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Board of Directors Meeting Minutes
January 19, 2011
1. Call to order
The meeting was scheduled for 10:00am (Pacific) and began at
10:02 when a sufficient attendance to constitute a
quorum was recognized by the chairman. The meeting was held
via teleconference, hosted by Jim Jagielski and vmWare.
IRC #asfboard on irc.freenode.net was used for backup
purposes.
2. Roll Call
Directors Present:
Shane Curcuru
Doug Cutting
Bertrand Delacretaz
Roy T. Fielding
Jim Jagielski
Geir Magnusson, Jr.
Sam Ruby
Noirin Shirley
Directors Absent:
Greg Stein
Officers Present:
Craig L Russell
Guests:
Brian Fox
Richard Hirsch
Dan Kulp
Brett Porter
Hyrum K. Wright
3. Minutes from previous meetings
Minutes (in Subversion) are found under the URL:
https://svn.apache.org/repos/private/foundation/board/
A. The meeting of 2010-12-15
See: board_minutes_2010_12_15.txt
Approval was tabled for the next meeting.
4. Executive Officer Reports
A. Chairman [Doug]
A special members meeting to elect new members is currently in
recess. We had no trouble reaching quorum and have a good
number of nominees, so I expect this to be a fruitful meeting.
Beyond that, little of note has happened since the last board meeting.
Question: should minutes of members's meetings be publicly published?
AI Craig: publish minutes for the January 2011 meeting.
Up for grabs: publish minutes for previous meetings.
B. President [Jim]
For general information, please see the President's Report for the
Member's Meeting. Supplmental info as follows:
Melissa Warnkin is fully on-board as our EA. She has all required
accounts, access to JIRA and subversion, an EA-specific JIRA task
list and an archived Email alias. Next step will be in coordinating
tasks with the various PMCs and VPs. Formal announcement to them will
be made this week.
Other than that, a slow month, business-wise but there was some
spirited discussion on members@ regarding membership and trademark
issues.
C. Treasurer [Geir]
Books are up to date. Current balances are total cash of $640,059.38 at
Wells Fargo and $34,572.29 at Paypal.
In terms of lockbox, we received :
contribution checks :
- $600 Alpes CME
- $100 Judith Flippen-Anderson
- $5000 FuseSource
other checks :
- $12,349.21 Stone Circle
We also received wires from :
- $100k Microsoft
- $75k Google
- $755.85 / GBP500 - unknown source
- $281.85 / GPB200? - unknown source
Tasks Done:
- fundraising support (invoices)
- bills
- wire $37k to Dell for servers
In Progress:
- find the $20 discrepancy in checking
- bills (I'm behind, will pay this week)
Statement of Financial Income and Expense - December 2010
Ordinary Income/Expense
Income
Interest Income 86.21
Contributions Income
Unrestricted 200,605.85
Total Contributions Income 200,605.85
Total Income 200,692.06
Expense
Bank Service Charges 399.06
Postage and Delivery 19.95
Professional Fees
Accounting 350.00
Total Professional Fees 350.00
Program Expenses
Infrastructure
Colocation Expenses 518.00
Infrastructure Staff 20,700.00
Infrastructure Travel 1,188.82
Total Infrastructure 22,406.82
Public Relations 10,000.00
Total Program Expenses 32,406.82
Total Expense 33,175.83
Net Ordinary Income 167,516.23
Net Income 167,516.23
Statement of Financial Position - As of December 31, 2010
Dec 31, 10 Dec 31, 09 $ Change % Change
ASSETS
Current Assets
Checking/Savings
Other Expenses 587.38 121.61 465.77 383.0%
Other Income -4,464.12 -408.10 -4,056.02 -993.9%
Paypal 30,159.58 16,140.15 14,019.43 86.9%
Wells Fargo Analyzed Account 301,545.51 223,304.27 78,241.24 35.0%
Wells Fargo Savings 286,116.90 284,941.16 1,175.74 0.4%
Total Checking/Savings 613,945.25 524,099.09 89,846.16 17.1%
Accounts Receivable
Accounts Receivable 130,600.00 50,000.00 80,600.00 161.2%
Total Accounts Receivable 130,600.00 50,000.00 80,600.00 161.2%
Total Current Assets 744,545.25 574,099.09 170,446.16 29.7%
TOTAL ASSETS 744,545.25 574,099.09 170,446.16 29.7%
LIABILITIES & EQUITY
Liabilities
Current Liabilities
Credit Cards
ASF Credit Card - Phil Golucci 0.00 1,537.55 -1,537.55 -100.0%
ASF Credit Card - Paul Querna 16.45 0.00 16.45 100.0%
ASF Credit Card - Ruby 223.87 39.90 183.97 461.1%
ASF Credit Card - Erenkrantz 0.00 287.14 -287.14 -100.0%
Total Credit Cards 240.32 1,864.59 -1,624.27 -87.1%
Total Current Liabilities 240.32 1,864.59 -1,624.27 -87.1%
Total Liabilities 240.32 1,864.59 -1,624.27 -87.1%
Equity
Retained Earnings 626,337.08 363,648.74 262,688.34 72.2%
Net Income 117,967.85 208,585.76 -90,617.91 -43.4%
Total Equity 744,304.93 572,234.50 172,070.43 30.1%
TOTAL LIABILITIES & EQUITY 744,545.25 574,099.09 170,446.16 29.7%
Question: could a summary of income and expenses on a quarterly basis
be made available to the public?
AI: Jim/Melissa will take the raw data as reported and prepare graphs
for the Annual Report.
D. Secretary [Craig]
License agreements filed in December include 46 iclas, 7 cclas, and 2
grants.
The Delaware Annual Report was filed via the Corporation Service
Company's filing service.
E. Executive Vice President [Noirin]
Happy New Year! A quiet month, nothing to report.
F. Vice Chairman [Greg]
No report was submitted.
5. Additional Officer Reports
A. VP of JCP [Geir Magnusson Jr]
See Attachment 1
B. VP of Brand Management [Shane Curcuru]
See Attachment 2
C. VP of Fundraising [Serge Knystautas / Doug]
See Attachment 3
D. VP of Marketing and Publicity [Sally Khudairi / Jim]
See Attachment 4
E. VP of W3C Relations [Sam Ruby]
See Attachment 5
F. Apache Legal Affairs Committee [Sam Ruby]
See Attachment 6
G. Apache Security Team Project [Mark Cox / Greg]
See Attachment 7
H. Apache Conference Planning Project [Noirin Shirley]
See Attachment 8
No written report was submitted. Planning is underway for the
ApacheCon in Vancouver later this year.
I. Apache Infrastructure Team [Philip Gollucci / Jim]
See Attachment 9
J. Apache Travel Assistance Committee [Gavin McDonald / Geir]
See Attachment 10
6. Committee Reports
A. Apache ActiveMQ Project [Hiram Chirino / Bertrand]
See Attachment A
B. Apache Aries Project [Jeremy Hughes / Sam]
See Attachment B
C. Apache Attic Project [Gianugo Rabellino / Noirin]
See Attachment C
D. Apache Avro Project [Matt Massie / Roy]
See Attachment D
Shane likes the tm on the name.
E. Apache CXF Project [J. Daniel Kulp / Shane]
See Attachment E
F. Apache DB Project [Kristian Waagan / Noirin]
See Attachment F
G. Apache Directory Project [Alex Karasulu / Roy]
See Attachment G
H. Apache ESME Project [Richard Hirsch / Jim]
See Attachment H
I. Apache Geronimo Project [Kevan Miller / Geir]
See Attachment I
J. Apache Hadoop Project [Ian Holsman / Sam]
See Attachment J
The report indicates that changes have been made that satisfy the
board. The project is back on a quarterly reporting schedule.
K. Apache HBase Project [Michael Stack / Greg]
See Attachment K
L. Apache Hive Project [Namit Jain / Shane]
See Attachment L
M. Apache Incubator Project [Noel J. Bergman / Bertrand]
See Attachment M
Bluesky again seems to be flagging.
AI (existing) Sam: ask mentors to reassess project
N. Apache Jakarta Project [Rahul Akolkar / Doug]
See Attachment N
O. Apache JAMES Project [Norman Maurer / Jim]
See Attachment O
P. Apache Mahout Project [Sean Owen / Greg]
See Attachment P
Q. Apache Maven Project [Brian Fox / Roy]
See Attachment Q
Question: what is the Maven PMC expected to do with regard to the
ongoing issue with Sonatype?
First step: have Sonatype web site recognize Maven as an Apache
trademark.
AI Jim: arrange a meeting with Shane and Sonatype CEO Wayne Jackson
R. Apache MINA Project [Niklas Gustavsson / Doug]
See Attachment R
S. Apache MyFaces Project [Matthias Wessendorf / Geir]
See Attachment S
T. Apache Nutch Project [Andrzej Bialecki / Noirin]
See Attachment T
U. Apache ODE Project [Tammo van Lessen / Shane]
See Attachment U
V. Apache OODT Project [Chris A. Mattmann / Sam]
See Attachment V
Note: only s.apache.org should be used for URL shortening
in board reports.
W. Apache OpenEJB Project [David Blevins / Bertrand]
See Attachment W
X. Apache OpenJPA Project [Craig Russell / Sam]
See Attachment X
Question: How can we be sure that the proposed TCK license is ok?
AI Sam: discuss on legal-discuss
Y. Apache PDFBox Project [Andreas Lehmkuehler / Roy]
See Attachment Y
Z. Apache Shindig Project [Paul Lindner / Bertrand]
See Attachment Z
AA. Apache Struts Project [Martin Cooper / Noirin]
See Attachment AA
AB. Apache Tapestry Project [Howard M. Lewis Ship / Doug]
See Attachment AB
AC. Apache Tcl Project [David N. Welton / Shane]
See Attachment AC
AD. Apache Thrift Project [Bryan Duxbury / Jim]
See Attachment AD
AE. Apache Tika Project [Chris A. Mattmann / Geir]
See Attachment AE
AF. Apache Traffic Server Project [Leif Hedstrom / Greg]
See Attachment AF
AG. Apache Web Services Project [Glen Daniels / Doug]
See Attachment AG
Report is delayed until next month at Glen's request.
AH. Apache Xalan Project [David Bertoni / Noirin]
See Attachment AH
No report was submitted. Is this project attic-bound?
AI Sam: follow up and request a report next month
AI. Apache ZooKeeper Project [Patrick Hunt / Roy]
See Attachment AI
All submitted officers' and projects' board reports were approved
by general consent.
7. Special Orders
A. Establish the Apache River project
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors deems it to be in the best interests
of the Foundation and consistent with the Foundation's purpose to
establish a Project Management Committee charged with the creation and
maintenance of open-source software providing an implementing the
Jini and Java Spaces specifications, and other software that is
commonly associated with distributed Jini architectures, for
distribution at no charge to the public.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management Committee
(PMC), to be known as the "Apache River Project", be and hereby is
established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the Apache River Project be and hereby is responsible
for the creation and maintenance of software providing and implementing
the Jini and Java Spaces specifications, and other software that is
commonly associated with distributed Jini architectures, for
distribution at no charge to the public.
RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, River" 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 River Project, and
to have primary responsibility for management of the projects within
the scope of responsibility of the Apache River 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 River Project:
* Jonathan Costers (jcosters@apache.org)
* Peter Firmstone (peter_firmstone@apache.org)
* Tom Hobbs (thobbs@apache.org)
* Jim Hurley (jhurley@apache.org)
* Sim IJskes (sijskes@apache.org)
* Brian Murphy (btmurphy@apache.org)
* Robert Resendes (resendes@apache.org)
* Patricia Shanahan (pats@apache.org)
* Greg Trasuk (gtrasuk@apache.org)
* Jim Waldo (waldo@apache.org)
* Jukka Zitting (jukka@apache.org)
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Tom Hobbs be
appointed to the office of Vice President, River, to serve in
accordance with and subject to the direction of the Board of Directors
and the Bylaws of the Foundation until death, resignation, retirement,
removal or disqualification, or until a successor is appointed; and be
it further
RESOLVED, that the initial Apache River Project be and hereby is
tasked with the creation of a set of bylaws intended to encourage open
development and increased participation in the River Project; and be
it further
RESOLVED, that the initial Apache River Project be and hereby is
tasked with the migration and rationalization of the Apache Incubator
River podling; and be it further
RESOLVED, that all responsibility pertaining to the Apache Incubator
River podling encumbered upon the Apache Incubator PMC are hereafter
discharged.
This resolution was approved unanimously by roll call vote.
B. Update Travel Assistance Committee Membership
WHEREAS, the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) Board Commmittee,
known as the Apache Travel Assistance Committee expects to better
serve its purpose through the periodic update of its membership; and
WHEREAS, the Apache Travel Assistance Committee is a Board-appointed
committee whose membership must be approved by Board resolution; and
WHEREAS, the Board is in receipt of Tony Stevenson's, Ross Gardler's
and William A. Rowe Jr. resignations as member of the Apache Travel
Assistance Committee,
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the following ASF
member(s) be removed from the list of Apache Travel Assistance Committee
members:
Tony Stevenson <pctony@apache.org>
Ross Gardler <rgardler@apache.org>
William A. Rowe Jr. <wrowe@apache.org>
This resolution was approved unanimously by roll call vote.
C. Change PMC Chair for Axis Project
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Glen Daniels to
the office of Vice President, Apache Axis, and
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of
Glen Daniels from the office of Vice President, Apache Axis, and
WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Axis project has
chosen by vote to recommend Andreas Veithen as the successor to the post;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Glen Daniels is relieved and
discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice
President, Apache Axis, and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Andreas Veithen be and hereby is appointed
to the office of Vice President, Apache Axis, 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.
This resolution was approved unanimously by roll call vote.
8. Discussion Items
A. Define organizational ownership of trademark policy.
Several officers appear to have differing opinions of who sets definitive
trademark policy for the ASF.
The main issue for now is whether the VP, Trademarks or individual PMC's
are responsible for trademark policy and enforcement.
The discussion was deferred until the next meeting.
9. Review Outstanding Action Items
10. Unfinished Business
11. New Business
12. Announcements
13. Adjournment
Adjourned at 11:04am Pacific.
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ATTACHMENTS:
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Attachment 1: Report from the VP of JCP
Nothing to report other than PMO is closing down our JCP membership, and current EC
members representing the JCP are working out what they have to do w/in their PMCs and
ECs
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Attachment 2: Report from the VP of Brand Management
One board-level issue: Discussion item 8.A: trademark policy ownership.
Operations And Community
========================
Projects continue to report status on implementing Branding Requirements; we
are making good progress so far although there is still a lot of work to
complete.
Updated the draft Third Party Event Branding Policy and sought consensus
on promoting to final. Working with trademarks@ and legal-discuss@ on
expanding the Event branding policy concepts to cover domain names and
services. The primary mission of Apache is the distribution of software
products for the public good; we need to clarify what our brand and marks
policies are for other items, like services, that Apache and it's projects
may not offer directly.
Trademarks@ continues to discuss our "licensing" policy for recognizing
third party uses of our marks that we approve of. This will be an ongoing
issue for the year, both to define our branding policy, as well as to define
any potential legal agreements we choose to make.
Continuing work on private@ on followup issues related to Sonatype's
use of our Maven mark and with the PMC to understand their expectations for
our management of the Maven brand. Note that the Maven PMC's drafting of
their own trademark guidelines is one of the reasons for discussion item
8.A above.
External Requests
=================
Contacted a number of third parties about uses of Apache marks; all are either
cc:'d or bcc:'d to relevant PMC private@ lists.
Greg is working with Legal Affairs to work on the appropriate action to take
towards WANdisco's various mis-uses of our Subversion registered mark. Given
Subversion's past corporate history, Greg is taking this on as VP, Subversion,
although in the future we need to clearly document whether a PMC's VP or
VP, Brand should be driving any legal-related actions around brand.
Working with VP, Concom to finalise Event policies and issue appropriate
approvals for upcoming third party events.
External Meetings
=================
Had a call with Cloudera's CEO to discuss their use of our Hadoop mark; call
report sent to trademarks@ and private@p. They plan to comply with
our requests for renaming their CDH product, although the rebranding work
will take some time on their website.
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Attachment 3: Report from the VP of Fundraising
I realize this is tardy, but wanted to still send in a note.
SPONSORSHIP
We set up new vendor registration info with Microsoft and got the first half
of the sponsorship payment. Due to touch base with them this month to talk
more about how to work together.
We setup ACH with Google and received the extra $75k before the year's end.
Seems like we're in good shape there.
Greg had good face-to-face talks with sponsors in a trip to San Francisco.
Cloudera needed a W-9 sent along which was done.
I got yelled at by IBM corporate because of they don't want us using their
logo unless we want to spend months working out a logo-use contract with
their corporate counsel. Their official "blue lines" logo is now off the
thanks page.
HP is sending infra@ two servers at OSU. The budget is approved and my
understanding is that the hardware is currently being built, but I haven't
received the shipping tracking codes yet.
Lucid's sponsorship check arrived.
VMWare's virtualization licenses have arrived.
Facebook's gold sponsorship and most all of the bronze sponsorships are due
to be renewed and are in various states of being approached. Hope to renew
or remove from the sponsors list by next month.
DONATIONS
59 thank you letters were sent out tonight. There was a 60th donation, but
I couldn't get Firefox to Excel to Word to Acrobat to handle the Chinese
characters. :(
Again, sorry for the late notice.
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Attachment 4: Report from the VP of Marketing and Publicity
ASF MARKETING & PUBLICITY STATUS: JANUARY 2011
I. Budget: No new expenditures have been charged against the M&P budget
since November. Sally has been traveling for most of the past month and was
unable to connect with Jim to discuss the mid-year budget, but will be doing
so before the end of January.
II. Fundraising/Branding/Marketing liaison: Sally has been acting as
advocate to ConCom on behalf of a Sponsor seeking to organize a conference
based on an Apache project, and has been communicating with the Branding
team regarding continued use of an unofficial/alternate ASF logo in various
news outlets.
III. Press Releases: we issued the following press release over the PR
NewsWire service:
- 11 January The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache Cassandra 0.7
- 5 January The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache OODT as a
Top-Level Project
- 14 December The Apache Software Foundation Launches 'Apache Extras' to
Accelerate Innovation
We are finalizing the announcement for Apache Pivot v2.0, which will likely
be disseminated the week of 17 January.
IV. Informal Announcements: the following announcements were distributed to
our dedicated press/analyst list (only; not PR Newswire), as well as posted
on the ASF blog and Twitter feed:
- 3 January Apache Subversion to WANdisco: +1 on the code contributions,
-1 on the attitude.
We are continuing to highlight innovative uses of Apache products in the
"Did You Know?" Twitter campaign. Please forward any success stories to
Sally at press@.
V. Media Relations: we've been busy keeping up with reporter/staffing
transitions over the past few weeks, and have reached out to dozens of
outlets as part of our end-of-year communications. We are also establishing
the new schedule for the "Apache Asserts" blog on ComputerWorld UK as well,
with Isabel Drost coming on board as a new member of the blogging team.
VI. Analyst Relations: we litmus-tested the ASF's new themes for 2011 with
James, Cote, and Stephen of RedMonk, who enthusiastically supported our
direction. RedMonk also acted as analyst spokesperson for a press feature on
Apache OODT.
VII. ApacheCon liaison: Sally met with Charel Morris 13-16 December to
develop a strategic plan for marketing the 2011/Vancouver conference,
creating a master calendar and tactical punch-list, creating the Website
framework and copydeck, as well as developing the CFP and copy using the
ASF's themes for 2011 as the conference theme. Sally also kick-started the
planning process with the overall Planners team early January.
VIII. (Non-ASF) Industry Events and Outreach liaison:
- 23-24 March: Jim will be speaking at POSSCON in Columbia,
South Carolina.
- 25-29 July: there's a chance we'll have a presence at OSCON again;
details are being explored.
IX. PR Newswire account: we have 4 remaining pre-paid, flat-rate press
releases available through 30 April 2011. We will be purchasing an
additional pre-paid set of 10 at a deeply-discounted, non-profit rate to
allow future announcements without interruption.
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Attachment 5: Report from the VP of W3C Relations
The ASF has joined as an Initiating member the WebID Incubator. Henry Story
is representing the ASF, and has been named as (one of) the initial chair(s).
http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/webid/charter
Apache Incubator Clerezza is an implementation of WebID.
The PSIG continues to deliberate privately on the topic of the HTML5 spec
license. Saturday is the deadline for escalating bugs for Last Call
consideration, with the plan being to get HTML5 to Last Call in May.
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Attachment 6: Status report for the Apache Legal Affairs Committee
Discussions even quieter than last month, mostly in support of Trademark
discussions. Nothing requiring board attention.
A minor revision of the Amicus Brief in support of Microsoft v. i4i re:
burden of proof in invaliding trademarks is in process. Larry Rosen
continues to lead this effort.
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Attachment 7: Status report for the Apache Security Team Project
For December 2010: There continues to be a steady stream of reports
of various kinds arriving at security@. These continue to
be dealt with by the security team.
7 Support question
1 Security vulnerability question, but not a vulnerability report
3 Vulnerability reports of which:
1 Vulnerability report [infrastructure, via security@]
1 Vulnerability report [roller, via security@]
1 Vulnerability report [httpd, via security@]
Additionally, the Tomcat and HTTPD security pages were updated to expose
the date each issue was reported to the ASF and the date each issue
was public in addition to the date the issue was fixed. Vulnerability
databases and researchers find this information useful. Examples:
http://tomcat.apache.org/security-7.html
http://httpd.apache.org/security/vulnerabilities_22.html
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Attachment 8: Status report for the Apache Conference Planning Project
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Attachment 9: Status report for the Apache Infrastructure Team
Fixed all outstanding issues with the backup system.
Brought erebus online (one of the Dell's purchased last month),
to serve as our main VSphere host.
Setup a test instance of JIRA 4 in preparation for the 3.x to 4.x
upgrade.
Instituted a password policy which locks accounts for 24 hours after
10 failed login attempts. See
https://blogs.apache.org/infra/entry/ldap_and_password_policy
for details.
Brought the CMS to a feature-complete 1.x state. It is now ready
for wide-scale adoption, starting with the incubator; see
https://blogs.apache.org/infra/entry/the_asf_cms
for details.
Updated our account details with Dell.
Dealt with extended people.apache.org outage during the New Year
holiday.
Dealt with some wiki abuse reports from NERO regarding attachments.
As a result we have disabled the feature across the wiki farm.
Updated the LDAP scripts on people.apache.org to filter out redundant
entries in all "modify" operations.
RMA'd a failed drive back to Silicon Mechanics.
Promoted Daniel Shahaf to enjoy root karma on minotaur (people).
Daniel Shahaf setup our reverse ip zone master for our OSUOSL ip's
with OSUOSL's dns server slaving off that.
Specced a new JBOD array for service at about $7K.
Brought id.apache.org online (props to Ian Boston, Daniel Shahaf, and
Tony Stevenson); see
https://blogs.apache.org/infra/entry/https_id_apache_org_new
for details.
Confluence upgraded to the latest 3.x version, courtesy of Gavin McDonald.
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Attachment 10: Status report for the Apache Travel Assistance Committee
General
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TAC is going through a change, there are differing opinions within the
committee on how to sponsor events in the future. In the past this was
easy, we concentrated on the main ApacheCon events of the year and that
was it.
Now TAC needs to get to know about, choose and deal with many much smaller
events. How all this happens is not decided yet though much (sometimes
heated) debates have started things along. The proven TAC rules regarding
who/how/when we provide assistance, the application process and contained
questions etc, are all in need of adapting to the smaller and varied events,
one size fits all approach may not work for the future. I suggest we go
back to basics, take things one new event at a time and carve out a new
approach.
Membership Changes
------------------
Tony, Ross and Bill have all stepped down as TAC Committee Members.
Notifications were given to the board and a resolution provided.
We wish them all the best for the future and great thanks for their hard
work over the past 2+ years.
Budget
------
Actual Budget figures related to TAC for 2009/2010 have come through and
we are in the process of comparing those against our expected figures.
We'll contact Treasurer and EA shortly for help in this area.
We have also been tasked with coming up with a budget for the next financial
year, this will be ready shortly also.
ApacheCon NA 2010
-----------------
Well and truly over and previous reports have provided information, just
noting that we should start sending our feedback questionaires to all
attendees shortly.
Upcoming Events
---------------
As of this time, no events have been announced to TAC list so currently
nothing to prepare for.
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Attachment A: Status report for the Apache ActiveMQ Project
Community:
* The development and user lists continue to stay active.
* No new committers or PMC members added.
Development:
* Development has started on the next ActiveMQ 5.5 release.
* Prototype broker core slated for ActiveMQ 6.x is still under development.
* Apache.NMS.Stomp 1.5.0 is being readied for release.
Releases:
* Apache ActiveMQ 5.4.2
* Apache ActiveMQ CPP 3.2.4
* Apache.NMS 1.5.0
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Attachment B: Status report for the Apache Aries Project
Aries delivers a set of pluggable Java components enabling an enterprise
OSGi application programming model.
Aries graduated from the Incubator on 15th December 2010. The majority
of the items on the Incubator transfer to TLP list have been completed
but not all.
We are preparing our 0.3 release and are at the stage of removing
snapshot dependencies by working with the projects Aries depends on to
cut releases themselves. This is making good progress.
The Aries web site has now moved from Confluence to CMS. The speed to
put a page into production is much improved and very welcome.
Community update: dev@ 118 subscribers, user@ 127 subscribers. The dev@
list continues to be active with less traffic on the user@ list. No new
committers or PMC members since the December report.
There are no board level issues.
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Attachment C: Status report for the Apache Attic Project
Since the last board report, ORO, ECS and Slide are now retired.
Excalibur is in the works. No changes to the PMC. No issues requiring
board attention.
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Attachment D: Status report for the Apache Avro Project
== Avro Board Report ==
Apache Avro tm is a data serialization and RPC system.
== Releases ==
The Avro team released version 1.4.1 on October 13th, 2010. This release
included contributions from seven unique authors. It included new features
such as SASL security for socket-based RPC and support for reading Hadoop
sequence files as Avro data to MapReduce API. There were also a handful
of improvements and bug fixes across all Avro implementation languages.
== Overall Activity ==
Mailing list traffic on the developer list has averaged about 5 messages/day
since our last board report. Much of the traffic on the developer mailing list
is Jira-generated messages. Since October, there have been 60 new Jiras
opened and 35 Jiras resolved that were created by 14 unique reporters.
Mailing list traffic on the user mailing list remains
around 1-2 messages a day. Most questions on this list
pertain to Avro best practices, questions around building
a schema, etc.
== Committers and PMC members ==
There have been no changes to the Avro PMC or committers since the last
board report in October 2010.
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Attachment E: Status report for the Apache CXF Project
Releases:
2.2.12 was released
2.3.1 was released
2.3.2 is in final preparations (may be in voting by the time this report is
submitted)
New committers:
Colm O hEigeartaigh was added as a committer
Lukasz Moren was added as a committer (GSoC Success!)
Tomasz Opanovicz was added as a committer (GSoC Success!)
7 PMC members that haven't been heard from in over 2 years were marked
emeritus.
Community update:
User and dev list traffic remains pretty steady and generally questions and
issues are answered promptly.
From an "outside the Apache Community" perspective, 3 different companies
added information (to make a total of 4) about commercial support, training,
and product options to the section of the CXF support page:
http://cxf.apache.org/support.html . Not sure if that reflects possitively or
negatively. :-)
No board level issues at this time.
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Attachment F: Status report for the Apache DB Project
The Apache DB TLP consists of the following subprojects:
o DdlUtils - a small, easy-to-use component for working with Database
Definition (DDL) files.
o Derby - an open source relational database implemented entirely in Java
o JDO - focused on building the JDO API and the TCK for compatibility
testing of JDO implementations.
o ObJectRelationalBridge (OJB) - an Object/Relational mapping tool that
allows transparent persistence for Java Objects against relational
databases.
o Torque - an object-relational mapper for java.
Activities over the last quarter:
1) Asked trademarks@ for clarification on how to use a trademark
(adjective vs noun/verb). Feedback received, work on implementing the
guidelines not started.
2) The PMC voted to retire the OJB subproject and move it to the Attic.
Process in progress.
3) Project name reservations on apache-extras.org .
Community
==========
Lily Wei and Greg Monroe were added to the PMC.
No new committers since August 2010.
Traffic on the lists for Derby and JDO is steady, both have most activity
on the dev lists.
Torque has some traffic, whereas DdlUtils has very little (the PMC
discussed this issue earlier and still considers the project to be
useful).
OJB will be retired.
Releases
=======
DdlUtils: no new releases (1.0, June 2007)
Derby: feature release 10.7.1.1, December 14 2010
JDO: no new releases (3.0, April 2010)
Torque: no new releases (3.3, February 2008)
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Attachment G: Status report for the Apache Directory Project
Community
---------------
No new PMC members. One new committer (already Apache Member), Antoine
Levy Lambert, who added the delegated authentication feature.
List Subscribers:
API : 34
DEV : 173 (was 170 one year ago, 185 2 years ago)
USERS : 219 (was 189 one year ago, 145 2 years ago)
Releases
------------
None but the community is not idle preparing milestones for major
version releases.
The community has voted to change the versioning scheme we've used in
the past which was slowing us down. We've started using the Eclipse
Milestone scheme and have started work on 2.0.0-M1.
We're working on a shared-1.0.0-M1, which will include the LDAP API.
Studio 2.0.0-M1 will also be released shortly there after.
Slowdowns resulted due to the need for a full Kerberos Codec rewrite
by Emmanuel Lecharny and Kiran Ayyagari.
Various optimizations and fixes are also being done on the LDAP side
by Emmanuel.
A new ApacheDS Configuration plugin has been created by Pierre to
compliment the 2.0 ApacheDS M1 release which includes a new
configuration subsystem inside the LDAP DIT.
Miscellaneous
-------------------
There's been a great deal of refactoring and feature addition to get a
more stable ApacheDS 2.0 ready. The new release versioning scheme will
give us more flexibility over our older scheme.
Apache Project Branding requirements for all ASF marks have been
fulfilled by Stefan Seelman.
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Attachment H: Status report for the Apache ESME Project
Apache ESME's mission: Enterprise Social Messaging Environment (ESME) is a
secure and highly scalable microsharing and micromessaging platform that
allows people to discover and meet one another and get controlled access
to other sources of information, all in a business process context.
Moving to TLP:
Apache ESME graduated from the incubator last month. This is its first
report to the Board. The top level project infrastructure was set up on
December 21th, and SVN was moved on December 23. Our web-site has been
moved to the TLP position. Our website is currently Confluence-based.
We are working with INFRA to migrate to Apache CMS. We also have a
non-Apache blog [1] that we are no longer using in order to focus on our
new Apache blog [2].
We have more work to do to complete the move to a TLP, including
removing the incubation notices and making a first release as a TLP.
Releases:
none yet (as a TLP)
2010-10-09 1.1 (Incubator - last release)
Development:
It was relatively quiet during the first part of the month, as we were
awaiting our move from the incubator to become a TLP. Subsequently,
there has been lots of activity to complete TLP migration. We are currently
working on our 1.2 release.
A significant number of issues remain in Jira, postponed from the
last release. There has been some progress on these, and
a few new ones have been raised.
Community:
No changes
Issues:
No Board level issues at this time
[1] http://blog.esme.us
[2] http://blogs.apache.org/esme
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Attachment I: Status report for the Apache Geronimo Project
The community has had a very active 3 months. Activity on the dev
and user mailing lists are high. There have been multiple
releases, including releases of Geronimo Server 2.1.7 and
2.2.1. Also, the community is nearing the completion of a 3.0-M2
release which will be Java EE 6 Web Profile compatible. One new
committer was added. Also, several students have begun to
participate in the project.
RELEASES
The Geronimo community had the following releases during the last
3 months:
* Server 2.1.7, 2.2.1,
* Transaction Manager 2.2, 2.2.1, and 3.1,
* EJB 3.1,
* EL 2.2,
* JASPIC 1.1.1,
* Samples/Daytrader 2.1.7,
* Bundle Components,
* Eclipse Plugin 2.1.7 and 2.2.1.
JUGS AND CONFERENCES
A Geronimo track was held at ApacheCon NA 2010. Three Geronimo
talks were presented by Kevan Miller, Jarek Gawor, and Lennart
Jorelid.
COMMUNITY
There are 510 subscribers to the user@ mailing list and 422
subscribers to the dev@ mailing list.
Two students have started to contribute to the project. They
are being mentored by the community.
Although the makeup of the project is diverse, most of the
current development activities are coming from IBM-sponsored
employees.
NEW COMMITTERS
Viola Lu was added as a new committer.
SECURITY
No security vulnerabilities were reported during this quarter.
OTHER ISSUES AND NEWS
The project has started work to comply with the new ASF Trademark
guidelines. This work has not yet been completed.
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Attachment J: Status report for the Apache Hadoop Project
Hadoop status report for January 2011
Hadoop is a set of related tools and frameworks for creating and
managing distributed applications running on clusters of commodity
computers.
Nigel has volunteered to RM the 0.22, and it is making progress, the previous
RM stepped down due to not having enough time since the 6685 patch was not
going to make this release. Progress on 6685 has not really progressed.
Owen has volunteered to RM the 0.20.3 release, and there is discussions
about integrating the 'security' patch-set that Yahoo! is developing, that
Arun has volunteered to RM. Both of these are separate branches.
We have invited 11 new committers into the project this month, all have
accepted, are in the process of getting their accounts setup. We also had
2-3 people who the PMC felt were not ready for committership yet. There is
still a lot of discussion about what the criteria of what makes a committer,
but I think we are in a better place than before.
We are working with the brand management team about Yahoo!'s and
Cloudera's use of Hadoop's name. Both of these are showing good progress
thanks to the brand management teams hard work.
We are still having lots of discussions about future work on the 0.20 branch
this includes the security patch-set, adding append, and the 0.20.3 release
The security patch-set has it's own issues, due to it requiring some work
if it will be contributed as separate patches, and also how it the work will
be applied to the upcoming 0.22 release. (see http://s.apache.org/NfJ &
http://s.apache.org/uf for the discussions around the append branch & security
branches) there have been a couple of misunderstandings around the security
releases.
We have also started discussions about why we have so many mailing lists,
what they are used for, and the possibility of combining some of them (and
2 code bases). We have updated the website to provide better documentation.
The codebase discussion is more about moving directories around, rather than
combining them into a single one.
COMMON
Common is the shared libraries for HDFS and MapReduce.
Releases:
* None this period.
Community:
* 1123 subscribers on common-dev
* 2140 subscribers on common-user
* 1335 subscribers on general
HDFS
HDFS is a distributed file system that supports reliable replicated
storage across the cluster using a single name space.
New committers:
* 5 new committers have been added to this project.
Community:
* 33 committers
* 323 subscribers on hdfs-dev
* 525 subscribers on hdfs-user
MAPREDUCE
MapReduce is a distributed computation framework for easily writing
applications that process large volumes of data.
Releases:
* None this period.
New committers:
* 8 new committers have been added to this project.
Community:
* 35 committers
* 342 subscribers to mapreduce-dev
* 647 subscribers to mapreduce-user
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Attachment K: Status report for the Apache HBase Project
HBase is a distributed column-oriented database built on top of Hadoop
Common and Hadoop HDFS
ISSUES FOR THE BOARD's ATTENTION
None at this time.
RELEASES
We have made four release candidates for 0.90.0 since our last report
where HBase 0.90.0 is the next major HBase release to follow 0.20.0
(For more on the odd looking HBase versioning, see [1] below).
COMMITTERS
We added two new committers during this period. Gary Helmling has
been a long-time contributor and works for Trend Micro. Nicolas
Spiegelberg is at Facebook and has made many and substantial
contributions to both HBase and HDFS over the last year or so.
Our PMC voted to make committers == PMC members. All committers that
were not yet PMC members were promoted.
COMMUNITY
Big news this period was the announcement by Facebook that their
Messaging will be built on top of HBase (For example, [2]). Facebook
have been making many substantial contributions to HBase over the last
year or so.
Mailing list traffic in user is about constant with this period last
year -- ~500 mesages per month -- with spikes in September and
December where our traffic doubled over last years numbers (Its
hard to compare dev mailing list since it used conflate issues and
dev traffic since fixed).
We had a successful open hackathon at Facebook on December 13th, 2010
attended by about 30 or so folks.
St.Ack
1. http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/Hbase/HBaseVersions
2. http://highscalability.com/blog/2010/11/16/facebooks-new-real-time-messaging-system-hbase-to-store-135.html
3. http://www.meetup.com/hackathon/calendar/15597555/
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Attachment L: Status report for the Apache Hive Project
Hive status report for January 2011.
Hive is a data warehouse written on top of Hadoop. It provides SQL to
query and manage data stored in Hadoop in table and partitions and
provides a metastore to metadata information about the data stored in
hadoop.
Releases:
No new releases after 0.6.0
New committers:
No new committers since Nov.'2010
Community:
* 253 contributors (commented, filed bugs or contributed to Hive).
This was 232 at the last report time (Nov. 2010)
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Attachment M: Status report for the Apache Incubator Project
A fairly quiet month for the Incubator as a whole (individual projects have
been busy).
The Apache River project (nee' Sun JINI) has been voted to have completed
Incubation, and to seek TLP status.
Mesos, a system for sharing resources (advanced resource scheduling) between
cluster applications such as Hadoop MapReduce, HBase, MPI, and web
applications, was voted to start Incubation.
Lucene.NET is returning from Lucene to the Incubator, prepatory to seeking
TLP status.
With Joe Schaefer's help, the Incubator is starting the process of migrating
to the CMS.
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Ace
Apache ACE is a software distribution framework that allows you to centrally
manage and distribute software components, configuration data and other
artifacts to target systems. ACE started incubation on April 24th 2009.
There are currently no issues requiring board or Incubator PMC attention.
Community
* Angelo will do a talk about massive device deployment and Karl and Marcel
will be doing a tutorial about ACE in the Cloud at the upcoming EclipseCon /
OSGi DevCon.
* Some of the feedback and follow up discussions after ApacheCon have been
discussed further on the mailing list.
Software
* Quite a lot of work has gone into the new Vaadin based Web UI.
* A new, simpler launcher is being worked on by Angelo.
Licensing and other issues
* None at the moment.
Things to resolve prior to graduation
* Make sure all our dependencies are based on released artifacts.
* Make a release.
* Grow the community some more.
====
Bluesky
BlueSky did not report. There is considerble discussion on the -dev list.
Not much in the way of commits, but it does appear from the -dev list
chatter that they are starting to grow the community a bit. The growth of
on-list discussion may be a good sign.
====
Bean Validation
The community missed their December quarterly report. So, are submitting
this report in January.
Summary
The community has been active with discussions on the dev list and code
updates. A new 0.3 release has been discussed, but is not yet underway.
Community
* No new committers...
* No new PMC members...
Development
* No new releases, but a 0.3 release has been discussed.
* Work on annotations for commons-lang 3
* Many bug fixes
Project Branding
* Not started yet.
====
Celix
Celix is an implementation of the OSGi Specification in C.
Celix entered incubation on November 2, 2010.
Currently the source tree is being cleaned and correct header information is
being added. We are also looking at the project structure and how it can be
changed to get a better/simpler overview. Most important aspect is
separating the actual framework from the additional bundles.
Additionally, last December a proposal for a Celix talk was sent to, and
accepted by the EclipseCon/OSGi DevCon. This provides a great opportunity to
increase awareness and build a community.
Most important issues are:
* Add more information to the wiki (ongoing process)
* Cleanup project, rearrange structure
* Generate awareness and grow a community!
====
Chemistry
Apache Chemistry is an effort to provide an implementation of the CMIS
(Content Management Interoperability Services) specification in Java,
Python, PHP, JavaScript (and possibly other languages). Chemistry entered
incubation on April 30th, 2009.
Issues to address in the move towards graduation:
* First non-Java release (PHP, Python).
Issues for Incubator PMC or ASF Board:
* None.
Community development since the last report:
* We have 8 active committers working on three sub projects. No new
committer has been added last quarter. There are a few regular contributors
of bug reports, suggestions and patches.
* Traffic on the dev list is steady.
Project development since the last report:
* A second release of the Java subproject (OpenCMIS 0.2) is under way. A
release candidate is available.
* The Java APIs have been refined and should now be stable.
* Continued work on the draft browser binding (JSON protocol) in the
sandbox.
* The Python subproject (cmislib) is preparing for its first release
since joining the project.
* The PHP subproject (phpclient) increased coverage of the spec, refined
some of the existing functionality and updated documentation. Next steps are
to begin preparations for the first release.
====
Chukwa
Chukwa is a distributed log collection and processing system built on top of
Hadoop. Chukwa has migrated from relational database to Apache HBase 0.20.6
for data storage. New aggregation script has been built using Apache Pig
0.8 and Apache HBase 0.20.6 combination. Next steps are to begin
preparations for Chukwa 0.5 release.
====
Empire-db
Apache Empire-db is a relational database abstraction layer that allows
developers to take a more SQL-centric approach in application development
than traditional ORM frameworks. Its focus is to allow highly efficient
database operations in combination with a maximum of compile-time-safety and
DBMS independence.
Project development since the last report
Last December we have finished and published release 2.0.7 that features
some minor improvements and bug fixes. Currently we are working on release
2.1.0 with more significant improvements.
Issues to address in the move towards graduation and community development
After now being 2 and a half years in the incubator we have managed to
successfully implement and establish the Apache development and release
cycle, we have published several releases and we have received good feedback
from users who are subscribed to the dev and user lists.
However during all this time, we have still not managed to get ourselves
known to a wider audience and to get a significant amount of public
attention, most certainly due to the fact that have not managed to work on
publicity as much as on code. Also our community currently consists of only
3 active committers that are regularly contributing to the project.
For this reason questions about the future of the project and whether we
will ever be able to graduate have been raised. While the remaining active
committers are determined to continue their project commitment and to work
towards graduation it is still unclear by which measures new committers can
be won to join the project.
Hence, for the coming months answering this question and establishing the
corresponding measures should be our focus. One way of answering this
question could be to move this discussion to the dev list in order to find
out how our subscribers feel about the status of the project. Also it might
make sense to combine the user and dev lists in order to prevent subscribers
from missing information and getting them more involved in the project.
====
Imperius has been incubating since November 2007.
Imperius is a rule-based policy evaluation engine based on the CIM-SPL
language from
Distributed Management Task Force (dtmf.org).
Communication continues to be intermittent, there was some interest in the
CIM binding.
The community is not requesting new features and the project is being used
in at least a handful of projects
across both academic and commercial teams.
Things to resolve prior to graduation:
* Grow the community
* Next steps and future of Imperius at Apache.
* There has been some discussions about the possibility of not successfully
graduating from the Incubator. Hopefully, this can be resolved, soon.
====
Jena
Jena was accepted into the Apache Incubator November 2010. It is an existing
project migrating to ASF. It has a large codebase that provides a semantic
web framework in Java that implements the key W3C recommendations for the
core semantic web technologies of RDF and SPARQL.
Three most important issues to address for graduation:
* Create a code base in Apache with legal clearance.
* Migrate the existing community of developers, contributors and users to
the Apache infrastructure
* Create and communicate open project processes aligned to Apache
There are no issues for the Incubator PMC or ASF Board to address
Community development:
We have started to advertise the existence of Apache-hosted mailing lists
and the last non-Apache release included references to these lists. Traffic
on these lists has started to grow.
We are now using JIRA alongside our old issue tracker while we migrate
across.
Project development:
Project infrastructure is now set up and tested.
The last planned, non-Apache release, was done for Jena and all the related
sub-projects. This will minimise disturbance to users during code
migration.
Code migration to Apache SVN will begin when a software grant for the
majority of the codebase is received (from HP). We understand that HP is
actively working on this.
====
JSPWiki
2011 January JSPWiki Incubator status report
JSPWiki has been incubating since September 2007.
JSPWiki is a JSP-based wiki program.
A few minor bugs were fixed.
No progress in the incubation process. The project still needs to make an
official Apache release.
There have been discussions about the future of JSPWiki, considering the
long "periods of silence" and the lack of progress in the incubation
process..
Different opinions were ventilated, both positive and less positive ones
with no clear outcome.
The developer list currently has 90 subscribers; and the user
list has 190 subscribers.
====
Kitty
Kitty is a command-line based JMX administration and automation utility.
This month was primarily engaged in discussion about the roadmap of the
project.
After presenting the project to the Los Angeles Java Users Group, the
community here expressed that the utility should not only focus on Tomcat,
but should have a plugin architecture where application-specific JMX
attributes are made available by dropping in plugins in to the application.
Kitty currently doesn't have such a capability, and the kitty-dev list
agrees that Kitty should head in this direction. A document will be produced
discussing how to best achieve the modular architecture, and begin working
on adding these capabilities, beginning with Tomcat 6 and Tomcat 7 plugins.
Some small code cleanup was done, and documentation will be produce on how
to get started in developing for Kitty to promote further community
adoption.
====
Lucy
Lucy is a loose port of the Apache Lucene search engine library, written in
C and targeted at dynamic language users.
Lucy was voted into the Incubator on July 22, 2010.
Progress since the last report:
* Software grant completed.
* Assimilation of KinoSearch codebase completed (import, IP audit,
relicensing, namespace migration).
* Some dependencies with problematic licenses have been eliminated
(others remain).
* Release guide draft completed.
* ASF branding requirements mostly addressed.
* Website transition to new Apache CMS underway.
* Continuous minor developments (e.g. versioning scheme hashed out,
tutorial
refactored, miscellaneous bugfixes and improvements).
Top priorities prior to graduation:
* Disperse knowledge of codebase among developers.
* Make a release.
Issues for Incubator PMC or ASF Board:
* None at this time.
====
Mesos
Mesos is a cluster manager that provides resource sharing and isolation
across cluster applications.
Mesos entered incubation on December 23rd, 2010
This is our first report. Since entering incubation, we've done the
following:
- Filed CLAs for initial committers
- Requested user accounts for initial committers
- Got JIRA, mailing lists and SVN repository set up
Most important issues to address towards graduation:
- IP clearance
- Migrate code from GitHub to Apache SVN
- Setting up a project website with help and documentation
- Grow the user and developer community
====
Olio
Olio has been incubating since September 2008.
Olio is a web 2.0 toolkit to help developers evaluate the suitability,
functionality and performance of various web technologies by implementing a
reasonably complex application in several different technologies.
Things have been fairly quiet on both the user and developer list this
quarter.
Graduation From Incubation:
The user base is not showing growth. Since this is a test
application/workload, it is being used as such for short-term projects.
====
OpenNLP
OpenNLP is a machine learning based toolkit for the processing of natural
language text. It supports the most common NLP tasks, such as tokenization,
sentence segmentation, part-of-speech tagging, named entity extraction,
chunking, parsing, and coreference resolution. These tasks are usually
required to build more advanced text processing services.
OpenNLP entered incubation on 11/23 2010.
Since we last reported in December, we have completed the code import.
There has been a lot of activity on the dev list, and we're filling up Jira
with issues to resolve before we can release. Our users also seem to have
found the way from sourceforge to Apache, as there is also activity on the
user list.
A list of the three most important issues to address in the move towards
graduation:
* Resolve potential IP issues
* Do a release
* Establish open regression tests
====
Stanbol
Stanbol is a modular software stack and reusable set of components for
semantic content management. Stanbol just entered incubation, on
2010-11-15.
Community development:
- a group of five individuals were identified who had made substantial
contributions to Stanbol, yet were omitted from the original proposal. The
PPMC decided that, given that they intended to continue contributing, they
would vote them in as committers.
Main activities:
- imported code cleaning
- OpenCalais FISE engine added
Next steps:
- Refactor package naming
- Check build issues
- Make a first release
- Make the community grow
====
Tashi
Tashi has been incubating since September 2008.
The Tashi project aims to build a software infrastructure for cloud
computing on massive internet-scale datasets (what we call Big Data). The
idea is to build a cluster management system that enables the Big Data that
are stored in a cluster/data center to be accessed, shared, manipulated, and
computed on by remote users in a convenient, efficient, and safe manner.
Tashi has previously encompassed just the tools to manage virtual machines
using Xen and KVM, but is gaining the facility to hand out physical machines
as well.
Development activities have included:-
* fix for xen root declaration (necessary if using external kernel)
* parameterize xen root disk declaration
* implement Miha Stopar's fix to improve handoff during migration
* implement Miha Stopar and Andrew Edmond's patch to register and
unregister hosts, and improve locking of resources
* allow use of virtio disks under qemu
Richard Gass has created a branch to work on the physical machine
reservation
component (zoni-dev):-
* allow physical machine registration
* add integration with Apache web server for control
* add facilities for DNS/DHCP registration of physical resources
* make changes to Zoni DB layout (convert some tables to InnoDB)
* add initial infrastructure hardware (switch and PDU)
* demonstrate initial VM usage reports (shame-tashi)
* add logging to infrastructure hardware controllers
* add abstraction layer for hardware controllers
* add debug console to zoni
* add DNS/DHCP key creation functions
* add physical to virtual cluster manager service
* add primitive agent to keep minimal amount of machines powered
on and scale up from there
* allow zoni-cli to talk to hardware directly
The project is still working toward building a larger user and development
community. User groups have been identified in Ireland, Slovenia and Korea,
as well as at Georgia Tech. Several suggestions provided by users at those
sites have been implemented in the head.
Items to be resolved before graduation:
* Prepare and review a release candidate
* Develop community diversity (currently Intel and CMU committers)
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VXQuery
The VXQuery Project implements a standard compliant XML Query processor. It
has been in incubation since 2009-07-06.
Recent activities:
* progress is still slow due to the small team/community size and
external commitments of the current developers
Top issues before graduation:
* Build community (developer and users)
* Increase development speed
* Create a release
====
Wave
Wave a real-time communication and collaboration tool
Wave entered incubation on December 12, 2010.
We're currently in the process of moving to Apache infrastructure. Mailing
lists and continuous build have moved, source, issues and documentation has
not. On the technical side, the Wave in a Box system needs completed
persistence and search/indexing implementations, import from Google Wave,
and improvements to protocols and documentation thereof.
Most important issues are:
* Build website and wiki on apache.org
* Move source and issue tracking to apache.org
* Finish implementation of major outstanding items: persistence,
search/indexing, protocols
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Attachment N: Status report for the Apache Jakarta Project
Jakarta status report, January 2011. There are no issues requiring board
attention at this time.
* General
We completed the moves of two subprojects to the Apache Attic: Jakarta ECS
and Jakarta ORO.
Few improvements were made to the website, including the Jakarta news feed,
by sebb.
We added one new PMC member, Milamber. Martin Cooper withdrew from the PMC.
* Releases
- None
* Subproject news
* BCEL
One new issue reported, no other activity.
* BSF
No notable activity this quarter.
* Cactus
Small number of posts to the user list and a thread about the Gump build on
the dev list.
* JCS
Some user list and tracker activity, one new issue reported.
* JMeter
Healthy activity on the user list as well as in development and bug fixes.
Sizeable number of new issues opened in the tracker (25+), including a few
with patches from users.
* Regexp
No notable activity this quarter.
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Attachment O: Status report for the Apache JAMES Project
=== JAMES Status Report: Jan 2011 ===
The Apache JAMES Project delivers a rich set of open source modules
and libraries, written in Java, related to internet mail which build
into an advanced enterprise mail server.
ISSUES
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
CURRENT ACTIVITY
We are currently in the cycles to prepare stuff for the next
milestones for Apache James Server (3.0-M3), Apache James Mailbox
(0.2-M2), Apache James Imap (0.2-M2). Beside this Oleg started to
cleanup stuff for the next major release of Apache James Mime4J (0.7)
and Stefano started a discussion about what to change for the next
version of the mailet-api.
COMMUNITY
There are no new Committers or PMC Members. Anyway we received some
patches from contributers which were applied.
We will keep an eye on this to see if someone is ready for
committership during the next period.
The mailinglist got some more traffic again, we hope to see futher
increasing activity in the future.
RELEASES
We did the following releases during this period:
* Apache James Server 3.0-M1
* Apache James Server 3.0-M2
* Apache James Mime4J 0.6.1
* Apache James Protocols 1.2
* Apache James Protocols 1.3
TRADEMARKS / BRANDING
We did not tackle this yet. Anyway Manuel volunteered to make it
happen in the next quarter.
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Attachment P: Status report for the Apache Mahout Project
ISSUES
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
CURRENT ACTIVITY
Apache Mahout released version 0.4 on October 31, 2010. 0.4 included changes
related to 153 issues, summarized here:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT/fixforversion/12314396
It continues to change significantly and across the board, though a certain
consistent scope and identity is confirming itself at this stage. It is
a Java-based scalable data mining library that currently has much of its
implementation based on Apache Hadoop 0.20.x. It currently covers, primarily,
collaborative filtering, clustering, classification, frequent itemset mining,
and some related and supporting algorithms.
The project expects to continue with an 0.5 release around May 2011.
The 57 issues to date that are resolved or are being worked on for 0.5 are:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?pid=12310751
&fixfor=12315255
After that, we believe, will be a 1.0 release. From 0.5, the focus will
change to making the code base stable and 1.0-ready.
MAHOUT IN ACTION
The book "Mahout in Action", published by Manning, has been completed and
will be published in February 2011.
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Attachment Q: Status report for the Apache Maven Project
* General Information
Work continues both on Maven 3.x and various plugins and shared
components as seen in the list below. Maven 3.x is continuing to
follow a fairly regular 6 week release cycle.
Last month, the board asked the PMC several questions:
1) is the "Maven" name for the project important to the PMC (as a
whole), or not?
2) we need the PMC to take point on addressing third party uses of
the Maven mark
3) Maven Central needs clarification: what the heck is it, who
technically runs it and how it fits into the Maven community's
ecosystem.
The answer to #1 is yes.
In response to #2, The PMC has recently been discussing a trademark
policy to cover the use of Maven and MVN in products and services
related to our project and community. This work is still ongoing,
but the intent is to finalize and publish the initial version of
our policy soon.
In response to #3, Maven Central is a repository of Open Source
artifacts stored in the Maven 2 layout. This is the default
repository used by Maven to retrieve dependencies at build
time. Think of it along the same lines of an RPM repository for
Linux.
We have been discussing ownership and management of Maven Central.
I had done some digging and reviewing of the project charter and
initial discussions around the time of the Maven project creation.
I came to the conclusion that the repository was never specifically
in the scope of the PMC, although historically members of the PMC
were managing it. There is some disagreement with my position at
this time and we will continue to work through it.
We also had various discussions about dependencies and their
projects moving from Codehaus to Sonatype and/or Eclipse.
Specifically the projects of concern are Modello, Plexus and
Aether. The first two have historically been developed primarily by
Maven Developers and consumed by Maven.
What happens inside external projects is not within the scope of
this PMC, although it is appropriate for us to monitor key
dependencies in case they are no longer appropriate for us to use
or otherwise become unavailable to us. No specific action has been
undertaken by the PMC for any of these projects at this time.
* PMC Member Changes
Wayne Fay (added January 14th, 2011) - Wayne has been around on
the user lists for years providing support.
Jason van Zyl (resigned January 5th, 2011)
* New Committers
Wayne Fay (January 14th, 2011)
* Releases
* Maven 3.0.1 (Friday, November 26th, 2010)
* Maven 3.0.2 (Wednesday, January 12th, 2011)
* Plugins
* Maven Site Plugin 3.0-beta-3 for maven 3 (Thursday, October 21th, 2010)
* Maven Archetype Plugin 2.0 (Thursday, October 28th, 2010)
* Maven WAR Plugin 2.1.1 (Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010)
* Maven Enforcer Plugin 1.0 (Monday, November 8th, 2010)
* Maven Linkcheck Plugin 1.1 (Saturday, November 13th, 2010)
* Maven Site Plugin 2.2 (Sunday, November 28th, 2010)
* Maven Project Info Reports Plugin 2.3 (Saturday, December 11th, 2010)
* Maven Surefire Plugin 2.7 (Sunday, December 19th, 2010)
* Maven Project Info Reports Plugin 2.3.1 (Tuesday, December 21th, 2010)
* Maven Surefire Plugin 2.7.1 (Sunday, December 26th, 2010)
* Maven Doap Plugin 1.1 (Saturday, January 15th, 2011)
* Other
* Maven Parent 17 (Monday, November 8th, 2010)
* Maven Doxia Tools 1.2 (Saturday, November 13th, 2010)
* Maven Wagon 1.0-beta-7 (Wednesday, November 17th, 2010)
* Maven Doxia 1.1.4 (Friday, November 19th, 2010)
* Maven Doxia Sitetools 1.1.4 (Friday, November 19th, 2010)
* Maven Doxia Tools shared component 1.3 (Wednesday, November 24th, 2010)
* Apache Parent 8 (Monday, November 29th, 2010)
* Maven Parent 18 (Monday, November 29th, 2010)
* apache-source-release-assembly-descriptor 1.0.3 (Monday, November 29th, 2010)
* Maven Indexer 3.1.0 (Monday, November 29th, 2010)
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Attachment R: Status report for the Apache MINA Project
Releases
--------
Since the last board report, two minor releases (2.0.1, 2.0.2) of MINA
has been completed.
The SSHD subproject released 0.5.0.
Community
---------
* No change to committers or PMC since the last report.
* Subscribers on the mailing lists are fairly stable:
users : 396 (was 365 3 months ago, 338 one year ago, 258 2 years ago)
dev : 357 (was 351 3 months ago, 363 one year ago)
Development
-----------
* MINA mostly focused on bug fixing with new releases coming out as needed.
* Vysper has seen some renewed interest with several new features implemented.
* FtpServer and SSHD development has been slow
Project branding
-----------
We have updated our sites and metadata according to the checklist and
believe to be compliant:
* Project Website Basics : completed
* Project Naming And Descriptions : completed
* Website Navigation Links : completed
* Trademark Attributions : completed
* Logos and Graphics : completed
* Project Metadata : completed
Issues
------
No board level issues at this time.
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Attachment S: Status report for the Apache MyFaces Project
MyFaces Quarterly Report January 2011
= Summary =
* No community changes
* New releases
* Discussions
= Community =
* No new committers...
* No new PMC members...
= Releases =
* MyFaces (sub) projects with new releases since the last report:
* MyFaces Core 2.0.3 (TCK passed)
* MyFaces Commons 1.0.1
* MyFaces Extensions CDI 0.9.1
* MyFaces Extensions CDI 0.9.0
* MyFaces Extensions Validator 2.0.4
* MyFaces Extensions Validator 1.1.4
* MyFaces Extensions Validator 1.2.4
* MyFaces Tomahawk 1.1.10
* MyFaces Tobago 1.0.31
* MyFaces Tobago 1.0.32
* MyFaces Site Skin 2
= Milestones =
= Misc =
* In December 2008 the PMC voted Matthias Wessendorf to be the PMC chair.
At that time we also evaluated the change to rotate that hat, but a mail
thread in December 2010 showed that Matthias will continue to be the
PMC chair.
* Apache MyFaces PMC decided to create a twitter accout (@MyFacesTeam)
* We started using apache-extras.org for code examples and integration tests
* A few Trinidad releases are on the vote.
= Discussions =
* We had a discussion about our release process and as result moved MyFaces
to the latest apache-parent maven pom. This ensures that we meet the source
release requirements accorded within the ASF.
* As side effect we now also use the Nexus based staging process.
= Project Branding =
* Not started yet.
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Attachment T: Status report for the Apache Nutch Project
Report for the Apache Nutch project: January 2011
There are no board level issues at this point in time.
Releases:
Work progresses on the 2.0 Nutch branch which integrates Gora to provide
backend independence, allowing Nutch to store its content in HBase, MySQL,
HSQL and Cassandra. We are currently focusing on the testing phase, and
trying to benchmark 2.0 compared to the 1.x series.
There has been some desire for patches and updates to the 1.x and we are
considering rolling a 1.3 release. If this comes to pass, Chris Mattmann has
volunteered to RM the release.
Community:
No new PMC members or committers were elected in this quarter. Otis
Gospodnetic decided to go Emeritus from the PMC, and the board has
ACK-ed.
Mailing list activity is steady, alternating between folks using Nutch 1.x,
and those bleeding-edgers who are using the 2.0 trunk.
Chris Mattmann gave a talk at ApacheCon NA on Nutch titled
"Lessons Learned in the Development of a Web-scale Search Engine:
Nutch2 and beyond".
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Attachment U: Status report for the Apache ODE Project
== 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 ✔
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Attachment V: Status report for the Apache OODT Project
Apache OODT was made a TLP at the November 17, 2010 board
meeting. This is the second of three initial monthly reports
before moving to Quarterly in March 2011.
Releases
-------------
Work continues towards the 0.2 release. Paul Ramirez
volunteered [1] to RM this release. Currently we have about 44
resolved issues [2]. We expect to put out the 0.2 release likely
in the next month. One of the big things in this release will
hopefully be the ability to push out to the Python Package Index
(PyPI) [3], and also we are looking at how to deal with getting the
OODT jars out to Maven Central as well.
Press
---------
Chris Mattmann and Dan Crichton and Sally Khudairi and Brian Knosp
put out 2 OODT TLP press releases, one at the ASF [4] and one at the
JPL science and technology website [5], which was picked up by the
NASA.gov main technology website [6] and a number of other outlets. For
instance, InformationWeek [7] ran a story, as did the sdtimes [8] and (w00t!),
Slashdot [9]! We've received tons of feedback and interest in the project
since the releases went out. Thanks everyone!
Community
----------------
We haven't elected any new committers or PMC members in this month since
the last report.
We've had some new lurkers on the dev@ and user@ mailing lists, especially
since the press release, and there are still steady contributions heading
in including a test report and bug fix from a new user picking up the
software for the first time [10]. We've also had some discussion and momentum
on generating some training videos that we can post up on our site [11].
[1] http://s.apache.org/1OB
[2] http://s.apache.org/tw
[3] http://s.apache.org/eE
[4] http://s.apache.org/WPL
[5] http://scienceandtechnology.jpl.nasa.gov/newsandevents/newsdetails/?NewsID=1134
[6] http://www.nasa.gov/topics/technology/features/apache20110104.html
[7] http://s.apache.org/pD
[8] http://s.apache.org/pL
[9] http://it.slashdot.org/story/11/01/08/1544204/Apache-To-Steward-NASA-Built-Middleware
[10] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OODT-110
[11] http://s.apache.org/Auu
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Attachment W: Status report for the Apache OpenEJB Project
OpenEJB 3.1.3 was released in late October and contained a decent amount of
improvements and new features. Perhaps too much. This was largely due to the
gap between the previous release and overall the project decided more
diligence in releasing more often was a priority. OpenEJB 3.1.4 was released
in late November. Discussions on a 3.1.5 have started. Things look much
improved in release frequency for 3.1.x.
The 3.2.x codebase has yet to be released in any form. There is still some
active and unstable development on that branch with regards to Tomcat 7
support and OpenWebBeans integration, both required for Web Profile
certification. Good progress has been made in those two areas particularly in
the last month. Hopefully release work will start over the next quarter.
There are many anxious users.
Community remains active. Many of the committers added last quarter still
actively participate which is good as sometimes people become demotivated once
they cross that "finish line". We've been lucky enough to have two different
people file CLAs for access to contribute to the docs. Both random users with
no prior interest shown in contribution. No docs have been produced yet, but
we read the interest as a good sign. A sign we need more docs, but that
there's too much value for users to switch to another solution and the project
is perceived as open enough that contribution is possible.
The Nabble issues reported last quarter have been largely resolved. What was
previously an OpenEJB "category" that held two forums, dev and user, was
automatically converted on one of their many internal upgrades to a full forum
that simply didn't point anywhere so posted questions stayed on Nabble and
were perceived as ignored. We responded to all posts that were in this forum
explaining the issue and were able to switch the forum back to a category.
Other projects who are setup in Nabble, either by themselves or by Nabble,
should review their setup as this likely happened across the board.
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Attachment X: Status report for the Apache OpenJPA Project
There are no items requiring board attention at this time.
Highlights
The OpenJPA web presence was evaluated with regard to the trademark
and branding requirements. Most of the requirements are already met,
with the exception of direct "sponsor", "thanks", and "security" links.
There are links to the Apache sponsor, thanks, and security pages but
these are linked by the OpenJPA sponsor, thanks, and security pages.
The trickiest issue is that OpenJPA is introduced as "a Java persistence
project" which is a noun, not an adjective. This will need to be changed to
"The Apache OpenJPA project is a Java persistence project".
We have identified a volunteer to migrate the existing Confluence-based
web tool to the Apache CMS, and the changes with regard to trademark and
branding will be done concurrent with the migration.
Community
A new JSR for JPA was just posted to the JCP web site.
http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=338
The terms of the sample TCK appear to be similar to the previous versions
which are acceptable for use by Apache projects.
New committers were voted into the project: Jody Grassel and Heath Thomann.
Mailing lists continue to be very active, with close to 230 messages
per month on the dev alias and approximately 110 messages per
month on the users alias.
OpenJPA email subscriptions are stable at approximately 150 subscribers to dev
and 240 to users.
Governance
We continue to monitor contributors for possible committers and committers
for PMC members.
Releases
A branch 2.1.x has been created in preparation for a maintenance release
2.1 early in 2011.
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Attachment Y: Status report for the Apache PDFBox Project
Apache PDFBox is an open source Java PDF library for working with PDF documents.
General Comments
----------------
There are no issues that require Board attention.
Community
---------
There is a steady stream of contributions and bug reports from the
community. No new committers or PMC Members were added.
Releases
--------
- PDFBox 1.3.1 was released on October 26, 2010
- PDFBox 1.4.0 was released on December 20, 2010
Development:
------------
The development on the next release just started. We are currently
working on
- a signing interface (thanks to Thomas Chojecki for the contribution and
to Adam Nichols for the effort to integrate the code)
- a better font handling to improve text extraction and rendering
Project Branding Requirements
-----------------------------
Done
====
- Project Website Basics
- Project Metadata
- Other Trademark Guidelines
In progress
===========
- Project Naming And Descriptions
- Trademark Attributions
- Website Navigation Links
- Logos And Graphics
- Powered By... Logos
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Attachment Z: Status report for the Apache Shindig Project
Apache Shindig is an Opensocial Reference implementation in wide use by
both social networks and enterprise software.
The Shindig PMC has no issues that require board attention
COMMUNITY
No new committers voted in this quarter.
Codebase remains in active development with contributions from
many individuals. We anticipate that some of the new contributors
will make good committers/PMC members.
Shindig is being used as the testbed for many upcoming features of
OpenSocial 2.0.
RELEASES
* 2.0.2 maintenance release shipped November 1, 2010.
* 3.0.0 release planned for Q1, 2011.
BRANDING
Some work started on meeting the guidelines. (DOAP, Links, etc.)
More needs to be done. Expect to complete this quarter.
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Attachment AA: Status report for the Apache Struts Project
In December, the Struts team released Struts 2.2.1.1 as GA, primarily
to address a reported XSRF issue. We also released Struts Master 8, a
Maven POM update, to pick up changes from the ASF master POM.
As part of the Apache Extras initiative, the Struts team has
registered several names, viz Struts, Struts 1, Struts 2, S2, WebWork,
and XWork.
There have been a couple of questions around the contribution of web
site translations from the community. We are unaware of any ASF policy
around this, and have been addressing the enquiries on a case by case
basis.
Two new committers joined the team this quarter, namely Maurizio
Cucchiara (mcucchiara) and John Lindal (account creation pending).
There were no changes to the PMC.
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Attachment AB: Status report for the Apache Tapestry Project
Tapestry is a component-oriented web framework for Java.
Branding requirements implementation progress:
- 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, License and Security links are missing [PARTIAL]
- Trademark Attributions: attribution for all ASF marks included in
footers, etc. [OK]
- Logos and Graphics: include TM, use consistent product logo on your site:
TM missing [PARTIAL]
- Project Metadata: DOAP file checked in and up to date It's still
referencing Tapestry 4, need to update that. [PARTIAL]
We've had a series of beta releases for Tapestry: 5.2.2, 5.2.3 (which was
voted down due to a problem), and 5.2.4. 5.2.4 was voted up as a GA release
on December 16th; the first GA release is almost 18 months.
A live demo of Tapestry is now available at
http://tapestry.zones.apache.org:8180/tapestry5-hotel-booking/signin
We have deployed the new and improved web site, which is authored in
Confluence and exported as a static web site. This includes a brand new and
improved logo. In addition, we've had much community work
(by non-committers, but with CLAs, and therefore access to Confluence)
organizing and rewriting the documentation.
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Attachment AC: Status report for the Apache Tcl Project
Not a great deal new to report. Some various bits and pieces were
contributed to Rivet, such as some RPM's, and Massimo is planning a
new version of Rivet.
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Attachment AD: Status report for the Apache Thrift Project
Thrift is a framework for providing cross-platform RPC and serialization.
Community
We have not added any new committers this month.
Releases
We are currently iterating on a second release candidate of Thrift 0.6. Some
contentious backwards compatibility issues in the Java library arose at the
last second.
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Attachment AE: Status report for the Apache Tika Project
Releases
=========================
We've made our 0.8 release [1] in November 2010. It's been
a long time coming, and there were over 98 JIRA issues [2]
addressed in the release. Work progresses towards a patch
release (either 0.8.1 or 0.9) and Chris Mattmann plans to RM
it and roll a release candidate hopefully in the next month.
This release should fix a number of smaller issues found after
folks have upgraded to 0.8.
Community
=========================
We added Maxim Valyanskiy to Tika PMC in November 2010 [3].
Chris Mattmann gave a talk on Tika titled Scientific Data
Curation and Processing with Apache Tika [4] at ApacheCon NA
in November 2010 during the Lucene and friends session. The
morning talk was well attended and it was great to finally meet
everyone in person!
Tika In Action
==========================
Chris Mattmann and Jukka Zitting are writing a Manning book
called "Tika in Action", and it is progressing steadily. We
completed our 2/3 book review and Chapters 1-8 of the book are
now available [5] through Manning's Early Access Program or MEAP.
[1] http://s.apache.org/W1Dh
[2] http://s.apache.org/73R
[3[ http://s.apache.org/dj0
[4] http://s.apache.org/2ak
[5] http://www.manning.com/mattmann/
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Attachment AF: Status report for the Apache Traffic Server Project
Apache Traffic Server is an HTTP proxy server and cache, similar to Squid
in functionality and features.
Issues
======
There are no issues that needs the boards attention.
Community
=========
Igor Galic has joined the Traffic Server PMC. Activity on mailing lists
is very good, and the community is still seeing a slow, but healthy,
growth. Several community members are actively working towards including
Apache Traffic Server in various Linux distributions.
Releases
========
The community has produced two releases since our last report:
v2.1.4 - Primarily a large bug fix release
v2.1.5 - Many Bug fixes and several new features (see below)
Version 2.1.5 adds several new interesting features, including
- WCCP v2 (experimental)
- Per transaction overridable configurations
- IPv6 has finally landed (for client connections)
- Much better (consistent) 64-bit support, particularly in the plugin
SDK APIs.
Some of the changes made in the v2.1.5 (and upcoming v2.1.6) release makes
it incompatible with earlier releases. Therefore, the community has
decided that the next major, stable release will be v3.0. The expectation
is that we'll do at least one more developer release (v2.1.6) before v3.0.
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Attachment AG: Status report for the Apache Web Services Project
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Attachment AH: Status report for the Apache Xalan Project
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Attachment AI: Status report for the Apache ZooKeeper Project
ZooKeeper is a reliable coordination service for distributed
applications.
The work of moving us to TLP has been underway for the past two
months, an umbrella JIRA is available for tracking progress:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ZOOKEEPER-940
Over the last month significant progress has been made in porting our
legacy site to the new location http://zookeeper.apache.org/ This
work, along with moving all of the wiki pages, is still in progress.
There is also active discussion on bylaws, a WIP draft can be found
here:
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/ZOOKEEPER/ZooKeeperBylawsProposal
Releases:
* 3.3.2 fix release on November 11th.
Two releases are in progress, near term (Q1) a 3.3.3 fix release, and
longer term 3.4.0 feature release.
New committers:
None. However this issue has been under active discussion for the past
several months. Once the initial TLP related work is completed we will
be officially considering a number of new committers (contributors we've
been actively mentoring).
Community:
* 6 active committers
* 5 PMC members representing 2 unique organizations
* 185 subscribers on dev
* 384 subscribers on user
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