Flex that is independent from the Adobe Flash Platform. There is another group working on Maven-related tools for the existing code base. In the past three months we've seen: - Continued JIRA activity (more bugs raised than resolved however) - More folks contributing and eventually becoming committers. Other highlights: -Over 60 bugs were fixed in 4.11.0. -We adopted a set of guidelines/by-laws. They are on our wiki at: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLEX/Guidelines Code Donation Update -FlexUnit was donated but has yet to be formulated into a release. -Swiz donation is still pending. The donator has not filed the paperwork. -BlazeDS donation paperwork was submitted but the code is not yet in the repo because it was discovered that some pieces were missing. We hope to get the missing pieces before the next report, maybe even by end of year. COMMUNITY -Stephan Plath added as committer on 11/17/13. -Cosma Colanicchia added as committer on 10/17/13. -Tom Chiverton added as a committer on 9/30/13. -Maurice Amsellem added as a committer on 9/28/13. -Darrell Loverin added as a committer on 9/13/13. -Maurice Amsellem promoted from committer to PMC on 11/9/13. -Latest analytics include over 3000 hits per day on the website during the work week (less on weekends). -There were more than 3000 installs of 4.11.0 in the month since its release. AREAS OF CONCERN (FROM LAST REPORT) -RELEASE EFFORT: In the last report we reported that "getting a release out seems more difficult than it should be because folks don't start serious testing on the first RCs so important bugs are found just before the VOTE ends and another RC has to be made." For the 4.11 release, we adopted "carry-over" voting based on a suggestion from a board member. If there were minor changes to the release artifacts, you could carry over your vote from the prior release candidate. That, and I think just having more experience in cutting releases made the 4.11 release go much more smoothly. -NUMBER OF ACTIVE COMMITTERS: In the last report we reported that "even though 200 bugs were fixed in 4.10.0, the majority were done by one committer." Over the past 3 months, six new people made contributions and were voted in as committers. TRADEMARKS -It was discovered that an external entity was using http://apacheflex.com to redirect to their web site. They were notified and have changed the redirect to the Apache Flex website. They have offered to have Apache take over the domain http://apacheflex.com. We need to figure out how to do this. -It looks like the new version of Flex is going to be called FlexJS. We need to find out if we need to trademark that name. We will be contacting trademarks@ shortly. INFRASTRUCTURE * I'm still hoping to find time to resolve INFRA-4380 (attachments in old Flex bugs).
Apache Flex is an application framework for easily building Flash-based applications for mobile devices, the browser and desktop. RELEASES Apache Flex SDK 4.10.0 was released on 8/6/13. Apache Flex Installer 2.6.0 was released on 8/6/13. ACTIVITY Activity in Apache Flex continues to be in two main areas: improvements To the existing Adobe Flash Platform-dependent code base, including the releases listed above, and prototyping ways to create a version of Flex that is independent from the Adobe Flash Platform. There is another group working on Maven-related tools for the existing code base. Since the 4.10 release we've seen: - Significant web visits increase (especially for the week after the release up 100% or more) - More JIRA activity (more bugs raised than resolved however) - More activity on the users mailing list (flex-users markmail archive is broken so I can't see exact numbers) Other highlights: -Over 200 bugs were fixed in 4.10.0. -4.10.0 supports Linux. -FlexUnit was finally committed to its repo. -Several users have submitted applications for a "showcase" -Flex CI now runs over 30,000 tests. -One committer overhauled the wiki to make it better organized. -Adobe submitted the software grant for the BlazeDS software. There are some .jar files in the donation that need to be removed and replaced and that is holding up the actual committing of the code to the repo. COMMUNITY -Cyrill Zadra promoted from committer to PMC on 6/11/13. -Mark Kessler promoted from committer to PMC on 8/13/13. -Scott Guthmann added as committer and PMC on 7/19/13. Scott's main contributions will be on the marketing side. -Latest analytics include over 600,000 hits on the website in the last six months. - Since April 11, 2013, the Installer has been used to install over 16,000 copies of the SDK. There were more than 5000 installs of 4.10.0 in the month since its release. -Several Apache Flex committers presented at 360|Stack which is the largest Flex-oriented conference in the world. -Flex mailing lists are now 'mirrored' on Nabble. Mailing list traffic is so high that many folks I talked to at 360|Stack have stopped reading emails. Many of our committers are unable to keep up. June and July almost hit 1000 emails per month each. Folks requested a "forum" interface as being more friendly than the archive or mailing list interfaces. AREAS OF CONCERN -RELEASE EFFORT: Getting a release out seems more difficult than it should be because folks don't start serious testing on the first RCs so important bugs are found just before the VOTE ends and another RC has to be made. For 4.10.0, the 72 hours had just passed and VOTE results sent out when a critical issue was found. And, on each subsequent RC, fewer and fewer people vote. Not sure what can be done about this but this tends to make folks want to avoid becoming the release manager. One thought is that, if the area of code change for a critical issue is small, then past votes should still count in the total. -NUMBER OF ACTIVE COMMITTERS: Even though 200 bugs were fixed in 4.10.0, the majority were done by one committer. Only six of the nearly 40 committers have committed something to the main repo in this reporting period. There is activity in the other repos though. Not a critical issue yet, but worth noting. INFRASTRUCTURE * I'm still hoping to find time to resolve INFRA-4380 (attachments in old Flex bugs).
Apache Flex is an application framework for easily building Flash-based applications for mobile devices, the browser and desktop. RELEASES Apache Flex SDK 4.9.1 was released on 2/28/13. Apache Flex Installer 2.5.4 was released on 4/11/13. The community is currently preparing its next release of both the SDK and Installer. ACTIVITY Activity in Apache Flex continues to be in two main areas: improvements to the existing Adobe Flash Platform-dependent code base, including the releases listed above, and prototyping ways to create a version of Flex that is independent from the Adobe Flash Platform. There is another group working on Maven-related tools for the existing code base. Just in the past 30 days, 130 JIRA issues were resolved. JIRA activity is so high, a vote is underway to split JIRA notifications off to its own mailing list (issues@flex.a.o) Getting used to Git was still a frequent topic in April and May. Because Git does not support partial checkouts, the community prototyped using GitHub for the whiteboards. GitHub notifications are sent to the commits@ list just like any other Apache Git commit. The PMC then voted to approve this workflow. And because we do our work in a branch and have trunk only have released sources, we had to ask Infra to update the mirrors to work from that branch. The owner of a popular application-framework that leverages the Flex SDK has offered to donate the code to the project. This has met with some opposition from those who use competing application-frameworks. The ensuing discussion indicated that the PMC is in favor of accepting donations from the these other frameworks should they choose to donate, so we believe we are not endorsing or showing favoritism. COMMUNITY No new committers in the last 90 days. A vote is underway to promote a committer to the PMC. Latest analytics include over 4000 downloads since 4/11/2013, and an average of 3000 hits per day during weekdays. INFRASTRUCTURE * Infra attempted to resolve INFRA-4380 but ran into problems. I have approval to try to use the SOAP interface to pull the current state of JIRA issues, merge them with the original attachments and provide a new import file for INFRA. That task has been delayed by other issues like getting new releases out, but we will get to it eventually. BRANDING We have noted that Apache projects are forming that use code module names that are used in Apache Flex. Namely 'Falcon' and now 'Spark'. These two words are used often on the mailing lists when discussing the related code which then finds its way into the search engines. Is this an issue?
Apache Flex is an application framework for easily building Flash-based applications for mobile devices, the browser and desktop. RELEASES Apache Flex 4.9.1 was released on 2/28/13. Apache Flex Installer 2.0.x was released on 1/9/13. The next version of the Installer is being voted on as of this writing. ACTIVITY Activity in Apache Flex continues to be in two main areas: improvements to the existing Adobe Flash Platform-dependent code base, including the releases listed above, and prototyping ways to create a version of Flex that is independent from the Adobe Flash Platform. There is another group working on Maven-related tools for the existing code base. We moved our code base from SVN to Git in mid-March. It has been a much more difficult transition than expected. Three weeks later, folks are still confused about how to use Git as it has many options for performing tasks that can have significant implications. Git's database model is not suited for partial checkouts like SVN, making the management of our "whiteboard" (a playground for committers) much more difficult as you have to download the entire whiteboard (currently 245MB) first. There is discussion of managing the whiteboard on GitHub, but others feel that it doesn't conform to the Apache way. The move to Git has slowed contributions from some committers as folks aren't sure they have the time to learn to use Git and are afraid of using the wrong options. Hopefully, the net benefit promised by the Git supporters will eventually be realized. The move to Git has also broken our release and build scripts and we are in the process of fixing them. We also need to get the Git mirrors working again, as well as our CI implementation. The FishEye plug-in was added to our JIRA project. COMMUNITY Harbs and Mark Kessler were added as committers. Frederic Thomas was added to the PMC. PRESS Per a request from the Apache Press VP, I was interviewed by a writer from InfoWorld in early February and the article was finally published in March. The link is: http://www.computerworld.com.au/slideshow/455802/pictures_15_high-impact_apa che_projects/?image=1 Nick Kwaitkowski presented on Apache Flex at the Flex Users Group in Chicago. Mike Labriola also presented on his Randori framework which uses compiler source from Apache Flex. INFRASTRUCTURE * Infra attempted to resolve INFRA-4380 but ran into problems. In the last report I thought we had a solution, but it appears that we are back to trying to devise a new solution. Tony has been helpful, but his time is limited. Every month we spend a few minutes discussing solutions. JIRA's migration tools are definitely insufficient, and Apache's desire to have one large centralized JIRA DB makes it difficult or impractical to experiment with custom solutions.
AI: Ross: discuss "documentation" with PMC
Apache Flex is an application framework for easily building Flash-based applications for mobile devices, the browser and desktop. RELEASES Apache Flex 4.9.1 was released on 2/28/13. Apache Flex Installer 2.0.x was released on 1/9/13. ACTIVITY Activity in Apache Flex continues to be in two main areas: improvements to the existing Adobe Flash Platform-dependent code base, including the releases listed above, and prototyping ways to create a version of Flex that is independent from the Adobe Flash Platform. There is another group working on Maven-related tools for the existing code base. Justin McLean presented on Apache Flex at ApacheCon NA 2013. COMMUNITY No changes to our set of committers or PMC members. We did implement analytics on the Apache Flex website and in the month of February we had 100,000 page views and more than 36,000 visitors. That is way more than anyone would have expected. The estimated number of Flex SDK 4.9.0 downloads from the Apache Flex website is 16,701. This is from the day it went live on December 27th 2012, through Feb 27th, 2013. This includes downloads directly off our website and people who downloaded the SDK via the Installer. We don't know how many additional downloads occurred directly from our mirrors or other hosts. PRESS Per a request from the Apache Press VP, I was interviewed by a writer from InfoWorld, but it appears that the article has not been published. Harbs was interviewed for an article published on http://www.pro-linux.de. LEGAL Nothing to report. TLP MIGRATION The last of our repos was reconnected to Git-syncing this weekend. I don't know of any other remaining migration issues. INFRASTRUCTURE * Infra attempted to resolve INFRA-4380 but ran into problems. In the last report I thought we had a solution, but it appears that we are back to trying to devise a new solution. Tony has been helpful, but he was away for a bit, so we'll re-start on this when he gets caught up after his return. * We will be trying to migrate from SVN to Git as soon as possible. We have opened https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-5549 and are awaiting infra response. * The build system keeps failing for lack of disk space. I've seen this complaint brought up by other projects as well. BRANDING No issues at this time.
Apache Flex is an application framework for easily building Flash-based applications for mobile devices, the browser and desktop. RELEASES Apache Flex 4.9.0 was released on 12/27/12. Apache Flex Installer 2.0.x was released on 1/9/13. ACTIVITY Activity in Apache Flex is in two main areas: improvements to the existing Adobe Flash-dependent code base, including the two releases listed above, and prototyping ways to create a version of Flex that is independent from Adobe Flash. There is another group working on Maven-related tools for the existing code base. Nick Kwaitkowski and other community members totally revamped the flex.apache.org site. Trademarks reviewed the site before it went live on 1/31/13. Analytics were also added to the site. In the first two days we had 4,228 (3,534 unique) visitors and 11,965 page views. COMMUNITY Roland Zwaga was approved as committer on 1/15/13. PRESS Scott Guthmann worked with Press@a.o to publish a press release about Apache Flex on 1/14/13. One link to it is here: http://globenewswire.com/news-release/2013/01/14/516186/10017952/en/The-Apache-Software-Foundation-Announces-Apache-Flex-tm-as-a-Top-Level-Project.html LEGAL Nothing to report. TLP MIGRATION The TLP migration was completed on January 5, 2012. I think we've completed all of the necessary steps. Task Status: * Infrastructure migration complete * All code & web pages have been updated to reflect new status * Final incubator status done * committee-info.txt updated with PMC details * Officer info updated for new chair * Clean up incubator version of website, dist done INFRASTRUCTURE * Infrastructure migration from the incubator is complete and the project website has been transferred to flex.apache.org. * Infra attempted to resolve INFRA-4380 but ran into problems. The problem appears to be resolved so INFRA-4380 will likely be resolved by the time of the board meeting. * We will be trying to migrate from SVN to Git as soon as possible. BRANDING The flex.apache.org site is undergoing a major overhaul. We will review the new site against this checklist. * Project Naming And Descriptions : Done * Website Navigation Links : Done * Trademark Attributions : Done * Logos and Graphics : Done * Project Metadata : Done
Apache Flex is an application framework for easily building Flash-based applications for mobile devices, the browser and desktop. RELEASES Apache Flex 4.9.0 was released on 12/27/12. Apache Flex Installer 2.0.x is in RC3 and should be released before the board meeting. ACTIVITY Activity in Apache Flex is in two main areas: improvements to the existing Adobe Flash-dependent code base, including the two releases listed above, and prototyping ways to create a version of Flex that is independent from Adobe Flash. There is another group working on Maven-related tools for the existing code base. COMMUNITY Vote is underway to approve a new committer. PRESS We are planning to make some noise about our recent graduation and releases. LEGAL Nothing to report. TLP MIGRATION The TLP migration was completed on January 5, 2012. It took a bit longer than we would have liked, but everything seems to be in order now. Task Status: * Infrastructure migration complete * All code & web pages have been updated to reflect new status * Final incubator status done * committee-info.txt updated with PMC details * Officer info updated for new chair * Clean up incubator version of website, dist in progress INFRASTRUCTURE * Infrastructure migration from the incubator is complete and the project website has been transferred to flex.apache.org. * Every once in a while, we run into the fact that INFRA-4380 is still not completed. * We will be trying to migrate from SVN to Git as soon as possible. BRANDING The flex.apache.org site is undergoing a major overhaul. We will review the new site against this checklist. Progress can be tracked here [1] * Project Naming And Descriptions : TODO * Website Navigation Links : TODO * Trademark Attributions : TODO * Logos and Graphics : TODO * Project Metadata : DOAP completed [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLEX-33343
AI: Sam: Is there a problem with INFRA-4380?
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 development of expressive web applications that deploy to all major browsers, desktops and devices (including smartphones, tablets, and TV). NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Apache Flex Project", be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache Flex Project be and hereby is responsible for the creation and maintenance of software related to development of expressive web applications that deploy to all major browsers, desktops and devices (including smartphones, tablets, and TV); and be it further RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache Flex" 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 Flex Project, and to have primary responsibility for management of the projects within the scope of responsibility of the Apache Flex 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 Flex Project: * Alex Harui <aharui@apache.org> * Carol Frampton <cframpton@apache.org> * Christophe Herreman <cherreman@apache.org> * Chuck Mastrandrea <cmastrandrea@apache.org> * Dave Fisher <wave@apache.org> * Erik de Bruin <erikdebruin@apache.org> * Espen Skogen <espenskogen@apache.org> * Gordon Smith <gordonsmith@apache.org> * Greg Reddin <greddin@apache.org> * Igor Costa <igorcosta@apache.org> * Iwo Banas <iwo@apache.org> * Jeff Tapper <jeff@apache.org> * Jeffry Houser <jhouser@apache.org> * Jeremy Tellier <jtellier@apache.org> * Jonathan Campos <jonbcampos@apache.org> * Jun Heider <junheider@apache.org> * Justin Mclean <jmclean@apache.org> * Kevin Korngut <kkorngut@apache.org> * Leif Wells <leifwells@apache.org> * Martin Heidegger <mheidegger@apache.org> * Michael Jordan <mijordan@apache.org> * Michael Labriola <labriola@apache.org> * Michael Schmalle <mschmalle@apache.org> * Michelle Yaiser <myaiser@apache.org> * Nicholas Kwiatkowski <quetwo@apache.org> * Omar Gonzalez <s9tpepper@apache.org> * OmPrakash Muppirala <bigosmallm@apache.org> * Peter Elst <peterelst@apache.org> * Peter Ent <pent@apache.org> * Rui Silva <rduartes@apache.org> * Ryan Frishberg <frishy@apache.org> * Sebastian Mohr <masuland@apache.org> * Scott Delamater <sdelamater@apache.org> * Tink <tink@apache.org> NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Alex Harui be appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Flex, 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 Flex 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 Flex Project; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache Flex Project be and hereby is tasked with the migration and rationalization of the Apache Incubator Flex podling; and be it further RESOLVED, that all responsibilities pertaining to the Apache Incubator Flex podling encumbered upon the Apache Incubator Project are hereafter discharged. Special Order 7D, Establish the Apache Flex Project, Unanimous with two abstentions: Bertrand and Roy
Apache Flex is an application framework for easily building Flash-based applications for mobile devices, the browser and desktop. Date of entry to the Incubator: December 31, 2011 Top three items to resolve before graduation: Flex has their graduation resolution on the agenda for the December board meeting. Is there anything that the Incubator PMC or ASF Board specifically needs to address? Only the graduation resolution. Are there any legal, infrastructure, cross-project or personal issues that need to be addressed? (Are there any stumbling blocks that impede the podling?) The Flex community really wants to move from SVN to Git/GitHub. We are eager to see Infra fully support read/write Git repos. Also, we are still waiting for INFRA-4380 (import the old Flex JIRA data) to be resolved. Check that the project's Incubation Status file up to date. http://incubator.apache.org/projects/flex What has been done (releases, milestones, etc.) since the last report? -We approved 6 new committers -We released Apache Flex SDK Installer 1.0.9-incubating. -Adobe Systems Inc. donated both the Falcon compiler and the FalconJS cross-compiler. -Christopher Dutz donated Maven support tools for Flex -We voted to graduate. -We started work on a next-generation of Flex designed to target browsers and devices without Flash. What are the plans and expectations for the next period? -Go through the transition to being a TLP -Continue with the next-generation Flex work -Release several bug-fixes and new locales in the current Flex code base. Are there any recommendations for how incubation could run more smoothly for you? No. We thank you for your support. Signed off by mentor: Dave Fisher (wave), Greg Reddin (greddin), bdelacretaz, adc
Apache Flex is an application framework for easily building Flash-based applications for mobile devices, the browser and desktop. Summary: A large community is waiting to see if committer activity will increase and starting to think about graduating. Date of entry to the Incubator: December 31, 2011 Top three items to resolve before graduation: - Get better at resolving issues the Apache Way - Get more initial committers to commit something - Make another release with more non-Adobe involvement Is there anything that the Incubator PMC or ASF Board specifically needs to address? There was discussion about letting Flex graduate with the requirement that one or two mentors remain on the PMC. Are there any legal, infrastructure, cross-project or personal issues that need to be addressed? (Are there any stumbling blocks that impede the podling?) The issue regarding the import of attachments for existing JIRA bugs remains open (INFRA-4380). It is not critical, but it would be nice to get this resolved soon. The PPMC has voted to move from SVN to Git. Having Apache approve read/write Git repositories would be helpful. Check that the project's Incubation Status file up to date. http://incubator.apache.org/projects/flex What has been done (releases, milestones, etc.) since the last report? - We released Apache Flex 4.8.0 (incubating). - OmPrakash Muppirala and Erik de Bruin were added as a committer and PPMC member due to their work on the installer. Peter Ent and Gordon Smith from Adobe were also added as committers as they are shepherding large donations from Adobe. - Adobe completed the trademark donation. - Adobe donated the Text Layout Framework, the rest of the Mustella test suite and signed off on the Falcon compiler donation. - OmPrakash Muppirala has been leading the development of a tool that allows IDEs like Adobe Flash Builder to work better with Apache Flex releases. Justin McLean, Stephen Downs, Roland Zwaga, Tomasz Maciag, and Erik de Bruin have also contributed to the tool. - We have accepted several patches from the community to address issues with our test suite. - After much discussion, we voted to move from SVN to Git and employ something known as the Git Branching Model. What are the plans and expectations for the next period? - We hope to finalize the release of the installer. - Adobe will submit the Falcon compiler source - We will get the test suite stable on Mac desktops and then on Windows and mobile configurations. This should remove the last excuse for committers who are afraid to make changes without a validation suite - We hope to complete the transition from SVN to Git. Are there any recommendations for how incubation could run more smoothly for you? Our mentors continue to be very helpful. Signed off by mentor: wave, bdelacretaz, bmargulies
Apache Flex is an application framework for easily building Flash-based applications for mobile devices, the browser and desktop. Summary: A large community is losing momentum as it waits for Adobe to complete the source code transition and infrastructure. Date of entry to the Incubator: December 31, 2011 Top three items to resolve before graduation: - Resolve trademark donation or licensing - Complete code and bug database donation - Make at least one release Is there anything that the Incubator PMC or ASF Board specifically needs to address? The ASF legal team will have to agree to a custom Trademark licensing. Adobe submitted an initial proposal for the agreement at the end of May. Are there any legal, infrastructure, cross-project or personal issues that need to be addressed? (Are there any stumbling blocks that impede the podling?) Besides the trademark issue mentioned previously, the import of existing JIRA bugs is blocked by an issue with Apache JIRA's import utility (INFRA-4380). We just got news that this should now be resolved, the PPMC is testing the results of the import before activating it. Check that the project's Incubation Status file up to date. http://incubator.apache.org/projects/flex What has been done (releases, milestones, etc.) since the last report? - Carol Frampton is the release manager for our first release and has prepared some initial release candidates. We are continuing to refine the release candidates to respond to various licensing and policy issues. - Christophe Herreman was added as a committer and PPMC member due to his offering patches for issues with the release candidates. - OmPrakash Muppirala has been leading the development of a tool that allows IDEs like Adobe Flash Builder to work better with Apache Flex releases. Justin McLean, Stephen Downs, Roland Zwaga, and Tomasz Maciag have also contributed to the tool. What are the plans and expectations for the next period? Adobe expects to complete the transfer of the mustella test suite. We hope to get an initial release approved by IPMC. Are there any recommendations for how incubation could run more smoothly for you? Our mentors continue to be very helpful. See May 2012 report for other concerns related to JIRA and svn imports, but as mentioned above it looks like the JIRA import problems are fixed now. Signed off by mentor: greddin, wave Shepherd: Matt Franklin
Apache Flex is an application framework for easily building Flash-based applications for mobile devices, the browser and desktop. Summary: A large community is losing momentum as it waits for Adobe to complete the source code transition and infrastructure. Date of entry to the Incubator: December 31, 2011 Top three items to resolve before graduation: - Resolve trademark donation or licensing - Complete code and bug database donation - Make at least one release Is there anything that the Incubator PMC or ASF Board specifically needs to address? The ASF legal team will have to agree to a custom Trademark licensing. Adobe is still finalizing its proposal for the agreement. Are there any legal, infrastructure, cross-project or personal issues that need to be addressed? (Are there any stumbling blocks that impede the podling?) Besides the trademark issue mentioned previously, the import of existing JIRA bugs is blocked by an issue with Apache JIRA's import utility. It has failed to import the data file supplied by Adobe. Infra has opened a support ticket with Atlassian, but the problem remains unresolved two months later. Check that the project's Incubation Status file up to date. http://incubator.apache.org/projects/flex What has been done (releases, milestones, etc.) since the last report? - The Flex compiler source code, including history, was imported into the SVN repository. - Additional localization resources have been donated. - Carol Frampton is working to create a release candidate. We expect the initial RC's to be rejected as we finalize licensing and other policy issues. What are the plans and expectations for the next period? Adobe expects to complete the transfer of the mustella test suite. We hope to get an initial release approved by IPMC. Are there any recommendations for how incubation could run more smoothly for you? Our mentors continue to be very helpful. We really need to get JIRA up and running. I still would like the incubator to consider separate servers for projects. Having to set up external servers as an interim is a lot of work and adds confusion when you want to move to a final server or url later and you could have migration issues if you didn't set up the server in a compatible way. Signed off by mentor:
Apache Flex is an application framework for easily building Flash-based applications for mobile devices, the browser and desktop. Summary: A highly energetic community waits for Adobe to complete the source code transition and infrastructure. Date of entry to the Incubator: December 31, 2011 Top three items to resolve before graduation: - Resolve trademark donation or licensing - Complete code and bug database donation - Make at least one release Is there anything that the Incubator PMC or ASF Board specifically needs to address? The ASF legal team may have to agree to a custom Trademark licensing. Adobe is currently evaluating the parameters of a custom Trademark license proposed by an ASF Board member. If approved, a custom agreement will be drafted and signed by both parties. Apache is waiting on Adobe to approve the latest Apache proposal. Are there any legal, infrastructure, cross-project or personal issues that need to be addressed? (Are there any stumbling blocks that impede the podling?) Besides the trademark issue mentioned previously, the import of existing JIRA bugs is blocked by an issue with Apache JIRA's import utility. It has failed to import the data file supplied by Adobe. Infra has opened a support ticket with Atlassian, but the problem remains unresolved one month later. Check that the project's Incubation Status file up to date. http://incubator.apache.org/projects/flex What has been done (releases, milestones, etc.) since the last report? - The Flex compiler source code, including history, was donated to Apache. It is pending import into the SVN repository - Other initial committers have donated code to the whiteboard. - Martin Heidegger was accepted as committer to the podling. What are the plans and expectations for the next period? Adobe expects to complete the transfer the mustella test suite. We hope to make progress on an initial release. Are there any recommendations for how incubation could run more smoothly for you? Our mentors are great. We are wondering if Apache has considered giving large projects like Flex their own SVN and JIRA servers. Recently, we pushed really hard to get a software grant signed (An Adobe VP even came in to sign it while he was taking time off to move to a new house) in order to try to make the weekend deadline for getting code imported into SVN. We are in a hurry because we have seen signs we are losing momentum (mailing list traffic is much lower) and a key Flex conference is coming up on April 15. Being able to announce that new code was in SVN would be a good boost and good timing. We submitted a software grant and code on Friday afternoon, but were too late to have the secretary record the software grant and that meant that Infra couldn't import the code since they only do that on weekends, and so we are now waiting for the next weekend. Having our own separate SVN repository would make weeknight imports possible and maybe not tax a single database as much. Large projects like Flex have tons of files. The same holds true for the bug database as well. We submitted the JIRA import file on Feb 1. Infra has been unable to get the import to succeed (it worked on a test instance on my computer) and has had to file a bug with Atlassian (JIRA's maker). We asked about using the SOAP interface to import bugs but Infra is concerned that some problem in that process would screw up JIRA for everyone and/or cause performance issues. Having our own JIRA instance would allow us to try alternate means of getting around the JIRA issue. A SOAP import utility exists and was used to successfully import all 30,000 issues into a test instance but there is risk of having some other issue show up when we add that many issues to an existing database. Signed off by mentor: bdelacretaz, greddin, wavw
Apache Flex is an application framework for easily building Flash-based applications for mobile devices, the browser and desktop. Summary: A highly energetic community waits for Adobe to complete the source code transition and infrastructure. Date of entry to the Incubator: December 31, 2011 Top three items to resolve before graduation: 1. Resolve trademark donation or licensing 2. Complete code and bug database donation 3. Make at least one release Is there anything that the Incubator PMC or ASF Board specifically needs to address? The ASF legal team may have to agree to a custom Trademark licensing. Adobe is currently evaluating the parameters of a custom Trademark license proposed by an ASF Board member. If approved, a custom agreement will be drafted and signed by both parties. Are there any legal, infrastructure, cross-project or personal issues that need to be addressed? (Are there any stumbling blocks that impede the podling?) Besides the trademark issue mentioned previously, the import of existing JIRA bugs is blocked by an issue with Apache JIRA's import utility. It has failed to import the data file supplied by Adobe. Infra is supposed to open a support ticket with Atlassian. Check that the project's Incubation Status file up to date. http://incubator.apache.org/projects/flex What has been done (releases, milestones, etc.) since the last report? - An initial set of Flex source (base framework code), including history, was checked into the trunk area of the podling’s Subversion repository. - Other initial committers have donated code to the whiteboard. - Updates to the podling's wiki including a getting started area for reference to new project members. - Justin Mclean was accepted as committer to the podling. What are the plans and expectations for the next period? Adobe expects to complete the transfer of the bug database. Adobe also hopes to contribute the compiler and test suite as well. And there is hope for an initial release. Are there any recommendations for how incubation could run more smoothly for you? Incubation has been working well. Our mentors are great. Signed off by mentor: wave, bdelacretaz, greddin
Apache Flex is an application framework for easily building Flash-based applications for mobile devices, the browser and desktop. Summary: A highly energetic community waits for Adobe to transition code and infrastructure. Date of entry to the Incubator: December 31, 2011 Top four items to resolve before graduation: 1. Resolve trademark donation or licensing 2. Complete code and bug database donation 3. Make at least one release 4. Add new committers Is there anything that the Incubator PMC or ASF Board specifically needs to address? The ASF legal team will have to work with Adobe on the Trademark licensing issue. Adobe legal is still drafting the proposal before presenting to Apache. Are there any legal, infrastructure, cross-project or personal issues that need to be addressed? (Are there any stumbling blocks that impede the podling?) Besides the trademark issue mentioned previously, the code donation and bug database donation are being slowed by infrastructure issues at both Adobe and Apache, mainly the lack of ways to easily transfer multi-GB files. Check that the project's Incubation Status file up to date. http://incubator.apache.org/projects/flex What has been done (releases, milestones, etc.) since the last report? - An initial set of Flex source (minus Subversion history) was checked into the whiteboard area of the podling's Subversion repository. - Other initial committers have donated code to the whiteboard. - A logo contest was held. Over 50 entries were submitted. - The mailing lists were established. Over 200 people joined in the first 30 days and the traffic averaged over 100 emails a day. It has quieted down now that the logo contest has concluded. What are the plans and expectations for the next period? Adobe expects to complete the transfer of the bug database and the initial set of code with history. Adobe also hopes to contribute the compiler and test suite as well. And there is hope for an initial release. Are there any recommendations for how incubation could run more smoothly for you? Incubation has been working well. Our mentors are great. Signed off by mentor: bdelacretaz, wave
Flex is an application framework for building Flash-based applications. Entered incubation December 30th, 2011. The podling is just getting started, accounts and infrastructure are being created.