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## Description: The mission of the Apache Portable Runtime (APR) project is to create and maintain software libraries that provide a predictable and consistent interface to underlying platform-specific implementations. The primary goal is to provide an API to which software developers may code and be assured of predictable if not identical behaviour regardless of the platform on which their software is built, relieving them of the need to code special-case conditions to work around or take advantage of platform-specific deficiencies or features. ## Project Status: Current project status: ongoing Issues for the board: no issues requiring board attention ## Membership Data: Apache Portable Runtime (APR) was founded 2000-12-01 (24 years ago) There are currently 68 committers and 43 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 3:2. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Steffen Land on 2023-03-02. - No new committers. Last addition was Steffen Land on 2023-02-27. ## Project Activity: apr-1.7.5 was released on 2024-08-26, fixing a few bugs and a security issue. A new apr-util release is being discussed, waiting for a few merges and the CI set up on github. Big thanks to Ivan Zhakov for his enormous (and great!) work on the CMake build, the github CI (including apr-util 1.7.x branch) and the tests framework which can now be run on Windows! ## Community Health: Commit and mailing lists activities have increased with the new releases being prepared (as usual). There seem to be more github Pull Requests being opened (and treated), thanks to the CI in place it's also used by the committers to test their changes before applying them to a branch.
## Description: The mission of the Apache Portable Runtime (APR) project is to create and maintain software libraries that provide a predictable and consistent interface to underlying platform-specific implementations. The primary goal is to provide an API to which software developers may code and be assured of predictable if not identical behaviour regardless of the platform on which their software is built, relieving them of the need to code special-case conditions to work around or take advantage of platform-specific deficiencies or features. ## Project Status: Current project status: ongoing Issues for the board: no issues requiring board attention ## Membership Data: Apache Portable Runtime (APR) was founded 2000-12-01 (24 years ago) There are currently 68 committers and 43 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 3:2. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Steffen Land on 2023-03-02. - No new committers. Last addition was Steffen Land on 2023-02-27. ## Project Activity: The quarter activity was moderate, nothing unusual. Great work from ivan to improve the cmake/vcpkg build system and running the tests suite on windows. With more contributions comes more code review which shows up on dev@ activity too. No new release this quarter. ## Community Health: Some discussions started about how APR-2 (trunk) could be (re)modularized, not like APR-1 and APR1-util with different repositories, but rather how the build from a single code base could produce separate libraries for each non-core feature (DB, crypto, xml, ldap, ...) which apps/distros could link to as needed without depending on the rest.
## Description: The mission of the Apache Portable Runtime (APR) project is to create and maintain software libraries that provide a predictable and consistent interface to underlying platform-specific implementations. The primary goal is to provide an API to which software developers may code and be assured of predictable if not identical behaviour regardless of the platform on which their software is built, relieving them of the need to code special-case conditions to work around or take advantage of platform-specific deficiencies or features. ## Project Status: Current project status: ongoing. Issues for the board: no issues requiring board attention. ## Membership Data: Apache Portable Runtime (APR) was founded 2000-12-01 (23 years ago) There are currently 68 committers and 43 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 3:2. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Steffen Land on 2023-03-02. - No new committers. Last addition was Steffen Land on 2023-02-27. ## Project Activity: The quarter was quiet, but nothing unusual, presumably the sign that current versions work as expected. No new releae discussed for now. ## Community Health: Low activity for both the mailing lists and commits, it usually increases at release time or when something needs fixing.
## Description: The mission of the Apache Portable Runtime (APR) project is to create and maintain software libraries that provide a predictable and consistent interface to underlying platform-specific implementations. The primary goal is to provide an API to which software developers may code and be assured of predictable if not identical behaviour regardless of the platform on which their software is built, relieving them of the need to code special-case conditions to work around or take advantage of platform-specific deficiencies or features. ## Project Status: Current project status: ongoing. Issues for the board: no issues requiring board attention. ## Membership Data: Apache Portable Runtime (APR) was founded 2000-12-01 (23 years ago) There are currently 68 committers and 43 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 3:2. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Steffen Land on 2023-03-02. - No new committers. Last addition was Steffen Land on 2023-02-27. ## Project Activity: Latest apr-1.7.4 was released on 2023-04-16 and apr-util-1.6.3 on 2023-02-01. The quarter was quiet, nothing unusual. Usual commits/PRs to keep up with new compilers (warnings) and API changes for the dependencies. After some discussions about the lack of thread-safety for some legacy and lightweight DB drivers, it was decided to not address this inside the APR but let users select a safe driver or provide their own locking. A new thread-safe/lightweight DB driver was contributed and committed to provide a native/builtin alternative still. ## Community Health: The project remains healthy, though quiet. Low activity on the dev@ mailing list and bugzilla/github.
## Description: The mission of the Apache Portable Runtime (APR) project is to create and maintain software libraries that provide a predictable and consistent interface to underlying platform-specific implementations. The primary goal is to provide an API to which software developers may code and be assured of predictable if not identical behaviour regardless of the platform on which their software is built, relieving them of the need to code special-case conditions to work around or take advantage of platform-specific deficiencies or features. ## Project Status: Current project status: ongoing. Issues for the board: no issues requiring board attention. ## Membership Data: Apache Portable Runtime (APR) was founded 2000-12-01 (23 years ago) There are currently 68 committers and 43 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 3:2. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Steffen Land on 2023-03-02. - No new committers. Last addition was Steffen Land on 2023-02-27. ## Project Activity: Northern summertime was quiet, nothing unusual. No new release this quarter, latest apr-1.7.4 was released on 2023-04-16 and apr-util-1.6.3 on 2023-02-01. New apr-1.8.0 and apr-util-1.7.0 versions with interesting features are considered/discussed for release, though no progress was made this quarter. ## Community Health: The project remains healthy, though quiet. Low activity on the dev@ mailing list and bugzilla/github.
## Description: The mission of the Apache Portable Runtime (APR) project is to create and maintain software libraries that provide a predictable and consistent interface to underlying platform-specific implementations. The primary goal is to provide an API to which software developers may code and be assured of predictable if not identical behaviour regardless of the platform on which their software is built, relieving them of the need to code special-case conditions to work around or take advantage of platform-specific deficiencies or features. ## Project Status: Current project status: ongoing. Issues for the board: no issues requiring board attention. ## Membership Data: Apache Portable Runtime (APR) was founded 2000-12-01 (23 years ago) There are currently 68 committers and 43 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 3:2. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Steffen Land on 2023-03-02. - No new committers. Last addition was Steffen Land on 2023-02-27. ## Project Activity: The project has released two APR versions this quarter, 1.7.3 with bugfixes and improvements (no security issue) and 1.7.4 to address a regression in 1.7.3. An apr-1.8.0 version is being prepared with no (needed) rush. ## Community Health: The project remains healthy, though quiet. Low to moderate (at release time) activity on the dev@ mailing list. Low activity on bugzilla/github too, vendors/distros usually provide the patch to build with new versions of a dependency software when a compatibility issue arises.
## Description: The mission of the Apache Portable Runtime (APR) project is to create and maintain software libraries that provide a predictable and consistent interface to underlying platform-specific implementations. The primary goal is to provide an API to which software developers may code and be assured of predictable if not identical behaviour regardless of the platform on which their software is built, relieving them of the need to code special-case conditions to work around or take advantage of platform-specific deficiencies or features. ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention. ## Membership Data: Apache Portable Runtime (APR) was founded 2000-12-01 (22 years ago) There are currently 69 committers and 44 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 3:2. Community changes, past quarter: - Yann Ylavic as new PMC Chair on 2023-02-16. - Steffen Land was added as committer on 2023-02-27 - Steffen Land was added to the PMC on 2023-03-02 Big thanks to Nick Kew for his great service as APR PMC Chair for 6 years! ## Project Activity: The project has released one APR and one APR-util versions, including bug fixes and addressing three long standing security issues with moderate impact ratings. apr-1.7.2 and apr-util-1.6.3 were released on 2023-02-01 after a couple of release candidates and un-announced 1.7.1/1.6.2 with tarball issues (new release scripts borrowed from httpd left some -rcX in the base directory). A new github actions/ci system was put in place which greatly helps maintainers' work and confidence in the releases quality. It's testing the three linux, macos and windows systems. Huge thanks to Ivan Zhakov for this work! ## Community Health: The project remains broadly healthy, though quiet. Activity increased on the dev@ mailing list mainly due to the release process. Bugzilla activity decreased but nothing worrisome given the usual moderate traffic.
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Nick Kew (niq) to the office of Vice President, Apache Portable Runtime (APR), and WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of Nick Kew from the office of Vice President, Apache Portable Runtime (APR), and WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Portable Runtime (APR) project has chosen by vote to recommend Yann Ylavic (ylavic) as the successor to the post; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Nick Kew is relieved and discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice President, Apache Portable Runtime (APR), and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Yann Ylavic be and hereby is appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Portable Runtime (APR), to serve in accordance with and subject to the direction of the Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until death, resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification, or until a successor is appointed. Special Order 7F, Change the Apache Portable Runtime (APR) Project Chair, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
## Description: The mission of the Apache Portable Runtime (APR) project is to create and maintain software libraries that provide a predictable and consistent interface to underlying platform-specific implementations. The primary goal is to provide an API to which software developers may code and be assured of predictable if not identical behaviour regardless of the platform on which their software is built, relieving them of the need to code special-case conditions to work around or take advantage of platform-specific deficiencies or features. ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention. ## Membership Data: Apache Portable Runtime (APR) was founded 2000-12-01 (22 years ago) There are currently 68 committers and 43 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 3:2. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Michael Osipov on 2020-08-29. - No new committers. Last addition was Michael Osipov on 2020-08-29. ## Project Activity: Project activity has (as ever) been light, focusing on maintenance rather than new development. Work has been primarily directed towards a minor (bugfix) release. Although it is outside the reporting period, a release of APR 1.7.2 and APR-UTIL 1.6.3 took place on Feb. 1st. As indicated in the last report, your PMC chair has (very recently) indicated his wish to step down from that role. ## Community Health: The community, being drawn primarily from related ASF projects (HTTPD, subversion) serves the needs of those projects as and when they arise. It also remains responsive to issues arising externally. There is sometimes an issue with platform-specific and (in APR-UTIL) system-specific components such as SQL databases, where the expertise to maintain interfaces with third-party systems may be thin or outdated.
No report was submitted.
No report was submitted.
## Description: The mission of the Apache Portable Runtime (APR) project is to create and maintain software libraries that provide a predictable and consistent interface to underlying platform-specific implementations. The primary goal is to provide an API to which software developers may code and be assured of predictable if not identical behaviour regardless of the platform on which their software is built, relieving them of the need to code special-case conditions to work around or take advantage of platform-specific deficiencies or features. ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention. ## Membership Data: Apache Portable Runtime (APR) was founded 2000-12-01 (22 years ago) There are currently 68 committers and 43 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 3:2. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Michael Osipov on 2020-08-29. - No new committers. Last addition was Michael Osipov on 2020-08-29. ## Project Activity: The project remains at low-activity. A long-overdue new release remains stalled, essentially on platform and interface issues where correct behaviour is in some question. ## Community Health: Metrics from the statistics wizard show activity reducing, with the exception of traffic to the dev@ list which is 40% up on the previous quarter. This increase is driven largely by discussion around certain commits, typically where refinement has been required. Whereas several PMC members are active, your chair has been woefully absent suffering burnout. If I am unable to reverse this at least partially before the next report falls due, I propose to offer my resignation.
No report was submitted.
## Description: The mission of the Apache Portable Runtime (APR) project is to create and maintain software libraries that provide a predictable and consistent interface to underlying platform-specific implementations. The primary goal is to provide an API to which software developers may code and be assured of predictable if not identical behaviour regardless of the platform on which their software is built, relieving them of the need to code special-case conditions to work around or take advantage of platform-specific deficiencies or features. ## Issues: No current issues for the Board. ## Membership Data: Apache Portable Runtime (APR) was founded 2000-12-01 (22 years ago) There are currently 68 committers and 43 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 3:2. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Michael Osipov on 2020-08-29. - No new committers. Last addition was Michael Osipov on 2020-08-29. ## Project Activity: Towards the end of the period (and ongoing) there has been a sharp rise in activity directed towards a new release. The project has otherwise been, as usual, quiet. ## Community Health: No real change, though as noted above there has been a recent flurry of activity, with increased mailinglist traffic and most strikingly commits (up 286% to 174 according to reporter.a.o tools).
No report was submitted.
## Description: The mission of the Apache Portable Runtime (APR) project is to create and maintain software libraries that provide a predictable and consistent interface to underlying platform-specific implementations. The primary goal is to provide an API to which software developers may code and be assured of predictable if not identical behaviour regardless of the platform on which their software is built, relieving them of the need to code special-case conditions to work around or take advantage of platform-specific deficiencies or features. ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention. ## Membership Data: Apache Portable Runtime (APR) was founded 2000-12-01 (21 years ago) There are currently 68 committers and 43 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 3:2. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Michael Osipov on 2020-08-29. - No new committers. Last addition was Michael Osipov on 2020-08-29. ## Project Activity: Project activity is (remains) very slow. There has been some effort in forking a new branch 1.8, so that a new 1.7 release can be limited to small but important bugfixes without reference to new changes. The community has also agreed to drop what vestigial support remains for the long-defunct Netware platform, and platform-specific code has been stripped from Trunk. However, a new release still remains pending several months since it was agreed in principle. ## Community Health: No change to community health. There is a long-term issue of low activity, manifesting in the delay to a release.
## Description: The mission of the Apache Portable Runtime (APR) project is to create and maintain software libraries that provide a predictable and consistent interface to underlying platform-specific implementations. The primary goal is to provide an API to which software developers may code and be assured of predictable if not identical behaviour regardless of the platform on which their software is built, relieving them of the need to code special-case conditions to work around or take advantage of platform-specific deficiencies or features. ## Issues: No issues requiring board attention. ## Membership Data: Apache Portable Runtime (APR) was founded 2000-12-01 (21 years ago) There are currently 68 committers and 43 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 3:2. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Michael Osipov on 2020-08-29. - No new committers. Last addition was Michael Osipov on 2020-08-29. ## Project Activity: As ever, activity has been low, though there have been several fixes dealing largely with changes to the operating systems supported. It has recently been proposed that remaining vestiges of support for operating systems long-abandoned by their erstwhile vendors (specifically OS/2 and Netware) be cleanly removed, and that is now likely to happen. A new release was mooted in September, but progress on that is currently stalled. ## Community Health: The community remains broadly healthy, but lack of momentum towards a proposed release may raise a question over its vigor. Your humble reporter hopes to push the release if noone else steps up.
## Description: The mission of the Apache Portable Runtime (APR) project is to create and maintain software libraries that provide a predictable and consistent interface to underlying platform-specific implementations. The primary goal is to provide an API to which software developers may code and be assured of predictable if not identical behaviour regardless of the platform on which their software is built, relieving them of the need to code special-case conditions to work around or take advantage of platform-specific deficiencies or features. ## Issues: No issues requiring board attention. ## Membership Data: Apache Portable Runtime (APR) was founded 2000-12-01 (21 years ago) There are currently 68 committers and 43 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 3:2. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Michael Osipov on 2020-08-29. - No new committers. Last addition was Michael Osipov on 2020-08-29. ## Project Activity: As usual, activity is low. However, September has seen discussion of a new release to bring the release package up-to-date. It is hoped this may now happen in the near future. ## Community Health: Again, nothing to report. The community predominantly revolves around those active in ASF projects using APR, including HTTPD and SVN.
No report was submitted.
## Description: The mission of the Apache Portable Runtime (APR) project is to create and maintain software libraries that provide a predictable and consistent interface to underlying platform-specific implementations. The primary goal is to provide an API to which software developers may code and be assured of predictable if not identical behaviour regardless of the platform on which their software is built, relieving them of the need to code special-case conditions to work around or take advantage of platform-specific deficiencies or features. ## Issues:] No issues requiring board attention. ## Membership Data: Apache Portable Runtime (APR) was founded 2000-12-01 (21 years ago) There are currently 68 committers and 43 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 3:2. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Michael Osipov on 2020-08-29. - No new committers. Last addition was Michael Osipov on 2020-08-29. ## Project Activity: The project has again been very quiet. Externally (at github), the apr-tools project has grown to three commandline tools harnessing APR/APR-UTIL capabilities. ## Community Health: The project is so quiet it's hard to say convincingly it's healthy or otherwise. However it remains responsive when issues arise, and is predominantly driven by related ASF projects like HTTPD and SVN.
## Description: The mission of the Apache Portable Runtime (APR) project is to create and maintain software libraries that provide a predictable and consistent interface to underlying platform-specific implementations. The primary goal is to provide an API to which software developers may code and be assured of predictable if not identical behaviour regardless of the platform on which their software is built, relieving them of the need to code special-case conditions to work around or take advantage of platform-specific deficiencies or features. ## Issues: No issues requiring board attention. ## Membership Data: Apache Portable Runtime (APR) was founded 2000-12-01 (20 years ago) There are currently 68 committers and 43 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 3:2. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Michael Osipov on 2020-08-29. - No new committers. Last addition was Michael Osipov on 2020-08-29. ## Project Activity: The project has again been quiet. One matter of possible interest: there is a proposal (from a longstanding member of the community) for an associated commandline toolkit apr-tools. The proposer has announced the first such tool, currently at github. No release since 1.7.0 (April 2019), nor is a new release imminent. In the absence of a major bug or security issue, the most likely trigger for a new 1.7 release is to resolve glitches reported with new/updated toolchains including Xcode 12 (Mac) and autoconf 2.69/2.70 (Gnu). ## Community Health The community remains stable, with ASF projects using APR always a prime focus. As is often the case with APR, there has been no proactive effort, but we are responsive to questions and issues raised by users.
## Description: The mission of the Apache Portable Runtime (APR) project is to create and maintain software libraries that provide a predictable and consistent interface to underlying platform-specific implementations. The primary goal is to provide an API to which software developers may code and be assured of predictable if not identical behaviour regardless of the platform on which their software is built, relieving them of the need to code special-case conditions to work around or take advantage of platform-specific deficiencies or features. ## Issues: No issues requiring board attention. ## Membership Data: Apache Portable Runtime (APR) was founded 2000-12-01 (20 years ago) There are currently 68 committers and 43 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 3:2. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Michael Osipov on 2020-08-29. - No new committers. Last addition was Michael Osipov on 2020-08-29. ## Project Activity: The project has again been quiet, with small amounts of activity concentrated on matters of technical detail in two areas: build toolchains and Windows platform esoterica. No release since 1.7.0 (April 2019), nor is a new release imminent. In the absence of a major bug or security issue, the most likely trigger for a new 1.7 release is to resolve glitches reported with new/updated toolchains including Xcode 12 (Mac) and autoconf 2.69/2.70 (Gnu). ## Community Health The community remains stable, with ASF projects using APR always a prime focus. As is often the case with APR, there has been no proactive effort, but we are responsive to questions and issues raised by users.
## Description:
The mission of the Apache Portable Runtime (APR) project is to create and
maintain software libraries that provide a predictable and consistent
interface to underlying platform-specific implementations. The primary goal is
to provide an API to which software developers may code and be assured of
predictable if not identical behaviour regardless of the platform on which
their software is built, relieving them of the need to code special-case
conditions to work around or take advantage of platform-specific deficiencies
or features.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention.
## Membership Data:
Apache Portable Runtime (APR) was founded 2000-12-01 (20 years ago)
There are currently 68 committers and 43 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 3:2.
Community changes, past quarter:
- Michael Osipov was added to the PMC on 2020-08-29
- Michael Osipov was added as committer on 2020-08-29
## Project Activity:
The project has been very quiet even by APR's standards. Nothing of interest
to report.
The most recent release was 1.7.0 in April 2019.
Regarding nh comment on the previous report:
nh: Has APR looked into expanding the scope with abstractions of
modern architecture to get new traction and excitement, or has
it decided to remain what it currently is? Examples; GPUs and
FPGAs are making in-roads to "general computing", Security
Hardware Accelerators, fingerprint sensors are on many
laptops,... Just a thought from peanut gallery.
The answer is No and No. We haven't considered it as of now, but we are
always open to new proposals if someone is driving them. If someone comes
forward with a credible proposal or an existing piece of work that might
integrate with APR, we would expect to consider that on its merits.
## Community Health
The community is quiet, reflecting the lack of activity. Working on the
principle of "scratch your own itch", noone is itching. We believe we retain
the capacity to respond to new proposals or to new issues, though none have
arisen in the quarter.
## Description: The mission of the Apache Portable Runtime (APR) project is to create and maintain software libraries that provide a predictable and consistent interface to underlying platform-specific implementations. APR provides an API to which software developers may code and be assured of predictable if not identical behaviour regardless of the platform on which their software is built, relieving them of the need to code special-case conditions to work around or take advantage of platform-specific deficiencies or features. Consistent abstractions are provided both for host platforms and for utilities such as databases. In addition, APR provides a range of general-purpose utilities. ## Issues: I'm sorry, I don't know if this merits highlighting here. It is not an issue of tension or conflict, or any ill feeling. An ongoing issue marked private in this report highlights historic segmentation in our community, with Windows platform expertise being relatively sparse compared to *X. Our most recent community members have windows expertise, but are dealing with arcane detail while others (including your humble scribe) have nothing to contribute. ## Membership Data: Apache Portable Runtime (APR) was founded 2000-12-01 (19 years ago) There are currently 67 committers and 42 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 3:2. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Ivan Zhakov on 2019-11-05. - No new committers. Last addition was Evgeny Kotkov on 2017-09-13. ## Project Activity Activity has again been low. Apart from Windows platform issues, the main topic of discussion has been the question of back-compatibility vs build cleanup for a prospective APR 2.0. Last releases: APR 1.7.0 was released on April 5th, 2019 APR-util 1.6.1 and APR-iconv 1.2.2 were released on October 22nd 2017 ## Community Health: The community remains stable and broadly healthy. In the absence of substantial new development we are slow to attract interest, but neither are we losing people!
## Description: The mission of the Apache Portable Runtime (APR) project is to create and maintain software libraries that provide a predictable and consistent interface to underlying platform-specific implementations. APR provides an API to which software developers may code and be assured of predictable if not identical behaviour regardless of the platform on which their software is built, relieving them of the need to code special-case conditions to work around or take advantage of platform-specific deficiencies or features. Consistent abstractions are provided both for host platforms and for utilities such as databases. In addition, APR provides a range of general-purpose utilities. ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Membership Data: Apache Portable Runtime (APR) was founded 2000-12-01 (19 years ago) There are currently 67 committers and 42 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 3:2. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Ivan Zhakov on 2019-11-05. - No new committers. Last addition was Evgeny Kotkov on 2017-09-13. ## Project Activity The project has been very quiet in the quarter. Nothing of note to report. ## Community Health: The community remains broadly healthy. Although there is no significant development on the horizon, there is capacity to act if a new need is identified, or to react to a security report.
## Description: The mission of the Apache Portable Runtime (APR) project is to create and maintain software libraries that provide a predictable and consistent interface to underlying platform-specific implementations. The primary goal is to provide an API to which software developers may code and be assured of predictable if not identical behaviour regardless of the platform on which their software is built, relieving them of the need to code special-case conditions to work around or take advantage of platform-specific deficiencies or features. ## Issues: No issues at this time. ## Membership Data: Apache Portable Runtime (APR) was founded 2000-12-01 (19 years ago) There are currently 67 committers and 42 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 3:2. Community changes, past quarter: - Ivan Zhakov was added to the PMC on 2019-11-05 - No new committers. Last addition was Evgeny Kotkov on 2017-09-13. ## Project Activity: Nothing to report in the project. Activity has been subdued, with a small amount of work focussed on Windows platform issues. No milestones are in view. This may be seen as a reasonable baseline state for a project that is stable and mature. ## Community Health: The community remains quiet but responsive. In the short term, no change, but perhaps worth noting that we may have improved since a few years ago, as relatively-recent team members have somewhat rebalanced the project's platform expertise towards Windows where we have at times been thin.
## Description: The mission of the Apache Portable Runtime (APR) project is to create and maintain software libraries that provide a predictable and consistent interface to underlying platform-specific implementations. The primary goal is to provide an API to which software developers may code and be assured of predictable if not identical behaviour regardless of the platform on which their software is built, relieving them of the need to code special-case conditions to work around or take advantage of platform-specific deficiencies or features. ## Issues: No issues requiring board attention at this time. On a personal note, this reporter has just moved house and currently has no internet connection except a mobile one for the macbook, which is not normally used for development or ASF work. ## Membership Data: Apache Portable Runtime (APR) was founded 2000-12-01 (19 years ago) There are currently 67 committers and 41 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 3:2. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Evgeny Kotkov on 2017-09-12. - No new committers. Last addition was Evgeny Kotkov on 2017-09-13. ## Project Activity: Since the release of APR 1.7.0 in April, activity has been modest, and focussed on bug fixing. One new suggestion has been raised: a prospective apr-tools subproject providing commandline tools based on the library. The suggestion met with mixed reaction. ## Community Health: The community remains long-term stable. We maintain the steady hand of a mature community more than the vigour of a youthful one.
## Description:
- The Apache Portable Runtime (APR) project creates and maintains
software libraries that provide a predictable and consistent interface
to underlying platform-specific implementations. There are three
sub-projects: APR, APR-UTIL and APR-ICONV, of which the first two
are the main focus of developer interest.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
The project is broadly stable and activity has, as usual, been modest.
The highlight of the period was a new release APR-1.7.0, bringing a
number of minor updates. Thanks to Bill Rowe for driving the release.
## Health report:
- The project remains quiet but healthy.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 41 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Evgeny Kotkov on Wed Sep 13 2017
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 67 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Evgeny Kotkov at Wed Sep 13 2017
## Releases
APR-1.7.0 was released on April 5th, 2019.
## Mailing list activity (from reporter.apache.org):
- There is no known reason for the modest reduction in subscribers
to our dev list, so natural attrition seems likely.
- dev@apr.apache.org:
- 316 subscribers (down -13 in the last 3 months):
- 126 emails sent to list (60 in previous quarter)
- bugs@apr.apache.org:
- 20 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 41 emails sent to list (43 in previous quarter)
## Bugzilla Statistics:
- 9 Bugzilla tickets created in the last 3 months
- 13 Bugzilla tickets resolved in the last 3 months
## Description:
- The Apache Portable Runtime (APR) project creates and maintains
software libraries that provide a predictable and consistent interface
to underlying platform-specific implementations. There are three
sub-projects: APR, APR-UTIL and APR-ICONV, of which the first two
are the main focus of developer interest.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
The project is broadly stable, and there has been little activity.
Towards the end of the period, it was proposed we push for an
APR-1.7 release. This may be hoped for with APR within the
next reporting period. An APR-UTIL 1.7 release is likely to
be further away, as there is more work to be done including some
substantial backports from trunk.
## Health report:
- The project remains quiet but healthy.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 41 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Evgeny Kotkov on Wed Sep 13 2017
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 67 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Evgeny Kotkov at Wed Sep 13 2017
## Releases:
- No new releases in the reporting period. The last release was a
bugfix (APR-1.6.5) in September 2018.
## Mailing list activity (from reporter.apache.org):
- The subscriber base remains stable.
- dev@apr.apache.org:
- 330 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 64 emails sent to list (91 in previous quarter)
- bugs@apr.apache.org:
- 20 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 43 emails sent to list (22 in previous quarter)
## Bugzilla Statistics:
- 4 Bugzilla tickets created in the last 3 months
- 2 Bugzilla tickets resolved in the last 3 months
## Description:
- The Apache Portable Runtime (APR) project creates and maintains
software libraries that provide a predictable and consistent interface
to underlying platform-specific implementations. There are three
sub-projects: APR, APR-UTIL and APR-ICONV, of which the first two
are the main focus of developer interest.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- Most of the activity this quarter has been around the bugfix
release in September. Apart from that, the project has
reverted to quiet and stable.
## Health report:
- The project remains quiet but healthy.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 41 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Evgeny Kotkov on Wed Sep 13 2017
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 67 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Evgeny Kotkov at Wed Sep 13 2017
## Releases:
- A bugfix release APR-1.6.5 was released on September 14th 2018.
No new releases of APR-UTIL or APR-ICONV.
## Mailing list activity (from reporter.apache.org):
- The subscriber base remains stable.
- dev@apr.apache.org:
- 328 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
- 91 emails sent to list (198 in previous quarter)
- bugs@apr.apache.org:
- 20 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 22 emails sent to list (37 in previous quarter)
## Bugzilla Statistics:
- 5 Bugzilla tickets created in the last 3 months
- 2 Bugzilla tickets resolved in the last 3 months
## Description:
- The Apache Portable Runtime (APR) project creates and maintains
software libraries that provide a predictable and consistent interface
to underlying platform-specific implementations. There are three
sub-projects: APR, APR-UTIL and APR-ICONV, of which the first two
are the main focus of developer interest.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- This quarter has seen increased activity in trunk. The big
event is that an APR-JSON module, originally developed by
a third-party, has been adopted by the project (the original
author has moved on and was happy to donate but not to join
the team). Another activity has been crypto updates
reflecting OpenSSL updates and deprecations.
There have been some platform changes, with Windows updates
reserved for future versions, and a bugfix affecting Solaris.
The latter calls for a new bugfix release, which is anticipated
very shortly.
## Health report:
- The project remains basically healthy.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 41 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Evgeny Kotkov on Tue Sep 12 2017
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 67 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Evgeny Kotkov at Wed Sep 13 2017
## Releases:
- None in the period. Last release was a joint release of
APR-1.6.3, APR-UTIL-1.6.1 and APR-ICONV-1.2.2 in October 2017.
A new bugfix release (of APR only) is anticipated in September.
## Mailing list activity:
- The subscriber base remains stable. Reasons for renewed activity
are described above.
- dev@apr.apache.org:
- 329 subscribers (down -4 in the last 3 months):
- 214 emails sent to list (79 in previous quarter)
- bugs@apr.apache.org:
- 20 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 38 emails sent to list (50 in previous quarter)
COMMENT: these figures are from reporter.apache.org, but are not
consistent, in that the "previous quarter" numbers disagree with
those then reported. The differences are not significant.
## Bugzilla Statistics:
- 4 Bugzilla tickets created in the last 3 months
- 1 Bugzilla tickets resolved in the last 3 months
## Description:
- The Apache Portable Runtime (APR) project creates and maintains
software libraries that provide a predictable and consistent interface
to underlying platform-specific implementations. There are three
sub-projects: APR, APR-UTIL and APR-ICONV, of which the first two
are the main focus of developer interest.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- This has been a quiet period in a stable project with a slow but
comfortable life cycle. Activity has been low.
## Health report:
- Following a new release and a followup release for errata in 2017,
activity has fallen back to a now-customary low level. The
underlying condition of the project remains quiet but healthy.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 41 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Evgeny Kotkov on Tue Sep 12 2017
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 67 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Evgeny Kotkov at Wed Sep 13 2017
## Releases:
- None in the period. Last release was a joint release of
APR-1.6.3, APR-UTIL-1.6.1 and APR-ICONV-1.2.2 in October 2017.
## Mailing list activity:
- The subscriber base remains stable. Activity is sharply down
as described above.
- dev@apr.apache.org:
- 334 subscribers (down -2 in the last 3 months):
- 82 emails sent to list (60 in previous quarter)
- bugs@apr.apache.org:
- 20 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 52 emails sent to list (42 in previous quarter)
COMMENT: these figures are from reporter.apache.org, but are not
consistent, in that the "previous quarter" numbers disagree with
those then reported. The differences are not significant.
## Bugzilla Statistics:
- 4 Bugzilla tickets created in the last 3 months
- 5 Bugzilla tickets resolved in the last 3 months
## Description:
- The Apache Portable Runtime (APR) project creates and maintains
software libraries that provide a predictable and consistent interface
to underlying platform-specific implementations. There are three
sub-projects: APR, APR-UTIL and APR-ICONV, of which the first two
are the main focus of developer interest.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- This has been a quiet period in a stable project with a slow but
comfortable life cycle. Activity has been low.
## Health report:
- Following a new release and a followup release for errata in 2017,
it is to be expected that activity should fall back. The underlying
condition of the project remains quiet but healthy.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 41 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Evgeny Kotkov on Tue Sep 12 2017
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 67 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Evgeny Kotkov at Wed Sep 13 2017
## Releases:
- None in the period. Last release was a joint release of
APR-1.6.3, APR-UTIL-1.6.1 and APR-ICONV-1.2.2 in October 2017.
## Mailing list activity:
- The subscriber base remains stable. Activity is sharply down
as described above.
- dev@apr.apache.org:
- 335 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
- 59 emails sent to list (164 in previous quarter)
- bugs@apr.apache.org:
- 20 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 44 emails sent to list (45 in previous quarter)
## Bugzilla Statistics:
- 8 Bugzilla tickets created in the last 3 months
- 3 Bugzilla tickets resolved in the last 3 months
## Description:
- The Apache Portable Runtime (APR) project creates and maintains
software libraries that provide a predictable and consistent interface
to underlying platform-specific implementations. There are three
sub-projects: APR, APR-UTIL and APR-ICONV, of which the first two
are the main focus of developer interest.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- This is a stable project, and new development activity is low.
- Total activity has been at an intermediate level, including
feedback from the initial 1.6 release in June, and a minor
vulnerability report and fix in each of APR and APR-UTIL.
A new set of releases on October 22nd fixed the vulnerabilities
along with some build issues arising from the unbundling of
the third-party "expat" library, and in the case of APR-ICONV
to build with modern toolchains on the Windows platform.
## Health report:
- The project remains reasonably healthy, with a number of
developers active on-list and responsive to reports and questions.
- There is a backlog of bugzilla issues going back to 2006. A high
proportion are of indeterminate status.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 41 PMC members.
- Evgeny Kotkov was added to the PMC on Tue Sep 12 2017
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 67 committers.
- Evgeny Kotkov was added as a committer on Wed Sep 13 2017
## Releases:
- A joint release of APR-1.6.3, APR-UTIL-1.6.1 and APR-ICONV-1.2.2
was made on October 22nd. Thanks to William Rowe for driving
the release process.
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@apr.apache.org:
- 335 subscribers (up 4 in the last 3 months):
- 167 emails sent to list (145 in previous quarter)
- bugs@apr.apache.org:
- 20 subscribers (down -2 in the last 3 months):
- 48 emails sent to list (46 in previous quarter)
## Bugzilla Statistics:
- 4 Bugzilla tickets created in the last 3 months
- 1 Bugzilla tickets resolved in the last 3 months
## Description:
- The Apache Portable Runtime (APR) project creates and maintains
software libraries that provide a predictable and consistent interface
to underlying platform-specific implementations. The sub-projects
which are released somewhat regularly are APR and APR-util. In
addition, the APR-iconv sub-project is commonly used but has not had
a release since 2007.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- Following the release of APR-1.6.2 and APR-UTIL 1.6.0 at the
beginning of the period, activity has reverted to a low level
typical of recent years.
## Health report:
- The project remains broadly healthy, though quiet.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 40 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Christophe Jaillet on Sun Oct 30 2016
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 66 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Ivan Zhakov at Fri Oct 28 2016
## Releases:
- APR 1.6.2 and APR-UTIL 1.6.0 were released jointly on June 14th 2017.
## Mailing list activity:
Activity dropped after the release in mid-June.
Note: these figures are from reporter.apache.org, and differ
from numbers at mail-archives.apache.org. They also differ from
reporter.apache.org's own figures regarding the previous quarter.
Differences are small.
- dev@apr.apache.org:
- 331 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 118 emails sent to list (333 in previous quarter)
- bugs@apr.apache.org:
- 22 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 47 emails sent to list (32 in previous quarter)
## Bugzilla Statistics:
- 7 Bugzilla tickets created in the last 3 months
- 4 Bugzilla tickets resolved in the last 3 months
The Apache Portable Runtime (APR) project creates and maintains
software libraries that provide a predictable and consistent interface
to underlying platform-specific implementations. The sub-projects
which are released somewhat regularly are APR and APR-util. In
addition, the APR-iconv sub-project is commonly used but has not had
a release since 2007.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- Activity has been substantially above average as we have worked
towards a new release 1.6 of APR and APR-UTIL.
Release candidates APR-1.6.0 and APR-UTIL-1.6.0 were tagged on
April 15th. After identifying problems with the APR candidate,
further work led to tagging APR-1.6.1 on May 31st, but that too
had a problem.
Since the end of the period, APR-1.6.2 has been tagged,
and voted for release along with APR-UTIL-1.6.0.
## Health report:
- The release process has highlighted the difficulty (of which
we have long been aware) of supporting platforms outside those
regularly used by the core team. A proposal to help deal with
this problem is being floated.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 40 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Christophe Jaillet on Sun Oct 30 2016
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 66 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Ivan Zhakov at Fri Oct 28 2016
## Releases:
- Last releases were APR-1.5.2 on Wed Apr 29 2015 and APR-UTIL-1.5.4
on Sept 22 2014.
## Mailing list activity:
- Increased activity due primarily to release drive.
Fewer subscribers: we can only speculate that the increased activity
has prompted people who are no longer interested to unsubscribe.
- dev@apr.apache.org:
- 329 subscribers (down -10 in the last 3 months):
- 365 emails sent to list (194 in previous quarter)
- bugs@apr.apache.org:
- 22 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 33 emails sent to list (29 in previous quarter)
## Bugzilla Statistics:
- 4 Bugzilla tickets created in the last 3 months
- 3 Bugzilla tickets resolved in the last 3 months
The Apache Portable Runtime (APR) project creates and maintains
software libraries that provide a predictable and consistent interface
to underlying platform-specific implementations. The sub-projects
which are released somewhat regularly are APR and APR-util. In
addition, the APR-iconv sub-project is commonly used but has not had
a release since 2007.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- There has been above-average activity (for this project), as reflected
in higher-than-usual traffic on the dev list. This has comprised
several substantive technical discussions, and a brief discussion
on the (legacy) problems of bundling a third-party library (expat).
## Health report:
- Nothing to report, except as above. Health is unchanged.
A new release of APR-1.x is needed to bring a backlog of activity
into a released version, including unbundling expat.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 40 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Christophe Jaillet on Sun Oct 30 2016
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 66 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Ivan Zhakov at Fri Oct 28 2016
## Releases:
- Last release was 1.5.2 on Wed Apr 29 2015
## Mailing list activity:
- The increased traffic to dev@ is a modest spike in regular activity:
several extended technical discussions. There is no reason
to suppose it predicts future activity levels.
- dev@apr.apache.org:
- 339 subscribers (down -9 in the last 3 months):
- 219 emails sent to list (41 in previous quarter)
- bugs@apr.apache.org:
- 22 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 31 emails sent to list (37 in previous quarter)
## Bugzilla Statistics:
- 3 Bugzilla tickets created in the last 3 months
- 2 Bugzilla tickets resolved in the last 3 months
## Short version of report: No releases, modest activity. Some growth of the community, and a new PMC chair. ## Description: The Apache Portable Runtime (APR) project creates and maintains software libraries that provide a predictable and consistent interface to underlying platform-specific implementations. The sub-projects which are released somewhat regularly are APR and APR-util. In addition, the APR-iconv sub-project is commonly used but has not had a release since 2007. ## Issues: - The board may be interested in the FOSSA security report, commissioned by the EU commission into Apache HTTPD core and extending into APR. This was handled by Dirk van Gulik for the ASF. Summary details in Dirk's email at http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/apr-dev/201611.mbox/%3C9643AB52-078F-4779-B80C-9CE39A2121AF%40webweaving.org%3E - No issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Activity: - Commit activity remains low. - Mailing list activity remains low. - The number of open issues on Bugzilla is stable. ## Health report: - This is a mature project, and most of its development activity is driven by the needs of established users. In this quarter, a new apr_redis module has been introduced. - There is little impetus to develop the software further to meet the needs of potential new users. - Since a few patches have been languishing committed but unreleased for some time, we have identified a need for a new release and anticipate one within the next quarter. ## Personnel changes: - Jeff Trawick having indicated his desire to step down from the role of PMC chair, Nick Kew has stepped into that role. - Currently 67 committers and 40 PMC members. - Christophe Jaillet was added to the PMC in October. - Ivan Zhakov joined the team as committer in October. ## Releases: - No releases in this quarter - APR 1.5.2, released April 29, 2015 - APR-util 1.5.4, released September 22, 2014 - APR-iconv 1.2.1, released November 26, 2007 ## Mailing list activity: Traffic has been predominantly of a routine nature. The increase on last quarter is partially down to discussion of the new apr_redis. - dev@apr.apache.org: - 349 subscribers (down -9 in the last 3 months): - 66 emails sent to list (43 in previous quarter) - bugs@apr.apache.org: - 21 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months): - 39 emails sent to list (62 in previous quarter) ## Bugzilla Statistics: - 2 Bugzilla tickets created in the last 3 months - 2 Bugzilla tickets resolved in the last 3 months
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Jeff Trawick (trawick) to the office of Vice President, Apache APR, and WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of Jeff Trawick from the office of Vice President, Apache APR, and WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache APR project has chosen by vote to recommend Nick Kew (niq) as the successor to the post; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Jeff Trawick is relieved and discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice President, Apache APR, and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Nick Kew be and hereby is appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache APR, 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 APR Project Chair, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
## Short version of report:
No releases, modest activity, effort to add to our roster, effort to
select a new PMC chair underway
## Description:
The Apache Portable Runtime (APR) project creates and maintains
software libraries that provide a predictable and consistent interface
to underlying platform-specific implementations. The sub-projects
which are released somewhat regularly are APR and APR-util. In addition,
the APR-iconv sub-project is commonly used but has not had a release
since 2007.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
- Expect a proposed resolution soon for changing the PMC chair
## Activity:
- Commit activity has been low.
- Mailing list activity has been low.
- Thirteen unique, non-accidental bugs were opened during the reporting
period, and two had followup (closure or discussion).
## Health report:
- This is a mature project, and most of its development activity is
driven by the needs of the same small number of applications that have
used it for many years. The project members are more than able to
meet the requirements that arise from that use.
- The needs of the small number of other users are not met very well;
bug reports languish and mailing list posters may not receive timely
responses. The amount of help provided is probably not sufficient
to serve as encouragement to potential new users of APR.
## PMC/Committer changes:
- Currently 66 committers and 39 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months, but we expect to send
an invitation shortly after the board notification time has elapsed
- Last PMC addition was Yann Ylavic on Wed May 13 2015
- No new committers added in the last 3 months; an invitation was
sent during the quarter but was declined
- Last committer addition was Brian Havard on Wed May 04 2016
## Releases:
- No releases in this quarter
- APR 1.5.2, released April 29, 2015
- APR-util 1.5.4, released September 22, 2014
- APR-iconv 1.2.1, released November 26, 2007
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@apr.apache.org:
- 356 subscribers
- 40 emails sent to list (31 in previous quarter)
- commits@apr.apache.org:
- 75 subscribers
- 46 emails sent to list (38 in previous quarter)
## Short version of report:
No releases, no committee/committer changes, modest other activity
(Same summary as for the March 2016 report)
## Description:
The Apache Portable Runtime (APR) project creates and maintains
software libraries that provide a predictable and consistent interface
to underlying platform-specific implementations. The sub-projects
which are released somewhat regularly are APR and APR-util. In addition,
the APR-iconv sub-project is commonly used but has not had a release
since 2007.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
- APR provided an interim report in May 2016 to address a security
response issue.
## Activity:
- Commit activity has been low.
- Mailing list activity has been very low.
- Five unique, non-SPAM bugs were opened during the reporting period, and
four had followup (closure or discussion).
## Health report:
- This is a mature project, and most of its development activity is
driven by the needs of the same small number of applications that have
used it for many years. The project members are more than able to
meet the requirements that arise from that use.
- The needs of the small number of other users are not met very well;
bug reports languish and mailing list posters may not receive timely
responses. The amount of help provided is probably not sufficient
to serve as encouragement to potential new users of APR.
## PMC/Committer changes:
- Currently 66 committers and 39 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Yann Ylavic on Wed May 13 2015
- One committer added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Brian Havard on Wed May 04 2016
## Releases:
- No releases in this quarter
- APR 1.5.2, released April 29, 2015
- APR-util 1.5.4, released September 22, 2014
- APR-iconv 1.2.1, released November 26, 2007
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@apr.apache.org:
- 360 subscribers
- 30 emails sent to list (86 in previous quarter)
- commits@apr.apache.org:
- 75 subscribers
- 34 emails sent to list (59 in previous quarter)
The Apache Portable Runtime (APR) project creates and maintains software libraries that provide a predictable and consistent interface to underlying platform-specific implementations. The sub-projects which are released somewhat regularly are APR and APR-util. In addition, the APR-iconv sub-project is commonly used but has not had a release since 2007. ## Reason for this interim report The project did not respond to a vulnerability report from October 2015 nor did it respond to pings from the security team until this week. The board requested either an out of band report or working with the security team on the need to prevent this in the future. At this point in time, the reporter has been contacted and told of the intention to improve the code but not to formally mark the issue as a vulnerability, and the security team has been made aware of the essence of the rest of this report. ## The essence of the problem After the reporter's original e-mail there was a small amount of discussion, the consensus was that it was not a vulnerability, and there was some disagreement on whether certain code should be improved along the lines that the reporter suggested, or removed to be more emphatic that APR was not promising a certain type of processing in the particular API. After one ping from the security team, a flurry of e-mails on the issue followed but noone took initiative to propose a summary to send to the reporter. After two more pings from the security team, a PMC member proposed a summary to send to the reporter; it was ACKed and sent to the reporter cc: security@. (The summary: not a vulnerability, intention to improve the code in the next non-emergency release, contact us again if you disagree.) ## Action taken to try to prevent this from happening in the future My best guess at the cause of PMC failure is that the lack of severity of the issue combined with the fact that a handful of people participated in in the e-mail thread led others to believe that the issue was being handled -- i.e., most of the PMC did not note the e-mail thread as an issue to be concerned with. Additionally, there was no recognition of the passage of time. APR had no PMC-level tracking in place to ensure nothing fell through the cracks, and no one took enough interest in this particular issue to drive it to completion. I've established a simple tracking mechanism in the APR private repository to clearly show the status of outstanding issues. I anticipate that the entire PMC will consider it their shared responsibility to ensure that the status of issues is represented there and ignored issues raised to the group's attention, even if a relatively small subset is working to resolve a particular report.
## Short version of report:
No releases, no committee/committer changes, modest other activity
(Same summary as for the December 2015 report)
## Description:
The Apache Portable Runtime (APR) project creates and maintains
software libraries that provide a predictable and consistent interface
to underlying platform-specific implementations. The sub-projects
which are released somewhat regularly are APR and APR-util. In addition,
the APR-iconv sub-project is commonly used but has not had a release
since 2007.
## Activity:
- Commit activity has been modest, though much higher than in the previous
two quarters even discounting copyright changes. This brought some small
features and compatibility with a newer OpenSSL version.
- Mailing list activity has been relatively low.
- Six unique bugs were opened during the reporting period, and eight had
followup (closure or discussion).
## Health report:
- This is a mature project, and most of its development activity is
driven by the needs of the same small number of applications that have
used it for many years. The project members are more than able to
meet the requirements that arise from that use.
- The needs of the small number of other users are not met very well;
bug reports languish and mailing list posters may not receive timely
responses. The amount of help provided is probably not sufficient
to serve as encouragement to potential new users of APR.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## LDAP committee group/Committership changes:
- Currently 65 committers and 39 LDAP committee group members.
- No new LDAP committee group members added in the last 3 months
- Last LDAP committee group addition was Yann Ylavic at Wed May 13 2015
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Christophe Jaillet at Sat Mar 14 2015
## Releases:
- No releases in this quarter
- APR 1.5.2, released April 29, 2015
- APR-util 1.5.4, released September 22, 2014
- APR-iconv 1.2.1, released November 26, 2007
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@apr.apache.org:
- 360 subscribers
- 86 emails sent to list (103 in previous quarter)
- commits@apr.apache.org:
- 74 subscribers
- 59 emails sent to list (9 in previous quarter)
## Short version of report:
No releases, no committee/committer changes, modest other activity
## Description:
The Apache Portable Runtime (APR) project creates and maintains
software libraries that provide a predictable and consistent interface
to underlying platform-specific implementations. The sub-projects
which are released somewhat regularly are APR and APR-util. In addition,
the APR-iconv sub-project is commonly used but has not had a release
since 2007.
## Activity:
- Commits have been minuscule.
- Mailing list activity has been about normal for the project.
- Five unique bugs were opened during the reporting period, and two had
followup (closure or discussion).
## Health report:
- This is a mature project, and most of its development activity is
driven by the needs of the same small number of applications that have
used it for many years. The project members are more than able to
meet the requirements that arise from that use.
- The needs of the small number of other users are not met very well;
bug reports languish and mailing list posters may not receive timely
responses. The amount of help provided is probably not sufficient
to serve as encouragement to potential new users of APR.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## LDAP committee group/Committership changes:
- Currently 65 committers and 39 LDAP committee group members.
- No new LDAP committee group members added in the last 3 months
- Last LDAP committee group addition was Yann Ylavic at Wed May 13 2015
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Christophe Jaillet at Sat Mar 14 2015
## Releases:
- No releases in this quarter
- APR 1.5.2, released April 29, 2015
- APR-util 1.5.4, released September 22, 2014
- APR-iconv 1.2.1, released November 26, 2007
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@apr.apache.org:
- 360 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 112 emails sent to list (85 in previous quarter)
- commits@apr.apache.org:
- 73 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 9 emails sent to list (20 in previous quarter)
## Description:
The Apache Portable Runtime (APR) project creates and maintains
software libraries that provide a predictable and consistent interface
to underlying platform-specific implementations. The sub-projects
which are released somewhat regularly are APR and APR-util. In addition,
the APR-iconv sub-project is commonly used but has not had a release
since 2007.
## Activity:
- Commits have been low, as is typical in a quarter with no release-
related activity.
- Mailing list activity has also been low aside from a discussion about
future APR 2.0, which has had major structural changes implemented
(consolidation of APR and APR-util) for a number of years but which
thus far has not had the developer support to push it towards a release.
- Six bugs were opened during the reporting period, and only one bug had
any followup (closure or discussion).
## Health report:
- This is a mature project, and most of its development activity is
driven by the needs of the same small number of applications that have
used it for many years. The project members are more than able to
meet the requirements that arise from that use.
- The needs of the small number of other users are not met very well;
bug reports languish and mailing list posters may not receive timely
responses. The amount of help provided is probably not sufficient
to serve as encouragement to potential new users of APR.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## LDAP committee group/Committership changes:
- Currently 65 committers and 39 LDAP committee group members.
- No new LDAP committee group members added in the last 3 months
- Last LDAP committee group addition was Yann Ylavic at Wed May 13 2015
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Christophe Jaillet at Sat Mar 14 2015
## Releases:
- No releases in this quarter
- APR 1.5.2, released April 29, 2015
- APR-util 1.5.4, released September 22, 2014
- APR-iconv 1.2.1, released November 26, 2007
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@apr.apache.org:
- 360 subscribers (up 3 in the last 3 months):
- 85 emails sent to list (135 in previous quarter)
- bugs@apr.apache.org:
- 19 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 26 emails sent to list (55 in previous quarter)
## Description:
The Apache Portable Runtime (APR) project creates and maintains
software libraries that provide a predictable and consistent interface
to underlying platform-specific implementations. The sub-projects
which are released somewhat regularly are APR and APR-util. In addition,
the APR-iconv sub-project is commonly used but has not had a release
since 2007.
## Activity:
- Mailing list activity was relatively heavy during discussion of APR
1.5.2 (released this quarter) but has been minimal since then.
- Commit activity has been low since APR 1.5.2 was released.
- Six bugs were opened during the reporting period, and around
fifteen bugs had followup (closure or discussion) during the period.
(A number of these with followup were fixed in APR 1.5.2.)
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## PMC/Committership changes:
- Currently 65 committers and 39 PMC members in the project.
- Yann Ylavic was added to the PMC on Wed May 13 2015
- Christophe Jaillet was added as a committer on Sat Mar 14 2015
## Releases:
- 1.5.2 was released on Wed Apr 29 2015
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@apr.apache.org:
- 357 subscribers (down -2 in the last 3 months):
- 136 emails sent to list (55 in previous quarter)
- bugs@apr.apache.org:
- 19 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 54 emails sent to list (27 in previous quarter)
The Apache Portable Runtime (APR) project creates and maintains
software libraries that provide a predictable and consistent interface
to underlying platform-specific implementations. The sub-projects
which are released somewhat regularly are APR and APR-util. In addition,
the APR-iconv sub-project is commonly used but has not had a release
since 2007.
Releases
========
The project has not produced any releases this quarter. APR 1.5.1 was
released on April 21, 2014. APR-util 1.5.3 was released on November 18,
2013.
A maintenance release of APR is needed, and should be anticipated this
quarter. (This is essentially the same statement as in the prior APR
board report; no release was prepared since that report.)
Community
=========
Currently APR has 64 committers and 38 PMC members.
New PMC members: none
The last new PMC member was added in November of 2013.
New committers: none
The last two committers were added in June of 2014.
From reporter.apache.org:
- dev@apr.apache.org:
- 360 subscribers (down -5 in the last 3 months):
- 60 emails sent to list (71 in previous quarter)
- bugs@apr.apache.org:
- 18 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
- 28 emails sent to list (65 in previous quarter)
Activity
========
Mailing list activity has been the lightest in this quarter (thus far) as
in any quarter in the history of the project. (The same statement was
valid for the previous quarter.)
Commit activity is low.
Seven bugs were opened during the reporting period. Only one bug has had
any developer followup (closure or discussion) during the period, and only
because the chair noticed a problematic bug report while preparing this
report.
Issues
======
There are no board-level issues at this time. That being said, project
members should be aware of the need to react more quickly to users, at the
very least to offer encouragement to those submitting patches in hopes of
growing the developer community.
The Apache Portable Runtime (APR) project creates and maintains software libraries that provide a predictable and consistent interface to underlying platform-specific implementations. The sub-projects which are released somewhat regularly are APR and APR-util. In addition, the APR-iconv sub-project is commonly used but has not had a release since 2007. Releases ======== The project has not produced any releases this quarter. APR 1.5.1 was released on April 21, 2014. APR-util 1.5.3 was released on November 18, 2013. A maintenance release of APR is needed, and should be anticipated in early 2015. Community ========= New PMC members: none The last new PMC member was added in November of 2013. New committers: none The last two committers were added in June of 2014. Six bugs were opened during the reporting period, with some sort of developer followup (closure or discussion) on four bugs. Mailing list activity has been the lightest in this quarter (thus far) as in any quarter in the history of the project. Development =========== Nothing to report Issues ====== There are no board-level issues at this time.
The Apache Portable Runtime (APR) project creates and maintains software libraries that provide a predictable and consistent interface to underlying platform-specific implementations. The sub-projects which are released somewhat regularly are APR and APR-util. In addition, the APR-iconv sub-project is commonly used but has not had a release since 2007. Releases ======== The project has not produced any releases this quarter. APR 1.5.1 was released on April 21, 2014. APR-util 1.5.3 was released on November 18, 2013. Community ========= New PMC members: none The last new PMC member was added in November of 2013. Two committers were added during the quarter, both existing committers on other ASF projects: Takashi Soto Yann Ylavic Nine bugs were opened during the reporting period, with some sort of developer followup (closure or discussion) on eight bugs. Mailing list activity has been very light this quarter, mostly related to a handful of code issues. Development =========== Nothing to report Issues ====== There are no board-level issues at this time.
The Apache Portable Runtime (APR) project creates and maintains software libraries that provide a predictable and consistent interface to underlying platform-specific implementations. The sub-projects which are released somewhat regularly are APR and APR-util. In addition, the APR-iconv sub-project is commonly used but has not had a release since 2007. Releases -------- APR 1.5.1 was released on April 21, 2014. APR-util 1.5.3 was released on November 18, 2013. Community --------- New PMC members: none The last new PMC member was added in November of 2013. New committers: none The last new committer was added in March of 2013. Seven bugs were opened during the reporting period, with some sort of developer followup (closure or discussion) on fifteen bugs. Mailing list activity has been modest this quarter. The most active topics have been APR 1.5.1 release issues, the new APR 1.6.x branch, and a few potential features. Development ----------- A new 1.6.x branch for APR has been created with a handful of new API features and new memory debugging capabilities. Issues ------ There are no board-level issues at this time.
The Apache Portable Runtime (APR) project creates and maintains software libraries that provide a predictable and consistent interface to underlying platform-specific implementations. The sub-projects which are released somewhat regularly are APR and APR-util. In addition, the APR-iconv sub-project is commonly used but has not had a release since 2007. Releases: --------- Nothing was released this quarter. APR 1.5.0 and APR-util 1.5.3 were released November 18, 2013. Community --------- New PMC members: none The last new PMC member was added in November of 2013. New committers: none The last new committer was added in March of 2013. Ten bugs were opened during the reporting period, with some sort of developer followup (closure or discussion) on four bugs. (Additionally, a number of bugs that had been left open after being fixed in older releases have been cleaned up.) Mailing list activity has been very quiet this quarter, with no release activity and limited discussion of bugs. Development ----------- Development has been very light this quarter. Issues ------ There are no board-level issues at this time.
The Apache Portable Runtime (APR) project creates and maintains software libraries that provide a predictable and consistent interface to underlying platform-specific implementations. The sub-projects which are released somewhat regularly are APR and APR-util. In addition, the APR-iconv sub-project is commonly used but has not had a release since 2007. Releases: --------- APR 1.5.0 and APR-util 1.5.3 were released November 18, 2013. Notification was provided that the legacy APR 0.9.x and APR-util 0.9.x branches, last released in 2011 and 1010, have been retired and will receive no further security patches or releases. These branches were used primarily by Apache HTTP Server 2.0.x, which has also been retired. Community --------- New PMC members: Greg Smith New committers: none The last new committer was added in March of 2013. Four bugs were opened during the reporting period, with some sort of developer followup (closure or discussion) on four bugs. Mailing list activity has been relative heavy, dominated by issues being resolved in this quarter's releases. Development ----------- Development was relatively heavy during the quarter as several new features were readied for their first release with APR 1.5.0. (For comparison, there have not been as many commits during a quarter since Spring of 2011.) Issues ------ There are no board-level issues at this time.
The Apache Portable Runtime (APR) project creates and maintains software libraries that provide a predictable and consistent interface to underlying platform-specific implementations. The sub-projects which are released somewhat regularly are APR and APR-util. In addition, the APR-iconv sub-project is commonly used but has not had a release since 2007. Releases -------- APR 1.4.8 was released on June 21, 2013. The previous stable APR-util release was in April of 2013. The most recent release of the legacy APR 0.9.x branch was in September of 2011. The most recent release of the legacy APR-util 0.9.x branch was in October of 2010. Both of these legacy branches were used primarily by Apache HTTP Server 2.0 (retired), so additional releases of these branches are unlikely. Community --------- New PMC members: none The last new PMC member was added in November of 2011. New committers: none The last new committer was added in March of 2013. About 12 bugs were opened during the reporting period, with some sort of developer followup (closure or discussion) on 5 bugs. Mailing list activity has been modest this quarter, dominated by a couple of Windows-specific issues. Development ----------- Activity has been low overall. Issues ------ There are no board-level issues at this time.
The Apache Portable Runtime (APR) project creates and maintains software libraries that provide a predictable and consistent interface to underlying platform-specific implementations. Releases -------- APR-util 1.5.2 was released on April 4, 2013. A release of APR 1.4.7 was attempted, but a regression was found prior to release and it was cancelled. We anticipate that a potential APR 1.4.x release wlll be tagged soon and prepared for testing. The previous stable APR release was in February of 2012. The most recent release of the legacy APR 0.9.x branch was in September of 2011. The most recent release of the legacy APR-Util 0.9.x branch was in October of 2010. Community --------- New PMC members: none New committers: Gregg Smith (avail id gsmith) About 7 bugs were opened during the reporting period, with some sort of activity on 29 bugs. Mailing list activity is very modest though the activity was higher than normal this quarter due to discussions around two possible releases. Development ----------- Activity has been higher than the last couple of quarters, primarily consisting of bug fixes for stable releases. Issues ------ There are no board-level issues at this time.
The Apache Portable Runtime (APR) project creates and maintains software libraries that provide a predictable and consistent interface to underlying platform-specific implementations. Releases -------- There have been no new releases during the quarter. Discussion has begun around the future next APR-util 1.5.x release. The previous stable APR release was in February of 2012, and the previous stable APR-Util release was in October of 2012. The most recent release of the legacy APR 0.9.x branch was in September of 2011. The most recent release of the legacy APR-Util 0.9.x branch was in October of 2010. Community --------- New PMC members or committers: none Votes for two possible committers are on-going at the time of this report. About 13 bugs have been opened during the reporting period, with 4 bugs resolved. (Progress was made on 3 other bugs.) Mailing list activity is minimal and is slightly less than in the previous quarter. Development ----------- Activity has been minimal. Issues ------ There are no board-level issues at this time.
The Apache Portable Runtime (APR) project creates and maintains software libraries that provide a predictable and consistent interface to underlying platform-specific implementations. Releases -------- APR-util 1.5.1 was released in October, 2012. This was a feature- bearing release since it was the first release from the 1.5.x branch. In addition, a number of bugs were fixed. With this release, the existing APR-Util 1.4.x branch is unlikely to see any further activity. The previous stable APR release was in February of 2012. The most recent release of the legacy APR 0.9.x branch was in September of 2011. The most recent release of the legacy APR-Util 0.9.x branch was in October of 2010. Community --------- New PMC members or committers: none About 10 bugs have been opened during the reporting period, with about 4 bugs resolved. (Progress was made on a handful of other bugs.) Mailing list activity has decreased significantly from the previous quarter. (Discussion around the new APR-util 1.5.1 release had largely completed by the end of the previous quarter.) Development ----------- Activity has been minimal. Issues ------ There are no board-level issues at this time.
The Apache Portable Runtime (APR) project creates and maintains software libraries that provide a predictable and consistent interface to underlying platform-specific implementations. Releases -------- No new versions have been released this quarter, though APR-util 1.5.1 is currently being tested. A previous candidate, APR-util 1.5.0, was not released. The previous stable APR release was in February of 2012 and the previous stable APR-util release was in December of 2011. The most recent release of the legacy APR 0.9.x branch was in September of 2011. Community --------- New PMC members or committers: none About 15 bugs have been opened during the reporting period, with about 7 bugs resolved. Mailing list activity has decreased from the previous quarter. Development ----------- Activity has been moderate compared with recent reporting periods, with most activity centered around APR-util 1.5.x and preparing the initial release of that branch. Issues ------ There are no board-level issues at this time.
The Apache Portable Runtime (APR) project creates and maintains software libraries that provide a predictable and consistent interface to underlying platform-specific implementations. Releases -------- No new versions have been released this quarter and none are in progress. The previous stable APR release was in February of 2012 and the previous stable APR-util release was in December of 2011. The most recent release of the legacy APR 0.9.x branch was in September of 2011. Community --------- New PMC members or committers: none About 4 bugs have been opened during the reporting period, with 2 bugs resolved. Mailing list activity has decreased sharply during the quarter, as is typical when a new release is not being discussed. Development ----------- Activity has been minimal, with a handful of fixes committed to the stable branches of APR and APR-util. Issues ------ There are no board-level issues at this time.
The Apache Portable Runtime (APR) project creates and maintains software libraries that provide a predictable and consistent interface to underlying platform-specific implementations. Releases -------- apr-util 1.4.1 was in progress at the time of the previous board report and was released December 15, 2011. This was the first release from this branch and introduced several new features, the most important of which is access to certain crypto capabilities in other libraries. The branch had been in development for several years without a release. (Subsequent httpd releases switched from apr-util 1.3.latest to apr-util 1.4.1 for those httpd release tarballs.) apr 1.4.6 was released February 14, 2012. It included various bug fixes from committers and users. Notably, it included a change to the hashing algorithm to randomize hashes. This was initially assigned a CVE id, but it is not considered a security fix in APR. (The change may or may not help resolve a vulnerability in an application which uses APR. We are not aware of any such vulnerabilities at this time.) The most recent release of the legacy APR 0.9.x branch was in September 2011. Community --------- New PMC members or committers: none Only 2 bugs have been closed during the reporting period, with about 12 new ones opened. Mailing list activity has increased dramatically during the quarter but has been concentrated on three topics: * finalization of the apr-util 1.4.1 release * the apr 1.4.6 release * hash collision vectors Development ----------- Activity has been minimal aside from the three topics listed previously. Issues ------ There are no board-level issues at this time.
The Apache Portable Runtime (APR) project creates and maintains software libraries that provide a predictable and consistent interface to underlying platform-specific implementations. Releases -------- The first apr-util 1.4.x release is in progress. The 1.4.x branch maintains the interfaces of the 1.3.x branch (the stable branch since June 2008) and introduces several new features, the most important of which is access to certain crypto capabilities in other libraries. The branch has been in development for several years without a release. The active branches had releases in May of this year. The most recent release of any branch was of the legacy APR 0.9.x branch in September 2011. Community --------- New PMC members or committers: none The number of open bugs and enhancement requests has grown slightly to 138 during the current reporting period, with little developer activity focused on them, such that the newly opened bugs are mostly unaddressed. Mailing list activity has increased dramatically due to the activity around the apr-util 1.4.x release, but is otherwise very low. Development ----------- Activity has been minimal other than resolving issues found while preparing and testing the apr-util 1.4.x release. Issues ------ There are no board-level issues at this time.
The Apache Portable Runtime (APR) project creates and maintains software libraries that provide a predictable and consistent interface to underlying platform-specific implementations. Releases -------- Version 0.9.20 of the legacy APR 0.9 series was released September 16, 2011 to deliver a security fix which was already available in the current series. (The active branches had releases in May of this year.) Community --------- New PMC members or committers: none The number of open bugs and enhancement requests has grown slightly to 133 during the current reporting period, with little developer activity focused on them, such that the newly opened bugs are mostly unaddressed. Mailing list activity is relatively low at present. Development ----------- Activity has been minimal. Issues ------ There are no board-level issues at this time.
Releases -------- After just over a year with no releases in the current stable APR series, 1.4.4 and 1.4.5 were released in quick succession, first to resolve a vulnerability affecting some APR applications, then to resolve regressions in 1.4.4. The current stable APR-Util series also had two releases in quick succession -- 1.3.11 and 1.3.12. Community --------- New PMC members or committers: none As of June 10, sixteen bugs and enhancements have been opened during the current quarter, but the total number of outstanding bugs and enhancements, 126, is almost exactly the same as last quarter, indicating that at least a moderate amount of attention is being paid to these reports. Mailing list activity has grown significantly since last quarter, due mostly to a small set of topics which generated a lot of discussion. Development ----------- Efforts in support of APR-Util 1.next and APR 2.0 have been revived in recent weeks. APR and APR-Util have been largely in maintenance mode for several years, but there are some new features, as well as a major packaging change, awaiting release for some time. Issues ------ There are no board-level issues at this time.
Releases -------- There have been no releases of APR, APR-util, or APR-iconv in the last quarter. It has been nearly a year since the last release of the current stable branch of APR, and there are a number of bug fixes awaiting release. In the last quarter's report, a release of APR was anticipated by the end of December but that did not take place. A new release in the coming quarter will be important. Community --------- New PMC members: Stefan Fritsch New committers: none There are no obvious candidates for committership at present, as the typical contributor, other than current committers, has an issue or two of interest to them and then disappears. Approximately 46 feature requests and 75 bug reports are open at this time, about the same as last quarter. About 11 of these were reported in the last six months. Mailing list activity has diminished significantly since last quarter, primarily due to the lack of a release to discuss. In general, mailing list activity has been low. Development ----------- APR and APR-Util are in maintenance mode. Only a few small features have been added in the last year, and these have not been released. There is no consensus for releasing newer 1.x branches (where some features have been added) or 2.0 (where some additional features have been added, and some incompatible changes have been made). Issues ------ There are no board-level issues at this time.
Releases
--------
APR 0.9.19 and APR-Util 0.9.19
- Released October 17, 2010; four security issues were among the bug
fixes. Two of the security fixes had been available for some time
as patches.
- These are legacy releases primarily for Apache httpd 2.0.x.
APR-Util 1.3.10
- Released October 4, 2010; two security fixes were among numerous bug
fixes. A lot of time was spent with current Bugzilla reports,
particularly those with patches from the community, prior to this
release.
- This is the current stable branch.
There are tentative plans for a release of the current APR stable
branch in late December 2010.
Community
---------
New PMC members: Eric Covener
Rainer Jung
New committer: Sander Temme
Approximately 45 feature requests and 75 bug reports are open at this
time. (Last quarter, about five more bug reports were open)
Mailing list activity increased dramatically in October due to
discussions of pending releases. Otherwise, activity has been lower
than corresponding months in the previous year.
Development
-----------
APR and APR-Util are in maintenance mode. The last feature change to
APR/APR-Util trunk was in April.
Issues
------
There are no board-level issues at this time.
An ongoing project-level concern is to ensure that adequate attention
is paid to members of the broader community reporting bugs and/or
providing patches.
Releases -------- There have been no new releases from the APR project in this period. There are a handful of fixes ready to release in the current stable branches of both APR and APR-Util. Community --------- New committers: Dan Poirier Philip M. Gollucci Stefan Fritsch Rainer Jung Paul J. Reder Neil Conway Of these six, Neil is new to the ASF as a committer, while the others have been committers on other ASF projects. Additionally, commit access was offered to another member of the community -- Kevac Marko -- but no response was received. This relatively high influx of committers represents a thorough search of candidates for committership and subsequent discussion among PMC members. Approxmiately 45 feature requests and 80 bug reports are open at this time. Mailing list activity has been relatively low for the past four to five months. (One cause may be that there have been no proposed releases being discussed or voted on.) Development ----------- APR and APR-Util are mostly in maintenance mode. The bulk of the commits in this quarter have been for compatibility with more build tool versions or for general cleanup. Issues ------ There are no board-level issues at this time. An ongoing project-level concern is to ensure that adequate attention is paid to members of the broader community reporting bugs and/or providing patches.
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Bojan Smojver to the office of Vice President, Apache APR, and WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of Bojan Smojver from the office of Vice President, Apache APR, and WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache APR project has chosen by vote to recommend Jeff Trawick as the successor to the post; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Bojan Smojver is relieved and discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice President, Apache APR, and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Jeff Trawick be and hereby is appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache APR, to serve in accordance with and subject to the direction of the Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until death, resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification, or until a successor is appointed. Special Order 7C, Change the Apache APR Project Chair, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
Releases -------- No new releases of APR and APU in this period. Community --------- New committer: Hyrum K. Wright Change of chair: Bojan Smojver stepped down, Jeff Trawick voted new chair Development ----------- APR and APU is mostly in maintenance mode, with commits and patches to the list addressing various issues. Issues ------ Change of chair special order.
The activity on the project in the last 3 months (Dec 14 2009 to Mar 15 2010) was as follows: APR trunk: 99 commits APR 1.5.x: 14 commits APR util 1.5.x: 8 commits APR 1.4.x: 24 commits APR util 1.4.x: 10 commits APR 1.3.x: 19 commits APR util 1.3.x: 2 commits APR 0.9.x: 1 commits APR util 0.9.x: 1 commits APR iconv trunk: 0 commits APR iconv 0.9.x: 0 commits site: 3 commits Current stable releases of APR are 1.4.2 and 1.3.12, released Jan 26 2010 and Feb 11 2010, respectively. Legacy release 0.9.18 remained current + 1 security patch. Current stable release of APR util is 1.3.9, released Aug 6 2009. Legacy release 0.9.17 remained current + 1 security patch. Current stable APR iconv release is 1.2.1, released Nov 15 2007. As of Mar 15 2010, there were 108 APR related bugs outstanding in Bugzilla.
Greg to contact APR about including heath of user and dev community information, etc. in the board reports.
The activity on the project in the last 3 months (Sep 20 2009 to Dec 14 2009) was as follows: APR trunk: 61 commits APR 1.5.x: 56 commits* APR util 1.5.x: 17 commits* APR 1.4.x: 57 commits APR util 1.4.x: 16 commits APR 1.3.x: 30 commits APR util 1.3.x: 10 commits APR 0.9.x: 0 commits APR util 0.9.x: 0 commits APR iconv trunk: 0 commits APR iconv 0.9.x: 0 commits site: 10 commits * These were copied from 1.4.x recently, so the number of commits actually reflects mostly activity on the 1.4.x branch. Current stable release of APR is 1.3.9, released Sep 25 2009. Legacy release 0.9.18 remained current + 1 security patch. Current stable release of APR util is 1.3.9, released Aug 6 2009. Legacy release 0.9.17 remained current + 1 security patch. Current stable APR iconv release is 1.2.1, released Nov 15 2007. As of Dec 14 2009, there were 99 APR related bugs outstanding in Bugzilla. Preparations are under way to release APR and APR util 1.4.x.
Greg indicated that commit rates is not necessary for board reports.
The activity on the project in the last 3 months (Jun 18 2009 to Sep 20 2009) was as follows: APR trunk: 95 commits APR util trunk: 0 commits (obsolete) APR 1.4.x: 32 commits APR util 1.4.x: 22 commits APR 1.3.x: 38 commits APR util 1.3.x: 29 commits APR 0.9.x: 11 commits APR util 0.9.x: 6 commits APR iconv trunk: 0 commits APR iconv 0.9.x: 0 commits site: 27 commits Current stable release of APR is 1.3.8, released Aug 6 2009. Legacy release 0.9.18 received a security patch for the CVE mentioned below. Current stable release of APR util is 1.3.9, released Aug 6 2009. Legacy release 0.9.17 received a security patch for the CVE mentioned below. Current stable APR iconv release is 1.2.1, released Nov 15 2007. A security issue has been fixed in the latest round of releases and patches: CVE-2009-2412: Overflow in pools and rmm, due to size alignment. As of Sep 13 2009, there were 88 APR related bugs outstanding in Bugzilla.
The activity on the project in the last 3 months (Mar 9 2009 to Jun 18 2009) was as follows: APR trunk: 100 commits APR util trunk: 2 commits APR 1.4.x: 10 commits APR util 1.4.x: 15 commits APR 1.3.x: 14 commits APR util 1.3.x: 22 commits APR 0.9.x: 4 commits APR util 0.9.x: 8 commits APR iconv trunk: 0 commits APR iconv 0.9.x: 0 commits site: 8 commits Current stable release of APR is 1.3.5, released Jun 5 2009. Legacy release 0.9.18 occurred on the same day. Current stable release of APR util is 1.3.7, released Jun 5 2009. Legacy release 0.9.17 occurred on the same day. Current stable APR iconv release is 1.2.1, released Nov 15 2007. Several security issues have been fixed in the latest round of releases: CVE-2009-1955: apr-util billion laughs attack CVE-2009-1956: apr-util single NULL byte buffer overflow CVE-2009-0023: apr-util heap buffer underwrite On the development front, the trunk of apr-util has been folded into apr. From version 2.0 onward, these two will be one and the same library.
The activity on the project in the last 3 months (Mar 9 2009 to Jun 18 2009) was as follows: APR trunk: 100 commits APR util trunk: 2 commits APR 1.4.x: 10 commits APR util 1.4.x: 15 commits APR 1.3.x: 14 commits APR util 1.3.x: 22 commits APR 0.9.x: 4 commits APR util 0.9.x: 8 commits APR iconv trunk: 0 commits APR iconv 0.9.x: 0 commits site: 8 commits Current stable release of APR is 1.3.5, released Jun 5 2009. Legacy release 0.9.18 occurred on the same day. Current stable release of APR util is 1.3.7, released Jun 5 2009. Legacy release 0.9.17 occurred on the same day. Current stable APR iconv release is 1.2.1, released Nov 15 2007. Several security issues have been fixed in the latest round of releases: CVE-2009-1955: apr-util billion laughs attack CVE-2009-1956: apr-util single NULL byte buffer overflow CVE-2009-0023: apr-util heap buffer underwrite On the development front, the trunk of apr-util has been folded into apr. From version 2.0 onward, these two will be one and the same library.
Justin to pursue a report for APR
The activity on the project in the last 3 months (Dec 9 2008 to Mar 9 2009) was as follows: APR trunk: 101 commits APR util trunk: 32 commits APR 1.4.x: 17 commits APR util 1.4.x: 27 commits APR 1.3.x: 13 commits APR util 1.3.x: 16 commits APR 0.9.x: 0 commits APR util 0.9.x: 1 commit APR iconv trunk: 0 commits APR iconv 0.9.x: 0 commits site: 1 commit Current stable release of APR is 1.3.3, released Aug 14 2008. Current stable release of APR util is 1.3.4, released Aug 15 2008. Current stable APR iconv release is 1.2.1, released Nov 15 2007. APR/APU trunk is now targeting 2.x, a new major version. A new branch, 1.4.x has been started as well, to cover all desired 1.x features that cannot go into 1.3.x, due to versioning rules. The 1.3.x. branch received quite a few bug fixes, many of which were backports from the trunk.
The activity on the project in the last 3 months (Sept 9 2008 to Dec 13 2008) was as follows: APR trunk: 11 commits APR util trunk: 29 commits APR 1.3.x: 3 commits APR util 1.3.x: 16 commits APR 0.9.x: 2 commits APR util 0.9.x: 1 commit APR iconv trunk: 0 commits APR iconv 0.9.x: 0 commits site: 1 commit Current stable release of APR is 1.3.3, released Aug 14 2008. Current stable release of APR util is 1.3.4, released Aug 15 2008. Current stable APR iconv release is 1.2.1, released Nov 15 2007. Apart from regular bug fixing, APR util received DSO handling of db, gdbm and ndbm drivers.
Aaron to request a community section.
The activity on the project in the last 3 months (June 9 2008 to Sept 9 2008) was as follows: APR trunk: 29 commits APR util trunk: 67 commits APR 1.3.x: 36 commits APR util 1.3.x: 64 commits APR 1.2.x: 1 commit APR util 1.2.x: 0 commits APR 0.9.x: 3 commits APR util 0.9.x: 0 commits APR iconv trunk: 0 commits APR iconv 0.9.x: 0 commits site: 5 commits Current stable release of APR is 1.3.3, released August 14. There was another release (1.3.2) in this period, on June 23. Current stable release of APR util is 1.3.4, released August 15. There was another release (1.3.2) in the period, on June 23. There were no new APR iconv releases. The 1.2.x branches of APR/APR util are now obsolete and will not have any more releases. In this period the project was mostly busy fixing bugs in releases based on new stable branches. Talk about the new stable release already started, with clean compilation on MinGW platform flagged as one of the goals. And, of course, more bug fixing. Most recently, new work on apr_crypto implementations based on OpenSSL and Mozilla NSS has been committed to trunk.
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed William Rowe to the office of Vice President, Apache APR, and WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of William Rowe from the office of Vice President, Apache APR, and WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache APR project has chosen by vote to recommend Bojan Smojver as the successor to the post; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that William Rowe is relieved and discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice President, Apache APR, and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Bojan Smojver be and hereby is appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache APR, 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 7E, Change the Apache APR Project Chair, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
The last quarter was marked by some activity around releasing version 1.3.0 of the apr and apr-util libraries, reflecting new APIs and interfaces. The version 1.3.2 was released shortly thereafter to fix a small number of new bugs and pick up improvements in autoconf / libtool for portability. This will likely be followed shortly by another release resolving some warning message regressions introduced in the more recent flavor of autoconf. Much of the activity has come from the most recently added new committers. During this period, covener, henryjen, issac, tdonovan were added as new committers to apr. There were no changes to the PMC roster in this period. However, Will Rowe decided it's time to step back from chairing this PMC, and focus on coding at APR, and on his board and committee responsibilities at other areas of the foundation. Bojan Smojver was nominated and ratified as the new chair by a vote of 14 in favor and none against. Ref. List-ID <private.apr.apache.org>, Thread <485AF04B.6060408@apache.org>. The project respectfully requests that the board install Bojan as VP, APR Project at the coming meeting. There are no other issues requiring board attention at this time.
Activity on the APR project has been very quiet this past quarter. There has been relatively little bugzilla or dev forum traffic, relatively little commit activity, and no releases nor activity towards a release since Nov '07 (reflecting the general stability of the project at this time). No committee members or committers have changed in this period. Some proposals for new APIs are being floated; since APR is consumer driven (by projects that have adopted it), this likely reflects a quiet period from its users development goals. The APR project is in compliance with the Crypto policy, has been subject to this, and is exporting socket encryption wrappers in the development 'trunk' of the apr-util subproject (not yet shipped within a release).
Activity has picked up since the previous board report. For the period Sept through Nov, we had some 365 commits to the core apr, apr-util and apr-iconv trunks by 19 active committers, many maintenance commits on the legacy branches, and some 15 APR and 8 APR-util bugs were resolved this period, with some 24 open bugs remaining. There were new 1.2 maintenance releases of all three libraries, and an 0.9 apr maintenance release in this period. No significant pressure has occurred to push to the next 1.3 or 2.0 release, although several new API issues were raised and several patches have been committed and others are under consideration at this time. No new committers were added this past quarter. Twelve individuals who had committed in the past 12 months were nominated and invited to participate in the PMC. Of these, eight accepted and were added to the committee roster. They are Davi Arnaut, Jean-Frederic Clere, Max Bowsher, Martin Kraemer, Mladen Turk, Rüdiger Pluem, Guenter Knauf and Bojan Smojver. Chuck Murco left the committee as emeritus, while Ben Laurie, Jim Blandy, and Ralf Engelschall were removed from the roster after no response to requests confirming their ongoing participation in the PMC. This had no impact on their commit status; the request had the additional benefit of identifying one lost PMC member who since rejoined the pmc list, while Ralf has begun committing again, reaffirming the idea that it never hurts to just ask.
Approved by General Consent.
It seems that this report again coincides with new releases. Immediately following our June report, apr 1.2.9/0.9.14, apr-util 1.2.8/0.9.13 and apr-iconv 1.2.0 were all released smoothly as expected. This month, APR 1.2.11/0.9.16, and APR-util 1.2.10/0.9.15 libraries were released. Both were re-rolled after the first try to pick up heavy activity around the regression tests and to accommodate some of the platform tweaks. Two interesting tweaks in the recent release may have interesting side effects; APR determined to respect Mac OS/X's claim to handle only utf-8 filenaming conventions (as their UI, Aqua does) while on Win32 the process creation was tweaked to mirror Unix's behavior for pipe inheritance and therefore avoid leaking handles (in fact this leveraged the implementation in OS2's APR code). Apparently some third party libraries are negatively impacted by this second adjustment, since they had relied on the side effects of the old Win32-only behavior. Work is in progress and a dialog is ongoing to address those users concerns and provide them an alternate behavior which is portable. From June to date in September, we had some 12 commits to apr-iconv/trunk, 64 commits to apr-util/trunk and 97 commits to apr/trunk (the future 1.3 or 2.0 version and first stop of all bug fixes on their way to a release branch), by 14 active committers, many maintenance commits on the legacy branches. From early July through early August the bugs were brought down to some 25 open incidents at a time, since then this has crept back up to to the low 30's, below the previous average. Some 36 bugs were closed, and 6 tagged needing feedback, leaving 16 active bugs and 4 stale bugs looking for some resolution. Nothing much to report on community activity, two committers were added in this period, davi and rpluem, both of whom were then active in this period. One request for commit karma was returned to the requester, with a counter-request for that individual to submit patches. Based on those, they would be considered again for commit access at a later date. This was in contrast to an earlier policy, which brought in httpd, svn and similar users with minimal scrutiny, if they came from any sibling community. It seems that policy may no longer fit the apr pmc's wishes, so I would expect all commit karma moving forwards will follow the typical route of accepting patches, granting committer status to frequent patch submitters, and then considering active committers for PMC membership.
Approved by General Consent.
Activity has been slow/steady since the previous board report. For the period March through May, we had some 75 commits to trunk (the future 1.3 or 2.0 version) by 11 active committers, many maintenance commits on the legacy branches, and some 25 APR, 3 APR-iconv and 10 APR-util bugs were resolved this period, with some 37 open bugs remaining. There were no new releases in that period. (Three packages were tagged in June for release votes - still ongoing.) No significant interest/pressure has occurred to push to the next 1.3 or 2.0 release. By APR versioning rules, 2.0 occurs once there is action to fix broken ABI or naming convention issues which render the libraries incompatible, and this isn't foreseen at this time. It's very possible that either httpd or another consuming project will be the driving factor for development of, and for shipping the next version. Prior to releasing 1.3 or 2.0, the md4/md5 code license issue raised by the BSD project is the only apparent showstopper (RSA license grant). The project welcomes appropriate patches to resolve that. Three committers were added, fuankg, davi and rpluem. There were no new PMC members added, and this is a yellow-flag that the project should now be considering PMC nominations. Garrett, as mentioned in March, did step down from the Chair of the APR project, and the project members thank him for his service and dedication as Chairman. As an incoming project chair, I was able to take advantage of Sally's Media Training in Amsterdam, and strongly encourage the board to convince her to repeat this, and find the funding to make it happen, at future ApacheCon events for our PRC members, project chairman, as well as other ASF contributors as space permits. I believe it's a win for our projects to gain some of her insight into communicating with the technical press.
Approved by General Consent.
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Garrett Rooney to the office of Vice President, Apache Portable Runtime Project, and WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of Garrett Rooney from the office of Vice President, Apache Portable Runtime Project; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Garrett Rooney is relieved and discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice President, Apache Portable Runtime Project, and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that William A. Rowe, Jr. be and hereby is appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Portable Runtime Project, 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 6A, Apache Portable Runtime Project Chair, was approved by Unanimous Vote.
Life in APR land continues along as usual. There is the usual amount of mailing list discussion and bug fixing, with no major flame wars. While various people have had discussions about directions for the next major version of the library there has been no large scale attempts to move beyond discussions at this time. In personnel issues the PMC voted to give Guenter Knauf commit access, although at this time he has not yet replied to the invite (which was just recently sent). Also the PMC chair has decided to step down due to time issues, and the project is in the process of nominating a replacement. Expect a resolution to change the chair in time for next months board meeting. The only other issue of consequence remains the md4/md5 code license issue, which has stalled due to the fact that the person who brought the issue to our attention has not had the time to finish his code contribution that would resolve the problem. This will certainly need to be dealt with before another release can occur, but nobody seems to have risen to the occasion at this time.
Henri asked if the md5 code been pulled from svn or if it was still in place. Sander noted that it was still there, after all, the md5 code has been in APR (and previous) for a very long time, so if there were issues, we would have expected to hear about it by now.
Approved by General Consent.
Just a quick update this month on the status of the RSA md4/md5 issue, as requested. Discussions regarding the issue with the md4/md5 code seem to indicate that we will have to remove the code. Asking RSA for an additional grant seems unlikely to be useful due to the fact that they've already issued an IPR statement which seems to be not free enough from our perspective and rather final: http://www.ietf.org/ietf/IPR/RSA-MD-all With that in mind work has started on a solution to this based on the research done by Roy on the alternative implementations out there. It looks like we'll probably want to go with the dovecot implementation, as it covers more of our needs and has already had much of the integration work done. For more details see current posts to the associated mailing list threads on dev@apr.a.o. Hopefully this will be resolved in the very near future as soon as some technical issues with the patch can be worked out. There are no other issues requiring board attention at this time.
Approved by General Consent.
APR currently has a few legal issues that need to be resolved, but other than that there are no issues that currently require the board attention. Since the last board report we released APR 1.2.8 and 0.9.13, two bug fix releases that as far as I can tell have been well received, with no catastrophic problems being found post-release. There has also been the usual series of bug fixes and new patches, but there has been no substantial work towards a new major version or anything of that sort. While people have ideas for what an APR 2.0 would do, actual coding work seems to be hung up waiting on someone having a burning need for one of these new features, so APR 1.x seems to be APR 2.x's biggest enemy. It works well enough for what people require. There have been no new committers added, and no changes to the membership of the PMC. In the legal realm we still have the Crypto notification paperwork to file. I will be taking care of that this weekend, and I wish to make it clear that it's solely my fault that it's taken this long to get finished. Additionally, in October some questions were raised about the legality of the MD4/MD5 code we currently have in our tree (and have had for approximately 10 years). Looking over the mailing list archives there appears to be some lack of consensus as to what needs to happen, although there are a number of people who feel we need clarification from RSA about the issue. I plan to reread the mailing list threads and post a summary to the list asking for input as to the proper approach to take. Note that there is also an alternative implementation that we may be able to use, but it seems kind of scary to replace such old and well tested code. The only other issue currently facing the APR project remains the fact that there are few active developers, and keeping on top of patches and whatnot can be difficult. Specifically, we have some fairly large contributions (the one that sticks out in my mind is the apr threadpool stuff) that have not yet been integrated simply because of a lack of interested developers with suitable free time. I hope this issue will work itself out over time as more new developers present themselves.
Greg suggested that they submit a short report in January regarding potential solutions for the MD4/MD5 problem. One possible suggestion was whether they should ask RSA for a grant.
Approved by General Consent.
Things have been largely quiet in APR since the last board report. The only issues currently requiring board attention are legal in nature. We are still waiting for resolution on the third party code policy, as well as on the new policies for dealing with crypto code. Details on both of these issues appeared in the last board report, and little has changed since then as we are in a holding pattern until the VP of Legal Affairs finalizes the policies. Since the last report Ian Holsman resigned from the PMC, citing his lack of activity in APR over the past year. He will of course be welcomed back should there he wish to return at any point in the future. We have had a few people proposed for commit access, but there was a lack of sufficient support to justify granting it. I intend to make a pass through the various people who have been nominated over the past 6 months or so soon, to see if any of them have contributed further and deserve to be brought up again, so hopefully by the next board report we'll have some new committers and PMC members to talk about. On the technical front, there continues to be a fairly steady stream of minor features and bug fixes. Most new feature work continues to be in the DBD code in APR-Util, although that seems to have slowed slightly lately. There have been no new releases, but it appears that people are starting to talk about doing some from our current release branches (0.9.x and 1.2.x) in the near future.
Justin asked if we could relay a timeframe for crypto/3rd party policies? Greg said that he noted that the legal report says crypto policy doc available? Cliff calrified that the crypto policy has been done and will follow up with APR.
Approved by General Consent
Since our last report the APR project has been progressing largely as usual. There has been activity in a few areas, along with a little reshuffling of the committers and PMC, along with one release. The only issues I am aware of that require the board's attention are legal related. First, we are still awaiting finalized versions of the third party code licensing policy, and although we are unaware of any problems with the current draft policies it would be awfully nice to get them officially finalized. Second, work has begun on an addition to APR-Util that provides an SSL socket abstraction. This will mean that we are for the first time shipping code that depends on cryptographic libraries, and will have to learn the current best practices for dealing with that. At the moment, the current plan is to use whatever the HTTP Server project is doing as a template for our handling of this issue, but an ASF wide "way to deal with this stuff" would certainly be nice to have. On the personel front, Nick Kew was added to the PMC, Bojan Smojver was voted in as a committer for his work on the DBD portions of APR-Util, and Brian Pane resigned from the PMC due to a lack of time to work on APR. He will, of course, be welcomed back should he decide to become active again. One thing to note regarding new committers/PMC members is that we are finding that much of our new activity is in the DBD library in APR-Util, which is making it somewhat hard to elect new committers due to the lack of PMC members who are actively involved in that work. I'm sure this is a problem that will work itself out as new PMC members emerge from that part of the project. We have also had two releases since the last report, APR/APR-Util 1.2.7 and APR/APR-Util 0.9.12. These were entirely bug fix releases, mainly needed to fix build issues on Win32/Netware, and there were no new features included. Other than that, activity on the mailing lists seems reasonable, we're getting a fair amount of activity originating from users of the project, and all seems to generally be well in APR land.
The board noted the request for third party licensing policy, and the ssl (crypto) policy. Justin reported that they are working on this with Cliff and that there probably isn't really anything for Board to do now. Cliff mentioned that much progress on crypto issue since last month's report has been made
Approved by General Consent
Since our last report the APR project has been progressing largely as usual. There has been activity in a few areas, along with a little reshuffling of the committers and PMC, along with one release. The only issues I am aware of that require the board's attention are legal related. First, we are still awaiting finalized versions of the third party code licensing policy, and although we are unaware of any problems with the current draft policies it would be awfully nice to get them officially finalized. Second, work has begun on an addition to APR-Util that provides an SSL socket abstraction. This will mean that we are for the first time shipping code that depends on cryptographic libraries, and will have to learn the current best practices for dealing with that. At the moment, the current plan is to use whatever the HTTP Server project is doing as a template for our handling of this issue, but an ASF wide "way to deal with this stuff" would certainly be nice to have. On the personel front, Nick Kew was added to the PMC, Bojan Smojver was voted in as a committer for his work on the DBD portions of APR-Util, and Brian Pane resigned from the PMC due to a lack of time to work on APR. He will, of course, be welcomed back should he decide to become active again. One thing to note regarding new committers/PMC members is that we are finding that much of our new activity is in the DBD library in APR-Util, which is making it somewhat hard to elect new committers due to the lack of PMC members who are actively involved in that work. I'm sure this is a problem that will work itself out as new PMC members emerge from that part of the project. We have also had two releases since the last report, APR/APR-Util 1.2.7 and APR/APR-Util 0.9.12. These were entirely bug fix releases, mainly needed to fix build issues on Win32/Netware, and there were no new features included. Other than that, activity on the mailing lists seems reasonable, we're getting a fair amount of activity originating from users of the project, and all seems to generally be well in APR land.
Tabled due to time constraints.
Just to get it out of the way, the only issue in APR that currently requires board attention is the forthcoming licensing policy. Anything that can be done to get the policy finalized would be greatly appreciated, as dealing with licensing issues (see the section later in this report concerning GDBM and Berkeley DB) without an official policy to refer to is rather difficult. That said, I'm sure everything that can be done in that department is being done, so just keep doing what you're doing. On with the rest of the report. Since it's last board report the APR project has been through a few small changes. As noted in our last report, our former PMC chair, Cliff Woolley, stepped down and he has now been replaced by a new chair, Garrett Rooney. We voted to give commit access to Max Bowsher. His paperwork has made it's way through the system, and he has now been set up with his commit access. A few other developers were nominated for commit access, and one committer has been nominated for PMC membership, but those votes are still ongoing at this time. It seems that there has been an upswing in contributions from the APR community recently, so it seems likely that in the near future we will be able to recruit some more active developers from these new contributors. We made several attempts to release new versions off of our 0.9.x and 1.2.x branches, but a variety of problems were found at the last minute preventing them from being made publicly available. On the bright side, those releases spurred a few developers into making a number of fixes, so hopefully a new set of releases will be available soon. There have been a few debates on the development list concerning what sort of software is suitable for inclusion in APR and APR-Util. Specifically, there was some concern from a few people about the memcache client code that was added to APR-Util fairly recently. While most APR developers thought it was sufficiently small and useful to warrant inclusion, there were others who felt that it was not suitable for inclusion in a portable runtime because unlike other systems (APR-Util's DBM or DBD layers, for example) it only works with a single server implementation and doesn't allow you to write code that portably makes use of multiple cache implementations. The conflict has resolved itself on its own, by virtue of the fact that another server using the memcache client protocol has appeared, but the issue of what is suitable to include in APR/APR-Util and what is not is clearly one that will require more discussion among the developers. The other significant issue has been with our handling of the various DBM libraries the APR-Util DBM code links against. For some time we have had the ability to link against Berkeley DB and GDBM, which are under the SleepyCat license and the GPL, respectively. After reading the initial drafts of the proposed ASF licensing policy it seemed clear that the default behavior of the build system with regard to determining which libraries to link against should change, avoiding linking against anything with a viral license unless the user specifically requested it. These changes have been made, and are simply awaiting a release. It's important to note that legally speaking we have always been in the clear, as we have never been distributing Berkeley DB or GDBM ourselves, but it was felt that it was too easy for users to end up inadvertantly linking against libraries with unwelcome license requirements, and thus the change in behavior.
Approved by General Consent.
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Cliff Woolley to the office of Vice President, Apache Portable Runtime Project, and WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of Cliff Woolley from the office of Vice President, Apache Portable Runtime Project; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Cliff Woolley is relieved and discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice President, Apache Portable Runtime Project, and NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Garrett Rooney be and hereby is appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Portable Runtime Project, 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. Resolution 6A, a Resolution to Change the Chair of the Apache Portable Runtime Project from Cliff Woolley to Garrett Rooney was approved by Unanimous Consent.
This quarter, we added a new PMC member: Colm MacCarthaigh. David Reid has asked to step down from the PMC, citing a lack of time for contribution. Following suit, I (Cliff Woolley) have just notified the PMC of my intention to step down as well for the same reason. I have asked them for nominations for a replacement PMC Chair. I will remain active and in the post until such time as a new Chair is selected and approved by the board, at which time I will convert my PMC membership to emeritus status. Fortunately, with the new blood coming on board as of late, progress is still being made. APR 1.2.2 and APR-util 1.2.2 were released this quarter. Also, the HTTP Server Project shipped a new version of httpd, which had the side effect of bringing the APR 1.0+ API into potentially much broader visibility.
Approved by General Consent.
6. Special Orders
No report received or submitted. Ben to contact Cliff regarding status.
This quarter in APR-land, we added Garrett Rooney as a new PMC member and Colm MacCarthaigh as a new committer. APR and APR-util 1.2.1 were released in mid-August; versions 1.2.0 were not released due to a showstopper bug on win32 (if I recall correctly). We seem to be getting a reasonably steady stream of people coming through sending in patches and reporting bugs, so I consider that to be a good thing.
Approved by General Consent.
Not much news this quarter in APR. No new releases, though there has been a bit of discussion in the last week or so about pushing out a new point release to get some bug fixes out to our end users. Paul Querna was added as a new PMC member immediately after last quarter's reporting cycle. No new committers this quarter. We haven't made a final decision yet on the ultimate disposition of the apr-iconv subproject, which as I mentioned last quarter is under debate.
Approved by General Consent.
NO SUBMITTED REPORT
No submitted report.
ApacheCon was particularly good for the APR project (and several others apparently) this year. In previous quarters we reported somewhat of a stagnation of the project, but that we hoped that some of the new committers we were bringing in would help to freshen up the overall level of interest in the project. That has indeed proved true, but furthermore, getting all of us together and having us duke it out over several days' worth of friendly but very heated lunchtime discussions has served to re-ignite the spark of interest that has historically kept this group motivated. In the time during and since the 'Con, we have migrated to Subversion, brought in a couple of more new committers, released APR 0.9.5 and 1.0.1, and begun the process of moving toward either APR 1.1.x or 2.0.x (the latter might be necessary due to versioning rules and some problems that were discovered recently in our 64-bit ABI). We feel that it would be in the best interests of this and other projects if "mini-hackathons" could be held several times per year -- these would be informal (likely project-specific) gatherings of people who are within reasonable geographical proximity of each other to allow them to just Get Things Done. While decisions would still be made on the mailing list as always, it's amazing what a difference being in the same room makes in terms of lowering the latency in big debates and in terms of keeping people focused on big coding endeavors. These sessions could perhaps be hosted at the offices of some of the project members involved so that overhead is minimal. To the extent that the board can facilitate such events (without having them turn into full-fledged conferences requiring the intervention of 3rd-party planners), that would quite likely be worthwhile.
Apache APR Project report approved as submitted by general consent.
A few new committers on the APR project this quarter; no particular problems to report. The only real news item this month in the APR Project is that APR 1.0.0 was finally released on September 1, 2004! Many of us still haven't gotten back from the party. :)
Approved by General Consent.
The APR project has several new committers this quarter, which we hope is helping to alleviate the "falling-through-the-cracks" problems we reported last quarter. Work continues on test suite improvements, and David Reid has been helpful in pushing through toward a 1.0 release candidate. No new-subprojects or new problems to report. The biggest remaining hurdle is still the "it has to be perfect" syndrome, which we are attempting to actively combat.
Getting close to 1.0 release. No other comments.
A few things to report in the APR project this quarter. First, by popular demand we are releasing an 0.9.5 release (the T&R process is ongoing as of the time of this writing). At the same time, we are splitting HEAD into an APR_1_0 branch (as we reported we would in our last report). We had originally done this at ApacheCon but then backed it out for short-term convenience... we probably should have just left it in as a forcing function. Oh well. That brings up the second and more important point, however, which is that we've had trouble lately with new contributors to our project finding more and more frequently that their submissions (by way of email) go unanswered. No one has the time. We recognize this as more of a social problem than a technical one, but it's one that we're seeking both social and technical solutions for. Several suggestions have been made on the PMC mailing list, and we will be following up on them. We'll keep the board up-to-date on whatever corrective action we take -- surely this problem is not unique to our project. No new sub-projects this quarter. No *new* committers or PMC members this quarter, though we did welcome back Ryan Bloom as a re-activated (no longer emeritus) committer.
Approved by General Consent.
Substantial progress toward APR 1.0 was made at ApacheCon, though it's, yet again, not quite there yet. We spent a good deal of time ripping out deprecated API's, but in the process found a few remaining dependencies on them and thus could not release as quickly as we wanted. But at least progress is being made, so overall it's been a good quarter. APR 1.1 will become HEAD for new development soon, with APR 1.0 being finished on a branch. No new subprojects or particular problems to report... as with last quarter, APR continues to be relatively controversy-free.
The report, as noted in Attachment I, was approved by General Consent.
We have reached a big milestone in the APR project: we finally tagged away APR 0.9 as a branch (to maintain compatibility with existing applications, e.g. httpd 2.0) and have begun the removal of all deprecated APIs and some final related cleanups prior to APR 1.0. httpd 2.1 has been ported to the APR 1.0 API and will continue to follow our latest developments. We hope to begin tagging release candidates for APR 1.0 within the next week or two, with a final release likely to be ready sometime close to ApacheCon. The apr-serf sub-project has been officially handed off to the Apache Commons Project. No new subprojects or particular problems to report... as with last quarter, APR continues to be relatively controversy-free.
Approved by General Consent.
It has been a relatively slow quarter for the Apache Portable Runtime Project, with most of our effort focusing on maintenance, bug fixes, and performance tweaks. This is to be expected, of course, since we have spent the last year stabilizing our codebase and API for a 1.0 release of our library. We have been pleased to see a further increase in the quantity and quality of contributions from various third parties. This would seem to indicate further interest and acceptance of our project within the development community. The stemming of the tide of major changes is indicative of the fact that our stabilization period has been successful and that now is the time to press forward and get version 1.0 out the door; that will likely be the focus of our project in the upcoming quarter.
The APR Project is finally nearing a 0.9.2 release. This will allow us to make the final changes in our API prior a 1.0 release (which should follow in the near future) while minimizing headaches for our sister projects (e.g., httpd). Since our last report, we have finalized our new mission statement by unanimous vote of the Project Management Committee. The new statement is as follows: The mission of the APR project is to create and maintain software libraries that provide a predictable and consistent interface to underlying platform-specific implementations. The primary goal is to provide an API to which software developers may code and be assured of predictable if not identical behaviour regardless of the platform on which their software is built, relieving them of the need to code special-case conditions to work around or take advantage of platform-specific deficiencies or features.
. By general consent, this report was recorded as entered and approved.
The APR Project continues to press toward a 1.0 release. Our most recent "official alpha" (0.9.1) was released at roughly the time of our last report; since then, we have introduced versioning and backward- compatibility guidelines and have been stabilizing our API. Also at the time of our last report, we were in the process of redefining our mission statement (which is still being fine-tuned) and of electing a new PMC Chair (this is my first report in that role). As a side note, we wish to congratulate our outgoing Chair on the Thanksgiving-day birth of his daughter, Abby. The entire family is doing well. We are in the process of building a comprehensive test suite to ensure cross-platform consistency, and this combined with user reports have helped us to shake out a number of pre-1.0 bugs. Given the increasing number of user bug reports and API inquiries, the project seems to be gaining wider interest throughout the development community; http://apr.apache.org/projects.html now lists a several significant applications besides just HTTPD and Subversion that are using APR, and there are several other projects that have expressed an interest in doing so.
The following resolution was proposed:
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 Apache
Portable Runtime (APR) products, for distribution at no charge
to the public.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management
Committee, to be known as the "APR PMC", be and hereby is
established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the APR PMC be and hereby is responsible
for the creation and maintenance of software related to the APR
software product based on software licensed to the Foundation;
and be it further
RESOLVED, that the persons listed immediately below be and hereby are
appointed to serve as the members of the APR PMC.
Greg Ames Aaron Bannert Jim Blandy
Ryan Bloom Branko Cibej Ken Coar
Ralf Engelschall Justin Erenkrantz Brian Fitzpatrick
Karl Fogel Brian Havard Ian Holsman
Jim Jagielski Ben Laurie Chuck Murcko
Brian Pane David Reid Bill Rowe
Wilfredo Sanchez Sascha Schumann Greg Stein
Bill Stoddard Sander Striker Ben Collins-Sussman
Jeff Trawick Cliff Woolley
WHEREAS, the membership of the APR PMC have nominated
Cliff Woolley to serve as chair of the APR PMC; and
WHEREAS, the current chair of the APR PMC, Ryan Bloom,
has resigned his position as Vice President, APR, in favor of
Cliff Woolley's appointment to that position.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Cliff Woolley be and
hereby is appointed to the office of Vice President, APR,
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.
By Unanimous Vote, the above Resolution reestablishing the Apache
Portable Runtime Project, was passed.
The APR project has continued to make progress over the last year. We are nearing our first release, and we are working to get our release process correct. Our source code base is growing, and since the last STATUS report, we have added apr-serf, a portable HTTP-client library. There are a couple of important votes underway in the PMC. First, we are electing a new PMC Chair, although I have volunteered to remain in the position until a new is elected. Also, we are currently in the process of redefining our mission statement. There are a number of opinions about what our goals should be, and we are trying to come to consensus now. Recently, we had a bit of a shake-up with the El-Kabong donation from Covalent. We have decided to respect Jon Travis' wishes and not use the code.