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## Description: The mission of the Apache VCL project is to create and maintain of software related to a modular cloud computing platform which dynamically provisions and brokers remote access to compute resources. ## Project Status: Current project status: Ongoing Issues for the board: There are no issues requiring board attention. ## Membership Data: Apache VCL was founded 2012-06-19 (12 years ago) There are currently 10 committers and 8 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 5:4. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Mike Jennings on 2020-08-24. - No new committers. Last addition was Mike Jennings on 2019-01-04. ## Project Activity: Progress toward our next release is still slow, but making some progress. Start of semester activities for developers has also affected time to work toward the release. ## Community Health: Even though project activity has slowed down and list activity is low, Apache VCL is still actively being used.
## Description: The mission of the Apache VCL project is to create and maintain of software related to a modular cloud computing platform which dynamically provisions and brokers remote access to compute resources. ## Project Status: Current project status: Ongoing Issues for the board: There are no issues requiring board attention. ## Membership Data: Apache VCL was founded 2012-06-19 (12 years ago) There are currently 10 committers and 8 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 5:4. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Mike Jennings on 2020-08-24. - No new committers. Last addition was Mike Jennings on 2019-01-04. ## Project Activity: We are still working toward our next release. However, things have slowed down somewhat due to one of our core developers taking another job that doesn't utilize VCL. The developer has mostly stepped away from the project, though not to the point of resigning. Other developers have picked up the parts he was working on, but it's caused progress to slow down. ## Community Health: Having progress toward the next release slow down has been somewhat discouraging, but the community is still healthy.
## Description: The mission of the Apache VCL project is to create and maintain software related to a modular cloud computing platform which dynamically provisions and brokers remote access to compute resources. ## Project Status: Current project status: Ongoing Issues for the board: There are no issues requiring board attention. ## Membership Data: Apache VCL was founded 2012-06-19 (12 years ago) There are currently 10 committers and 8 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 5:4. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Mike Jennings on 2020-08-24. - No new committers. Last addition was Mike Jennings on 2019-01-04. ## Project Activity: - Last release: 2019-07-25 - Since our last report in December, we've had increased activity working toward a new release. We've had a fair number of commits and activity in JIRA tracking the commits (the project statistics page on reporter.a.o isn't accurately showing commit and JIRA activity). ## Community Health: We are encouraged by the progress we've made in becoming more active again after a long period of being dormant.
## Description: The mission of the Apache VCL project is to create and maintain of software related to a modular cloud computing platform which dynamically provisions and brokers remote access to compute resources. ## Project Status: Current project status: We have moved from dormant to ongoing with a little activity. Issues for the board: There are no issues requiring board attention. ## Membership Data: Apache VCL was founded 2012-06-19 (11 years ago) There are currently 10 committers and 8 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 5:4. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Mike Jennings on 2020-08-24. - No new committers. Last addition was Mike Jennings on 2019-01-04. ## Project Activity: - Last release: 2019-07-25 - We have finally started making some progress toward a new release. A plan was sent to the dev@ list with several things listed that should be included in the next release. We also went through JIRA issues and updated relevant ones to tag them with the next release number (2.6). A few of the JIRA issues have had commits made to resolve them. All but one of the waiting pull requests on GitHub have been handled (the one remaining is by someone who is now a committer and PMC member and is unsure about incorporating it now). ## Community Health: The health of the community is improving. We've gone from being dormant with no activity to having some traffic on our user and dev lists as well as having some JIRA and commit activity.
## Description: The mission of the Apache VCL project is to create and maintain of software related to a modular cloud computing platform which dynamically provisions and brokers remote access to compute resources. ## Project Status: Current project status: Dormant Issues for the board: There are no issues requiring board attention. ## Membership Data: Apache VCL was founded 2012-06-19 (11 years ago) There are currently 10 committers and 8 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 5:4. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Mike Jennings on 2020-08-24. - No new committers. Last addition was Mike Jennings on 2019-01-04. ## Project Activity: - Last release: 2019-07-25 - We still remain a dormant community. VCL is still in use at various locations. We still have members who would really like to make time to get another release out. ## Community Health: Even though the community is quiet on the lists, Apache VCL is still actively being used.
@Christofer: pursue a roll call for VCL
## Description: The mission of the Apache VCL project is to create and maintain of software related to a modular cloud computing platform which dynamically provisions and brokers remote access to compute resources. ## Project Status: Current project status: Dormant Issues for the board: There are no issues requiring board attention. ## Membership Data: Apache VCL was founded 2012-06-19 (11 years ago) There are currently 10 committers and 8 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 5:4. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Mike Jennings on 2020-08-24. - No new committers. Last addition was Mike Jennings on 2019-01-04. ## Project Activity: - Last release: 2019-07-25 - We are in the same state as given on our last board report. There has been little project activity since our last board report. As before, current committers are hopeful to get back to development soon. We are very aware of how long it has been since our last release. ## Community Health: I like the addition of the project status with the option of specifying dormant. That's where the VCL community is though we have hopes of becoming more active again.
## Description: The mission of the Apache VCL project is to create and maintain of software related to a modular cloud computing platform which dynamically provisions and brokers remote access to compute resources. ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention. ## Membership Data: Apache VCL was founded 2012-06-19 (11 years ago) There are currently 10 committers and 8 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 5:4. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Mike Jennings on 2020-08-24. - No new committers. Last addition was Mike Jennings on 2019-01-04. ## Project Activity: - Last release: 2019-07-25 - There has been little project activity since our last board report. As before, current committers are hopeful to get back to development soon. We are very aware of how long it has been since our last release. ## Community Health: Nothing has changed here - VCL continues to be a small but functioning community. We still have committers, PMC members, and users.
## Description: The mission of the Apache VCL project is to create and maintain of software related to a modular cloud computing platform which dynamically provisions and brokers remote access to compute resources. ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention. ## Membership Data: Apache VCL was founded 2012-06-19 (10 years ago) There are currently 10 committers and 8 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 5:4. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Mike Jennings on 2020-08-24. - No new committers. Last addition was Mike Jennings on 2019-01-04. ## Project Activity: - Last release: 2019-07-25 - There has been little project activity since our last board report. However, committers think their primary job workloads will be decreasing enough in the next few months to finally start working toward another release. ## Community Health: Nothing has changed here - VCL continues to be a small but functioning community. We still have committers, PMC members, and users.
## Description: The mission of the Apache VCL project is to create and maintain of software related to a modular cloud computing platform which dynamically provisions and brokers remote access to compute resources. ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention. ## Membership Data: Apache VCL was founded 2012-06-19 (10 years ago) There are currently 10 committers and 8 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 5:4. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Mike Jennings on 2020-08-24. - No new committers. Last addition was Mike Jennings on 2019-01-04. ## Project Activity: - Last release: 2019-07-25 - Use of VCL and involvement in the VCL community has dropped to pretty small numbers over the last few years. There are still people using it. The few committers left have not had much time to put toward getting another release out, which is why it has now been over 3 years. We realize that is a really long time. We do want to get a newer release out, and have some specific things we'd like included in it, but making the time to get it done has been difficult. ## Community Health: Nothing has changed here - VCL continues to be a small but functioning community. We still have committers, PMC members, and users.
## Description: The mission of the Apache VCL project is to create and maintain of software related to a modular cloud computing platform which dynamically provisions and brokers remote access to compute resources. ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention. ## Membership Data: Apache VCL was founded 2012-06-19 (10 years ago) There are currently 10 committers and 8 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 5:4. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Mike Jennings on 2020-08-24. - No new committers. Last addition was Mike Jennings on 2019-01-04. ## Project Activity: - Last release: 2019-07-25 - Things have continued to be pretty quiet since our last board report. ## Community Health: Nothing has changed here - VCL continues to be a small but functioning community. We still have committers, PMC members, and users.
## Description: The mission of the Apache VCL project is to create and maintain of software related to a modular cloud computing platform which dynamically provisions and brokers remote access to compute resources. ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention. ## Membership Data: Apache VCL was founded 2012-06-19 (10 years ago) There are currently 10 committers and 8 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 5:4. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Mike Jennings on 2020-08-24. - No new committers. Last addition was Mike Jennings on 2019-01-04. ## Project Activity: - Last release: 2019-07-25 - Unfortunately, things have been pretty quiet since our last board report. ## Community Health: Nothing has changed here - VCL continues to be a small but functioning community. We still have committers, PMC members, and users. Hopefully, as the pandemic seems to be having a lighter affect on people, things will be able to pick up soon for our community.
## Description: The mission of the Apache VCL project is to create and maintain of software related to a modular cloud computing platform which dynamically provisions and brokers remote access to compute resources. ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention. ## Membership Data: Apache VCL was founded 2012-06-19 (9 years ago) There are currently 10 committers and 8 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 5:4. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Mike Jennings on 2020-08-24. - No new committers. Last addition was Mike Jennings on 2019-01-04. ## Project Activity: - Last release: 2019-07-25 - Since the last board report, there has been some activity on the user list to provide support for users of VCL. ## Community Health: Nothing has changed here - VCL continues to be a small but functioning community. We still have committers, PMC members, and users. I can't speak for other community members, but the PMC members have all been pretty heavily loaded supporting remote computing (VCL's primary purpose) during the pandemic to the point that it has been difficult to make time to work toward a new release.
## Description: The mission of the Apache VCL project is to create and maintain of software related to a modular cloud computing platform which dynamically provisions and brokers remote access to compute resources. ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention. ## Membership Data: Apache VCL was founded 2012-06-19 (9 years ago) There are currently 10 committers and 8 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 5:4. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Mike Jennings on 2020-08-24. - No new committers. Last addition was Mike Jennings on 2019-01-04. ## Project Activity: - Last release: 2019-07-25 - There has been very little activity since the last board report. ## Community Health: Nothing has changed here - VCL continues to be a small but functioning community. We still have committers, PMC members, and users.
## Description: The mission of the Apache VCL project is to create and maintain of software related to a modular cloud computing platform which dynamically provisions and brokers remote access to compute resources. ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention. ## Membership Data: Apache VCL was founded 2012-06-19 (9 years ago) There are currently 10 committers and 8 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 5:4. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Mike Jennings on 2020-08-24. - No new committers. Last addition was Mike Jennings on 2019-01-04. ## Project Activity: - Last release: 2019-07-25 - There has not been much activity since the last board report beyond supporting people on the user list that are using VCL. Some planning toward our next release has started. ## Community Health: Nothing has changed here - VCL continues to be a small but functioning community. We still have committers, PMC members, and users.
## Description: The mission of the Apache VCL project is to create and maintain of software related to a modular cloud computing platform which dynamically provisions and brokers remote access to compute resources. ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention. ## Membership Data: Apache VCL was founded 2012-06-19 (9 years ago) There are currently 10 committers and 8 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 5:4. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Mike Jennings on 2020-08-24. - No new committers. Last addition was Mike Jennings on 2019-01-04. ## Project Activity: - Last release: 2019-07-25 - There has not been much activity since the last board report beyond supporting people on the user list that are using VCL. ## Community Health: VCL continues to be a small but functioning community. We still have committers, PMC members, and users. Things are just a little slow for us right now.
## Description: The mission of the Apache VCL project is to create and maintain of software related to a modular cloud computing platform which dynamically provisions and brokers remote access to compute resources. ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention. ## Membership Data: Apache VCL was founded 2012-06-19 (8 years ago) There are currently 10 committers and 8 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 5:4. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Mike Jennings on 2020-08-24. - No new committers. Last addition was Mike Jennings on 2019-01-04. ## Project Activity: We've had a small increase in user list activity due to increased interest in the project as VCL is used to provide remote access to software, which has become more important with the impact of COVID-19. ## Community Health: -VCL remains a small but functioning community. -Reviewing the year, we've had - 182 emails to the user list - 50 emails to the dev list
## Description: The mission of the Apache VCL project is to create and maintain of software related to a modular cloud computing platform which dynamically provisions and brokers remote access to compute resources. ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention. ## Membership Data: Apache VCL was founded 2012-06-19 (8 years ago) There are currently 10 committers and 8 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 5:4. Community changes, past quarter: - Mike Jennings was added to the PMC on 2020-08-24 - No new committers. Last addition was Mike Jennings on 2019-01-04. ## Project Activity: - Last release: 2019-07-25 - VCL is primarily used by universities. With a new semester having recently started, time to put toward development has been pretty low. We hope to be able to focus more on development once things start to slow down for the semester and then work toward getting another release out. ## Community Health: - VCL remains a small but functioning community. - We're happy to have picked up a new PMC member.
## Description: The mission of the Apache VCL project is to create and maintain of software related to a modular cloud computing platform which dynamically provisions and brokers remote access to compute resources. ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention. ## Membership Data: Apache VCL was founded 2012-06-19 (8 years ago) There are currently 10 committers and 7 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 5:4. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Aaron Coburn on 2012-06-19. - No new committers. Last addition was Mike Jennings on 2019-01-04. ## Project Activity: - Last release: 2019-07-25 - VCL is software for running a private cloud and is uniquely suited for universities. With university instruction moving online due to COVID-19 we've seen a notable uptick in interest in VCL. Traffic on our user list and in our IRC support channel is up significantly. - VCL is mainly run on CentOS. There are some changes in CentOS 8 that we are working through in order for VCL to run on it. Once we work that out, we'll be getting a new release out. ## Community Health: -The health of the VCL community is good even though we are small. Hopefully, we'll pick up some more participation with the increased interest in the project. - There are 3 committers not currently part of the PMC. We are in the process of voting to invite one of them. The other 2 have not been heard from in over a year. If they become actively involved again, we'll definitely consider inviting them to be part of the PMC.
## Description: The mission of the Apache VCL project is to create and maintain software related to a modular cloud computing platform which dynamically provisions and brokers remote access to compute resources. ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention. ## Membership Data: Apache VCL was founded 2012-06-19 (8 years ago) There are currently 10 committers and 7 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 5:4. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Aaron Coburn on 2012-06-19. - No new committers. Last addition was Mike Jennings on 2019-01-04. ## Project Activity: Project activity has been pretty light over the last quarter. Committers seem to mostly have been busy with day job tasks. ## Community Health: The VCL community is somewhat small and quiet, but still healthy. We will be having a discussion and vote on adding our newest committer to the PMC within the next month or so.
## Description: The mission of the Apache VCL project is to create and maintain of software related to a modular cloud computing platform which dynamically provisions and brokers remote access to compute resources. ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention. ## Membership Data: Apache VCL was founded 2012-06-19 (7 years ago) There are currently 10 committers and 7 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 5:4. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Aaron Coburn on 2012-06-19. - No new committers. Last addition was Mike Jennings on 2019-01-04. ## Project Activity: Most of the activity we've had since our 2.5.1 release at the end of July has been related to supporting people upgrading to that release. ## Community Health: We typically have a bit of a lull in development after getting a release out as committers catch up on things they have been putting off while working on the release. We are seeing that now and expect to see things pick back up a bit in the next few months. We have a good candidate in a recently added committer to become a new PMC member.
## Description: The mission of the Apache VCL project is to create and maintain a modular cloud computing platform which dynamically provisions and brokers remote access to compute resources. A self-service web portal is used to request resources and for administration. Apache VCL is primarily used in college and university computing environments. ## Issues: No notable issues needing attention. ## Membership Data: Apache VCL was founded 2012-06-19 (7 years ago) There are currently 10 committers and 7 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 5:4. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Aaron Coburn on 2012-06-19. - No new committers. Last addition was Mike Jennings on 2019-01-04. ## Project Activity: Apache VCL 2.5.1 was released on July 25th, 2019. ## Community Health: Community Health remains the same - slow progress. The release caused a decrease in traffic on the dev list and an increase in traffic on the user list.
## Description:
- VCL is a modular cloud computing platform which dynamically provisions and
brokers remote access to compute resources including virtual machines,
bare-metal computers, and resources in other cloud platforms. A
self-service web portal is used to request resources and for
administration. VCL became a TLP on June 20, 2012.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- We are making good progress toward our next release and hope to have it out
in the next month or two.
## Health report:
- We continue our typical slow development process.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 7 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Aaron Coburn on Tue Jun 19 2012
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 10 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Mike Jennings at Fri Jan 04 2019
## Releases:
- Last release was 2.5 on Thu Aug 17 2017
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@vcl.apache.org:
- 116 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
- 69 emails sent to list (63 in previous quarter)
- user@vcl.apache.org:
- 157 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 1 emails sent to list (11 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 10 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 8 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
## Description: - VCL is a modular cloud computing platform which dynamically provisions and brokers remote access to compute resources including virtual machines, bare-metal computers, and resources in other cloud platforms. A self-service web portal is used to request resources and for administration. VCL became a TLP on June 20, 2012. ## Issues: - There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Activity: - Votes for extending committer invitations to the two individuals previously mentioned passed. Invitations were sent, and both individuals accepted. ## Health report: - We continue to slowly creep forward toward our next release. There are only a few items remaining. ## PMC changes: - Currently 7 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Aaron Coburn on Tue Jun 19 2012 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 10 committers. - New commmitters: - Mike Jennings was added as a committer on Fri Jan 04 2019 - Junaid Ali was added as a committer on Fri Dec 21 2018 ## Releases: - Last release was 2.5 on Thu Aug 17 2017 ## Mailing list activity: - dev@vcl.apache.org: - 117 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months): - 66 emails sent to list (34 in previous quarter) - user@vcl.apache.org: - 157 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months): - 11 emails sent to list (29 in previous quarter) ## JIRA activity: - 6 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 6 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
## Description:
- VCL is a modular cloud computing platform which dynamically provisions and
brokers remote access to compute resources including virtual machines,
bare-metal computers, and resources in other cloud platforms. A
self-service web portal is used to request resources and for
administration. VCL became a TLP on June 20, 2012.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- The PMC is currently voting to extend committer invitations to the two
previously mentioned individuals.
## Health report:
- As per our normal state of things, we're very slowly creeping toward
getting a new release out.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 7 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Aaron Coburn on Tue Jun 19 2012
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 8 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Young Hyun Oh at Sun Dec 08 2013
## Releases:
- Last release was 2.5 on Thu Aug 17 2017
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@vcl.apache.org:
- 118 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 41 emails sent to list (14 in previous quarter)
- user@vcl.apache.org:
- 155 subscribers (down -2 in the last 3 months):
- 33 emails sent to list (1 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: - VCL is a modular cloud computing platform which dynamically provisions and brokers remote access to compute resources including virtual machines, bare-metal computers, and resources in other cloud platforms. A self-service web portal is used to request resources and for administration. VCL became a TLP on June 20, 2012. ## Issues: - There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Activity: - Our previous board report specified there are two people that could be potential committers. Nothing has been received from them in since the last board report. We will continue to look for opportunities to engage with them in an attempt to get them more involved, hopefully leading to becoming committers. The comments on the last two reports suggested to add people sooner rather than later. I think this is a great model, but I also think that needs to be balanced with having a higher commitment to the project than just contributing something once. Do you have any suggestions on what would be the minimal someone should do to be considered for a committer? - As explained in the Health report point below, work has slowed with the start of university semesters. We are hopeful these two people will have more opportunity to engage as things pick up toward our next release. ## Health report: - Committee Health score: -2.65 (Action required!) - The report generator tool lists VCL as having a low health score. The VCL project has had very slow progress in the last few months, but that does not mean no progress. Most of the committers involved in the project work for universities and have had other responsibilities take priority at the beginning of the fall semester. Progress toward our next release (which only needs a little more work) should pick back up again in the next few weeks as start of semester activities die down. ## PMC changes: - Currently 7 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Aaron Coburn on Tue Jun 19 2012 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 8 committers. - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was Young Hyun Oh at Sun Dec 08 2013 ## Releases: - Last release was 2.5 on Thu Aug 17 2017 ## Mailing list activity: - dev@vcl.apache.org: - 117 subscribers (down -7 in the last 3 months): - 17 emails sent to list (122 in previous quarter) - user@vcl.apache.org: - 157 subscribers (down -7 in the last 3 months): - 1 emails sent to list (3 in previous quarter) ## JIRA activity: - 3 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 2 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
## Description:
- VCL is a modular cloud computing platform which dynamically provisions and
brokers remote access to compute resources including virtual machines,
bare-metal computers, and resources in other cloud platforms. A self-service
web portal is used to request resources and for administration. VCL became a
TLP on June 20, 2012.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- Code contributed by a community member referenced in our previous board
report as well as code from another new community member has been committed
to the project. Both contributors will likely be pursued as committers if
they continue to show interest in VCL.
## Health report:
- Project health is largely in a steady state, though we continue to have a
small uptick in community participation.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 7 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Aaron Coburn on Tue Jun 19 2012
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 8 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Young Hyun Oh at Sun Dec 08 2013
## Releases:
- Last release was 2.5 on Thu Aug 17 2017
- We are trying to finish up a few tasks to hopefully get a new release out
soon
## Mailing list activity:
- Contributions for community members and development efforts toward a new
release have contributed to an increase in dev list traffic.
- dev@vcl.apache.org:
- 124 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
- 122 emails sent to list (7 in previous quarter)
- user@vcl.apache.org:
- 164 subscribers (down -2 in the last 3 months):
- 3 emails sent to list (57 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 14 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 17 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
## Description:
- VCL is a modular cloud computing platform which dynamically provisions and
brokers remote access to compute resources including virtual machines,
bare-metal computers, and resources in other cloud platforms. A self-service
web portal is used to request resources and for administration. VCL became a
TLP on June 20, 2012.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- A community member has started working on some new authentication code.
Hopefully, this can lead to a new committer.
## Health report:
- Project health is being monitored. Project is largely in a steady state
though there is a slight uptick in community participation.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 7 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Aaron Coburn on Tue Jun 19 2012
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 8 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Young Hyun Oh at Sun Dec 08 2013
## Releases:
- Last release was 2.5 on Thu Aug 17 2017
## Mailing list activity:
- Development efforts have not started back up after our last release. So,
there has been little dev list traffic. User list traffic is about the same
as last quarter from people upgrading to the latest release.
- dev@vcl.apache.org:
- 125 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 16 emails sent to list (16 in previous quarter)
- user@vcl.apache.org:
- 166 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 36 emails sent to list (39 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 4 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 0 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
## Description: - VCL is a modular cloud computing platform which dynamically provisions and brokers remote access to compute resources including virtual machines, bare-metal computers, and resources in other cloud platforms. A self-service web portal is used to request resources and for administration. VCL became a TLP on June 20, 2012. ## Issues: - There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Activity: - Migrated source control from subversion to git - Established to use Gitflow Workflow for source control workflow - Transferred project chair to another PMC member. Thanks to Andy Kurth for his many years serving as PMC chair. ## Health report: - Project health is being monitored. Project is largely in a steady state of not gaining or losing community participation. ## PMC changes: - Currently 7 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Aaron Coburn on Tue Jun 19 2012 - PMC chair changed from Andy Kurth to Josh Thompson ## Committer base changes: - Currently 8 committers. - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was Young Hyun Oh at Sun Dec 08 2013 ## Releases: - Last release was 2.5 on Thu Aug 17 2017 ## Mailing list activity: - Drop in email to dev list is due to decreased activity after push to get VCL 2.5 out. Increase in user list traffic is due to people picking up the latest release. - dev@vcl.apache.org: - 125 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months): - 16 emails sent to list (202 in previous quarter) - user@vcl.apache.org: - 167 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months): - 39 emails sent to list (6 in previous quarter) ## JIRA activity: - 5 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 0 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Andy Kurth (arkurth) to the office of Vice President, Apache VCL, and WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of Andy Kurth from the office of Vice President, Apache VCL, and WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache VCL project has chosen by vote to recommend Josh Thompson (jfthomps) as the successor to the post; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Andy Kurth is relieved and discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice President, Apache VCL, and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Josh Thompson be and hereby is appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache VCL, to serve in accordance with and subject to the direction of the Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until death, resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification, or until a successor is appointed. Special Order 7A, Change the Apache VCL Project Chair, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
## Description:
VCL is a modular cloud computing platform which dynamically provisions and
brokers remote access to compute resources including virtual machines,
bare-metal computers, and resources in other cloud platforms. A self-service
web portal is used to request resources and for administration. VCL became a
TLP on June 20, 2012.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- Development of the remaining issues regarding VCL 2.5 was finished.
- VCL 2.5 was released on August 22nd.
- Prior to the release, the steps listed on the ASF's crypto page were
completed. [1] Apache VCL is now listed on the exports page. [2]
- Development has obviously slowed since the push to get the release out.
Some work is being done to update documentation.
## Health report:
- Health continues to be a concern. Only 3 committers/PMC members voted in
the VCL 2.5 release thread. [3]
- We have recently seen involvement from new community members interested
in contributing some features which could significantly help modernize
the codebase. [4][5]
## PMC changes:
- Currently 7 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Aaron Coburn on Tue Jun 19 2012
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 8 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Young Hyun Oh at Sun Dec 08 2013
## Releases:
- Last release was 2.4.2 on Wed Apr 15 2015 (Note: I'll work to figure out
why the most recent release isn't being detected by the report generation
tool)
## Mailing list activity:
- Dev list traffic continued to be heavy relative to what VCL's dev list
usually sees. This is surely due to the flurry of activity related to the
release.
- User list traffic has been pretty light. I hope to see an uptick as
people and organizations (hopefully) upgrade to VCL 2.5.
- dev@vcl.apache.org:
- 124 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months):
- 202 emails sent to list (302 in previous quarter)
- user@vcl.apache.org:
- 167 subscribers (up 5 in the last 3 months):
- 14 emails sent to list (42 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 25 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 25 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
[1] https://www.apache.org/dev/crypto.html
[2] http://www.apache.org/licenses/exports/
[3] http://markmail.org/thread/hpwlzijtxtxu4xl5
[4] http://apache.markmail.org/thread/h5koov2mzrarwrhw
[5] http://apache.markmail.org/thread/vr2vlxin4fxmwcmz
## Description:
VCL is a modular cloud computing platform which dynamically provisions and
brokers remote access to compute resources including virtual machines,
bare-metal computers, and resources in other cloud platforms. A self-service
web portal is used to request resources and for administration. VCL became a
TLP on June 20, 2012.
## Issues:
- there are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity:
- Development of VCL 2.5 is pretty much complete. A discussion thread has
been started. We anticipate and hope to begin the vote on a release
candidate this week.
- Apache VCL has been using some cryptographic functionality for quite some
time but we recently became aware of the ASF's crypto guidelines and
requirements [1]. This is being discussed on our dev list. We are working
through the legal terminology and will consult with the legal-discuss
list if necessary. Regardless, it would be helpful to our project and I'm
sure others if the ASF crypto page [1] was updated. It includes some
outdated links and information that is no longer correct since the BIS
has updated the regulations multiple times since the page was written. I
tried to explain some of what I found in the thread [3]. We'll pass any
information which may be helpful to the pertinent list or Jira issue.
## Health report:
- The health is stable. I'd like to see development interest from
additional people and more participation from some current committers /
PMC members. We've discussed ideas on our dev list and I've included
thoughts in previous board reports. Perhaps after our release is finished
we can make more of an effort towards community development.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 7 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Aaron Coburn on Tue Jun 19 2012
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 8 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Young Hyun Oh at Sun Dec 08 2013
## Releases:
- Last release was 2.4.2 on Wed Apr 15 2015
## Mailing list activity:
- Dev list traffic is up due to a flurry of release related messages.
- User list membership is unfortunately dropped by a few people in the past
few months. I'm not sure what the reason would be.
- A few users have initiated or participated in user list threads as of
late. This is always encouraging.
- dev@vcl.apache.org:
- 122 subscribers (down -2 in the last 3 months):
- 251 emails sent to list (203 in previous quarter)
- user@vcl.apache.org:
- 161 subscribers (down -5 in the last 3 months):
- 39 emails sent to list (21 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 27 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 37 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
[1] https://www.apache.org/dev/crypto.html
[2] http://vcl.markmail.org/thread/5ixh4xabs24stwqr
[3] http://markmail.org/message/h2tzonyfybngeeaa
No report was submitted.
## Description: VCL is a modular cloud computing platform which dynamically provisions and brokers remote access to compute resources including virtual machines, bare-metal computers, and resources in other cloud platforms. A self-service web portal is used to request resources and for administration. VCL became a TLP on June 20, 2012. ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at this time ## Activity: - Code for the upcoming release is just about complete. - The most significant new feature is support for automatically joining an Active Directory domain when a Windows image is loaded. This is complete but needs a bit of testing. - Work continues on documentation. We are starting fresh using a VCLDOCS Confluence space created long ago but never really used. This is making it easier to keep track of what has been reworked rather than trying to update and sort out all of the old, disorganized pages. Pages will be moved en masse once enough content has been updated and organized to surpass the old docs. ## Health report: Overall, the health of the project is fair but could be improved. I think there are a few factors that have limited the appeal of potential contributors: - Poor documentation. Hopefully our updated documentation will increase interest. This alone, however, won't likely make a huge difference. There are other projects with poor documentation that draw a respectable amount of development contributions. - Staleness. The codebase does not use any of the modern frameworks of the month. It's basicly old fashioned PHP and Perl. There are some JavaScript components, but these mainly use the Dojo Toolkit which seems to be losing popularity. We could think about a significant rewrite and use things such as Angular, Laravel, etc. - Marketing. The project began at NC State University and still has a strong NCSU relation. Years ago, leaders at NCSU along with colleagues at IBM did a great job spreading the word about VCL to other universities and contacts. Many of these people have either retired or moved on to other roles. Regardless, NCSU's past marketing is appreciated but this is the PMC's responsibility. We need to work to think of ways to make the project more attractive to contributors and to communicate it. Someone recently mentioned VCL in a thread on a higher education list hosted by Stanford. I have alerts set up for such occurances and responded with additional information. We should do a better job monitoring other lists and venues including other ASF projects for opportunities. VCL also integrates with a number of other technologies. There may be opportunites to have the project included on other website's such as the "Applications using libvirt" page. [1] This will be discussed by the PMC members. ## PMC changes: - Currently 7 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Aaron Coburn on Tue Jun 19 2012 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 8 committers. - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was Young Hyun Oh at Sun Dec 08 2013 ## Releases: - Last release was 2.4.2 on Wed Apr 15 2015 ## Mailing list activity: - Mailing list traffic is essentially flat. Dev list traffic increase is due to the final tasks to prepare the release. User list traffic is down. This could partially be due to the holidays. - dev@vcl.apache.org: - 128 subscribers (down -2 in the last 3 months): - 109 emails sent to list (77 in previous quarter) - user@vcl.apache.org: - 169 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months): - 12 emails sent to list (20 in previous quarter) ## JIRA activity: - 18 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 8 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months [1] https://libvirt.org/apps.html
## Description: VCL is a modular cloud computing platform which dynamically provisions and brokers remote access to compute resources including virtual machines, bare-metal computers, and resources in other cloud platforms. A self-service web portal is used to request resources and for administration. VCL became a TLP on June 20, 2012. ## Issues: - There are no issues requiring board attention at this time ## Activity: - Upon a review of our documentation, we realized that it needed notable improvement and thought it best to put a fair amount of work into it before getting our next release out. Work is in progress to improve it. - There are a few coding issues that still need to be completed for the next release. We plan to focus on the documentation first, and finish up the coding work afterwards. ## Health report: - Overall, the health of the project is fair. Activity and interest seem to be fairly flat. We're working on aspects such as improving documentation to attempt to make it easier for people to adopt the Apache VCL software and also to contribute to the project. ## PMC changes: - Currently 7 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Aaron Coburn on Tue Jun 19 2012 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 8 committers. - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was Young Hyun Oh at Sun Dec 08 2013 ## Releases: - Last release was 2.4.2 on Wed Apr 15 2015 ## Mailing list activity: - List activity is fairly steady. There was a coincidental flurry of activity prior to our previous report which made the September report's email numbers a bit higher than normal. - dev@vcl.apache.org: - 131 subscribers (down -2 in the last 3 months): - 69 emails sent to list (195 in previous quarter) - user@vcl.apache.org: - 168 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months): - 15 emails sent to list (53 in previous quarter) ## JIRA activity: - 16 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 5 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
@Marvin: Pursue response to feedback from previous board meeting
## Description:
VCL is a modular cloud computing platform which dynamically provisions and
brokers remote access to compute resources including virtual machines,
bare-metal computers, and resources in other cloud platforms. A self-service
web portal is used to request resources and for administration. VCL became a
TLP on June 20, 2012.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity:
- Work has continued to complete the VCL 2.5 release. A member of the
community submitted a patch to add Active Directory support [1] in April
2015. We decided to include this in the release because it will be a
useful feature to many. Including this feature also may help encourage
contributions like this as we work to strengthen the community. Much of
the recent development has been to incorporate this into trunk.
- Some members of the community have been discussing the possibility of
adding Apache Guacamole support. [2]
- Another member may be contributing some advanced networking features. [3]
## Health report:
- Activity is up since our last report. This is a positive sign. Much of
the activity has been related to preparing the release, but there has
also been activity from new community members and some from people not
directly working on the release. I think the health has been slowly
improving.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 7 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Aaron Coburn on Tue Jun 19 2012
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 8 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Young Hyun Oh at Sun Dec 08 2013
## Releases:
- Last release was 2.4.2 on Wed Apr 15 2015
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@vcl.apache.org:
- 133 subscribers (down -2 in the last 3 months):
- 198 emails sent to list (72 in previous quarter)
- user@vcl.apache.org:
- 169 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
- 53 emails sent to list (15 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 37 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 32 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
[1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VCL-867
[2] http://markmail.org/message/pk5btltepmojkuov
[3] http://markmail.org/message/wuvvqcq5ok4xqdkw
## Description:
VCL is a modular cloud computing platform which dynamically provisions and
brokers remote access to compute resources including virtual machines,
bare-metal computers, and resources in other cloud platforms. A self-service
web portal is used to request resources and for administration. VCL became a
TLP on June 20, 2012.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- The community had a fairly lengthy and productive discussion regarding the
health of the project. [1][2] Some good ideas were expressed for how to
maintain and improve the health. It is now up to us to actually implement
these ideas. We will try to work on this over the upcoming months.
- Work is underway to clear out the few remaining open Jira issues for the
next release, VCL 2.5. This is mostly janitorial work. No significant code
needs to be worked on. We hope to begin the release process this month.
## Health report:
- Mailing list traffic is up a bit since the last report. I expect dev
traffic to increase as we release a new version and user traffic to
increase afterwards.
- It has now been over a year since our last release. We will be releasing a
new version soon.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 7 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Aaron Coburn on Tue Jun 19 2012
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 8 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Young Hyun Oh at Sun Dec 08 2013
## Releases:
- Last release was 2.4.2 on Thu Apr 16 2015
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@vcl.apache.org:
- 135 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 77 emails sent to list (68 in previous quarter)
- user@vcl.apache.org:
- 170 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 29 emails sent to list (8 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 14 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 15 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
[1] http://vcl.markmail.org/thread/yaqxxfxf7drh4yj5
[2] http://vcl.markmail.org/thread/h33ag3bmrhgkezge
## Description: VCL is a modular cloud computing platform which dynamically provisions and brokers remote access to compute resources including virtual machines, bare-metal computers, and resources in other cloud platforms. A self-service web portal is used to request resources and for administration. VCL became a TLP on June 20, 2012. ## Issues: - There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Activity: - Committers are trying to wrap up bug fixes and a few new features to be able to get VCL 2.5 out in the next several weeks - As discussed in the Health Report section, we are seeking ideas from the community on how to get more people involved in the project [1][2]. ## Health report: Project activity has been down over the last year. We have created a thread [1][2] on our user and dev lists to address this issue. Some ideas on why activity has been down that are discussed in the thread are lack of documentation on using and contributing to VCL, lack of vision on where VCL is headed, and lack of exposure to new people. I encourage the board and ASF members to review this thread. Any comments or suggestions sent to any of our lists is extremely welcome. ## PMC changes: - Currently 7 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Aaron Coburn on Tue Jun 19 2012 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 8 committers. - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was Young Hyun Oh at Sun Dec 08 2013 ## Releases: - Last release was 2.4.2 on Thu Apr 16 2015 - We are hopeful to get VCL 2.5 out in the next several weeks. ## Mailing list activity: Our user list traffic is down. This was noted in our last report [3] and the trend hasn't changed yet. We hope to improve things through the ideas expressed in [1][2]. - dev@vcl.apache.org: - 134 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months): - 71 emails sent to list (54 in previous quarter) - user@vcl.apache.org: - 174 subscribers (up 6 in the last 3 months): - 18 emails sent to list (9 in previous quarter) ## JIRA activity: - 17 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 13 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months [1] http://vcl.markmail.org/thread/yaqxxfxf7drh4yj5 [2] http://vcl.markmail.org/thread/h33ag3bmrhgkezge [3] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/VCL/2015-12-16+Apache+VCL+Board+Report
## Description:
VCL is a modular cloud computing platform which dynamically provisions and
brokers remote access to compute resources including virtual machines,
bare-metal computers, and resources in other cloud platforms. A self-service
web portal is used to request resources and for administration. VCL became a
TLP on June 20, 2012.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- There are a few minor issues to finish up for the next release, Apache VCL
2.5. The only showstopper is an issue to resolve related to the
addition of Windows 10 support in the upcoming release [1]. We had
hoped to release 2.5 by the end of the year but this will have to be
pushed back until after the new year.
## Health report:
- User list traffic has been surprisingly low since July. Our last release
was in April and we saw an expected increase in traffic the following
from April to June as users upgrade. I would have expected traffic to
taper off more gradually.
- Dev list traffic has been about normal considering we haven't had a flurry
of activity preceding a release.
- I am concerned about stagnation and level of diversity among the project's
committers and PMC members. These concerns were brought up on our dev list
in a thread I started earlier this week to discuss this report [2].
Unfortunately, I failed to give the community much time to respond before
this report was due so I'm hopeful more replies will come. Two
committers/PMC members did share my concerns. One person shared a possible
contributing factor [3] but no ideas were expressed as of yet on how to
improve it. I do have some ideas we could try but wanted to first solicit
input from others to get an idea of the level of interest and engagement. I
would like the community to attempt to discuss this further and try to work
to improve the health between now and when our next report is due in March.
At this time, I do not feel intervention from the board is required. That
said, we would certainly welcome any input from members who want to chime
in on our dev list with advice or bring up topics more appropriate for the
PMC to discuss on our private list.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 7 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was David Hutchins on Tue Jun 19 2012
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 8 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Young Hyun Oh at Sun Dec 08 2013
## Releases:
- Last release was 2.4.2 on Thu Apr 16 2015
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@vcl.apache.org:
- 133 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 60 emails sent to list (241 in previous quarter)
- user@vcl.apache.org:
- 168 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
- 9 emails sent to list (28 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 17 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 6 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
1. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VCL-893
2. http://vcl.markmail.org/thread/3oz7rhy5fyv57nxt
3. http://vcl.markmail.org/message/xtdhmqvi555aaon6
## Description: VCL is a modular cloud computing platform which dynamically provisions and brokers remote access to compute resources including virtual machines, bare-metal computers, and resources in other cloud platforms. A self-service web portal is used to request resources and for administration. VCL became a TLP on June 20, 2012. ## Activity: - The Apache VCL community had previously decided to release a minor bugfix-only VCL 2.4.3 release in order to facilitate a transition from Subversion to Git. It was decided that adding support for Windows 10 images was worthwhile. Since the upcoming version will contain new features, it will be version 2.5. Work is nearly complete. ## Health report: - Traffic to the dev@vcl list is down from the previous quarter because there was a flurry of activity in March and April while we prepared VCL 2.4, 2.4.1, and 2.4.2. I expect traffic to increase over the next month as VCL 2.5 is finalized. ## Issues: - There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## LDAP committee group/Committership changes: - Currently 8 committers and 7 LDAP committee group members. - No new LDAP committee group members added in the last 3 months - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was Young Hyun Oh at Sun Dec 08 2013 ## Releases: - Last release was 2.4.2 on Thu Apr 16 2015 ## Mailing list activity: - dev@vcl.apache.org: - 132 subscribers (up 3 in the last 3 months): - 240 emails sent to list (454 in previous quarter) - user@vcl.apache.org: - 169 subscribers (up 4 in the last 3 months): - 25 emails sent to list (96 in previous quarter) ## JIRA activity: - 29 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 32 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
DESCRIPTION VCL is a modular cloud computing platform which dynamically provisions and brokers remote access to compute resources including virtual machines, bare-metal computers, and resources in other cloud platforms. A self-service web portal is used to request resources and for administration. VCL became a TLP on June 20, 2012. CURRENT ACTIVITY * Work was the long awaited VCL 2.4 release was completed. Some bugs were detected shortly after the 2.4 release, so we released 2.4.1 and 2.4.2. * The VCL community is discussing a migration from subversion to git. This will likely happen. The logistics are being worked on. RELEASES * VCL 2.4 * VCL 2.4.1 * VCL 2.4.2 COMMUNITY Subscribers to the user list: 165 Posts to user list, 3/15-5/15: 91 Subscribers to the dev list: 129 Posts to dev list, 3/14-5/14: 468 Committers: 8 PMC members: 7 ISSUES There are no issues requiring board attention at this time
DESCRIPTION VCL is a modular cloud computing platform which dynamically provisions and brokers remote access to compute resources including virtual machines, bare-metal computers, and resources in other cloud platforms. A self-service web portal is used to request resources and for administration. VCL became a TLP on June 20, 2012. CURRENT ACTIVITY * A vote is currently underway to release VCL 2.4 [1]. * We had hoped to finish the release shortly after the previous board report was submitted in December. This was delayed for a few reasons: ** Underestimation of work remaining. ** Significant problems which needed to be corrected which were introduced subsequent to the previous release [2]. ** Some final features were finished such as support for NAT. This is a fairly complex addition and required additional time to work our some problems. * We have worked to make it easier for people to test the release by making a VM image available with scripts which automate updating the code to trunk [3]. RELEASES * None COMMUNITY * Subscribers to the user list: 164 (+2) * Posts to user list, 9/14-11/14: 13 (-34) * Subscribers to the dev list: 130 (+0) * Posts to dev list, 9/14-11/14: 347 (-93) * Committers: 8 (+0) * PMC members: 7 (+0) ISSUES There are no issues requiring board attention at this time [1] http://vcl.markmail.org/thread/wnbm3njygl57d2a3 [2] http://vcl.markmail.org/thread/eljxzninagysjzhg [3] http://vcl.markmail.org/thread/khslgpezwqr6swmr
DESCRIPTION VCL is a modular cloud computing platform which dynamically provisions and brokers remote access to compute resources including virtual machines, bare-metal computers, and resources in other cloud platforms. A self-service web portal is used to request resources and for administration. VCL became a TLP on June 20, 2012. CURRENT ACTIVITY * The next release of VCL was pushed back due to an underestimate of the amount of work remaining. We plan to create a release candidate next week. * Almost all of the development work is complete. Work is wrapping up to add NAT support and a few minor improvements. * After this release, we will work to improve how the project handles release planning and management. It has been a very long time since our last release (12/12). Some discussion has started in the thread referenced as [1]. RELEASES None COMMUNITY Subscribers to the user list: 162 Posts to user list, 9/14-11/14: 97 Subscribers to the dev list: 130 Posts to dev list, 9/14-11/14: 440 Committers: 8 PMC members: 7 ISSUES There are no issues requiring board attention at this time [1] http://vcl.markmail.org/thread/ejanbxnvtm2476mc
DESCRIPTION VCL is a modular cloud computing platform which dynamically provisions and brokers remote access to compute resources including virtual machines, bare-metal computers, and resources in other cloud platforms. A self-service web portal is used to request resources and for administration. VCL became a TLP on June 20, 2012. CURRENT ACTIVITY * The next release of VCL planned for late September or early October. * Development is on track. Several JIRA issues have been closed. * A major overhaul of the web code is nearly complete including support for multiple web servers [1] and class-based resources [2]. * Work is nearly complete to add OpenStack provisioning support to VCL [3]. * Work is complete to add support for Windows 8.x/2012 [4] images and VMware ESXi 5.5 provisioning [5]. RELEASES None COMMUNITY Subscribers to the user list: 162 Posts to user list, 6/14-8/14: 113 Subscribers to the dev list: 136 Posts to dev list, 6/14-8/14: 168 Committers: 8 PMC members: 7 ISSUES There are no issues requiring board attention at this time [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VCL-5 [2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VCL-776 [3] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VCL-590 [4] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VCL-770 [5] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VCL-771
DESCRIPTION VCL is a modular cloud computing platform which dynamically provisions and brokers remote access to compute resources including virtual machines, bare-metal computers, and resources in other cloud platforms. A self-service web portal is used to request resources and for administration. VCL became a TLP on June 20, 2012. CURRENT ACTIVITY * The next release of VCL is targeted for late summer. Development is progressing. Several JIRA issues have been closed recently. * Work is progressing to add OpenStack provisioning support to VCL. A few people are working on this. * The community continues to work to attract development contributions and eventually additional committers. * Members of the VCL community residing in Budapest are considering submitting proposals for ApacheCon. [1] RELEASES None COMMUNITY * Subscribers to the user list: 163 * Posts to user list, 3/14-6/14: 168 * Subscribers to the dev list: 137 * Posts to dev list, 3/14-6/14: 92 * Committers: 8 (+0) * PMC members: 7 (+0) ISSUES There are no issues requiring board attention at this time [1] http://markmail.org/message/or7beivprrkggq23
DESCRIPTION VCL is a modular cloud computing platform which dynamically provisions and brokers remote access to compute resources including virtual machines, bare-metal computers, and resources in other cloud platforms. A self-service web portal is used to request resources and for administration. VCL became a TLP on June 20, 2012. CURRENT ACTIVITY * Development progress was a bit slow over the holidays and January but is picking up. * Work has been completed to improve support for cluster reservations which are distributed across different management nodes. * Work continues to fix some minor issues. We hope to create a release late spring or early summer which will include support for new features including provisioning on OpenStack, Windows 8.1 images, and nested hypervisor provisioning. * The community continues to work to attract development contributions and eventually additional committers. Contributions have recently been made from people in the community who have not contributed code before. RELEASES * None COMMUNITY * Subscribers to the user list: 163 * Posts to user list, 12/13-3/14: 156 * Subscribers to the dev list: 134 * Posts to dev list, 12/13-3/14: 68 * Committers: 8 (last addition: Young Oh, 12/13) * PMC members: 7 (last addition: 6/12) ISSUES * There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
DESCRIPTION VCL is a modular cloud computing platform which dynamically provisions and brokers remote access to compute resources including virtual machines, bare-metal computers, and resources in other cloud platforms. A self-service web portal is used to request resources and for administration. VCL became a TLP on June 20, 2012. CURRENT ACTIVITY * A discussion to invite Young Oh as a committer was conducted on the private list in November. He accepted and was voted in as a committer on November, 27, 2013. His account was created and an announcement was made to the dev list. * The community continues to work to attract development contributions and eventually additional committers. * Work continues on a provisioning module to support OpensStack Essex. * Work continues to fix some minor issues. We hope to create a release before the next board meeting. RELEASES * None COMMUNITY * Subscribers to the user list: 163 * Posts to user list, 9/13-12/13: 155 * Subscribers to the dev list: 135 * Posts to dev list, 9/13-12/13: 146 * Committers: 8 (+1) * PMC members: 4 ISSUES * There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
DESCRIPTION VCL is a modular cloud computing platform which dynamically provisions and brokers remote access to compute resources including virtual machines, bare-metal computers, and resources in other cloud platforms. A self-service web portal is used to request resources and for administration. VCL became a TLP on June 20, 2012. CURRENT ACTIVITY * Discussions on the dev list included a thread to reorganize the release roadmap. The main new feature planned for VCL 2.4 had been a configuration management system. There is still a lot of work to do in order to implement this feature. There are other features which could be completed sooner which would provide significant benefits to some implementations such as NAT support. There was general agreement to go this direction. * There has been an increase in the amount of development interest and activity: ** A provisioning module to support OpensStack Essex is currently being worked on [1] ** A provisioning module to support OpenNebula is currently being worked on [2] ** Interest has been expressed in contributing a new module to support VirtualBox provisioning [3] * The community realizes it needs to continue to work to attract development contributions. Efforts are underway to add new committers and at least 1 PMC member over the next year. [4] RELEASES * None COMMUNITY * Subscribers to the user list: 165 * Posts to user list, 6/13-9/13: 138 * Subscribers to the dev list: 139 * Posts to dev list, 6/13-9/13: 116 * Committers: 7 * PMC members: 4 ISSUES * There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VCL-590 [2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VCL-722 [3] http://markmail.org/thread/esokuj5i2huefl4y [4] http://markmail.org/thread/ircrnxblu3xyp76y
DESCRIPTION VCL is a modular cloud computing platform which dynamically provisions and brokers remote access to compute resources including virtual machines, bare-metal computers, and resources in other cloud platforms. A self-service web portal is used to request resources and for administration. VCL became a TLP on June 20, 2012. CURRENT ACTIVITY * Work was completed for the VCL 2.3.2 bugfix release. Fixes for the previous Apache VCL 2.x releases were also created. * Progress is being made on the large new configuration management system slated for VCL 2.4. * Aaron Coburn presented at ApacheCon in February. The topic was "Desktop Virtualization with Apache VCL". * A fair amount of work has been done to improve the look and organization of the project CMS website as well as the Confluence wiki. * There is some interest within the VCL community to work with the Cloudstack project. Cloudstack resources could be provisioned via VCL. There may be additional ways to integrate the two products/projects. RELEASES * VCL 2.3.2 was released on 3-25-2013 COMMUNITY * Subscribers to the user list: 160 * Posts to user list, 3/13-5/13: 141 * Subscribers to the dev list: 142 * Posts to dev list, 3/13-5/13: 137 * Committers: 7 * PMC members: 4 ISSUES * There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
DESCRIPTION VCL is a modular cloud computing platform which dynamically provisions and brokers remote access to compute resources including virtual machines, bare-metal computers, and resources in other cloud platforms. A self-service web portal is used to request resources and for administration. VCL became a TLP on June 20, 2012. CURRENT ACTIVITY * Work continues to migrate content from Confluence to the new CMS website and to improve the design. * Apache VCL 2.3.1 was released in December. * Development work is underway for the VCL 2.3.2 bugfix release. The fixes have been applied to trunk. Work is underway to provide a means to apply the fixes to the previous Apache VCL 2.x releases. * Development work continues on features slated for Apache VCL 2.4 including a new configuration management system [1]. RELEASES * VCL 2.3.1 was released on 12-20-2012 COMMUNITY * Subscribers to the user list: 156 * Posts to user list, 2/12-2/13: 86 * Subscribers to the dev list: 141 * Posts to dev list, 12/12-2/13: 156 * Committers: 7 * PMC members: 4 ISSUES * There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. [1] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/VCL/Configuration+Management
DESCRIPTION VCL is a modular cloud computing platform which dynamically provisions and brokers remote access to compute resources including virtual machines, bare-metal computers, and resources in other cloud platforms. A self-service web portal is used to request resources and for administration. VCL became a TLP on June 20, 2012. CURRENT ACTIVITY - Work continues to migrate content from Confluence to the new CMS website and to improve the design. - VCL 2.3.1 will likely be released before the December 2012 board meeting. This is a bug fix release. All of the issues targeted for VCL 2.3.1 have been resolved and the release process is beginning. - Most development has been devoted to addressing bugs in VCL 2.3 and preparing VCL 2.3.1. Work on new features slated for VCL 2.4 will increase now that VCL 2.3.1 is complete. - Alan Cabrera and Kevan Miller have resigned from the VCL PMC. They were mentors of the VCL project throughout incubation. The VCL community is grateful for all of their help. RELEASES - None COMMUNITY - Subscribers to the user list: 153 - Posts to user list, 9/12-11/12: 211 - Subscribers to the dev list: 137 - Posts to dev list, 9/12-11/12: 167 - Committers: 7 - PMC members: 4 ISSUES * There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
DESCRIPTION VCL is a modular cloud computing platform which dynamically provisions and brokers remote access to compute resources including virtual machines, bare-metal computers, and resources in other cloud platforms. A self-service web portal is used to request resources and for administration. VCL became a TLP on June 20, 2012. CURRENT ACTIVITY * The community has completed the post-graduation tasks. * Work continues to migrate content from Confluence to the new CMS website and to improve the design. * Several commits have been made to the VCL 2.3.1 bugfix branch to address minor problems with VCL 2.3, which was released in July. VCL 2.3.1 will be released this fall. * Traffic on the lists has been fairly high, mostly due to questions related to recently released VCL 2.3. * Development is still in the beginning stage for the VCL 2.4 features. Most development has been devoted to bug fixes. * One of the committers is working to develop code to provide a VCL block in Moodle. Some licensing concerns arose from this due to Moodle's GPL license. [1] Guidance was provided by legal-discuss. It was decided for this to be a separate non-ASF project independent of the Apache VCL. RELEASES * None COMMUNITY * Subscribers to the user list: 154 * Posts to user list, 8/2012: 130 * Subscribers to the dev list: 144 * Posts to dev list, 8/2012: 159 * Committers: 9 * PMC members: 6 ISSUES * There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. [1] http://markmail.org/thread/leb6jw5e3d45lswy
DESCRIPTION VCL is a modular cloud computing platform which dynamically provisions and brokers remote access to compute resources including virtual machines, bare-metal computers, and resources in other cloud platforms. A self-service web portal is used to request resources and for administration. VCL became a TLP on June 20, 2012. CURRENT ACTIVITY * The community has completed most of the post-graduation tasks with the help of Infrastructure. [1] * A CMS website has been created. [2] We are working to migrate content from Confluence to the CMS. * A VCL 2.3.1 bugfix branch has been created. This will be released in a few months. * Development is beginning for VCL 2.4 features including NAT and IPv6 support and new configuration management features. RELEASES * VCL 2.3 was released on 2012-07-20 COMMUNITY * Subscribers to the user list: 150 * Subscribers to the dev list: 143 * Committers: 9 * PMC members: 6 ISSUES * There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. [1] [https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-4761] [2] [http://vcl.apache.org]
DESCRIPTION VCL is a modular cloud computing platform which dynamically provisions and brokers remote access to compute resources including virtual machines, bare-metal computers, and resources in other cloud platforms. A self-service web portal is used to request resources and for administration. VCL became a TLP on June 20, 2012. CURRENT ACTIVITY * The community is working to complete the post-graduation tasks with the help of Infrastructure. [1] * Mailing lists have been moved to vcl.apache.org. * PMC and private list have been established. * Repository has been moved. * Project website will be migrated from Confluence to the CMS. * Attempted to release VCL 2.3 in June but bugs were found which required new release candidates. Decided to hold off until after graduation. A vote to release VCL 2.3 is currently underway. It will likely be released before the board meeting. RELEASES * None at the time this report was written. A vote to release VCL 2.3 is currently underway. COMMUNITY * Subscribers to the user list: 152 * Subscribers to the dev list: 140 * Committers: 9 * PMC members: 6 COMMITTER/PMC CHANGES * New committer: Dmitri Chebotarov (2012-5-30) ISSUES * There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. [1] [https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-4761]
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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 a modular cloud computing platform which dynamically provisions and brokers remote access to compute resources for distribution at no charge to the public. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management Committee (PMC), to be known as "The Apache VCL Project", be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache VCL Project be and hereby is responsible for the creation and maintenance of software related to a modular cloud computing platform which dynamically provisions and brokers remote access to compute resources; and be it further RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache VCL" 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 VCL Project, and to have primary responsibility for management of the projects within the scope of responsibility of the Apache VCL 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 VCL Project: • Alan Cabrera <adc@apache.org> • Dmitri Chebotarov <dimach@apache.org> • Aaron Coburn <acoburn@apache.org> • David Hutchins <dnhutchins@apache.org> • Andy Kurth <arkurth@apache.org> • Kevan Miller <kevan@apache.org> • James O'Dell <jodell@apache.org> • Aaron Peeler <fapeeler@apache.org> • Josh Thompson <jfthomps@apache.org> NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Andy Kurth be appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache VCL, 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 VCL PMC be and hereby is tasked with the creation of a set of bylaws intended to encourage open development and increased participation in the Apache VCL Project; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache VCL Project be and hereby is tasked with the migration and rationalization of the Apache Incubator VCL podling; and be it further RESOLVED, that all responsibilities pertaining to the Apache Incubator VCL podling encumbered upon the Apache Incubator Project are hereafter discharged. Special Order 7H, Establish the Apache VCL Project, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
VCL has been incubating since December 2008. VCL is a cloud computing platform for the management of physical and virtual machines. It provides comparatively easy and simple base line install with a end-user self service interface. New Committers The Apache VCL community recently added James O'Dell from California State University at Fullerton as a committer. We welcome James and look forward to his expertise and knowledge to help advance VCL project and community. New PPMC member The Apache VCL PPMC recently added Aaron Coburn as a new PPMC member. The current PPMC welcomes Aaron. Community Involvement - The Apache VCL community is a growing community with global interest from Education and commercial entities. - The community is fast to respond to user questions and discuss design ideas in a respectful manner. - We have seen cross project interest as through a contribution of a VCL driver to the Apache LIBCLOUD project. - There are community members that have expressed interest in becoming committers. They are working through their initial contributions. We look forward to hopefully bring them aboard. Releases - Our next release has been delayed from our previous board report. - This 2.3 release is a very large release, including bug-fixes, support from kvm, VMWare vcenter, multi-lingualization, and approved contributions from the community. - We are in testing now and hope to generate a 2.3 release candidate in the next few days. Top Issues Before Graduation Graduation work itself - As a community discuss graduation to determine if we are ready. If so proceed with starting the process. Signed off by mentor: kevan, adc
VCL has been incubating since December 2008. VCL is a cloud computing
platform for the management of physical and virtual machines.
New Committers
1. The Apache VCL community recently added Aaron Coburn of Amherst College
as a committer. We welcome Aaron and look forward to his expertise and
knowledge to help advance VCL software.
2. There are a couple of other potential committers that might be able to
join the community as committers. We look forward to hopefully bring
them aboard.
Community Involvement
1. The Apache VCL community is seeing continued growth and interest around
the world.
2. The community activity on the mailing list is an open discussion and
members respectfully exchange ideas and provide support.
Releases
Our next release is behind our intended schedule, we are working through
the remaining issues and features. We are targeting a March Release for
Apache VCL 2.3. This will included support for Vcenter, kvm hypervisors,
server based profiles and lots of bug fixes.
Top Issues Before Graduation
Continue to increase contributors to establish a more diverse
development community.
Signed off by mentor: kevan, adc
VCL has been incubating since December 2008. VCL is a cloud computing platform for the management of physical and virtual machines. (https://cwiki.apache.org/VCL) Community Involvement * Numerous Apache VCL community members have gained enough knowledge and are actively answering questions on the mailing lists. * Questions have been posted to the lists related to several new installations from around the world. * Development issues are being discussed with participants from many different organizations. Code Contributions * Support for IBM Power7 hardware was discussed on the development list. Code and documentation was contributed by Sunil Venkatesh of the University of Maryland Baltimore County. * Received a contribution from Satoshi Kobayashi of Hitachi Ltd. Japan to add Multilingualization/internationalization of the web UI and several other improvements. * Received a provisioning module for VMware vCenter clusters from Aaron Coburn at Amherst college. * Mark Gardner from Virginia Tech is working on adding support for IPv6. New Committers * Several individuals from different institutions have expressed interest in becoming committers. * The main barrier encountered is obtaining university legal department approval of individual and corporate contributor license agreements. Current committers are working with interested individuals to share experience and work through these issues. Top Issues Before Graduation * Diversity. The community has been working to attract additional contributors to the project. Several committer candidates are being discussed.
VCL has been incubating since December 2008. VCL is a cloud computing platform for the management of physical and virtual machines.[https://cwiki.apache.org/VCL|] Community Involvement * Numerous Apache VCL community members have gained enough knowledge and are actively answering questions on the mailing lists. * Questions have been posted to the lists related to several new installations from around the world. * Development issues are being discussed with participants from many different organizations. Code Contributions * Support for IBM Power7 hardware was discussed on the development list. Code and documentation was contributed by Sunil Venkatesh of the University of Maryland Baltimore County. * Received a contribution from Satoshi Kobayashi of Hitachi Ltd. Japan to add Multilingualization/internationalization of the web UI and several other improvements. * Received a provisioning module for VMware vCenter clusters from Aaron Coburn at Amherst college. * Mark Gardner from Virginia Tech is working on adding support for IPv6. New Committers * Several individuals from different institutions have expressed interest in becoming committers. * The main barrier encountered is obtaining university legal department approval of individual and corporate contributor license agreements. Current committers are working with interested individuals to share experience and work through these issues. Top Issues Before Graduation * Diversity. The community has been working to attract additional contributors to the project. Several committer candidates are being discussed.
VCL has been incubating since December 2008. VCL is a cloud computing platform for the management of physical and virtual machines. Community Involvement As stated in the previous report, the Apache VCL community continues to grow. We're seeing more people start to contribute to our online documentation and file JIRA issues. We're also starting to see more patches attached to JIRA issues. We continue to see growing interest in the VCL project from a variety of locations. We are currently working on growing the committers for Apache VCL project. Releases The Apache VCL 2.2.1 version was release on April 8th 2011 and addressed bugfixes and minor improvements. Our next release Apache VCL 2.3 is on track and we are targeting late fall timeframe. New features planned include support for the KVM hypervisor which is to be contributed by the community. In addition to KVM, the committers will address server loads, and the improvement of cluster reservations. Top Issues Before Graduation Continue to increase contributors to establish a more diverse development community
VCL has been incubating since December 2008. VCL is a cloud computing platform for the management of physical and virtual machines.https://cwiki.apache.org/VCL/ Community Involvement: * As stated in the previous report, the Apache VCL community continues to grow. We're seeing more people start to contribute to our online documentation and file JIRA issues. We're also starting to see more patches attached to JIRA issues. * We continue to see growing interest in the VCL project from a variety of locations. Releases: * We cut a new release that was primarily for bugfixes. Apache VCL 2.2.1 was released on April 8th, 2011. In our last report, we stated that we had hoped to get it out by the end of February. Other duties of the developers caused some of the delay. Additional delay was due to a bug found after the release voting took place, requiring a new round of voting. Top Issues Before Graduation: * Continue to increase contributors to establish a more diverse development community
VCL has been incubating since December 2008. VCL is a cloud computing platform for the management of physical and virtual machines.https://cwiki.apache.org/VCL/ Community Involvement * We are very excited to introduce a new committer, David Hutchins. * As stated in the previous report, the Apache VCL community continues to grow. We're seeing more people start to contribute to our online documentation and file JIRA issues. * We continue to see growing interest in the VCL project from a variety of locations. Several others have submitted patches. Plans for next Release The next release is scheduled toward the end of February. This will be a dot release (VCL 2.2.1) to fix a few bugs and add improved code for handling virtual machines. The 2.3 release is planned for late spring. Top Issues Before Graduation * Continue to increase contributors from multiple institutions. * Discuss next steps for Graduation with mentors.
VCL has been incubating since December 2008. VCL is a cloud computing platform for the management of physical and virtual machines. Community Involvement * The Apache VCL user community continues to grow. We really need to get more committers. We have asked on our development list for more people to get involved and also individually contacted people encouraging them to get involved, but are still having trouble getting people on board. Plans for next Release * We announced our second release through ASF on Oct. 5th * We plan to reduce the number of items to go in to the next release in hopes of decreasing time between releases. Top Issues Before Graduation * Continue to increase contributors from multiple institutions
VCL has been incubating since December 2008. VCL is a cloud computing platform for the management of physical and virtual machines. Community Involvement * As stated in the previous report, the Apache VCL community continues to grow. We're seeing more people start to contribute to our online documentation and file JIRA issues. * As reported in the last board report a few people from the community have been contacted by PPMC members encouraging them to become more involved in the project. There was positive interest from a few, they submitted iCLA's but have yet to contribute anything for the PPMC's to review for acceptance. * We see people from new locations asking questions on the vcl-dev list which shows that interest in VCL is growing. Plans for next Release * The next release has been delayed slightly to make sure all jira issues were satisfied correctly. The new target date is to have the next release candidate out available by the end of August 2010. Top Issues Before Graduation * Continue to increase contributors from multiple institutions
VCL has been incubating since December 2008. VCL is a cloud computing platform for the management of physical and virtual machines. Community Involvement: * As stated in the previous report, the Apache VCL community continues to grow. We're seeing more and more people start to contribute to our online documentation and file JIRA issues. * A few people from the community have been contacted by PPMC members encouraging them to become more involved in the project. * We continue to see people from new locations asking questions on the vcl-dev list which shows that interest in VCL is continuing to grow. * Interest from the community to have support for a more recent version of VMWare Free Server drove the decision to swap that feature (originally slated for VCL 2.3) with cluster reservation improvements (originally slated for VCL 2.2). Plans for next Release: * We hope to have our next release out by the end of June. This would be 1/2 the time it took to get our previous release out. We hope to continue to shorten the time between releases as we move forward. Documentation: * Migration of official documentation to our second Confluence space has started. The next step is to pick an autoexport template, and then set up a cronjob to copy the autoexported content to our official documentation location. Top Issues Before Graduation: * Continue to increase contributors from multiple institutions
Community Involvement * The Apache VCL community continues to grow. We're seeing more and more people start to contribute to our online documentation and file JIRA issues - some with patches attached. * We're seeing more feature requests come in which means more people are using VCL. * More people have joined the vcl-dev list and are asking questions as they install VCL at new locations. * Aaron Peeler, Andy Kurth, and Josh Thompson have become part of the PPMC. First Official Release * Our first official release (Apache VCL 2.1) was made available on Dec. 4th, 2009. * We set a small number of features to work on for the next few releases in hopes of getting releases out more quickly. 3rd Party Dependencies * Procedures for handling 3rd party dependencies have been worked out. All dependencies that have incompatible licenses are now specified as "System Requirements" as stated under "System Requirements" at http://www.apache.org/legal/3party.html Documentation * A large amount of documentation has been added to the project's Confluence site * People from multiple organizations have contributed to improving the documentation, both by editing the pages themselves and by pointing out areas for improvement on the lists * A new confluence space has been created to be used for managing the official documentation for the project. Documentation that should be included with releases will be migrated from the existing confluence space to the new one, and the autoexport of the space will be cron copied to our official documentation location. Work on this migration has not started. Unresolved Issues * All unresolved issues reported in our 2009-11 report have been resolved. Top Issues Before Graduation * Continue to increase contributors from multiple institutions
VCL has been incubating since December 2008. VCL is a cloud computing platform for the management of physical and virtual machines. Community Involvement * The Apache VCL community is growing and people from several organizations are contributing * Questions about administration and end user use of Apache VCL are being asked and answered on the project's vcl-dev and vcl-user lists * A growing number of community members from multiple organizations are answering questions * Collaboration is occurring for architectural design and release planning via the vcl-dev list * Code patches have been discussed on the vcl-dev list and submitted to the Jira issue tracking system Release Preparation - Apache VCL 2.1 * The community is working to complete the final administrative tasks required to issue the first release (Apache VCL 2.1) * Josh Thompson has volunteered to act as the release manager for 2.1 per the advice of Matt Hogstrom, one of the project mentors * PGP keys have been created and added to the distribution area * A release candidate artifact has been created and is currently being discussed * Code and documentation updates are being made to the release candidate per community consensus * The tasks required to complete the release are being discussed on the vcl-dev list * Jira is being used to track the release tasks and to assemble the release changelog * Release procedures are being documented as the community develops its release process 3rd Party Dependencies * Procedures for handling 3rd party dependencies are being worked out by the VCL community with help from the ASF legal-discuss list * Major components of VCL are written in Perl and the Apache VCL release will only contain Perl code developed by the ASF * A Perl interpreter and supplemental Perl modules are required. These are licensed under the Artistic License, GPL, and LGPL. * Concerns were brought up by the project mentors and a question was posed to the legal-discuss list. The question was answered and we are working on implementing the recommendation. Project Name * The Apache VCL project name issue has been resolved * NCSU has taken steps to clearly indicate on its Apache VCL instance website that Apache VCL is developed by the ASF * References to NCSU have been removed from the code * NCSU employees affiliated with the Apache VCL project routinely communicate that VCL is an ASF project and encourage colleagues of other organizations to do the same Documentation * A large amount of documentation has been added to the project's Confluence site * People from multiple organizations have contributed to improving the documentation, both by editing the pages themselves and by pointing out areas for improvement on the lists Unresolved Issues * As noted in the May 2009 report questions were asked of the mentors regarding the rules governing wiki contributions from individuals who have not signed the CLA. It is the community's understanding that a separate wiki will be needed one for official documentation included with releases and one containing contributions from individual who have not signed the CLA. A request has been made to one of the mentors who had offered to create a 2nd wiki instance. This has not been completed yet. * A request has been made to the mentors to create a Confluence committers group that contains the Apache VCL community members with a CLA on file * A request has been made to the mentors to create a Jira Committers role that contains the Apache VCL community members with a CLA on file * Some committers have lost administrative access to Jira. The project mentors have been asked to restore the permissions. Top Issues Before Graduation * Complete the release of Apache VCL 2.1 * Continue to increase contributors from multiple institutions
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VCL has been incubating since December 2008. VCL is a framework for cloud management of physical and virtual machines. Project Name: * Discussion about using the name VCL has continued but the issue has not been resolved. * A question was posed on the legal discussion list regarding the use of the VCL name A response was givin indicating that NCSU should make it obvious that both the VCL name and code are donated to the ASF. * NCSU is working to make it obvious on its website that VCL is developed at the ASF. * The development community is working to remove references to NCSU from the VCL code. * More guidance is required from the project mentors or others from ASF in order to resolve this issue. Development: * Code development has continued and many commits have been made to the ASF VCL repository. * The vcl-dev list is actively being used to discuss development issues. * The Jira issue system is being used for tracking and to plan the first release. Release Preparation: * The development community is researching the ASF release process. * Work is being done to complete a few Jira issues before creating release. Documentation: * The community decided to use a Confluence wiki for the project documentation. * Work has been done to organize project documentation. * Documentation is actively being contributed to wiki. * Questions were asked of the mentors regarding the rules governing wiki contributions from individuals who have not signed the CLA. It is the community's understanding that a separate wiki will be needed - one for official documentation included with releases and one containing contributions from individual who have not signed the CLA. * A request has been made to one of the mentors who had offered to create a 2nd wiki instance.
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Incubator Project - VCL Included is the monthly status report for VCL to the Incubator PMC for January 2009 * Community The community has been active on the vcl-dev mailing list. Some new interested parties have subscribed and open discussion about goals, development processes, etc. have been happening. There has been some discussion about the use of the project name VCL as NC State is still using this name for their student computing lab. The issue was raised about whether this is acceptable or not. This issue should be resolved before the next board report. * Source Code Code has been committed and folks are getting accustomed to the structure and layout of the VCL architecture. * Miscellaneous No issues at this time.
VCL has been going through the startup phase of the project and the remainder of the new accounts were created over the last month. The codebase is in the process of being moved to the ASF. The developers at NC State were completing their work in progress for 2.0 and will transfer it shortly. Until then the project is flying a holding pattern. In the interim we'll start some of the more mundane tasks like getting the web site setup and shtuffes like that.
Status for November 2008 This is the first report to the board since being bootstrapped. Over the past month we have created our SVN tree and started some of the administrative actions. Community: User IDs were created for: * Aaron Peeler (NCSU) [MAILTO] aaron_peeler@ncsu.edu * Andy Kurth (NCSU) [MAILTO] andy_kurth@ncsu.edu * Brian Bouterse (IBM) [MAILTO] bmbouter@us.ibm.com * John Bass (NCSU) [MAILTO] john_bass@ncs.edu * Josh Thompson (NCSU) [MAILTO] josh_thompson@ncsu.edu * Mark Gardner (VA Tech) [MAILTO] mkg@vt.edu * Mladen Vouk (NCSU) [MAILTO] vouk@ncsu.edu * Steve Thorpe (MCNC) [MAILTO] thorpe@mcnc.org * Don Sizemore (UNC-CH) [MAILTO] dls@ibiblio.org * Ken Chestnutt (UNC-CH) [MAILTO] ken@iblio.org * Paul Jones (UNC-CH) [MAILTO] pjones@metalab.unc.edu Next Steps The CCLA from NC State has been transmitted to Apache and we are looking for confirmation in officers/cclas.txt so we can begin introducing code. Our next steps are to complete IP clearance and get organized.