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Wookie

16 Mar 2016

Terminate the Apache Wookie Project

 WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Wookie
 project has chosen by vote to recommend moving the project to the
 Attic; and

 WHEREAS, the Board of Directors deems it no longer in the best
 interest of the Foundation to continue the Apache Wookie project
 due to inactivity;

 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Apache Wookie
 project is hereby terminated; and be it further

 RESOLVED, that the Attic PMC be and hereby is tasked with
 oversight over the software developed by the Apache Wookie
 Project; and be it further

 RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache Wookie is
 hereby terminated; and be it further

 RESOLVED, that the Apache Wookie PMC is hereby terminated.

 Special Order 7B, Terminate the Apache Wookie Project, was
 approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.

17 Feb 2016 [Scott Wilson / Bertrand]

Apache Wookie develops software related to implementation of the W3C
Widgets family of specifications.

ISSUES
As mentioned in previous reports, activity in the project has declined and is
now at a minimum with some questions from users and implementers but little on
the development side  and also the community has not grown since 2013. The
reasons for this remain the same, in particular the lack of non-proprietary
adoption of the W3C widget specification. As a result we are currently holding
a vote to move Wookie to the Attic.

RELEASES
Wookie 1.0 was released on 24th February 2014.

ACTIVITY
None recently.

COMMUNITY
Our last committer and PMC member added was Steve Lee on 21st February 2013.

20 Jan 2016 [Scott Wilson / Greg]

No report was submitted.

21 Oct 2015 [Scott Wilson / David]

Apache Wookie develops software related to implementation of the W3C
Widgets family of specifications.

ISSUES
As mentioned in previous reports, activity in the project has declined and is
now at a minimum with some questions from users and implementers but little on
the development side and also the community has not grown since 2013. The
reasons for this remain the same, in particular the lack of non-proprietary
adoption of the W3C widget specification.

FUTURE
We have begun a discussion within the project community on whether Wookie
should move to the attic; we will hold a vote on this before the next
reporting session.

RELEASES
Wookie 1.0 was released on 24th February 2014.

ACTIVITY
Work is still being undertaken on Wookie 2.0.

COMMUNITY
Our last committer and PMC member added was Steve Lee on 21st February 2013.

15 Jul 2015 [Scott Wilson / Greg]

No report was submitted.

Committee reports approved as submitted by General Consent.

22 Apr 2015 [Scott Wilson / Bertrand]

Apache Wookie develops software related to implementation of the W3C
Widgets family of specifications.

ISSUES
As mentioned in previous reports, activity in the project has declined and is
now at a minimum with some questions from users and implementers but little on
the development side  and also the community has not grown since 2013. The
reasons for this remain the same, in particular the lack of non-proprietary
adoption of the W3C widget specification.

FUTURE
Having said that, there have been some new use cases suggested in the
community which have lead to development discussions on the part of the
primary team.  One use case suggestion has been to develop a github link
allowing widgets to be directly imported from github thus facilitating an easy
mechanism to develop and deploy widgets outside of the wookie tree.


RELEASES
Wookie 1.0 was released on 24th February 2014.

ACTIVITY
Work is still being undertaken on Wookie 2.0.

COMMUNITY
Our last committer added was Steve Lee on 21st February 2013.

21 Jan 2015 [Scott Wilson / Rich]

No report was submitted.

Committee reports approved as submitted by General Consent.

15 Oct 2014 [Scott Wilson / Sam]

Apache Wookie develops software related to implementation of the W3C
Widgets family of specifications.

ISSUES
As mentioned in July’s report, activity in the project has declined
dramatically and the community has not grown in the last year or so.  This
trend has continued, though this might have been exacerbated by the summer
period where there is less activity anyway. The reasons for this remain the
same, in particular the lack of non-proprietary adoption of the W3C widget
specification.

If this trend continues the team will give consideration to either moving the
project to the attic or subsuming it into RAVE.

RELEASES
Wookie 1.0 was released on 24th February 2014.

ACTIVITY
Work is still being undertaken on Wookie 2.0.

COMMUNITY
Our last committer added was Steve Lee on 21st February 2013.

16 Jul 2014 [Scott Wilson / Ross]

Apache Wookie develops software related to implementation of the W3C
Widgets family of specifications.

ISSUES
We haven't really grown our community over the past year, and overall
activity is slowing to a trickle. Partly this is because of problems with
the W3C specification getting wider adoption as the major browser
vendors have all continued to produce competing formats.

Looking forward we may want to consider options including moving
Wookie to the Attic or moving the project to become a sub-project of Rave
if the level of activity continues to decline.

RELEASES
Wookie 1.0 was released on 24th February 2014.

ACTIVITY
Since April we've been working on Wookie 2.0, which is aimed at making
Wookie more modular and easier to integrate into Apache Rave and
other platforms.

COMMUNITY
Our last committer added was Steve Lee on 21st February 2013.

16 Apr 2014 [Scott Wilson / Roy]

Apache Wookie develops software related to implementation of the W3C
Widgets family of specifications.

ISSUES
There are no outstanding issues requiring board attention.

RELEASES
Wookie 1.0 was released on 24th February 2014.

ACTIVITY
We've created a new 2.x project in trunk and moved the existing codebase
into a 1.x stable branch. The aim of 2.0 is to modularise the project
structure so its easier for newcomers to develop against,  and to make
the build and deploy process simpler.

COMMUNITY
Our last committer added was Steve Lee on 21st February 2013.

15 Jan 2014 [Scott Wilson / Bertrand]

Apache Wookie develops software related to implementation of the W3C
Widgets family of specifications.

ISSUES
There are no outstanding issues requiring board attention.

RELEASES
Wookie 0.15 was released on 23rd September 2013.

ACTIVITY
We've handled a small number of user bug reports and patch submissions.
Overall traffic has been very low over the holidays.

COMMUNITY
Our last committer added was Steve Lee on 21st February.

16 Oct 2013 [Scott Wilson / Doug]

Apache Wookie develops software related to implementation of the W3C
Widgets family of specifications.

ISSUES
There are no outstanding issues requiring board attention.

RELEASES
Wookie 0.15 was released on 23rd September 2013.

ACTIVITY
We've handled user enquiries and had a small number of new bug reports
relating to support for Websphere. Overall traffic has been quite low
over the summer months.

COMMUNITY
Our last committer added was Steve Lee on 21st February, 2013.

17 Jul 2013 [Scott Wilson / Shane]

Apache Wookie develops software related to implementation of the W3C Widgets family of specifications.

ISSUES
There are no outstanding issues requiring board attention.

RELEASES
No new releases since last report; another release (0.15) is due later this month.

ACTIVITY
This has been a fairly quiet period for the project; we've handled user enquiries and had a small number of new bug reports.
We've also re-organised the code structure using the standard Maven folder layout to make it easier to understand for newcomers.
We tagged several issues for GSoC but sadly received no applications this year.

Our last release was 0.14 on 9th April. Our last committer added was Steve Lee on 21st February.

17 Apr 2013 [Scott Wilson / Roy]

Apache Wookie develops software related to implementation of the W3C
Widgets family of specifications.

Issues
=========================
There are no outstanding issues requiring board attention.

Releases
=========================
We have made a new release, 0.14, since the last report.

Activity
=========================
We have three issues tagged for GSOC 2013 [WOOKIE-329, WOOKIE-409,
WOOKIE-410]. We added one new committer, Steve Lee, since our last report.

16 Jan 2013 [Scott Wilson / Sam]

Apache Wookie develops software related to implementation of the W3C
Widgets family of specifications.

ISSUES
There are no outstanding issues requiring board attention.

COMMUNITY
Nothing to report.

RELEASES
Releases had been stalled by a question relating to crypto export
notifications; we have now filed our export notice and releases will
resume.

ACTIVITY
Activity in Wookie is in four main areas: the W3C Widget Server,
connectors for the server for different programming languages, a
template-based widget creation system, and other supporting
tools. Community members have offered two new supporting tools (a
converter from other widget formats, and a trainer to enhance
functionality in existing widgets) and we're considering the option of
incubating a sub-project for these.

PRESS
Nothing to report.

LEGAL
See under Releases

TLP MIGRATION
The TLP migration has occurred without major issue.

INFRASTRUCTURE
Infrastructure migration from the incubator is complete.

BRANDING
* Project Naming And Descriptions : complete
* Website Navigation Links : complete
* Trademark Attributions : TODO
* Logos and Graphics : complete
* Project Metadata : complete

19 Dec 2012 [Scott Wilson / Greg]

Apache Wookie develops software related to implementation of the W3C
Widgets family of specifications.

ISSUES
There are no outstanding issues requiring board attention.

COMMUNITY
Nothing to report.

RELEASES
Releases had been stalled just prior to graduation by a question relating
to export notifications; this will be resolved soon and monthly releases
resume.

ACTIVITY
Activity in Wookie is in four main areas:  the W3C Widget Server,
connectors for the server for different programming languages, a
template-based widget creation system, and other supporting tools.
Community members have offered two new supporting tools (a converter from
other widget formats, and a trainer to enhance functionality in existing
widgets) and we're considering the option of incubating a sub-project for
these.

PRESS
Nothing to report.

LEGAL
Nothing to report.

TLP MIGRATION
The TLP migration has occurred without major issue.

Task Status:
 * Infrastructure migration complete
 * All code & web pages have been updated to reflect new status
 * Final incubator status TODO
 * committee-info.txt updated with PMC details
 * Officer info updated for new chair

INFRASTRUCTURE
Infrastructure migration from the incubator is complete and the project
website has been transferred to wookie.apache.org.

BRANDING
* Project Naming And Descriptions : complete
* Website Navigation Links : complete
* Trademark Attributions : TODO
* Logos and Graphics : complete
* Project Metadata : TODO

Initial feedback from the SFLC isn't consistent with Roy's analysis. Work is continuing and will result in a final recommendation, but in the meanwhile the recommendation is that Wookie follow the current plan of record with regards to export notifications. Ross to communicate this to the PMC.

21 Nov 2012

Establish the Apache Wookie Project

 WHEREAS, the Board of Directors deems it to be in the best
 interests of the Foundation and consistent with the
 Foundation's purpose to establish a Project Management
 Committee charged with the creation and maintenance of
 open-source software, for distribution at no charge to
 the public, related to an implementation of the W3C Widgets
 family of specifications.

 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management
 Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Apache Wookie Project",
 be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the
 Foundation; and be it further

 RESOLVED, that the Apache Wookie Project be and hereby is
 responsible for the creation and maintenance of software
 related to implementation of the W3C Widgets family of
 specifications; and be it further

 RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache Wookie" 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 Wookie Project, and to have primary responsibility
 for management of the projects within the scope of
 responsibility of the Apache Wookie 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 Wookie Project:

     * Scott Wilson        <scottbw@apache.org>
     * Ate Douma           <ate@apache.org>
     * Ross Gardler        <rgardler@apache.org>
     * Matt Franklin       <mfranklin@apache.org>
     * Paul Sharples       <psharples@apache.org>
     * Kris Popat          <krispopat@apache.org>
     * Raido Kuli          <raido@apache.org>
     * Hoang Minh Tien     <hmt@apache.org>


 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Scott Wilson
 be appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Wookie, 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 Wookie 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 Wookie Project; and be it further

 RESOLVED, that the Apache Wookie Project be and hereby
 is tasked with the migration and rationalization of the Apache
 Incubator Wookie podling; and be it further

 RESOLVED, that all responsibilities pertaining to the Apache
 Incubator Wookie podling encumbered upon the Apache Incubator
 Project are hereafter discharged.

 Special Order 7A, Establish the Apache Wookie Project, was
 approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.

21 Nov 2012

Wookie is a Java server application that allows you to upload and deploy
widgets for your applications. Wookie is based on the W3C Widgets
specification, but widgets can also be included that use extended APIs
such as Google Wave Gadgets and OpenSocial.

Wookie has been incubating since 17th July 2009.

Progress since August 2012:

 - Started monthly release for August
   (version 0.12.0. has been stalled - see below)
 - Progressed graduation process

Next steps:

 - Resume monthly release cycle
 - Complete graduation process

Issues before graduation:

 - none

Details:

- Graduation process

 Further to our graduation status as reported in our last report...

 Name searches completed
 See: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/WOOKIE-353
 See: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PODLINGNAMESEARCH-13

 Held Graduation Vote
 See: http://incubator.markmail.org/search/?q=wookie-dev#query:wookie-dev%20date%3A201210%20list%3Aorg.apache.incubator.wookie-dev+page:1+mid:jcgdcacn535jqwqy+state:results
 See: http://incubator.markmail.org/search/?q=wookie-dev#query:wookie-dev%20date%3A201210%20list%3Aorg.apache.incubator.wookie-dev+page:2+mid:hp2bggjhec7vpdch+state:results

 The proposal to graduate Wookie as a TLP was sent to board@apache.org on
 31/10/2012 to be resolved at the next meeting.

- Stalled Release

 On 22 August we created the build artifacts for version 0.12.0-incubating,
 in accordance with our monthly release schedule. During the VOTE process
 a question was raised on the subject of the inclusion of Apache Santuario
 XMLSec in wookie.

 See: http://incubator.markmail.org/search/?q=wookie-dev#query:wookie-dev%20list%3Aorg.apache.incubator.wookie-dev%20date%3A201208%20+page:1+mid:hgxuhglq5pmwbs4f+state:results

 It was decided to ask/consult apache legal. At present there has been no
 answer on this matter and therefore the wookie release cycle is stalled.
 We urgently require guidance on this matter, so we can resolve this build
 and consequently resume our release cycle.

 See: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-148
 See: http://apache.markmail.org/search/?q=legal-discuss#query:legal-discuss%20list%3Aorg.apache.legal-discuss%20date%3A201210%20+page:2+mid:nbqenvlfyuyhevpx+state:results

Signed-off-by: ate, mfranklin, bimargulies

15 Aug 2012

Wookie is a Java server application that allows you to upload and deploy
widgets for your applications. Wookie is based on the W3C Widgets
specification, but widgets can also be included that use extended APIs
such as Google Wave Gadgets and OpenSocial.

Wookie has been incubating since 17th July 2009.

Progress since May 2012:

- Implemented new release schedule (aligned with Apache Rave)
- Two new releases
  - 0.10.0 (24th May)
  - 0.11.0 (22nd June)
- Started graduation process

Next steps:

- 0.12.0 release
- Complete graduation process

Issues before graduation:

- none

Details:

 In our last report we identified a task to increase the frequency of
 releases to help community development, and this has now been achieved.

 We also indicated that we were ready to graduate from incubation. Since
 then we have held a vote on the wookie-dev list to nominate the PMC chair.
 Scott Wilson was the person voted as proposed chair (receiving 6 +1s,
 with no other votes) A JIRA issue has been created
 (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/WOOKIE-348) for the graduation
 process, which includes references to wookies charter.

Signed-off-by: Ate, rgardler, jukka

16 May 2012

Wookie is a Java server application that allows you to upload and deploy
widgets for your applications. Wookie is based on the W3C Widgets
specification, but widgets can also be included that use extended APIs
such as Google Wave Gadgets and OpenSocial.

Wookie has been incubating since 17th July 2009.

Progress since February 2012:

 - 0.9.2 release
 - Hoang Minh Tien added as Committer
 - Matt Franklin added as Mentor
 - Improved release documentation
 - GSoC student project

Next steps:

 - implement new release schedule (aligned with Apache Rave)
 - 0.10.0 release using new release process
 - start graduation process after release
 - ASF Widgets demo

Issues before graduation:

 - none

Details:

In our last report we identified our target for this period was to identify
ways to improve the diversity of the Wookie community.

Since our last report we added a new committer (Tien) and we are now diverse
enough to graduate (6 committers from 4 organisations), although we are still
a small community.

We feel that graduation of the project will also help attract new
contributors, and we will seek approval to graduate during the next
quarter, after the 0.10 release which is imminent.

As well as graduation, we have agreed that having more frequent scheduled
releases, coordinated with Apache Rave may also help with community
development.

Matt Franklin has joined Wookie as a mentor and is active in helping with
this process.

We've also created a lot of detailed documentation on the release process
and are encouraging more committers take a turn at being release manager
to both test the documentation and to spread the experience of doing this
more widely.

Our first release under the new schedule will be 15th May.

Another approach we're (still) looking at is how we can use Wookie to deploy
widgets that relate to ASF processes and activities as a way of raising
awareness and interest; we've done some experiments with Widgets using the
Jira API as a starting point for a demonstrator and we may want to explore
this further.

We also have a GSoC student project with Wookie this year.

Signed off by mentor: rgardler, mfranklin, ate

15 Feb 2012

Wookie is a Java server application that allows you to upload and deploy
widgets for your applications. Wookie is based on the W3C Widgets
specification, but widgets can also be included that use extended APIs
such as Google Wave Gadgets and OpenSocial.

Wookie has been incubating since 17th July 2009

Wookie has a small, reasonably active community, however, the majority of
that activity is focussed around one or two individuals. The main issue we
would like to address before graduation is to ensure we  have more diversity
in our community. However, as it stands we could probably graduate as we meet
the minimum criteria (5 committers from 3 organisations). We recognise that
some IPMC members would suggest graduation at this point might help
accelerate community growth. We intend to discuss this within the community
over the next quarter whilst also seeking to expand our community.

One strategy for this is to reach out to projects and teams already using
Wookie and encourage their developers to contribute back to the community.
We know several projects (both in commercial and academic sectors) that have
been conducting R&D activity using Wookie and we want to make sure we can
bring in both contributions from these projects and also welcome their
developers into our community.

However we feel that Wookie will only really become fully sustainable when
there is more uptake of the W3C Widgets/Native Web Applications
specifications into "real" systems and products. On this front we're active
and visible in W3C, along with PhoneGap/Apache Cordova (incubating) who also
support W3C Widgets (the W3C Native Web Apps Community have a co-chair who
is a Wookie committer and another who is a Cordova committer). Another
strategy has been to support integration in Apache Rave (currently preparing
to graduate) as this is a way to build our user base (and is also a great way
to demo Wookie). Another approach we're looking at is how we can use Wookie
to deploy widgets that relate to ASF processes and activities as a way of
raising awareness and interest; we've done some experiments with Widgets
using the Jira API as a starting point for a demonstrator.

In any case, we can certainly do more to promote Wookie and generate
interest.

Since November 2011:

 - 0.9.1 release
 - Received updated patch for oAuth support from community member
 - Received documentation contribution for packaging Wookie as a portable
   app on a USB stick

Next steps:

 - 0.9.2 release using an improved and simplified release process
 - Developer outreach activity (see above)
 - Improve communication about Wookie
 - ASF Widgets demo

Issues before graduation:

 - build community/expand user base

Signed off by mentor: rgardler, ate

21 Dec 2011

Wookie is a Java server application that allows you to upload and deploy
widgets for your applications. Wookie is based on the W3C Widgets
specification, but widgets can also be included that use extended APIs such
as Google Wave Gadgets and OpenSocial.

Wookie has been incubating since 17th July 2009

Since August 2011:
 * Release 0.9.1 put out for vote
 * Community members attended Apache Hackathon in Amsterdam and linked up
with Rave and Poi committers
 * Major patch for oAuth support submitted from community member
 * Published maven artifacts, and demonstrated integrated deployment with
Rave
 * "Widget Store" collaboration mentioned in previous report is being
developed externally for now, and may be submitted as an incubator proposal
at a later stage
 * Identified a security issue, and took advice from security@apache on
resolution process

Next steps:
 * Finish 0.9.1 release and move onto a 0.9.2 release
 * Continue to work and liaise with other projects

Issues before graduation:
 * improve our release process
 * build community/expand user base

16 Nov 2011

Wookie is a Java server application that allows you to upload and deploy
widgets for your applications. Wookie is based on the W3C Widgets
specification, but widgets can also be included that use extended APIs such
as Google Wave Gadgets and OpenSocial.

Wookie has been incubating since 17th July 2009

Since August 2011:
 * Release 0.9.1 put out for vote
 * Community members attended Apache Hackathon in Amsterdam and linked up
with Rave and Poi committers
 * Major patch for oAuth support submitted from community member
 * Published maven artifacts, and demonstrated integrated deployment with
Rave
 * "Widget Store" collaboration mentioned in previous report is being
developed externally for now, and may be submitted as an incubator proposal
at a later stage
 * Identified a security issue, and took advice from security@apache on
resolution process

Next steps:
 * Finish 0.9.1 release and move onto a 0.9.2 release
 * Continue to work and liaise with other projects

Issues before graduation:
 * improve our release process
 * build community/expand user base

17 Aug 2011

Wookie is a Java server application that allows you to upload and deploy
widgets for your applications. Wookie is based on the W3C Widgets
specification, but widgets can also be included that use extended APIs such
as Google Wave Gadgets and OpenSocial.

Wookie has been incubating since 17th July 2009

Since May 2011:
* Release 0.9 put out for vote
* Published a new CMS website with more documentation
* Explored with Apache Rave(incubating) community and Wookie community
members idea of separate common "widget store" for handling metadata and
discovery of widgets. Rough consensus was to develop separately for now,
identify potential for merging later. Community members associated with two
EU-funded projects (ROLE and ITEC) have been developing Wookie-based widget
stores, and we hope to get their code submissions to kickstart this work.
* Community members exploring Apache Amber (incubating) for oAuth
support within Wookie

Next steps:
* Finish 0.9.0 release and move onto a 0.9.1 release
* Continue to work and liase with other projects
* Create a new "widget store" sub-project, aiming to bring in code
submissions from ROLE and ITEC projects

Issues before graduation:
* complete first release
* build community/expand user base

19 May 2011

Wookie is a Java server application that allows you to upload and deploy
widgets for your applications. Wookie is based on the W3C Widgets
specification, but widgets can also be included that use extended APIs such
as Google Wave Gadgets and OpenSocial.

Wookie has been incubating since 17th July 2009

Since February 2011:
 * Release Candidate 0.9 put out for testing and feedback from
wookie-dev members
 * Feedback and issues for Release Candidate 0.9 posted to JIRA
     ** Almost all issues closed, new RC build imminent
 * Planned event for March took place
     ** Demonstrated how to make widgets for wookie, use of the APIs
     ** Promoted how to get more involved with Wookie, rather than
simply using it
     ** New participants at event posted issues/patches to JIRA for
first time
 * Various bug fixes and updates to main code branch
 * Community members working with Apache Rave (incubating) to explore
collaboration options
 * Community members exploring Apache Amber (incubating) for oAuth
support within wookie

Next steps:
 * Complete 0.9 build
 * Continue to work and liase with Apache Rave project
 * Continue exploration of using Apache Amber for oAuth support within
wookie

Issues before graduation:
 * complete first release
 * build community/expand user base

16 Feb 2011

Wookie is a Java server application that allows you to upload and
deploy widgets for your applications. Wookie is based on the W3C
Widgets specification, but widgets can also be included that use
extended APIs such as Google Wave Gadgets and OpenSocial.

Wookie has been incubating since 17th July 2009

Since November 2010:

 * agreed and documented the release process
 * created scripts for building release packages
 * improved 18n and bidi support to conform with W3C Widgets P&C
spec (97% conformance!)
 * created the first release candidate and invited testing of the
release by the community
 * various bug fixes and improvements (improved IE support, fixing
JPA issues)
 * some of the Wookie contributors connected with the
OpenSocial/Shindig community at an OpenSocial event in Utrecht

Next steps:

 * complete release process for the first release
 * build community - mentors are aware of people using Wookie but
not as part of the project community
     ** community members are organising an event for said users in March
 * deciding on issues and features to prioritise for next release,
quite possibly:
     ** investigation/implementation into replacement for direct
web remoting layer (possibly socket.io) - already started
     ** add oAuth support using Amber when they have a release available

Issues before graduation:

 * complete first release
 * build community/expand user base

17 Nov 2010

Wookie is a Java server application that allows you to upload and deploy
widgets for your applications. Wookie is based on the W3C Widgets
specification, but widgets can also be included that use extended APIs such
as Google Wave Gadgets and OpenSocial.

Wookie has been incubating since 17th July 2009

Community:

    * the community is slowly diversifying but we need to see more active
contributions from new people before graduation. A release will help in this
regard.
    * There was a Wookie session at ApacheCon and a meetup discussed
potential for the creation of a widget "portal" solution possibly using
Wookie
    * started process towards first release
(https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/WOOKIE/Wookie+First+Release)

Recent activity:

    * removed all previous non Apache-licensed dependencies (removed major
dependency on hibernate)
    * implemented pluggable persistence framework (JPA, JCR versions
implemented)
    * various other bug fixes & updates geared towards getting first release
completed

Next steps:

    * complete release process
    * investigation/implementation into replacement for direct web remoting
layer (possibly socket.io) - already started

Issues before graduation:

    * complete first release
    * build community/expand user base


= Zeta Components =

Zeta Components is a high-quality library of loosely-coupled PHP components.
It has entered incubation on 2010-05-21. The infrastructure is mainly in
place and the project is working in direction of a first release.

Since August 2010:

 * The license / copyright change has been performed
 * Almost all infrastructure is in place
 * A new committer has been voted by the PMC (needs verification from IPMC)
 * Several external contributions have been proposed

The 3 most important issues to be tackled are:

 * Create a release process (in discussion)
 * Perform an initial release
 * Attract more contributors

18 Aug 2010

No issues currently require IPMC or Board attention

Notable activities:

 * Added pluggable persistence component
 * Integrated RAT into Wookie build and corrected issues found
 * JIRA Activity continues to grow

Items to be resolved before graduation:

 * Remove GPL dependencies
 * Create a release
 * Develop community


= Zeta Components =

Zeta Components is a high-quality library of loosely-coupled PHP components.
It has entered incubation on 2010-05-21. Therefore the project is still in
ramp up phase.

In the past month,

 * the code drop has been finalized and license has been changed
 * the website has been created
 * development discussions have been started

The 3 most important issues to be tackled are:

 * discuss and realize potential copyright notice changes
 * collect missing iCLAs from previous contributors
 * finish setting up infrastructure (CI, etc.)

19 May 2010

No issues currently require IPMC or Board attention

Notable activities:

* Voted raido in as a committer
* Core W3C Widget parser has been split off into a standalone library for
use in other applications
* Implemented a connector framework to support developers building plugins
to add Wookie support to their applications. Versions created for Java, C#,
Python and PHP
* Implemented the W3C Widgets Access Request Policy candidate
recommendation: see http://www.w3.org/TR/widgets-access/
* Work progressing on implementing the W3C Widget Updates draft
specification: see http://www.w3.org/TR/widgets-updates/
* JIRA Activity continues to grow
* Interest from Android community in porting the Wookie parser library
* Fixed Shindig integration

Items to be resolved before graduation:

* Remove GPL dependencies
* Create a release
* Develop community

17 Feb 2010

Apache Wookie (Incubating) is a project to create open source software for
adding widgets to your applications. It has been in incubation since July
2009.

No issues currently require IPMC or Board attention

Notable activities:

 * Wookie is now one of 3 products with 100% conformance to the W3C
Widgets specification: see http://dev.w3.org/2006/waf/widgets/imp-report/
 * Work progressing on conformance to W3C Widgets Interface
specification: see http://dev.w3.org/2006/waf/widgets-api/imp-report/
 * Wookie Plugins for Elgg and Moodle have migrated to their respective
project communities
 * JIRA Activity is increasing as is frequency of patches received from
external contributors
 * External contributors engaged in more significant design work such as
oAuth/OpenID integration architecture and inter-widget communication models
 * 3 separate face to face widget development workshops using Wookie held
in February (in Innsbruck, Oxford, and London)
 * Voted rgardler as a committer (rgardler is also the project's champion)

Items to be resolved before graduation:

 * Remove GPL dependencies
 * Create a release
 * Develop community

18 Nov 2009

Apache Wookie (Incubating) is a project to create open source software for
adding widgets to your applications.  It has been in incubation since July
2009.

* No issues currently require IPMC or Board attention
* All ICLAs and CCLAs in order to import incubator code to ASF repository
 * Code import process started via INFRA-2273
 * Paul Sharples account created
* Widgets/Wookie Meetup meetup in London (13th Oct)
 * http://wiki.cetis.ac.uk/Educational_Content_widgetsworkinggroup#Widgets_Meetup
* OpenSocial/SocialSite/Wookie meetup at ApacheCon
 * http://wiki.apache.org/apachecon/SocialAndWidgetsMeetup
* JIRA Activity is increasing and patches are starting to arrive

Items for next reporting period:

* Remove GPL dependencies
* First Apache release

Items to be resolved before graduation:

* Complete podling setup
* Create a release
* Develop community

23 Sep 2009

Apache Wookie (Incubating) is a project to create open source software for
adding widgets to your applications.  It has been in incubation since July
2009.

* No issues currently require IPMC or Board attention
* We are still waiting for ICLAs and CCLAs in order to import incubator
  code to ASF repository
 * Account created: Kris Popat (krispopat)
 * Account created: Scott Wilson (scottbw)
 * Stef Heyenrath iCLA submitted
* Wookie Meetup proposal sent to ConCom
* OpenSocial/SocialSite/Wookie meetup at ApacheCon being organized
* Incubation status file requires updating -
http://incubator.apache.org/projects/wookie.html
* JIRA Activity is increasing and patches are starting to arrive
* During the next month we hope to:
 * file all CLAs
 * move code into ASF

Items to be resolved before graduation:
 * Complete podling setup
 * Create a release
 * Develop community

19 Aug 2009

Apache Wookie is a project to create open source software for adding widgets
to your applications. It has been in incubation since July 2009.

* Items to be resolved
 * Complete podling setup
 * Create a release
 * Develop community

* No issues currently require IPMC or Board attention
* ICLAs and CCLAs are still being gathered so no code is currently in ASF
repositories
* Incubation status file requires updating -
http://incubator.apache.org/projects/wookie.html
* This is our first report. In the last few weeks we have:
 * set-up ASF infrastructure
 * prepared code for bringing into the ASF
 * seen our first JIRA activity from external parties
* During the next month we hope to:
 * file all CLAs
 * move code into ASF
 * set up ASF project website