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## Description: The mission of Pivot is the creation and maintenance of software related to Rich Internet applications in Java ## Project Status: Current project status: Vote completed to move to the Attic, following a final release. This release is in progress, waiting on final editing of Release Notes and then final build. Issues for the board: Only patience as we finish up. ## Membership Data: Apache Pivot was founded 2009-12-15 (14 years ago) There are currently 10 committers and 7 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 5:4. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Gavin McDonald on 2022-04-13. - No new committers. Last addition was Gavin McDonald on 2022-04-14. ## Project Activity: A few late emails pertaining to the final build. Release VM is setup, all info needed for the final Release Notes has been gathered, pending editing. If all goes well, the Attic move can commence once the final build has been made (hopefully in the next few weeks). Beginning discussion on Legal mailing list of how to migrate to GitHub. ## Community Health: User and Dev lists have been notified (again) of impending Attic move; no responses, confirming the lack of interest in the project.
No report was submitted.
## Description: The mission of Pivot is the creation and maintenance of software related to Rich Internet applications in Java ## Project Status: Current project status: Vote was taken and passed to retire Pivot to the Attic. PMC is currently preparing a terminal release to end the project. Issues for the board: No issues for the board at this time. Apologies for missing this report the last few months due to personal issues. ## Membership Data: Apache Pivot was founded 2009-12-15 (14 years ago) There are currently 10 committers and 7 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 5:4. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Gavin McDonald on 2022-04-13. - No new committers. Last addition was Gavin McDonald on 2022-04-14. ## Project Activity: Build area setup for the terminal release. All pending code changes have been committed. But we're having difficulty preparing the lists of bug fixes and other changes since it is a huge list after the 778 revisions, 96 resolved issues, and 314 other revisions over the last 10 years since the last significant release. But we'll get there. ## Community Health: Dead community, hence the Attic. Fortunately we still have 3 PMC members to finish this last release.
@Craig: follow up on final release
No report was submitted.
No report was submitted.
## Description: The mission of Pivot is the creation and maintenance of software related to Rich Internet applications in Java. ## Project Status: Current project status: Dormant, and considering moving to the Attic. The last post to the Dev and User lists (2023-07-20) was a message about probably sunsetting, to which there was no response from anyone. Issues for the board: There are no issues for the Board at this time. There was a possible security issue (January 2023) that was addressed with code/documentation changes. ## Membership Data: Apache Pivot was founded 2009-12-15 (14 years ago) There are currently 10 committers and 7 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 5:4. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Gavin McDonald on 2022-04-13. - No new committers. Last addition was Gavin McDonald on 2022-04-14. ## Project Activity: Recent releases: 2.0.5 was released on 2017-07-04. 2.0.4 was released on 2014-05-19. 2.0.3 was released on 2013-08-01. No development activity since January 2023, and no emails on Dev or User lists since the aforementioned notice of sunsetting in July. ## Community Health: Essentially non-existent, except that I still have changes pending and planned for the "terminal" 2.1.0 release. Personal issues, including retirement, have delayed this final release.
@Craig: follow up on attic
No report was submitted.
## Description: The mission of Pivot is the creation and maintenance of software related to Rich Internet applications in Java ## Project Status: Current project status: The project is very quiet currently. No appreciable activity in the last couple of years, apart from some discussion of a security problem last quarter. Issues for the board: As noted in the board comments from last time, a dev@ email should go out (again) related to probable move to the Attic. ## Membership Data: Apache Pivot was founded 2009-12-15 (14 years ago) There are currently 10 committers and 7 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 5:4. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Gavin McDonald on 2022-04-13. - No new committers. Last addition was Gavin McDonald on 2022-04-14. ## Project Activity: Essentially nothing since the last report. Since it has only been two months since the last (delayed) status, nothing has happened. Expect a new dev@ mailing this week about a move to the Attic. I also expect to make some new commits now that summer is here and there is a little more time. ## Community Health: There is sufficient oversight still on the PMC, but we are essentially finished, with the (increasingly unlikely) potential to make a terminal release (now delayed by 3-4 years).
## Description: The mission of Pivot is the creation and maintenance of software related to Rich Internet applications in Java ## Issues: No Board-level issues at this time. A potential security vulnerability came up this quarter, which was investigated and deemed non-critical, albeit with some documentation changes. Apologies for missing the report last month, as I was dealing with a death in the family. ## Membership Data: Apache Pivot was founded 2009-12-15 (13 years ago) There are currently 10 committers and 7 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 5:4. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Gavin McDonald on 2022-04-13. - No new committers. Last addition was Gavin McDonald on 2022-04-14. ## Project Activity: Other than the security investigation, no real development activity since last report. Still intend to make final release *soon*. Expect to start a mailing list announcement / discussion on this in the next few weeks. But otherwise mailing lists are quiet (as usual). ## Community Health: Interesting that the potential security issue came up, but having such little community activity was a big factor in downgrading the problem. Expect discussion of the end-of-life situation in the next report.
No report was submitted.
## Description: The mission of Pivot is the creation and maintenance of software related to Rich Internet applications in Java ## Issues: No issues requiring Board attention at this time. ## Membership Data: Apache Pivot was founded 2009-12-15 (13 years ago) There are currently 10 committers and 7 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 5:4. Community changes, past year: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Gavin McDonald on 2022-04-13. - No new committers. Last addition was Gavin McDonald on 2022-04-14. ## Project Activity: No commit activity this last quarter, and only a minuscule number of emails. Recent releases: * 2.0.5 was released on 2017-07-04. * 2.0.4 was released on 2014-05-19. ## Community Health: No new development activity this quarter. Still anticipating a final release followed by moving to the Attic, unless some totally unexpected community begins to develop again.
No report was submitted.
## Description: The mission of Pivot is the creation and maintenance of software related to Rich Internet applications in Java ## Issues: No issues requiring Board attention at this time. ## Membership Data: Apache Pivot was founded 2009-12-15 (13 years ago) There are currently 10 committers and 7 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 5:4. Community changes, past year: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Gavin McDonald on 2022-04-13. - No new committers. Last addition was Gavin McDonald on 2022-04-14. ## Project Activity: One new JIRA issue opened and two closed since last report, related to the feature set and timeline for what will probably be our final release. Recent releases: * 2.0.5 was released on 2017-07-04. * 2.0.4 was released on 2014-05-19. ## Community Health: Basically unchanged from the last two reports this year, except that the final release development activity has slowed somewhat. I'm thinking that not all the final release objectives can realistically be met, given the lack of development resources, but there is certainly enough done that can be released at any point we decide to. I expect some discussion this next quarter on what would be realistic to accomplish.
No report was submitted.
## Description: The mission of Pivot is the creation and maintenance of software related to Rich Internet applications in Java ## Issues: No Board-level issues at this time. With the appointment of Gavin McDonald to the PMC and as a committer we have sufficient PMC oversight now. ## Membership Data: Apache Pivot was founded 2009-12-15 (12 years ago) There are currently 10 committers and 7 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 5:4. Community changes, past quarter: - Gavin McDonald was added to the PMC on 2022-04-13 - Gavin McDonald was added as committer on 2022-04-14 ## Project Activity: No new JIRA issues since last report, no commits. Some minor mailing list activity. We are included in an Infra trial of mailing list migration. Recent releases: * 2.0.5 was released on 2017-07-04. * 2.0.4 was released on 2014-05-19. ## Community Health: In response to questions from last report: Yes, the plan is to finish work on a terminal release and then propose moving the project to the Attic. In the event that new community involvement appears we can certainly readjust this plan. Currently no certain timeframe for this last release, but there is no hurry.
## Description: The mission of Pivot is the creation and maintenance of software related to Rich Internet applications in Java ## Issues: No Board-level issues at this time. There are still some discrepancies in the PMC and committer lists that need to be rectified. But one new PMC member added to ensure proper project oversight. ## Membership Data: Apache Pivot was founded 2009-12-15 (12 years ago) There are currently 10 committers and 7 PMC members listed in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 10:7. Figures based on Whimsy. Community changes, past quarter: - Gavin McDonald (finally) added as PMC Member (2022-04-14) - Niclas Hedhman (also finally) removed from the project and PMC. - No new committers were added. ## Releases - Latest version 2.0.5 was released on 2017-07-04. - New version 2.1.0 currently late but still planned for soon. ## Project Activity: Very little activity since the last report (2022-02) but one new issue created. ## Community Health: Mostly no community any more, but one active developer still working. There are possibly some avenues for further development, but which would require significant work. The immediate needs are finishing the coding for a (possible) final release, unless a new community starts to develop.
No report was submitted.
## Description: The mission of Pivot is the creation and maintenance of software related to Rich Internet applications in Java. ## Issues: No Board-level issues at this time. A new PMC member has been chosen (waiting on 72-hour notice period) which will bring us back to at least three voting members. ## Membership Data: Apache Pivot was founded 2009-12-15 (12 years ago) There are currently 9 committers and 8 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 9:8. ## Community changes, past quarter: - One new PMC member appointed. Previous addition was Niclas Hedhman on 2016-01-13 who has subsequently resigned. - No new committers were added. - I believe the PMC / committer lists need to be updated to reflect current reality. ## Project Activity: There continues to be development activity towards a new release. ## Community Health: Nothing new except the above.
No report was submitted.
No report was submitted.
## Description: The mission of Pivot is the creation and maintenance of software related to Rich Internet applications in Java. ## Issues: As suggested by the Board from our last report and discussion on Legal a Discussion Item A has been added (above) to consider appointing a new PMC Member to provide project oversight. A separate email thread on ComDev is also active (per Board request) to discuss community development. ## Membership Data: Apache Pivot was founded 2009-12-15 (11 years ago) There are currently 9 committers and 7 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 9:7. Note: this data seems to be in error, based on activity, so an update needs to be made. ## Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Niclas Hedhman on 2016-01-13. - Niclas Hedhman has asked to be removed from the PMC. - No new committers were added. ## Project Activity: There continues to be development activity, leading up to a new release, now scheduled for the end of 2021. ## Community Health: Following up on the Legal and ComDev discussions should provide insight into the next steps for the project, which should include website updates as well as appeals on the mailing lists.
## Description: The mission of Pivot is the creation and maintenance of software related to Rich Internet applications in Java. ## Issues: As documented in our last report, there does not seem to be sufficient oversight on the PMC. So, in response to Board comments I would like to request help from the Board or Members to either: * find someone who would join the PMC temporarily to oversee a final release and the transition to the Attic, * or help with attracting some new users / developers. I will email the Users and Developers lists with this same appeal. ## Membership Data: Apache Pivot was founded 2009-12-15 (11 years ago) There are currently 9 committers and 7 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 9:7. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Niclas Hedhman on 2016-01-13. - Niclas Hedhman has asked to be removed from the PMC. - No new committers were added. ## Project Activity: There has been some development activity in this last quarter, including some new issues, but not enough for the envisioned release this summer. ## Community Health: The community seems to be completely gone except for myself, but I will make one last appeal on the mailing lists.
No report was submitted.
## Description: The mission of Pivot is the creation and maintenance of software related to Rich Internet applications in Java. ## Issues: With the abrupt departure of one of the PMC members I have been attempting to contact other PMC members to see if we still have 3 votes. Have not heard from anyone, though. So, I would say the project now has insufficient oversight. ## Membership Data: Apache Pivot was founded 2009-12-15 (11 years ago) There are currently 9 committers and 7 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 9:7. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Niclas Hedhman on 2016-01-13. - Niclas Hedhman has asked to be removed from the PMC, but the motion has not been filed yet. - No new committers were added. ## Project Activity: There has been a lot of development activity in the last few months, on a timeline for the "terminal" release probably this summer. ## Community Health: Not good. Only myself working on development and no other user or developer activity. Attempting to contact any of the other committers or developers in order to reestablish sufficient project oversight.
No report was submitted.
## Description The mission of Pivot is the creation and maintenance of software related to Rich Internet applications in Java ## Issues Very little activity, but no issues arose this quarter. Three PMC members are still available to vote, and some small amount of development toward what is likely to be a final release is still ongoing. ## Membership Data Apache Pivot was founded on 2009-12-15 (11 years ago). There are currently 10 committers and 7 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 5:4. ## Community Changes Past Quarter - No new PMC members. Last addition was Niclas Hedhman on 2016-01-13. - No new committers. Last addition was Niclas Hedhman on 2020-02-05. ## Project Release Activity - The planned 2.1 release for the end of 2020 will likely now be Q1 or Q2 of 2021. - 2.0.5 was released on 2017-07-04. - 2.0.4 was released on 2014-05-19. - 2.0.3 was released on 2013-08-01. ## Project Activity There was no mailing list activity this last quarter, and no commits or issues changed. Some development activity continued in the background, but without commits yet. ## Community Health The same as the last several years, there is no visible community, except for the one developer / PMC chair who is still doing work. The Attic seems inevitable once the hoped for and planned 2.1 release is done.
## Description: The mission of Pivot is the creation and maintenance of software related to Rich Internet applications in Java ## Issues: There are no new issues this quarter: little to no activity, but at least three PMC members are still available. Some small amount of development still ongoing. ## Membership Data: Apache Pivot was founded 2009-12-15 (11 years ago) There are currently 10 committers and 7 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 5:4. ## Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Niclas Hedhman on 2016-01-13. - No new committers. Last addition was Niclas Hedhman on 2020-02-05. ## Project Activity: Still hoping to get to a 2.1.0 (likely final) release in the near future. There will need to be some decisions made for future Java compatibility before release. ## Community Health: The community has mostly disappeared, but there is still one developer doing work, who is also available for security fixes, if necessary.
## Description: Apache Pivot is an open-source platform for building installable Internet applications (IIAs). It combines the enhanced productivity and usability features of a modern user interface toolkit with the robustness of the Java platform. ## Issues: Community health has been very weak for many years already, and there are no signs of it improving. Since the PMC Chair (and only active committer) has been going through personal issues, discussion about moving to the Attic has once again picked up. ## Membership Data: Apache Pivot was founded 2009-12-16 (10 years ago) There are currently 10 committers and 7 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 5:4. ## Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Niclas Hedhman on 2016-01-14. - No new committers. Last addition was Niclas Hedhman on 2020-02-06. ## Project Activity: Activity is very low, with a flurry of new activity this quarter from the single developer still active, but little external interest. The current activity is still aimed toward what we anticipate to be a final 2.1 release with possible conclusion this year. ## Community Health: Community health is not great, although 3 PMC members are still available to make decisions, but there are no new committers or PMC Members in sight.
## Description: The mission of Pivot is the creation and maintenance of software related to Rich Internet applications in Java. ## Issues: Community health has been very weak for many years already, and there are no signs of it improving. It is likely that Pivot will go to the Attic soon. ## Membership Data: Apache Pivot was founded 2009-12-16 (10 years ago) There are currently 10 committers and 7 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 5:4. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Niclas Hedhman on 2016-01-14. - No new committers. Last addition was Niclas Hedhman on 2020-02-06. ## Project Activity: Activity is very low, and effectively a single developer effort, and very little (but not none) external interest. There has been a small uptick of activity after February, and there is work on-going, steady, albeit slow, progress towards a 2.1 release, but it is difficult to estimate when (and if) that will be ready. ## Community Health: Community health is not great, and the PMC should discuss whether the project should be placed into the Attic. 3 PMC members are still available to make decisions, but there are no new committers or PMC Members in sight.
No report was submitted.
@Niclas: pursue a report for Pivot
No report was submitted.
@Ted: pursue a report for Pivot
Description:
Apache Pivot is an open-source platform for building installable Internet
applications (IIAs). It combines the enhanced productivity and usability
features of a modern user interface toolkit with the robustness of the
Java platform.
Issues:
No board-level issues at this time.
Activity:
A little bit of development work continued toward the 2.1.0 release, and
so there were some dev emails because of that. But no traffic on user mailing
list.
Development continues toward the 2.1.0 release, including testing/changes with
the latest (9,10,11,etc.) Java releases.
Health Report:
Basically unchanged again this quarter, although there was some small amount
of development activity. Users remain quiet.
PMC changes:
- Currently 7 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Niclas Hedhman on Wed Jan 13 2016
Committer base changes:
- Currently 9 committers.
- No new changes to the committer base since last report.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was more than 2 years ago
Releases:
- Last release was 2.0.5 on Mon Jul 03 2017
- Still some development on next major version (2.1.0).
Mailing list activity:
- dev@pivot.apache.org:
- 13 emails sent to list (13 in previous quarter)
- user@pivot.apache.org:
- No emails sent to list (none in previous quarter either)
JIRA activity:
- No JIRA activity in the last quarter.
Description:
Apache Pivot is an open-source platform for building installable Internet
applications (IIAs). It combines the enhanced productivity and usability
features of a modern user interface toolkit with the robustness of the
Java platform.
Issues:
No board-level issues at this time.
Activity:
A little bit of development work continued toward the 2.1.0 release. But
essentially no other traffic on either dev or user mailing lists.
Essentially the same theme as the last report (July 2019) in that after
this release some serious decisions need to be made about the future of
the project. I have some hope that we might pick up some interest from
the mobile (Android) community, and/or something, but this seems unlikely
given the current climate.
Health Report:
Basically unchanged again this quarter, although there was some small amount
of development activity. Users remain quiet.
PMC changes:
- Currently 7 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Niclas Hedhman on Wed Jan 13 2016
Committer base changes:
- Currently 9 committers.
- No new changes to the committer base since last report.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was more than 2 years ago
Releases:
- Last release was 2.0.5 on Mon Jul 03 2017
- Still some development on next major version (2.1.0).
Mailing list activity:
- dev@pivot.apache.org:
- 13 emails sent to list (6 in previous quarter)
- user@pivot.apache.org:
- No emails sent to list (1 in previous quarter)
JIRA activity:
- Two (2) JIRA tickets opened in the last quarter.
- One (1) JIRA ticket closed/resolved in the last quarter.
postponed from June 2019)
Description:
Apache Pivot is an open-source platform for building installable Internet
applications (IIAs). It combines the enhanced productivity and usability
features of a modern user interface toolkit with the robustness of the
Java platform.
Issues:
This is a postponed report from June 2019, but otherwise no board-level
issues at this time.
Activity:
Some development work has picked up again. No user activity on the mailing
lists. I intend to finish the long-delayed 2.1 release this calendar year,
at which time it seems appropriate to have a discussion about the future of
the project, given the continuing low level of activity. There are now code
issues with the latest versions of Java (9, 10, 11, etc.) that have not been
addressed, and which could become serious impediments in the coming year.
Health Report:
Basically unchanged again this quarter, although there was some small amount
of development activity. Users remain quiet.
PMC changes:
- Currently 7 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Niclas Hedhman on Wed Jan 13 2016
Committer base changes:
- Currently 9 committers.
- No new changes to the committer base since last report.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was more than 2 years ago
Releases:
- Last release was 2.0.5 on Mon Jul 03 2017
- Still some development on next major version (2.1.0).
Mailing list activity:
- dev@pivot.apache.org:
- 62 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 6 emails sent to list (8 in previous quarter)
- user@pivot.apache.org:
- 168 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
- 1 emails sent to list (1 in previous quarter)
JIRA activity:
- No JIRA tickets created in the last 4 months.
- One JIRA ticket closed/resolved in the last 4 months.
No report was submitted.
@Shane: pursue a report for Pivot
Description:
Apache Pivot is an open-source platform for building installable Internet
applications (IIAs). It combines the enhanced productivity and usability
features of a modern user interface toolkit with the robustness of the
Java platform.
Issues:
There are no board-level issues at this time.
Activity:
Again, very little (almost no) development activity this quarter; combination
of work pressures and ongoing personal challenges. A tiny uptick in dev and
user emails, which still shows some interest. Otherwise no change from
previous quarters. Deprecations in the latest Java versions (esp. Applet and
Nashorn engine) will require serious development efforts to address, thus
some suggestions for different backends.
Health report:
Basically unchanged for several years: development is ongoing, but users
are quiet.
PMC changes:
- Currently 7 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Niclas Hedhman on Wed Jan 13 2016
Committer base changes:
- Currently 9 committers.
- No new changes to the committer base since last report.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was more than 2 years ago
Releases:
- Last release was 2.0.5 on Mon Jul 03 2017
- Still some development on next major version (2.1.0).
Mailing list activity:
- dev@pivot.apache.org:
- 62 subscribers (up one in the last 3 months)
- 10 emails sent to list (20 in previous quarter)
- user@pivot.apache.org:
- 169 subscribers (unchanged over the last 3 months)
- 1 email sent to list (1 in previous quarter)
JIRA activity:
- No JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- One JIRA ticket closed/resolved in the last 3 months
Description:
Apache Pivot is an open-source platform for building installable
Internet applications (IIAs). It combines the enhanced productivity and
usability features of a modern user interface toolkit with the robustness of
the Java platform.
Issues:
There are no board-level issues at this time.
Activity:
Very little development activity this quarter, mostly due to my personal
issues (death of my wife). Otherwise same low level of user activity as
the past couple of years. We will need some serious work related to Java
applets being gone and the Nashorn engine going away soon as well.
Health report:
Basically unchanged for several years: development is ongoing, but users
are quiet.
PMC changes:
- Currently 7 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Niclas Hedhman on Wed Jan 13 2016
Committer base changes:
- Currently 9 committers.
- No new changes to the committer base since last report.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was more than 2 years ago
Releases:
- Last release was 2.0.5 on Mon Jul 03 2017
- Still active development on next major version (2.1.0).
Mailing list activity:
- dev@pivot.apache.org:
- 61 subscribers (down one in the last 3 months)
- 20 emails sent to list (44 in previous quarter)
- user@pivot.apache.org:
- 169 subscribers (down 2 in the last 3 months)
- 1 email sent to list (1 in previous quarter)
JIRA activity:
- 3 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- No JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
Description:
Apache Pivot is an open-source platform for building installable
Internet applications (IIAs). It combines the enhanced productivity and
usability features of a modern user interface toolkit with the robustness of
the Java platform.
Issues:
There are no board-level issues at this time.
Activity:
Development activity continues toward the 2.1.0 release, which still should
be *soon*, although a bit slower due to summer vacations. Builds were done
using Java 10, and numerous issues fixed, so we are well-positioned for
going forward. Community is very silent as usual these last few years.
Health report:
Basically unchanged for several years: development is ongoing, but users
are quiet.
PMC changes:
- Currently 7 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Niclas Hedhman on Wed Jan 13 2016
Committer base changes:
- Currently 9 committers.
- No new changes to the committer base since last report.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was more than 2 years ago
Releases:
- Last release was 2.0.5 on Mon Jul 03 2017
- Still active development on next major version (2.1.0).
Mailing list activity:
- dev@pivot.apache.org:
- 62 subscribers (unchanged in the last 3 months)
- 56 emails sent to list (46 in previous quarter)
- user@pivot.apache.org:
- 171 subscribers (unchanged in the last 3 months)
- 2 emails sent to list (4 in previous quarter)
JIRA activity:
- 7 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 7 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
Description:
Apache Pivot is an open-source platform for building installable Internet
applications (IIAs). It combines the enhanced productivity and usability
features of a modern user interface toolkit with the robustness of the
Java platform.
Issues:
There are no board-level issues at the moment.
Activity:
One new potential developer showed up this quarter, so mailing lists
are up by one. Development of the next version (2.1) is still ongoing,
although slower than last quarter. I anticipate an attempt to release
in a few weeks time.
Health Report:
Basically unchanged since the last report. Users are still generally
quiet. Development on the next version is still ongoing.
PMC Changes:
- Currently 4 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months.
- Last PMC re-addition was Niclas Hedhman on Wed Jan 13 2016.
Committer Base Changes:
- Currently 9 committers.
- No new changes to the committer base since last report.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was more than 2 years ago
Releases:
- Last release was 2.0.5 on Mon Jul 3 2017
- Still active development on next major version (2.1)
Mailing List Activity:
- All mailing list activity (except private@) is down this quarter,
even though we gained a subscriber. Note: these numbers are from
the reporter app.
- dev@pivot.apache.org
- 62 subscribers (up +1 from last report)
- 48 emails sent to list (270 in previous quarter)
- user@pivot.apache.org
- 171 subscribers (up +1 from last report)
- 4 emails sent to list (15 in previous quarter)
- commits@pivot.apache.org
- 19 subscribers (unchanged from last time)
- 56 emails this quarter (vs. 151 in last quarter)
Description:
Apache Pivot is an open-source platform for building installable Internet
applications (IIAs). It combines the enhanced productivity and usability
features of a modern user interface toolkit with the robustness of the
Java platform.
Issues:
There are no board-level issues at the moment.
Activity:
The long-awaited 2.1 release is closer than ever -- at least two big
refactoring projects for this release are done, and a host of other,
smaller changes have been made. Expectations are now that we will be
able to release this next quarter. A new user has recently gotten
Pivot to work with NetReXX, which is a very interesting development.
The project builds and runs with JDK 9, although no "modularization"
has taken place yet. There has been a lot of "commit" traffic from
the new development, and a larger number both of new JIRA tickets,
but also JIRA tickets fixed this quarter.
Health Report:
Basically unchanged since the last report. Users are generally quiet
and a new user appeared. Development on the next version is very
active.
PMC Changes:
- Currently 4 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months.
- Last PMC re-addition was Niclas Hedhman on Wed Jan 13 2016.
Committer Base Changes:
- Currently 9 committers.
- No new changes to the committer base since last report.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was more than 2 years ago
Releases:
- Last release was 2.0.5 on Mon Jul 3 2017
- Still active development on next major version (2.1)
Mailing List Activity:
- All mailing list activity (except private@) is up this quarter, although
subscribers are down a bit. Note: these stats for last quarter are the
same as the previous report, but differ from the "reporter" app --
probably because of timing differences for the "quarter".
- dev@pivot.apache.org
- 61 subscribers (unchanged from last report)
- 270 emails sent to list (143 in previous quarter)
- user@pivot.apache.org
- 170 subscribers (down two from last report)
- 15 emails sent to list (1 in previous quarter)
- commits@pivot.apache.org
- 19 subscribers (down -1 from last time)
- 151 emails this quarter (vs. 91 in last quarter)
- private@pivot.apache.org
- 12 subscribers (unchanged from last quarter)
- Just a few emails this quarter also
JIRA Activity:
- 16 JIRA tickets created this quarter
- Also 15 JIRA tickets closed/resolved this period
Description:
Apache Pivot is an open-source platform for building installable Internet
applications (IIAs). It combines the enhanced productivity and usability
features of a modern user interface toolkit with the robustness of the
Java platform.
Issues:
There are no board-level issues at the moment.
Activity:
The small flurry of activity from the 2.0.5 maintenance release has
quieted, but there has been a steady stream of commits to the trunk
in preparation for a 2.1 release, possibly in the first part of 2018.
The question of discontinuing applet support has been tabled for now.
User mailing list activity has been non-existent, but hopefully will
pick up some with the discussions around the 2.1 release. Sufficient
PMC representation still remains. Starting to build with Java 9 with
no problems found.
Health Report:
Basically unchanged since the last report. Users are generally quiet
and no new users are appearing, but development continues.
PMC Changes:
- Currently 4 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months.
- Last PMC re-addition was Niclas Hedhman on Wed Jan 13 2016.
Committer Base Changes:
- Currently 9 committers.
- No new changes to the committer base since last report.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was more than 2 years ago
Releases:
- Last release was 2.0.5 on Mon Jul 3 2017
- Still active development on next major version (2.1)
Mailing List Activity:
- Dev and Commits lists activities are up, User activity way down. One
subscriber to the private and commits list left (probably an ASF observer).
- dev@pivot.apache.org
- 61 subscribers (unchanged from last report)
- 143 emails sent to list (89 in previous quarter)
- user@pivot.apache.org
- 172 subscribers (also unchanged from last report)
- 1 email sent to list (12 in previous quarter)
- commits@pivot.apache.org
- 20 subscribers (down -1 from last time)
- 91 emails this quarter (vs. 70 in last quarter)
- private@pivot.apache.org
- 12 subscribers (down -1, probably the +1 from last quarter)
- Just a few emails this quarter
JIRA Activity:
- 11 JIRA tickets created this quarter
- Also 11 JIRA tickets closed/resolved this period
Description:
Apache Pivot is an open-source platform for building installable Internet
applications (IIAs). It combines the enhanced productivity and usability
features of a modern user interface toolkit with the robustness of the
Java platform.
Issues:
There are no board-level issues at the moment.
Activity:
We finally have released the long-awaited 2.0.5 maintenance version,
with no new problems reported against it so far. Development has
continued (albeit more slowly than last quarter) on the 2.1.0 version.
We have started discussion about removing applet support entirely
but have not come to any firm conclusions yet.
Health Report:
Unchanged from last report -- although the new release has not resulted
in any net gain in interest that we can see. There are still at least
three PMC members listening for votes, etc.
PMC Changes:
- Currently 4 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months.
- Last PMC re-addition was Niclas Hedhman on Wed Jan 13 2016.
Committer Base Changes:
- Currently 9 committers.
- No new changes to the committer base since last report.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was more than 2 years ago
Releases:
- Last release was 2.0.5 on Mon Jul 3 2017
- Still active development on next major version (2.1.0)
Mailing List Activity:
- Steady, overall roughly the same as previous quarter.
- dev@pivot.apache.org
- 61 subscribers (actually down -1 from last report)
- 100 emails sent to list (131 from last report)
- user@pivot.apache.org
- 172 subscribers (down -2 from last report)
- 12 emails this quarter (vs. 5 last time)
- commits@pivot.apache.org
- 21 subscribers (up +1 from last time)
- 71 emails this time (vs. 78 in last quarter)
- private@pivot.apache.org
- 13 subscribers (up +1 for the first time in a long time)
- No mails sent
JIRA Activity:
- 6 JIRA tickets created this quarter
- Also 6 JIRA tickets closed/resolved this period
Description:
Apache Pivot is an open-source platform for building installable Internet
applications (IIAs). It combines the enhanced productivity and usability
features of a modern user interface toolkit with the robustness of the
Java platform.
Issues:
There are no board-level issues at the moment.
Activity:
There has been a lot of activity (relatively-speaking) this quarter:
a "show-stopper" issue showed up with the release of Java 8u131 that
required an immediate fix, which was done within a few days; much
work is being done in "trunk" on implement Input Method Editor
support for text controls; and the next maintenance release is
just about to happen.
Health report:
With the "show-stopper" issue a number of people who had been
quietly using Pivot in the background "resurfaced" to weigh in,
which indicated that there are more people interested in the
project than is reflected in the mailing list statistics. This
is heartening. The upcoming maintenance release should help as
well, hopefully, to revive some interest.
PMC changes:
- Currently 4 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months.
- Last PMC re-addition was Niclas Hedhman on Wed Jan 13 2016.
Committer base changes:
- Currently 9 committers.
- No new changes to the committer base since last report.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was more than 2 years ago
Releases:
- Last release was 2.0.4 on Sun May 18 2014
- Next release (2.0.5) is in process.
Mailing list activity:
The developer list activity is way up due to the increased
coding in "trunk" and fixing the "show-stopper" issue in the
maintenance branch. Incidentally the change in mailing list
subscribers was actually due to a user changing his email
address, and he contacted us for help.
- dev@pivot.apache.org:
- 62 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
- 131 emails sent to list (21 in previous quarter)
- user@pivot.apache.org:
- 174 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
- 5 emails sent to list (6 in previous quarter)
JIRA activity:
- 7 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 2 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
- About 5 tickets were also changed to move them out from
2.0.5 to 2.1 in order to expedite the 2.0.5 release.
Description:
Apache Pivot is an open-source platform for building installable Internet
applications (IIAs). It combines the enhanced productivity and usability
features of a modern user interface toolkit with the robustness of the
Java platform.
Issues:
There are no board-level issues at this time.
Activity:
Activity remains low, but there was a bit of an uptick this quarter from
last. A familiar user returned asking about a new release, which has still
not happened, but definitely could happen this quarter.
Health report:
Definitely a "stable" product looking for new blood. I think there are
several directions we could go, but I have no significant time to devote.
I will start some discussions soon on the "dev" list about these ideas.
PMC changes:
- Currently 4 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Niclas Hedhman on Wed Jan 13 2016
Committer base changes:
- Currently 5 active (that is, not emeritus) committers.
- No new changes to the committer base since last report.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months.
- Last committer addition was more than 2 years ago.
Releases:
- Last release was 2.0.4 on Mon May 19 2014
Mailing list activity:
Some development / bug fixing was done this quarter, so a slight uptick
in activity. As noted above, one long-time user returned asking for a
new release; that discussion is ongoing.
- dev@pivot.apache.org:
- 62 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 21 emails sent to list (7 in previous quarter)
- user@pivot.apache.org:
- 174 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
- 6 emails sent to list (2 in previous quarter)
JIRA activity:
- 2 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 0 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
Description:
Apache Pivot is an open-source platform for building installable Internet
applications (IIAs). It combines the enhanced productivity and usability
features of a modern user interface toolkit with the robustness of the
Java platform.
Issues:
There are no board-level issues at this time.
Activity:
Activity has been way down this quarter (see stats below). The long-
delayed next release did not happen this past quarter, but we are
ready to do it when the chair can get some cycles.
Health report:
The ongoing issue remains lack of activity on the project. Active
development was being done by myself, but my employment has changed
technologies, and is no longer interested in Pivot, so it is hard to
find the time to do much more. I will push through the 2.0.5 release
in the next few months and we will see if that helps any.
There are also many changes in "trunk" that could almost warrant
a 2.1 release (but there is no "killer" feature yet), but that
might produce an uptick as well.
When I get time, I will try to reach out some more using any of
the available means to try to stimulate some interest.
PMC Changes:
- Currently 4 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Niclas Hedhman on Wed Jan 13 2016
Committer base changes:
- Currently 5 active (that is, not emeritus) committers.
- No new changes to the committer base since last report.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months.
- Last committer addition was more than 2 years ago.
Releases:
- Last release was 2.0.4 on Mon May 19 2014
Mailing list activity:
As you can see from the following statistics there was virtually
no activity this last quarter.
- dev@pivot.apache.org:
- 62 subscribers (no change)
- 7 emails sent to list (23 in previous quarter)
- user@pivot.apache.org:
- 175 subscribers (no change)
- 2 emails sent to list (11 in previous quarter)
Description:
Apache Pivot is an open-source platform for building installable Internet
applications (IIAs). It combines the enhanced productivity and
usability features of a modern user interface toolkit with the
robustness of the Java platform.
Issues:
There are no board-level issues at this time.
Activity:
Activity has been down this quarter (see stats below). But we should
be ready for a new release this coming quarter.
Health report:
The ongoing issue is lack of activity in the project. While we still
have enough PMC members to do a vote currently, and some users still
using the product, new development is very slow and there doesn't
seem to be much of a market for the product anymore. Attempts to
attract cross-pollinization with other Apache projects have not been
very successful.
PMC changes:
- Currently 4 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months.
- Last PMC addition was Niclas Hedhman on Wed Jan 13 2016.
Committer base changes:
- Currently 5 active (that is, not emeritus) committers.
- No new changes to the committer base since last report.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months.
- Last committer addition was more than 2 years ago.
Releases:
- Last release was 2.0.4 on Mon May 19 2014
Mailing list activity:
As evidenced by these figures, activity has been down this quarter.
Actually in comparison to the quarter before that, it was even slower.
- dev@pivot.apache.org:
- 62 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months)
- 23 emails sent to list (31 in previous quarter, 55 the quarter before)
- user@pivot.apache.org:
- 175 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months)
- 11 emails sent to list (22 in previous quarter, 28 the quarter before)
JIRA activity:
But as evidenced by these figures, there is still some development
going on, and bugs are getting addressed (albeit slowly).
- 1 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 5 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
Description:
Apache Pivot is an open-source platform for building installable Internet
applications (IIAs). It combines the enhanced productivity and
usability features of a modern user interface toolkit with the
robustness of the Java platform.
Issues:
I see the information about migration of Pivot-Extras, but haven't had
time to pursue it since the last report. Would appreciate a bit of
help digging into the process.
Otherwise, there are no board-level issues this time around.
Activity:
Activity has been up a bit from last quarter with the new users still
working and asking (a few) questions. There has been some bug fix
activity. We should be able to do a new release (2.0.5) after one
more bug is resolved (a Java 8 issue).
Health report:
The new users we got recently and continued development by me has kept
things going this quarter. Long-term prospects are still uncertain
as the market moves away from these kinds of platforms. We still have
three PMC members for votes.
PMC changes:
- Currently 4 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months.
- Last PMC addition was Niclas Hedhman on Wed Jan 13 2016.
Committer base changes:
- Currently 5 active (that is, not emeritus) committers.
- No new changes to the committer base since last report.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months.
- Last committer addition was more than 2 years ago.
Releases:
- Last release was 2.0.4 on Mon May 19 2014
Mailing list activity:
A couple more users started asking development questions, which is
good. But it was a slow quarter as far as actual development goes.
The new users contributed some good questions, which were all
resolved (I think). Not quite as slow as some quarters go, so
actually not bad.
- dev@pivot.apache.org:
- 63 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months):
- 33 emails sent to list (55 in previous quarter)
- user@pivot.apache.org:
- 176 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months):
- 22 emails sent to list (28 in previous quarter)
JIRA activity:
- 2 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months.
- 2 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months.
- Activity has picked up just this last week (that is, after the
reporting period).
Description:
Apache Pivot is an open-source platform for building installable Internet
applications (IIAs). It combines the enhanced productivity and usability
features of a modern user interface toolkit with the robustness of the
Java platform.
Issues:
- I do not think there are any board-level issues with Pivot at this time.
- We may need to have a discussion about moving to the Attic *soon*, but
not right now.
Activity:
Since our last report there has been a downtick in mailing list activity
but not to historic lows, but there has been a slight uptick in the
meta-activity around the project:
- I have volunteered to possibly be a mentor for GSOC in conjunction
with Airavata.
- An emeritus PMC member has rejoined to help with votes and
administrative issues.
- Several new users have shown up.
- We are close to a new release with only one (known) issue to resolve.
- Rich Bowen published the podcast he did with me last year at the
feathercast.apache.org site.
Health report:
- I would say the project is borderline at the moment, but no worse than
last report (in fact, maybe a bit better).
- With the final death blow to Java applets coming in September with the
release of Java 9, the traditional market for Pivot will shrink
dramatically.
- I am still trying to work within the ASF and elsewhere to move
into new areas. This is an ongoing effort.
- But, even with some new users, there are no new candidates for
committership or PMC membership, which remains a big issue.
PMC changes:
- Currently 4 PMC members.
- Niclas Hedhman was added back to the PMC on Wed Jan 13 2016.
Committer base changes:
- Currently 9 committers, of whom 2 are currently active.
- No changes to the committer base since last report.
- Last committer addition Piotr Kołaczkowski (pkolaczk) was in
May 2012.
Releases:
- Last release was 2.0.4 on Mon May 19 2014.
Mailing list activity:
- We have several new mailing list subscribers corresponding to the
new users, although activity has been slower this last quarter.
- dev@pivot.apache.org:
- 61 subscribers (up 3 in the last 3 months)
- 55 emails sent to list (77 in previous quarter)
- user@pivot.apache.org:
- 175 subscribers (up 3 in the last 3 months)
- 28 emails sent to list (43 in previous quarter)
JIRA activity:
- JIRA activity is a bit slow, but at least one critical Java 8
issue was resolved, meaning the 2.0.5 release is closer now.
- 5 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months.
- 2 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months.
Description:
Apache Pivot is an open-source platform for building installable Internet
applications (IIAs). It combines the enhanced productivity and
usability features of a modern user interface toolkit with the
robustness of the Java platform.
Activity:
- User activity was up a little bit this quarter, with some more new
users needing help.
- There was some development activity, but less than the previous
quarter, although progress was made on a gnarly Java 8 issue.
- One of the emeritus PMC members has agreed to become active again
and to devote a little time to help with administrative things. This
will potentially help with adding some other PMC members and/or
whatever we need to do going forward (Attic? or ?).
- One other ASF Member has joined the private mailing list, also to
help in some way.
- I am still investigating ways to revive interest in the project
(other than myself).
Health report:
- The Reporter app still reports us in an unhealthy state. But I think
we are making a little progress toward "something".
- The industry has really gone far away from the types of things that
Pivot is good at, so we are near a cusp here -- either find a way to
make it attractive to users again, or retire the code. To me, finding
a niche in the mobile market might be a good future direction, so I'm
investigating that.
- Although we did get a couple new users this quarter, so there is still
some interest (based on actual emails, not the list subscriptions).
Issues:
- Still looking for help with the Apache Extras issue (no news from the
Board since the last report in September).
PMC changes:
- Currently 3 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months, although Niclas Hedhman
(niclas at apache.org) has agreed to rejoin the PMC (ASF records not
updated yet); that will make 4 on the PMC.
- Last PMC addition was Roger Whitcomb on Mon Oct 24 2011.
Committer base changes:
- Currently 5 active (that is, not emeritus) committers.
- No new changes to the committer base since last report.
Releases:
- Last release was 2.0.4 on Mon May 19 2014.
Mailing list activity:
- dev@pivot.apache.org:
- 58 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 78 emails sent to list (104 in previous quarter)
- user@pivot.apache.org:
- 172 subscribers (down -2 in the last 3 months):
- 45 emails sent to list (3 in previous quarter)
JIRA activity:
- 2 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 6 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
@Ross: Notify PMC that tools are available to aid in the Apache Extras migration.
Description:
Apache Pivot is an open-source platform for building installable Internet
applications (IIAs). It combines the enhanced productivity and
usability features of a modern user interface toolkit with the
robustness of the Java platform.
Activity:
- User activity was very low this quarter, the lowest I've ever seen,
although there were two (apparently) new users.
- Development activity was all from myself -- I have many ideas for
enhancements, but not much time. No other committer (with one exception)
seems interested in (or available to) do anything.
Health report:
- The Reporter facility says that we are in an unhealthy state because of
no recent releases and no new committers and no PMC changes for several
years. I concur.
- The topic of moving to the Attic comes up at least once a quarter in
private correspondence. Since I am actively using it I would hate to see
that, but I am doubtful we could raise 3 PMC members for a vote at this
moment. I think we could (and should) release a new maintenance version
in the next quarter, so I will push for that, and see if we can raise the
votes for it.
- I reached out to ComDev last quarter for ideas/help in building community
and heard nothing back. I will do some further reaching out in the next
few weeks.
- As I mentioned last quarter, the move by Google (final as of last week) to
no longer support Java applets in the browser means that approximately 25%
of the browser market is no longer available for the kind of applications
that can be developed using Pivot (IIAs).
Issues:
- There are still two issues brought up last quarter that need Board
attention: Apache-Extras and the ASF "cookie" policy.
LDAP committee group/Committership changes:
- Currently 9 committers and 6 LDAP committee group members.
- No new changes to the LDAP committee group or committership since last
report.
- Last Committer Piotr Kolaczkowski (pkolaczk) was created 09 May 2012.
- Latest PMC Changes:
Roger Whitcomb (rwhitcomb) was added to PMC on 27 Oct 2011,
Martijn Dashorst (dashorst) went Emeritus in July 2012,
Greg Brown (gbrown) went Emeritus on 10 Sept 2013.
Releases:
- Last release was 2.0.4 on Mon May 19 2014
Mailing list activity:
- dev@pivot.apache.org:
- 57 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 102 emails sent to list (58 in previous quarter)
- user@pivot.apache.org:
- 174 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 3 emails sent to list (5 in previous quarter)
JIRA activity:
- 8 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 4 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
## Description:
Apache Pivot is an open-source platform for building installable Internet
applications (IIAs). It combines the enhanced productivity and
usability features of a modern user interface toolkit with the
robustness of the Java platform.
## Activity:
- Activity remains low this quarter. Very little User list activity, but
definitely some bugs fixed and new development going on, mostly from
one developer (myself).
- I have reached out (just lately) to the ComDev members for help with
building the Pivot community.
## Issues:
- The move by Google to eliminate Java applet support in the Chrome
browser further diminishes the utility of IIAs in general, so this
is definitely a concern for the project.
- Still have not heard from ComDev about what Apache Extras is going
to do. We need a decision before our next Board report is due.
- We have just heard of an issue in Europe (specifically Italy) where
websites that use cookies are required to document this, provide a
privacy policy, etc. Have requested official ASF policy about this
because it seems that many ASF project sites are involved. The Pivot
site specifically uses Google Analytics.
## PMC/Committership changes:
- Currently 9 committers and 6 PMC members in the project.
- No new changes to the PMC or committership since last report.
- Last Committer Piotr Kolaczkowski (pkolaczk) was created 09 May 2012.
- Latest PMC Changes:
Roger Whitcomb (rwhitcomb) was added to PMC on 27 Oct 2011,
Martijn Dashorst (dashorst) went Emeritus in July 2012,
Greg Brown (gbrown) went Emeritus on 10 Sept 2013.
## Releases:
- Last release was 2.0.4 on Mon May 19 2014
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@pivot.apache.org:
- 57 subscribers (down -2 in the last 3 months):
- 59 emails sent to list (46 in previous quarter)
- user@pivot.apache.org:
- 174 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
- 5 emails sent to list (8 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 5 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 3 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
@Jim: Establish Apache policy for cookies on web sites. @Ross: What can be done with regard to Apache Extras?
## Description:
Apache Pivot is an open-source platform for building installable Internet
applications (IIAs). It combines the enhanced productivity and
usability features of a modern user interface toolkit with the
robustness of the Java platform.
## Activity:
- Very slow this last quarter -- most of the dev list emails were from
the Jenkins build farm. We did pick up one user list subscriber and
had a couple of issues raised from (apparently) new users, though.
- A new maintenance release (2.0.5) is in discussion, but probably
some time away still. A new major release has gotten very little
attention, although some ideas have been put forward.
## Issues:
- Using the new Apache Report template -- thank you very much!
- The migration of Apache-Extras is getting closer.
- It has come up (again) in discussions about whether Pivot is ready
to be moved to the Attic. As I am actively using it, I am not
willing for that, but very few new people seem to be interested, so
as a project we seem to be "mature". I have seen discussions around
other Apache projects that may be in similar straits, and since we
still are able to come up with 3 PMC votes I think for now we should
remain. Open to Board feedback on this. The possibility of recruiting
some active users to committership (as was suggested by the Board
the last time I raised this issue) essentially went away as the
people in question went silent. My own experience with Pivot is
that it works "well enough" (although I have a number of ideas
for improvement), so I *think* our users have mostly built their
applications, they work, they are happy, and then they move on.
## PMC/Committership changes:
- Currently 9 committers and 6 PMC members in the project.
- No new changes to the PMC or committership since last report.
- Last Committer Piotr Kolaczkowski (pkolaczk) was created 09 May 2012.
- Latest PMC Changes:
Greg Brown (gbrown) went Emeritus on 10 Sept 2013,
Martijn Dashorst (dashorst) went Emeritus in July 2012.
## Releases:
- Last release was 2.0.4 on Mon May 19 2014
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@pivot.apache.org:
- 59 subscribers (down -2 in the last 3 months):
- 47 emails sent to list (90 in previous quarter)
- user@pivot.apache.org:
- 175 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 8 emails sent to list (8 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 3 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 0 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
Apache Pivot is a platform for building installable Internet applications (IIAs). It combines the enhanced productivity and usability features of a modern user interface toolkit with the robustness of the Java platform. Status: Project activity has been very slow this quarter -- very little user mailing list (only 6 postings). Some development activity, and discussions about the next (2.0.5) release, which we expect sometime in the next quarter. There are some questions about Pivot on StackOverflow lately, which show some interest. There were 5 issues created in JIRA, and 7 resolved during the quarter. Board Issues: None that I know of. Releases: Last release was 2.0.4, published 19-May-2014. Branding/Naming issues: None. Legal issues: None. Infrastructure Issues/Needs: The migration of Apache-Extras has gotten some attention again, which I have been following. Community: Last Committer Piotr Kolaczkowski (pkolaczk) was created 09 May 2012. Latest PMC Changes: Greg Brown (gbrown) went Emeritus on 10 Sept 2013, Martijn Dashorst (dashorst) went Emeritus in July 2012.
Apache Pivot is a platform for building installable Internet applications (IIAs). It combines the enhanced productivity and usability features of a modern user interface toolkit with the robustness of the Java platform. Status: Project activity is about the same as last quarter, but with some increased developer activity. We are targeting a new maintenance release next month, and still preparing for the next major release. User mailing list activity (maybe because of summer holidays) has been slower than usual. There has been recent discussion about creating a "Powered By Pivot" section on the web site to try to build some developer interest. There were 6 new issues created this quarter, and 8 resolved. Board Issues: None that I know of. Releases: Last release was 2.0.4, published 19-May-2014. Branding/Naming issues: None. Legal issues: None. Infrastructure Issues/Needs: Still do not have a definitive answer about Apache Extras, but we are still able to use the current setup. Community: Last Committer Piotr Kolaczkowski (pkolaczk) was created 09 May 2012. Latest PMC Changes: Greg Brown (gbrown) went Emeritus on 10 Sept 2013, Martijn Dashorst (dashorst) went Emeritus in July 2012.
Apache Pivot is a platform for building installable Internet applications (IIAs). It combines the enhanced productivity and usability features of a modern user interface toolkit with the robustness of the Java platform. Status: Project activity is a little slower than it has been, but still going on. We got the next maintenance release (2.0.4) finished this quarter. There is renewed interest from at least one other long-time user who would like to help with development. We have been tracking JDK updates, and have built successfully with Java 8 (with one problem re: web deployments). There were 12 new issues created this quarter, and 12 resolved. Board Issues: None that I know of. Releases: Last release was 2.0.4, published 19-May-2014. Branding/Naming issues: None. Legal issues: None. Infrastructure Issues/Needs: Still waiting on a definitive answer about Apache Extras. Community: Last Committer Piotr Kolaczkowski (pkolaczk) was created 09 May 2012.
Apache Pivot is a platform for building installable Internet applications (IIAs). It combines the enhanced productivity and usability features of a modern user interface toolkit with the robustness of the Java platform. Status: Still slow but pretty steady traffic these last three months. It appears there were several new people starting Pivot projects, so there were spikes in the User list traffic. There have definitely been some things brought up that could use some development attention in the coming months, as well as some ideas for future development (integration with Piccolo2D among them). There is still development going on for the 2.1 version, although I think the 2.0.4 (maintenance) version is probably stable. There have been only four new issues opened in JIRA since the last report, and three were resolved. So, basically the product seems to be pretty stable and the PMC are busy with other things at the moment. Issues: None that I know of. Releases: Last release was 2.0.3, published 01 Aug 2013. Branding/Naming issues: None. Legal issues: None. Infrastructure Issues/Needs: We have been trying to figure out what's happening with the Apache Extras site (hosted on Google Code). ComDev was looking into things as of October and Luciano said in early January that they were still waiting on Google contacts for an answer. I can't follow the email discussion which is on a "members-only" mailing list. Community: Last Committer Piotr Kolaczkowski (pkolaczk) was created 09 May 2012.
Apache Pivot is a platform for building installable Internet applications (IIAs). It combines the enhanced productivity and usability features of a modern user interface toolkit with the robustness of the Java platform. Status: Somewhat lower traffic the last three months. We continue to have projects just "chugging along" with the technology. Development has been slow for the new version, but we are continuing. Issue activity has also been low (which could be a good sign): 11 new issues in the last 90 days, and 8 resolved. Issues: No real issues at this time. Releases: Last Release was 2.0.3, published 01 August 2013. Branding/Naming issues: None. Legal issues: None. Infrastructure Issues/Needs: None. Community: Last Committer Piotr Kolaczkowski (pkolaczk) was created 09 May 2012. Respectfully, Roger Whitcomb on behalf of the Apache Pivot PMC
Apache Pivot is a platform for building installable Internet applications (IIAs). It combines the enhanced productivity and usability features of a modern user interface toolkit with the robustness of the Java platform. Status: Relatively steady (but low) traffic for the last six months. We have some first time users showing up asking good questions. There is one new user in the ASF-ICFOSS program who is using Pivot to build a new GUI for parts of Lucene. Another user has tried to run a Pivot app on the Raspberry Pi machine, and others are trying Pivot with JRuby and Jython. Most user's questions are answered within a day or so, many within a few hours. There have been 12 new issues created since the last Board report, and 6 resolved. The Pivot 2.0.3 maintenance release was finally approved. Some work has been done toward the next 2.0.4 release, and work has definitely started on the next (2.1) release. We have switched new coding to Java 7. Issues: No real issues at this time. Releases: Last Release was 2.0.3, published 01 August 2013. Branding/Naming issues: None. Legal issues: None. Infrastructure Issues/Needs: Jenkins build problems seem to have been resolved. The new Javadoc was generated from latest Java 7 JDK, so the (one) Javadoc vulnerability on our site has been handled. Community Changes: One of the founders of the Pivot project and a PMC Member, Greg Brown (gbrown), has asked today (10 Sep 2013) to be moved to Emeritus status. Last Committer Piotr Kolaczkowski (pkolaczk) was created 09 May 2012. Still looking for more committers. Most users seem to be taking up Pivot to build their applications and when they are done, they are done. But that could be good too, meaning the code is overall of good quality and usefulness. Respectfully, Roger Whitcomb on behalf of the Apache Pivot PMC
Apache Pivot is a platform for building installable Internet applications (IIAs). It combines the enhanced productivity and usability features of a modern user interface toolkit with the robustness of the Java platform. Status: This is my first report, so pardon if it is not as brief as it probably could be. Relatively low traffic still, although Users list is a little more active the last month or so. It feels like we have some "silent" users who are just picking up the technology and using it with relatively little problem or need for help, which is good. A little bit of development toward the 2.1 branch in that I started to commit some changes to make a File Browser using Apache Commons VFS. Also one company is interested in donating some code to help interact between Pivot and Java Swing and Java FX. Several PMC members, however, have expressed privately that they are no longer interested in the product. But one PMC member is now coming back online after a period of silence. So, we may (again) have a quorum to be able to get a full vote on Releases. Some developers have expressed the opinion that Pivot is not that relevant anymore with the latest developments of Java FX and the fact that it doesn't interact well with Swing. I don't agree and think that we can improve the interactions too. I have started making some overtures to other Apache Projects (Commons and Flex and a couple others) to see if there are any potential interactions with Pivot. Not any response yet, though. Issues: We tried for the second time to vote on releasing a 2.0.3 version but fell short after Chris was unable to finish his testing in time. We have had almost daily Jenkins build failures due to lack of space on the build machine. I have pinged INFRA about this but have had no response. Probably have to raise an issue with them. There is one high-priority outstanding issue with IME support on OSX which I have tried to address, but it seems to be complicated, so no progress yet. Releases: Last Release was 2.0.2, published 21 May 2012. We have started two votes on releasing 2.0.3, and fell short of the required number of votes both times. Branding/Naming issues: None. Legal issues: I reached out to legal-discuss about attribution of the proposed donation of some code, and have the answer in hand. Nothing else. Infrastructure Issues/Needs: Just the space issue on the Jenkins build machine. Community Changes: Last Committer Piotr Kolaczkowski (pkolaczk) was created 09 May 2012. I have been grooming a co-worker, who has a lot of Pivot experience now, to get more active on the mailing lists, in view of him becoming a committer. Still a work-in-progress.
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Sandro Martini to the office of Vice President, Apache Pivot, and WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of Sandro Martini from the office of Vice President, Apache Pivot, and WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Pivot project has chosen by vote to recommend Roger Whitcomb as the successor to the post; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Sandro Martini is relieved and discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice President, Apache Pivot, and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Roger Whitcomb be and hereby is appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Pivot, to serve in accordance with and subject to the direction of the Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until death, resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification, or until a successor is appointed. Special Order 7A, Change the Apache Pivot Project Chair, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
Apache Pivot is a platform for building installable Internet applications (IIAs). It combines the enhanced productivity and usability features of a modern user interface toolkit with the robustness of the Java platform. Status As usual, low levels of traffic in our users mailing lists. Low activity on dev mail list, mainly automated emails from the issue tracker. Developments on our next major release 2.1 (on trunk) at the moment are limited to merge fixes from the maintenance branch, and discussing some important feature to put in that release in our mailing lists. We get some interests from users with other JVM languages (Groovy and Scala). One of our PMC members, Roger Whitcomb, attended the ApacheCon NA conference in Portland the last week of February. He reports that he got a lot of helpful information from the sessions and was able to connect personally with a number of people: some looking to use Pivot in other Apache projects, some working on other Apache projects that may be helpful in his work, and also with some Apache board members. There may be some opportunities to collaborate with the Apache Flex project, which we are also exploring. Roger Whitcomb has expressed his interest in becoming the new PMC Chair, and after one year that I'm in that role and the experience gain in doing that I think it's a good choice (even to do a kind of rotation between PMC Members in the Chair role, as done in the past), and note that Roger has been valuable in this project. I'll submit the resolution next month. Issues We delayed a little our 2.0.3 release due to some strange issues in applications of some our users. We still have some important fixes to do but only on Mac with Asian languages, so we moved to next maintenance release. Releases Last Release was 2.0.2, published 21 May 2012. Since past Friday we are in the voting process for 2.0.3 . Branding/naming issues: None. Legal issues: None. Infrastructure issues/needs: None. Community changes Last Committer Piotr Kolaczkowski (pkolaczk) was created 09 May 2012. A user ask me commit rights in one of our subprojects at Apache-Extras, to put there an extension for Dependency Injection. I hope to be able to get him as a Committer in the future (currently he is not interested).
Apache Pivot is a platform for building installable Internet applications (IIAs). It combines the enhanced productivity and usability features of a modern user interface toolkit with the robustness of the Java platform. Status As usual, low levels of traffic in our users mailing lists, with little longer time in sending answers to our users Low activity on dev mail list, mainly automated emails from the issue tracker. Our Mailing lists have these numbers: commits - 22 subscribers dev - 71 subscribers users - 188 subscribers Commits since last report (approx): 85, from the same 2 PMC members reported above. During last months and mainly for increased load at work (for me and for the other active PMC Member) I have seen a little slowdown, but we are still working on our maintenance branch. Developments on our next major release 2.1 (on trunk) at the moment are limited to merge fixes from the maintenance branch (we prefer to wait a little and start this new release on a solid base), even because we are trying to get more feedback/interest/participation from users, discussing some important feature to put in that release in our mailing lists. Some work has been done in the Web Site, to update/clarifying info and some technical details in tutorials, as requested by users. Generally speaking, I think that this project is no more so attractive for the people, for many reasons (see my previous reports). If someone at Board has some suggestion, I'll be happy to discuss with all PMC Members. Issues We are working on important fixes for the 2.0.x maintenance branch: some of them already committed, while for others (strange issues) we have problems reproducing them, so we have some delay here. We are thinking to move some of them to a next maintenance release, to speedup the current 2.0.3 (maybe to release it in January). Releases no new releases. Branding/naming issues: None. Legal issues: None. Infrastructure issues/needs: None. Community changes None.
Brett will double check that they have 3 PMC members, and note that ComDev is a resource they can make use of.
Apache Pivot is a platform for building installable Internet applications (IIAs). It combines the enhanced productivity and usability features of a modern user interface toolkit with the robustness of the Java platform. Status As usual we had a low levels of traffic in our users mailing lists, but usually we are able to give an answer on fast time. Little activity on dev mail list and issue tracker. Our Mailing lists have these numbers: commits - 22 subscribers dev - 71 subscribers users - 188 subscribers Commits since last report (approx): 90 , from only 2 PMC members. On the progress of the project, we are still working on important fixes for the 2.0.x maintenance branch (some of them already committed), and we have started some developments on 2.1 (now on trunk). Some work has been done even in the Web Site, mainly to update/clarifying info and some technical details in tutorials, as requested by users. Issues During last months I have seen a little slowdown both in posts on our mailing lists and worst a slowdown from all developers in development activity (both as commits and as discussions between us). All my tentatives (since last report) to expand the community up to now gave no real effect. Some time ago I started to integrate our trunk with GIT (but staying on subversion of course), to see if a better integration with git could help us to get some interest from developers using it, even for patches. As written in August to board, the 3 September I sent an email to our users and dev mailing lists to propose an evolution project for mid/long-term just created by me on GitHub (and return to Apache when we reach a minimal community), but without any comment from anyone. Of course this is not as a replacement for Pivot, but as an evolution (fully incompatible) of it, targeting only HTML 5 UI. So even this tentative to expand the community up to now had no effect. Releases no new releases. Branding/naming issues: Remaining issues are (with tracking on JIRA: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIVOT-750 ): * main site navigation needs some additional links - DONE Note that to have the ASF logo looks good with our graphic style I had to put online a version of it with a transparent background. If it's not so good tell me. Legal issues: None. Infrastructure issues/needs: I have started to look at the Apache CMS for future evolutions of the site, but I have to ask to infra some info before enabling CMS for us, and then start the transition to it. Community changes None.
AI Jim: Why can't the "evolution project" happen within Pivot?
Apache Pivot is a platform for building installable Internet applications (IIAs). It combines the enhanced productivity and usability features of a modern user interface toolkit with the robustness of the Java platform. Status As usual we had a low levels of traffic in our users mailing lists, but usually we are able to give an answer on fast time. Little activity on dev mail list and issue tracker. Our Mailing lists have these numbers: commits - 22 subscribers dev - 71 subscribers users - 188 subscribers Commits since last report (approx): 124 . On the progress of the project, we are still working on some important fixes for the 2.0.x maintenance branch, and we have just started some developments on 2.1 (now on trunk). Some work has been done even in the Web Site, to update/fix small things, and to move some content in the Wiki. Issues My concern is that during this year only three PMC members are active in the project and we have two active committers but up to now they have been doing very little (so for example this is critical even in voting process), so I'm doing all that I can to try to keep it alive and to expand the community, but it's a hard task. I didn't close the remaining Branding/naming issue due to a lack of time, but I'll do it asap. Of course I'm available to suggestions and to give more info. Releases In May we voted and the released (21 May) our maintenance release 2.0.2 . Branding/naming issues: Remaining issues are: * main site navigation needs some additional links Legal issues: None. Infrastructure issues/needs: None. Community changes Our new Committer (Piotr Kolaczkowski) is ready. There are no diversity issues regarding the PMC.
AI: Greg contact PMC re: consider adding committers to the PMC.
Apache Pivot is a platform for building installable Internet applications (IIAs). It combines the enhanced productivity and usability features of a modern user interface toolkit with the robustness of the Java platform. Status As usual we had a low levels of traffic in our users mailing lists, but usually we are able to give an answer on fast time. Little activity on dev mail list and issue tracker, but sometimes we receive some patches from our users via JIRA. Our Mailing lists have these numbers: commits - 22 subscribers dev - 71 subscribers users - 188 subscribers On the progress of the project, we are still working on bug fixing, and we proceed slowly because all of us can work on it only at spare time. In last weeks we have some trouble with Mac users because none of us has a Mac to use for manual GUI tests, but we are trying to solve problems the same, only more time is needed. After fixing current bugs we'll start to develop our next release with many new features, and in the meantime we are discussing many new features to include in that release. Issues There are no issues that require the board's attention at this time. Releases No new Release, but we are still working on a maintenance one: 2.0.2, to be releases in a few months. Branding/naming issues: * create a DOAP file -- DONE Remaining issues are: * main site navigation needs some additional links Legal issues: None. Infrastructure issues/needs: None. Community changes After many time, a new Committer (Piotr Kołaczkowski) were voted in, but we are still waiting him to sign the ICLA. There are no diversity issues regarding the PMC.
Apache Pivot is a platform for building installable Internet applications (IIAs). It combines the enhanced productivity and usability features of a modern user interface toolkit with the robustness of the Java platform. Status As usual we had a low levels of traffic in our users mailing lists, but usually we are able to give an answer on fast time. Little activity on dev mail list and issue tracker, but sometimes we receive some patches from our users via JIRA. I tried many times to get more committers, but nothing new at the moment. On the progress of the project, we are still working on bug fixing, and we proceed slowly because all of us can work on it only at spare time. After we'll start to develop our next release with many new features. Issues There are no issues that require the board's attention at this time. Releases No new Release, but we are working on a maintenance one: 2.0.2, to be releases in a few months. Branding/naming issues: During the last quarter I re-read the revised branding docs, identify all things that has to be done, and fix some of them. Remaining issues are: * main site navigation needs some additional links * create a DOAP file Legal issues: None. Infrastructure issues/needs: INFRA-4355: Enable svnpubsub for Pivot web site - resolved INFRA-4356: Enable svnpubsub for Pivot distrib - resolved Community changes No new committers were voted in since the last board report. A PMC Member, Christopher Brind (brindy) has indicated (after a long inactivity period) that he wants to leave the Pivot PMC. There are no diversity issues regarding the PMC. Note: To try to get more interest from people, during last month I committed and published some Pivot-related things under Apache-Extras (pivot-stuff).
Apache Pivot is a platform for building installable Internet applications (IIAs). It combines the enhanced productivity and usability features of a modern user interface toolkit with the robustness of the Java platform. Status As usual we had a low levels of traffic in our users mailing lists, but usually we are able to give an answer on fast time, and by more than one. Little activity on dev mail list and issue tracker, but sometimes we receive some patches from our users via JIRA. I tried many times to get more committers, but nothing new at the moment. On the progress of the project, we are actively working on bug fixing (at least for some months from now), so after this we'll start to develop the next release, but not before due to time constraints. One of our major next features (due to market requiring this) will be to handle a multi-platform GUI backend, but this is a big task so probably we'll try to do it during next n releases. Issues There are no issues that require the board's attention at this time. Releases After 1 year, many bugs fixed, and a team restructuring, in January we released the 2.0.1 version. It took to us so much time even because many tasks related to release, build, and documentation wasn't documented nor explained to other PMC members, and was done by another PMC Member, so we have to learn how to do all (now I have documented some steps and I have to finish to write some additional info). Long time was needed even because we are a small team, none of us is working full time on Pivot, and I'm sorry to say that some in the team aren't active in development nor in other areas, for many reasons. I expect the next maintenance release (2.0.2) to be available shortly. Branding/naming issues: During the last quarter I re-read the revised branding docs, identify all things that has to be done, and fix some of them. Remaining issues are: * main site navigation needs some additional links * create a DOAP file Legal issues: None. Infrastructure issues/needs: None. Community changes No new committers were voted in since the last board report. A PMC Member, Niclas Hedhman (niclas) resigned from the project, due to time constraints. The last PMC Member added is Roger Whitcomb (rwhitcomb) from Actian Corporation, voting closed 2011-10-25 . There are no diversity issues regarding the PMC. Note: The Report for Pivot was expected in December 2011, but due to the resignation of the previous PMC Chair and my election in January, this is my first Report. To try to get more interest from people, during last months I opened some Pivot-related projects under Apache-Extras, and some contributions has been given there, but of course nothing has been moved in the main code base, and no Committers from there into Pivot, I hope someone could join us in the future. Some experimental code has been put in some project under Apache-Extras, to let users play with incompatible changes for future releases, to start discuss/share some idea.
AI Brett: discuss IP clearance with the project.
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Todd Volkert to the office of Vice President, Apache Pivot, and WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of Todd Volkert from the office of Vice President, Apache Pivot, and WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Pivot project has chosen by vote to recommend Sandro Martini as the Successor to the post; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Todd Volkert is relieved and discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice President, Apache Pivot, and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Sandro Martini be and hereby is appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Pivot, 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 Chair for Apache Pivot, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
Apache Pivot is an open-source platform for building installable Internet applications on the Java platform, by implementing a full windowing toolkit, cross-network UI serialization and a fresh Look&Feel. The present PMC Chair, Todd Volkert, announced Oct 10 that he wished to step down, citing a busy private life (3 kids under 6), but the PMC wasn't 'engaged' enough to recommend a replacement. I will initiate this and come back with a resolution proposal by next Board meeting in January. In the past quarter, the main activity has been work to get the next release (2.0.1) out the door and to comply with trademarks policy. There has been significant progress on both, but neither is completed. The fact that Todd has "always" been the release manager, has strained the community, but hopefully in a positive way, to not rely on a single person. The PMC grew with one new member in the past quarter; Roger Whitcomb. The user community is steadily growing and I suspect a few will grow into committers soon. No issues require Board's attention at this point in time, other than PMC Chair situation.
Apache Pivot is an open-source platform for building installable Internet applications (IIAs) in Java. Although Pivot's dev and user list traffic, as well as its commits, were healthy in the last quarter, the project suffered a lull in terms of releases and branding checklist items. This was primarily driven by Todd Volkert (PMC chair) being a new father and not having the time to drive those items. Hopefully it will turn a corner in the coming quarter, as the 2.0.1 release has been tagged for some time and ready to package for a vote. On the positive side, we seem to have weathered the drop in commits from Greg Brown, as commits traffic was fairly good this quarter despite having only 1 commit from Greg. Releases: * No releases this quarter * Most recent release is 2.0 (January 10, 2011) Committers: * 111 commits since last board report * New committer (Edvin Syse) voted in on June 23 Community: * User list traffic showed a slight decline but still healthy at about 1.2 threads per day * Dev traffic healthy at ~1.6 threads per day * 164 subscribers to the user mailing list * 64 subscribers to the dev mailing list Status of branding checklist: Unfortunately, no work was done on this. We'll seek to remedy that in the next quarter. Project Naming and Description: NOT STARTED Website Navigation Links: NOT STARTED Trademark Attributions: NOT STARTED Logos and Graphics: NOT STARTED Project Metadata: NOT STARTED
There was a negotiated agreement with Microsoft regarding the use of the Pivot mark. AI Larry: follow up with the PMC to clarify the trademark status.
Apache Pivot is an open-source platform for building installable Internet applications (IIAs) in Java. Commits by Greg Brown (the perennial committer) dropped significantly in the last quarter due to conflicting commitments, but the slack was somewhat picked up by Sandro Martini and Noel Grandin. Greg also has remained very active on the mailing lists, answering questions of both users and developers. We also saw increased contributions from Roger Whitcomb and voted him in as a new committer on May 20. Though the list traffic is healthy, in general we're in a time of transition away from heavy reliance on the commits of one person (Greg). Pivot is currently finalizing the few remaining JIRA issues in preparation for the 2.0.1 release. Releases: * No releases this quarter (aiming for late June release of 2.0.1) * Most recent release is 2.0 (January 10, 2011) Committers: * New committer (Roger Whitcomb) voted in on May 20 Community: * User list traffic volume steady at about 2 threads per day * 176 subscribers to the user mailing list * 63 subscribers to the dev mailing list Status of branding checklist: This wasn't on our radar until we saw the mail from Shane Curcuru on May 31. As such, all items are NOT STARTED but being tracked in PIVOT-750. Project Naming and Description: NOT STARTED Website Navigation Links: NOT STARTED Trademark Attributions: NOT STARTED Logos and Graphics: NOT STARTED Project Metadata: NOT STARTED
Apache Pivot is an open-source platform for building installable Internet applications (IIAs) in Java. - Pivot 2.0 released on January 10 - User list traffic showing increase after 2.0 release - No new committers added since last report - Chris Bartlett added as PMC member - Todd Volkert replaced Greg Brown as PMC chair
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Greg Brown to the office of Vice President, Apache Pivot, and WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of Greg Brown from the office of Vice President, Apache Pivot, and WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Pivot project has chosen to recommend Todd Volkert as the successor to the post; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Greg Brown is relieved and discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice President, Apache Pivot, and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Todd Volkert be and hereby is appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Pivot, 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. This resolution was approved unanimously by roll call vote.
- Pivot 1.5.2 released on November 1 - Work nearly complete on Pivot 2.0 - planning for launch in early January - Fairly strong user list traffic - No new committers or PMC members added since last report
Apache Pivot is an open-source platform for building rich Internet applications in Java. Development: - Pivot 1.5.1 was released on August 20. Work continues on both Pivot 1.5.2 and Pivot 2.0. Community: - Chris Bartlett was added as a committer in July. Dev and user lists continue to be active. Board: - There are no issues that require the board's attention at this time.
Apache Pivot (http://pivot.apache.org) is a platform for building rich
Internet applications (RIAs) in Java. Pivot graduated from the Apache
Incubator in December, 2009.
Pivot 1.5 was released on June 4. This release focused primarily on improving
the overall application development experience. Complete release notes are
available here:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?version=12314034
&styleName=Html&projectId=12310863&Create=Create
On May 28, PMC member Sandro Martini presented Pivot to the Java User Group in
Torino, Italy. Upcoming presentations include:
New England Java User Group - Greg Brown, Todd Volkert, 6/10/2010
Boston Java Meetup - Greg Brown, 7/12/2010
Maine Java User Group - Greg Brown, 9/21/2010
Additionally, PMC Chair Greg Brown will be hosting a Pivot training session at
ApacheCon 2010.
Apache Pivot is a platform for building rich Internet applications in Java. Pivot graduated from the Incubator in December 2009. We are continuing to work on Pivot 1.4.1, which we expect to release within the next month or so. We have also begun some preliminary discussion about Pivot 2.0, which will most likely be the next major release. Note that will be be the last monthly report for Pivot. We will be switching to a quarterly report moving forward and will report again in June.
Apache Pivot is a platform for building rich Internet applications in Java. Pivot graduated from the Incubator in December. Version 1.4 was released in early January, and a press release was issued in late January announcing Pivot's graduation. The announcement was accompanied by a site redesign (http://pivot.apache.org). The team is actively working on Pivot 1.4.1, tentatively scheduled for release in March.
Jim to follow up as to whether there has been any changes to PMC or committers.
Pivot is a platform for building rich internet applications in Java. Pivot graduated from the Incubator in December 2009. Version 1.4 was released last week to coincide with the graduation, and the team is currently in the process of migrating content from the Incubator to pivot.apache.org. We are also actively working on version 1.4.1, which will primarily include bug fixes and minor feature enhancements.
Shane mentioned that there was a press release.
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 related to the creation and maintenance of a platform for building rich Internet applications in Java, for distribution at no charge to the public. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Apache Pivot Project", be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache Pivot Project be and hereby is responsible for the creation and maintenance of software related to the creation and maintenance of a platform for building rich Internet applications in Java; and be it further RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache Pivot" 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 Pivot Project, and to have primary responsibility for management of the projects within the scope of responsibility of the Apache Pivot 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 Pivot Project: * Christopher Brind <brindy AT apache DOT org> * Greg Brown <gbrown AT apache DOT org> * Martijn Dashorst <dashorst AT apache DOT org> * Noel Grandin <noelgrandin AT apache DOT org> * Niclas Hedhman <niclas AT apache DOT org> * Sandro Martini <smartini AT apache DOT org> * Todd Volkert <tvolkert AT apache DOT org> NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Greg Brown be appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Pivot, 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 Pivot PMC be and hereby is tasked with the creation of a set of bylaws intended to encourage open development and increased participation in the Apache Pivot Project; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache Pivot Project be and hereby is tasked with the migration and rationalization of the Apache Incubator Pivot podling; and be it further RESOLVED, that all responsibilities pertaining to the Apache Incubator Pivot podling encumbered upon the Apache Incubator Project are hereafter discharged. Special Order 7A, Establish the Apache Pivot Project, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present. Roy (and others) are concerned about the confusion that will be created by using a name that others use (e.g., Microsoft Pivot will quickly dominate search results), and suggests that the project considers changing their name. Given that Pivot has been applied for as an MS Trademark (USPTO serial number 77859890), ASF Legal and Microsoft should be consulted.
Pivot is an open-source platform for building rich internet applications in Java. It has been in incubation since January 2009. Pivot 1.3 was released in September. This was a major feature release and included a number of new features, bug fixes, and other enhancements. A new Pivot tutorial highlighting a number of features included in Pivot 1.3 was published on IBM developerWorks: * http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/tutorials/x-pivottut/index.html The team is actively working on version 1.4. Pivot 1.4 is primarily a documentation and bug fix release, though some new features will also be included. Top 3 issues prior to graduation: The Incubator PMC voted on a graduation proposal in September. The proposal technically passed, but only by a very slim margin. As a result, Pivot PPMC elected to cancel the vote and focus on the issues raised by those who voted -1, in hopes that a more unanimous approval might be obtained later. The primary concern was that the project had not yet established sufficient community and was still largely driven by two of the initial committers. Since that time, there has been a significant increase in activity from the other committers, and the project has received several patches from outside contributors. One such patch, an improvement to table column resizing, was committed to the platform. The developer responsible for the patch demonstrated very strong knowledge of the platform and would be considered for addition as a committer should the quality of his code submissions continue to be high. The team hopes to present a renewed graduation proposal early next year, to coincide with the release of Pivot 1.4.
Pivot is an open-source platform for building rich internet applications in Java. It has been in incubation since January 2009. * Pivot 1.2 was released in June. The team is actively working on version 1.3, tentatively scheduled for release in September. Package names have been changed to org.apache.pivot.* for the forthcoming release. Complete release notes are available in JIRA: http://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12310863&styleName=Html&version=12313779. * Noel Grandin was added as a PPMC member in July. * A Pivot logo (https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/attachment/12413910/swiss_knife_final.png), created by new contributor Thien Luh, was approved by the PPMC. * A new article (http://java.dzone.com/announcements/what-new-pivot) by developer Greg Brown was posted on Javalobby discussing some of the new features in Pivot 1.3. * Another new article, entitled "Using Apache Pivot to Build an iTunes Search Client" (also by Greg Brown), was submitted to IBM developerWorks and is currently awaiting final publication approval. * Developers Greg Brown and Todd Volkert were interviewed (http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2009/07/02/apache-pivot-brief-notes/) by Michael Cote of Redmonk. * The Auckland JVM Group presented Apache Pivot (http://www.meetup.com/auckland-jug/calendar/10856684/) at their most recent meeting. * Greg and Todd will be presenting Pivot at the next New England Java Users Group (http://nejug.org) meeting in September. Top 3 issues prior to graduation: The Incubator entertained a Pivot graduation proposal submitted by project mentor Niclas Hedhman, but that is tabled pending additional growth in the Pivot committer base.
Pivot is an open-source platform for building rich internet applications in Java. It has been in incubation since January 2009. * Pivot 1.1 was released in April. The team is actively working on version 1.2. * Christopher Brind and Sandro Martini were added as PPMC members in May. * All demos are now compliant with ASF licensing and have been moved back into the ASF SVN repository, with the following exceptions: * JFree, which still lives on Google Code due to license incompatibilities * Google Contacts, which was deleted * AMF client, which had a license incompatibility and was also deleted * The following articles were published: * http://www.insideria.com/2009/04/announcing-apache-pivot-11.html Announcing Apache Pivot 1.1 * http://www.insideria.com/2009/04/exploring-apache-pivot-11-part.html Exploring Apache Pivot 1.1, Part 1 * http://www.insideria.com/2009/05/exploring-apache-pivot-11-part-1.html Exploring Apache Pivot 1.1, Part 2 * http://www.insideria.com/2009/05/exploring-apache-pivot-11-part-2.html Exploring Apache Pivot 1.1, Part 3 * http://java.dzone.com/news/building-simple-rss-client Building a Simple RSS Client in Pivot * http://java.dzone.com/articles/table-row-editing-apache-pivot Table Row Editing in Apache Pivot Top 3 issues prior to graduation: * Seeking feedback on community; if no significant issues are raised, aiming for graduation in July.
Pivot has been in incubation since January 2009. Pivot is an open-source platform for building rich internet applications in Java. * Noel Grandin was added as a new committer on 3/29. * The codebase was forked into the "WTKX" project at Google Code: http://code.google.com/p/wtkx/. We didn't get a clear answer from the developer as to why he chose to fork rather than collaborate. From what we can gather, he seems to want to do Pivot "his own way". * The Pivot PPMC is currently voting on a proposed 1.1 release. Work has begun on a 1.1.1 maintenance release and 1.2 feature release. Top 3 issues prior to graduation: * Successfully complete the 1.1 release. * Strengthen the understanding of The Apache Way and how to operate a PMC. * Even stronger community; currently quite good with 5 active committers from 4 different employers.
Pivot is an open-source platform for building rich internet applications in Java. Pivot was accepted into incubation on the 26 January 2009. The Pivot community missed the last report, largely due to after acceptance a period of 'no action' ensued. The Pivot project has now taken off. One initial committer is lost in action and has been removed from the initial committer list, as well as the couple of patches that he supplied has been reverted. The remaining 4 committers have submitted CLAs, accounts has been created, authorization setup, Jira has been created, Confluence space has been created, and we are soon to do the initial codebase submission. All activities of setting up the podling has been tracked in https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIVOT-1
Pivot was voted on subsequent to the January Board meeting, and is brand new, and still being setup. Pivot started as an internal project at VMware for a rich, Java-based, in-browser, web UI. We are in the process of collecting the necessary CLA documents.