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WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Polygene project has chosen by vote to recommend moving the project to the Attic; and WHEREAS, the Board of Directors deems it no longer in the best interest of the Foundation to continue the Apache Polygene project due to inactivity; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Apache Polygene project is hereby terminated; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Attic PMC be and hereby is tasked with oversight over the software developed by the Apache Polygene Project; and be it further RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache Polygene" is hereby terminated; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache Polygene PMC is hereby terminated. Special Order 7C, Terminate the Apache Polygene Project, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
No report was submitted.
No report was submitted.
@Bertrand: pursue a report for Polygene
No report was submitted.
No report was submitted.
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Paul Merlin (paulmerlin) to the office of Vice President, Apache Polygene, and WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of Paul Merlin from the office of Vice President, Apache Polygene, and WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Polygene project has chosen by vote to recommend Jiri Jetmar (jiri) as the successor to the post; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Paul Merlin is relieved and discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice President, Apache Polygene, and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Jiri Jetmar be and hereby is appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Polygene, 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 Polygene Project Chair, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
Description: Apache Polygene is a community based effort exploring Composite
Oriented Programming for domain centric application development.
Issues: The PMC Chair is mostly AWOL, due to change in personal life
circumstances. Additionally, myself and the last major contributor have found
ourselves working together on something completely different, and been
completely unable to put effort into the project. This is also the reason why
no report was produced last month. So, I have indicated to the community
(dev@) that unless someone speaks up, that I will initiate the process to put
Polygene into the Attic.
Activity: There was quite an effort in Q1 to push forward to the 3.1 release,
particularly to include "enterprise" SQL support. But for reason mentioned
above, this came to an abrupt halt in April. As we have been unable to attract
and retain any new blood into the project, I think it is time to close the
doors at ASF.
PMC changes:
- Currently 12 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Stanislav Muhametsin on Mon Jun 12 2017
Committer base changes:
- Currently 18 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 3.0.0 on Wed Jul 26 2017
Mailing list activity:
- users@polygene.apache.org:
- 20 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 4 emails sent to list (2 in previous quarter)
- dev@polygene.apache.org:
- 37 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 235 emails sent to list (37 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 10 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 16 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
No report was submitted.
Description:
Apache Polygene is a community based effort exploring Composite
Oriented Programming for domain centric application development.
Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at the moment.
Activity:
Activity is slow. A lot is due to individual contributors busy with
their own businesses. We have a remarkable high degree of entrepreneurs in our
mix, and we seem to be busy putting Polygene 3.0 to work. The planned 3.1
release has been postponed and probably not coming in the next quarter either,
for above mentioned reasons. In January we made one Polygene presentation at
Alibaba in Hangzhou.
Health report:
Community health continues to struggle, but as long as there is
interest and enough active PMC members, we will continue.
PMC changes:
- Currently 12 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Stanislav Muhametsin on Mon Jun 12 2017
Committer base changes:
- Currently 18 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 3.0.0 on Wed Jul 26 2017
Mailing list activity:
Mailing list activity is a little bit down, but that is
expected from the lesser dev activity in general.
- dev@polygene.apache.org:
- 38 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 58 emails sent to list (104 in previous quarter)
JIRA activity:
- 7 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 0 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
Description: Apache Polygene is a community based effort exploring Composite Oriented Programming for domain centric application development. Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at the moment. Activity: After the Release in July, we have been quite slow to regain the momentum, possibly due to using the release in outside activities. But, new features has been added and waiting for a new Release, hopefully in the next quarter. New logo has been designed (to tie into the new name, and cut the heritage with the original name), but not yet deployed to the website. Additionally, work is in-progress to upgrade the website to a more modern L&F. Hopefully deploying that after the holidays. Health report: Project is progressing in slow but steady pace. Some personal issue has brought it down a bit more than ideal, but hoping that will return back to normal soon. Project continues to have problems to attract new blood. PMC changes: - Currently 12 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Stanislav Muhametsin on Mon Jun 12 2017 Committer base changes: - Currently 18 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 3.0.0 on Wed Jul 26 2017 Mailing list activity: We are now back to normal levels (still relatively low) after some post-release vacuum. - dev@polygene.apache.org <mailto:dev@polygene.apache.org>: - 37 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months): - 113 emails sent to list (266 in previous quarter) JIRA activity: - 13 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 3 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
Description:
Apache Polygene is a community based effort exploring Composite Oriented Programming for domain centric application development.
Issues:
- there are no issues requiring board attention at this time
Activity:
- The quarter was a flurry of activity leading up to the long overdue release 3.0.0, which involved a massive refactoring where all our own functional and streaming was replaced with those available in Java 8.
- Following the release, people have taken a well-deserved rest, but we are probably ready for one more release this year.
- The JDK 9 Outreach program is nothing new other than that the release are compatible with "legacy mode" and "jigsaw mode" has not yet been attended to.
Health report:
- This remains a small project, but it is active and we have enough active PMC members to continue. We have not been able to attract new blood, one feedback seen on blog post complained that it was too difficult to understand what it is all about. Perhaps re-working the Introduction and Tutorial sections will help.
PMC changes:
- Currently 12 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Stanislav Muhametsin on Mon Jun 12 2017
Committer base changes:
- Currently 18 committers.
- No new changes to the committer base since last report.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Kent Sølvsten at Sun Jun 14 2015
Releases:
- Apache Polygene 3.0.0 was released on Wed Jul 26 2017
Mailing list activity:
- The drop in mail activity was due to last quarter's much higher traffic in the build up to finalizing the 3.0.0 release. It has now dropped down to more ordinary levels, except the last month or so, when the most active people have been taking vacation.
- users@polygene.apache.org:
- 20 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 0 emails sent to list (1 in previous quarter)
- dev@polygene.apache.org:
- 37 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 276 emails sent to list (690 in previous quarter)
JIRA activity:
- 15 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 10 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
Description
Apache Polygene is a community based effort exploring Composite
Oriented Programming for domain centric application development.
Issues:
No issues that requires Board attention at this point in time.
Activity
This has been a quarter much more busy than normal. We tried to
make a release in April, but had to pull it due to missing a
couple of incompatibility changes desired, as well as one feature
not working as advertised.
A new attempt at a release is planned for July.
We want to change the logo, have a basic idea, but not gotten to
actually do it. Last outstanding issue regarding the name change.
Health report
Stanislav has been voted into the PMC. Before we came to Apache,
he was very active, and ended up creating a C# fork/clone and
been working on that since. During this quarter he has assisted
in some design decisions, by comparing what he has in the C#
version. Discussion is also on-going whether that C# version
should be brought to Polygene as well.
Other than that, community growth is not what we wished it to be.
PMC changes
- Currently 12 PMC members.
- Stanislav Muhametsin was added to the PMC on Mon Jun 12 2017
Committer base changes:
- Currently 18 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 in August 2015
Mailing list activity:
I suspect that the drop of 2 subscribers this quarter may be due
to the amount of email sent, both discussing the release as well
as the many Jenkins reports of broken builds.
- users@polygene.apache.org:
- 19 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 1 emails sent to list (2 in previous quarter)
- dev@polygene.apache.org:
- 37 subscribers (down -2 in the last 3 months):
- 718 emails sent to list (231 in previous quarter)
JIRA activity:
- 22 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 53 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Niclas Hedhman (niclas) to the office of Vice President, Apache Polygene, and WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of Niclas Hedhman from the office of Vice President, Apache Polygene, and WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Polygene project has chosen by vote to recommend Paul Merlin (paulmerlin) as the successor to the post; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Niclas Hedhman is relieved and discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice President, Apache Polygene, and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Paul Merlin be and hereby is appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Polygene, 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 Polygene Project Chair, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
## Description:
Apache Polygene is a community based effort exploring Composite Oriented
Programming for domain centric application development.
## Issues:
Apache Zest has successfully transitioned its name to Apache Polygene, and all
interactions with infra team was smooth and went much better than expected. All
tasks related to the name change were captured in
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/POLYGENE-195 for future reference.
## Activity:
The name change spurred a lot of code activity, intersected with remaining
issues for the 3.0 release, which has been a bigger chunk of changes than we
were prepared for, hence the delays. But we will get there eventually. With one
of the most capable build systems at ASF now in place, we expect that future
releases will be frequent (by our standards).
We have also been participating in the JDK 9 Outreach program from Oracle,
where we have been asked to test against Early Releases. Our 2000 tests run
well in "legacy mode", but in "jigsaw mode" we are not compatible and have
not enabled the CI build.
## Health report:
The http://reporter.apache.org tool went a little bit bananas after the name
change, and we had some fairly high negative number of health in it. Quite
amusing in itself. Development activity was normal for our project, with a
small, typical slowdown over the holidays.
We are aware that we need to be better at capture the few interested parties
that shows up on occasions and convert them to contributors.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 11 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Kent Sølvsten on Tue Sep 22 2015
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 18 committers.
- No new changes to the committer base since last report.
## Releases:
- Last release was apache-zest-java-2.1 on Fri Jul 31 2015
## Mailing list activity:
The two emails on users@ is still our good old friend Rich making
announcements. We don't list that mailing list anymore, as infra suggested
to keep it for symmetry reasons.
Many mails on dev@ lists are Jira tickets related to the name change.
- users@polygene.apache.org:
- 19 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 2 emails sent to list (0 in previous quarter)
- dev@polygene.apache.org:
- 39 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 188 emails sent to list (0 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 37 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 38 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Zest Project has chosen by vote to recommend a change of name to Apache Polygene without revision of its charges, and WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is receipt of this and deems it to be in the best interests of the Foundation and consistent with the Foundation's purposes; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Project Management Committee (PMC), heretofore known as the "Apache Zest Project", shall henceforth be known as the the "Apache Polygene Project". Special Order 7F, Change the Apache Zest Project Name, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
## Description:
Apache Zest is a community based effort exploring Composite Oriented
Programming for domain centric application development.
## Issues:
It has come to the PMC's attention that Eclipse Zest is a well-established
subproject, within EMF/GEF/GMF ecosystem at Eclipse Foundation, and that
there is some conceptual overlap (both deal with explicit application
models). They also started way back in time, and the Zest PMC think that
although we could stick to the name, we think we should express some goodwill
towards Eclipse and change name. The sooner the better, especially since we
have no published releases under the Apache Zest namespace.
The new name "Apache Polygene" has been chosen, after quite a lot of
discussion back and forth and some dead ends. We have just started the
"unusual" process of project name change, and we are trying to capture the
work needed in https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ZEST-195, a fairly long
list of tasks (currently 18).
We don't need Board assistance on this issue.
## Activity:
Recruitment of new blood is continuing to be our weak spot. Re-positioning,
re-branding, better tutorials and lowering the bar to entry are items to be
worked on, inspired by other Apache projects, although I suspect too few
small projects check what other smaller ASF projects do right.
Zest is a small community, and this quarter was very typical, with good
progress towards the long overdue 3.0 release, which is all about making the
incompatible changes once and for all, both in namespaces as well as
leveraging Java 8 features in public APIs and discarding outdated ways for
that.
Zest is started participating in Oracle's outreach beta testing of Java 9 in
CI build, and we are currently reporting "yellow" but expect to go "green"
before 3.0 release.
## Health report:
Zest is small, but above the threshold for worry. Efforts are being worked on
to simplify adoption. Mailing list activity remains moderate and JIRA issues
are being both created and worked on. All active committers that are
willing, are on the PMC already.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 11 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Kent Sølvsten on Tue Sep 22 2015
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 18 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Georg Ragaller at Thu Jun 16 2016
## Releases:
- Last release was JAVA-2.1 on Fri Jul 31 2015
## Mailing list activity:
Rich Bowen is taking up 100% of the traffic on the users@ list :-) with
announcements. Officially, the users@ list is non-active as all queries are
directed to the dev@ list. The dev@ activity this month was normal, although
the stats shows a substantial increase, but that is probably due to a larger
number of CI build reports, some related to Java 9 testing
- users@zest.apache.org:
- 19 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 2 emails sent to list (2 in previous quarter)
- dev@zest.apache.org:
- 40 subscribers (up 3 in the last 3 months):
- 332 emails sent to list (240 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 38 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 12 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
Apache Zest is a community based effort exploring Composite Oriented Programming for domain-centric application development. Activity: Summer is always a bit slow in our community, and this year was no exception. But both the beginning and end of this quarter has seen substantial (by our measure) activity; discussions, Jiras and commits are all up from previous quarter. The big chunk of work that constitutes our next release (incompatible by choice) has taken longer than desirable, but we hope to get that one out by end of the year. In June, a pre-Apache contributor resurfaced, provided a couple of patches and was added to our committer rooster. Issues: There are no issues that requires the Board's attention. Health report: No change in health. A small, slow project with adequate oversight. -o-o-o- reporter.a.o vitals -o-o-o- PMC changes: - Currently 11 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Kent Sølvsten on Tue Sep 22 2015 Committer base changes: - Currently 18 committers. - Georg Ragaller was added as a committer on Thu Jun 16 2016 Releases: - Last release was JAVA-2.1 on Fri Jul 31 2015 Mailing list activity: - users@zest.apache.org: - 19 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months): - 2 emails sent to list (0 in previous quarter) - dev@zest.apache.org: - 36 subscribers (up 3 in the last 3 months): - 278 emails sent to list (176 in previous quarter) JIRA activity: - 32 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 20 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
Description: Apache Zest is a community based effort exploring Composite Oriented Programming for domain-centric application development. Activity: The activity during this last quarter has been (as usual) slow, but slightly higher than previous quarter. We have seen a handful of responses coming in via help.apache.org, but not managed to convert any into contributions, and we think that is the nature of that page (easy to click, even if no commitment is intended). Issues: There are no issues that requires the Board's attention. Health report: Attracting new blood is constantly on our mind, but we have no good answers. One new user surfaced and have been helped to get going. We hope to convert that to some more activity. PMC changes: - Currently 11 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Kent Sølvsten on Tue Sep 22 2015 Committer base changes: - Currently 17 committers. - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was Kent Sølvsten at Sun Jun 14 2015 Releases: - Last release was Zest JAVA-2.1 on Fri Jul 31 2015 Mailing list activity: We should probably shut down, or at least stop listing the users@ mailing list, as all traffic has been (and will be for the foreseeable future) on the dev@ list. - users@zest.apache.org: - 19 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months): - 0 emails sent to list (1 in previous quarter) - dev@zest.apache.org: - 33 subscribers (up 4 in the last 3 months): - 185 emails sent to list (140 in previous quarter) JIRA activity: - 10 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 4 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
Description
Apache Zest is a community based effort exploring Composite Oriented
Programming for domain-centric application development.
Activity
The activity in the last quarter was relatively slow. The work on 3.0 came to
a halt at Christmas, mainly due to primary developers got caught up in $dayjob
issues/tasks. But community is still active and discussion are ongoing of next
steps, and we are optimistic of the future.
Issues
There are no issues that requires the Board's attention.
Health report:
As mentioned in previous report, attracting new blood will remain the major
concern of the PMC. Zest got a talk accepted at ApacheCon NA, and will try to
engage more people at the event.
PMC changes:
- Currently 11 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Kent Sølvsten on Tue Sep 22 2015
Committer base changes:
- Currently 17 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Kent Sølvsten at Sun Jun 14 2015
Releases:
- Last release was JAVA-2.1 on Fri Jul 31 2015
Mailing list activity:
users@ list are effectively not utilized, as basically the entire user base is
on the dev@ list and most are PMC members as well.
- users@zest.apache.org:
- 18 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 1 emails sent to list (1 in previous quarter)
- dev@zest.apache.org:
- 29 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months):
- 139 emails sent to list (134 in previous quarter)
JIRA activity:
New tickets created are around the ver 3.0 effort, and closed tickets are
resolution of breaking builds.
- 9 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 2 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
## Description
Apache Zest is a community based effort exploring Composite Oriented
Programming for domain centric application development.
## Activity
Apache Zest made a presentation at ApacheCon EU 2015, on short notice by two
of its PMC members after the PMC Chair were unable to travel from China.
Otherwise, the quarter has been somewhat slow and quiet, with work mostly
focusing on 3.0 features, and re-examining the design of even the most core
features.
## Issues
There are no issues that requires the Board's attention, but as Chair of the
PMC, I would like to highlight that difficulty to attract new committers is
becoming a concern of the PMC for its long-term viability.
## Health report
The sudden drop in number of mails from previous quarter is large due to many
release-related mails in previous quarter.
## PMC changes
- Currently 11 PMC members.
- Kent Sølvsten was added to the PMC on Tue Sep 22 2015
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 17 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Kent Sølvsten at Sun Jun 14 2015
## Releases:
- Last release was Apache Zest JAVA-2.1 on Fri Jul 31 2015
## Mailing list activity:
- users@zest.apache.org:
- 17 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 1 emails sent to list (1 in previous quarter)
- dev@zest.apache.org:
- 26 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 134 emails sent to list (1021 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 9 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 3 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 mon
## Description:
Apache Zest is a community based effort exploring Composite Oriented
Programming for domain centric application development.
## Activity:
Apache Zest made its first release (Java Edition 2.1) last day in July and it
went remarkably well. Release Manager had no previous ASF release experience,
and that shows testimony to the high standards of the generic Release
Documentation (kudos!) After release, everyone went on a well-deserved
holiday, but activity is now climbing back up, with planning and
implementation for ver 3.0, which will require Java 8. All naming from Qi4j to
Zest has been completed.
## Health report:
Zest is a small but active community, and the size of community is not
expected to grow substantially in the near future. All previous Qi4j
contributors still active have been on-boarded, and we will take it from
there.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## LDAP committee group/Committership changes:
- Currently 17 committers and 10 LDAP committee group members.
- No new LDAP committee group members added in the last 3 months
- Last LDAP committee group addition was Jiri Jetmar at Tue Jun 02 2015
- New commmitters:
- Alin George Dreghiciu was added as a committer on Tue Jun 09 2015
- Kent Sølvsten was added as a committer on Sun Jun 14 2015
## Releases:
- Java Edition 2.1 was released on Fri Jul 31 2015
## Mailing list activity:
- users@zest.apache.org:
- 17 subscribers (up 3 in the last 3 months):
- 1 emails sent to list (0 in previous quarter)
- dev@zest.apache.org:
- 25 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months):
- 1024 emails sent to list (286 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 96 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 73 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
Inception: 18 March 2015 Last PMC addition: 31 May 2015 Last Committer additions: 26 May 2015 Description Apache Zest contains platforms and tools to explore the Composite Oriented Programming paradigm. Activity The second/third month of Zest has been dominated by bringing in the external codebase, start ensuring that NOTICE files are constructed correctly, migrating the website, and general clean up. Development on new features has begun. [Edit] The geospatial query capability that is being added, sparked Chris M to invite collaboration with Apache SIS. Still early, but could be fruitful. Community 3 committers have been added in this month, and one new member (Jiri Jetmar) has been added to the PMC. Mailing list activity Dev mailing list discussions are slow, but healthy. Board Raised Query In previous Board meeting, a discussion around the IP cleanliness was raised, and Sam requested that we should share our experience on this matter. First of all, we would like to know "how to share", and secondly, before the project came to ASF, we tried to stick to an Apache-compatible approach as much as possible. Therefor, we were not overly worried about importing the codebase, but we are slowing ensuring that all of the ~100 individual components have its attribution correctly marked. We are also trying to automate this process. Finally, we are still uncertain about a Neo4j extension, which may be dropped due to a unclear GPL dependency, and Neo Technology doesn't seem to want to clarify. Next Steps * Ensure IP is totally free of encumbrance. * Plan release 2.1, hopeful for July * New Apache branded documentation. (New Zest logo proposed)
Inception: 18 March 2015 Last PMC addition: 1 May 2015 Last Committer additions: 29 April 2015 Description Apache Zest contains platforms and tools to explore the Composite Oriented Programming paradigm. Activity The second month of Zest has been dominated by bringing in the external codebase, start ensuring that NOTICE files are constructed correctly, migrating the website, and general clean up. Development on new features has begun. Community 4 committers have been added in this month, and one committer has been voted into the PMC. Mailing list activity Dev mailing list discussions are healthy. Next Steps * Ensure IP is free of encumbrance. * Secure the remaining Software Grants * Plan release 2.1, hopeful for June * New Apache branded documentation.
@Shane: The downloads page should say that these are not official Apache releases.
Inception: 18 March 2015
Last PMC addition: 18 March 2015
Last Committer additions: n/a (In progress)
Description
Apache Zest contains platforms and tools to explore the Composite Oriented
Programming paradigm.
Activity
3 weeks has passed since the inception of the project and being one of
very few TLPs not coming from the Incubator, some smaller stumbling blocks
were encountered by infra. But infra has been great, and we have gotten;
- Mailing lists dev, users, private and commits has been created
- Subversion repository for static HTML website has been created
- Git repositories has been created.
- Requests for Software Grants from all previous contributors have been
sent
- Jira is set up.
Community
The PMC had no objections to invite the previous contributors, and
invitations has been sent out, including requesting ICLAs (standard invite
letter). One previous contributor passed on the invitation (moved on to
other things)
Mailing list activity
Development discussions have started on dev@zest, and the Google groups
one is quickly deserted.
Next Steps
* Ensure IP is free of encumbrance.
* Migrate website (incl re-design and branding compliance)
* Import codebase
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors deems it to be in the best interests of the Foundation and consistent with the Foundation's purpose to establish a Project Management Committee charged with the creation and maintenance of open-source software, for distribution at no charge to the public, related to composite oriented programming. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Apache Zest Project", be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache Zest Project be and hereby is responsible for the creation and maintenance of software related to composite oriented programming; and be it further RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache Zest" 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 Zest Project, and to have primary responsibility for management of the projects within the scope of responsibility of the Apache Zest 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 Zest Project: * Alex Karasulu <akarasulu@apache.org> * Chris Mattmann <mattmann@apache.org> * James Carman <jcarman@apache.org> * Jeff Genender <jgenender@apache.org> * Marcel Offermans <marrs@apache.org> * Niclas Hedhman <niclas@apache.org> * Roman Shaposhnik <rvs@apache.org> * Sandro Martini <smartini@apache.org> NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Niclas Hedhman be appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Zest, 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 Zest Project be and hereby is tasked with the creation of a set of bylaws intended to encourage open development and increased participation in the Apache Zest Project. Special Order 7F, Establish the Apache Zest Project, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.