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The Apache Software Foundation
Board of Directors Meeting Agenda
November 16, 2003
1. Call to order
The meeting was scheduled for 7:32PM PDT -0700. A sufficient
attendance to constitute a quorum was recognized by the chairman
at 7:32pm, at which point the meeting was called to order. The
meeting was held at a conference room at the Alexis Park hotel
in Las Vegas, site of the concurrent ApacheCon conference.
2. Roll Call
Directors Present At Roll:
Brian Behlendorf
Ken Coar
Mark Cox
Roy Fielding
Dirk-Willem van Gulik
Ben Laurie
Sam Ruby
Greg Stein
Directors Absent At Roll:
Jim Jagielski
Guests:
Chuck Murcko (who joined later via conference call)
Tina Greene from Security Travel (conference planner) (joined later)
Shane Curcuru (attending as an ASF member)
Geir Magnusson (wants to talk about TCK license and Geronimo)
Brian Fitzpatrick (fundraising)
3. Minutes and supplements from previous meetings
A. The meeting of February 26, 2003
Minutes are not yet available for approval. [Sam Ruby]
B. The meeting of September 17, 2003
CVS - board:/board_minutes_2003_09_17.txt [Jim Jagielski]
Not read yet, so unapproved.
C. The meeting of October 22, 2003
CVS - board:/board_minutes_2003_10_22.txt [Jim Jagielski]
Not read yet, so unapproved.
4. Officer Reports
A. Chairman [Greg]
Defaulted to presentation given at the Members' meeting earlier
that night.
B. President [Dirk]
Defaulted to presentation given at the Members' meeting earlier
that night.
C. Treasurer [Chuck]
A repeat of the report from the Member's Meeting:
Chuck reports that the foundation has just over $100,000 in its
accounts at present, down from $115,000 one year ago. This decline
is due primarily to the fact that the Foundation began to assume
its own hardware and colocation costs this year. We now have
contributions by PayPal as well as by check, which together have
offset approximately 25% of the Foundation's year-to-date
operating costs. It is unknown whether this percentage will
increase next year.
ASF continues to maintain a royalty relationship with Jinx Hackwear,
but this has not produced any appreciable income to date.
ASF fundraising has been limited so far to installing the PayPal
link on the Foundation's Contributions web page. Proposals for
increased visibility for fundraising activities on the
Foundation web site have not made progress, due in part
to objections voiced by the membership during discussions on
this issue.
In the coming year, it will be important for the Foundation to
be able to generate income from sources other than those
already mentioned, in order to offset the costs of operating
our own infrastructure, and reduce the burden of support on those
members who contribute goods and services. Additional income
will be needed if we choose to undertake activities such as
increased public relations activity, or participation in
standards groups.
D. Exec. V.P. and Secretary [Jim]
A repeat of the report from the Member's Meeting:
Jim reports that the ASF is receiving a steady stream
of CLAs, thanks mostly to the Spam Assassin "donation" and
the Geronimo development effort. The present method of
handling CLAs is admittedly non-efficient. In many
cases the FAXes are of poor quality and hard to read.
Plus, it places a burden on infrastructure to know
when to create accounts and on PMCs to know when
someone can be given commit privs. There is a SOW,
of sorts, in infrastructure to streamline this
process.
Occasionally, other items are received at the ASF "office,"
such as legal letters (eg: the JBoss letter) or deliveries
for members. Items pertaining to the ASF proper, especially
legal issues, are brought to the full attention of the
board, for discussion and consensus. Deliveries are
returned to the sender, with notice of the member's
shipping address (obtained from members.txt).
5. Special Orders
Pre-A. Discussion with Tina Greene about the payment of ApacheCon speakers
Tina "came to apologize to the board for the disaster that paying the
speakers became."
"This is not excusing my behavior; this is expressing my sincere apology
and trying to make amends. I understand this reflects poorly on the
convention and the board. We did not get the attendance that I had hoped
for, and we lost a lot of money" Tina reported. When it came time to pay
the speakers, she was lent the money and started to pay the speakers.
Emergencies came up, and she thought more money would come in to pay certain
other receivables. She paid 3/4ths of them, but didn't adequately communicate
what was going on. This was not premeditated. This year we're close to
being in the black. Everyone has now been paid, including Stas as of an
hour ago. Now, everyone is paid at the show.
"I'm very sorry, the best thing I can do is continue to put on a good show."
Now, when speakers check out of the hotel, they are given a check.
This has nothing to do with other members of her staff.
Brian noted that it seemed that the worst crime was lack of communication,
and opinion that Ben agreed with. Dirk suggested that if the
problem was simply one of cashflow, then maybe the ASF could help.
Tina stated that she believes there is a very strong potential for this
show and she still believes passionately in it. There is a lot of momentum
in the show now, and changes in corporate climate and attitudes.
A. Alter the Chair of the Apache Maven Project
WHEREAS, the membership of the Apache Maven Project Management
Committee (PMC) have recommended Jason van Zyl to serve as
chairman of the Apache Maven PMC; and
WHEREAS, the previously appointed chairman of the Apache Maven
PMC, Dion Gillard, has stepped down from his position as Vice
President, Apache Maven, in favor of Jason van Zyl's
appointment to that position.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Jason van Zyl be and
hereby is appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache
Maven, 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.
Approved by unanimous vote.
B. Rename Perl-Apache Project to the Apache Perl Project
RESOLVED, that the Perl-Apache project shall hereafter be referred
to as the Apache Perl project, in order to be consistent with other
Apache projects, and the Apache Perl PMC shall initially be composed
of the current composition of the Perl-Apache PMC.
Motion to defer until clarity around item C is achieved, approved.
C. Alter the Chair of the Apache Perl Project
WHEREAS, the membership of the Apache Perl Project Management
Committee (PMC) have recommended Eric Cholet to serve as
chairman of the Apache Perl PMC; and
WHEREAS, the previously appointed chairman of the Apache Perl
PMC, Doug MacEachern, has stepped down from his position as Vice
President, Apache Perl, in favor of Eric Cholet's appointment
to that position.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Eric Cholet be and
hereby is appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache
Perl, 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.
Discussion: has Eric Cholet been asked if he would accept this
appointment?
Motion to table until Eric is consulted, approved.
D. Notification: In July 2003, Greg paid (out of pocket) for the
Mirapath equipment, a total of $2187.28. Greg has requested
that the ASF issue a reimbursement check for the amount.
Discussion: If needed, Brian B. might be able to find the receipt.
E. Roy T. Fielding resignation from Board of Directors
Roy has expressed his desire to resign from the Board of Directors
of the ASF. His written resignation was submitted and accepted.
F. Appoint a new Director to fill Roy's vacated position
Greg notes there is no requirement in bylaws to fill slot ASAP.
There was discussion about appointment versus election as well
as the potential candidates. Brian asked if we do this as a public vote,
and there was general discussion on this topic. Greg proposed tabling this
and taking it to the membership. Ben nominated Brian to run this and
Brian accepted and volunteered. There was discussion on whether to
use Roy's voter tool for this. It was agreed that nominations
would be held for 10 days.
6. Committee Reports
A. Apache Ant Project [Conor MacNeill]
See Attachment A
Sam Ruby clarified ant-myrmidon removal was not a request from Peter
Donald, but a suggestion that Peter agreed with. Ken notes they are
"cooking with gas" in a good way.
Reported accepted by general consent.
B. Apache HTTP Server Project [Sander Striker]
See Attachment B
Reported accepted by general consent.
C. Apache Perl Project [Doug MacEachern]
See Attachment C
There was some discussion on whether the board should revisit the
PMC chair change. The general agreement was that we should wait to
hear from Eric first.
Reported accepted by general consent.
D. Apache XML Project [Berin Lautenbach]
See Attachment D
Dirk noted that there were some issues with xerces-p; there's an
ongoing discussion with how that project has no effective peer review,
and no effective release process. The suggestion was made that it
should be merged into xerces-C. Roy remarked that we've always
required three +1's for a release, whereas Dirk noted that it's a
problem if CPAN were to point to snapshots rather than releases.
Greg indicated that XML's question is whether they can leave release
approval up to the PMC individuals on each project and it was noted
that the three +1s should be committers, but don't have to be on PMC.
This resulted in general discussion about how PMCs can be responsible
for oversight. Roy stated that the issue came from himself, not the
XML PMC, suggesting that they're not conducting enough oversight.
The general consensus was that oversight needs to be *active*, not
just passive; Sam states that he can claim credibly that code is
peer-reviewed, but not that the PMC is actively overseeing things.
Dirk will write mail to XML PMC saying that the board understands their
problem, will clarify what oversight means, and that the XML project has
gotten too big and we should split it up. And then cover the bases from every
committer being a PMC member, to other options for oversight.
Reported accepted by general consent.
E. Apache Cocoon Project [Steven Noels]
See Attachment E
No report.
F. Fund-raising Committee [Chuck Murcko]
See Attachment F
Brian Fitzpatrick came to discuss this with the board.
There are a number of things that the FR Committee would like to do;
There was discussion about putting a link on the front page to Jinx.
The recommendation was putting a link that says "buy apache swag" going
to Jinx. They would also like to see a small section titled "support the
ASF" on www.apache.org with information about how to contribute via
paypal, sending a check, donating hardware, pro-bono legal work, etc...
A "Thanks" page for companies who are supporting us would also be
appropriate and nice to have, with a logo and short mention of the company,
up to our discretion.
The Fund-raising Committee is seeking guidance on the following items:
The would like to see all project pages have a link to "support the ASF"
page - Should we require it? They needed to "hunt down" people to put a
link to ApacheCon so the current setup isn't adequate or efficient.
What does the ASF need the money for?
Would like formal appointment of Fitz and Cliff to committee
Ken noted that Jinx wants to send 100% of profits to us, so we should
do this soon. Greg reminded the Board that the Fundraising committee can
make decisions around this. Fitz explained that we need justification for
why we're raising money and it was noted that we have a pool of funds that
we don't want to dive into, and real colo costs now.
Roy stated that need a larger kitty for the defense fund. $1M is minimum
for a patent defense. Ken asked if we should allocate a budget for travel
for speakers, etc? There was general agreement that it would be a good thing,
also boosting Sally's PR budget.
Greg moved to add Fitz, Shane, and CLiff Skolnick to the
Fund-raising Committee and to remove Roy. This was approved by unanimous
consent.
Mark noted that LinuxJewelry is saying they were donating profits, yet we
have not heard anything nor received any donations. They're Australia based.
It was asked that the fundraising committee look into this. This was
assigned to Fitz to look into.
Reported accepted by general consent.
7. Unfinished Business
A. Proposed 2.0 license and related CLA, software grant changes
Roy said that he plans to put up a revised version of the license soon.
More public review is required and if we get more serious comments, then we
should revise again, otherwise it gets put to a vote.
Greg brought up the "the PHP thing". Greg volunteers to communicate with PHP
about new ASF license and software-grant, to get to closure on this issue.
8. New Business
Geir brought up the topic of Geronimo and the "code similarity" letter from
JBoss's lawyers. He indicated that the PMC is preparing responses to the
exhibits mentioned. He asked if the ASF will want to do a letter back to
JBoss's lawyers and asked the next steps. It was agreed that we
should continue generating the responses, with help from Geronimo
contributers, at which point these will be reviewed by the ASF lawyers.
Geir indicated some TCK issues. He noted that the ASF will get a side letter
to approve distribution and asked if he could sign the TCK agreement?
Greg moved that Geir Magnusson Jr. be named VP, Java Community Process of
the Apache Software Foundation (a more proper proposal text will be
formulated later). This was agreed upon by unanimous vote.
Board acknowledged that Ken added Rich Bowen, Shane Curcuru, and Cliff Skolnick
to the Apachecon committee.
9. Announcements
10. Adjournment
Greg moves to adjourn at 21:48. This was seconded at which point
the meeting was adjourned.
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ATTACHMENTS:
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Attachment A: Status report for the Apache Ant Project
From: "Conor MacNeill" <conor@cortexebusiness.com.au>
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 20:42:51 +1100
o Ant 1.5.4
Ant 1.5.4 was released on August 12th, 2003
This was a minor maintenance release of the Ant 1.5 branch.
It addressed just two particular problems - the change to
the javah entry point in the latest Sun JDK release and the
Visual Age tasks. The latter, being only compatible with JDK
1.1, were included to give users of this task a working release
prior to the Ant 1.6 release which depends on JDK 1.2+
o Ant 1.6 Beta
Two betas of Ant 1.6 have been released to date. Beta 1 was released
on 30th Septamber, 2003 followed by Beta 2 on October 17. Ant 1.6
has been well received as it provides a number of new features for
simplifying and reusing build components. A short summary of the new
features is
* Delayed Task construction, Top levels tasks
* Antlib - a packaging of ant components into a library
* namespace support
* macrodef task for composing ant tasks into larger, reusable tasks
* scriptdef for building tasks from scripting languages
* presetdef for defining tasks based on a specific configuration for
another ant task
* input management and redirection for exec and java tasks
A bucketload of other fixes and changes as described here
http://cvs.apache.org/dist/ant/v1.6beta2/
The betas have generated a lot of interesting discussion on the dev list
in particular about the operation of macrodef and namespaces. A third
beta will definitely be produced.
o Legal Issues
None. The PMC has received a request from Peter Donald through Stefan
Bodewig for the removal of the Myrmidon codebase. The PMC will consider
and I expect will go ahead and remove this module from CVS.
o PMC meeting
the PMC will shortly hold a virtual meeting to consider a few
maintenance issues. These include the composition of the PMC, moving
inactive PMC members and committers to emeritus status, etc.
As previously noted, Diane Holt has indicated that she will no longer
be able to act as a PMC member. We thank her for her many contributions
to Ant over the years.
o Community
The dev list has been very active following the 1.6 beta. The discussion
has been cooperative and healthy. Likewise the user list continues to
be very active.
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Attachment B: Status report for the Apache HTTP Server Project
From: Sander Striker <striker@apache.org>
Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2003 13:01:21 -0600
* httpd
Both Apache HTTP Server 1.3 and 2.0 have made releases the last
quarter. 1.3 releases have been security/bug-fix releases, which
is expected given the 1.3 tree is in maintenance mode.
2.0 has made several releases, security related as well as normal.
There is effort to push out the first 2.1 release, ramping up to 2.2.
Maybe the 2.1 release will see the day of light during ApacheCon.
On the dev list there is a discussion about the stagnation of
development. Solutions to this problem are being discussed in the
thread (subject: the wheel of httpd-dev life is surely slowing down,
solutionsplease). There have been several speculations on the cause
of the slow-down. The thread is still active.
* httpd-docs
The docs list has been slow of late, the most significant contribution
being Kess' configure docs. There seems to be a temporary lull in
contributions.
* httpd-test
The httpd-test/perl-framework infrastructure (i.e. Apache::Test) is
being under an active development. The actual httpd tests repository
hasn't changed much.
* mod_python
There have been several releases made of mod_python. The project
is making progress and consistently keeps doing so. One unfortunate
aspect is that not enough PMC members are always actively involved
with this project, making releases somewhat harder, since votes don't
come in quick enough. It would be an idea to track the development
in the mod_python area more intensively for a bit to see if there are
new potential committers and potential PMC members are available there.
* Contributor License Agreement
A renewed effort to get a CLA of all contributors on file has
started. I hope to report next quarter that we have a 100% coverage.
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Attachment C: Status report for the Apache Perl Project
From: Stas Bekman <stas@stason.org>
Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2003 16:25:09 -0800
* Releases
mod_perl 1.29 was released on October 13. It is a security
release that patches around a security issue introduced
by the recently released Perl 5.8.1.
The mod_perl 1.x is a maintenance track designed to work
with httpd 1.3.x.
mod_perl-1.99_10 was released on September 29 with a
great deal of new features and bug fixes. The committers
believe that this release is one of the last milestones before
the long awaited 2.0 release.
The mod_perl 1.99 series is a development track designed
to become mod_perl 2.0; it works with httpd 2.0.x.
Apache::Test 1.04 was released on September 29, and 1.05
was released on October 24. Apache::Test provides a
framework which allows module writers to write test
suites than can query a running mod_perl enabled server.
It is used by mod_perl, httpd and several third party
applications.
* Development
Development on mod_perl 2.0 and Apache::Test is moving
at a healthy pace. The collaboration with Perl developers,
much needed since mod_perl is quite tied to Perl's
internals, has been excellent. mod_perl developers have
expressed the wish that their relationship with httpd-dev
evolve in the same direction.
* Users
As always the mod_perl user list is thriving. Usage is
growing steadily, with 1.6M or 4.7M sites depending on
which survey you look at.
* PMC
Philippe Chiasson was unanimously voted in as a new
PMC member on October 14.
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Attachment D: Status report for the Apache XML Project
General Comments
================
Things have been relatively quiet on the broader project front. The
sub-projects are all going well, and the XMLBeans effort is now fully
into the incubation process.
xml.apache.org has now moved all sub-projects to using the ASF mirroring
system, and a consolodated download page has been created for all files
in the over-arching project. A fantastic effort from all concerned.
PMC
===
Membership
On the PMC membership front, Ilene Seelemann stepped down from the PMC
for personal reasons, and Brian Minchau stepped in as the replacement
Xalan representative. Erwin van der Koogh was also voted in to become
the replacement xml-security representative after Christian stepped down.
Oversight
Dirk recently raised the question of oversite of the Xerces-P
sub-project, particularly around releases of code. There is a feeling
that this is too much of a one man shop / no peer review/oversight or
peer-reviewed releases. Given that it is a thin layer on C++ we may
simply tie it in with xerces-c for the real releases. However this is
still under discussion.
As an input to this discussion, the PMC would like to understand the
board's position on the requirement of an umbrella PMC to vote on all
sub-project code-releases. Currently the XML PMC does not do this - we
rely on individual PMC members within each sub-project to ensure
appropriate processes are being followed.
Issues needing attention:
=========================
Legal
In the August report, we sought the endorsement of the board for the
sending of e-mails to submit notification of export of cryptographic
code for the xml-security Java and C++ libraries.
This was discussed, but no final conclusion was indicated on board@.
The e-mails below are proposed, and it is suggested (subject to board
approval) that these come from Berin Lautenbach as the chair of the XML
PMC.
We would also like to understand whether it is permissable (given recent
discussions between Ben Laurie and the FreeBSD folk) to release compiled
versions of the libraries.
EMAIL 1 - Java Code
To crypt@bis.doc.gov, enc@ncsc.mil, enc@ncsc.mil
Subject TSU NOTIFICATION
SUBMISSION TYPE: TSU
SUBMITTED BY: Berin Lautenbach
SUBMITTED FOR: Apache Software Foundation
POINT OF CONTACT: Apache's XML Security Project
PHONE and/or FAX: security-dev@xml.apache.org
MANUFACTURER: N/A
PRODUCT NAME/MODEL #: XML-Security-J Library
ECCN: 5D002
NOTIFICATION:
Web site - http://xml.apache.org/security/Java
CVS repository - http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/xml-security/src/
(When Released) http://www.apache.org/dist/xml/security/java-library/
NOTE: Current downloadable release code does not contain the new
XML-Encryption code, only digital signature code.
See CVS repository for new code.
EMAIL 2 - C++ Code
To crypt@bis.doc.gov, enc@ncsc.mil, enc@ncsc.mil
Subject TSU NOTIFICATION
SUBMISSION TYPE: TSU
SUBMITTED BY: Berin Lautenbach
SUBMITTED FOR: Apache Software Foundation
POINT OF CONTACT: Apache's XML Security Project
PHONE and/or FAX: security-dev@xml.apache.org
MANUFACTURER: N/A
PRODUCT NAME/MODEL #: XML-Security-C Library
ECCN: 5D002
NOTIFICATION:
Web site - http://xml.apache.org/security/c
CVS Repository - http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/xml-security/c/src/
Download directory - http://www.apache.org/dist/xml/security/c-library/
NOTE: Current downloadable release code does not contain the new
XML-Encryption code, only digital signature code.
See CVS repository for new code.
Axkit
=====
The cvs repository has been temporaily branched to allow for some
exploritory development into a new pipeline mechanism which will allow
for seamless incremental caching, cacheable logic sheets, automatic SAX
chaining and an easier pipeline extension mechanism. Since this work is
likely to change a number of the internal API's, it's been kept separate
from the core until the full impact of it can be accessed. Some fairly
intensive design sessions occured in the group in order to try and find
ways to support things such as SOAP and DAV more simply at the pipeline
level, and this work is expected to come to fruition as part of the new
pipeline design.
An initial port to Apache2 has been started with some success, but isn't
in a releasable state at the moment. This is currently on hold while we
decide whether we want the new pipeline code in for 2.0, so we can then
port it forwards.
A number of UTF-8 conversion bugs have been fixed in the core. These
manifested in users seeing Latin-1 characters output, while the encoding
declaration said UTF-8.
Work on adding a number of new transformation languages has started and
should be released soon, concerning mostly STX and TT2. The XSP engine
has been enhanced with XSLT-style interpolated attribute value templates.
Batik
=====
Implementation of the Batik distribution miroring. Nightly builds are in
place as well as release signing.
Large number of bug fixes. The team thinks SVG is now the only SVG
implementation we know of which passes all the W3C Test Suite tests,
excluding declarative animation.
The team is planning a 1.5.1 release after ApacheCon.
Commons
=======
We have released a beta of our popular Resolver component, and hope to
have a full 1.1 release out in time for version-matching with Ant which
points its users to the Resolver for optional tasks.
We also have the start of a plan in place to regularlize the version
numbering and releases of our external xml-apis.jar component. We hope
we can get the Xalan and Xerces teams to help us ship JAXP-TCK passed
versions of xml-apis.jar that can then be used across many ASF projects
that deal with XML.
-- ShaneCurcuru
FOP
===
We were finally able to freeze our maintenance branch so we can
concentrate on working on the redesign. As we have very few active
people in the Java department (that's different with support) progress
is slow. At least, we are starting to get feedback and even patches for
the redesign so we are on a good course in spite of the circumstances.
-- Jeremias Maerki
Forrest
=======
Forrest-0.5 was released in mid-September. Work on version 0.6 has so
far been focussed on re-organising the build process to be more
efficient. A new version of the forrestbot has begun. We continue to
update our version of Cocoon to stay just off the bleeding edge. This
has been useful for both projects. Progress on Forrest-0.6 has slowed a
little and some of the main committers must be occupied by other things.
The last report noted that all Cocoon committers are now Forrest
committers, but we have only seen one or two. There is also one new
Forrest committer. Some of the users seem to be de-lurking on the
mailing list, which is a good sign. No known license issues.
Xalan-C ++
==========
There were no new releases, so there was no functional change, however
Xalan-C++ did change its distribution to use the mirrors sites (see
http://xml.apache.org/mirrors.cgi or
http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/xml/xalan-c).
-- Brian Minchau
Xalan-J/XSLTC
=============
Xalan-J 2.5.2 was released in late October 2003. The changes were:
* bug fixes (see http://xml.apache.org/xalan-j/readme.html)
* downloading of Xalan-J moved to the various mirror sites around
the world (see http://xml.apache.org/mirrors.cgi or
http://xml.apache.org/xalan-j/downloads.html ) which is also what
the other Apache projects did.
Unrelated to the 2.5.2 release, development work was started on the
xslt20-compiled branch to support XSLT 2.0 and Xpath 2.0 (both drafts)
with XSLTC.
-- Brian Minchau
Xerces-C++
==========
Xerces-C has 2 new committers. There have been many bug fixes and
considerable work is going into serializable grammars, stateless
grammars, PSVI and schema component model. The new memory management
scheme is now stable and we think the memory leaks have all been
plugged. Entity resolver support has now been enhanced. We hope to
release this year.
Xerces-J
========
In the last couple of months, considerable progress has been made in
tracking the DOM level 3 Core and Load/Save specifications. Our
XInclude implementation has also become considerably more correct and
complete. A new release will likely occur some time this month, which
will highlight these changes along with some work on performance.
Xerces-P
========
The Xerces-P project made a number of bug fix releases on the 2.3.0
stable release (2.3.0-2, -3, and -4). The main focus was smoothing out
the initial support for Windows and Mac OS X, and general project cleanup.
There is also now a win32 binary available for the project.
Also, the project switched over to SVN for maintain the source code, and
the project WWW site.
The project WWW page is now up-to-date, but has not yet migrated over to
using Forrest.
-- Jason Stewart
Xindice
=======
No particular progress in Xindice land. Still waiting to find time in
fixing documentation and packaging a release, but both the user and dev
lists have little or no traffic, and committers seem to be busy
elsewhere. A careful consideration about the future of this project
should be carried on: Xindice is widely used, yet it seems unable to
attract a stable and healthy developer community.
XML-Security
============
The XML-Security subproject has continued work on implementations of the
XML-Encryption standard. An alpha is nearly ready for public release for
the C++ library. Some work has also been done on the Java library, but
the pace here is slower.
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Attachment E: Status report for the Apache Cocoon Project
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Attachment F: Status report for the Fund-raising Committee
There has been no activity by the fundraising committee in the last
two months. A meeting of the committee at the Conference has been
discussed for Sunday 11/16.
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End of minutes for the November 16, 2003 board meeting.
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