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## Description: The mission of ManifoldCF is the creation and maintenance of software related to Framework for connecting source content repositories to target repositories or indexes. ## Issues: No issues to report at this time. ## Membership Data: Apache ManifoldCF was founded 2012-05-15 (9 years ago) There are currently 25 committers and 17 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:4. Community changes, since last report in October: - No new PMC member. Last addition made on 2023-08-03. - No new committers. Last addition was on 2019-08-17. ## Project Activity: 2.26 was released on 2023-11-01 2.25 was released on 2023-06-01 The Community sets the following goals: - Facilitating the adoption - Making easier for any developer to contribute - Migrating the website from Docbook / Forrest to ASF Pelican - Making the release scripts agnostic The current action plan is the following: We introduced Apache ManifoldCF SDK, a new Maven / Docker SDK to simplify the development of connectors, extensions and containers. We are currently finalizing the migration of all the source code repositories from SVN to GitHub in order to faciliate the adoption for developers. We are working on migrating all the subprojects converting all the release scripts into GitHub workflows. We have pull requests to manage and this will facilitate the management of all these contributions. ## Community Health: We currently have 19 pull requests to manage, 4 created starting from October 2023 and we have two new contributors. Guylaine Bassette created some PRs to fix and extend Solr and Active Directory connector. Michele Piazzolla is working on the new website based on ASF Pelican.
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Karl Wright (kwright) to the office of Vice President, Apache ManifoldCF, and WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of Karl Wright from the office of Vice President, Apache ManifoldCF, and WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache ManifoldCF project has chosen by vote to recommend Piergiorgio Lucidi (piergiorgio) as the successor to the post; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Karl Wright is relieved and discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice President, Apache ManifoldCF, and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Piergiorgio Lucidi be and hereby is appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache ManifoldCF, to serve in accordance with and subject to the direction of the Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until death, resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification, or until a successor is appointed. Special Order 7B, Change the Apache ManifoldCF Project Chair, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
## Description: The mission of ManifoldCF is the creation and maintenance of software related to Framework for connecting source content repositories to target repositories or indexes. ## Issues: In response to: clr: Please add a section that lists the most recent additions (names and dates) to both PMC membership and committers, regardless of when they were made. This helps the board to understand the health of the community. Thanks. We were explicitly asked to remove references to individual users in response to the August report. We obviously cannot meet both of those requests. Please decide which it is going to be. I am happy to adhere to either one but I need consistency. In response to: rbowen: I'm confused by an apparent contradiction in your report. You say that two pmc members were added, but also say only one was added. Can you clarify in your next report please? I was unclear. I apologize. Two were added, as pointed out by cdutz below, but only one in the reporting period. cdutz: Whimsy claims that Furkan was added on 2023-08-03 and Mingchun was added on 2023-06-07 (Which was not in this reporting period) However I have noticed that for almost half a year only one single person has been making commits. It this something we should be worried about? Committers have been committing via Github pull request and are unwilling to use svn. There have been in actuality at least three active committers but you don't see them in the svn logs for this reason. Converting MCF tooling to use github fully would require our release process to be retooled which requires a significant investment on someone's part that isn't happening right now. ## Membership Data: Apache ManifoldCF was founded 2012-05-15 (11 years ago) There are currently 25 committers and 17 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:4. Recent community changes: - A PMC member was added on 2023-06-07 - Another PMC member was added on 2023-08-03 - No new committers. Last addition was on 2019-08-17. ## Project Activity: ManifoldCF graduated from the Apache Incubator on May 16, 2012. Since then, there have been numerous major releases, including a 2.26 release on November 1st, 2023. The next major release, 2.27, is tentatively scheduled for March 31st, 2024. The November release was delayed because of numerous issues with non- backwards-compatible changes to dependent libraries. Many previously inactive committers put in significant time to address these. Automated tools that check for "bad" versions of libraries are still a problem for us because many older jars have no replacement, e.g. Axis 1.4.x, and yet still come up as having CVE vulnerabilities. It is of little use to explain to users that ManifoldCF is a consumer of internal trusted content and exploits cannot be triggered unless such internal content is compromised. Redevelopment, or the discarding of many of ManifoldCF's connectors would be the only way to get past such concerns. Zookeeper issues, described in previous reports, have been resolved. These were due to a change in contract for Zookeeper instantiation. However, the development world has also shifted away from the infrastructure the project uses and this has put more load on the volunteers who remain, since committers today no longer can work with svn or even JIRA in many cases. Our processes and infrastructure are suddenly obsolete and we don't have bandwidth to retool at this time. A dev discussion about specific aspects of that (e.g. the release documentation) has begun. Our version of Forrest, which is what we use to build documentation, is incompatible with JDK 11, which means either we upgrade Forrest and also redo our customizations, or we abandon it in favor of a whole new technology and completely redo the documentation. ## Community Health: Issues around PMC members have now been resolved. Two recent PMC member additions have been made and this has fixed the difficulty getting a quorum. New committers who seemed like plausible additions six months ago did not remain active enough to warrant an invite, however. There are several consulting companies who work on the project as part of their business, but turnover there generally means we don't see the same people being involved for more than a few months at a time. It is difficult to know what to do given these patterns, since adding committers who will almost immediately go inactive seems like a non-helpful thing to do. We're always on the lookout for committers with an individual interest, but those are increasingly rare and everyone who has been involved in this project for the long term has less and less time for volunteer activities.
@Justin: follow up on mentioning people's names in reports
## Description: The mission of ManifoldCF is the creation and maintenance of software related to Framework for connecting source content repositories to target repositories or indexes. ## Issues: No issues to report at this time. ## Membership Data: Apache ManifoldCF was founded 2012-05-15 (9 years ago) There are currently 25 committers and 17 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:4. Community changes, since last report in August: - One new PMC member. Addition made on 2023-08-03. - No new committers. Last addition was on 2019-08-17. ## Project Activity: ManifoldCF graduated from the Apache Incubator on May 16, 2012. Since then, there have been numerous major releases, including a 2.25 release in early June 2023. The next major release, 2.26, was tentatively planned for Sept 30th, but has been delayed due to last-minute contributions. Automated tools that check for "bad" versions of libraries are still a problem for us because many older jars have no replacement, e.g. Axis 1.4.x, and yet still come up as having CVE vulnerabilities. It is of little use to explain to users that ManifoldCF is a consumer of internal trusted content and exploits cannot be triggered unless such internal content is compromised. Redevelopment, or the discarding of many of ManifoldCF's connectors would be the only way to get past such concerns. Zookeeper issues, described in previous reports, have been resolved. ## Community Health: Issues around PMC members have now been resolved. Two recent PMC member additions have been made and this has fixed the difficulty getting a quorum.
@Sander: clarify members of committers and PMC
No report was submitted.
## Description: The mission of ManifoldCF is the creation and maintenance of software related to Framework for connecting source content repositories to target repositories or indexes. ## Issues: No issues to report at this time. ## Membership Data: Apache ManifoldCF was founded 2012-05-15 (9 years ago) There are currently 25 committers and 15 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:4. Community changes, past quarter: - One new PMC member. Addition was Mingchao Zhao on 2023-06-07. - No new committers. Last addition was Cihad Guzel on 2019-08-17. ## Project Activity: ManifoldCF graduated from the Apache Incubator on May 16, 2012. Since then, there have been numerous major releases, including a 2.25 release in early June 2023. The next major release, 2.26, is tentatively planned for Sept 30th. Automated tools that check for "bad" versions of libraries are still a problem for us because many older jars have no replacement, e.g. Axis 1.4.x, and yet still come up as having CVE vulnerabilities. It is of little use to explain to users that ManifoldCF is a consumer of internal trusted content and exploits cannot be triggered unless such internal content is compromised. Redevelopment, or the discarding of many of ManifoldCF's connectors would be the only way to get past such concerns. In addition, other projects ManifoldCF depends upon have transitive dependencies that have been updated to versions that have severe bugs, e.g. Solr's preferred version of Zookeeper. We have managed to work around the Zookeeper problems by using the last known good version, and a ticket was open to address the problem. ## Community Health: In November I tried to find a PMC quorum for approving both a new PMC member and a new committer this period. At that time there seemed to be only one other active PMC member. On the Board's recommendation, we invited another potential PMC member but he did not respond to our offer. I confirmed that the offer was mailed on Wed, Nov 30, 2022, 7:59 AM, and the private mailing list was cc'd, but since there was apparently no record of this I have remailed the invitation. However, we were able to promote an interested committer to the PMC, so our quorum requirements are now satisfied.
## Description: The mission of ManifoldCF is the creation and maintenance of software related to Framework for connecting source content repositories to target repositories or indexes. ## Issues: No issues to report at this time. ## Membership Data: Apache ManifoldCF was founded 2012-05-15 (9 years ago) There are currently 25 committers and 14 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:4. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Markus Schuch on 2018-01-04. - No new committers. Last addition was Cihad Guzel on 2019-08-17. ## Project Activity: ManifoldCF graduated from the Apache Incubator on May 16, 2012. Since then, there have been numerous major releases, including a 2.24 release in late November 2022. The next major release, 2.25, was planned for April 30th, but has been delayed. Automated tools that check for "bad" versions of libraries are still a problem for us because many older jars have no replacement, e.g. Axis 1.4.x, and yet still come up as having CVE vulnerabilities. It is of little use to explain to users that ManifoldCF is a consumer of internal trusted content and exploits cannot be triggered unless such internal content is compromised. Redevelopment, or the discarding of many of ManifoldCF's connectors would be the only way to get past such concerns. In addition, other projects ManifoldCF depends upon have transitive dependencies that have been updated to versions that have severe bugs, e.g. Solr's preferred version of Zookeeper. ## Community Health: In November I tried to find a PMC quorum for approving both a new PMC member and a new committer this period, but unfortunately there seems to be only one other active PMC member, Piergiorgio Lucidi. On the Board's recommendation, we invited another potential PMC member (Furkan Kamaci) but he never responded to our offer. I apologize to the board for not making this clearer earlier. The PMC chair's availability has become quite limited as well due to increasing day-job responsibilities and workload. We nominated and approved Cihad Guzel as committer on 8/16/2019. We nominated and approved Markus Schuch as a PMC member on 12/29/2017.
## Description: The mission of ManifoldCF is the creation and maintenance of software related to Framework for connecting source content repositories to target repositories or indexes. ## Issues: No issues to report at this time. ## Membership Data: Apache ManifoldCF was founded 2012-05-15 (9 years ago) There are currently 25 committers and 14 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:4. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Markus Schuch on 2018-01-04. - No new committers. Last addition was Cihad Guzel on 2019-08-17. ## Project Activity: ManifoldCF graduated from the Apache Incubator on May 16, 2012. Since then, there have been numerous major releases, including a 2.24 release in late November 2022. The next major release, 2.25, is planned for April 30th. Automated tools that check for "bad" versions of libraries are still a problem for us because many older jars have no replacement, e.g. Axis 1.4.x, and yet still come up as having CVE vulnerabilities. It is of little use to explain to users that ManifoldCF is a consumer of internal trusted content and exploits cannot be triggered unless such internal content is compromised. Redevelopment, or the discarding of many of ManifoldCF's connectors would be the only way to get past such concerns. ## Community Health: I have tried to find a PMC quorum for approving both a new PMC member and a new committer this period, but unfortunately there seems to be only one other active PMC member, Piergiorgio Lucidi. On the Board's recommendation, we invited other potential PMC members but apparently there was no interest in taking on the additional responsibility. We nominated and approved Cihad Guzel as committer on 8/16/2019. We nominated and approved Markus Schuch as a PMC member on 12/29/2017.
## Description: The mission of ManifoldCF is the creation and maintenance of software related to Framework for connecting source content repositories to target repositories or indexes. ## Issues: No issues to report at this time. ## Membership Data: Apache ManifoldCF was founded 2012-05-15 (9 years ago) There are currently 25 committers and 14 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:4. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Markus Schuch on 2018-01-04. - No new committers. Last addition was Cihad Guzel on 2019-08-17. ## Project Activity: ManifoldCF graduated from the Apache Incubator on May 16, 2012. Since then, there have been numerous major releases, including a 2.23 release in August. The next major release, 2.24, is planned for December 31st. Automated tools that check for "bad" versions of libraries are still a problem for us because many older jars have no replacement, e.g. Axis 1.4.x, and yet still come up as having CVE vulnerabilities. It is of little use to explain to users that ManifoldCF is a consumer of internal trusted content and exploits cannot be triggered unless such internal content is compromised. Redevelopment, or the discarding of many of ManifoldCF's connectors would be the only way to get past such concerns. ## Community Health: I have tried to find a PMC quorum for approving both a new PMC member and a new committer this period, but unfortunately there seems to be only one other active PMC member, Piergiorgio Lucidi. Repeated pings to the private list do not elicit any other responses. As PMC chair, I therefore request that the board assign a temporary or permanent additional active PMC member so that we may conduct business. Cleaning out dead PMC members would be a priority for the project after that. Furkan Kamaci has shown interest in Apache governance matters and we would be honored if he would take on this position; he's contributed in the past to ManifoldCF as a committer but was never involved enough to be offered a PMC membership. We await the board's recommendation here. We nominated and approved Cihad Guzel as committer on 8/16/2019. We nominated and approved Markus Schuch as a PMC member on 12/29/2017. We did not sign up any new PMC members or committers this quarter, but there has been a lot of activity now and I think it is likely we will ask new committers and new PMC members on board this quarter.
@Bertrand: update how-to for PMC chairs to add PMC members if they drop below quorum
## Description: The mission of ManifoldCF is the creation and maintenance of software related to Framework for connecting source content repositories to target repositories or indexes. ## Issues: No issues to report at this time. ## Membership Data: Apache ManifoldCF was founded 2012-05-15 (10 years ago) There are currently 25 committers and 14 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:4. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Markus Schuch on 2018-01-04. - No new committers. Last addition was Cihad Guzel on 2019-08-17. ## Project Activity: ManifoldCF graduated from the Apache Incubator on May 16, 2012. Since then, there have been numerous major releases, including a 2.22 release in late April and a 2.22.1 patch release in early May. The next major release, 2.23, is planned for August 30th. A release candidate is not yet available. This quarter's activities were already discussed in June and involved major revisions to underlying dependencies. The log4j fiasco impacted pretty near every dependency ManifoldCF has, and many of the libraries we had to upgrade did not maintain backwards compatibility. All told, three weeks of steady development effort was required for this. Since then, other dependency work has also been needed. Automated tools that check for "bad" versions of libraries are becoming a problem for us because many older jars have no replacement, e.g. Axis 1.4.x, and yet still come up as having CVE vulnerabilities. It is of little use to explain to users that ManifoldCF is a consumer of internal trusted content and exploits cannot be triggered unless such internal content is compromised. Redevelopment, or the discarding of many of ManifoldCF's connectors would be the only way to get past such concerns. ## Community Health: We nominated and approved Cihad Guzel as committer on 8/16/2019. We nominated and approved Markus Schuch as a PMC member on 12/29/2017. We did not sign up any new PMC members or committers this quarter, but there has been a lot of activity now and I think it is likely we will ask new committers and new PMC members on board by the end of September. We do need enough PMC members who are not on break for this to take place.
## Description: The mission of ManifoldCF is the creation and maintenance of software related to Framework for connecting source content repositories to target repositories or indexes. ## Issues: No issues to report at this time. ## Membership Data: Apache ManifoldCF was founded 2012-05-15 (9 years ago) There are currently 25 committers and 14 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:4. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Markus Schuch on 2018-01-04. - No new committers. Last addition was Cihad Guzel on 2019-08-17. ## Project Activity: ManifoldCF graduated from the Apache Incubator on May 16, 2012. Since then, there have been numerous major releases, including a 2.22 release in late April and a 2.22.1 patch release in early May. The next major release, 2.23, is planned for August 30th. This quarter's activities involved major revisions to underlying dependencies. The log4j fiasco impacted pretty near every dependency ManifoldCF has, and many of the libraries we had to upgrade did not maintain backwards compatibility. All told, three weeks of steady development effort was required for this. Automated tools that check for "bad" versions of libraries are becoming a problem for us because many older jars have no replacement, e.g. Axis 1.4.x, and yet still come up as having CVE vulnerabilities. It is of little use to explain to users that ManifoldCF is a consumer of internal trusted content and exploits cannot be triggered unless such internal content is compromised. Redevelopment, or the discarding of many of ManifoldCF's connectors would be the only way to get past such concerns. ## Community Health: We nominated and approved Cihad Guzel as committer on 8/16/2019. We nominated and approved Markus Schuch as a PMC member on 12/29/2017. We did not sign up any new PMC members or committers this quarter, but there has been a lot of activity now and I think it is likely we will ask new committers and new PMC members on board this quarter.
No report was submitted.
## Description: The mission of ManifoldCF is the creation and maintenance of software related to Framework for connecting source content repositories to target repositories or indexes. ## Issues: No issues to report at this time. ## Membership Data: Apache ManifoldCF was founded 2012-05-15 (9 years ago) There are currently 25 committers and 14 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:4. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Markus Schuch on 2018-01-04. - No new committers. Last addition was Cihad Guzel on 2019-08-17. ## Project Activity: ManifoldCF graduated from the Apache Incubator on May 16, 2012. Since then, there have been numerous major releases, including a 2.21 release on January 3, 2022. The next major release, 2.22, is planned for April 30th. This quarter's activities involved some new features, as well as significant contributions by committers and PMC members to the code base. ## Community Health: We nominated and approved Cihad Guzel as committer on 8/16/2019. We nominated and approved Markus Schuch as a PMC member on 12/29/2017. We did not sign up any new PMC members or committers this quarter. We continue to be on the lookout for new PMC members and committers. There has been a considerable burst in development activity this quarter, most of which has been done by community and by existing committers other than myself, which is a very welcome change.
## Description: The mission of ManifoldCF is the creation and maintenance of software related to Framework for connecting source content repositories to target repositories or indexes. ## Issues: No issues to report at this time. ## Membership Data: Apache ManifoldCF was founded 2012-05-15 (9 years ago) There are currently 25 committers and 14 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:4. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Markus Schuch on 2018-01-04. - No new committers. Last addition was Cihad Guzel on 2019-08-17. ## Project Activity: ManifoldCF graduated from the Apache Incubator on May 16, 2012. Since then, there have been numerous major releases, including a 2.20 release on October 1, 2021. The next major release, 2.21, is planned for December 31st. We may reduce the tempo of releases if development remains light after that. This quarter's activities involved a few minor bug fixes, and improvements to the Confluence connector. ## Community Health: We nominated and approved Cihad Guzel as committer on 8/16/2019. We nominated and approved Markus Schuch as a PMC member on 12/29/2017. We did not sign up any new PMC members or committers this quarter. We continue to be on the lookout for new PMC members and committers. As was true for last quarter, the light level of activity this quarter has limited our pool of new developers considerably. All developers we have have extensive outside commitments and the pandemic has, if anything, made that situation worse. The pandemic's effects in India more recently have intensified this. I wish I could say there were signs of improvement, but it seems like the number of organizations who want to index content on legacy systems is diminishing. However, existing committers have continued to contribute, and use the product.
## Description: The mission of ManifoldCF is the creation and maintenance of software related to Framework for connecting source content repositories to target repositories or indexes. ## Issues: No issues to report at this time. ## Membership Data: Apache ManifoldCF was founded 2012-05-15 (9 years ago) There are currently 25 committers and 14 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:4. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Markus Schuch on 2018-01-04. - No new committers. Last addition was Cihad Guzel on 2019-08-17. ## Project Activity: ManifoldCF graduated from the Apache Incubator on May 16, 2012. Since then, there have been numerous major releases, including a 2.19 release on May 10, 2021. The next major release, 2.20, is planned for August 31st. We may reduce the tempo of releases if development remains light after that. This quarter's activities involved the development of a better remote Tika extractor. ## Community Health: We nominated and approved Cihad Guzel as committer on 8/16/2019. We nominated and approved Markus Schuch as a PMC member on 12/29/2017. We did not sign up any new PMC members or committers this quarter. We continue to be on the lookout for new PMC members and committers. As was true for last quarter, the light level of activity this quarter has limited our pool of new developers considerably. All developers we have have extensive outside commitments and the pandemic has, if anything, made that situation worse. The pandemic's effects in India more recently have intensified this. However, existing committers have continued to contribute, and use the product.
## Description: The mission of ManifoldCF is the creation and maintenance of software related to Framework for connecting source content repositories to target repositories or indexes. ## Issues: No issues to report at this time. ## Membership Data: Apache ManifoldCF was founded 2012-05-15 (9 years ago) There are currently 25 committers and 14 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:4. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Markus Schuch on 2018-01-04. - No new committers. Last addition was Cihad Guzel on 2019-08-17. ## Project Activity: ManifoldCF graduated from the Apache Incubator on May 16, 2012. Since then, there have been numerous major releases, including a 2.18 release on December 28, 2020. The next major release, 2.19, is undergoing voting at this time. This quarter's activities centered mainly about bringing the Elastic Search connector up to date with changes to that platform. ## Community Health: We nominated and approved Cihad Guzel as committer on 8/16/2019. We nominated and approved Markus Schuch as a PMC member on 12/29/2017. We did not sign up any new PMC members or committers this quarter. We continue to be on the lookout for new PMC members and committers. As was true for last quarter, the light level of activity this quarter has limited our pool of new developers considerably. All developers we have have extensive outside commitments and the pandemic has, if anything, made that situation worse. However, existing committers have continued to contribute, and use the product.
## Description: The mission of ManifoldCF is the creation and maintenance of software related to Framework for connecting source content repositories to target repositories or indexes. ## Issues: Continued light activity, due to pandemic in all likelihood, although a new connector was contributed. There are no issues requiring board attention. ## Membership Data: Apache ManifoldCF was founded 2012-05-15 (9 years ago) There are currently 25 committers and 14 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:4. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Markus Schuch on 2018-01-04. - No new committers. Last addition was Cihad Guzel on 2019-08-17. ## Project Activity: ManifoldCF graduated from the Apache Incubator on May 16, 2012. Since then, there have been numerous major releases, including a 2.17 release on December 28, 2020. The next major release is due on April 30th, 2021. A new connector was contributed this quarter, and work was done to bring all of our connectors and the build process into compliance with JDK 11. ## Community Health: We nominated and approved Cihad Guzel as committer on 8/16/2019. We nominated and approved Markus Schuch as a PMC member on 12/29/2017. We did not sign up any new PMC members or committers this quarter. We continue to be on the lookout for new PMC members and committers. As was true for last quarter, the light level of activity this quarter has limited our pool of new developers considerably. All developers we have have extensive outside commitments and the pandemic has, if anything, made that situation worse. However, existing committers have continued to contribute, and use the product.
## Description: ManifoldCF is an effort to provide an open source framework for connecting source content repositories like Microsoft Sharepoint and EMC Documentum, to target repositories or indexes, such as Apache Solr, OpenSearchServer or ElasticSearch. ManifoldCF also defines a security model for target repositories that permits them to enforce source repository security policies. ## Issues: Light activity, due to pandemic in all likelihood. There are no issues requiring board attention. ## Membership Data: Apache ManifoldCF was founded 2012-05-15 (8 years ago) There are currently 25 committers and 14 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:4. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Markus Schuch on 2018-01-04. - No new committers. Last addition was Cihad Guzel on 2019-08-17. ## Project Activity: ManifoldCF graduated from the Apache Incubator on May 16, 2012. Since then, there have been numerous major releases, including a 2.16 release on September 16, 2020. The next major release is due on December 31, 2020. ## Community Health: We nominated and approved Cihad Guzel as committer on 8/16/2019. We nominated and approved Markus Schuch as a PMC member on 12/29/2017. We did not sign up any new PMC members or committers this quarter. We continue to be on the lookout for new PMC members and committers. The light level of activity this quarter has limited our pool of new developers considerably. I wish I had more news but really there isn't much; all developers we have have extensive outside commitments and the pandemic has, if anything, made that situation worse.
Project description ============== ManifoldCF is an effort to provide an open source framework for connecting source content repositories like Microsoft Sharepoint and EMC Documentum, to target repositories or indexes, such as Apache Solr, OpenSearchServer or ElasticSearch. ManifoldCF also defines a security model for target repositories that permits them to enforce source repository security policies. Releases ======== ManifoldCF graduated from the Apache Incubator on May 16, 2012. Since then, there have been numerous major releases, including a 2.16 release on May 6, 2020. The next major release was due on August 30, 2020, and is currently awaiting a release candidate. Committers and PMC membership ============================= We nominated and approved Cihad Guzel as committer on 8/16/2019. We nominated and approved Markus Schuch as a PMC member on 12/29/2017. We did not sign up any new PMC members or committers this quarter. We continue to be on the lookout for new PMC members and committers. The light level of activity this quarter has limited our pool of new developers considerably. In the latest quarter the team has been working on ironing out problems with the JDK 11 port. Activity otherwise has been very light; clearly the pandemic is interfering to some extent with user development and adoption. Mailing list activity ===================== Mailing list activity has been fairly quiet this quarter. Requests for connector development continue to be heard. I am unaware of any mailing list question that has gone unanswered.
Project description ============== ManifoldCF is an effort to provide an open source framework for connecting source content repositories like Microsoft Sharepoint and EMC Documentum, to target repositories or indexes, such as Apache Solr, OpenSearchServer or ElasticSearch. ManifoldCF also defines a security model for target repositories that permits them to enforce source repository security policies. Releases ======== ManifoldCF graduated from the Apache Incubator on May 16, 2012. Since then, there have been numerous major releases, including a 2.15 release on December 25, 2019. The next major release was due on April 30, 2020, and is currently undergoing voting. Committers and PMC membership ============================= We nominated and approved Cihad Guzel as committer on 8/16/2019. We nominated and approved Markus Schuch as a PMC member on 12/29/2017. We did not sign up any new PMC members or committers this quarter. We continue to be on the lookout for new PMC members and committers. There are several prospects who we may ask in the near future. In the latest quarter the team spent time bringing two more connectors into the modern world: the Confluence connector (a new V6 version is now available), and the ElasticSearch connector. These have been necessary to keep up with changes in these platforms. We continue to rely on early adopters to co-develop these connectors with us. Mailing list activity ===================== Mailing list activity has been fairly active this quarter. Requests for connector development continue to be significant. I am unaware of any mailing list question that has gone unanswered.
Project description ============== ManifoldCF is an effort to provide an open source framework for connecting source content repositories like Microsoft Sharepoint and EMC Documentum, to target repositories or indexes, such as Apache Solr, OpenSearchServer or ElasticSearch. ManifoldCF also defines a security model for target repositories that permits them to enforce source repository security policies. Releases ======== ManifoldCF graduated from the Apache Incubator on May 16, 2012. Since then, there have been numerous major releases, including a 2.15 release on December 25, 2019. The next major release is due on April 30, 2020. Committers and PMC membership ============================= We nominated and approved Cihad Guzel as committer on 8/16/2019. We nominated and approved Markus Schuch as a PMC member on 12/29/2017. We did not sign up any new PMC members or committers this quarter. We continue to be on the lookout for new PMC members and committers. There are two prospects who we may ask in the near future. We are still not 100% done with the newest OpenText replacement connector; some installations aren't able to connect and we're trying to diagnose why. It's a long process because of the lack of local installations for these repositories available directly to our team. Other connectors that will be requiring this level of work in the near future include the SharePoint connector, which suffers from the same issue. We continue to rely on early adopters to co-develop these connectors with us. Mailing list activity ===================== Mailing list activity has been fairly active this quarter. Requests for connector development continue to be significant. I am unaware of any mailing list question that has gone unanswered.
Project description ============== ManifoldCF is an effort to provide an open source framework for connecting source content repositories like Microsoft Sharepoint and EMC Documentum, to target repositories or indexes, such as Apache Solr, OpenSearchServer or ElasticSearch. ManifoldCF also defines a security model for target repositories that permits them to enforce source repository security policies. Releases ======== ManifoldCF graduated from the Apache Incubator on May 16, 2012. Since then, there have been numerous major releases, including a 2.14 release on October 3, 2019. The next major release is due on December 31, 2019. Committers and PMC membership ============================= We nominated and approved Cihad Guzel as committer on 8/16/2019. We nominated and approved Markus Schuch as a PMC member on 12/29/2017. We did not sign up any new PMC members this quarter. We continue to be on the lookout for new PMC members and committers. This quarter saw the development of a replacement connector for the discontinued OpenText LiveLink LAPI connector originally developed before ManifoldCF became an Apache project. This development included much effort by committers old and new who had access to a more modern LiveLink installation. Despite significant frustrations, we were able to finally succeed, but it did take many months, and we had communications and skill-set difficulties of all kinds in the process. Other connectors that will be requiring this level of work in the near future include the SharePoint connector. Mailing list activity ===================== Mailing list activity has been fairly active this quarter. Requests for connector development continue to be significant. I am unaware of any mailing list question that has gone unanswered.
Project description ============== ManifoldCF is an effort to provide an open source framework for connecting source content repositories like Microsoft Sharepoint and EMC Documentum, to target repositories or indexes, such as Apache Solr, OpenSearchServer or ElasticSearch. ManifoldCF also defines a security model for target repositories that permits them to enforce source repository security policies. Releases ======== ManifoldCF graduated from the Apache Incubator on May 16, 2012. Since then, there have been numerous major releases, including a 2.13 release on May 1, 2019. The next major release is due on August 31, 2019. Committers and PMC membership ============================= We nominated and approved Markus Schuch as committer on 11/25/2016. We nominated and approved Markus Schuch as a PMC member on 12/29/2017. We did not sign up any new committers or PMC members this quarter. We continue to be on the lookout for new PMC members and committers. There is an open discussion for an additional committer at this time but summer vacations are apparently interfering with this right now. The lack of quality engagement from the community of users continues to be a concern. Many demands exist for redevelopment of, or improvement of, existing connectors. Our model of relying on assisted contributions for these redevelopment efforts cannot succeed if the user community has few competent developers. We thank the Board for its inquiry as to whether ComDev might get involved here, but there is still no plan in place. Mailing list activity ===================== Mailing list activity has been fairly quiet this quarter, but requests for connector development have been significant. Some connector redevelopment that was expected to be completed by now is still underway, because of lack of competent development skill in the new development environment. Without such skills, development stalls over very basic issues, like how to debug in a Java environment, or how to write a single class that can be used to exercise the new API. I am unaware of any mailing list question that has gone unanswered.
Project description ============== ManifoldCF is an effort to provide an open source framework for connecting source content repositories like Microsoft Sharepoint and EMC Documentum, to target repositories or indexes, such as Apache Solr, OpenSearchServer or ElasticSearch. ManifoldCF also defines a security model for target repositories that permits them to enforce source repository security policies. Releases ======== ManifoldCF graduated from the Apache Incubator on May 16, 2012. Since then, there have been numerous major releases, including a 2.12 release on December 20, 2018. The next major release is currently undergoing voting. Committers and PMC membership ============================= We nominated and approved Markus Schuch as a PMC member on 12/29/2017. We did not sign up any new committers this quarter. We continue to be on the lookout for new PMC members and committers. There are several candidates at this time but we have not yet held a vote for committership. We have seen a noted change in the willingness of users of this project to get involved in its maintenance and development. This could be interpreted as fewer active developers using the product and more inexperienced integrators. We have no solution for this development. Mailing list activity ===================== Mailing list activity has been fairly active this quarter, and requests for development have been high. Unfortunately the requests have exceeded the capacity of the team to carry them out, with some notable exceptions. Requests to redevelop connectors due to the end-of-life of many repository APIs is the most concerning development, since the team has neither the time resources nor the software access to perform these without significant assistance from the requestors. Still, we managed to upgrade one connector this cycle, and another rework is underway. I am unaware of any mailing list question that has gone unanswered.
Project description ============== ManifoldCF is an effort to provide an open source framework for connecting source content repositories like Microsoft Sharepoint and EMC Documentum, to target repositories or indexes, such as Apache Solr, OpenSearchServer or ElasticSearch. ManifoldCF also defines a security model for target repositories that permits them to enforce source repository security policies. Releases ======== ManifoldCF graduated from the Apache Incubator on May 16, 2012. Since then, there have been numerous major releases, including a 2.12.0 release on December 20, 2018. The next major release is scheduled for April 30, 2019. Committers and PMC membership ============================= We nominated and approved Markus Schuch as a PMC member on 12/29/2017. We did not sign up any new committers this quarter. We continue to be on the lookout for new PMC members and committers. There are several candidates at this time but we have not yet held a vote for committership. Several of our emeritus committers have become active again after a lull of a couple of years. Mailing list activity ===================== Mailing list activity has been very active this quarter. Much of the communication has been related to support and installation debugging, but we're also seeing calls for the development of new connectors, and connectors to replace existing ones where the APIs have become deprecated. Development of a new OpenText connector is underway. Integration with SolrJ had a lengthy discussion in December, but I don't believe that ever was fully resolved, and will need further impetus to be completed. Issues reported have been centered mainly on bugs this quarter. I am unaware of any mailing list question that has gone unanswered. Outstanding issues ================== No outstanding infrastructure issues are known at this time.
Project description ============== ManifoldCF is an effort to provide an open source framework for connecting source content repositories like Microsoft Sharepoint and EMC Documentum, to target repositories or indexes, such as Apache Solr, OpenSearchServer or ElasticSearch. ManifoldCF also defines a security model for target repositories that permits them to enforce source repository security policies. Releases ======== ManifoldCF graduated from the Apache Incubator on May 16, 2012. Since then, there have been numerous major releases, including a 2.11.0 release on September 30, 2018. The next major release is scheduled for December 31, 2018. Committers and PMC membership ============================= We nominated and approved Markus Schuch as a PMC member on 12/29/2017. We did not sign up any new committers this quarter. We continue to be on the lookout for new PMC members and committers. There are several candidates at this time but we have not yet held a vote for committership. Mailing list activity ===================== Mailing list activity has been very active this quarter. Much of the communication has been related to support and installation debugging. Development has involved numerous enhancement requests, and work integrating updates to Tika and SolrJ. Our release had to be delayed to synch with Tika's, and SolrJ was particularly challenging this time because changes there broke long-standing capabilities we had relied upon. The SolrJ team has now begun a healthy discussion about how to officially support the ManifoldCF use case going forward. Issues reported have been centered mainly on bugs and on GSOC students this quarter. I am unaware of any mailing list question that has gone unanswered. Outstanding issues ================== No outstanding infrastructure issues are known at this time.
Project description ============== ManifoldCF is an effort to provide an open source framework for connecting source content repositories like Microsoft Sharepoint and EMC Documentum, to target repositories or indexes, such as Apache Solr, OpenSearchServer or ElasticSearch. ManifoldCF also defines a security model for target repositories that permits them to enforce source repository security policies. Releases ======== ManifoldCF graduated from the Apache Incubator on May 16, 2012. Since then, there have been numerous major releases, including a 2.10.0 release on April 19, 2018. The next major release is scheduled for August 30, 2018. Committers and PMC membership ============================= We nominated and approved Markus Schuch as a PMC member on 12/29/2017. We did not sign up any new committers this quarter. We continue to be on the lookout for new PMC members and committers. We expect some GSOC students to be potential new committers once their projects are completed. Mailing list activity ===================== Mailing list activity has been moderate to active this quarter. Development has involved some long-running projects, but also a fair number of workarounds to project dependency issues. ManifoldCF has a very large number of dependencies due to its nature, and many of those dependencies have poor practices concerning issues like classloader hygiene, which impact ManifoldCF strongly. Issues reported have been centered mainly on bugs and on GSOC students this quarter. I am unaware of any mailing list question that has gone unanswered. Outstanding issues ================== No outstanding infrastructure issues are known at this time. Branding ======== No new branding-related activity to report.
Project description ============== ManifoldCF is an effort to provide an open source framework for connecting source content repositories like Microsoft Sharepoint and EMC Documentum, to target repositories or indexes, such as Apache Solr, OpenSearchServer or ElasticSearch. ManifoldCF also defines a security model for target repositories that permits them to enforce source repository security policies. Releases ======== ManifoldCF graduated from the Apache Incubator on May 16, 2012. Since then, there have been numerous major releases, including a 2.10.0 release on April 19, 2018. The next major release is scheduled for August 30, 2018. Committers and PMC membership ============================= We nominated and approved Markus Schuch as a PMC member on 12/29/2017. We did not sign up any new committers this quarter. We continue to be on the lookout for new PMC members and committers. Mailing list activity ===================== Mailing list activity has been moderate to active this quarter. Development has included a number of long-running projects being finally reintegrated with trunk, e.g. the initiative to provide explicit repository migration support. Issues reported have been centered on the development of new connectors, development currently being coordinated through the Google Summer of Code program. I am unaware of any mailing list question that has gone unanswered. In answer to the board's question whether we were aware that people could use the lists.apache.org UI to communicate on our lists without having to sign up: no, this was not something I was aware of, and I will be happy to advise people who have singleton questions to use that feature. Outstanding issues ================== No outstanding infrastructure issues are known at this time. Branding ======== We continue to believe we are now compliant with Apache branding guidelines, with the possible exception of (TM) signs in logos from other Apache products that don't have any such marks. We received word that the ManifoldCF trademark application (US TM App No. 86583085 for "MANIFOLDCF" in Cl. 9 | DLA Ref: 393457-900118) has been accepted.
Project description ============== ManifoldCF is an effort to provide an open source framework for connecting source content repositories like Microsoft Sharepoint and EMC Documentum, to target repositories or indexes, such as Apache Solr, OpenSearchServer or ElasticSearch. ManifoldCF also defines a security model for target repositories that permits them to enforce source repository security policies. Releases ======== ManifoldCF graduated from the Apache Incubator on May 16, 2012. Since then, there have been numerous major releases, including a 2.9.1 release on January 15, 2018. The next major release is scheduled for April 30, 2018. Committers and PMC membership ============================= We nominated and approved Markus Schuch as a PMC member on 12/29/2017. We did not sign up any new committers this quarter. We continue to be on the lookout for new PMC members and committers. Mailing list activity ===================== Mailing list activity has been moderate this quarter. Development has been taking place due to many downstream critical release updates. Issues reported have been largely about refinements to some of our connectors that have less robust user communities and constituencies. I am unaware of any mailing list question that has gone unanswered. We do have a number of cases where people who should be posting to our lists instead contact individual committers directly, or open tickets simply to ask questions. I think this may be due to a general community dislike in signing up for mailing lists. Outstanding issues ================== No outstanding infrastructure issues are known at this time. Branding ======== We continue to believe we are now compliant with Apache branding guidelines, with the possible exception of (TM) signs in logos from other Apache products that don't have any such marks. We received word that the ManifoldCF trademark application (US TM App No. 86583085 for "MANIFOLDCF" in Cl. 9 | DLA Ref: 393457-900118) has been accepted.
Project description ============== ManifoldCF is an effort to provide an open source framework for connecting source content repositories like Microsoft Sharepoint and EMC Documentum, to target repositories or indexes, such as Apache Solr, OpenSearchServer or ElasticSearch. ManifoldCF also defines a security model for target repositories that permits them to enforce source repository security policies. Releases ======== ManifoldCF graduated from the Apache Incubator on May 16, 2012. Since then, there have been numerous major releases, including a 2.8.1 release on September 7, 2017. The next major release is scheduled for December 31, 2017. Committers and PMC membership ============================= We signed up three committers in this period; the most recent one was Julien Massiera on September 30, 2017. We have not made much progress, however, on signing up new PMC members; the last PMC member remains Rafa Haro, voted in on August 31, 2015. In response to the Board's inquiry in February, we've been looking for PMC members and there have been some discussions, but so far we do not see PMC-level committment for any of our current committers. Generally we like to see long-term interest in the project before we offer PMC memberships. There have also been discussions around planning for transfer of the PMC Chair position to another person in some reasonable timeframe. We've discussed responsibilities and requirements for the PMC Chair position and looked for a volunteer. Currently we've had no takers, so Karl Wright will continue to be the Chair for the foreseeable future. Mailing list activity ===================== Mailing list activity has been fairly high this quarter. Development has been taking place due to many downstream critical release updates. Issues reported have been largely about refinements to some of our connectors that have less robust user communities and constituencies. I am unaware of any mailing list question that has gone unanswered. Outstanding issues ================== No outstanding infrastructure issues are known at this time. Branding ======== We continue to believe we are now compliant with Apache branding guidelines, with the possible exception of (TM) signs in logos from other Apache products that don't have any such marks. We received word that the ManifoldCF trademark application (US TM App No. 86583085 for "MANIFOLDCF" in Cl. 9 | DLA Ref: 393457-900118) has been accepted.
Project description ============== ManifoldCF is an effort to provide an open source framework for connecting source content repositories like Microsoft Sharepoint and EMC Documentum, to target repositories or indexes, such as Apache Solr, OpenSearchServer or ElasticSearch. ManifoldCF also defines a security model for target repositories that permits them to enforce source repository security policies. Releases ======== ManifoldCF graduated from the Apache Incubator on May 16, 2012. Since then, there have been numerous major releases, including a 2.7 release on April 20, 2017. The next major release is scheduled for August 30, 2017, and is on track. Committers and PMC membership ============================= The last committer we signed up was Markus Schuch on December 2, 2016. The last PMC member was Rafa Haro, voted in on August 31, 2015. In response to the Board's inquiry in February, we've been looking for PMC members and there are some potential ones among our newer committers, but it's too soon to know yet. Summer has impacted both the contribution rate to the project and the rate of engagement. Generally we like to see long-term interest in the project before we offer PMC memberships. Mailing list activity ===================== Mailing list activity has been moderate this quarter. Major development has been taking place around a set of new output connectors. Issues reported have been centered on the Documentum connector, which surprisingly remains active without significant modifications for most of a decade now. I am unaware of any mailing list question that has gone unanswered. Outstanding issues ================== No outstanding infrastructure issues are known at this time. Branding ======== We continue to believe we are now compliant with Apache branding guidelines, with the possible exception of (TM) signs in logos from other Apache products that don't have any such marks. We received word that the ManifoldCF trademark application (US TM App No. 86583085 for "MANIFOLDCF" in Cl. 9 | DLA Ref: 393457-900118) has been accepted.
Project description ============== ManifoldCF is an effort to provide an open source framework for connecting source content repositories like Microsoft Sharepoint and EMC Documentum, to target repositories or indexes, such as Apache Solr, OpenSearchServer or ElasticSearch. ManifoldCF also defines a security model for target repositories that permits them to enforce source repository security policies. Releases ======== ManifoldCF graduated from the Apache Incubator on May 16, 2012. Since then, there have been numerous major releases, including a 2.7 release on April 20, 2017. The next major release is scheduled for August 30, 2017. Committers and PMC membership ============================= The last committer we signed up was Markus Schuch on December 2, 2016. The last PMC member was Rafa Haro, voted in on August 31, 2015. In response to the Board's inquiry in February, we've been looking for PMC members and there are some potential ones among our newer committers, but it's too soon to know yet. Generally we like to see long-term interest in the project before we offer PMC memberships. Mailing list activity ===================== Mailing list activity has been high this quarter. Major development has been taking place around a new user interface and the 2.7 release, which turned out to be major for a number of reasons. Issues reported have been largely about refinements to some of our connectors that have a short track record, such as the email connector. I am unaware of any mailing list question that has gone unanswered. Outstanding issues ================== No outstanding infrastructure issues are known at this time. Branding ======== We continue to believe we are now compliant with Apache branding guidelines, with the possible exception of (TM) signs in logos from other Apache products that don't have any such marks. We received word that the ManifoldCF trademark application (US TM App No. 86583085 for "MANIFOLDCF" in Cl. 9 | DLA Ref: 393457-900118) has been accepted.
Project description ============== ManifoldCF is an effort to provide an open source framework for connecting source content repositories like Microsoft Sharepoint and EMC Documentum, to target repositories or indexes, such as Apache Solr, OpenSearchServer or ElasticSearch. ManifoldCF also defines a security model for target repositories that permits them to enforce source repository security policies. Releases ======== ManifoldCF graduated from the Apache Incubator on May 16, 2012. Since then, there have been numerous major releases, including a 2.6 release on December 30, 2016. The next major release is scheduled for April 30, 2017. Committers and PMC membership ============================= The last committer we signed up was Markus Schuch on December 2, 2016. The last PMC member was Rafa Haro, voted in on August 31, 2015. Mailing list activity ===================== Mailing list activity has been moderate this quarter. Issues reported have been mainly garden-variety bugs. We've had several feature requests but few contributions. Dev list comments for this period have also been light, with occasional user questions. I am unaware of any mailing list question that has gone unanswered. Outstanding issues ================== No outstanding infrastructure issues are known at this time. Branding ======== We continue to believe we are now compliant with Apache branding guidelines, with the possible exception of (TM) signs in logos from other Apache products that don't have any such marks. We received word that the ManifoldCF trademark application (US TM App No. 86583085 for "MANIFOLDCF" in Cl. 9 | DLA Ref: 393457-900118) has been accepted.
Project description ============== ManifoldCF is an effort to provide an open source framework for connecting source content repositories like Microsoft Sharepoint and EMC Documentum, to target repositories or indexes, such as Apache Solr, OpenSearchServer or ElasticSearch. ManifoldCF also defines a security model for target repositories that permits them to enforce source repository security policies. Releases ======== ManifoldCF graduated from the Apache Incubator on May 16, 2012. Since then, there have been numerous major releases, including a 2.5 release on August 18, 2016. The next major release is scheduled for December 31, 2016. Committers and PMC membership ============================= The last committer we signed up was Furkan Kamaci on September 7, 2016. The last PMC member was Rafa Haro, voted in on August 31, 2015. Mailing list activity ===================== Mailing list activity has been light this quarter. Issues reported have been mainly garden-variety bugs. We've had several feature requests but few contributions. Dev list comments for this period have also been light, with occasional user questions. I am unaware of any mailing list question that has gone unanswered. Outstanding issues ================== No outstanding infrastructure issues are known at this time. Branding ======== We continue to believe we are now compliant with Apache branding guidelines, with the possible exception of (TM) signs in logos from other Apache products that don't have any such marks. We received word that the ManifoldCF trademark application (US TM App No. 86583085 for "MANIFOLDCF" in Cl. 9 | DLA Ref: 393457-900118) has been accepted.
Project description ============== ManifoldCF is an effort to provide an open source framework for connecting source content repositories like Microsoft Sharepoint and EMC Documentum, to target repositories or indexes, such as Apache Solr, OpenSearchServer or ElasticSearch. ManifoldCF also defines a security model for target repositories that permits them to enforce source repository security policies. Releases ======== ManifoldCF graduated from the Apache Incubator on May 16, 2012. Since then, there have been numerous major releases, including a 2.4 release on April 23, 2016. The next major release is scheduled for August 30, 2016. Committers and PMC membership ============================= The last committer we signed up was Tugba Dogan on September 7, 2015. The last PMC member was Rafa Haro, voted in on August 31, 2015. Mailing list activity ===================== Mailing list activity has been moderate this quarter. Issues reported have been mainly garden-variety bugs. We've had several feature requests but few contributions. Dev list comments for this period have also been light, with occasional user questions. I am unaware of any mailing list question that has gone unanswered. Outstanding issues ================== No outstanding infrastructure issues are known at this time. Branding ======== We continue to believe we are now compliant with Apache branding guidelines, with the possible exception of (TM) signs in logos from other Apache products that don't have any such marks. We received word that the ManifoldCF trademark application (US TM App No. 86583085 for "MANIFOLDCF" in Cl. 9 | DLA Ref: 393457-900118) has been accepted.
Project description ============== ManifoldCF is an effort to provide an open source framework for connecting source content repositories like Microsoft Sharepoint and EMC Documentum, to target repositories or indexes, such as Apache Solr, OpenSearchServer or ElasticSearch. ManifoldCF also defines a security model for target repositories that permits them to enforce source repository security policies. Releases ======== ManifoldCF graduated from the Apache Incubator on May 16, 2012. Since then, there have been numerous major releases, including a 2.4 release on April 23, 2016. The next major release is scheduled for August 30, 2016. Committers and PMC membership ============================= The last committer we signed up was Tugba Dogan on September 7, 2015. The last PMC member was Rafa Haro, voted in on August 31, 2015. Mailing list activity ===================== Mailing list has been moderate this quarter. Issues reported have been mainly garden-variety bugs. New contributions have been light, with the notable exception of an OpenNLP transformation connector. Dev list comments for this period centered around the ManifoldCF 2.4 release in April, with occasional user questions. I am unaware of any mailing list question that has gone unanswered. Outstanding issues ================== No outstanding infrastructure issues are known at this time. Branding ======== We continue to believe we are now compliant with Apache branding guidelines, with the possible exception of (TM) signs in logos from other Apache products that don't have any such marks. We received word that the ManifoldCF trademark application (US TM App No. 86583085 for "MANIFOLDCF" in Cl. 9 | DLA Ref: 393457-900118) has been accepted.
Project description ============== ManifoldCF is an effort to provide an open source framework for connecting source content repositories like Microsoft Sharepoint and EMC Documentum, to target repositories or indexes, such as Apache Solr, OpenSearchServer or ElasticSearch. ManifoldCF also defines a security model for target repositories that permits them to enforce source-repository security policies. Releases ======== ManifoldCF graduated from the Apache Incubator on May 16, 2012. Since then, there have been numerous major releases, including a 2.3 release on December 17, 2015. We have now discontinued planned releases for the 1.x ManifoldCF platform. The next major release is scheduled for April 30, 2016. Committers and PMC membership ============================= The last committer we signed up was Tugba Dogan on September 7, 2015. Mailing list activity ===================== Mailing list has been light this quarter, except for December. Most of our connectors have significant use cases and constituencies and are mature offerings. There is a notable cycle of activity seemingly centered on quarter ends which seems to have become more pronounced. Dev list comments for this period centered around the ManifoldCF 2.3 release in December, and occasional user questions. I am unaware of any mailing-list question that has gone unanswered. Outstanding issues ================== No outstanding infrastructure issues are known at this time. Branding ======== We continue to believe we are now compliant with Apache branding guidelines, with the possible exception of (TM) signs in logos from other Apache products that don't have any such marks. We received word that the ManifoldCF trademark application (US TM App No. 86583085 for "MANIFOLDCF" in Cl. 9 | DLA Ref: 393457-900118) has been accepted.
ManifoldCF PMC Chair: Karl Wright (kwright@apache.org) Date: November 2015 Project description ============== ManifoldCF is an effort to provide an open source framework for connecting source content repositories like Microsoft Sharepoint and EMC Documentum, to target repositories or indexes, such as Apache Solr, OpenSearchServer or ElasticSearch. ManifoldCF also defines a security model for target repositories that permits them to enforce source-repository security policies. Releases ======== ManifoldCF graduated from the Apache Incubator on May 16, 2012. Since then, there have been numerous major releases, including a 1.10 and 2.2 release on September 7 and August 31, 2015. The next major release is scheduled for December 31, 2015. ManifoldCF is no longer in the position of supporting both a legacy set of releases (1.x), and a non-backwards-compatible set of releases (2.x). The 1.10 release was meant to be the last major release of the 1.x series of releases. Committers and PMC membership ============================= The last committer we signed up was Tugba Dogan on September 7, 2015. Mailing list activity ===================== Mailing list has moderately active. Most of our connectors now have significant use cases and constituencies. We participated in Google Summer of Code this year, and received two new connectors from that effort. Dev list comments for this period centered around the ManifoldCF 2.2 and 1.10 releases, and occasional user questions. I am unaware of any mailing-list question that has gone unanswered. Outstanding issues ================== Release upload to the dist.apache.org svn repository was formerly quite slow. We raised this issue with Infra roughly a year ago. Recently, Infra has reported that the problem is fixed. This is something we will certainly explore for the next release in December. Branding ======== We continue to believe we are now compliant with Apache branding guidelines, with the possible exception of (TM) signs in logos from other Apache products that don't have any such marks. We submitted ManifoldCF to the trademark registration service and received word that our trademark application is now pending.
ManifoldCF PMC Chair: Karl Wright (kwright@apache.org) Date: August 2015 Project description ============== ManifoldCF is an effort to provide an open source framework for connecting source content repositories like Microsoft Sharepoint and EMC Documentum, to target repositories or indexes, such as Apache Solr, OpenSearchServer or ElasticSearch. ManifoldCF also defines a security model for target repositories that permits them to enforce source-repository security policies. Releases ======== ManifoldCF graduated from the Apache Incubator on May 16, 2012. Since then, there have been numerous major releases, including a 1.9 and 2.1 release on May 3 and 4, 2015. The next pair of major releases is scheduled for August 31, 2015. ManifoldCF is still in the position of supporting both a legacy set of releases (1.x), and a non-backwards-compatible set of releases (2.x). The 1.10 release is planned to be the last major release of the 1.x series of releases. Committers and PMC membership ============================= The last committer we signed up was Kishore Kumar on April 28, 2015. Mailing list activity ===================== Mailing list has moderately active. Most of our connectors now have significant use cases and constituencies. We are participating in Google Summer of Code this year, and expect new connectors to come from that. Dev list comments for this period centered around the ManifoldCF 2.1 and 1.9 releases, and occasional user questions. I am unaware of any mailing-list question that has gone unanswered. Outstanding issues ================== Release upload to the dist.apache.org svn repository is quite slow, and takes well over an hour for a single ManifoldCF release candidate. We raised this issue with Infra originally by posting to the Infra list, but did not manage to resolve it. The problem was originally noted in uploads to people.apache.org. We were told to migrate to svn for release candidate availability, which we did, only to find that it was no faster than uploading to people.apache.org. I finally raised a specific ticket - INFRA-9519 - when it became clear that no progress had been made. Infra has responded that this is a known issue that they need to work on long-term. Branding ======== We continue to believe we are now compliant with Apache branding guidelines, with the possible exception of (TM) signs in logos from other Apache products that don't have any such marks. We submitted ManifoldCF to the trademark registration service and received word that our trademark application is now pending.
ManifoldCF PMC Chair: Karl Wright (kwright@apache.org) Date: May 2015 Project description ============== ManifoldCF is an effort to provide an open source framework for connecting source content repositories like Microsoft Sharepoint and EMC Documentum, to target repositories or indexes, such as Apache Solr, OpenSearchServer or ElasticSearch. ManifoldCF also defines a security model for target repositories that permits them to enforce source-repository security policies. Releases ======== ManifoldCF graduated from the Apache Incubator on May 16, 2012. Since then, there have been ten major releases, including a 1.8 and 2.0 release on December 26, 2014, and two corresponding pairs of point releases on February 3, 2015 and March 2, 2015. The next major release is scheduled for April 30, 2015. A pair of release candidates (1.9 and 2.1) are now up for voting in the community. ManifoldCF is still in the position of supporting both a legacy set of releases (1.x), and a non-backwards-compatible set of releases (2.x). We plan to continue this dual support for a period of roughly one year, that is until roughly December 2015. Committers and PMC membership ============================= The last committer we signed up was Kishore Kumar on April 28, 2015. Mailing list activity ===================== Mailing list has been less active than at its peak a couple of quarters ago, but still robust. Most of our connectors now have significant use cases and constituencies. Dev list comments for this period centered around the ManifoldCF 2.0.2 and 1.8.2 point releases, and the fact that there is no official upgrade path between the 1.x series and 2.x series of releases. This seems to be a concept that users are finding hard to grasp for some reason. I am unaware of any mailing-list question that has gone unanswered. Outstanding issues ================== Release upload to the dist.apache.org svn repository is quite slow, and takes well over an hour for a single ManifoldCF release candidate. We raised this issue with Infra originally by posting to the Infra list, but did not manage to resolve it. The problem was originally noted in uploads to people.apache.org. We were told to migrate to svn for release candidate availability, which we did, only to find that it was no faster than uploading to people.apache.org. I finally raised a specific ticket - INFRA-9519 - when it became clear that no progress had been made. There has been no progress on or acknowledgement of this ticket at the time of this report. Branding ======== We continue to believe we are now compliant with Apache branding guidelines, with the possible exception of (TM) signs in logos from other Apache products that don't have any such marks. We submitted ManifoldCF to the trademark registration service and received word that our trademark application is now pending.
ManifoldCF PMC Chair: Karl Wright (kwright@apache.org) Date: February 2015 Project description ============== ManifoldCF is an effort to provide an open source framework for connecting source content repositories like Microsoft Sharepoint and EMC Documentum, to target repositories or indexes, such as Apache Solr, OpenSearchServer or ElasticSearch. ManifoldCF also defines a security model for target repositories that permits them to enforce source-repository security policies. Releases ======== ManifoldCF graduated from the Apache Incubator on May 16, 2012. Since then, there have been ten major releases, including a 1.8 and 2.0 release on December 26, 2014, and a corresponding pair of point releases on February 3, 2015. The next major release is scheduled for April 30, 2015. ManifoldCF is now in the position of supporting both a legacy set of releases (1.x), and a non-backwards-compatible set of releases (2.x). We plan to continue this dual support for a period of roughly one year. Committers and PMC membership ============================= The last committer we signed up was Alessandro Benedetti (abenedetti), on October 10, 2014. Mailing list activity ===================== Mailing list has been somewhat less active than last quarter, but still robust. Most of our connectors now have significant use cases and constituencies. Dev list comments for this period centered around the ManifoldCF 2.0 release. There were plenty of people looking for integration advice as well. I am unaware of any mailing-list question that has gone unanswered. Outstanding issues ================== Release upload to the dist.apache.org svn repository is quite slow, and takes well over an hour for a single ManifoldCF release candidate. We raised this issue with Infra but did not manage to resolve it. Branding ======== We have reviewed the site branding guidelines and believe we are now compliant with these, with the possible exception of (TM) signs in logos from other Apache products that don't have any such marks. Hopefully we will be able to correct this issue soon.
@Doug: Is there still an issue with infra?
ManifoldCF PMC Chair: Karl Wright (kwright@apache.org) Date: November 2014 Project description ============== ManifoldCF is an effort to provide an open source framework for connecting source content repositories like Microsoft Sharepoint and EMC Documentum, to target repositories or indexes, such as Apache Solr, OpenSearchServer or ElasticSearch. ManifoldCF also defines a security model for target repositories that permits them to enforce source-repository security policies. Releases ======== ManifoldCF graduated from the Apache Incubator on May 16, 2012. Since then, there have been eight major releases, including a 1.7 release on August 24, 2014, and a point release 1.7.1 on September 22, 2014. The next major release is scheduled for December 31, 2014. Committers and PMC membership ============================= The last committer we signed up was Alessandro Benedetti (abenedetti), on October 10, 2014. Mailing list activity ===================== Mailing list has been very active, with a wide range of topics. Most of our connectors now have significant use cases and constituencies, and the connector family continues to grow. Dev list comments for this period centered around ManifoldCF 2.0 development, and backwards compatibility issues, as well as voting for the major 1.7 release. There were plenty of people looking for integration advice as well. Committer and external contributions have been significant this cycle. I am unaware of any mailing-list question that has gone unanswered. Outstanding issues ================== None known. Branding ======== We have reviewed the site branding guidelines and believe we are now compliant with these, with the possible exception of (TM) signs in logos from other Apache products that don't have any such marks. Hopefully we will be able to correct this issue soon.
Project description ============== ManifoldCF is an effort to provide an open source framework for connecting source content repositories like Microsoft Sharepoint and EMC Documentum, to target repositories or indexes, such as Apache Solr, OpenSearchServer or ElasticSearch. ManifoldCF also defines a security model for target repositories that permits them to enforce source-repository security policies. Releases ======== ManifoldCF graduated from the Apache Incubator on May 16, 2012. Since then, there have been seven major releases, including a 1.6 release on April 30, 2014, and a point release 1.6.1 on Jun 1, 2014. The next major release is scheduled for August 31, 2014. Committers and PMC membership ============================= The last committer and PMC member we signed up was Muhammed Olgun (molgun), on May 31, 2014. We also voted in another committer, Mingchun Zhao (mingchun), on the same day. Mailing list activity ===================== Mailing list has been active, with a wide range of topics. Most of our connectors now have significant use cases and constituencies, and the connector family continues to grow. Dev list comments for this period centered around voting for the major d1.6 release, people looking for integration advice, etc. Committer and external contributions have been significant this cycle. I am unaware of any mailing-list question that has gone unanswered. Outstanding issues ================== None known. Branding ======== We have reviewed the site branding guidelines and believe we are now compliant with these, with the possible exception of (TM) signs in logos from other Apache products that don't have any such marks. Hopefully we will be able to correct this issue soon.
Project description ============== ManifoldCF is an effort to provide an open source framework for connecting source content repositories like Microsoft Sharepoint and EMC Documentum, to target repositories or indexes, such as Apache Solr, OpenSearchServer or ElasticSearch. ManifoldCF also defines a security model for target repositories that permits them to enforce source-repository security policies. Releases ======== ManifoldCF graduated from the Apache Incubator on May 16, 2012. Since then, there have been seven major releases, including a 1.6 release on April 30, 2014. Committers and PMC membership ============================= The last committer and PMC member we signed up was Graeme Seaton (graemes), on March 2, 2014. Other contributors have been approached, but have also declined to accept consideration for possible committership. The most recent of these encounters took place in September, 2013. Mailing list activity ===================== Mailing list has been active, with a wide range of topics. Most of our connectors now have significant use cases and constituencies, and the connector family continues to grow. Dev list comments for this period centered around voting for the major 1.5 release, people looking for integration advice, etc. Committer and external contributions have been significant this cycle. I am unaware of any mailing-list question that has gone unanswered. Outstanding issues ================== None known. Branding ======== We have reviewed the site branding guidelines and believe we are now compliant with these, with the possible exception of (TM) signs in logos from other Apache products that don't have any such marks. Hopefully we will be able to correct this issue soon.
Project description ============== ManifoldCF is an effort to provide an open source framework for connecting source content repositories like Microsoft Sharepoint and EMC Documentum, to target repositories or indexes, such as Apache Solr, OpenSearchServer or ElasticSearch. ManifoldCF also defines a security model for target repositories that permits them to enforce source-repository security policies. Releases ======== ManifoldCF graduated from the Apache Incubator on May 16, 2012. Since then, there have been five major releases, including a 1.4 release on October 28, 2013, and a point release 1.4.1 on November 16, 2014. A new major release (1.5) is being voted on at this time. Committers and PMC membership ======================== The last committer and PMC member we signed up was Minoru Osuka (minoru), on January 10, 2013. We voted in a new committer and PMC member in May, but he declined to accept the committership due to his company's policies. Other contributors have been approached, but have also declined to accept consideration for possible committership. The most recent of these encounters took place in September. We are still not entirely sure why people who are obviously interested and to some degree committed to the project seem unwilling to become full committers. I suspect that corporate restrictions make this a challenge in some cases. Also, we seem to be interacting more with contractors than with employees recently, and it may well be that contractors have less interest in a long-standing relationship with our project. Nevertheless, we have rumors of significant contributions being prepared by at least three individuals; if any of these contributions are made, then we will likely offer the individuals involved committerships. Mailing list activity ============== Mailing list has been active, with a wide range of topics. Most of our connectors now have significant use cases and constituencies. Dev list comments centered around voting, extensions to the SharePoint connector, people looking for integration advice, etc. ManifoldCF also participated in Google Summer of Code, and MCF committers mentored one student developer through end of September 2013. External contributions and even committer contributions have been significant this quarter, despite heavy workload among most of the committer community. I am unaware of any mailing-list question that has gone unanswered. Outstanding issues ================== None. Branding ======== We have reviewed the site branding guidelines and believe we are now compliant with these, with the possible exception of (TM) signs in logos from other Apache products that don't have any such marks. We have not yet scheduled time to address this issue.
Board Report, ManifoldCF PMC ManifoldCF PMC Chair: Karl Wright (kwright@apache.org) Date: November 2013 Project description ============== ManifoldCF is an effort to provide an open source framework for connecting source content repositories like Microsoft Sharepoint and EMC Documentum, to target repositories or indexes, such as Apache Solr, OpenSearchServer or ElasticSearch. ManifoldCF also defines a security model for target repositories that permits them to enforce source-repository security policies. Releases ======== ManifoldCF graduated from the Apache Incubator on May 16, 2012. Since then, there have been five major releases, including a 1.4 release on October 28, 2013. Committers and PMC membership ======================== The last committer and PMC member we signed up was Minoru Osuka (minoru), on January 10, 2013. We voted in a new committer and PMC member in May, but he declined to accept the committership due to his company's policies. Other contributors have been approached, but have also declined to accept consideration for possible committership. The most recent of these encounters took place in September. We are not entirely sure why people who are obviously interested and to some degree committed to the project seem unwilling to become full committers. I suspect that corporate restrictions make this a challenge in some cases. Also, we seem to be interacting more with contractors than with employees recently, and it may well be that contractors have less interest in a long-standing relationship with our project. Mailing list activity ============== Mailing list has been active, with a wide range of topics. Most of our connectors now have significant use cases and constituencies. Dev list comments centered around voting, extensions to the SharePoint connector, people looking for integration advice, etc. ManifoldCF also participated in Google Summer of Code, and MCF committers mentored one student developer through end of September. External contributions and even committer contributions have been somewhat lighter this cycle than in the last quarter. Communication with committers indicates that this is due in some degree to the maturity of the product, but also to an uptick in everyone's work load. I am unaware of any mailing-list question that has gone unanswered. Outstanding issues ================== Both Infra issues that were outstanding at the time of the last report have been resolved. Branding ======== We have reviewed the site branding guidelines and believe we are now compliant with these, with the possible exception of (TM) signs in logos from other Apache products that don't have any such marks. Hopefully we will be able to correct this issue soon.
Project description ============== ManifoldCF is an effort to provide an open source framework for connecting source content repositories like Microsoft Sharepoint and EMC Documentum, to target repositories or indexes, such as Apache Solr, OpenSearchServer or ElasticSearch. ManifoldCF also defines a security model for target repositories that permits them to enforce source-repository security policies. Releases ======== ManifoldCF graduated from the Apache Incubator on May 16, 2012. Since then, there have been four major releases, including a 1.3 release on July 29, 2013. Committers and PMC membership ============================= The last committer and PMC member we signed up was Minoru Osuka (minoru), on January 10, 2013. We voted in a new committer and PMC member in May, but he declined to accept the committership due to his company's policies. Mailing list activity ===================== Mailing list has been active, with a wide range of topics. Most of our connectors now have significant use cases and constituencies. Dev list comments centered around new release-related communication, new contributions, and voting. We have had a number of current committers significantly increase their involvement in the project over the last quarter as well. I am unaware of any mailing-list question that has gone unanswered. Outstanding issues ================== The ManifoldCF team has two outstanding Infra issues at this time: INFRA-6590 and INFRA-6588. No apparent activity on these issues has occurred over the last few weeks. INFRA-6590 is the more critical of the two since right now nobody except infra has write access to the ManifoldCF wiki pages. Branding ======== We have reviewed the site branding guidelines and believe we are now compliant with these, with the possible exception of (TM) signs in logos from other Apache products that don't have any such marks. Hopefully we will be able to correct this issue soon.
Project description ============== ManifoldCF is an effort to provide an open source framework for connecting source content repositories like Microsoft Sharepoint and EMC Documentum, to target repositories or indexes, such as Apache Solr, OpenSearchServer or ElasticSearch. ManifoldCF also defines a security model for target repositories that permits them to enforce source-repository security policies. Releases ======== ManifoldCF graduated from the Apache Incubator on May 16, 2012. Since then, there have been three major releases, including a 1.1.1 release on February 13, 2013, and another major release is undergoing voting right now. Committers and PMC membership ============================= The last committer and PMC member we signed up was Minoru Osuka (minoru), on January 10, 2013. We are voting on a new committer and PMC member at the time of this writing also. Mailing list activity ===================== Mailing list has been active, with a wide range of topics. Most of our connectors now have significant use cases and constituencies. Dev list comments centered around new committers, release-related communication, and voting. I am unaware of any mailing-list question that has gone unanswered. Branding ======== We have reviewed the site branding guidelines and believe we are now compliant with these, with the possible exception of (TM) signs in logos from other Apache products that don't have any such marks. Hopefully we will be able to correct this issue soon.
Project description ============== ManifoldCF is an effort to provide an open source framework for connecting source content repositories like Microsoft Sharepoint and EMC Documentum, to target repositories or indexes, such as Apache Solr , OpenSearchServer or ElasticSearch. ManifoldCF also defines a security model for target repositories that permits them to enforce source-repository security policies. Milestones ======== ManifoldCF graduated from the Apache Incubator on May 16, 2012. Since then, there have been two major releases, including a 1.0 release on October 3, 2012, and another major release is undergoing voting at the time of this writing. Mailing list activity ============== Mailing list has been active, with a wide range of topics. Most of our connectors now have significant use cases and constituencies. Dev list comments centered around new committers, release-related communication, and voting. I am unaware of any mailing-list question that has gone unanswered. Committer and PMC membership ======================== We have signed up one new committer since the last report in November, 2012. We also continue to receive contributions in random bursts from people using the software. We've identified any contributor who seems to have a medium-term or better commitment to the technology as being a potential committer, and as always, we try to maintain an encouraging attitude towards new contributors. Branding ====== We are aware of no current violations of the Apache ManifoldCF brand. Legal ==== There are no outstanding legal issues that need resolution at this time. Infrastructure ========== There are no infrastructure issues known at this time.
Project description ============== ManifoldCF is an effort to provide an open source framework for connecting source content repositories like Microsoft Sharepoint and EMC Documentum, to target repositories or indexes, such as Apache Solr , OpenSearchServer or ElasticSearch. ManifoldCF also defines a security model for target repositories that permits them to enforce source-repository security policies. Milestones ======== ManifoldCF graduated from the Apache Incubator on May 16, 2012. Since then, there have been two major releases, including a 1.0 release on October 3, 2012. Mailing list activity ============== Mailing list has been active, especially with new connector development and user activity centered around the SharePoint 2010 connector. Dev list comments also centered around new committers, release-related communication, and voting. I am unaware of any mailing-list question that has gone unanswered. Committer and PMC membership ======================== We have signed up two new committers since the last report in August, 2012. We also continue to receive contributions in random bursts from people using the software. We've identified any contributor who seems to have a medium-term or better commitment to the technology as being a potential committer, and as always, we try to maintain an encouraging attitude towards new contributors. Branding ====== We are aware of no current violations of the Apache ManifoldCF brand. Legal ==== There are no outstanding legal issues that need resolution at this time. Infrastructure ========== There are no infrastructure issues known at this time.
ManifoldCF PMC Chair: Karl Wright (kwright@apache.org) Project description ============== ManifoldCF is an effort to provide an open source framework for connecting source content repositories like Microsoft Sharepoint and EMC Documentum, to target repositories or indexes, such as Apache Solr , OpenSearchServer or ElasticSearch. ManifoldCF also defines a security model for target repositories that permits them to enforce source-repository security policies. Milestones ======== ManifoldCF graduated from the Apache Incubator on May 16, 2012, one day after the latest major release on May 15, 2012. Since then, there has been a limited point release as well (on May 22, 2012), and a major software release occurred on July 13, 2012. Another release is planned for the end of September. Mailing list activity ============== Mailing list activity picked up late in July, with broad activity on topics related to the Web Connector, SharePoint 2010, MySQL support, and the build infrastructure. Dev list comments also centered around release-related communication and voting. I am unaware of any mailing-list question that has gone unanswered. Committer and PMC membership ======================== The last new committer signed on was in February, 2012. Since then we've had a number of offers for contribution from outside the community but insufficient demonstrated commitment to offer committership or PMC membership to any individual. We are actively working to have a broader committer base, as always, and try to maintain an encouraging attitude towards new contributors. Branding ====== We are aware of no current violations of the Apache ManifoldCF brand. Legal ==== There are no outstanding legal issues that need resolution at this time. Infrastructure ========== There are only minor individual-related infrastructure issues outstanding at this time. This includes a committer who did not catch the mandatory password change on May 24 and thus lost access to his Apache account. We are trying to resolve the issue now that he has returned to work.
ManifoldCF PMC Chair: Karl Wright (kwright@apache.org) Date: July 2012 Project description ============== ManifoldCF is an effort to provide an open source framework for connecting source content repositories like Microsoft Sharepoint and EMC Documentum, to target repositories or indexes, such as Apache Solr, OpenSearchServer or ElasticSearch. ManifoldCF also defines a security model for target repositories that permits them to enforce source-repository security policies. Milestones ======== ManifoldCF graduated from the Apache Incubator on May 16, 2012, one day after the latest major release on May 15, 2012. Since then, there has been a limited point release as well (on May 22, 2012), and the next major software release is planned for the first two weeks of July. Mailing list activity ============== The mailing lists have been relatively quiet for the latter part of June. Vacation time has started in Europe and this has reduced MCF's dev and user list activity, as it always does. There has been some activity following up on the SharePoint 2010 issues and the session-based web crawling. Also, dev list discussion has taken place about how to store exported configuration information securely, and invaluable testing contributions made by certain individuals who work for qBase, Inc., who donated their time to this endeavor to further the project. I am unaware of any mailing-list question that has gone unanswered. Committer and PMC membership ======================== The last new committer signed on was in February, 2012. Since then we've had a number of offers for contribution from outside the community but insufficient demonstrated commitment to offer committership or PMC membership to any individual. We are actively working to have a broader committer base, as always, and try to maintain an encouraging attitude towards new contributors. Branding ====== We are aware of no current violations of the Apache ManifoldCF brand. Legal ==== The only outstanding legal issue we had pertained to how we interface to .NET services. The ticket was LEGAL-137, which has now been resolved. As a result, ManifoldCF trunk code has been updated accordingly. Infrastructure ========== All infrastructure issues related to graduation have been satisfactorily resolved. The build and release process has been successfully updated (CONNECTORS-474) to take into account Apache requirements for availability of proprietary software to release engineers. We are no longer using any Incubator resources.
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Project description ============== ManifoldCF is an effort to provide an open source framework for connecting source content repositories like Microsoft Sharepoint and EMC Documentum, to target repositories or indexes, such as Apache Solr, OpenSearchServer or ElasticSearch. ManifoldCF also defines a security model for target repositories that permits them to enforce source-repository security policies. Milestones ======== ManifoldCF graduated from the Apache Incubator on May 16, 2012, one day after the latest major release on May 15, 2012. Since then there has been a limited point release as well (on May 22, 2012). Mailing list activity ============== The mailing lists have been ported to their new TLP location for about 10 days. There has been some activity pertaining to certain specific connectors, especially the SharePoint connector and the need to develop a SharePoint 2010 version of this, including offers of contribution. Also within the last month there have been requests for assistance from those using the web connector for extremely challenging session authentication situations. The dev lists have been occupied with getting the releases out the door and looking at a connector for a new open-source pipeline release. I am unaware of any mailing-list question that has gone unanswered. Committer and PMC membership ======================== The last new committer signed on was in February, 2012. Since then we've had a number of offers for contribution from outside the community but insufficient demonstrated commitment to offer committership or PMC membership to any individual. We are actively working to have a broader committer base, as always, and try to maintain an encouraging attitude towards new contributors. Branding ====== We are aware of no current violations of the Apache ManifoldCF brand. Legal ==== A legal issue we are looking to resolve pertains to how we interface to .NET services. The ticket is LEGAL-137. There has been a fair bit of discussion of the issue raised here but no definitive conclusion as of yet. Until such time as I hear back from either HP or Apache Legal about this, we will continue to treat generated .NET interface documents as copyrightable materials. Infrastructure ========== As per the graduation documents [1], I've filed graduation tickets with INFRA (see INFRA-4841). We await movement of our web, dist, and svn resources from our incubator area to their final TLP locations. After this move, we intend to request that a Git svn mirror be created also. ManifoldCF's unique nature (specifically, its purpose of connecting to third-party and possibly proprietary systems) has led to a significant amount of back-and-forth on at least one of the infrastructure subtickets we created. As a result, we've already revamped our website (CONNECTORS-473), and we are also in the process of improving our build and release process (CONNECTORS-474). It does not appear that the issues raised are sufficient to prevent migration, and yet migration has not occurred as of this writing. We have been unable to complete the setup of the ManifoldCF project for this reason. We will continue to use Incubator resources until such time as the migration actually takes place. [1] http://incubator.apache.org/guides/graduation.html#life-after-graduation
Props for a good report for a new TLP.
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 transferring
content between repositories or search indexes.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management Committee
(PMC), to be known as the "Apache ManifoldCF Project", be and hereby
is established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the Apache ManifoldCF Project be and hereby is
responsible for the creation and maintenance of open-source
software related to transferring content between repositories or
search indexes; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, ManifoldCF" 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 ManifoldCF Project, and to have primary responsibility for
management of the projects within the scope of responsibility of
the Apache ManifoldCF 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 ManifoldCF
Project:
* Shinichiro Abe <shinichiro@apache.org>
* Erlend Garåsen <ridder@apache.org>
* Piergiorgio Lucidi <piergiorgio@apache.org>
* Hitoshi Ozawa <hozawa@apache.org>
* Tommaso Teofili <tommaso@apache.org>
* Simon Willnauer <simonw@apache.org>
* Karl Wright <kwright@apache.org>
* Jukka Zitting <jukka@apache.org>
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Karl Wright be
appointed to the office of Vice President, ManifoldCF, 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 ManifoldCF Project be and hereby is
tasked with the creation of a set of bylaws intended to encourage open
development and increased participation in the ManifoldCF Project; and
be it further
RESOLVED, that the initial Apache ManifoldCF Project be and hereby is
tasked with the migration and rationalization of the Apache Incubator
ManifoldCF podling; and be it further
RESOLVED, that all responsibility pertaining to the Apache Incubator
ManifoldCF podling encumbered upon the Apache Incubator PMC are
hereafter discharged.
Special Order 7E, Establish the Apache ManifoldCF Project, was
approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
ManifoldCF is an incremental crawler framework and set of connectors designed
to pull documents from various kinds of repositories into search engine
indexes or other targets. The current bevy of repository connectors includes
Documentum (EMC), FileNet (IBM), LiveLink (OpenText), Meridio (Autonomy),
SharePoint (Microsoft), JDBC, CIFS file systems, CMIS repositories, Alfresco,
RSS feeds, Wiki content, and web content. Output support includes Solr,
MetaCarta GTS, and OpenSearchServer.
ManifoldCF also provides components for individual document security within
a target search engine, so that repository security access conventions can
be enforced in search results.
ManifoldCF has been in incubation since January, 2010. It was originally
a planned subproject of Lucene but is now a likely top-level project.
A list of the three most important issues to address in the move
towards graduation:
1. We believe we've reached graduation threshold. More committers and
greater breadth in the committer base is always welcome, of course.
2. We need the current committer base to continue to broaden their
commits to new areas of the project
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to
be aware of?
We have an outstanding request to Apache Legal to determine whether we can
distribute PDF files containing Japanese characters rendered with the IPA
family of fonts. It would be great to know the answer prior to the release
of ManifoldCF 0.5-incubating. A ticket is open (LEGAL-123) but no activity
has taken place on it.
How has the community developed since the last report?
We've received sustained contributions from multiple individuals, and signed
up one new committer. Deployments of the project software are also now
clearly reaching a much broader audience than they were a year ago, and
this trend seems likely to continue. A second revision of ManifoldCF in
Action is also planned to keep up with developments on the project.
How has the project developed since the last report?
An 0.1 release was made on January 31, 2011, and a 0.2 release occurred
on May 17, 2011. The 0.3 release occurred on September 20, 2011. The 0.4
release took place on February 2, 2012. The fifth incubator release is
planned for March 30, 2012, and will include an ElasticSearch connector,
full internationalization support and a Japanese localization, MySQL
support, automated UI testing, and more.
Signed off by mentor: tommaso, jukka
--Description-- ManifoldCF is an incremental crawler framework and set of connectors designed to pull documents from various kinds of repositories into search engine indexes or other targets. The current bevy of repository connectors includes Documentum (EMC), FileNet (IBM), LiveLink (OpenText), Meridio (Autonomy), SharePoint (Microsoft), JDBC, CIFS file systems, CMIS repositories, RSS feeds, and web content. Output support includes Solr, MetaCarta GTS, and OpenSearchServer. ManifoldCF also provides components for individual document security within a target search engine, so that repository security access conventions can be enforced in the search results. ManifoldCF has been in incubation since January, 2010. It was originally a planned subproject of Lucene but is now a likely top-level project. --A list of the three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation-- 1. We need at least one additional active committer, as well as additional users and repeat contributors 2. We need the current committer base to each broaden their commits to new areas of the project 3. We'd like to see long-term contributions for project testing, especially infrastructure access --Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of?-- All issues have been addressed to our satisfaction at this time. --How has the community developed since the last report?-- Talks on ManifoldCF were given both at Apache Eurocon 2011 in Barcelona and at ApacheCon NA in Vancouver. Both were well-received. We have not signed up any new committers, however, this quarter, although we've received interest from people towards contributing especially in Vancouver. Based on the feelings of our mentors, we have postponed further talk of graduation, due to the still-not-well-distributed number of commits among our committer base. --How has the project developed since the last report?-- An 0.1 release was made on January 31, 2011, and a 0.2 release occurred on May 17, 2011. Another release occurred on September 20, 2011. A fourth release is planned for December 15, 2011, and will contain significant new features, including full support for HSQLDB and a new Alfresco connector.
--Description-- ManifoldCF is an incremental crawler framework and set of connectors designed to pull documents from various kinds of repositories into search engine indexes or other targets. The current bevy of repository connectors includes Documentum (EMC), FileNet (IBM), LiveLink (OpenText), Meridio (Autonomy), SharePoint (Microsoft), JDBC, CIFS file systems, CMIS repositories, RSS feeds, and web content. Output support includes Solr, MetaCarta GTS, and OpenSearchServer. ManifoldCF also provides components for individual document security within a target search engine, so that repository security access conventions can be enforced in the search results. ManifoldCF has been in incubation since January, 2010. It was originally a planned subproject of Lucene but is now a likely top-level project. --A list of the three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation-- 1. We need at least one additional active committer, as well as additional users and repeat contributors 2. We want to finish the current release before graduating 3. We'd like to see long-term contributions for project testing, especially infrastructure access --Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of?-- All issues have been addressed to our satisfaction at this time. --How has the community developed since the last report?-- A book has been completed, and is now available in early-release form, available from Manning Publishing, at http://www.manning.com/wright. We have signed up a new committer in this quarter and are discussing a second. One of our mentors (Grant Ingersoll) resigned. We continue to have user community interest. We are participating this year in both Apache Eurocon and Apache North America. We've had a number of extremely helpful contributions from the field, including the CMIS connector and the OpenSearchServer output connector. We have started to discuss graduation from the incubator, which may come to pass by the end of the year. --How has the project developed since the last report?-- An 0.1 release was made on January 31, 2011, and a 0.2 release occurred on May 17, 2011. Another release is scheduled for September 15, 2011, and will contain significant new features, including two new connectors and a client scripting language.
--Description-- ManifoldCF is an incremental crawler framework and set of connectors designed to pull documents from various kinds of repositories into search engine indexes or other targets. The current bevy of repository connectors includes Documentum (EMC), FileNet (IBM), LiveLink (OpenText), Meridio (Autonomy), SharePoint (Microsoft), JDBC, CIFS file systems, CMIS repositories, RSS feeds, and web content. Output support includes Solr, MetaCarta GTS, and OpenSearchServer. ManifoldCF also provides components for individual document security within a target search engine, so that repository security access conventions can be enforced in the search results. ManifoldCF has been in incubation since January, 2010. It was originally a planned subproject of Lucene but is now a likely top-level project. --A list of the three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation-- 1. We need at least one additional active committer, as well as additional users and repeat contributors 2. We want to finish the current release before graduating 3. We'd like to see long-term contributions for project testing, especially infrastructure access --Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of?-- All issues have been addressed to our satisfaction at this time. --How has the community developed since the last report?-- A book has been completed, and is now available in early-release form, available from Manning Publishing, at http://www.manning.com/wright. We have signed up a new committer in this quarter and are discussing a second. One of our mentors (Grant Ingersoll) resigned. We continue to have user community interest. We are participating this year in both Apache Eurocon and Apache North America. We've had a number of extremely helpful contributions from the field, including the CMIS connector and the OpenSearchServer output connector. We have started to discuss graduation from the incubator, which may come to pass by the end of the year. --How has the project developed since the last report?-- An 0.1 release was made on January 31, 2011, and a 0.2 release occurred on May 17, 2011. Another release is scheduled for September 15, 2011, and will contain significant new features, including two new connectors and a client scripting language.
--Description-- ManifoldCF is an incremental crawler framework and set of connectors designed to pull documents from various kinds of repositories into search engine indexes or other targets. The current bevy of connectors includes Documentum (EMC), FileNet (IBM), LiveLink (OpenText), Meridio (Autonomy), SharePoint (Microsoft), RSS feeds, and web content. ManifoldCF also provides components for individual document security within a target search engine, so that repository security access conventions can be enforced in the search results. ManifoldCF has been in incubation since January, 2010. It was originally a planned subproject of Lucene but is now a likely top-level project. --A list of the three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation-- 1. We need at least one additional active committer, as well as additional users and repeat contributors 2. We may want another release before graduating 3. We'd like to see long-term contributions for project testing, especially infrastructure access --Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of?-- All issues have been addressed to our satisfaction at this time. --How has the community developed since the last report?-- A book has being completed, and is becoming available in early-release form, available from Manning Publishing. We have signed up two new committers and one new mentor. We continue to have user community interest. We've had a number of extremely helpful bug reports and contributions from the field. --How has the project developed since the last report?-- An 0.1 release was made on January 31, 2011, and a 0.2 release occurred on May 17, 2011. Another release is being considered.
--Description-- ManifoldCF is an incremental crawler framework and set of connectors designed to pull documents from various kinds of repositories into search engine indexes or other targets. The current bevy of connectors includes Documentum (EMC), FileNet (IBM), LiveLink (OpenText), Meridio (Autonomy), SharePoint (Microsoft), RSS feeds, and web content. ManifoldCF also provides components for individual document security within a target search engine, so that repository security access conventions can be enforced in the search results. ManifoldCF has been in incubation since January, 2010. It was originally a planned subproject of Lucene but is now a likely top-level project. --A list of the three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation-- 1. We need at least three additional active committers, as well as additional users and repeat contributors 2. We should have at least one or two more releases before graduating 3. We'd like to see long-term contributions for project testing, especially infrastructure access --Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of?-- All issues have been addressed to our satisfaction at this time. --How has the community developed since the last report?-- A book is being written, and has entered the early-release phase, available from Manning Publishing. We continue to have user community interest. We've had a number of extremely helpful bug reports and contributions from the field. The active committer list remains short, however. --How has the project developed since the last report?-- An 0.1 release was made on January 31, 2011, and another release is being considered. Contributions extending the FileNet connector have been made, as well as contributions to the Solr connector.