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WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache ODE 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 ODE project due to inactivity; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Apache ODE 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 ODE Project; and be it further RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache ODE" is hereby terminated; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache ODE PMC is hereby terminated. Special Order 7C, Terminate the Apache ODE Project, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
## Description:
Apache ODE is a WS-BPEL implementation that supports web services
orchestration using flexible process definitions.
## Issues:
No response from PMC members for the board comments on April 2019 report,
nor there is any response for query on the way forward on the dev list
[https://s.apache.org/is2zk] that I had raised couple of days ago.
## Activity:
No activity in the project.
## Health report:
- There has been not much user/dev activity since the last reporting period
April 2019.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 15 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months.
- Last PMC addition was Rafal Rusin on Wed Oct 01 2014.
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 26 committers.
- No new changes to the committer base since last report.
- Last committer was Sathwik on Dec 23 2012.
## Releases:
- Last release was 1.3.8 on Fri Mar 23 2018
@Daniel: Reach out for choice on rebooting or atticing the project
## Description:
Apache ODE is a WS-BPEL implementation that supports web services
orchestration using flexible process definitions.
## Issues:
The ODE PMC had successfully voted to move the project to Attic in the
Jan-2019 report.
Vote: https://s.apache.org/11Fv Result: https://s.apache.org/NegQ
Board heldback passing the resolution asking the PMC to see if a new life
can be induced within the community around the new proposal. Mail from
board: https://s.apache.org/6Oo3
PMC then held a discussion on the new proposal here
(https://s.apache.org/2e26). Couple of the PMC members did agree to
support the idea, but may not be actively involved in the development
activities. One of the PMC member did propose to take it to incubator
without going emiritus and he would be able to mentor.
PMC is not very clear on the way forward.
## Activity:
The contributor who has given the new proposal is developing the POC on
his personal github repo and he hasn't had the time to continue much as he
has been held up in his official work.
## Health report:
- There has been not much user/dev activity since the last reporting period
Oct 2018.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 15 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months.
- Last PMC addition was Rafal Rusin on Wed Oct 01 2014.
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 26 committers.
- No new changes to the committer base since last report.
- Last committer was Sathwik on Dec 23 2012.
## Releases:
- Last release was 1.3.8 on Fri Mar 23 2018
@Jim: Follow up with ODE PMC about options regarding rebooting the project in place or via the Incubator.
WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache ODE 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 ODE project due to inactivity; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Apache ODE 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 ODE Project; and be it further RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache ODE" is hereby terminated; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache ODE PMC is hereby terminated. Special Order 7B, Terminate the Apache ODE Project, was tabled.
## Description:
Apache ODE is a WS-BPEL implementation that supports web services
orchestration using flexible process definitions.
## Issues:
The ODE PMC has successfully voted to move the project to Attic. Vote:
https://s.apache.org/11Fv Result: https://s.apache.org/NegQ
Project termination resolution has been added to the board agenda as item
7B.
## Activity:
An user on the mailing list came up with a new project proposal here
[https://s.apache.org/rSlq], it's a completely new approach and is a
definite canditate for the incubator as it gives an opportunity to build
user and developer base around the new concept.
As indicated in the last quarter report, we no more have an active user and
developer base.
## Health report:
- There has been not much user/dev activity since the last reporting period
Oct
2018.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 15 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months.
- Last PMC addition was Rafal Rusin on Wed Oct 01 2014.
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 26 committers.
- No new changes to the committer base since last report.
- Last committer was Sathwik on Dec 23 2012.
## Releases:
- Last release was 1.3.8 on Fri Mar 23 2018
@Rich: reach out to the community to validate the plan to move to the attic and develop a new code base in the incubator
## Description: Apache ODE is a WS-BPEL implementation that supports web services orchestration using flexible process definitions. ## Issues: Unknown if there is still a user community. There is no dev community anymore. Thus, the decision that a move to attic makes sense. PMC is in the voting period to move towards Attic [https://s.apache.org/cYNK]. ## Activity: ## Health report: - There has been no user/dev activity since the last reporting period April 2018. ## PMC changes: - Currently 15 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Rafal Rusin on Wed Oct 01 2014 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 26 committers. - No new changes to the committer base since last report. - Last committer was Sathwik on Dec 23 2012. ## Releases: - Last release was 1.3.8 on Fri Mar 23 2018
## Description:
Apache ODE is a WS-BPEL implementation that supports web services
orchestration using flexible process definitions.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
It has been a silent period, not much of activity seen. The plan is to get
a release out of the trunk which has a lot of new things. Lack of support
from the community might see a very slow activity in the near future as
well. New contributors who had shown some interest in the past have been
silent so far.
## Health report:
- ODE is very mature and stable, however the interest in BPEL has decreased
significantly. Thus ODE's development is currently pretty much in
maintenance mode.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 15 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Rafal Rusin on Wed Oct 01 2014
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 26 committers.
- No new changes to the committer base since last report.
- Last committer was Sathwik on Dec 23 2012.
## Releases:
- Last release was 1.3.8 on Fri Mar 23 2018
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@ode.apache.org:
- 147 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 20 emails sent to list (67 in previous quarter)
- user@ode.apache.org:
- 212 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 4 emails sent to list (23 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 2 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 0 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
## Description:
Apache ODE is a WS-BPEL implementation that supports web services
orchestration using flexible process definitions.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- Successfully released ODE 1.3.8, comes with major upgrades.
- Developer activity is low. Might continue to be low.
- We plan to work towards strengthening the features available in the trunk
branch.
- Some new developers have shown interest. We did see some contributions on
the trunk. Need more involvement in order to make them as committers.
[http://markmail.org/message/5zkz7vt33urldv7e]
## Health report:
- ODE is very mature and stable, however the interest in BPEL has decreased
significantly. Thus ODE's development is currently pretty much in
maintenance mode.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 15 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Rafal Rusin on Wed Oct 01 2014
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 26 committers.
- No new changes to the committer base since last report.
- Last committer was Sathwik on Dec 23 2012.
## Releases:
- Last release was 1.3.8 on Fri Mar 23 2018
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@ode.apache.org:
- 147 subscribers (down -2 in the last 3 months):
- 67 emails sent to list (86 in previous quarter)
- user@ode.apache.org:
- 212 subscribers (down -2 in the last 3 months):
- 23 emails sent to list (21 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 2 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 11 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
## Description:
Apache ODE is a WS-BPEL implementation that supports web services
orchestration using flexible process definitions.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
We have completed the upgrades of various libraries. Major work completed as
follows,
* Java 8 compatible.
* JPA 2 with OpenJPA-2.4.2
* JPA 2.1 with Hibernate-4.3.11
* TOMEE 7.0.4
* Axis2 1.7.6
We are heading towards 1.3.8 release. Testing is underway. Hoping to make
the release in this quarter. Work is underway on moving some of these
upgrades on to the trunk.
Nothing concrete has come out yet on future of ODE. Some developers have
shown interest to contribute.
[http://markmail.org/message/5zkz7vt33urldv7e]
## Health report:
- ODE is very mature and stable, however the interest in BPEL has decreased
significantly. Thus ODE's development is currently pretty much in
maintenance mode.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 15 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Rafal Rusin on Wed Oct 01 2014
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 26 committers.
- No new changes to the committer base since last report.
- Last committer was Sathwik on Dec 23 2012.
## Releases:
- Last release was 1.3.7 on Fri Jul 07 2017
## Mailing list activity:
dev@ode.apache.org:
- 151 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months):
- 86 emails sent to list (77 in previous quarter)
user@ode.apache.org:
- 215 subscribers (down -2 in the last 3 months):
- 22 emails sent to list (48 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 3 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 0 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
## Description: Apache ODE is a WS-BPEL implementation that supports web services orchestration using flexible process definitions. ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Activity: Plan on 1.3.8 release is underway [https://s.apache.org/TMhN] Summary of the work completed * Finished Binary compatibility interim upgrade to Java 7. * Finally will make it to Java 8 once below mentioned library upgrades are through. * Upgraded to JPA 2 with OpenJPA-2.4.2 * Upgraded to JPA 2.1 with Hibernate-4.3.11 Future efforts will be directed towards JDK 8 complaint. * Were are waiting for TOMEE 7.0.4 release announcement which is under release voting. * Axis2 1.7.6 is released, will be upgrading to it shortly. We are discussing on the future of ODE [https://s.apache.org/sDpv] ## Health report: - ODE is very mature and stable, however the interest in BPEL has decreased significantly. Thus ODE's development is currently pretty much in maintenance mode. ## PMC changes: - Currently 15 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Rafal Rusin on Wed Oct 01 2014 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 26 committers. - No new changes to the committer base since last report. - Last committer was Sathwik on Dec 23 2012. ## Releases: - Last release was 1.3.7 on Fri Jul 07 2017 ## Mailing list activity: dev@ode.apache.org: - 149 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months): - 84 emails sent to list (73 in previous quarter) user@ode.apache.org: - 219 subscribers (down -2 in the last 3 months): - 63 emails sent to list (2 in previous quarter) ## JIRA activity: - 2 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 19 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
## Description: Apache ODE is a WS-BPEL implementation that supports web
services orchestration using flexible process definitions.
## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
ODE team has announced the release of ODE 1.3.7 on Fri Jul 07 2017.
Highlights of this release:
- Moved to minimum binary compatibility to JDK 6 from JDK 5.
- ODE server with embedded Apache TomEE.
- New ODE Management Console based on AngularJS.
- Upgrade of Axis2, OpenJPA, & Hibernate.
- Moved to SLF4J logging with Log4j2 as the implementation.
- Some major memory leaks have been fixed.
- Auto generation of Database scripts.
- Development and Support for JBI based ODE distribution has officially
ended.
Future efforts will be directed towards upgrading to JPA2 and JDK 8
complaint.
## Health report:
- ODE is very mature and stable, however the interest in BPEL has decreased
significantly. Thus ODE's development is currently pretty much in maintenance
mode.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 15 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Rafal Rusin on Wed Oct 01 2014
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 26 committers.
- No new changes to the committer base since last report.
- Last committer was Sathwik on Dec 23 2012.
## Releases:
- Last release was 1.3.7 on Fri Jul 07 2017
## Mailing list activity: dev@ode.apache.org:
- 149 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
- 76 emails sent to list (13 in previous quarter)
user@ode.apache.org:
- 222 subscribers (down -2 in the last 3 months):
- 5 emails sent to list (2 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 0 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 1 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
## Description: Apache ODE is a WS-BPEL implementation that supports web services orchestration using flexible process definitions. ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Activity: Replacement/Removal of components that are using json.org is in progress, post the replacement new release hopefully in May-2017 will be announced. ## Health report: ODE is very mature and stable, however the interest in BPEL has decreased significantly. Thus ODE's development is currently pretty much in maintenance mode. ## PMC changes: Currently 15 PMC members. No new PMC members added in the last 3 months Last PMC addition was Rafal Rusin on Wed Oct 01 2014 ## Committer base changes: Currently 26 committers. No new changes to the committer base since last report. Last committer addition was Sathwik on Dec 23 2012 ## Releases: Last release was 1.3.6 on Sat Oct 12 2013 ## Mailing list activity: dev@ode.apache.org: - 150 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months): - 14 emails sent to list (56 in previous quarter) user@ode.apache.org: - 224 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months): - 2 emails sent to list (15 in previous quarter) ## JIRA activity: 1 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months 0 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
## Description: Apache ODE is a WS-BPEL implementation that supports web services orchestration using flexible process definitions. ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Activity: We have released the new AngularJS based web console as on Nov 2016. The vote for console release can be found here (https://s.apache.org/cdtH) and the passing vote (https://s.apache.org/capW) The release vote (https://s.apache.org/8RKP) for 1.3.7 was initiated in the same month and had to request to restrain from voting as the json.org licensing issue was raised across Apache projects. It has been found that the old web console has some implementation from json.org. We are in the process of solving it. ## Health report: ODE is very mature and stable, however the interest in BPEL has decreased significantly. Thus ODE's development is currently pretty much in maintenance mode. ## PMC changes: - Currently 15 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Rafal Rusin on Wed Oct 01 2014 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 26 committers. - No new changes to the committer base since last report. ## Releases: - Last release was 1.3.6 on Sat Oct 12 2013 ## Mailing list activity: - dev@ode.apache.org: - 151 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months): - 60 emails sent to list (63 in previous quarter) - user@ode.apache.org: - 225 subscribers (down -2 in the last 3 months): - 15 emails sent to list (12 in previous quarter) ## JIRA activity: - 5 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 7 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
## Description: Apache ODE is a WS-BPEL implementation that supports web services orchestration using flexible process definitions. ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Activity: - As indicated in the last report about the inclusion of 2 new features, we have been working on it, and both the features are completed and are now undergoing final integration testing. We will start the release process for the new ODE Console sometime in this week and it will have its own release cycles and post its release we will initiate ODE release. New feature coming in the new release a) A new standalone distribution, based on an embedded TomEE and b) New AngularJS based console app. Around 47 issues have been fixed for the coming release. ## Health report: - ODE is very mature and stable, however the interest in BPEL has decreased significantly. Thus ODE's development is currently pretty much in maintenance mode. ## PMC changes: - Currently 15 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Rafal Rusin on Wed Oct 01 2014 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 26 committers. - No new changes to the committer base since last report. ## Releases: - Last release was 1.3.6 on Sat Oct 12 2013 ## Mailing list activity: - dev@ode.apache.org: - 151 subscribers (down -3 in the last 3 months): - 64 emails sent to list (139 in previous quarter) - user@ode.apache.org: - 226 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months): - 13 emails sent to list (6 in previous quarter) ## JIRA activity: - 1 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 2 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Tammo van Lessen (vanto) to the office of Vice President, Apache ODE, and WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of Tammo van Lessen from the office of Vice President, Apache ODE, and WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache ODE project has chosen to recommend Sathwik Bantwal Premakumar (sathwik) as the successor to the post; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Tammo van Lessen is relieved and discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice President, Apache ODE, and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Sathwik Bantwal Premakumar be and hereby is appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache ODE, 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 7D, Change the Apache ODE Project Chair, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
## Description:
Apache ODE is a WS-BPEL implementation that supports web services
orchestration using flexible process definitions.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- Although we've been working on the next release for some reporting
periods already, we decided to open the release again and add two
new features: a) a new standalone distribution, based on an embedded
TomEE and b) to incorporate the new angular based console app, which
still needs some love but is already way better than the old one.
That's why we're delaying the release again.
## Health Report:
- ODE is very mature and stable, however the interest in BPEL has decreased
significantly. Thus ODE's development is currently pretty much in
maintenance mode. We're ironing out technical debt and making sure
that our codebase campground is clean, supporting our users with answers
and fixes.
## PMC changes:
I'm stepping down as PMC chair due to time constraints and because I think
some fresh energy cannot harm. With Sathwik we have found a very engaged and
committed PMC member to take this role.
- Currently 15 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Rafal Rusin on Wed Oct 01 2014
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 26 committers.
- No new changes to the committer base since last report.
## Releases:
- Last release was 1.3.6 on Sat Oct 12 2013
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@ode.apache.org:
- 154 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
- 182 emails sent to list (75 in previous quarter)
- user@ode.apache.org:
- 227 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
- 7 emails sent to list (11 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 7 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 19 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
@Greg: Work with PMC to elect a new chair
## Description: Apache ODE is a WS-BPEL implementation that supports web services orchestration using flexible process definitions. ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Activity: - Like in the previous reporting period, we've made progress with preparing the next release, migrated some fixes from the development branch to the release branch. We started improving the SQL schema generation and want to include it in the next release. We're feature complete with the current release and release preparation is in progress. ## Health Report: - ODE is very mature and stable, however the interest in BPEL has decreased significantly. Thus ODE's development is currently pretty much in maintenance mode. We're ironing out technical debt and making sure that our codebase campground is clean, supporting our users with answers and fixes. ## PMC changes: - Currently 15 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Rafal Rusin on Wed Oct 01 2014 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 26 committers. - No new changes to the committer base since last report. ## Releases: - Last release was 1.3.6 on Sat Oct 12 2013 ## Mailing list activity: - dev@ode.apache.org: - 155 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months): - 75 emails sent to list (38 in previous quarter) - user@ode.apache.org: - 227 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months): - 11 emails sent to list (33 in previous quarter) ## JIRA activity: - 11 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 0 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
## Description: Apache ODE is a WS-BPEL implementation that supports web services orchestration using flexible process definitions. ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Activity: - We've made progress with preparing the next release, migrated some fixes from the development branch to the release branch. We're feature complete with the current release and release preparation is in progress. ## Health Report: - ODE is very mature and stable, however the interest in BPEL has decreased significantly. Thus ODE's development is currently pretty much in maintenance mode. We're ironing out technical debt and making sure that our codebase campground is clean, supporting our users with answers and fixes. ## PMC changes: - Currently 15 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Rafal Rusin on Wed Oct 01 2014 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 26 committers. - No new changes to the committer base since last report. ## Releases: - Last release was 1.3.6 on Sat Oct 12 2013 ## Mailing list activity: - dev@ode.apache.org: - 155 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months): - 38 emails sent to list (101 in previous quarter) - user@ode.apache.org: - 225 subscribers (down -3 in the last 3 months): - 33 emails sent to list (24 in previous quarter) ## JIRA activity: - 6 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 3 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
## Description:
Apache ODE is a WS-BPEL implementation that supports web services
orchestration using flexible process definitions.
## Activity:
- We are still tailoring our next release. We're feature complete with
the current release and need some time for polishing the release process.
GSOC was pretty successful. We had one very good student, she completed
the clustering feature for ODE on time and with very good quality.
Unfortunately we had to fail the second student because the quality/
dedication neither matched our requirements nor Googles.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 15 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Rafal Rusin at Wed Oct 01 2014
## LDAP changes:
- Currently 26 committers and 15 committee group members.
- No new changes to the committee group or committership since last report.
## Releases:
- Last release was 1.3.6 on Sat Oct 12 2013
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@ode.apache.org:
- 155 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
- 101 emails sent to list (172 in previous quarter)
- user@ode.apache.org:
- 228 subscribers (down -3 in the last 3 months):
- 20 emails sent to list (45 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 6 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 9 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
## Description:
Apache ODE is a WS-BPEL implementation that supports web services
orchestration using flexible process definitions.
## Activity:
- We are tailoring our next release. We got some good bug reports that
need some further investigation. We are also supervising two GSOC
student, one from Sri Lanka (working on clustering support) and one
from Cameroon (working on console improvements) and are looking forward
to good results.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## LDAP committee/Committership changes:
- Currently 26 committers and 15 LDAP committee members.
- No new changes to the LDAP committee or committership since last report.
## Releases:
- No releases in this reporting period.
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@ode.apache.org:
- 156 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 172 emails sent to list (158 in previous quarter)
- user@ode.apache.org:
- 231 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 45 emails sent to list (29 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 2 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 9 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
Apache ODE (Orchestration Director Engine) executes business processes written following the WS-BPEL standard. It talks to web services, sending and receiving messages, handling data manipulation and error recovery as described by your process definition. It supports both long and short living process executions to orchestrate all the services that are part of your application. STATUS In this reporting period we made some progress towards a 1.3.7 release and improved our Jenkins CI builds. We also got three GSoC applications and will enter the ranking phase soonish. RELEASE No releases in this reporting period. DEVELOPMENT We started developing a new monitoring console for ODE, based on AngularJS, talking directly to the SOAP API. The console code is now in a separate git project so that we can enter an independent release cycle. There are still some minor issues to fix before we can make the first release. We have also improved our Docker-based CI builds to that we can now reliably build our branches again. We basically use Docker to avoid installing build dependencies on Jenkins. Instead, we mount the working copy into the docker container and run the build process within this container. This also ensures that the environment is always under our control. COMMUNITY Nothing important to report. Last committer was added on Dec 10, 2012, last PMC member was added on Jun 28, 2013.
Apache ODE (Orchestration Director Engine) executes business processes written following the WS-BPEL standard. It talks to web services, sending and receiving messages, handling data manipulation and error recovery as described by your process definition. It supports both long and short living process executions to orchestrate all the services that are part of your application. STATUS In this reporting period we made some progress towards a 1.3.7 release. RELEASE No releases in this reporting period. DEVELOPMENT We started developing a new monitoring console for ODE, based on AngularJS, talking directly to the SOAP API. The goal is to replace the current console and then continuously improve the console. Besides of this effort, we continued working on bug fixes and some infrastructure improvements (mainly docker-based CI). COMMUNITY Nothing important to report. Last committer was added on Dec 10, 2012, last PMC member was added on Jun 28, 2013.
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Apache ODE (Orchestration Director Engine) executes business processes written following the WS-BPEL standard. It talks to web services, sending and receiving messages, handling data manipulation and error recovery as described by your process definition. It supports both long and short living process executions to orchestrate all the services that are part of your application. STATUS In this reporting period we made some progress towards a 1.3.7 release and had a very successful Google Summer of Code project. Fang Zhen could complete his project on time and provided a valuable contribution, the OModel refactoring, that is now subject to be merged into our master branch. Due to two memory leak reports, we decided to delay the 1.3.7 release and move it to the next reporting period. RELEASE No releases in this reporting period. DEVELOPMENT The development in this period focussed on bug fixing and some infrastructure improvements. COMMUNITY Nothing important to report. Last committer was added on Dec 10, 2012, last PMC member was added on Jun 28, 2013.
Apache ODE (Orchestration Director Engine) executes business processes written following the WS-BPEL standard. It talks to web services, sending and receiving messages, handling data manipulation and error recovery as described by your process definition. It supports both long and short living process executions to orchestrate all the services that are part of your application. STATUS Although this reporting period was rather quiet, we made some progress towards a 1.3.7 release. We brought a couple of improvements into the code base, which fix some bugs, improved the build/ci system etc. Unfortunately we had to fail one of two GSOC students because a lack of dedication or skills. The other student, Fang Zhen, is making very good progress and came up with a decent solution for one of your major issues, the OModel serialization problem. We're looking forward to merge his work soon into trunk and make a beta release from that. The goal to end the 1.3.x stream and continue with trunk, which allows us again to add new features. We expect to cut a 1.3.7 release within the next reporting period. RELEASE No releases in this reporting period. DEVELOPMENT The development in this period focussed on bug fixing and some infrastructure improvements. Also our GSOC student Fang Zhen turned out to be skilled developer and is developing a major contribution for ODE. COMMUNITY Nothing important to report. Last committer was added on Dec 10, 2012, last PMC member was added on Jun 28, 2013.
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Apache ODE (Orchestration Director Engine) executes business processes written following the WS-BPEL standard. It talks to web services, sending and receiving messages, handling data manipulation and error recovery as described by your process definition. It supports both long and short living process executions to orchestrate all the services that are part of your application. STATUS This reporting period was rather quiet. We've got some feedback and a couple of bug reports we want to fix within the next reporting period. We got three GSoC proposals that address some larger outstanding issues, so we're looking forward to working with them, though the ranking is still in progress. RELEASE No releases in this period. DEVELOPMENT Nothing important to report. COMMUNITY Nothing to report. Last committer was added on Dec 10, 2012, last PMC member was added on Jun 28, 2013.
Apache ODE (Orchestration Director Engine) executes business processes written following the WS-BPEL standard. It talks to web services, sending and receiving messages, handling data manipulation and error recovery as described by your process definition. It supports both long and short living process executions to orchestrate all the services that are part of your application. STATUS This reporting period was rather quiet. We have pushed our 1.3.6 release between board report submission and board meeting and are happy to have a new release. We've got some feedback and a couple of bug reports we want to fix within the next reporting period. RELEASE Apache ODE 1.3.6 has been released. DEVELOPMENT Nothing important to report. COMMUNITY Nothing to report. Last committer was added on Dec 10, 2012, last PMC member was added on Jun 28, 2013.
Apache ODE (Orchestration Director Engine) executes business processes written following the WS-BPEL standard. It talks to web services, sending and receiving messages, handling data manipulation and error recovery as described by your process definition. It supports both long and short living process executions to orchestrate all the services that are part of your application. STATUS After a couple of rather quiet development periods, this one was pretty busy. We were able to successfully cut our 1.3.6 release, the vote is still open but it looks like everything is fine and we're looking forward that it will be published in this reporting period. RELEASE Apache ODE 1.3.6 has been released (hopefully). DEVELOPMENT Main development focus was on the release. We have fixed 42 bugs in total, some were bug fixes, some were minor to major improvements, some addressed compatibility issues with recent ServiceMix versions. We have also addressed a bunch of issues that have been discovered by Betsy, a BPEL standard compliance testing tool, provided by the University of Bamberg. Besides of this, the JACOB refactoring has been pushed forward as well. COMMUNITY Nothing to report. Last committer was added on Dec 10, 2012, last PMC member was added on Jun 28, 2013.
Apache ODE (Orchestration Director Engine) executes business processes written following the WS-BPEL standard. It talks to web services, sending and receiving messages, handling data manipulation and error recovery as described by your process definition. It supports both long and short living process executions to orchestrate all the services that are part of your application. STATUS This was a rather quiet development period, but we found some time to discuss several issues we want to address for the next release, which delayed the 1.3.6 release again. We still have some development items on our agenda, e.g. the OModel refactoring, backporting features from our experimental branch. An ODE 1.3.6 release is still planned and in the works. RELEASE No release to report in this quarter. DEVELOPMENT Some patches have been applied to trunk and the upcoming 1.3.6 release branch. We identified some issues with the current TX manager configuration which we plan to fix for the next release. We're also planning to upgrade the Axis IL to Axis 1.6.x and look into clustering support for ODE. COMMUNITY Our new committers Sathwik Bantwal Premakumar and Hadrian Zbarcea committed some nice bugfixes and have been voted into the PMC. Alan D. Cabrera has resigned from the PMC.
# Apache ODE Apache ODE (Orchestration Director Engine) executes business processes written following the WS-BPEL standard. It talks to web services, sending and receiving messages, handling data manipulation and error recovery as described by your process definition. It supports both long and short living process executions to orchestrate all the services that are part of your application. ## Status This was a rather quiet development period, but we found some time to continue the refactoring of ODE's Jacob component. We moved to Git and separated ODE and JaCOb into two git repositories. We still have some development items on our agenda, e.g. the OModel refactoring, backporting features from our experimental branch. An ODE 1.3.6 release is still planned and in the works. ## Release No release to report in this quarter. ## Development Some patches have been applied to trunk and the upcoming 1.3.6 release branch. We did some refactoring to JaCOb, could make the code a bit more clean using Java Generics and implemented a first version of an alternative serialization approach using Jackson. ## Community Sathwik Bantwal Premakumar is now a committer and committed a some of his patches.
# Apache ODE Apache ODE (Orchestration Director Engine) executes business processes written following the WS-BPEL standard. It talks to web services, sending and receiving messages, handling data manipulation and error recovery as described by your process definition. It supports both long and short living process executions to orchestrate all the services that are part of your application. ## Status This was again a quiet development period. We still have some development items on our agenda, e.g. the OModel refactoring, backporting features from our experimental branch. We decided to keep the 1.3.x branch as a stable branch and to address the root of the backwards compatibility issues in trunk, which is supposed to become ODE 2.0 then. Once this is stabilized, we will focus on providing a migration tool for process instances from 1.3.x to 2.0. ## Release No release to report in this quarter. ## Development No significant development progress to report. We have migrated the Confluence-powered website to the ASF CMS. ## Community We had some very interesting discussions about a potential collaboration at ACEU. As a result, we now have a new committer, Hadrian Zbarcea, who is now climbing down to the engine room, cleaning up our virtual processing unit. We have also voted Sathwik Bantwal Premakumar to be a committer. He provided a lot of great patches. ## Project Branding Board Report Checklist We moved to the ASF CMS and also to a new template that should now comply with the branding requirements. (Warning: unicode characters ahead) * Project Website Basics: homepage is project.apache.org ✔ * Project Naming And Descriptions: use proper Apache forms, describe product, etc. ✔ * Website Navigation Links: navbar links included, link to www.apache.org included ✔ * Trademark Attributions: attribution for all ASF marks included in footers, etc. ✔ * Logos and Graphics: include TM, use consistent product logo on your site ✔ * Project Metadata: DOAP file checked in and up to date ✔
DESCRIPTION Apache ODE (Orchestration Director Engine) executes business processes written following the WS-BPEL standard. It talks to web services, sending and receiving messages, handling data manipulation and error recovery as described by your process definition. It supports both long and short living process executions to orchestrate all the services that are part of your application. STATUS This was again a quiet development period. We still have some development items on our agenda, e.g. the OModel refactoring, backporting features from our experimental branch. We have made some progress in migrating the web site to Apache CMS, including a revamped site layout that will finally adhere to the project branding guidelines. See http://ode.staging.apache.org for a first glimpse. We're in the process of reviewing patches in order to apply them and cut a maintenance release. RELEASE No release to report in this quarter. DEVELOPMENT No significant progress to report. However, we some interesting discussions at ACEU with the Camel team and are looking forward to a potential collaboration and some development activity. COMMUNITY Reviewing the patches revealed some good contributions and potential new committers. PROJECT BRANDING BOARD REPORT CHECKLIST We are planning to address the requirements with the migration from confluence to the CMS, which is in progress: Project Website Basics : homepage is project.apache.org Project Naming And Descriptions : use proper Apache forms, describe product, etc. Website Navigation Links : navbar links included, link to www.apache.org included Trademark Attributions : attribution for all ASF marks included in footers, etc. Logos and Graphics : include TM, use consistent product logo on your site Project Metadata : DOAP file checked in and up to date
AI: Greg The branding checklist is not useful for the board report. Please send this to trademarks@ instead.
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DESCRIPTION Apache ODE (Orchestration Director Engine) executes business processes written following the WS-BPEL standard. It talks to web services, sending and receiving messages, handling data manipulation and error recovery as described by your process definition. It supports both long and short living process executions to orchestrate all the services that are part of your application. STATUS This was again a quiet development period. We still have some development items on our agenda, e.g. the OModel refactoring, backporting features from our experimental branch. We have started to work on both, web site migration to Apache CMS and a cutting maintenance release, which will fix a small number of minor bugs but will also bring back compatibility to recent ServiceMix versions. RELEASE No release to report in this quarter. DEVELOPMENT No significant progress to report. Unfortunately the GSoC had to withdraw his application due to personal reasons. COMMUNITY Nothing significant to report. PROJECT BRANDING BOARD REPORT CHECKLIST We are planning to address the requirements with the migration from confluence to the CMS. Project Website Basics: homepage is project.apache.org ✔ Project Naming And Descriptions: use proper Apache forms, describe product, etc. ✔ Website Navigation Links: navbar links included, link to www.apache.org included ✘ Trademark Attributions: attribution for all ASF marks included in footers, etc. ✘ Logos and Graphics: include TM, use consistent product logo on your site ✘ Project Metadata: DOAP file checked in and up to date ✔
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Apache ODE (Orchestration Director Engine) executes business processes written following the WS-BPEL standard. It integrates and orchestrates web services by sending and receiving messages, handling data manipulation and error recovery as described by the process definition. It supports both long and short living process executions to orchestrate all the services that are part of your application. Status ====== This was again a quiet development period. We still have some development items on our agenda, e.g. the OModel refactoring, backporting features from our experimental branch. It is also time for a new release, which will hopefully take place in the next reporting period. Release ======= No release to report in this quarter. Development =========== No significant progress to report. We did some experiments to find an alternative to the OModel serialization, which will be taken up by our GSoc student. Community ========= One of our critical issues has been taken by a Google Summer of Code applicant. We worked with him on the proposal and are looking forward to his acceptance and a successful project. Project Branding Board Report Checklist ======================================== We are planning to address the requirements with the migration from confluence to the CMS. * Project Website Basics : homepage is project.apache.org ? * Project Naming And Descriptions : use proper Apache forms, describe product, etc. ? * Website Navigation Links : navbar links included, link to www.apache.org included ? * Trademark Attributions : attribution for all ASF marks included in footers, etc. ? * Logos and Graphics : include TM, use consistent product logo on your site ? * Project Metadata : DOAP file checked-in and up to date ?
Apache ODE (Orchestration Director Engine) executes business processes written following the WS-BPEL standard. It talks to web services, sending and receiving messages, handling data manipulation and error recovery as described by your process definition. It supports both long and short living process executions to orchestrate all the services that are part of your application. Status ====== This was again a quiet development period. We are still in the situation that the development speed has decreased and the project lacks of dev resources. We still have some development items on our agenda, e.g. OModel refactoring, and are thinking of adding a BPMN 2.0 implementation, which may bring ODE back to life since all available open source BPMN 2.0 implementations lack the Web services messaging support that is needed for serious SOA scenarios and that is in the core of ODE already. Release ======= No release to report in this quarter. Development =========== No significant progress to report. Community ========= Nothing to report. Project Branding Board Report Checklist ======================================= It turned out to be difficult for us to change the template of our web site. We use the autoexport plugin for Confluence and we have been told that Confluence admin permissions are needed in order to edit the templates. These permissions, however, are not granted anymore. As a "workaround" we plan to migrate to the new CMS and will address the branding issues then as well. - Project Website Basics : homepage is project.apache.org ✔ - Project Naming And Descriptions : use proper Apache forms, describe product, etc. ✔ - Website Navigation Links : navbar links included, link to www.apache.org included ✘ - Trademark Attributions : attribution for all ASF marks included in footers, etc. ✘ - Logos and Graphics : include TM, use consistent product logo on your site ✘ - Project Metadata : DOAP file checkedin and up to date ✔
== Status == This was a quiet development period. The user community looks healthy, we get a lot of questions and answers, mainly in the user's area. Besides of that there is nothing new to report. We are still in the situation that the development speed has decreased and the project lacks dev resources. == Release == No release to report in this quarter. == Development == No significant progress to report. == Community == Waruna Ranasinghe is a new ODE committer. == Project Branding Board Report Checklist == Project Website Basics : homepage is project.apache.org ✔ Project Naming And Descriptions : use proper Apache forms, describe product, etc. ✔ Website Navigation Links : navbar links included, link to www.apache.org included ✘ Trademark Attributions : attribution for all ASF marks included in footers, etc. ✘ Logos and Graphics : include TM, use consistent product logo on your site ✘ Project Metadata : DOAP file checked in and up to date ✔
== Status == The development speed of ODE has decreased over the last reporting periods but we have always seen some indicators that that will change for the next reporting period as we could vote in new committers, had at least one release per year etc. Since it did not get better, we think this is the right time to bring this concern to board's attention. ODE is still a mature and powerful BPEL engine, I'd say it is widely deployed and the best available OSS BPEL solution. It has been adopted by several companies, and my impression is that most development efforts currently go into the maintenance of their ODE forks. We started a discussion on private@ode.a.o to figure out how we can revive ODE and how we can lower the bar to get more contributions back. == Release == No release to report in this quarter. == Development == No significant progress to report. A refactoring to make ODE's OModel more dynamic and thus it can deal better with backward compatibility issues has been started in a non-public local branch. == Community == Milinda Pathirage has been voted into ODE's PMC == Project Branding Board Report Checklist == * Project Website Basics : homepage is project.apache.org (ok) * Project Naming And Descriptions : use proper Apache forms, describe product, etc. (ok) * Website Navigation Links : navbar links included, link to www.apache.org included (not done) * Trademark Attributions : attribution for all ASF marks included in footers, etc. (not done) * Logos and Graphics : include TM, use consistent product logo on your site (not done) * Project Metadata : DOAP file checkedin and up to date (ok)
== Status == There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. == Release == Apache ODE 1.3.5 has been released in February. It fixed about 30 bugs, including some severe performance issues. == Development == We had a developer's conference call discussing all outstanding topics, including community issues, OModel & JPA refactorings, Buildr vs. Maven, Web site (Confluence vs. Apache CMS), which was a good opportunity to discuss all ongoing developments. == Community == Gary Brown has been voted in as a committer. == Project Branding Board Report Checklist == * Project Website Basics : homepage is project.apache.org ✔ * Project Naming And Descriptions : use proper Apache forms, describe product, etc. ✔ * Website Navigation Links : navbar links included, link to www.apache.org included ✘ * Trademark Attributions : attribution for all ASF marks included in footers, etc. ✘ * Logos and Graphics : include TM, use consistent product logo on your site ✘ * Project Metadata : DOAP file checked in and up to date ✔
== Status == There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. == Release == Together with the community we identified a couple of performance issues. We are in progress of releasing ODE 1.3.5 as a maintenance release that improves the performance of ODE's XPath processing in some scenarios by factor 10. Also around 30 bugs have been fixed and we were working with the ServiceMix community to align ODE 1.3.5 with SMX 4.3. The RC is currently being tested and we are looking forward to start the release vote next week. == Development == Most development efforts have been put into the analyzing and optimizing performance issues, compatibility with ServiceMix, bug fixing and build process tweaks. We are planning to continue with our refactoring roadmap in the next quarter: Finalizing the JPA refactoring, solving backward compatibility issues (i.e. supporting evolution of OModels and runtime states) and backporting features (extension activities, process context) from our experimental branch. == Community == There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. The last reporting period was rather quiet. Nevertheless we got excellent feedback, bug reports and patches from the community. == Project Branding Board Report Checklist == * Project Website Basics : homepage is project.apache.org ✔ * Project Naming And Descriptions : use proper Apache forms, describe product, etc. ✔ * Website Navigation Links : navbar links included, link to www.apache.org included ✘ * Trademark Attributions : attribution for all ASF marks included in footers, etc. ✘ * Logos and Graphics : include TM, use consistent product logo on your site ✘ * Project Metadata : DOAP file checkedin and up to date ✔
== Status == There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. == Release == No release to report this quarter. We should have a 1.3.5 or 1.4 release in the next quarter. == Development == Most development efforts have been put into JPA refactoring (driven by Jeff Yu) and several bug fixes and improvements. Next steps on the road map are: Finalizing the JPA refactoring, solving backward compatibility issues (i.e. supporting evolution of OModels and runtime states) and backporting features (extension activities, process context) from our experimental branch. == Community == Veresh Vain has been voted as a new committer.
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Matthieu Riou to the office of Vice President, Apache ODE, and WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of Matthieu Riou from the office of Vice President, Apache ODE, and WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache ODE project has chosen by vote to recommend Tammo van Lessen as the successor to the post; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Matthieu Riou is relieved and discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice President, Apache ODE, and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Tammo van Lessen be and hereby is appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache ODE, 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 ODE Project Chair, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
The ODE PMC voted a new PMC chair, the proposed resolution should be attached. Release We've released a new build out of our stable branch, including incremental improvements and bug fixes: ODE 1.3.4. Development Besides bug fixing main development activities have been spent into reshaping the main development branches and into build and release processes. We have decided to declare our stable 1.x branch to be our main development branch. The former trunk is now our experimental sandbox and we will be continuously back-porting features and improvements from this branch to trunk. First backporting efforts have already been started, such as for extension activities and transactional scopes. Community Several new committers have been voted in this quarter: Antoine Toulme, Anurag Aggarwal, Terry Mueller, David Carver and Aaron Anderson. We're pretty pleased at the influx of new blood and all the renewed activity that comes with it.
Jim noted with pleasure the "new blood" comment.
There are no specific issue relevant to the board at the moment. Release A new release of ODE's stable branch, mostly including bug fixes and smaller improvements is under preparation. We should have a 1.3.4 soon. Development The JPA support clean-up to merge Hibernate and OpenJPA modules has been pretty active this quarter and is getting close to being ready in the 2.0 branch. Beside this, new development activity has been mild this quarter, concentrating mostly on fixes. Community Jeff Yu has been voted as a new committer and PMC member.
There are no specific issue relevant to the board at the moment. Release No release to report this quarter. Development Beside usual bug fixes, 3 major area of work this quarter have been the implementation of ODE's process context specification, clean up of our JPA support to merge Hibernate and OpenJPA modules and the development of a Maven build. Community HISE, an implementation of WS-Human-Task Specification, has entered incubation with ODE as the sponsoring entity. As such we expect some cross-project work and a possible extension of the ODE community.
* Release This quarter we've released both a new minor release of our stable branch (ODE 1.3.3) and a new beta for what will be the future of ODE (2.0-beta2). The last step before going with a final release of the 2.0 branch is migration steps from older versions. * Development Development is still going strong, both with new developments and bug fixes. * Community Many news on the community side. Rafal Rusin, elected committer last quarter is now part of the PMC. JBoss has made public their use of ODE as their BPEL engine in RiftSaw, which is a nice confirmation of ODE's position as the "reference" BPEL implementation. In this year's Google Summer of Code programme, we got two proposals and students accepted and funded by Google. Buddhika Chamith de Alwis successfully completed his project aiming at integrating ODE with BPELunit to improve our test harness. Denis Weerasiri worked on a Web-based BPEL debugger for Apache ODE. Finally, a new proposal for a BPEL4People project is coming to the incubator and we hope for much more development on that side.
There are no specific issue relevant to the board at the moment. Release We've released a new incremental version of our stable branch, ODE 1.3.2. Now only bug fixes should be committed there and we'll be concentrating more and more on stabilizing our 2.0 branch. Development Mostly incremental features on 2.0, both on a few remaining parts of BPEL that weren't supported and on useful extensions. Community We've voted in a new committer, Rafal Rusin, who had already been active for a while. He has been ramping up his contributions and we all felt he fully deserved the status of committer at this point.
There are no specific issue relevant to the board at the moment. Release We've released ODE 2.0-beta1, the first beta from the redesigned trunk. It's now used by various Eclipse projects. We're also working on another and probably last 1.X release. Development We're gradually transitioning from the stable 1.X branch to the trunk, adding new features almost only on trunk. Overall development is still very active and we continue to see quite a few interesting improvements. Community Several GSoc of code projects are shaping up (at least 3).
= Release = We're currently getting really close to have our next stable branch released as ODE 1.3. This is mostly a continuation of our 1.X branch with many bug fixes and stability improvements. In parallel, a new re-designed branch is maturing and will, we hope, shape ODE 2.X. Because of the many differences we'll probably have a beta or release candidate cycle before coming up with final releases on this branch. = Development = We're exploring new directions, like RESTful BPEL, a simple process execution language and a RESTful task manager written in Rails. We're also continuing developments around BPEL, improving performance, QoS and standard supports. = Community = We voted another new committer, Sean Ahn. We've been consistently adding fresh blood to the project in the past few quarters and it's been great to see all that new development taking place. The flow of user-submitted patches is also increasing which is a good sign for the future.
There are no specific issue relevant to the board at the moment. Release Version 1.2 has been well received and we're now gearing toward both a maintenance release (version 1.3) focusing on bug fixes and minor enhancements. Our development branch (version 2.0) is stabilizing and we'll be doing a beta cycle or two before the official release. Main improvements are the infrastructure to support transactional and reliable invocations, versioning of the runtime (to retain backward compatibility with processes compiled with earlier versions) and more performance in the persistence layer. Development Our new effort to come up with a simplified process execution language is coming along nicely. Some basic constructs already work and even if there's still a lot to develop, it's taking shape. Community Lots of activity on the community side this quarter. Our Google Summer of Code project contributed by Milinda Pathirage has been a great success. The management console that he developed has been included in our tree and Milinda has been elected committer by the ODE PMC. We voted in a new committer, Karthick Sankarachary, who's been very active during the past months by contributing several important improvements. We've also voted Alexis Midon in our PMC (he was a new committer from last quarter).
Release We've released a 1.2 that adds a few major features, like the support for WSDL HTTP binding, some REST extensions, endpoint configuration and external variables that can be persisted in user-defined database tables. It also includes quite a few bug fixes and small improvements. The release is very fresh and we're still announcing it here and there and gathering feedback (which seems good so far). Development After this release, we're going to focus on backward compatibility of our trunk, so an upgrade path can be available for the next release (2.0). Then we should be able to provide more advanced functionalities like transaction propagation and reliable messaging. Community We've voted in a new committer, Alexis Midon, who has contributed the HTTP binding code and other features. He intends to continue his contribution and we're very happy about this new help. We also have a GSoC project going for a web management console developed by Milinda Pathirage. It's coming along nicely and we already have some nice result after mid-term. There has been an increase in mailing list traffic as well as the number of issues (Jira) reported along with an increase of submitted patches.
There are no specific issue necessitating the board attention at the moment. Release We've released 1.1.1 which was mostly an incremental release as expected. Users feedback has been good. We're now preparing for a 1.2 but we'll need to stabilize our trunk first. Development The most significant feature addition this quarter is the support for the HTTP WSDL binding. We're also going to start stabilizing trunk that includes support for transaction propagation, reliable messaging and BPEL extensions (with a cute Javascript extension example). Parallely we're progressing slowly but surely on some research projects for a simplified orchestration language and workflow. Community The HTTP WSDL binding has been contributed by a newcomer and we're monitoring him closely to eventually vote him as a committer if his involvement persists. A couple of users also have been reliably submitting bugs and patches, which could eventually lead to something more significant.
There are no specific issue relevant to the board at the moment. * Release A minor release 1.1.1 should be issued in the coming days, we're currently voting on it. We've also working on backward compatibility of our trunk to release it later on without too much hassles for our users. * Development The main feature addition has been "external variables" that allow storing BPEL variables externally to the process engine (in a DB, or via REST calls). We also have a specification to support REST with BPEL by adding a few extensions and we're planning on implementing it soon. Support for BPEL extensions has been finalized. Work on SimPEL, our simple process execution language, has started, the language is now almost settled after very interesting discussions. * Community Nothing really new on the community side,. We see new users arriving regularly which is healthy. All the discussions around SimPEL have been pretty passionate but never conflicting, giving good karma to all our dev community.
Approved by General Consent.
There are no specific issue relevant to the board at the moment. * Release We're preparing a minor release 1.1.1 to distribute the small fixes we've made here and there since 1.1. * Development There's been a lot of discussion in the community around the simplification of ODE. Our problems is mostly that WS-BPEL is a complex standard layered on top of WSDL that's another complex standard (without mentioning SOAP and WS-I). We'd like to introduce a small and simpler DSL (that we dubbed SimPEL) that should be more or less equivalent to BPEL but much easier to write and far less verbose (no XML whatsoever). Along the same lines we're going to make an embeddable version of ODE that can be instantiated directly from Java code. * Community Tammo van Lessen has been voted in the ODE PMC.
Approved by General Consent.
Since last month we've made an important 1.1 release. There are no specific issue relevant to the board at the moment. * Release We've released our first official release since we graduated and our second all time release. So far it's been well received with only the usual couple of minor bugs. We're planning a 1.1.1 to address those. We've been pleased to learn that Lomboz (Objectweb) has added support for simple deployment on ODE using this release. Paul Brown has also written a nice tutorial for InfoQ. * Development The main development branch has been merged into the (now unstable) trunk. This is a longer term development to improve the support for different communication styles (blocking, asynchronous, reliable and transactional). Tuscany integration is underway as the BPEL SCA implementation is being developed. We've also been discussing security and easier embedding. * Community Nothing much on the community side except more users interested by the new release.
Approved by General Consent.
General ------- Following up on our graduation from the incubator, all the tasks to establish us as a TLP have been completed. It's been pretty quick, mostly thanks to the infra team, Niclas and Henri. So the web site, SVN and mailing lists have been migrated, the PMC has been established as well as the chair. The foundation files have also been updated. So far we're all happy campers, no particular issue to bring to the board attention. Release ------- We're preparing our first out-of-incubator release (1.1), in terms of development it's going to be mostly a bug fix release with some rough edges polishing. It should be our most stable release ever. Development ----------- Meanwhile, we have started a new development branch named BART to better address messaging integration and quality of service aspects (BART = blocking, asynchronous, reliable and transactional). This represents significant refactoring of the integration layer and will be the basis for our 2.0 release. Community --------- Nothing groundbreaking on the community side as we've been mostly busy with graduation. The mailing lists traffic keep on picking up and we try our best to support new users. Our new committer, Tammo, is I believe going on very well with the rest of the team, owning massive quantities of karma by fixing tests.
Approved by General Consent.
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors deems it to be in the best interests of the Foundation and consistent with the Foundation's purpose to establish a Project Management Committee charged with the creation and maintenance of open-source software related to business process management (BPM), process orchestration and workflow through service composition. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Apache ODE Project", be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache ODE Project be and hereby is responsible for the creation and maintenance of software related to business process management (BPM), process orchestration and workflow through service composition; and be it further RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache ODE" 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 ODE Project, and to have primary responsibility for management of the projects within the scope of responsibility of the Apache ODE 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 ODE Project: * Alan Cabrera (adc@apache.org) * Assaf Arkin (assaf@apache.org) * Alex Boisvert (boisvert@apache.org) * Cory Harper (charper@apache.org) * Guillaume Nodet (gnodet@apache.org) * Lance Waterman (lwaterman@apache.org) * Maciej Szefler (mszefler@apache.org) * Matthieu Riou (mriou@apache.org) * Paul R. Brown (paulrbrown@apache.org) NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Matthieu Riou be appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache ODE, to serve in accordance with and subject to the direction of the Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until death, resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification, or until a successor is appointed; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache ODE Project be and hereby is tasked with the migration and rationalization of the Apache Incubator ODE podling; and be it further RESOLVED, that all responsibilities pertaining to the Apache Incubator ODE podling encumbered upon the Apache Incubator PMC are hereafter discharged. Special order 7B, Establish the Apache ODE project, was approved by Unanimous Vote.
Apache ODE is an implementation of the BPEL4WS and WS-BPEL specifications for web services orchestration. ODE entered incubation in March 2006. Beside regular development, the principal improvement in ODE for these 3 past months is our first incubator release. We've been able to come up with a valid release after several release candidates reviewed by the ODE committers and got voted by the IPMC. We've also received a very nice contribution from Kelly Thompson for our website with good looking graphics. A steady stream of patches is also coming in (see [1], [2] and [3] for example) and we have a few leads to bring in more committers (Tammo Van Lessen and Jim Alateras) after a couple more patch contributions. We've raised some concerns about the absence of a real PPMC for ODE to the IPMC, result of the lack of activity of some of our mentors. We'd been handling all decisions as a community with all active committers before but our PPMC didn't reflect it. As a result, Niclas Hedhman has volunteered to become a mentor for ODE, Dims and Paul being both active mentors and the PPMC is elected now. Many new PPMC members have now been voted in, and we're ready to move on. As a community, once the PPMC issue settles down, we believe we're ready for graduation. [1] [WWW] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ODE-142 [2] [WWW] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ODE-139 [3] [WWW] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ODE-140
iPMC Reviewers: jukka, yoavs, jim, noel Apache ODE is an implementation of the BPEL4WS and WS-BPEL specifications for web services orchestration. ODE entered incubation in March 2006. Our activity during these past 3 months: * Finished the transition from Hibernate to OpenJPA. This is almost done now with most of our scenarios working perfectly. We have to thanks the OpenJPA guys for that! * A lot of efforts on reliability and performance, plus a few additional features here and there, like improved JBI support (in addition to Axis2). * The user mailing-list has definitely been picking up, with more and more interesting questions. The focus for the coming trimester is going to be very strong on making an incubator release now that all our IP issues have been cleared. It should really help us on our way out of the incubator through to golden door of success! The pending issues are: * Making an incubator release, which should be able to complete this trimester finally (and should help us for the next point). * Attracting more committers to encourage diversity. iPMC questions / comments: * jukka: Sounds good! ----
Apache ODE is an implementation of the BPEL4WS and WS-BPEL specifications for web services orchestration. ODE entered incubation in March 2006. Activity related to incubation: * Thanks to Cliff Schmidt, we've finally cleared the BPEL4WS and WS-BPEL specifications intellectual property and patents issues. See http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-legal-discuss/200612.mbox/%3c90 6BAFB9-4176-42D8-B9D3-1ED05414FF6C@apache.org%3e for details. * We're almost finished replacing Hibernate with OpenJPA, Hibernate is our last license-related issue. Activity related to project development: * We've created a much better site at http://incubator.apache.org/ode. We still need to add more documentation but the principal is already there. * We've added a connector for JBI (ServiceMix) and another one with SCA (Tuscany) is in progress. * Development is still very active, we've added more features and also improved stability. To complete before graduation: * Now that most IP issues have been resolved we need to release. This will hopefully help us for the next point. * We need to attract more committers and encourage diversity. So the plan for the next period is to finish the transition to OpenJPA and build a release most probably in January.
There's been a lot of activity and progress on Ode in the past 3 months. We all agreed on a codebase to start from (the former PXE) and refactoring has been done to implement new integration interfaces between the engine and the outside world. This allowed us to integrate Axis2 and ServiceMix as communication layers (there've been propositions for an XFire implementation as well) and to have a distribution for both. The development is active and we already have something fairly complete and stable. We're now working on including more tests and automatizing them as much as possible in the form of a BPEL test gamut. Then tests could be contributed quite easily by non-developers. We also have to change our persistence layer to replace Hibernate with something more Apache license friendly. OpenJPA has been mentioned several times. There's also an issue around BPEL4W 1.1 license and patents that we need to clear out by checking what is required by each party and address it on legal-discuss. Finally, we need to start attracting more users by advertising ourselves. We've made a very simple site so we also have to create more documentation and build a "real" site. A user mailing-list has also been created. Once the legal and licensing issues are cleared, we could also start thinking about a first incubator release.