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## Description: The mission of Steve is the creation and maintenance of software related to Apache's Python based single transferable vote software system ## Project Status: Current project status: Dormant, sufficient oversight Issues for the board: None ## Membership Data: Apache Steve was founded 2012-07-25 (11 years ago) There are currently 10 committers and 6 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 5:3. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Jim Jagielski on 2022-04-16. - No new committers. Last addition was Sean Palmer on 2022-03-04. ## Project Activity: No activity of note. The work on the v3 iteration of STeVe has been put on the back-burners for now, pending free cycles to work on it. ## Community Health: We still have sufficient PMC oversight, with at least 3 PMC members actively responding to queries, but otherwise it's been very quiet. As we do not have any outstanding issues of note, this is not considered a problem.
## Description: The mission of Steve is the creation and maintenance of software related to Apache's Python based single transferable vote software system ## Project Status: Current project status: Dormant Issues for the board: No issues for the board. ## Membership Data: Apache Steve was founded 2012-07-24 (11 years ago) There are currently 10 committers and 6 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 5:3. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Jim Jagielski on 2022-04-15. - No new committers. Last addition was Sean Palmer on 2022-03-04. ## Project Activity: No activity this quarter, hence this very brief report. Work on the next iteration is currently awaiting enough free cycles from the community. ## Community Health: Still the same PMC oversight, if any issues arise, we will address them. No new committers this quarter, but that is to be expected.
## Description: The mission of Steve is the creation and maintenance of software related to Apache's Python based single transferable vote software system ## Project Status: Current project status: Dormant, with sufficient oversight. Issues for the board: There are no issues for the board. ## Membership Data: Apache Steve was founded 2012-07-25 (11 years ago) There are currently 10 committers and 6 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 5:3. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Jim Jagielski on 2022-04-16. - No new committers. Last addition was Sean Palmer on 2022-03-04. ## Project Activity: No activity of note since last report. Other priorities for the project members have kept development at a minimum over the last couple of quarters, but we do have sufficient oversight, as well as continuing use cases for the software. We have not yet had an official release of STeVe, but work has begun on our third iteration of the software. The first iteration was the original command-line system, the second iteration was the "PySTeVe" bundle that currently powers vote.apache.org, and the now third iteration will build on the previous work, adding in more modern approaches and technologies. There is an expectation that this third iteration will result in an official release at some point. ## Community Health: No material changes over the past quarters, but as stated, we do have sufficient oversight, should the need arise. A roll call was initiated on July 4th to ensure we meet the oversight requirements, and the responses indicated that we do indeed meet them.
## Description: The mission of Steve is the creation and maintenance of software related to Apache's Python based single transferable vote software system ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at present. ## Membership Data: Apache Steve was founded 2012-07-24 (11 years ago) There are currently 10 committers and 6 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 5:3. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Jim Jagielski on 2022-04-15. - No new committers. Last addition was Sean Palmer on 2022-03-04. ## Project Activity: No noteworthy activity this past quarter. We are hoping to reboot the activity around the next (v3) iteration of STeVe, intended to be the system behind the next annual members meeting. ## Community Health: No changes to community health. We have sufficient oversight, but we are also a small project with a niche product.
## Description: The mission of Steve is the creation and maintenance of software related to Apache's Python based single transferable vote software system ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention. ## Membership Data: Apache Steve was founded 2012-07-25 (10 years ago) There are currently 10 committers and 6 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 5:3. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Jim Jagielski on 2022-04-16. - No new committers. Last addition was Sean Palmer on 2022-03-04. ## Project Activity: No noteworthy activity in this quarter. It is likely that we will see the usual uptick in activity in the weeks leading up to the next annual members meeting, albeit at a slower pace than usual. There are (still) no official releases of the STeVe software, though we do have the v2 master running on the foundation's vote site. ## Community Health: Community health remains the same as it has been in the past year. We have sufficient oversight (just about), but have not seen any noteworthy changes in the community make-up.
## Description: The mission of Steve is the creation and maintenance of software related to Apache's Python based single transferable vote software system ## Issues: No issues for the board at present. ## Membership Data: Apache Steve was founded 2012-07-24 (10 years ago) There are currently 10 committers and 6 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 5:3. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Jim Jagielski on 2022-04-15. - No new committers. Last addition was Sean Palmer on 2022-03-04. ## Project Activity: No activity of note this quarter. We are slowly planning for (and working on) the next iteration of STeVe, though we have not yet made any official releases of any versions. ## Community Health: Community activity has been quiet, though still with sufficient oversight. We are answering user queries as they come in.
## Description: The mission of Steve is the creation and maintenance of software related to Apache's Python based single transferable vote software system ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at present ## Membership Data: Apache Steve was founded 2012-07-25 (10 years ago) There are currently 10 committers and 6 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 5:3. Community changes, past quarter: - Jim Jagielski was added to the PMC on 2022-04-16 - No new committers. Last addition was Sean Palmer on 2022-03-04. ## Project Activity: Some work has begun on prototyping the next iteration of steve, in particular with the backend software. ## Community Health: No noteworthy activity here :) We have sufficient PMC oversight in case it is needed.
## Description: The mission of Steve is the creation and maintenance of software related to Apache's Python based single transferable vote software system ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Membership Data: Apache Steve was founded 2012-07-25 (10 years ago) There are currently 10 committers and 5 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 2:1. Community changes, past quarter: - Greg Stein was added to the PMC on 2022-03-18 - Sean Palmer was added as committer on 2022-03-04 ## Project Activity: While we have not made any noteworthy changes to the code-base, we are starting to look towards a rewrite/revamp of STeVe, and are bolstering our ranks with one new and one former contributor, as mentioned in the above section. It is my hope that we will begin discussing and proposing a roadmap in the coming months. The project has also decided to move to git, with the hopes of increasing our exposure to the wider developer world and lowering the bar for contributing to the project. ## Community Health: With the addition of Greg Stein on the PMC, We are in a slightly better situation than previously, and have sufficient oversight on the PMC. We continue to look at new people to enroll in the community.
## Description: The mission of Steve is the creation and maintenance of software related to Apache's Python based single transferable vote software system ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention. ## Membership Data: Apache Steve was founded 2012-07-25 (9 years ago) There are currently 9 committers and 4 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 9:4. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Rich Bowen on 2015-04-20. - No new committers. Last addition was Pierre Smits on 2015-12-15. ## Project Activity: No activity this quarter. We anticipate activity around the time of the next Annual Members' Meeting. ## Community Health: Health is as it has been for a while. There is sufficient oversight (3+ PMC members accounted for), albeit only just three. We could perhaps use more people on the PMC?
## Description: The mission of Steve is the creation and maintenance of software related to Apache's Python based single transferable vote software system ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention. ## Membership Data: Apache Steve was founded 2012-07-24 (9 years ago) There are currently 9 committers and 4 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 9:4. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Rich Bowen on 2015-04-19. - No new committers. Last addition was Pierre Smits on 2015-12-15. ## Project Activity: No activity whatsoever this quarter. Our original web site source (CMS) was archived by infra, and so we will be looking at utilizing git and .asf.yaml with perhaps pelican for publishing our next web site update. ## Community Health: Health is as it's been for the past few years. We have sufficient oversight, but activity around the code generally happens in the first few months of the year, so there's nothing new to report.
## Description: The mission of Steve is the creation and maintenance of software related to Apache's Python based single transferable vote software system ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at present. ## Membership Data: Apache Steve was founded 2012-07-25 (9 years ago) There are currently 9 committers and 4 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 9:4. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Rich Bowen on 2015-04-20. - No new committers. Last addition was Pierre Smits on 2015-12-15. ## Project Activity: No noteworthy activity this quarter. With no planned development or outstanding issues, the project is in hiatus, likely till the next annual members meeting. ## Community Health: We have sufficient oversight on the PMC, albeit just barely. We've had no email traffic, code commits or issues this quarter. As this was expected, we do not have any concerns. Should any new issues arise, we feel confident we can address them in a timely manner.
## Description: The mission of Steve is the creation and maintenance of software related to Apache's Python based single transferable vote software system ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at present ## Membership Data: Apache Steve was founded 2012-07-25 (9 years ago) There are currently 9 committers and 4 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 9:4. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Rich Bowen on 2015-04-20. - No new committers. Last addition was Pierre Smits on 2015-12-15. ## Project Activity: No noteworthy activity this quarter. There remains sufficient oversight, albeit on the slim side of the scale. The project was involved in the Annual Members Meeting, which went without a single hitch. So that's nice. ## Community Health: No changes in community as of late. Things are quiet, but as stated earlier, we have sufficient oversight, should anything happen.
## Description: The mission of Steve is the creation and maintenance of software related to Apache's Python based single transferable vote software system ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention. ## Membership Data: Apache Steve was founded 2012-07-25 (8 years ago) There are currently 9 committers and 4 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 9:4. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Rich Bowen on 2015-04-20. - No new committers. Last addition was Pierre Smits on 2015-12-15. ## Project Activity: Virtually no activity in this quarter, the project remains in "development hibernation" but with people around, should an issue or vulnerability be reported. The project is currently not aware of any outstanding time-sensitive issues, and thus are perfectly content with being in maintenance mode for now. ## Community Health: Community health remains the same. Still enough oversight on the PMC, but other than that there is not a lot going on at present. We do not consider this problematic (as of yet), but would of course love to see new people getting involved with the project.
## Description: The mission of Steve is the creation and maintenance of software related to Apache's Python based single transferable vote software system ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at present. ## Membership Data: Apache Steve was founded 2012-07-25 (8 years ago) There are currently 9 committers and 4 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 9:4. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Rich Bowen on 2015-04-20. - No new committers. Last addition was Pierre Smits on 2015-12-15. ## Project Activity: No activity worth noting this quarter. As usual, we are in a maintenance state, but not actively developing the project. Depending on cycles available, we may see an uptick in activity next quarter, as well as the usual prep before the annual members meeting. ## Community Health: The community health has remained steady for the past years. There is adequate oversight on the PMC, although we should be looking to bolster the PMC from its current 4 members to perhaps 6 or 7 (This would include attracting new committers). There appears to be adequate oversight on any bugs/security issues that may arise, although we have not had any new reports as of late.
## Description: The mission of Steve is the creation and maintenance of software related to Apache's Python based single transferable vote software system ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at present. ## Membership Data: Apache Steve was founded 2012-07-25 (8 years ago) There are currently 9 committers and 4 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 9:4. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Rich Bowen on 2015-04-20. - No new committers. Last addition was Pierre Smits on 2015-12-15. ## Project Activity: Virtually no activity this quarter. As with most quarters, we are in hiatus. There are no official releases of STeVe yet, and we do not anticipate any such, at the very least not before the overhaul effort mentioned in the previous report has begun. ## Community Health: There is still ample oversight on the PMC. The usual ping provided 4 quick responses from PMC members. Not much in activity, code or email-wise, but we're used to that. There are no pressing issues to deal with.
## Description: The mission of Steve is the creation and maintenance of software related to Apache's Python based single transferable vote software system ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention. ## Membership Data: Apache Steve was founded 2012-07-24 (8 years ago) There are currently 9 committers and 4 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 9:4. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Rich Bowen on 2015-04-19. - No new committers. Last addition was Pierre Smits on 2015-12-15. ## Project Activity: The STeVe team assisted with the annual 2020 members meeting at ASF, everything went smoothly, apart from some minor database snags that were fixed. Discussions are ongoing about a new STeVe interface and back-end server for the 2021 meeting, as well as for other organizations that have expressed an interest in utilizing STeVe for their organizational meetings and votes. New ideas that have been floated include: - LDAP/OAuth plugins for getting rid of ballot emails - Vote receipts in both plaintext and encrypted formats - Early ballot previews - Issue proposal submissions - OpenAPI-backed JSON framework - Better database-agnostic document storage (with sqlite for starters) ## Community Health: As per usual, I did the PMC checkup, and I am happy to report that we have more than sufficient oversight in the project with all four members actively participating. Community email/commit activity remains low, but with the hopes of an uptick once we get started on the next iteration of STeVe.
## Description: The mission of Steve is the creation and maintenance of software related to Apache's Python based single transferable vote software system ## Issues: There are no issues for the board at present. ## Membership Data: Apache Steve was founded 2012-07-25 (7 years ago) There are currently 9 committers and 4 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 9:4. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Rich Bowen on 2015-04-20. - No new committers. Last addition was Pierre Smits on 2015-12-15. ## Project Activity: Nothing of note activity-wise this quarter. We will slowly be prepping for the annual members meeting, presumably in March/April, and will test the STeVe interface along with Infra before then, to make sure everything still works. We MAY use the annual meeting as an excuse to try recruiting more people for the project, as this is often the time where people tend to care more about it. There are no current plans to make a release of STeVe (nor have we ever had a release). ## Community Health: Very little activity, so community health is difficult to elaborate on. I did the usual PMC roll call[1], and we do have sufficient oversight on the PMC, as well as oversight on any bugs/suggestions that might land in our inbox (though none have landed to date in this quarter). [1] https://s.apache.org/jcfdp
## Description: The mission of Steve is the creation and maintenance of software related to Apache's Python based single transferable vote software system ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention. ## Membership Data: Apache Steve was founded 2012-07-24 (7 years ago) There are currently 9 committers and 4 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 9:4. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Rich Bowen on 2015-04-19. - No new committers. Last addition was Pierre Smits on 2015-12-15. ## Project Activity: Not much of note here. We have had a new contributor step up, offering assistance on a number of tickets. As time permits, we'll get started on reviewing the suggestions and patches, with the hopeful goal of gaining a new steady contributor. As we get closer to 2020, I expect we'll see an uptick in activity on the code-base. ## Community Health: As per our usual manners, I performed a standard PMC oversight check. I am happy to report that we still have sufficient (>= 3 people) oversight on the PMC. There are no pending vulnerabilities or critical bugs that we are aware of.
## Description: - Apache STeVe is Apache's Python based voting system that the Foundation uses to handle things like voting in our new Board of Directors. ## Issues: - There are no issues requiring board attention. ## Activity: - No especially noteworthy activity. There are some plans to make use of infrastructure's asfpy libraries for messaging in STeVe to properly quell the unicode issues that have popped up during prior elections. ## Health report: - As per usual, I did the standard PMC check[1], and we have four members reporting in, so still sufficient oversight on an otherwise quiet project. There are no outstanding vulnerabilities or major bugs that we are aware of, so I can relatively safely state that the project is in maintenance or hiatus mode currently, as opposed to unmaintained. If bugs creep up, we'll look at fixing them. [1] https://s.apache.org/m4idu ## PMC changes: - Currently 4 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Rich Bowen on Mon Apr 20 2015 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 9 committers. - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was Pierre Smits at Tue Dec 15 2015 ## Releases: - Still no official releases. Perhaps next year? :) ## Mailing list activity: - Virtually no email traffic this quarter, not worth displaying. ## JIRA activity: - 1 JIRA ticket created, that's about it.
## Description: - Apache STeVe is Apache's Python based voting system that the Foundation uses to handle things like voting in our new Board of Directors. ## Issues: - There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Activity: - The annual members meeting was conducted, and voting ran without any issues. A unicode issue that plagued us last year had been fixed prior to the meeting, and a bug in tallying under specific circumstances was also discovered, though none of them were relevant to the meeting, which went remarkably smooth. ## Health report: - We did a PMC check in January for sufficient oversight, and short of the PMC members going AWOL (they are still here!), we have enough folks keeping an eye on the project. The project is is in a maintenance phase at the moment, with the potential of a revamp/rewrite of the system before the next members meeting. ## PMC changes: - Currently 5 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Rich Bowen on Mon Apr 20 2015 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 9 committers. - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was Pierre Smits at Tue Dec 15 2015 ## Releases: - No releases have been made yet.
## Description: - Apache STeVe is Apache's Python based voting system that the Foundation uses to handle things like voting in our new Board of Directors. ## Issues: - There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Activity: - Same old, same old. We have had no activity this quarter, but are going to slowly prepare for the annual members meeting by assessing if there are issues from the previous meeting that have to be addressed. ## Health report: - We did the usual check for sufficient oversight, and I am happy to report that we do indeed have enough awake PMC members for oversight, even if it's just the bare minimum 3 PMC members responding. ## PMC changes: - Currently 5 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Rich Bowen on Mon Apr 20 2015 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 9 committers. - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was Pierre Smits at Tue Dec 15 2015 ## Releases: - No releases have been made yet.
## Description: - Apache STeVe is Apache's Python based voting system that the Foundation uses to handle things like voting in our new Board of Directors. ## Issues: - There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Activity: - Virtually no activity this quarter, the project is to be considered as being in hiatus. There are expectations that the project will again start to pick up some steam as we get into the next quarter and thus closer to the annual members meeting. ## Health report: - We did the usual check for sufficient oversight, and I am happy to report that we do indeed have enough awake PMC members for oversigt. Other than that, no noteworthy activity. ## PMC changes: - Currently 5 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Rich Bowen on Mon Apr 20 2015 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 9 committers. - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was Pierre Smits at Tue Dec 15 2015 ## Releases: - No releases have been made yet.
## Description: Apache STeVe is Apache's Python based voting system that the Foundation uses to handle things like voting in our new Board of Directors. ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Activity: There has been little to no activity in the past 3 months. Some ideas, relating to a plugin architecture around authorization and ballots have been discussed, but nothing specific has been decided on yet. ## Health report: As usual, I did a check to see if we have sufficient oversight, due to the low activity. At present, 4 PMC members have indicated that they are still actively monitoring the project. As stated in earlier reports, STeVe is in a holding pattern, waiting for people to accumulate enough free time to look into whatever improvements/stabilizations they can think of, though there are no concrete plans at this moment. As STeVe is largely stable and working as intended, I do not see this as a bad thing, but rather that we have achieved what is needed at present, and while things can always be improved, there is no known urgency here. ## PMC changes: - Currently 5 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Rich Bowen on Mon Apr 20 2015 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 9 committers. - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was Pierre Smits at Tue Dec 15 2015 ## Releases: No releases yet. As stated before; we have been running members meetings on a trunk philosophy for the past few years and it's worked out well enough. If we get indications of a desire to use STeVe outside the foundation, we will of course consider pushing a release out. ## Mailing list activity: Very low activity, nothing worth going into details over. ## Bug/issue activity: - 1 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 0 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
## Description: Apache STeVe is Apache's Python based voting system that the Foundation uses to handle things like voting in our new Board of Directors. ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Activity: The annual members meeting used STeVe for the voting process. Things went fairly smoothly, with a minute number of bugs detected, among them a unicode bug in the email functions. Not much in terms of response this time around, but we did get some ideas floating on the dev list[1]. Jim and I (Daniel) have both indicated an interest in pursuing these ideas at a later stage, when time permits ## Health report: The project is pretty much in chronic hiatus/stand-by mode for the time being. We have sufficient PMC oversight (>= 3 active members), but little time to devote to the project and not a whole lot of new volunteers. If anyone reading this wants to contribute, please let us know at dev@steve.apache.org :-). It is probably worth noting, that we have sufficient person-power to address bugs and vulnerabilities... not that we've had anything serious to address yet. ## PMC changes: - Currently 5 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Rich Bowen on Mon Apr 20 2015 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 9 committers. - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was Pierre Smits at Tue Dec 15 2015 ## Releases: No releases yet. We have been running members meetings on a trunk philosophy for the past few years and it's worked out well enough. If we get indications of a desire to use STeVe outside the foundation, we will of course consider pushing a release out. ## Mailing list activity: Very low activity, nothing worth going into details over. ## Bug/issue activity: - 4 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 0 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months [1] https://s.apache.org/8Ejs
## Description: Apache STeVe is Apache's Python based voting system that the Foundation uses to handle things like voting in our new Board of Directors. ## Activity: No activity of note this period. Activity is expected to pick up in the coming months as the annual members meeting is anticipated, but prior to and following the meeting. Some off-list interests in the project (namely hacking a bit on it) have been received - we'll see if this results in actual participation or not :) ## Community health: Community remains the same as last period, no changes. We conducted a poll on the PMC last period and concluded there was sufficient oversight on the project. That remains true. ## Releases: No official releases have been made yet. We will likely be reviewing this after the annual meeting and decide on whether to craft a release or not. Having a release might help add users/developers and grow the community. ## PMC changes: - Currently 5 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Rich Bowen on Mon Apr 20 2015 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 9 committers. - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was Pierre Smits at Tue Dec 15 2015
## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at this time ## Activity: Nothing really going on at the moment. STeVe remains in hiatus till the time of the next annual members meeting. There are no current plans to release the STeVe codebase, although there have been a few off-list inquiries about helping out with plugins and an overhaul of the UI. Based on this, we may be expecting development to pick up some pace in the coming months. ## Health report: I did a check of the PMC, and we have at least 3 PMC members reporting in, which should be sufficient oversight. ## PMC changes: - Currently 5 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Rich Bowen on Mon Apr 20 2015 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 9 committers. - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was Pierre Smits at Tue Dec 15 2015 ## Releases: - No releases yet. ## Mailing list activity: Very little activity, though with a few more subscribers this period for whatever reason.
## Description: - Apache STeVe is Apache's Python based voting system that the Foundation uses to handle things like voting in our new Board of Directors. ## Issues: - There are no issues that require board attention. ## Activity: - No noticeable activity in the past quarter, as expected by the fact that the project mostly revolves around the annual meeting. - Several apache communities have been using STeVe in the past quarter to conduct official votes on issues, though not much feedback has made it back to the STeVe community. ## Health report: - The automated score of -2 somewhat accurately reflects the project. While we do have PMC oversight, there has been no considerable efforts to further develop the system. We may have to start discussing how to better reach out to new developers/contributors and get folks interested in working on STeVe. ## PMC changes: - Currently 5 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Rich Bowen on Sun Apr 19 2015 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 9 committers. - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was Pierre Smits at Tue Dec 15 2015 ## Releases: - No releases have been made as of yet. ## Mailing list activity: - No real changes to the list activities and around 10 emails sent to the various lists over the past quarter. ## JIRA activity: - 3 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 0 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
## Description: - Apache STeVe is Apache's Python based voting system that the Foundation uses to handle things like voting in our new Board of Directors. ## Issues: - There are no issues requiring board attention at this time ## Activity: - No real activity to speak of. The project appears to be in maintenance mode mostly. ## Health report: - Low activity. After the annual members meeting, a few additional tickets were created, but we have yet to see new contributors step forward. There are still sufficient PMC members for oversight. I'll kick off a discussion in the project about our next steps. There have been inquiries about the use of STeVe in other organisations. ## PMC changes: - Currently 5 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Rich Bowen on Mon Apr 20 2015 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 9 committers. - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was Pierre Smits at Tue Dec 15 2015 ## Releases: - No public releases yet, though trunk is being used at the ASF. ## Mailing list activity: - Hardly any mail... ## JIRA activity: - 4 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 2 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
## Description: Apache STeVe is Apache's Python based voting system that the Foundation uses to handle things like voting in our new Board of Directors. ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention yet. ## Activity: No activity in this period, which was anticipated (STeVe is a project that generally only has activity around March, April, May) ## Health report: Two additional people have chosen to resign from STeVe, leaving the PMC at 5 members currently. This is not a great situation to be in, and we will be pushing for some more contributors once we get closer to the annual members meeting. There are still >3 active PMC members ## PMC changes: - Currently 5 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Rich Bowen on Mon Apr 20 2015 - Sean Kelly chose to resign from the PMC on November 1st, 2016. ## Committer base changes: - Currently 8 committers. - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was Pierre Smits at Tue Dec 15 2015 ## Releases: - No official releases yet, although the codebase is considered stable. We might consider pushing a release soon (TBD). ## Mailing list activity: - Pretty low activity, expected to go up in the coming months as we get closer to the annual meeting. - dev@steve.apache.org: no email sent - issues@steve.apache.org: no email sent - user@steve.apache.org: - 13 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months): - 2 emails sent to list (2 in previous quarter)
## Description: - Apache STeVe is Apache's Python based voting system that the Foundation uses to handle things like voting in our new Board of Directors. ## Issues: - There are no issues requiring board attention at this time ## Activity: - No activity of note this period, which is to be expected. STeVe is generally only active around the annual meeting. We expect acvitity to pick up again around February/March. ## Health report: - As STeVe is a "seasonal project", it is expected that activity is nonexistent in this reporting period. - Greg Stein has chosen to leave the STeVe PMC. We thank Greg for his work - I'd personally like to thank him for his many code reviews over the years. - Still have 3+ PMC members that are alive and well, though we could consider appointing more PMC members at this point. ## PMC changes: - Currently 6 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Rich Bowen on Mon Apr 20 2015 - Greg Stein left the PMC on October 5th 2016. ## Committer base changes: - Currently 9 committers. - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was Pierre Smits at Tue Dec 15 2015 ## Releases: - No official releases yet, though the software is being used in production.
## Description: Apache STeVe is Apache's Python based voting system that the Foundation uses to handle things like voting in our new Board of Directors. ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Activity: STeVe is currently in a sort of hiatus. We have >= 3 PMC members awake, but development has been stalled due to lack of spare cycles to devote on the project. As we get closer to next ASF Members Meeting, we expect development to pick up the pace again. If not, we'll be sure to notify the board, but we are not expecting this to become a problem. We are not aware of any outstanding vulnerabilities or anything critical in the software. ## PMC changes: - Currently 7 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Rich Bowen on Mon Apr 20 2015 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 9 committers. - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was Pierre Smits at Tue Dec 15 2015 ## Releases: - No releases yet. ## Mailing list activity: Mailing list activity seems tied to the members meeting, going up when we get close to a new meeting, and then dying out afterwards.
## Description: Apache STeVe is Apache's Python based voting system that the Foundation uses to handle things like voting in our new Board of Directors. ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at this time ## Activity: - Test elections were held in preparation for the annual ASF Members Meeting. Feedback from these tests (including some UI and form data parsing bugs) were incorporated into the STeVe software. - The Annual ASF Members Meeting was held and used STeVe as the voting platform. On the whole, things went very smooth, with only very few nits. Issues such as screen reader friendliness has been taken into consideration for future development. - Several issues were raised about some design decisions in STeVe, and while not serious or bad (merely opinions on how it should operate), we do need to discuss these characteristics and see if we can provide either a changed backend design or alternately optional features for STeVe. ## Health report: - STeVe is healthy in the sense that we have >= 3 PMC members active at all times. We have also seen an uptick in both tickets being filed as well as people volunteering to help out with further development of STeVe. It is my sincere hope that these volunteers will stick with us and won't be drive-by patch submitters. ## PMC changes: - Currently 7 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Rich Bowen on Mon Apr 20 2015 - Chris Mattman has chosen to resign from the STeVe PMC. We thank Chris for his contributions and would of course welcome him back, should he wish to rejoin. ## Committer base changes: - Currently 9 committers. - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was Pierre Smits at Tue Dec 15 2015 ## Releases: - While no releases have been made yet, STeVe has been used for several elections. We are hoping to get a release out once the dust from the last members meeting settles and the kinks have been ironed out. ## Mailing list activity: Activity has been relatively low. There was an uptick in mails to the issues@ list due to JIRA tickets being created as a result of users' experience with the ASF members meeting. User@ has seen virtually no activity, but that is to be expected when we don't have an official release yet. - dev@steve.apache.org: - 20 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months): - 19 emails sent to list (47 in previous quarter) - issues@steve.apache.org: - 12 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months): - 34 emails sent to list (14 in previous quarter) - user@steve.apache.org: - 13 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months): - 2 emails sent to list (1 in previous quarter) ## JIRA activity: JIRA has seen an uptick in issues after the ASF members meeting. This is generally a very good sign that people are getting involved. - 14 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 4 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
## Description: Apache STeVe is Apache's Python based voting system that the Foundation uses to handle things like voting in our new Board of Directors. ## Issues: - There are no issues requiring much board attention at this time. As stated below, we are in a state of trying to find our footing, but at present, it is not something that the board need to concern themselves with, unless they wish to help out in a personal capacity. ## Activity: This quarter has been one of some soul searching within the PMC, kicked off by a thread by the former VP asking whether it would make sense to disband the PMC and merge the project with the Whimsy PMC. While this did not gain enough traction to make it to any formal vote or the likes, it did shine some light on the difficulties of 'seasonal projects' like STeVe, where the community can seem quite dead for large periods of time. There were some follow-ups asking for more participation, and we did manage to vote in a new committer to help with the project. ## Health report: While the project can be considered as being in hiatus between annual member meetings, the above mentioned call for a new committer did manage to garner votes from 5 PMC members, proving that we still have the 3x+1 needed to have an active PMC. We continue to monitor the state of the community as we approach the usual busy period around March/April. On a more personal note, I will likely be reaching out to the ASF membership and seek people to help us test and improve the pySTeVe branch of our project. It is my belief that getting a release out at some point will help our visibility and grow our community, but we are in need of people to test and report back with their findings. Compared to previous quarter, the email flow picked up relatively well, albeit still not much. ## PMC changes: - Currently 8 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Rich Bowen on Mon Apr 20 2015 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 9 committers. - Pierre Smits was added as a committer on Tue Dec 15 2015 ## Releases: - No releases yet. ## Mailing list activity: - dev@steve.apache.org: - 20 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months): - 47 emails sent to list (4 in previous quarter) - user@steve.apache.org: - 13 subscribers (up 3 in the last 3 months): - 1 emails sent to list (0 in previous quarter) - issues@steve.apache.org: - 12 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months): - 14 emails sent to list (0 in previous quarter) ## JIRA activity: - 7 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 1 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Jim Jagielski to the office of Vice President, Apache STeVe, and WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of Jim Jagielski from the office of Vice President, Apache STeVe, and WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache STeVe project has chosen to recommend Daniel Gruno as the successor to the post; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Jim Jagielski is relieved and discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice President, Apache STeVe, and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Daniel Gruno be and hereby is appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache STeVe, to serve in accordance with and subject to the direction of the Board of Directors. and the Bylaws of the Foundation until death, resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification, or until a successor is appointed. Special Order 7B, Change the Apache STeVe Project Chair, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
## Description:
STeVe is a system for managing a plethora of vote mechanisms, most notably
the STV (Single Transferable Vote) method used in the ASF board elections.
## Issues:
- there are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity:
- Minor work on pySTeVe has been done, but the bulk of the program is, for the
time being, considered stable, and so development has slowed down.
- Suggestions to run some mock elections with ASF committers trying out the new
system has been proposed, but not yet carried out.
- We are discussing when/if/how to release the pySTeVe component.
- Jim Jagielski has decided to step down as VP, and proposed Daniel Gruno to
replace him in this role (see special order 7B). The PMC extends its thanks
to Jim for the work he's done as VP.
## Health report:
- The community remains healthy, albeit in a sort of hiatus state. This is
likely due to ASF elections being about half a year away.
- PMC remains alive and responsive when needed.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 8 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Rich Bowen at Mon Apr 20 2015
## LDAP changes:
- Currently 8 committers and 8 committee group members.
- No new committee group members added in the last 3 months
- Last committee group addition was Richard Bowen at Mon Apr 20 2015
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Richard Bowen at Mon Apr 20 2015
## Releases:
- No official releases have been made yet, but we are discussing releasing the
pySTeVe component sometime soon.
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@steve.apache.org:
- 18 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 6 emails sent to list (1 in previous quarter)
- user@steve.apache.org:
- 10 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 0 emails sent to list (0 in previous quarter)
- issues@steve.apache.org:
- 11 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 0 emails sent to list (0 in previous quarter)
Note:
This month's report was drafted by Daniel Gruno and approved by
Jim Jagielski.
Description:
STeVe is a system for managing a plethora of vote mechanisms, most notably
the STV (Single Transferable Vote) method used in the ASF board elections.
Activity:
After a successful annual members meeting, many new ideas came up and were
discussed in the project. A new branch, called pySTeVe, was created with the
purpose of providing a unified web UI for setting up, voting and tallying
votes/issues with a modular architecture that allows numerous new ways of
voting. Of particular note is that pySTeVe is Python based, rather than
Perl. No official release has been made yet, but we are confident that
this will happen before the next annual meeting.
An online demo VM has been set up at https://vote-wip.apache.org/, which can
be used by Apache projects to both test pySTeVe and hold online votes on
issues. With infra's support, this VM is scheduled to host the next annual
members votes as well.
Health report:
The project is currently in a summer holiday hiatus, but has seen a great
influx in code, committers and discussion since the annual meeting. We are
confident that there is sufficient oversight in the PMC.
Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time
LDAP committee group/Committership changes:
- Currently 8 committers and 8 LDAP committee group members.
- No new LDAP committee group members added in the last 3 months
- Last LDAP committee group addition was Richard Bowen at Mon Apr 20 2015
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Richard Bowen at Mon Apr 20 2015
Releases:
- No releases made yet.
Mailing list activity:
- dev@steve.apache.org:
- 18 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 3 emails sent to list (218 in previous quarter)
- user@steve.apache.org:
- 10 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 0 emails sent to list (1 in previous quarter)
- issues@steve.apache.org:
- 11 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
- 0 emails sent to list (39 in previous quarter)
No report was submitted.
Apache Steve is a collection of tools and programs used by the
ASF to implement the STV voting system and tallying of results.
RELEASES
* No releases yet.
CURRENT ACTIVITY
* As expected, the annual ASF Members Meeting and elections have resulted
in a *huge* flurry of activity, especially from one of our new PMC
members: Daniel Gruno. Work on a Python version of STeVe, codenamed
pysteve, is ongoing, with some detailed implementation designs being
discussed.
COMMUNITY
* The previous 2 new committers were added in July 2013; since then we
have 4 new committers and PMC members:
o Alan Cabrera (03/2015)
o Sean Kelly (03/2015)
o Daniel Gruno (03/2015)
o Rich Bowen (04/2015)
ISSUES
* There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
Apache Steve is a collection of tools and programs used by the ASF to implement the STV voting system and tallying of results. RELEASES * No releases yet. CURRENT ACTIVITY * Things have been extremely slow and quiet. I expect once we need to actually *use* Steve again, things will pick up. COMMUNITY * The last 2 new committers were added in July 2013; since then there has been no new committers or PMC members. ISSUES * There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
Apache Steve is a collection of tools and programs used by the ASF to implement the STV voting system and tallying of results. RELEASES * No releases yet. CURRENT ACTIVITY * Things have been quite slow. Discussion on how and when to roll a release will be started on the dev list. COMMUNITY * The last 2 new committers were added in July 2013; since then there has been no change. ISSUES * There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
DESCRIPTION Apache Steve is a collection of tools and programs used by the ASF to implement the STV voting system and tallying of results. RELEASES * No releases yet. CURRENT ACTIVITY * The project DOAP file was created, as requested and required. * Alan Cabrera has been be working on documentation * The current codebase of Steve was used during the annual ASF Members Meeting, the 1st time since the project was created and the codebase "moved" to Steve. A few code changes were required and the codebase worked perfectly. * Discussion on how and when to roll a release will be started on the dev list. COMMUNITY * The last 2 new committers were added in July 2013; since then there has been no change. ISSUES * There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
DESCRIPTION Apache Steve is a collection of tools and programs used by the ASF to implement the STV voting system and tallying of results. RELEASES * No releases yet. CURRENT ACTIVITY * We are on-task to create a project DOAP file, as requested and required. * Alan Cabrera will be working on documentation * We assume that additional suggestions and improvements will result from the Annual ASF Members Meeting coming up, since that is the main use-case for Steve. COMMUNITY * The last 2 new committers were added in July 2013; since then there has been no change. ISSUES * There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
DESCRIPTION Apache Steve is a collection of tools and programs used by the ASF to implement the STV voting system and tallying of results. RELEASES * No releases yet. CURRENT ACTIVITY * Both the STeVe website [1] and JIRA [2] have been setup. Thx goes to Alan Cabrera and Sam Ruby, respectively. List traffic is quite slow. COMMUNITY * There has been no change in committers or members since June 2013. ISSUES * There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. [1] http://steve.apache.org [2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/STEVE
DESCRIPTION Apache Steve is a collection of tools and programs used by the ASF to implement the STV voting system and tallying of results. RELEASES * No releases yet. CURRENT ACTIVITY * Activity has slowed down quite a bit since last report. However, the project has been referred to by other external entities looking for STV voting tools. COMMUNITY * Since the last report, when we added 2 new committers, there has been no change. ISSUES * There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
DESCRIPTION Apache Steve is a collection of tools and programs used by the ASF to implement the STV voting system and tallying of results. RELEASES * No releases yet. CURRENT ACTIVITY * The Apache Steve website frame is up. A logo has been selected and work regarding populating the website will commence. * The code was used in the Incubator PMC Chair election. This was the 1st use of the tranferred code under the official Steve repo. * Work and discussion regarding porting the current Perl-based code to Python has started. We have baselined Python 2.7. * A REST-api and use of Sphinx is being discussed and whiteboarded. COMMUNITY * Since the last report we have added Alan Cabrera and Sean Kelly as new committers. ISSUES * There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
DESCRIPTION Apache Steve is a toolset implementing STV voting capability and counting. RELEASES * We are working towards a 1.0.0 release, based on the migration of the old ASF-specific codebases. CURRENT ACTIVITY * Website development is in the process of being finalized. We have an agreed-upon logo that will be used. We need to add 'TM' to the logo however, which is being done. * It is expected to use the formal release of Steve for the annual ASF members meeting in May. COMMUNITY * No change. ISSUES * There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
Apache Steve is a STV voting system toolset. No real progress has been made. We are promising ourselves to kick ourselves in the butt and get the site up and the repo populated.
Apache Steve is up to a somewhat slow start, with the SVN import being the main item to be resolved. DESCRIPTION Apache Steve is a collection of tools and programs used by the ASF to implement the STV voting system and tallying of results. RELEASES * No releases yet. CURRENT ACTIVITY * All Steve mailing lists, jira, wiki, etc. are set up per INFRA-5082 [1]. * Discussion continues on the dev mailing list regarding the SVN import issue in INFRA-5169 [2]. COMMUNITY * No new committers or PMC members ISSUES * There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-5082 [2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-5169
No report was submitted.
DESCRIPTION Apache Steve is a collection of tools and programs used by the ASF to implement the STV voting system and tallying of results. RELEASES * No releases yet. CURRENT ACTIVITY * All Steve mailing lists, jira, wiki, etc. are set up per INFRA-5082 [1]. * Discussion continues on the dev mailing list regarding the SVN import issue in INFRA-5169 [2]. * Dev list activity peaked at 17 messages in August 2012, and is down to 7 in September 2012. No commits list activity yet as we are waiting for SVN import to occur. COMMUNITY * No new committers or PMC members ISSUES * There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-5082 [2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-5169
* Summary No board-level issues at this time. The project was established just a few weeks ago, and is currently bootstrapping itself into existence. Version control, mailing lists, and the wiki have been set up. See [1] for more details. The project is currently reviewing issue tracker options, and its options for preserving development history of the formerly-private voter tools code. Greg Stein is producing an initial SVN dump as part of this effort [2]. [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-5082 [2] http://s.apache.org/yF
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors deems it to be in the best interests of the Foundation and consistent with the Foundation's purpose to establish a Project Management Committee charged with the creation and maintenance of open-source software, for distribution at no charge to the public, related to voting systems. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Apache Steve Project", be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache Steve Project be and hereby is responsible for the creation and maintenance of software related to voting systems; and be it further RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache Steve" be and hereby is created, the person holding such office to serve at the direction of the Board of Directors as the chair of the Apache Steve Project, and to have primary responsibility for management of the projects within the scope of responsibility of the Apache Steve Project; and be it further RESOLVED, that the persons listed immediately below be and hereby are appointed to serve as the initial members of the Apache Steve Project: * Jim Jagielski <jim@apache.org> * Chris A. Mattmann <mattmann@apache.org> * Sam Ruby <rubys@apache.org> * Greg Stein <gstein@apache.org> NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Jim Jagielski be appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Steve, to serve in accordance with and subject to the direction of the Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until death, resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification, or until a successor is appointed; and be it further RESOLVED, that the initial Apache Steve Project be and hereby is tasked with the creation of a set of bylaws intended to encourage open development and increased participation in the Apache Steve Project. Special Order 7A, Establish the Apache Steve Project, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.