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WHEREAS, the Board of Directors deems it no longer in the best interest of the Foundation to continue the Apache Excalibur project due to inactivity NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Apache Excalibur 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 Excalibur Project; and be it further RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache Excalibur" is hereby terminated; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache Excalibur PMC is hereby terminated. Approved unanimously by roll call vote.
Most likely this is the last report for Excalibur - the PMC decided to move the project to the Attic (see Special Orders C ). Nothing else to report.
There are no known issues and nothing else happened. Excalibur is stable and used by some projects. Again, this quarter has been absolutely quiet with zero activity, neither in the mailing lists nor in subversion (and no releases of course).
There are no known issues. Excalibur is stable and used by some projects. Again, this quarter has been very quiet with zero activity, neither in the mailing lists nor in subversion (and no releases of course).
There are no known issues. Excalibur is stable and used by some projects. Again, this quarter has been very quiet with zero activity, neither in the mailing lists nor in subversion (and no releases of course).
Brett to contact Excalibur and discuss whether moving to the attic is appropriate.
Excalibur Quarterly Report for December 2009 There are no known issues. Excalibur is stable and used by some projects. Again, this quarter has been very quiet with zero activity, neither in the mailing lists nor in subversion (and no releases of course).
Some board@ mailing list discussion about attic was noted.
There are no known issues. Nearly zero activity in all places. Recently some work has been done to shape up the code base and make parts of the project usable in an OSGi environment (and maybe collaborate with the Felix project). This has been discussed before and maybe this can help to increase the interest in the project a little bit again.
There are no known issues. Nearly zero activity in all places, recently a new idea to migrate the Avalon stuff to OSGi (and maybe collaborate with the Felix project) has been discussed briefly. Maybe this can help to increase the interest in the project a little bit again.
Aaron to bring up on the Excalibur list the potential for this project to go to the Attic and/or portions to go to Felix.
There are no known issues. Absolutely zero activity in all places, so nothing to report. If this state continues for the next quarters we should consider moving the project to the Attic by the end of the year.
There are no known issues. Absolutely zero activity in all places, so nothing to report.
We discussed how to deal with projects with zero activity. We encourage this project to work with the newly formed Attic.
There are no known issues. Excalibur is stable and used by some projects. Again, this quarter was very quiet with zero activity, neither in the mailing lists nor in subversion (and no releases of course). While this quietness reflects the state of the code (stable with no need for changes, updates) it also shows that there is no high interest in it anymore. Heavy users of Excalibur like Cocoon are moving to other solutions (just because there is newer stuff out there - which is good), so sooner or later we have to think about the future of Excalibur as a project. But for now I think we should just continue for some months and decide sometime next year if putting the project to a rest is a better option.
Excalibur is stable and used by some projects. This quarter was even more quiet than the first quarter in 2008: nearly zero activity, neither in the mailing lists nor in subversion, and no releases. There are no known issues.
This quarter was the quietest one - nearly zero activity, neither in the mailing lists nor in subversion, and no releases. There are no known issues. LEGAL The code of Excalibur was checked; no crypto software is contained/developed at Excalibur so there is no action required with regards to the Export Notification Policy.
Highlights: * 1 new PMC members: Thomas Vandahl This quarter was a very quiet one - nearly zero activity, neither in the mailing lists nor in subversion, and no releases. By adding new committers and PMC members from the projects that are using Excalibur we now hopefully have established a solid base to maintain our users in the future. There are no known issues.
Approved by General Consent.
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed J. Aaron
Farr to the office of Vice President, Apache Excalibur, and
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the
resignation of J. Aaron Farr from the office of Vice President,
Apache Excalibur, and
WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache
Excalibur project has chosen by vote to recommend Carsten
Ziegeler as the successor to the post;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that J. Aaron Farr is relieved
and discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office
of Vice President, Apache Excalibur, and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Carsten Ziegeler be and hereby is
appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Excalibur, to
serve in accordance with and subject to the direction of the
Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until
death, resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification, or
until a successor is appointed.
Special Order 7C, Change the Apache Excalibur Project Chair, was
approved by Unanimous Vote.
Highlights: * 2 new PMC members: Ralph Goers and Stefano Bagnara * 1 release: cornerstone library bugfix release * 1 Current vote on a new committer Rumors of Excalibur's death have, apparently, been exaggerated. We've had a relatively active quarter following our last fairly active quarter with more bug-fix releases and new committers and PMC members added to the project. Most of our activity is coming from outside the original core of Avalon/Excalibur developers. Instead, we're seeing activity from committers of projects which have a dependency on Excalibur code. Not wanting to leave these projects waiting for Excalibur folks to wake up, we've been adding any warm bodies who show up willing to help as committers and PMC members. With this in mind, I've felt Excalibur could be better served with a VP who could focus on the project more than I can at the moment. I've notified the board of my resignation and the Excalibur PMC has voted to recommend Carsten Ziegeler as the new PMC Chair. Carsten has followed Avalon and Excalibur for many years and has a clear understanding of the project's history and the dependencies other Apache projects have on our libraries. Assuming the resolution passes, this should be my last report as Excalibur VP.
Approved by General Consent.
Excalibur Quarterly Report for June 2007 Highlights: 1 new PMC member: Jorg Heymans 2 releases Excalibur has been a little less sleepy this last quarter by adding a new PMC member and making two releases (one major release, one minor release). No new committers and no other major activity to speak of. Most Excalibur activity is driven by Cocoon development which has me wondering if the Excalibur community is really strong enough to warrant a TLP. This is something I think the Excalibur developers need to address over the next quarter. best regards, J Aaron Farr on behalf of the Excalibur PMC
There was some discussion on whether Excaliber was looking at some sort of Cocoon/Excaliber project/subproject relationship, due to the close dependency that Excalibur has on Cocoon.
Approved by General Consent.
Excalibur managed to muster enough votes to pass a release, but we're still in the process of putting it up on the mirrors. That should be done by the time of the board meeting. I was a little worried that Excalibur had become so quiet that we couldn't even pass a release vote, but that doesn't appear to be a problem. We have enough people looking in on Excalibur from time to time that I think the project can be properly maintained. That said, if there's any decisions or experiments going on about dealing with "dormant" projects, please include the Excalibur PMC. The project has effectively been in maintenance mode since the Avalon split. * No new committers * No PMC changes
Approved by General Consent.
Items of note No new committers. No new PMC members. No new releases. Jorg Heymans started a release process just before ApacheCon US but it has stalled. I've sent an email to the list and I think we'll get it released before the end of the month. Otherwise, not much activity.
Approved by General Consent.
Excalibur Quarterly Report for September 2006 Items of note * No new committers. * No new PMC members. * No new releases. However, we're in the middle of putting together a release. Jorg Heyman is driving the process and other Excalibur developers are chiming in with help here and there.
Approved by General Consent
Excalibur Quarterly Report for June 2006 Items of note Leif Mortenson added to PMC. He was supposed to be on it originally but someone was left off the official list. No new committers. No new releases. I thought the last quarter was quiet, but this quarter was quieter still. The stats are as follows: Only 2 non-automated messages on the dev list No email traffic on the users list No svn commits since April (except for me updating the site this last week) I know there is interest to do another release, mostly based on switching to maven 2 and OSGi compatibility, but thus far no concerted effort has materialized. best regards, J Aaron Farr on behalf of the Excalibur PMC
Jim noted that they are not yet asking for ways to re-energize the project but we may see that at some point. Sam noted that the project is an artifact of attempts to resolve the Avalon situation amicably. The status of SVN and the website should be updated to reflect the current non-vibrancy of the community.
It was noted that the board requests that the Apache Excalibur Project provide a update report for next month's (Aug 2006) board meeting.
Approved by General Consent
Tabled due to time constraints.
Items of note * No new committers. * No new PMC members. * No new releases. The majority of work in Excalibur lately has been with various small bug fixes and updating the build to support Maven 2. There is interest in putting together a release within the next quarter. Otherwise, things are quiet (very quiet).
Approved by General Consent.
Items of note No new committers. No new PMC members. No new releases. Despite the quiet situation, we've actually had a little activity pick up on the mailing lists (compared to essentially none). There's some desire to get another release out in the beginning of next year.
Approved by General Consent.
This is a belated Excalibur report (originally scheduled to report in
September).
Items of note
* No new committers.
* No new PMC members.
* Releases:
Fortress 1.2 and related components. [1]
We finally got a full release out thanks to Shash Chatterjee. In
general, activity is still relatively low and the mailing lists
relatively quiet. Excalibur, for the most part, remains in maintenance
mode at the moment.
Approved by General Consent.
No report received or submitted.
This is the June 2005 Board report for the Excalibur project. * Leo Simons stepped down as PMC Chair. J Aaron Farr was appointed as new chair in April. * no new committers. * no new PMC members. * no releases (yet). Shash Chatterjee has been working on getting everything in place for the next release. * most activity has been minor bug fixing and cleaning up/tagging the repository for the next release. In summary, things are _very_ quiet in Excalibur at the moment. Most of the committers seem to be rather involved in other activities at the moment with little effort going into the next release.
Approved by General Consent.
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Leo Simons to the office of Vice President, Apache Excalibur, and WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of Leo Simons from the office of Vice President, Apache Excalibur; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Leo Simons is relieved and discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice President, Apache Excalibur, and NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that J. Aaron Farr be and hereby is appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Excalibur, 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 A, a Resolution to Establish a new Excalibur PMC Chair, was passed by Unanimous Vote.
* no new committers. * no new PMC members. * no releases. * there has been some interaction with the Apache Jakarta Turbine project, users of avalon-framework, with the prospective of more co-operation happening in the future. * work has been started on "fortress-platform", an effort to make it easier to use our Fortress container. * most other activity has been maintainance work and bugfixing.
Apache Excalibur Project report approved as submitted by general consent.
This is the december board report for the Excalibur project.
* we added a new committer: Leo Sutic. (Leo has previously been
active within the avalon project.)
* we added a new committer: Marcus Crafter. (Marcus has previously
been active within the avalon project.)
* we took over responsibility of some codebases from the avalon
project:
* Avalon-Framework
* Logkit
* Cornerstone
Migration of these codebases to the excalibur project has been
initiated. Some things (like updating some parts of our website)
still need to be finished.
* thanks to a lot of help from the gump community excalibur is now
building much better in nightly gump runs.
* there were no changes in PMC composition and no releases.
Apache Excalibur Project report approved as submitted by general consent.
There is not much to report for the Excalibur project. * We've settled on our bylaws (http://wiki.apache.org/excalibur/Bylaws, to be relocated to a more permanent location of course); * Leif Mortenson did a lot of work on our instrumentation packages, which are pending release; * Some interesting experiments with the fortress codebase involving Aspect-Oriented Programming; * several small bugfixes, both in Excalibur and some of our dependencies. No releases, no new committers, no changes in the PMC. No problems.
Approved by General Consent.
Excalibur got off to a silent start! With Greg's message not making it to the committers mailing list at first, a few days went by inactively. It then took us and infrastructure the better part of two weeks to get all the neccessary infrastructure in place. Then it took some more time to get everyone on the mailing lists and set up using svn (which is new for most excalibur developers). Infrastructure bits that have been set up now include: * user accounts, unix group * svn * website, dns * mailing lists * jira * wiki Development of excalibur (which had come to a near full-stop as part of avalon) is now slowly recommencing. Long-awaited bug fixes and feature additions are slowly drippling in. Discussion is just starting on the medium-term and long-term goals surrounding our codebase (besides the obvious goal of maintainance of the existing, mature code). Some of our committers haven't been active together for a long time, so high anticipation and enthusiasm are coupled with careful re-acquaintance.
New project moving along nicely.
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 creation and maintenance of embeddable
software libraries related to component and service management,
for distribution at no charge to the public.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management
Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Excalibur PMC", be and
hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation; and
be it further
RESOLVED, that the Excalibur PMC be and hereby is responsible
for the creation and maintenance of embeddable software
libraries related to component and service management, based on
software licensed to the Foundation; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Excalibur" 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
Excalibur PMC, and to have primary responsibility for
management of the projects within the scope of responsibility
of the Excalibur PMC; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the persons listed immediately below be and
hereby are appointed to serve as the initial members of the
Excalibur PMC:
Shash Chatterjee
Peter Donald
J Aaron Farr
Alex Karasulu
Berin Loritsch
Michael Nash
Leo Simons
Hamilton Verissimo de Oliveira
Carsten Ziegeler
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Leo Simons be and
hereby is appointed to the office of Vice President, Excalibur,
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 Excalibur PMC be and hereby is
tasked with the creation of a set of bylaws intended to
encourage open development and increased participation in the
Excalibur Project; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the initial Excalibur PMC be and hereby is
tasked with the migration and rationalization of the Avalon PMC
Fortress and Excalibur subprojects; and be it further
RESOLVED, that all responsibility pertaining to the Avalon PMC
Fortress and Excalibur subprojects and encumbered upon the
Avalon PMC are hereafter discharged.
By Unaninmous vote, the Excalibur PMC was approved.