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## Description: Apache Synapse is a high-performance, flexible, lightweight Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and a mediation framework. ## Project Status: Current project status: Active Issues for the board: None ## Membership Data: Apache Synapse was founded on 2007-12-19 (18 years ago). There are currently 36 committers and 27 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 4:3. Community changes, past quarter: No new PMC members. Last addition was Shafreen on 2021-05-09. No new committers. Last addition was Nuwan Jayawardene on 2022-11-19. ## Project Activity: Project activity has increased significantly. A suggestion was made to rewrite Synapse in GO lang, leading to the creation of a new GitHub repository named Synapse-Go to facilitate this initiative. The repository has already received the initial code contribution via a pull request. Active discussions are ongoing on the developer list regarding this development. ## Community Health: The dev@synapse.apache.org mailing list experienced an 1800% increase in traffic this past quarter (19 emails compared to 1 in the previous quarter), indicating revived community engagement and interest in the project's future.
No report was submitted.
## Description: Apache Synapse is a high-performance, flexible, lightweight Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and a mediation framework. ## Project Status: Current project status: Dormant Issues for the board: None ## Membership Data: Apache Synapse was founded on 2007-12-19 (17 years ago). There are currently 36 committers and 27 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 4:3. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Shafreen on 2021-05-09. - No new committers. Last addition was Nuwan Jayawardene on 2022-11-19. ## Project Activity: There is an ongoing discussion on the PMC mail thread titled "Moving WSO2 Synapse code to Apache Synapse" to merge the code from the forked repository (wso2-synapse) into the main codebase. The team is actively considering how to proceed with this integration and aims to execute the merge soon. Other than this discussion, there has been minimal activity in the project. ## Community Health: The community remains largely inactive, with limited contributions over the last quarter. The ongoing effort to merge the code from the forked repository is expected to stimulate community engagement once completed.
No report was submitted.
## Description: Apache Synapse is a high-performance, flexible, lightweight Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and a mediation framework. ## Project Status: Current project status: Dormant Issues for the board: None ## Membership Data: Apache Synapse was founded 2007-12-19 (17 years ago) There are currently 36 committers and 27 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 4:3. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Shafreen on 2021-05-09. - No new committers. Last addition was Nuwan Jayawardene on 2022-11-19. ## Project Activity: We have started the work on merging the fixes and new features done on a forked repo to Synapse code-base. Other than that there was not much activity in the project during this time period. There was a mail sent by the board to see whether we need to move the Synapse project to the attic, but since more than 3 PMC members responded by saying they are still willing to contribute, it was decided to keep the project going for sometime and see whether we can make progress. ## Community Health: There was no significant community activity in the project over the last quarter. We are still waiting to merge the fixes done in the forked repo, we expect to see a huge improvement in community contributions with that effort.
No report was submitted.
## Description: Apache Synapse is a high-performance, flexible, lightweight Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and a mediation framework. ## Project Status: Current project status: Dormant Issues for the board: None ## Membership Data: Apache Synapse was founded 2007-12-19 (16 years ago) There are currently 36 committers and 27 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 4:3. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Shafreen on 2021-05-09. - No new committers. Last addition was Nuwan Jayawardene on 2022-11-19. ## Project Activity: PMC is currently analyzing whether we can merge the fixes and new features done on a forked repo to Synapse code-base. Other than that there was not much activity in the project during this time period. ## Community Health: dev@synapse.apache.org had a 80% decrease in traffic in the past quarter (6 emails compared to 30) 0 commits in the past quarter (-100% change) 0 code contributors in the past quarter (-100% change) 0 PRs opened on GitHub, past quarter (-100% change) 0 PRs closed on GitHub, past quarter (-100% change) Contributors who were active in the project got busy and couldn't do much work on the Project. If we manage to merge the fixes done in the forked repo, we expect to see a huge improvement in the community contributions in the next quarter.
@Christofer: pursue a roll call vote
No report was submitted.
## Description: Apache Synapse is a high-performance, flexible, lightweight Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and a mediation framework. ## Project Status: Current project status: Dormant Issues for the board: None ## Membership Data: Apache Synapse was founded 2007-12-19 (16 years ago) There are currently 36 committers and 27 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 4:3. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Shafreen on 2021-05-09. - No new committers. Last addition was Nuwan Jayawardene on 2022-11-19. ## Project Activity: The project activity has increased slightly compared to the last quarter. We received a new feature contribution from a new contributor. There is an important discussion going on the PMC list at the moment of merging a massive amount of features and bug fixes done in a forked repo into the Apache Synapse code base. Depending on the outcome of the PMC discussion, I will write a separate email to the board if we feel it requires board attention. ## Community Health: dev@synapse.apache.org had a 400% increase in traffic in the past quarter (30 emails compared to 6) 3 issues opened in JIRA, past quarter (300% increase) 1 commit in the past quarter (100% increase) 1 code contributor in the past quarter (100% increase) 2 PRs opened on GitHub, past quarter (100% increase)
No report was submitted.
## Description: Apache Synapse is a high-performance, flexible, lightweight Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and a mediation framework. ## Project Status: Current project status: Dormant Issues for the board: None ## Membership Data: Apache Synapse was founded 2007-12-19 (16 years ago) There are currently 36 committers and 27 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 4:3. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Shafreen on 2021-05-09. - No new committers. Last addition was Nuwan Jayawardene on 2022-11-19. ## Project Activity: After the 3.0.2 release, there was not much activity in the project. However last week several people expressed their interest in contributing to the project. One person has expressed an interest in simplifying the Synapse release process which is one of the key items we are planning to focus on at the moment. We hope we will able to increase the activity a bit more with these new contributions. ## Community Health: dev@synapse.apache.org had a 183% increase in traffic in the past quarter (17 emails compared to 6) 0 commits in the past quarter (no change) 0 code contributors in the past quarter (no change) 1 PR opened on GitHub, past quarter (100% increase) 1 PR closed on GitHub, past quarter (100% increase)
No report was submitted.
No report was submitted.
## Description: Apache Synapse is a high-performance, flexible, lightweight Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and a mediation framework. ## Project Status: Ongoing ## Membership Data: Apache Synapse was founded 2007-12-19 (15 years ago) There are currently 36 committers and 27 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 4:3. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Shafreen on 2021-05-09. - No new committers. Last addition was Nuwan Jayawardene on 2022-11-19. ## Project Activity: We managed to complete the long waited Synapse 3.0.2 release in May. It was done almost after 6 years. Now we need to work on automating the release process to make it simpler to do a release. ## Community Health: dev@synapse.apache.org had a 204% increase in traffic in the past quarter (61 emails compared to 20) 2 issues opened in JIRA, past quarter (200% increase) 8 issues closed in JIRA, past quarter (800% increase) 15 commits in the past quarter (200% increase) 2 code contributors in the past quarter (100% increase) 7 PRs opened on GitHub, past quarter (133% increase) 6 PRs closed on GitHub, past quarter (200% increase) All stats have gone up due to the activities related to the last release.
## Description: Apache Synapse is a high-performance, flexible, lightweight Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and a mediation framework. ## Issues: None identified. ## Membership Data: Apache Synapse was founded 2007-12-19 (15 years ago) There are currently 36 committers and 27 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 4:3. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Shafreen on 2021-05-09. - No new committers. Last addition was Nuwan Jayawardene on 2022-11-19. ## Project Activity: We resumed the release work last week. The release manager who was away due to medical conditions became available again to drive the release. Currently we have frozen the code and now all set for the final stage of the release. ## Community Health: dev@synapse.apache.org had a 135% increase in traffic in the past quarter (33 emails compared to 14) 7 commits in the past quarter (600% increase) 1 code contributor in the past quarter (no change) 4 PRs opened on GitHub, past quarter (33% increase) 3 PRs closed on GitHub, past quarter (50% increase) Community health got improved in this time period. With the release activities this will get further improved in the future.
No report was submitted.
## Description: Apache Synapse is a high-performance, flexible, lightweight Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and a mediation framework. ## Issues: None identified. ## Membership Data: Apache Synapse was founded on 2007-12-19 (15 years ago) There are currently 36 committers and 27 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 4:3. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. The last addition was Shafreen on 2021-05-09. - Nuwan Jayawardene was added as committer on 2022-11-19 ## Project Activity: The PMC voted to onboard the new contributor (Nuwan) as a committer during the last quarter. He is continuously working on providing fixes related to his GSoC project. However, we couldn't get the release done yet. The release manager (Shafreen) met with an accident and was away for some time. Hopefully, we should be able to continue with the long waited release after he comes back. ## Community Health: dev@synapse.apache.org had a 66% decrease in traffic in the past quarter (10 emails compared to 29) 1 commit in the past quarter (-92% change) 1 code contributor in the past quarter (no change) 3 PRs opened on GitHub, past quarter (300% increase) 2 PRs closed on GitHub, past quarter (no change No improvement to the project in the quarter as well. If we cannot get enough community activities even after doing the next release, we need to decide whether to move the project into the attic.
No report was submitted.
## Description: Apache Synapse is a high-performance, flexible, lightweight Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and a mediation framework. ## Issues: None identified. ## Membership Data: Apache Synapse was founded 2007-12-19 (15 years ago) There are currently 35 committers and 27 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 9:7. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Shafreen on 2021-05-09. - No new committers. Last addition was Shafreen on 2020-07-14. ## Project Activity: The new contributor has completed his work and we could merge his work into the source repository. Now we can continue with the release work which we put on hold until we get the new contributions merged. Even though we got some code contributions from the new contributor, the project activities and community health has gone down. We are going to onboard the new contributor as a committer and see whether we can give a new life to the project. However, if things are not going to improve the project activity, we might need to think about whether to move the project into the attic. ## Community Health: dev@synapse.apache.org had a 66% decrease in traffic in the past quarter (10 emails compared to 29) 14 commits in the past quarter (-64% change) 1 code contributor in the past quarter (-75% change) 0 PRs opened on GitHub, past quarter (-100% change) 2 PRs closed on GitHub, past quarter (-80% change)
No report was submitted.
## Description: Apache Synapse is a high performance, flexible, lightweight Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and a mediation framework. ## Issues: None identified. ## Membership Data: Apache Synapse was founded 2007-12-19 (15 years ago) There are currently 35 committers and 27 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 9:7. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Shafreen on 2021-05-09. - No new committers. Last addition was Shafreen on 2020-07-14. ## Project Activity: We started the release process of the next release but put it on hold until several new contributions made by our new contributor get finalized and merged into the source repository. The new contributor is currently working on that at the moment, and we will be able to get on with the release process soon. ## Community Health: dev@synapse.apache.org had a 66% decrease in traffic in the past quarter (10 emails compared to 29) 37 commits in the past quarter (3700% increase) 3 code contributors in the past quarter (300% increase) 18 PRs opened on GitHub, past quarter (500% increase) 10 PRs closed on GitHub, past quarter (1000% increase)
No report was submitted.
## Description: Apache Synapse is a high performance, flexible, lightweight Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and a mediation framework. ## Issues: None identified. ## Membership Data: Apache Synapse was founded 2007-12-19 (14 years ago) There are currently 35 committers and 27 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 9:7. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Shafreen on 2021-05-09. - No new committers. Last addition was Shafreen on 2020-07-14. ## Project Activity: The new contributor who did the Google Summer of Code project with us is actively contributing to the project. As mentioned in the last report we are planning to do the next release with new contributors' contributions in April. Also planning to configure Github actions to automate the steps in the release process. ## Community Health: dev@synapse.apache.org had a 66% decrease in traffic in the past quarter (10 emails compared to 29) 1 PR opened on GitHub, past quarter (100% increase)
## Description: Apache Synapse is a high performance, flexible, lightweight Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and a mediation framework. ## Issues: Currently, there are no issues reported. ## Membership Data: Apache Synapse was founded 2007-12-19 (14 years ago) There are currently 35 committers and 27 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 9:7. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. The last addition was Shafreen on 2021-05-09. - No new committers. The last addition was Shafreen on 2020-07-14. ## Project Activity: - New contributors are actively developing modules to enable cloud nativeness to Apache synapse. - Along with these new changes, we are targeting to do a new release in Q2 2022. ## Community Health: - dev@synapse.apache.org had a 66% decrease in traffic in the past quarter (10 emails compared to 29).
No report was submitted.
## Description: Apache Synapse is a high performance, flexible, lightweight Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and a mediation framework. ## Issues: None identified. ## Membership Data: Apache Synapse was founded 2007-12-19 (14 years ago) There are currently 35 committers and 27 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 9:7. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Shafreen on 2021-05-09. - No new committers. Last addition was Shafreen on 2020-07-14. ## Project Activity: The Google Summer of Code project 'Containerisation of Apache Synapse ESB'[1] was completed successfully. We got a good contribution from the student (Nuwan Jayawardene). This is a good initiative for us to improve Synapse to support containerized decentralized architecture. Nuwan is willing to engage with the community after the project completion too. We were unable to complete the work we targeting for the next release. We hope we will be able to complete it soon. This is the first release we are going after moving the code to Github. We hope to automate most of the activities in the release process with Github so that we can minimize the cycles that we need to spend on triggering a release. [1] https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/projects/#5453446305546240 ## Community Health: dev@synapse.apache.org had a 22% decrease in traffic in the past quarter (25 emails compared to 32) 2 PRs opened on GitHub, past quarter (100% increase) 2 PRs closed on GitHub, past quarter (100% increase)
## Description: Apache Synapse is a high performance, flexible, lightweight Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and a mediation framework. ## Issues: None identified. ## Membership Data: Apache Synapse was founded 2007-12-19 (13 years ago) There are currently 35 committers and 27 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 9:7. Community changes, past quarter: - Shafreen was added to the PMC on 2021-05-09 - No new committers. Last addition was Shafreen on 2020-07-14. ## Project Activity: There are mainly two highlights. 1. Shafreen was added to the PMC. He is working on the next release as the release manager. 2. The project 'Containerisation of Apache Synapse ESB'[1] submitted for Google Summer of Code, got accepted and the student (Nuwan Jayawardene) has started to work on the project. This is a very good opportunity for us to increase the project activity. [1] https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/projects/#5453446305546240 ## Community Health: dev@synapse.apache.org had a 45% increase in traffic in the past quarter (32 emails compared to 22) As we expected mailing list activity has increased significantly due to discussions related to GSOC project. We expect to see this trend continues into Github activities as well.
## Description: Apache Synapse is a high performance, flexible, lightweight Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and a mediation framework. ## Issues: None identified. ## Membership Data: Apache Synapse was founded 2007-12-19 (13 years ago) There are currently 35 committers and 26 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 9:7. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. The last addition was Prabath Ariyarathna on 2017-05-04. - No new committers. The last addition was Shafreen on 2020-07-14. ## Project Activity: Shafreen (the new committer) has started the release process. We are expecting to complete the release in the next month. Synapse is participating in the Google Summer of Code program this year. We have added two project proposals to the Apache ideas list[1] and got attention from students as well. [1] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/COMDEV/ GSoC+2021+Ideas+list#GSoC2021Ideaslist-Synapse ## Community Health: dev@synapse.apache.org had a 5% decrease in traffic in the past quarter (22 emails compared to 23) 2 issues opened in JIRA, past quarter (100% increase) We expect these numbers to get increased significantly with the release work we are doing in the near future.
## Description: Apache Synapse is a high performance, flexible, lightweight Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and a mediation framework. ## Issues: None identified. ## Membership Data: Apache Synapse was founded 2007-12-19 (13 years ago) There are currently 35 committers and 26 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 9:7. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Prabath Ariyarathna on 2017-05-04. - No new committers. Last addition was Shafreen on 2020-07-14. ## Project Activity: We have initiated a new release to include the recent contributions we received from the newly elected committer Shafreen. He has volunteered to play the role of the release manager. We have included project ideas to Apache's Google summer of code project proposals to see whether we could attract new contributors through that program. ## Community Health: dev@synapse.apache.org had a 38% increase in traffic in the past quarter (29 emails compared to 21) 1 issue opened in JIRA, past quarter (100% increase) 3 commits in the past quarter (-25% decrease) 1 code contributor in the past quarter (-50% decrease) 2 PRs opened on GitHub, past quarter (-33% decrease) 2 PRs closed on GitHub, past quarter (-50% decrease) We expect these numbers to get increased singnificantly with the release work we are doing in the near future.
No report was submitted.
## Description: Apache Synapse is a high performance, flexible, lightweight Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and a mediation framework. ## Issues: None identified. ## Membership Data: Apache Synapse was founded 2007-12-19 (13 years ago) There are currently 35 committers and 26 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 9:7. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Prabath Ariyarathna on 2017-05-04. - 1 new committer. Last addition was Shafreen on 2020-07-14. ## Project Activity: We continued to get contributions from a new contributor during this period as well. We onboarded him as a committer. We will be electing him as a PMC member soon. We are planning to do a new release with all the new improvements made by the new committer. With the help of Shafreen (new committer) we could clean-up the Github code base, build jobs, etc. ## Community Health: dev@synapse.apache.org had a 51% decrease in traffic in the past quarter (27 emails compared to 55) 4 commits in the past quarter (-42% decrease) 2 code contributors in the past quarter (no change) 3 PRs opened on GitHub, past quarter (-25% decrease) 4 PRs closed on GitHub, past quarter (no change) Eventhough numbers doesn't look good in this quarter, we expect to see an improvement as we will be working on the next release.
No report was submitted.
## Description: Apache Synapse is a high performance, flexible, lightweight Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and a mediation framework. ## Issues: None identified. ## Membership Data: Apache Synapse was founded 2007-12-19 (13 years ago) There are currently 34 committers and 26 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 9:7. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Prabath Ariyarathna on 2017-05-04. - No new committers. Last addition was Prabath Ariyarathna on 2017-02-10. - We just closed the vote for onboarding a new committer. ## Project Activity: We continued to get contributions from a new contributor during this period as well. So PMC decided to start a vote to elect the new contributor as a committer. The vote has been closed with a success and we are in the process of completing the process. Hope to see more contributions from new contributors. ## Community Health: dev@synapse.apache.org had a 31% decrease in traffic in the past quarter (76 emails compared to 110) 1 issue opened in JIRA, past quarter (-90% decrease) 0 issues closed in JIRA, past quarter (-100% decrease) 7 commits in the past quarter (-78% decrease) 3 code contributors in the past quarter (-25% decrease) 3 PRs opened on GitHub, past quarter (-85% decrease) 4 PRs closed on GitHub, past quarter (-80% decrease)
No report was submitted.
## Description: Apache Synapse is a high performance, flexible, lightweight Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and a mediation framework. ## Issues: None identified. ## Membership Data: Apache Synapse was founded 2007-12-19 (12 years ago) There are currently 34 committers and 26 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 9:7. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Prabath Ariyarathna on 2017-05-04. - No new committers. Last addition was Prabath Ariyarathna on 2017-02-10. ## Project Activity: Project activity has increased in this quarter compared to the previous one. Even though there is no major activity from the existing committers, two new contributors are giving a new life to the project. They are active in making code contributions, fixing build failures, configuring Jenkins build, etc. So we are looking forward to moving the project in the right direction with the help of new contributors. ## Community Health: dev@synapse.apache.org had a 27% increase in traffic in the past quarter (46 emails compared to 36) 4 issues opened in JIRA, past quarter (100% increase) 1 issue closed in JIRA, past quarter 7 commits in the past quarter (600% increase) 3 code contributors in the past quarter (200% increase) 5 PRs opened on GitHub, past quarter (400% increase) 5 PRs closed on GitHub, past quarter (25% increase) Numbers have increased compared to last quarter mainly due to the contributions from new contributors.
## Description: Apache Synapse is a high performance, flexible, lightweight Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and a mediation framework. ## Issues: None identified. ## Membership Data: Apache Synapse was founded 2007-12-19 (12 years ago) There are currently 34 committers and 26 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 9:7. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Prabath Ariyarathna on 2017-05-04. - No new committers. Last addition was Prabath Ariyarathna on 2017-02-10. ## Project Activity: We were expecting to see an increase in the activity of the project after the Github move. But it didn't happen to the expected level. We are having discussions on the PMC list on how we can improve the activity. One of the major discussion points is that whether we should position Synapse as an integration framework rather than an ESB. The world has been moved towards container friendly products, microservices, and cloud-native technologies. With a little effort, we could make Synapse a container friendly product that suits any architectural style for doing the integration. ## Community Health: dev@synapse.apache.org had a 16% increase in traffic in the past quarter (36 emails compared to 31) Activity in the Jira has also gone down in the last quarter.
## Description: Apache Synapse is a high performance, flexible, lightweight Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and a mediation framework. ## Issues: None identified. ## Membership Data: Apache Synapse was founded 2007-12-19 (12 years ago) There are currently 34 committers and 26 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 9:7. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Prabath Ariyarathna on 2017-05-04. - No new committers. Last addition was Prabath Ariyarathna on 2017-02-10. ## Project Activity: There was a slight increase in the activity in the project compared to the last quarter. One of the major activity we did during this quarter is moving the project source code into Github. Moving the source into Github make life easier for new contributors to send contributions. We got several contributions from three new contributors after we did this move. We are planning to incorporate a build system (Travis or Jenkins) for Github pull requests through Github webhooks to make the review process simpler. ## Community Health: There is a slight drop in the mailing list activity compared to last quarter. Activity in the Jira has also gone down. However, activity in Github and commits has gone up. We see a positive trend in the project activity in the latter half of the quarter after project source code is moved to Github. So hopefully we will able to increase the project activity further in the next quarter too. A new contributor has given a suggestion and submitted a pull request to introduce a unit testing framework for Synapse configurations. It is going to be a major feature addition that we couldn’t introduce so far. We are looking forward to more new contributions with the positive trend created with the Github move.
## Description:
Apache Synapse is a high performance, flexible, lightweight Enterprise Service
Bus (ESB) and a mediation framework.
## Issues:
None identified.
## Activity:
There was a significant increase in the activity in the project compared to
the last quarter. We actively worked on taking actions to security review
requested by the ASF security team. We got several contributions from a new
contributor who is interested in joining the project. Few committers worked on
committing the patches provided by our contributors. We are looking forward to
moving our source code into GitHub soon. So that it will ease the process of
providing new contributions and incorporating fixes into the codebase.
Answering to the followup question raised for the last report
Question: “Where was the "bring the project back to life" meeting organized?”
Answer: Meeting notes can be found in mail thread “Synapse Next Release
Initiation” at private@synapse.apache.org mailing list.
## Health report:
We see a positive trend in the project activity in the latter half of the
quarter. So hopefully we will able to increase the project activity further in
the next quarter too.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 27 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Prabath Ariyarathna on Thu May 04 2017
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 34 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Prabath Ariyarathna at Fri Feb 10 2017
## Releases:
- Last release was 3.0.1 on Sat Dec 09 2017
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@synapse.apache.org:
- 178 subscribers (down -5 in the last 3 months):
- 47 emails sent to list (12 in previous quarter)
- user@synapse.apache.org:
- 176 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
- 0 emails sent to list (1 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 6 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 5 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
## Description:
Apache Synapse is a high performance, flexible, lightweight Enterprise Service
Bus (ESB) and a mediation framework.
## Issues:
None identified.
## Activity:
There was no major activity in the project in the last quarter.
## Health report:
PMC members and contributors who were active in the project for doing the last
release had a meeting to see how we can bring back project into life. So as
the starting point, we decided to flush the pending Jira tickets by reviewing
issues, reviewing and committing patches, etc. When we get into a good state
we will plan for the next release.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 27 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Prabath Ariyarathna on Thu May 04 2017
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 34 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Prabath Ariyarathna at Fri Feb 10 2017
## Releases:
- Last release was 3.0.1 on Sat Dec 09 2017
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@synapse.apache.org:
- 184 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
- 16 emails sent to list (17 in previous quarter)
- user@synapse.apache.org:
- 177 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 1 emails sent to list (1 in previous quarter)
## Description:
Apache Synapse is a high performance, flexible, lightweight
Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and a mediation framework.
## Issues:
None identified.
## Activity:
There was a slight increase of the activity in the project compared to last quarter.
## Health report:
All PMC members and committers active on the project in the recent past got busy with their other work, so they couldn’t contribute to the project.
We hope to bring back the project to life at towards the end of the year during December vacation.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 27 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Prabath Ariyarathna on Thu May 04 2017
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 34 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Prabath Ariyarathna at Fri Feb 10 2017
## Releases:
- Last release was 3.0.1 on Sat Dec 09 2017
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@synapse.apache.org:
- 185 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
- 18 emails sent to list (5 in previous quarter)
- user@synapse.apache.org:
- 177 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 1 emails sent to list (3 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 2 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 2 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
## Description:
Apache Synapse is a high performance, flexible, lightweight
Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and a mediation framework.
## Issues:
None identified.
## Activity:
There was a slight increase of the activity in the project compared to last quarter.
## Health report:
All PMC members and committers active on the project in the recent past got busy with their other work, so they couldn’t contribute to the project.
We hope to bring back the project to life at towards the end of the year.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 27 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Prabath Ariyarathna on Thu May 04 2017
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 34 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Prabath Ariyarathna at Fri Feb 10 2017
## Releases:
- Last release was 3.0.1 on Sat Dec 09 2017
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@synapse.apache.org:
- 185 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
- 17 emails sent to list (5 in previous quarter)
- user@synapse.apache.org:
- 177 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 1 emails sent to list (3 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 2 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 2 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
## Description:
Apache Synapse is a high performance, flexible, lightweight
Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and a mediation framework.
## Issues:
None identified.
## Activity:
There was only minimum activity of the project in this quarter. We expected to boost the project activity with a new set of contributors, but it did not happen.
## Health report:
All PMC members and committers active on the project in the recent past got busy with their other work, so they couldn’t contribute to the project.
We hope to see whether we can bring back the project to life in next two quarters, if not we may have to take a decision on whether we should call it a day.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 27 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Prabath Ariyarathna on Thu May 04 2017
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 34 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Prabath Ariyarathna at Fri Feb 10 2017
## Releases:
- Last release was 3.0.1 on Sat Dec 09 2017
- dev@synapse.apache.org:
- 186 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 8 emails sent to list (6 in previous quarter)
- user@synapse.apache.org:
- 177 subscribers (down -3 in the last 3 months):
- 2 emails sent to list (3 in previous quarter)
No report was submitted.
## Description: Apache Synapse is a high performance, flexible, lightweight Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and a mediation framework. ## Issues: None identified. ## Activity: We couldn’t get the release work going as expected in this quarter due to lack of activity/cycles of the contributors. However we expect to boost the activity of the project as WSO2 (the major consumer of Apache Synapse) is willing to contribute again by providing bug fixes and features they have done for their forked repository of Apache Synapse. To encourage and make things much easier for the external contributors, we are discussing to move our source repository to github. ## PMC changes: - Currently 27 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Prabath Ariyarathna on Thu May 04 2017 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 34 committers. - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was Prabath Ariyarathna at Fri Feb 10 2017 ## Releases: - Last release was 3.0.1 on Sat Dec 09 2017
## Description: Apache Synapse is a high performance, flexible, lightweight Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and a mediation framework. ## Issues: None identified. ## Activity: After the Synapse 3.0.1 release, activity on the project has gone down in last quarter. That is mainly because of all the active committers got busy on their regular day to day work at the start of the year. Community is actively responding to the security issues reported by the external people. But other than that there wasn't much activity. We expect to get more contribution from the community in Q2 as several people have expressed their interest in contributing to the project. Plan is to get the next release done in Q2. ## PMC changes: - Currently 27 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Prabath Ariyarathna on Thu May 04 2017 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 34 committers. - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was Prabath Ariyarathna at Fri Feb 10 2017 ## Releases: - Last release was 3.0.1 on Sat Dec 09 2017
[REPORT] Synapse - December 2017 ## Description: Apache Synapse is a high performance, flexible, lightweight Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and a mediation framework. ## Issues: None identified. ## Activity: Synapse 3.0.1 was released last week. It is a patch release which contains bug fixes and library upgrades to 3.0.0 major feature release. Newly elected PMC members are actively contributing to the project. A newly elected PMC member acted as the release manager for 3.0.1 release. ## PMC changes: - Currently 27 PMC members - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition: Thu May 04 2017 (Prabath Ariyarathna) ## Committer base changes: - Currently 34 committers. - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was Prabath Ariyarathna at Fri Feb 10 2017 ## Releases: - Last release was 3.0.1 on Sat Dec 09 2017
Synapse - September 2017 ## Description: Apache Synapse is a high performance, flexible, lightweight Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and a mediation framework. ## Issues: None identified. ## Activity: We are working on the next synapse feature release at the moment. We got some attraction from few new developers, one of them submitted a new feature. Newly elected PMC members are actively contributing to the project. ## PMC changes: - Currently 27 PMC members - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months ## Committer base changes: - Currently 34 committers. - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was Prabath Ariyarathna at Fri Feb 10 2017 ## Releases: - Last release was 3.0.0 on Wed Jan 04 2017
[REPORT] Synapse - June 2017
## Description:
Apache Synapse is a high performance, flexible, lightweight
Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and a mediation framework.
## Issues:
None identified.
## Activity:
After the synapse 3.0 major release, there was no major activity happened in the project.
Two of the committers were added to the PMC.
Now we are planning to do a patch release by fixing some of the identified bugs in the 3.0 release.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 27 PMC members.
- New PMC members:
- Prabath Ariyarathna was added to the PMC on Thu May 04 2017
- Vanjikumaran Sivajothy was added to the PMC on Thu May 04 2017
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 34 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Prabath Ariyarathna at Fri Feb 10 2017
## Releases:
- Last release was 3.0.0 on Wed Jan 04 2017
[REPORT] Synapse - March 2017 Apache Synapse is a high performance, flexible, lightweight Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and a mediation framework. Community ========= The last committer was added in Feb 2017: Prabath Ariyarathna (prabathar) As indicated in the last report, we managed the get the long awaited Synapse 3.0.0 release out in December 2016. It was after nearly five years (previous release was done in Jan 2012). Several new contributors helped us a lot for this release. Two of them (Vanjikumaran Shivajothy and Prabath Ariyarathna) were onboarded as committers. Releases ======== 1 release since the last report - Synapse 3.0.0 released on December 2016 . Board Issues ============ None identified.
Apache Synapse is a high performance, flexible, lightweight Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and a mediation framework. Community ========= The last committer and PMC member was added in May 2016: Ravi Undupitiya (ravi) We have completed most of the development work related to the 3.0 release. Since we are doing a major revamp of the http protocol handling transport, this release requires a significant amount of testing. Several committers and no committers are working on testing the release and hopefully we should be able to get the release out by end of the year. Releases ======== There have been no new releases since the last report. The last release of Synapse is version 2.1, which was released on January, 2012. Board Issues ============ None identified.
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Hiranya Jayathilaka (hiranya) to the office of Vice President, Apache Synapse, and WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of Hiranya Jayathilaka from the office of Vice President, Apache Synapse, and WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Synapse project has chosen by vote to recommend Isuru Udana (isudana) as the successor to the post; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Hiranya Jayathilaka is relieved and discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice President, Apache Synapse, and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Isuru Udana be and hereby is appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Synapse, 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 Synapse Project Chair, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
Apache Synapse is a high performance, flexible, lightweight Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and a mediation framework. Community ========= The last committer and PMC member was added in May 2016: Ravi Undupitiya (ravi) There is some development work taking place in the project targetting the next release. Albeit slow progress, we are hopeful that the 3.0 release can be finished soon. Releases ======== There have been no new releases since the last report. The last release of Synapse is version 2.1, which was released on January, 2012. Board Issues ============ We have elected a new PMC chair, as per the recommendation made by the board. The corresponding resolution is filed under the special orders section of the November 2016 board meeting agenda.
No report was submitted.
minimal activity; if this doesn't change (in particular, the board is looking for a new chair) attic will be the next step.
@Mark: pursue a report for Synapse and request for a new chair
No report was submitted.
Apache Synapse is a high performance, flexible, lightweight Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and a mediation framework. Community ========= The last committer and PMC member was added in May 2016: Ravi Undupitiya (ravi) Last month Brett Porter informed our community about the process for moving the project into the attic. Interestingly, this email has had a significant rejuvenating effect on the project. Since the email went out at least 4 volunteers have come forward who have expressed strong interest in contributing to the project and keeping it alive. One of them also volunteered to drive the next Synapse release as the release manager. We have voted him in as a committer and a PMC member, and he is currently working on fixing open issues to get the release out. Other volunteers have also been highly active in the project over the past few weeks. As a result we have had more development activity in Synapse over the last 3 weeks, than we have had in 3 years. Given the current level of participation, our chances of getting a release out soon is very good at the moment. We intend to vote in rest of these new volunteers as committers in the near future. Releases ======== There have been no new releases since the last report. The last release of Synapse is version 2.1, which was released on January, 2012. Work is successfully underway for a 3.0 release. Board Issues ============ In light of the new contributors who have come forward to resurrect the project, we will not be pursing a move to attic at this point in time. I (hiranya) will continue to serve and oversee the project as the PMC chair until a replacement is found.
No report was submitted.
No report was submitted.
@Brett: help Synapse in its move to the Attic.
No report was submitted.
Apache Synapse is a high performance, flexible, lightweight Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and a mediation framework. Community ========= No new committers or PMC members were nominated this quarter. Latest Synapse committer was elected on December, 2013. Latest Synapse PMC member was elected on December, 2013. Releases ======== There have been no new releases during this period. The last release of Synapse is version 2.1, which was released on January, 2012. Board Issues ============ Over the past few years the community interest towards Synapse has been dwindling, with a considerable decline in the number of commits and the mailing list traffic. For instance, we haven't had any commits or meaningful mailing list conversations over the last reporting period. Right now it is only myself (PMC chair) who is even reasonably active on the project, with occasional contributions coming from Andreas Viethen in the way of basic code maintenance. And with myself gettig occupied with academic work, the project is almost at a standstill. I would personally like to do one more release before we terminate the project, but without a compatible Axis2 release this is not possible. I personally don't have time to contribute towards an Axis2 release, and the other Synapse committers haven't stepped in to make any contributions either. Given these conditions I don't believe there's any point in trying to keep the project alive. I have already initiated a discussion on the Synapse PMC list about retiring the project. This thread was opened on 12th of January, and it hasn't garnered a single response as of today -- 6 days later. I think this sums up the current level of interest towards the project. I will now go ahead and call for a vote to retire the project, and kick off the procedure to move the Synapse into Attic. I intend to send the corresponding resolution to the board by next month's board meeting.
Jim: There seems to be a lot of discussion but not much communication between the two PMCs. @Jim: Report again next month
No report was submitted.
Apache Synapse is a high performance, flexible, lightweight Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and a mediation framework. Community ========= No new committers or PMC members were nominated during this period. Latest Synapse committer was elected on December, 2013. Latest Synapse PMC member was elected on December, 2013. Releases ======== There have been no new releases during this period. The last release of Synapse is version 2.1, which was released on January, 2012. We continue to work with the Axis2 community on getting an Axis2 release out, which has been a significant blocker for releasing Synapse. Note that we are waiting for the Axis2 1.7 release which will be based on the current SVN trunk of Axis2. This is necessary since the current Synapse code depends on Axis2 trunk. The last Axis2 release (1.6.3 released on June 2015), is a maintenance release based on the Axis2 1.6 branch. This branch dates back to May 2011, and we haven't used it in Synapse since our 2.1 release in January 2012. We used Axis2 1.6.1 in that last release of Synapse, and we had to backport Synapse code from Axis2 trunk to the 1.6 branch to make it happen. Since then both Axis2 and Synapse trunks have evolved significantly, and we are now at a position where backporting Synapse to Axis2 1.6 branch is no longer easy nor makes sense. Overall progress towards Axis2 1.7 and Synapse releases has been slow but steady. Issues have been fixed/resolved more aggressively than usual, and some of the build issues that have been affecting both projects have been resolved. Overall, there have been multiple positive signs that an Axis2 1.7 release is imminent. Board Issues ============ None identified
Apache Synapse is a high performance, flexible, lightweight Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and a mediation framework. Community ========= No new committers or PMC members were nominated this quarter. Latest Synapse committer was elected on December, 2013. Latest Synapse PMC member was elected on December, 2013. We continue to work with the Axis2 community on getting an Axis2 release out, which has been a significant blocker for releasing Synapse. Progress has been slow but steady. Issues have been fixed/resolved more aggressively than usual, and some of the build issues that have been affecting both projects have been resolved. Overall, there have been multiple positive signs that an Axis2 release is imminent. Releases ======== There have been no new releases during this period. The last release of Synapse is version 2.1, which was released on January, 2012. Board Issues ============ None identified
The report is not approved. @Shane: What are the plans for a release, now that Axis has released?
Apache Synapse is a high performance, flexible, lightweight Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and a mediation framework. Community ========= No new committers or PMC members were nominated this quarter. Latest Synapse committer was elected on December, 2013. Latest Synapse PMC member was elected on December, 2013. We had a discussion on our pmc and dev mailing lists about the future of the Synapse project. While the responses were few, there were several developers and contributors who showed great interest in moving the project forward towards another release. Consequently, we have started collaborating with the Axis2 community more closely. Synapse PMC chair and few other Synapse contributors have already started providing patches for various issues in Axis2, and the Axis2 team has provided us with commit rights in return. We are hopeful that this collaborative effort would lead to an expedited Axis2 release, which in turns would enable a Synapse release. Releases ======== There have been no new releases during this period. The last release of Synapse is version 2.1, which was released on January, 2012.
No report was submitted.
@Sam: is it time for the Attic?
Apache Synapse is a high performance, flexible, lightweight Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and a mediation framework. Community ========= No new committers or PMC members were nominated this quarter. Latest Synapse committer was elected on December, 2013. Latest Synapse PMC member was elected on December, 2013. Releases ======== There have been no new releases during this period. The last release of Synapse is version 2.1, which was released on January, 2012. Board issues ============ Despite our best of intentions, we continue to find it difficult to do a new release. The libraries we depend on (Apache Axis2 and related projects) haven't been released in a while, and releasing them on our own also seems to be a challenge. We are also seeing a significant drop in the activity level in our code base. Last commit has been made on 21st of September 2014. It appears that our community members are either busy, or they have shifted their interests to other endeavors. Given these circumstances, we would like to get the opinion of the board on how we should proceed.
@Brett: help Axis and Synapse PMCs to work together to unblock the release
Apache Synapse is a high performance, flexible, lightweight Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and a mediation framework. Community ========= No new committers or PMC members were nominated this quarter. Latest Synapse committer was elected on December, 2013. Latest Synapse PMC member was elected on December, 2013. Releases ======== There have been no new releases during this period. The last release of Synapse is version 2.1, which was released on January, 2012. Our release process is still blocked by the absence of a compatible Apache Axis2 release. After our last board report, it was suggested that we consider the option of contributing our time and effort into Axis2, so we can get it released. This proposal was sent to our mailing list for discussion but it hasn't garnered a positive response from the Synapse community. I believe that the above proposal is based on the premise that at some point in the past, both Axis2 and Synapse projects were maintained by more or less the same people. But to my understanding these committers are no longer active in either project. Currently active Synapse committers were all voted in within the last three years, and they are not Axis2 experts. And so far they haven't shown any interest in actively working on the Axis2 project. As it stands now, we prefer to treat Axis2 as yet another external dependency on which we can develop Synapse code. To get around this hurdle, we have been looking into the possibility of branching the current Axis2 trunk and doing a Synapse-specific release (current Axis2 trunk is stable enough for our purposes). But this option also poses some challenges due to the long dependency chain of Synapse and Axis2. As it turns out we also need releases from several other projects such as Axiom, WSS4J and XmlSchema. However, so far this is the only option that has succeeded in gathering any kind of momentum in the Synapse dev community. Therefore, we will continue to explore this idea. Board issues ============ None identified, although any feedback on how to handle the above mentioned release problem will be much appreciated.
@Brett: Discuss how to work with Axis to make a release
Apache Synapse is a high performance, flexible, lightweight Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and a mediation framework. Community ========= No new committers or PMC members were nominated this quarter. Latest Synapse committer was elected on December, 2013. Latest Synapse PMC member was elected on December, 2013. Releases ======== There have been no new releases during this period. The last release of Synapse is version 2.1, which was released on January, 2012. We continue to engage with the Apache Axis2 community to get the necessary upstream projects and libraries released, so we can proceed with a Synapse 3.0 release. The response from the Axis2 team has been very positive, but the progress is somewhat slow. In the meantime we are discussing alternative ideas for speeding up the Synapse 3.0 release. Board issues ============ None identified.
@Brett: discuss with both PMCs to find a way to work together
Apache Synapse is a high performance, flexible, lightweight Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and a mediation framework. Community ========= No new committers or PMC members were nominated this quarter. Latest Synapse committer was elected on December, 2013. Latest Synapse PMC member was elected on December, 2013. Releases ======== There have been no new releases during this period. The last release of Synapse is version 2.1, which was released on January, 2012. Work is currently underway for a 3.0 release. We are currently waiting on some releases from several other upstream projects that Synapse depends on (most notably Apache Axis2). Board issues ============ None identified.
AI Sam: Ask about where the work is occurring.
Apache Synapse is a high performance, flexible, lightweight Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and a mediation framework. Community ========= No new committers or PMC members were nominated this quarter. Latest Synapse committer was elected on December, 2013. Latest Synapse PMC member was elected on December, 2013. These additions were reported on our last board report. The level of participation is consistent and healthy. Both user and developer mailing lists continue to be active with a moderate amount of traffic. Releases ======== There have been no new releases during this period. The last release of Synapse is version 2.1, which was released on January, 2012. Work is currently underway for a 3.0 release. Board issues ============ None identified.
Apache Synapse is a high performance, flexible, lightweight Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and a mediation framework. Community: Two contributors were nominated for committership and membership in the PMC this quarter. Nomination votes were successful, and we are currently working with them to finalize the committership granting process. As it stands, one of them has already accepted the invitation and filed an ICLA. The last Synapse committer before our most recent vote was elected on March, 2012. Last Synapse PMC member was elected on January, 2012. The level of participation is consistent and healthy. The existing committers are actively contributing to the project. During the reporting period there have been 14 commits from 2 committers. Both user and developer mailing lists continue to be active with a moderate amount of traffic. Releases: There have been no new releases during this period. The last release of Synapse is version 2.1, which was released on January, 2012. Work is currently underway for a 3.0 release. Board issues: None identified.
Apache Synapse is a high performance, flexible, lightweight Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and a mediation framework. Community No new committers or PMC members were nominated this quarter. Latest Synapse committer was elected on March, 2012. Latest Synapse PMC member was elected on January, 2012. The level of participation is consistent and healthy. The existing committers are actively contributing to the project. Lately, at least two new contributors have started to attract a lot of attention in the community via regular patch submissions. These contributors will be considered for committership during the new quarter. During the reporting period there have been 201 commits from 7 committers. We are observing a sudden increase in activity level due to the ongoing 3.0 release effort. Both user and developer mailing lists continue to be active with a moderate amount of traffic. Releases There have been no new releases during this period. The last release of Synapse is version 2.1, which was released on January, 2012. Work is currently underway for a 3.0 release. In light of this upcoming release, several architectural and performance enhancements have been introduced to the Synapse trunk over the last quarter. Board issues None identified.
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Paul Fremantle to the office of Vice President, Apache Synapse, and WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of Paul Fremantle from the office of Vice President, Apache Synapse, and WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Synapse project has chosen by vote to recommend Hiranya Jayathilaka as the successor to the post; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Paul Fremantle is relieved and discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice President, Apache Synapse, and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Hiranya Jayathilaka be and hereby is appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Synapse, 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 Synapse Project Chair, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
Apache Synapse is a high performance, flexible, lightweight Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and a mediation framework. Community ========= No new committers or PMC members were nominated this quarter. Latest Synapse committer was elected on March, 2012. Latest Synapse PMC member was elected on January, 2012. The level of participation is consistent and healthy, but not currently growing. However, the committership is active and constantly enhancing the project. During the reporting period there have been 6 commits from 3 committers. Both user and developer mailing lists continue to be active with a moderate amount of traffic. A Google Summer of Code project related to Synapse has been accepted and is being implemented. Project details are as follows. Project: Versioning of Synapse Configuration Artifacts Student: Thilini Shanika Mentor : Udayanga Wickramasinghe (Synapse PMC member) Releases ======== There have been no new releases during this period. The last release of Synapse is version 2.1, which was released on January, 2012. However, in light of improving the mediation performance of Synapse, several major architectural enhancements have been proposed and contributed to Synapse by the community in the recent times. Board issues ============ None identified.
No report was submitted.
Apache Synapse is a highly performant, flexible, lightweight Enterprise Service Bus and mediation framework. Community No new committers during this period During the reporting period there have been 1 commit from 1 committers. Releases No new releases during this period. Board issues The PMC Chair has announced his decision to retire and the committee is looking for a new PMC Chair.
No report was submitted.
Apache Synapse is a highly performant, flexible, lightweight Enterprise Service Bus and mediation framework. Community No new committers during this period During the reporting period there have been 22 commits from 3 committers. Releases No new releases during this period since we just did a release last period. Board issues We have not yet migrated to the new CMS model but we are aware of the Jan 1st deadline!
Apache Synapse is a highly performant, flexible, lightweight Enterprise Service Bus and mediation framework. Community No new committers during this period, but new users continue to appear on the mailing list During the reporting period there have been 25 commits from 6 committers. Releases No new releases during this period. Board issues We intend to move to the svnpubsub model over the next three months. We have not identified any issues in this migration.
Apache Synapse is a highly performant, flexible, lightweight Enterprise Service Bus and mediation framework. Community No new committers during this period, but new users continue to appear on the mailing list During the reporting period there have been 29 commits from 6 committers. Releases No new releases during this period since we just did a release last period. Board issues None identified.
(Synapse)
No report was submitted.
Apache Synapse is a highly performant, flexible, lightweight Enterprise Service Bus and mediation framework. Community We have nominated 2 new committers - Sadeep and Miyuru. In addition we implemented a new policy that all committers are PMC members. This has resulted in a larger PMC. Two PMC members took this opportunity to become emeritus and we would like to thank Oleg and Rajith for their efforts. The level of participation on mailing lists is consistent and active, and neither growing nor shrinking. However, a number of new users have started asking questions this quarter. During the reporting period there have been 73 commits from 5 committers. Releases We did a Synapse 2.1 release including the following features: - Support for creating and managing REST APIs with URL patterns and URI templates - Define sequences and endpoints as templates and reuse seamlessly across the whole configuration - Payload factory mediator for constructing custom XML payloads - Recipient list endpoint - HTTPD like access logging capability in the NHTTP transport - Message stores and message processors for implementing complex integration patterns and advanced messaging scenarios - Receiving sequence support in the send mediator to make service chaining easier - Conditional router mediator for implementing complex routing scenarios with many conditions and rules Board issues None identified.
Apache Synapse is a highly performant, flexible, lightweight Enterprise Service Bus and mediation framework. Community There have been no new committers nominated this quarter. The level of participation is consistent and active, but not currently growing. However, the committership is active and constantly enhancing the project. During the reporting period there have been 66 commits from 7 committers. Releases There have been some significant updates to Synapse recently including much better support for REST mediation. There is current work on a 2.1 release. We are currently waiting for a release of Apache Sandesha which has changes we require in order to release. Board issues None identified.
Apache Synapse is a high-performance, lean, effective ESB. Community In a press release, it was announced that eBay is doing more than 1bn transactions a day through Apache Synapse. Releases None this period Board issues None identified.
Community Voted in 2 new committers: Kasun Indrasiri Udayanga Wikramasinghe Releases None this period Board issues None identified (other than the feebleness of the VP).
Community Synapse voted in one new committer: Heshan Suriyaarachchi We lost a long time committer and PMC member: Asankha Perera resigned from both the PMC and committership. Asankha had moved onto another ESB project a while back but had kept his committership in Synapse. However, in January Asankha resigned this. As PMC chair I would like to thank him for all his hard work and contributions on Synapse. Releases Synapse 2.0 was finally released! Thanks to all the team, especially to Ruwan Linton who was the release manager. Board issues None identified.
Community The Synapse community keeps going well. Mailing list traffic is solid and continuous, with new users on a regular basis. We voted in a new committer: Charith Wickramarachchi Releases The release vote on Synapse 2.0 is currently underway. Board issues None identified.
Community The Synapse community keeps going well. Mailing list traffic is solid and continuous, with new users on a regular basis. Releases There is a lot of work going on towards a 2.0 release. Board issues None identified.
AI Greg find out if there is a problem; no releases since 2008.
Community The Synapse community keeps going well. Mailing list traffic is solid and continuous, with new users on a regular basis. We nominated a new committer Rajika Kumarasiri. One committer has retired from active involvement. Releases There is a lot of work going on towards a 2.0 release. Board issues None identified.
Community The Synapse community keeps going well. Mailing list traffic is solid and continuous, with new users on a regular basis. Releases The 1.3 release is taking longer than expected due to dependencies on other projects. Board issues None identified.
Community The Synapse community keeps going well. Mailing list traffic is solid and continuous, with new users on a regular basis. We voted in a new committer: Supun Kamburugamuwa Releases The 1.3 release is taking longer than expected due to dependencies on other projects. However, the WS-Commons Transports release is imminent. ApacheCon We had a number of presentations at ApacheCon. Board issues None identified.
Community The Synapse community keeps going well. Mailing list traffic is solid and continuous, with new users on a regular basis. Unfortunately we did have an issue with a nominated committer whose employer would not sign the CCLA. Releases The 1.3 release is taking longer than expected, but progress is steady. ApacheCon We are sharing a day with Tuscany and have two presentations scheduled. Board issues None identified.
Notable Happenings: ------------------------------ We are still working hard towards the Synapse 1.3 release! We expect it in the next month. We have an open question to the legal team regarding a committer and the CCLA that is an ongoing issue. Community ---------------- We believe the community is continuing to grow in terms of mailing list traffic, JIRA contributions, patches. We voted in a new committer Saliya Ekanayake. Export controls ---------------------- We have now done our TSU notification and the latest release has the correct documentation. The next release will ship with the BouncyCastle JAR that excludes the patented IDEA algorithm.
Notable Happenings: ------------------------------ We are working hard towards the Synapse 1.3 release. There are a lot of good fixes going into the trunk and we are currently updating to using the Axis2 1.5 codestream. Community ---------------- We believe the community is continuing to grow in terms of mailing list traffic, JIRA contributions, patches. We've had one very demanding (and lacking some social skills) user taking a lot of attention. Export controls ---------------------- We have now done our TSU notification and the latest release has the correct documentation. The next release will ship with the BouncyCastle JAR that excludes the patented IDEA algorithm.
Notable Happenings: ------------------------------ We voted in two new members of the PMC: Indika Kumara and Andreas Veithen Releases ------------- We are still working towards the Synapse 1.3 release. Community ---------------- We believe the community is continuing to grow in terms of mailing list traffic, JIRA contributions, patches. Export controls ---------------------- We have now done our TSU notification and the latest release has the correct documentation. The next release will ship with the BouncyCastle JAR that excludes the patented IDEA algorithm.
Notable Happenings: ------------------------------ We voted in two new committers: Asanka Abeysinghe and Afhkam Azeez. We registered two ports (8280 and 8243) as with IANA http://www.iana.org/assignments/port-numbers Releases ------------- We haven't done a release since the last board report, but we expect to do one before the next board report. Community ---------------- We believe the community is continuing to grow in terms of mailing list traffic, JIRA contributions, patches. We continue to have an excellent relationship with the HTTPComponents project and wish to thank them for all the help and assistance they have given Synapse with our HTTP transports. Export controls ---------------------- We have now done our TSU notification and the latest release has the correct documentation. The next release will ship with the BouncyCastle JAR that excludes the patented IDEA algorithm.
We talked about tracking IANA registrations, and decided not to pursue it at this time.
We voted in two new committers, Hiranya Jayathilaka and Evanthika Amarasiri. Releases ------------- Apache Synapse released 1.2 with a number of bugfixes and stability improvements, together with the addition of Hessian support and FIX support via QuickFix/J. Community ---------------- Mailing list activity is very healthy, both users and developers interacting positively. We have a set of new contributors who have recently started interacting on the user and dev lists and we hope some may become committers over time. Export controls ---------------------- We have now done our TSU notification and the latest release has the correct documentation.
= Progress on TLP = Everything is now in place. = Notable Happenings = There has been significant work done towards our next release. Discussion on user and dev lists continues to increase. = Export controls = We are up to date and ready for our next release.
Bill to follow up on the missing report
= Progress on TLP = The Infra team did a fantastic job helping us finish off the TLP move (Thanks Joe et al!), and we got the new website in place, moved SVN and updated the main www.apache.org site. The PR went out with the help of Jim, Sally and the PRC, and was picked up by a number of news sites and blogs. = Notable Happenings = We elected a new committer - Andreas Veithen. Awaiting account setup. We also did a 1.1.1 release including improved clustering support plus numerous other improvements. Unfortunately there was a slight hiccup with the Maven distribution, so we also ended up doing a 1.1.2 release. = Export controls = We have updated the http://www.apache.org/licenses/exports/ page with Apache Synapse information, and informed the US export controls. Our next release will include the cryptography information in the README.
Approved by General Consent.
Notable Happenings We elected a new committer - Oleg Kalnichevski. Progress on TLP We are still (as of Jan 14th) waiting for the Infrastructure for our TLP to happen. You can track progress here: [WWW] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-1450 We are planning to do a PR once the new site is up and running. In discussion with PRC about this. 1.1.1 release The project is planning a 1.1.1 release by end of January 2008
Approved by General Consent.
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
creating an extensible service bus runtime, capable of
receiving, routing, transforming, mediating and monitoring
messages and service interactions in differing formats over
multiple protocols, for distribution at no charge to the public.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management
Committee (PMC), to be known as "Apache Synapse Project", be and
hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation; and
be it further
RESOLVED, that the Apache Synapse Project be and hereby is
responsible for the creation and maintenance of an extensible
service bus runtime and of any such extensions based on this
runtime; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache Synapse"
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 Synapse PMC, and to have primary responsibility for
management of the projects within the scope of responsibility of
the Apache Synapse PMC; 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 Synapse PMC:
* Rajith Attapattu <rajith@apache.org>
* Eran Chinthaka <chinthaka@apache.org>
* Glen Daniels <gdaniels@apache.org>
* Ant Elder <antelder@apache.org>
* Paul Fremantle <pzf@apache.org>
* Deepal Jayasinghe <deepal@apache.org>
* Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk@apache.org>
* Ruwan Linton <ruwan@apache.org>
* Asankha Perera <asankha@apache.org>
* Tijs Rademakers <tijs@apache.org>
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Paul Fremantle be
appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Synapse, 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 Apache Synapse Project be and hereby is
tasked with the migration and rationalization of the Apache Web
Services Synapse subproject; and be it further
RESOLVED, that all responsibilities pertaining to the Apache
Synapse subproject encumbered upon the Apache Web Services
Project are hereafter discharged.
Special order 7A. Establish the Apache Synapse Project, was
approved by Unanimous Vote.
Accepted into the Incubator August 2005.
Synapse is a robust, lightweight implementation of a highly scalable
and distributed service mediation framework based on Web services
specifications
We are making good progress on these three issues:
1. Increase mailing list discussions - mailing list discussions up
significantly
2. Growth of community - getting some good input from users. There
was a good session at ApacheCon, and also 3 sessions on Synapse
at the Colorado Software Summit with good attendance and feedback
at all three.
3. Diversity of committers - we have diversity factor 3 currently and
patches/contributions from at least two others
Synapse development continues apace, have agreed a release plan for a
0.90 release and are working to get that out in the near future.
There has been some discussion with the Jakarta HttpComponents people
to use their upcoming NIO and async http code within Synapse (post the
0.90 release). In October a new committer, Ruwan Linton, was voted
in. A Synapse blog has been started and there have been presentations
at Apachecon US and at the Colorado Software Summit.
Synapse development continues apace, and they had asked about graduation, but upon examination of their mailing lists, there was very little discussion. Much of the discussion was happening in weekly IRC chats, and there was very little collatoral discussion from the IRC participants, and certainly not from non-participants. It was agreed that they would start emphasizing use of e-mail. Subsequently, they have had some discussion about ceasing their IRC chats, but it appears to be a habit that will take some time to break. The good news is that they do concur that this is a valid issue, and want to resolve it.
The Synapse project is progressing well. We have met the target functionality for an M1 release, have voted on it and hope to release it during January. We have had a number of votes and hold a regularly scheduled IRC chat that is well attended by a core team of contributors. The M1 release offers a useful set of functionality, has a codebase that is 100% new code developed by the community under the CLA and ASL2. The release offers users the ability to route, transform and log web service messages passing thru the Synapse intermediary. It utilises a number of existing Apache projects including Axis2. There is a simple Wiki based website for Synapse documentation. We are improving the junit test coverage and javadoc in an ongoing basis. The community is diverse but most of the code has come from members of two companies. There is however active participation from a few other companies on the mailing list and in the IRC chats. We expect to nurture that more and expect to see increased participation as awareness grows with the upcoming M1 release. The project aims to join as a sub-project of the Web Services project and attracts participation from committers of Axis2 in particulare. We are tracking our progress at http://wiki.apache.org/ws/Synapse/IncubationStatus.
The Synapse project had a F2F meeting in Cupertino, CA to get initial views on direction and overall relationship to Axis2 etc.. The notes are [http://wiki.apache.org/ws/Synapse/200509F2F here]. The community is slowly starting to discuss stuff and get going in the synapse-dev@ws.apache.org mailing list; since its only been a few weeks since the start it will take more time to get fully functional and effective. We expect to have a much more interesting report by the next F2F.