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Board of Directors Meeting Minutes
May 16, 2012
1. Call to order
The meeting was scheduled for 10:00am (Pacific) and began at
10:04 when a sufficient attendance to constitute a quorum was
recognized by the chairman. The meeting was held via
teleconference, hosted by Doug Cutting and Cloudera.
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 joined at 10:37
Jim Jagielski
Daniel Kulp
Brett Porter
Sam Ruby
Greg Stein joined at 10:14
Directors Absent:
none
Executive Officers Present:
Noirin Plunkett
Craig L Russell
Executive Officers Absent:
none
Guests:
Gavin McDonald
Hadrian Zbarcea
3. Minutes from previous meetings
Published minutes can be found at:
http://www.apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html
A. The meeting of April 18, 2012
See: board_minutes_2012_04_18.txt
Approved by General Consent.
4. Executive Officer Reports
A. Chairman [Doug]
The annual members meeting will be held next week. Nominations
are complete for both new members and for the new board. This is
the last meeting of the current board. Thanks to all of you for
your service!
B. President [Jim]
Happy to report that the budget is ready for approval; all issues and
questions have been addressed in this latest revision.
I have been asked to attend a full-day meeting in Rockville, MD at the
National Cancer Institute (NCI) regarding their Cancer Biomedical
Informatics GridR (caBIGR) Open Development Initiative (ODI). This
opportunity was the result of my talks at POSSCON. I've also accepted
a request to speak at the NASA Open Source Summit.
I have been re-appointed to a 2year term as director of OuterCurve.
This coincides with my re-appointment at OSI. I anticipate, as before,
no conflicts.
I have provided a number of quotes for ASF PRs, most regarding Apache
OpenOffice. I've also been in contact with SourceForge, thanking them
for their help with the AOOo distribution as well as other potential
areas of cooperation.
My thanks go to this current board. The foundation is running well.
C. Treasurer [Sam]
No report was received. Sam made a verbal report: Last month,
contractors all were paid, and two bills were paid. Would like
to make Noirin assistant treasurer with the idea to become
treasurer. Details to follow.
D. Secretary [Craig]
April was a normal month for secretary, with 58 ICLAs, one NDA, four CCLAS,
and one grant filed. Eight account requests were made during the processing
of incoming ICLAs.
E. Executive Vice President [Noirin]
No report was submitted.
F. Vice Chairman [Greg]
There is nothing particular to report/advise at the moment.
Over the past month, my Vice Chairman hat has been observed
with a bit of Fundraising and a bit of conference support for
Apache BarCamp DC.
Executive officer reports approved as submitted by General Consent.
5. Additional Officer Reports
A. VP of Brand Management [Shane Curcuru]
See Attachment 1
B. VP of Fundraising [Upayavira / Shane]
See Attachment 2
C. VP of Marketing and Publicity [Sally Khudairi / Bertrand]
See Attachment 3
D. VP of W3C Relations [Sam Ruby]
See Attachment 4
E. Apache Legal Affairs Committee [Sam Ruby]
See Attachment 5
F. Apache Security Team Project [Mark Cox / Doug]
See Attachment 6
G. Apache Conference Planning Project [Nick Burch / Greg]
See Attachment 7
H. Apache Infrastructure Team [Sam Ruby]
See Attachment 8
I. Apache Travel Assistance Committee [Gavin McDonald / Roy]
See Attachment 9
Additional officer reports approved as submitted by General Consent.
6. Committee Reports
A. Apache Abdera Project [Ant Elder / Sam]
No report was submitted.
AI: Sam to pursue a report for Abdera
B. Apache Accumulo Project [Billie Rinaldi / Daniel]
See Attachment B
C. Apache Ant Project [Conor MacNeill / Brett]
See Attachment C
D. Apache Attic Project [Gianugo Rabellino / Jim]
No report was submitted.
E. Apache Buildr Project [Alex Boisvert / Sam]
See Attachment E
F. Apache BVal Project [Matt Benson / Roy]
See Attachment F
G. Apache C++ Standard Library Project [Jim Jagielski]
See Attachment G
Jim provided a verbal report: No activity on dev mailing list;
nothing substantial on the private mailing list. Some folks
expressed interest in continuing the project but are unwilling
to submit ICLAs. The project is headed for the attic if
nothing changes.
H. Apache Cassandra Project [Jonathan Ellis / Greg]
See Attachment H
AI: Greg: ask for some more details
I. Apache Click Project [Malcolm Edgar / Shane]
See Attachment I
J. Apache Cocoon Project [Simone Tripodi / Bertrand]
See Attachment J
K. Apache Community Development Project [Ross Gardler / Daniel]
See Attachment K
L. Apache Continuum Project [Emmanuel Venisse / Doug]
See Attachment L
M. Apache CouchDB Project [Jan Lehnardt / Brett]
See Attachment M
N. Apache Creadur Project [Robert Burrell Donkin / Jim]
No report was submitted.
No report was submitted. Will report next month.
O. Apache Empire-db Project [Francis De Brabandere / Daniel]
See Attachment O
P. Apache Forrest Project [David Crossley / Brett]
See Attachment P
Q. Apache Gora Project [Lewis John McGibbney / Doug]
See Attachment Q
R. Apache HTTP Server Project [Eric Covener / Jim]
See Attachment R
S. Apache HttpComponents Project [Asankha Perera / Sam]
See Attachment S
T. Apache Incubator Project [Jukka Zitting / Roy]
See Attachment T
AI: Jim ask deltaspike to get their web site organized
U. Apache James Project [Norman Maurer / Bertrand]
See Attachment U
V. Apache Jena Project [Andy Seaborne / Greg]
See Attachment V
W. Apache jUDDI Project [Kurt Stam / Shane]
See Attachment W
X. Apache Lenya Project [Richard Frovarp / Daniel]
See Attachment X
Y. Apache Libcloud Project [Tomaz Muraus / Shane]
See Attachment Y
Z. Apache Logging Project [Curt Arnold / Sam]
See Attachment Z
AA. Apache Lucy Project [Peter Karman / Roy]
See Attachment AA
AB. Apache OpenNLP Project [Joern Kottmann / Greg]
See Attachment AB
AC. Apache Perl Project [Philippe M. Chiasson / Bertrand]
See Attachment AC
AD. Apache POI Project [Yegor Kozlov / Jim]
See Attachment AD
AE. Apache Qpid Project [Carl Trieloff / Brett]
See Attachment AE
AF. Apache Rave Project [Matt Franklin / Doug]
See Attachment AF
AG. Apache River Project [Tom Hobbs / Greg]
See Attachment AG
AH. Apache Roller Project [Dave Johnson / Brett]
See Attachment AH
AI. Apache Santuario Project [Colm O hEigeartaigh / Bertrand]
See Attachment AI
AJ. Apache Sqoop Project [Arvind Prabhakar / Shane]
See Attachment AJ
AK. Apache Subversion Project [Greg Stein]
See Attachment AK
AL. Apache Turbine Project [Thomas Vandahl / Daniel]
See Attachment AL
AM. Apache Tuscany Project [Luciano Resende / Roy]
See Attachment AM
AN. Apache Velocity Project [Nathan Bubna / Doug]
See Attachment AN
AO. Apache Web Services Project [Glen Daniels / Sam]
See Attachment AO
AP. Apache Xalan Project [David Bertoni / Jim]
See Attachment AP
AQ. Apache Xerces Project [Michael Glavassevich / Brett]
See Attachment AQ
AR. Apache XML Graphics Project [Chris Bowditch / Sam]
See Attachment AR
AS. Apache XMLBeans Project [Cezar Andrei / Doug]
No report was submitted.
AI: Greg to pursue a report for XMLBeans
Committee reports approved as submitted by General Consent.
7. Special Orders
A. Change the Apache James Project Chair
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Norman Maurer
to the office of Vice President, Apache James, and
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation
of Norman Maurer from the office of Vice President, Apache James,
and
WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache James
project has chosen by vote to recommend Eric Charles as the successor
to the post;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Norman Maurer is relieved and
discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office
of Vice President, Apache James, and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Eric Charles be and hereby is
appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache James, to
serve in accordance with and subject to the direction of the
Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until
death, resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification, or
until a successor is appointed.
Special Order 7A, Change the Apache James Project Chair, was
approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
B. Establish the Apache Hama Project
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors deems it to be in the best
interests of the Foundation and consistent with the Foundation's
purpose to establish a Project Management Committee charged with
the creation and maintenance of open-source software, for
distribution at no charge to the public, related to a distributed
computing framework based on the Bulk Synchronous Parallel model.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management
Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Apache Hama Project",
be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the
Foundation; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the Apache Hama Project be and hereby is
responsible for the creation and maintenance of software
related to a distributed computing framework based on
the Bulk Synchronous Parallel model; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache Hama" 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 Hama Project, and to have primary responsibility
for management of the projects within the scope of
responsibility of the Apache Hama 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 Hama Project:
* ChiaHung Lin <chl501@apache.org>
* Thomas Jungblut <tjungblut@apache.org>
* Edward J. Yoon <edwardyoon@apache.org>
* Suraj Menon <surajsmenon@apache.org>
* Tommaso Teofili <tommaso@apache.org>
* Steve Loughran <stevel@apache.org>
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Edward J. Yoon
be appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Hama, 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 Hama PMC be and hereby is
tasked with the creation of a set of bylaws intended to
encourage open development and increased participation in the
Apache Hama Project; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the Apache Hama Project be and hereby
is tasked with the migration and rationalization of the Apache
Incubator Hama podling; and be it further
RESOLVED, that all responsibilities pertaining to the Apache
Incubator Hama podling encumbered upon the Apache Incubator
Project are hereafter discharged.
Special Order 7B, Establish the Apache Hama Project, was
approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
C. Establish the Apache MRUnit Project
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors deems it to be in the best
interests of the Foundation and consistent with the Foundation's
purpose to establish a Project Management Committee charged with
the creation and maintenance of open-source software, for
distribution at no charge to the public, related to unit testing
Apache Hadoop map reduce jobs.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management
Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Apache MRUnit Project",
be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the
Foundation; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the Apache MRUnit Project be and hereby is
responsible for the creation and maintenance of software
related to unit testing Apache Hadoop map reduce jobs;
and be it further
RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache MRUnit" 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 MRUnit Project, and to have primary responsibility
for management of the projects within the scope of
responsibility of the Apache MRUnit 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 MRUnit Project:
* Brock Noland <brock@apache.org>
* Patrick Hunt <phunt@apache.org>
* Nigel Daley <nigel@apache.org>
* Eric Sammer <esammer@apache.org>
* Aaron Kimball <kimballa@apache.org>
* Konstantin Boudnik <cos@apache.org>
* Garrett Wu <gwu@apache.org>
* Jim Donofrio <jdonofrio@apache.org>
* Jarek Jarcec Cecho <jarcec@apache.org>
* Dave Beech <dbeech@apache.org>
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Brock Noland
be appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache MRUnit, 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 MRUnit PMC be and hereby is
tasked with the creation of a set of bylaws intended to
encourage open development and increased participation in the
Apache MRUnit Project; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the Apache MRUnit Project be and hereby
is tasked with the migration and rationalization of the Apache
Incubator MRUnit podling; and be it further
RESOLVED, that all responsibilities pertaining to the Apache
Incubator MRUnit podling encumbered upon the Apache Incubator
Project are hereafter discharged.
Special Order 7C, Establish the Apache MRUnit Project, was
approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
D. Establish the Apache Giraph Project
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors deems it to be in the best
interests of the Foundation and consistent with the Foundation's
purpose to establish a Project Management Committee charged with
the creation and maintenance of open-source software, for
distribution at no charge to the public, related to a highly
scaleable, fault-tolerant, Bulk Synchronous Parallel (BSP)-based
graph processing framework.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management
Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Apache Giraph Project",
be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the
Foundation; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the Apache Giraph Project be and hereby is
responsible for the creation and maintenance of software
related to a distributed computing graph processing framework;
and be it further
RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache Giraph" 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 Giraph Project, and to have primary responsibility
for management of the projects within the scope of
responsibility of the Apache Giraph 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 Giraph Project:
* Avery Ching <aching@apache.org>
* Claudio Martella <claudio@apache.org>
* Dmitriy V. Ryaboy <dvryaboy@apache.org>
* Eugene Joseph Koontz <ekoontz@apache.org>
* Hyunsik Choi <hyunsik@apache.org>
* Jakob Homan <jghoman@apache.org>
* Jake Mannix <jmannix@apache.org>
* Christian Kunz <kunzchr@apache.org>
* Owen O'Malley <omalley@apache.org>
* Sebastian Schelter <ssc@apache.org>
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Avery Ching
be appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Giraph, 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 Giraph PMC be and hereby is
tasked with the creation of a set of bylaws intended to
encourage open development and increased participation in the
Apache Giraph Project; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the Apache Giraph Project be and hereby
is tasked with the migration and rationalization of the Apache
Incubator Giraph podling; and be it further
RESOLVED, that all responsibilities pertaining to the Apache
Incubator Giraph podling encumbered upon the Apache Incubator
Project are hereafter discharged.
Special Order 7D, Establish the Apache Giraph Project, was
approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
E. Establish the Apache ManifoldCF Project
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors deems it to be in the best
interests of the Foundation and consistent with the Foundation's
purpose to establish a Project Management Committee charged with
the creation and maintenance of open-source software, for
distribution at no charge to the public, related to transferring
content between repositories or search indexes.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management Committee
(PMC), to be known as the "Apache ManifoldCF Project", be and hereby
is established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the Apache ManifoldCF Project be and hereby is
responsible for the creation and maintenance of open-source
software related to transferring content between repositories or
search indexes; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, ManifoldCF" 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 ManifoldCF Project, and to have primary responsibility for
management of the projects within the scope of responsibility of
the Apache ManifoldCF 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 ManifoldCF
Project:
* Shinichiro Abe <shinichiro@apache.org>
* Erlend Garåsen <ridder@apache.org>
* Piergiorgio Lucidi <piergiorgio@apache.org>
* Hitoshi Ozawa <hozawa@apache.org>
* Tommaso Teofili <tommaso@apache.org>
* Simon Willnauer <simonw@apache.org>
* Karl Wright <kwright@apache.org>
* Jukka Zitting <jukka@apache.org>
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Karl Wright be
appointed to the office of Vice President, ManifoldCF, 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 ManifoldCF Project be and hereby is
tasked with the creation of a set of bylaws intended to encourage open
development and increased participation in the ManifoldCF Project; and
be it further
RESOLVED, that the initial Apache ManifoldCF Project be and hereby is
tasked with the migration and rationalization of the Apache Incubator
ManifoldCF podling; and be it further
RESOLVED, that all responsibility pertaining to the Apache Incubator
ManifoldCF podling encumbered upon the Apache Incubator PMC are
hereafter discharged.
Special Order 7E, Establish the Apache ManifoldCF Project, was
approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
F. Change the Apache MINA Project Chair
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Niklas Gustavsson
to the office of Vice President, Apache MINA, and
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation
of Niklas Gustavsson from the office of Vice President,
Apache MINA, and
WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache MINA
project has chosen by vote to recommend Emmanuel Lecharny as the
successor to the post;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Niklas Gustavsson is relieved and
discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office
of Vice President, Apache MINA, and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Emmanuel Lecharny be and hereby is
appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache MINA, to
serve in accordance with and subject to the direction of the
Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until
death, resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification, or
until a successor is appointed.
Special Order 7F, Change the Apache MINA Project Chair, was
approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
G. Change the Apache Tcl Project Chair
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed David Welton
to the office of Vice President, Apache Tcl, and
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation
of David Welton from the office of Vice President, Apache Tcl,
and
WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Tcl
project has chosen by vote to recommend Massimo Manghi as the successor
to the post;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that David Welton is relieved and
discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office
of Vice President, Apache Tcl, and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Massimo Manghi be and hereby is
appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Tcl, to
serve in accordance with and subject to the direction of the
Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until
death, resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification, or
until a successor is appointed.
Special Order 7G, Change the Apache Tcl Project Chair, was
approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
H. Change the Apache Web Services Project Chair
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Glen Daniels
to the office of Vice President, Apache Web Services, and
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation
of Glen Daniels from the office of Vice President,
Apache Web Services, and
WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Web Services
project has chosen by vote to recommend Sagara Gunathunga 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 Web Services, and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Sagara Gunathunga be and hereby is
appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Web Services, to
serve in accordance with and subject to the direction of the
Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until
death, resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification, or
until a successor is appointed.
Special Order 7H, Change the Apache Web Services Project
Chair, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors
present.
I. Change the Apache Continuum Project Chair
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Emmanuel Venisse
to the office of Vice President, Apache Continuum, and
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation
of Emmanuel Venisse from the office of Vice President, Apache Continuum,
and
WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Continuum
project has chosen to recommend Brett Porter the successor
to the post;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Emmanuel Venisse is relieved and
discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office
of Vice President, Apache Continuum, and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Brett Porter and hereby is
appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Continuum, to
serve in accordance with and subject to the direction of the
Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until
death, resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification, or
until a successor is appointed.
Special Order 7I, Change the Apache Continuum Project Chair,
was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
J. Approve the 2012-2013FY Budget
Call for Board approval of proposed 2012-2013 FY budget for
the ASF.
See Attachment AT.
Special Order 7J, Approve the 2012-2013FY Budget, There is
nothing in the budget for an audit, but this can be added
later once the cost is known. The budget was approved
unanimously.
8. Discussion Items
8a. The DC BarCamp has raised some questions around how sponsorship
for small events is collected and bills paid.
Discussion: Rather than having sponsors contribute to conferences, some
sponsors were asked to contribute to ASF directly and then ASF covered
some conference event costs. This appears to be a directed donation
that in the past, was disallowed. Is this a valid approach for conferences?
Roy: as long as it's an Apache event, this is appropriate. Prefer to have an
"Apache person" specifically tasked with running the event.
Greg: Tim Williams is running the event. He is an ASF Member. In future,
makes sense to have an Apache person in charge.
Roy: The Apache responsible person must be an officer or employee of
the Foundation.
Greg: Nick Burch as VP Concom should be responsible for handling this
for future events.
Provisional approval for accepting targeted donations for Concom for
small Apache-sponsored events.
Concom to propose a policy for approval by the board.
Jim: will take responsibility to communicate with VP Concom.
9. Review Outstanding Action Items
* Daniel: draft an ASF policy for projects which need to re-bundle
other Apache projects.
Status: Started discussion on SMX list about it, very little
feedback. Noticed this week that Geronimo was doing the
same thing with bval so will also post there for feedback.
* Doug: follow up with MyFaces PMC to remove inactive folks from PMC.
Status:
* Greg: pursue a report for XMLBeans
Status:
* Jim: prepare a resolution to create a VP of OSI.
Status: Awaiting agreement from OSI
* Jim: ask Felix for details on new committers and PMC members.
Status: Will be in next report.
* Roy: update the guidance for releases and communicate to all committers.
Status:
* Shane: prepare a resolution to move XML to the Attic.
Status:
* Shane: ask Mahout PMC to update agenda.
Status:
10. Unfinished Business
11. New Business
12. Announcements
Shane made an "Apache Way" presentation to the CamelOne conference.
13. Adjournment
Adjourned at 11:01 a.m. (Pacific)
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ATTACHMENTS:
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Attachment 1: Report from the VP of Brand Management
Operations And Community
========================
Requests for assistance to review foundation/Brand/foundation-marks-list.csv
have not met much success within the membership, so reviewing projects'
compliance with branding requirements is taking longer than expected.
Worked with Apache Archiva PMC to respond to a third party's apparent
plans to rebrand from MailArchiva to Archiva.
External Requests
=================
Several requests have come in from OOo/AOO land about permissions to
use AOO branding on various third party software download or CD-ROM sites.
Working with AOO PMC to set requirements and guidelines to ensure such
sites distribute proper AOO releases, without improper changes or additions.
Approved branding aspects of Zeta Components podling community's desire to
continue to use the Zeta name after they are retired from incubation, i.e.
after IPMC explicitly confirms their podling retirement.
Trademark Registrations
=======================
"Hadoop" is now US registration # 4131061 - yay!
http://tarr.uspto.gov/servlet/tarr?regser=serial&entry=85377777
Have requested DLAPiper register "Lucene", and confirmed description
with Lucene PMC.
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Attachment 2: Report from the VP of Fundraising
This is my first report as VP Fundraising. Since the last board meeting,
I have been familiarising myself with the data that we hold about our
sponsorship programme, and creating records for each of our sponsors
that should allow us to easily track relevant events during the
sponsorship lifecycle (invoice due, payment due, payment received,
logo removal). With all this data in place, we should be able to
establish definitive Sponsorship Renewal dates for all of our
sponsors, and use those as the basis for alerts.
This month I believe we received a payment from Go Daddy (silver). This
is not confirmed, as we have a payment to the lockbox, that matches an
expected payment, but do not have records to confirm its source.
SPI have some money that was collected on behalf of the OpenOffice
project pre-incubation. As I understand it, the OpenOffice PPMC is
asking that this be donated to the ASF, and that some way be found
that it can be used to benefit the OpenOffice project, in line with
the purpose of the original donations.
Daniel has helped with tracking potential sponsorship renewals in lieu
of the above information. Greg is going to chase those three sponsors.
Google is asking for a year-in-review, and a brief "what you are funding"
executive summary. This is a resource we should have available for
all of our sponsors, and will take some effort over the coming month.
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Attachment 3: Report from the VP of Marketing and Publicity
ASF MARKETING & PUBLICITY STATUS: MAY 2012
I. Budget: all projected expenses are accounted for. No payments are due at
this time. The contract with HALO Worldwide is under discussion for renewal
effective 1 June. Sally Khudairi refined the originally-submitted the budget
proposal for the upcoming Fiscal Year for Board review.
II. Fundraising/Branding/Marketing liaison: no meetings are planned. Sally
wishes to formally thank Serge Knystautas for his efforts as VP Fundraising,
and welcomes Upayavira to the role. Sally worked with two ASF Sponsors and two
of their affiliates to ensure their press releases were compliant with our
guidelines.
III. Press Releases: the following formal announcements were issued during
this timeframe via the newswire and ASF Foundation Blog --
- The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache TomEE™ v1.0
- The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache Cassandra™ v1.1
IV. Informal Announcements: the following items were announced on @TheASF
Twitter feed --
- 11 May: Countdown to #Apache #BarCamp #Washington DC -- have you
signed up yet? http://s.apache.org/ixK #TheApacheWay #OpenSource
- 11 May: Did you know that IDG predicts 60+% annual market growth for #Apache
#Hadoop, #Pig + supporting #BigData products? #TheApacheWay #OpenSource
- 10 May: The #Apache #HTTP Server powers 425M+ Websites globally--two out of
every three hostnames-- according to @Netcraft Web server survey!
- 08 May: Did you know that the #Apache #OpenOffice team transitioned nearly
10M lines of code since mid-2011? More fun facts at
http://s.apache.org/TLL
- 30 Apr: The Apache Software Foundation Announces #Apache #TomEE™ v1.0
http://s.apache.org/IWS #Tomcat #JavaEE #OpenSource #WebProfile6
#TheApacheWay
- 30 Apr: Join us! #BarCamp #Apache 19 May in the #Washington DC area!
Sign up today http://s.apache.org/kPz #TheApacheWay #OpenSource
- 24 Apr: The Apache Software Foundation Announces #Apache #Cassandra™ v1.1
http://s.apache.org/FT0 #OpenSource #BigData #Cloud #TheApacheWay
- 19 Apr: We welcome @GoDaddy and @HuaweiPress as our newest Sponsors at the
Silver level! http://s.apache.org/oI #TheApacheWay #Apache
- 19 Apr: Welcome @TwitterOSS to The #Apache Software Foundation Sponsorship
Program http://s.apache.org/9C6 #TheApacheWay
- 06 Apr: The #Apache #HTTP Server powers more than 423M Websites globally
--23M more since last month-- according to @Netcraft Web server survey!
In addition, Sally reactivated the "TheApacheFoundation" YouTube account and
uploaded a teaser for Apache OpenOffice v3.4
V. Future Announcements: the Foundation's first quarter milestone statement
will be issued 16 May. The press release for Tuscany v2.0 and a possible press
statement for CouchDB are being planned. Those PMCs wishing to announce major
project news --as well as podlings ready to graduate from the Incubator--
please contact Sally Khudairi at press@apache.org for more information. Kindly
provide at least 2-week's notice for proper planning and execution.
VI. Media Relations: aside from pre-announcement briefings, 51 media requests
were responded to, as well as reactive interface on press@ and coordinating
interviews for various projects. Sally made an exception to our "no formal
podling publicity" rule and helped with the launch of Apache OpenOffice v3.4.
The ASF received 1157 press clips over this time period, vs. last month's clip
count of 648.
VII. Analyst Relations: RedMonk were briefed on Apache OpenOffice v3.4 and
provided a supporting testimonial for the podling's official announcement. In
addition, they will have a briefing on CouchDB in the near future. Apache was
mentioned in 3 research briefs by The451 and continues to feature heavily in
presentations/blogs from February's Forrester Wave report on "Enterprise
Hadoop Solutions". In addition, Ovum produced an analyst write up on Apache
Hadoop.[
VIII. ApacheCon liaison: no formal activity during this time period, however,
Sally reactivated the @ApacheCon Twitter account, and has made contact with
the organizers for ApacheCon Europe 2012 and North America 2013.
IX. (Non-ASF) Industry Events and Outreach liaison: Sally is working with the
O'Reilly team on an official Apache presence at OSCON, including flagging
Apache-affiliated speakers, as well as the Apache expo booth.
X. Newswire accounts: we have disseminated 8 press releases over PRNewswire
and 14 press releases over NASDAQ GlobeNewswire since the beginning of the
current Fiscal Year.
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Attachment 4: Report from the VP of W3C Relations
Nothing to report this month (in particular, nobody joined or left a Working
or Community group on behalf of the ASF).
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Attachment 5: Status report for the Apache Legal Affairs Committee
Exceptionally quiet month, only three JIRA showed any notable activity, and no
discussions meriting board attention occurred.
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Attachment 6: Status report for the Apache Security Team Project
For April 2012: 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.
1 Support question
2 Phishing/spam/attacks point to site "powered by Apache"
9 Vulnerability reports, of which:
2 [httpd, via security@apache.org]
2 [aoo, via officesecurity@lists.freedesktop.org]
2 [sling, via security@sling.apache.org]
1 [roller, via security@apache.org]
1 [tomcat, via security@apache.org]
1 [commons, via security@apache.org]
Reminder: vulnerability handling process explained at
http://apache.org/security/committers.html
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Attachment 7: Status report for the Apache Conference Planning Project
Small Events
------------
The DC BarCamp is this coming weekend, and everything looks on track for
this. We'll be able to give a report next month, along with hopefully some
idea of how (if at all) it could help grow more east coast events.
The DC BarCamp has raised some questions around how sponsorship for small
events is collected and bills paid. Specifically, for an event that have
money contributed rather than having sponsors pay for specific line items
directly, and for when there is either no local company available to take in
sponsorship money or where the sponsors would rather not send it to a very
small company. I believe Greg will be raising this for discussion. In case
it helps, general thoughts on small event sponsorship styles are at:
<http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-small-events-discuss/201202.mb
ox/%3C4F3A3CAB.9050100@apache.org%3E>
There was a local meetup (cross project) in the Netherlands, which seemed to
go well. Hopefully there will be more of these. We wish them luck, and
encourage other areas with a high density of committers to think about it
too.
An announcement to PMCs about getting involved in OSCON has been sent out.
We'll reach out to committers in a little bit (pitching the same thing, but
in a slightly different way). We aim to get projects signed up to use the
space on the Monday and Tuesday, for things like introductory hackathons and
talks, along with perhaps some detailed hackathons before/after. Projects
and Committers intersted should fill out the survey at
<http://s.apache.org/OSCON12> to let us know.
ApacheCon
---------
The vote on the ApacheCon NA 2013 RFP concluded, and the OpenBastion
proposal was accepted. OpenBastion have circulated a list of possible dates
to the apachecon-discuss list for review, and we expect that they'll confirm
the dates (roughly Feb 2013, perhaps give or take a week) soon. They're
currently drawing up a contract, which we'll review (with help from legal)
later this month.
In addition to ApacheCon NA 2013, we'll also be having an ApacheCon Europe
in late 2012. We now have a confirmed venue booking at the SAP supported
venue, the Rhein-Neckar-Arena in Sinsheim. SAP have kindly agreed to sponsor
us for the venue hire (including tech and staff), as well as some money
towards catering. (We'll be looking to other sponsors too though, it's not
an exclusive sponsorship deal). Discussions on the format of the event (how
many one day vs multiday tracks, small vs big tracks etc) are underway on
the apachecon-discuss list. We encourage anyone interested in either event
to join the list and get involved!
We expect to have more details on both events sorted in the coming month,
and possibly also some basic website details. For now, the apachecon
homepage has been updated to offer some simple information, thanks to infra
for making the vhost and dns tweaks for this.
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Attachment 8: Status report for the Apache Infrastructure Team
Added Mohammad Nour El-Din to the Infrastructure Team.
Upgraded Jira to version 5- kinks still being ironed out.
Had OSUOSL install our recent purchases from Silicon Mechanics
and Intervision.
Coordinated with the OpenOffice PPMC and Sourceforge regarding
the distribution of AOO's 3.4.0 release. Most of the traffic
was handled by Sourceforge's CDN instead of our mirror system,
at a rate of over 20 TB of download traffic a day. Download
stats will be published by the AOO PPMC in the near future.
Replaced isis's bad disks and brought up 2 additional build
hosts at our Y! datacenter.
Discussed another F2F meeting during the Surge 2012 conference.
Not a lot of expressed interest so far.
Experiencing uptime issues with our monitoring.apache.org Bytemark
VM ever since they migrated the VM to different hardware.
Discussing git hosting options again, and again, and again...
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Attachment 9: Status report for the Apache Travel Assistance Committee
General
=======
List is still quiet with no posts since the last report.
No change to the committee membership.
TAC is not involved with any events currently.
Other Events
==========
No news about any other events happening at this time.
Some budgets and events have now been confirmed with TAC And Concom
committees so therefore we expect to start discussions this Month
with regards to getting applications open in the next month or so.
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Attachment A: Status report for the Apache Abdera Project
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Attachment B: Status report for the Apache Accumulo Project
The Apache Accumulo sorted, distributed key/value store is a robust,
scalable, high performance data storage system that features cell-based
access control and customizable server-side processing. It is based on
Google's BigTable design and is built on top of Apache Hadoop,
Zookeeper, and Thrift.
Releases
None since the last report.
Activity
The mailing lists have been active and version 1.4.0 has been downloaded
150 times. There has been an increase to 126 subscribers to the user
list. Development is active. There is beginning to be interest by
other projects in developing interfaces to Accumulo, e.g. Giraph, Gora,
Hama, Nutch, and Whirr. Some of the code will be contributed to the
Accumulo project, and some will live in the other projects.
Community
One new contributor since the last report.
Issues
None at this time.
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Attachment C: Status report for the Apache Ant Project
Apache Ant is a Java based build tool (see http://ant.apache.org)
o Release Status
Ant 1.8.3 was released on February 29th 2012. Barring the need for bug fix releases, this
will be the last 1.8 point release. It is also the last release that will support Java 1.4
The next release will be Ant 1.9.0 and will require Java 5
An Apache Ivy release candidate (2.3.0-RC1) was made available on April 24th, 2012 and a
beta of IvyDE (2.2.0-beta1) was made available on April 6th. While the current releases
of both date from late 2010, I expect that we will have new releases in the next
reporting period.
Apache Compress Antlib 1.2 was released on April 21st. This ant lib provides Ant tasks
which manage a number of archive formats. It uses Apache Commons Compress 1.4 under
the hood.
The current releases are:
Core
---------
Ant 1.8.3 was released on Feb 29th, 2012
Ivy
-------
Ivy 2.2.0 was released on October 7, 2010
Ivy-DE 2.1.0 was released on Aug 20, 2010
o Committers and PMC
No Change.
o Community
The Ant wiki has been getting a little reversion spam so we will be asking infra to
institute a contributors group to tighten up access to the wiki.
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Attachment D: Status report for the Apache Attic Project
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Attachment E: Status report for the Apache Buildr Project
Apache Buildr is a Ruby-based build system for Java-based applications,
including support for Scala, Groovy and a growing number of JVM languages and
tools.
Our latest release happened in June -- we were hoping for a release in November
but follow-up efforts stalled due to time constraints and difficulty in getting
tests working on all supported platforms. Our changelog currently shows about
70+ fixes/changes/enhancements since our last release. Subversion log show about
120 commits since June with commits from 4 different committers and patches
accepted from 5 external contributors.
Mailing lists activity has been relatively low in past 3 months, with a small
surge in past few weeks.
We have no issues that require board attention.
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Attachment F: Status report for the Apache BVal Project
The Apache BVal project implements the Java EE Bean Validation 1.0 (JSR-303)
specification and related extensions, and became a top-level project of the
foundation on February 15, 2012.
### Releases ###
BVal proudly made its first non-incubating release, version 0.4, on April 14,
2012. Ours was incorporated into the better-publicized Apache TomEE 1.0 release.
### Activity ###
Since the release of BVal 0.4, there has been no activity to speak of. Our next
goals are to continue improving the codebase for BVal 1.0.
Traffic on the user mailing list remains low/nonexistent.
We continue to follow the progress of the Bean Validation specification; its
1.1.0 version is being developed under Red Hat's (open) leadership as JSR-349.
Apache BVal will implement Bean Validation v1.1.0 as soon as is practical.
### Community ###
No new faces in the community.
### Branding ###
The task of creating a new project logo remains open.
### Legal ###
No concerns at present.
### Infrastructure ###
Nothing needed at the moment.
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Attachment G: Status report for the Apache C++ Standard Library Project
Jim to provide verbal report at meeting.
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Attachment H: Status report for the Apache Cassandra Project
Cassandra is a distributed database combining the best of Google's
Bigtable and Amazon's Dynamo.
--Highlights--
Cassandra Europe [1] was a full-day, two track conference that drew about 160
attendees.
Cassandra 1.1 was released, with many enhancements. [2]
[1] http://www.cassandra-eu.org/schedule
[2] https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/the_apache_software_foundation_announces26
--Releases--
0.8.10, 1.0.8, 1.0.9, 1.1.0
--Community--
Trivium: Cassandra downloads have roughly doubled vs a year ago.
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Attachment I: Status report for the Apache Click Project
Apache Click is an easy-to-use page and component oriented Java web framework.
There are no board level issues at this time.
Infrastructure
-------------------
There are no infrastructure issues at this time.
Development
------------------
Development activity has focused on a 2.4/2.3.1 release scheduled this year.
Community
----------------
There have been no new committers or PMC members added during this period.
Mailing list traffic has been light for the period.
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Attachment J: Status report for the Apache Cocoon Project
Apache Cocoon 3 is a major rewrite of Cocoon 2.2. Like Cocoon 2 it
is based around the concept of pipelines and sitemaps and it is
very similar to Cocoon 2.2 in many respects but is slimmed down and
designed to be easily used with Java code (= no frameworks required!).
On top of this, Cocoon 3 has the goal of becoming the best available
platform for RESTful webservices and web applications.
Community
Traffic on users lists continues be light, people continue
be interested on both C2 and newer C3.
A Cocoon3 article is going to be published in the German magazine 'JavaMagazin'
redacted by the ASF Member Christian Grobmeier (grobmeier), which
contains an interview to the Cocoon chair.
Releases/Development
Registered regular traffic on commits list, most of the effort has been moved
on housekeeping:
* Cocoon sites are now managed via SvnPubSub;
* old Cocoon Documentation has been imported from old Daisy to
sources managed via SvnPubSub;
* Jail has been restored with demo for Cocoon2.X and Cocoon3,
available on http://cocoon.zones.apache.org/
Branding checklist:
Project Website Basics - done
Website Navigation Links - done
Trademark Attributions - done
Logos and Graphics - done
Project Metadata - need to be checked
Read PMC Branding Responsibilities - done
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Attachment K: Status report for the Apache Community Development Project
The Commmunity Development PMC is responsible for helping people become
involved with Apache projects
Project Status
--------------
No issues require board attention at this time.
GSoC
----
GSoC is underway with two experienced admins and a newcomer learning the ropes.
Google's insistence on changing the process on the fly without consulting orgs
continues to frustrate admins who have to adapt quickly and communicate this to
our 150+ projects. Our thanks go to this years Admins.
We have 41 GSoC projects spread across 26 Apache projects (17 TLPs and 9
Podlings).
Participating TLPS are:
Xerces, Pig, OODT, Hive, James, Tapestry, Ofbiz, Gora, Synapse, Derby, Axis,
POI, Whirr, Lucene, Velocity, Libcloud, Xalan
Participating Podlings are:
ODF Toolkit, Airavata, Stanbol, Photark, Wookie, OpenMeetings, Nuvem, Hama,
VXQuery
Completed:
* Publish updates to the GSoC Admin guidelines
* Verify that new mentor selection process is documented for GSoC
* Verify infra is OK with temporary accounts for GSoC
* Submit ASF to GSoC
* Work with projects to identify suitable GSoC tasks
Events and Speakers
-------------------
Very little progress here as ConCom has been busy dealing with the RFP for US
and the proposal for EU.
A number of ComDev members are helping out in ConCom activities.
Outstanding:
* Agree scope of ConCom and ComDev collaboration on event support
* Raise awareness of Speaker and Event support materials
* Integrate speaker app with Lanyrd (hosts all ApacheCon NA12 slidedecks)
Website
-------
During the IPMC reboot discussions it was suggested that ComDev should take
ownership of some aspects of Incubation. This was rejected as ComDev felt that
moving the problem was not solve it, however, it was agreed in principle that
overlaps existed. Now that Jukka seems to be be settling in nicely at the IPMC
it is time to restart these discussions.
Outstanding:
* Work with the IPMC to clarify any future role for ComDev in the incubation
process
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Attachment L: Status report for the Apache Continuum Project
Apache Continuum is an enterprise-ready continuous integration server with
features such as automated builds, release management, role-based security,
and integration with popular build tools and source control management
systems.
Continuum has been suffering from low development activity, with just a handful
of commits each quarter. A discussion was started to move the project to the
Attic, however this encouraged at least one committer and a user to volunteer to
help produce another release. Others have since stepped forward.
There are a large number of fixes that reside on trunk that are worth releasing,
and it has been reported to be very stable. Only one blocker needs to be worked
through before the release.
Though available time is infrequent, there appears to be enough PMC oversight
still present to do a release, and through that we can assess who is likely to
remain active, and if the others should be brought into the PMC to continue the
project.
The current chair has stated that he is not available for the position any
longer and will be standing down. A resolution to appoint a new chair has been
proposed for the meeting.
In other matters, the project branding requirements have not yet been completed.
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Attachment M: Status report for the Apache CouchDB Project
Apache CouchDB is a database that uses JSON for documents, JavaScript for
MapReduce queries, and regular HTTP for an API.
Released Apache CouchDB 1.2.0.
Provided Windows binaries for user-convenience for the first time along with a
source release.
Unveiled a new website design that was created with help from the Apache
Cordova team: http://couchdb.apache.org/
A subset of the developer community met in Boston and Dublin in April. The
results from various discussions are currently being prepared to be put up for
online discussion on dev@.
Successfully started to integrate source contributions via GitHub Pull
Requests.
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Attachment N: Status report for the Apache Creadur Project
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Attachment O: Status report for the Apache Empire-db Project
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.
Progress of the project
Apache Empire-db became a TLP in January 2012 and the migration process
has been fully completed. After we have published our first top-level
release last month we have begun with the development of new features.
As the core component is largely stable and mature our goal is to
provide assistance to use Empire-db in a wider range of application
scenarios - especially in combination with common front-end frameworks.
Changes in committers or PMC members
There have been no changes in committers or PMC members during the last
month.
Issues
There are no issues that require the board's attention at this time.
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Attachment P: Status report for the Apache Forrest Project
Apache Forrest mission is software for generation of aggregated multi-channel
documentation maintaining a separation of content and presentation.
Issues needing board attention:
None.
Changes in the PMC membership:
None.
Last modified: 2011-01-10
There are no diversity issues regarding the PMC.
General status:
The most recent release is 0.9 on 2011-02-07.
Six PMC members have been active a little during this quarter.
Development has been quiet for the quarter.
Some little activity on dev mail list and issue tracker. An old issue was
discussed. No follow on, but still a sign of life.
There was zero activity on the user mail list.
In late March it came to our attention that our past release votes were
conducted on packages that contained third-party binaries in addition to
our project's open-source code. Our chair removed the packages from the
mirror system. The 0.9 packages were then reconstructed to have separate
"sources" and "dependencies" packages. The project then voted again for the
0.9 release using the new "sources" package.
Security issues reported:
None.
Progress of the project:
Again, the only commits were a few documentation edits.
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Attachment Q: Status report for the Apache Gora Project
Apache Gora
The Apache Gora open source framework provides an in-memory data model and
persistence for big data. Gora supports persisting to column stores, key
value stores, document stores and RDBMSs, and analyzing the data with
extensive Apache Hadoop MapReduce support.
Project Releases
The Apache Gora team was happy to announce the release of Gora 0.2 on
24th April 2012 (1st since graduation from the Incubator). During the
process of this release, the team managed to simplify the release process
somewhat so we look forward to the shift towards a more incremental
release policy within the project as a whole. As a side note, an
experimental branch of Nutch is now very close to a community VOTE
further to the recent Gora 0.2 release.
Overall Project Activity since last report
The majority of work directly concerned the 0.2 release as mentioned above.
Since then there have been a few commits, however there has also been
some encouraging conversation with respect to our site migration to
the Apache CMS. We currently have some 50 odd issues to work on within
the 0.3 development drive.
How has the community developed since the last report?
Encouragingly we have had a number of new issues logged on Jira
from new Gora users. On most occasions this has sparked decent conversations
however we are lacking patches from these new Gora users. Some excellent
news was that our Gora Amazon DynamoDB Google Summer of Code project
was succesfully accepted into this years programme. The prospective
student, Renato has been on list and we look forward to kicking things
off later this month.
Changes to PMC & Committers
NONE
PMC and Committer diversity
We currently have committers from a wide variety of projects including,
Nutch, Tika, OODT, Camel, Solr, Accumulo & Hadoop (this is not an exhaustive
list). Within the scope of the 0.3 development drive is an extensive upgrade
of the Avro code, so we will be vigilant in attracting new members. We also
look forward to the progression of GSoC. Hopefully our student progresses
to become part of the Gora team in due course.
Project Branding or Naming issues
NONE
Legal issues
NONE
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Attachment R: Status report for the Apache HTTP Server Project
The Apache HTTP Server Project is an effort to develop and maintain an
open-source HTTP server for modern operating systems.
No major issues requiring the Board's attention.
== Project Status ==
The project released versions 2.4.1 and 2.4.2 during this reporting period
(many thanks to Jim). A new version of mod_fcgid (2.3.7) was also released.
We've had a mercifully slow quarter for CVEs, with no 2.2.x releases
required.
There are ongoing discussions of using the CMS for our site and/or
documentation that various volunteers are working on.
== Community ==
We added Daniel Gruno (humbedooh) as a committer this period, with no
changes to the PMC roster.
As we had discussed informally for a long time, our SVN authorization
was flattened out to not differentiate between different kinds
of committers.
We are also enabling comments (via Disqus) on the httpd manual,
with a pilot ongoing with a single trunk topic. This is hoped to
help with contributions/bug reports on the documentation.
Mailing list, bugzilla, and IRC traffic is steady.
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Attachment S: Status report for the Apache HttpComponents Project
The Apache HttpComponents project is responsible for creating
and maintaining a toolset of low level Java components focused
on HTTP and associated protocols.
Status
- Overall the project remains active.
Releases
- HttpAsyncClient 4.0-alpha3 was released on the 23rd of February 2012
- HttpCore 4.2 was released on the 5th of May 2012. This is a major GA
release after multiple beta releases and release candidates
Community
- The community remains small but active. There is good user interaction
on the mailing lists.
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Attachment T: Status report for the Apache Incubator Project
The trend of more podlings graduating than are coming in continues, which
is a good thing given the backlog of stuck projects the Incubator has
accumulated over the past years. This trend is also visible in the podling
categorization we've been doing since February. The number of podlings
in the rough starting/incubating/graduating categories has gone from
7/13/4 in February to 2/9/7 now.
Our recent focus on report review with active feedback to and dialogue with
the podlings has helped drive this progress. Until now this extra effort has
come from just a few individuals, but we're working on ways to make this
more sustainable by sharing the work for example by having IPMC volunteers
as "shepherds" who'll review specific reports in more detail. Initial results
seem promising.
While not designed to replace the existing mentor model, the extra reviews
have helped spot and deal with many cases where podlings have been in need
of extra help or just some gentle pushing ahead. We're looking at ways to
track mentor activity in order to better identify such cases before they
become too troublesome.
o Community
There were no changes to the Incubator PMC since our last report.
The IPMC currently has 158 members.
The following podlings are requesting graduation to Apache TLPs:
- Apache Hama
- Apache MRUnit
- Apache Giraph
- Apache ManifoldCF
The Incubator PMC recommends the board to accept the respective resolutions.
The Zeta Components podling has retired due to low activity.
The JSPWiki podling started a graduation vote, but it was withdrawn after
concerns about the low project activity were raised. Based on feedback from
general@, the community hopes to make another release and some other progress
before restarting the graduation vote.
There is an interesting thread on general@ about the sometimes vague
boundary between redistributing upstream dependencies as standalone
components or integral parts of an Apache product. The BigTop podling,
where this issue came up, will hopefully summarize this discussion in more
detail in their next report.
o Legal / Trademarks
The retired Zeta Components codebase was migrated to GitHub where it
retains the project name (without the "Apache" prefix) even though not
much new activity is expected. The move was handled well, with
trademarks@ in the loop.
The Amber project has been stuck for a long time with an IP clearance
issue that they have been unable to resolve by themselves. It seems like
this issue could have been resolved one way or another already years ago
with more mentor help, which unfortunately has been lacking.
o Releases
The following incubating releases were made since our last report:
- April 16th, 2012: Apache ManifoldCF 0.5-incubating
- April 23rd, 2012: Apache Jena LARQ 1.0.0-incubating
- April 28th, 2012: Apache MRUnit 0.9.0-incubating
- May 5th, 2012: Apache Airavata 0.2-incubating
- May 8th, 2012: Apache OpenOffice 3.4.0-incubating
- May 9th, 2012: Apache Stanbol 0.9.0-incubating
The Apache Mesos 0.9.0-incubating release is just hitting the mirrors
after a lenghty release vote that failed to attract enough IPMC votes
for quite a while.
o Infrastructure
The Flex project is still blocked with its migration to ASF infrastructure,
which seems to be a major contributing factor to the downwards trend seen
in Flex list activity. A solution or at least some workaround is urgently
needed.
-------------------- Summary of podling reports --------------------
Still getting started at the Incubator (2 podlings)
CloudStack, Syncope
These projects are still getting started, so no immediate progress
towards graduation is yet expected.
Not yet ready to graduate (9 podlings)
IP clearance: Amber
No release: Flex
Low activity: Ambari, Droids, Nuvem, Photark
Low diversity: Airavata, DeltaSpike, SIS
We expect the next quarterly report of projects in this category to
include a summary of their actions and progress in solving these issues.
Ready to graduate (7 podlings)
Clerezza, Lucene.NET, NPanday, Stanbol, VCL, Wink, Wookie
We expect these projects to graduate within the next quarter.
--------------------
Airavata
Airavata is a software toolkit which provides features to compose, manage,
execute, and monitor large scale applications and workflows on computational
resources ranging from local clusters to national grids and computing clouds.
Airavata is incubating since May 2011.
A list of the three most important issues to address in the move towards
graduation
1. The documentation is improving but still not par to ease barrier of entry.
The code, documentation and JIRA issues have to be efficiently
organized and managed to appeal to wider developer community.
2. Develop a strong community with organizational diversity and well
aligned with existing ASF projects as outlined here:
http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/AiravataProposal#Alignment
3. Create a regular and predictable release process and schedule
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of?
The community is very active averaging 150 dev list emails and 75 commits
per month. Airavata community encourages cross pollination with other
Apache projects and also reuses significant number of license compatible
open source libraries. This has helped keep the focus, but delayed the
releases with impasse on legal requirements. The delay in making a release
had lost some developer momentum.
The community is not yet significantly diverse but lately the interest is
growing. The project is committed and very supportive to external users and
is putting the effort on increasing diversity. The PMC has discussed few
potential outreach venues and have proposed and engaged with 8 GSoC student
proposals.
How has the community developed since the last report?
No new committers or PPMC members elected in the last quarter. Three new
users from the community are very active in the mailing list. Some have
started to send patches and have potential interest.
4 GSoC projects proposed on Airavata have been accepted. The students for
these projects are Hasitha Aravinda, Yaroslav Porshnev, Milinda Pathirage,
and Bhathiya Jayasekara.
How has the project developed since the last report?
0.2-incubating release candidate (skipped 0.1-incubating numbering) was
significantly improved in regards to license and notice complains. The
Community Vote was successful with 5 PPMC and 2 mentor votes. The Vote
in IPMC general list is ongoing.
With the delay in release, the community has branched a 0.2 release and
has made significant progress on the trunk. Many features have been added
and ready for successive couple more releases.
The community has actively responded to GSoC proposals and student
questions resulting in few quality proposals.
Community is voting for a wiki to increase focus on documentation and
tutorial.
Signed off by mentor: mattmann, rgardler, ate
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Ambari
Ambari is monitoring, administration and lifecycle management project
for Apache Hadoop clusters.
- Incubating since 30 August 2011.
- 162 jiras fixed on trunk (0 added since Feb report) + 8 jiras fixed
on dev branch ambari-186
- After having no commits since January, yesterday a new code base
was contributed and checked in on dev branch ambari-186. Development
is happening rapidly on the branch while the project discusses how
to move forward. The current proposal is to continue development on
the branch until it is usable and then call a vote to replace trunk
with the code on the branch.
- 8 new developers have contributed to the ambari-186 code base
Issues that must be addressed before graduation are:
- Making a release
- Attracting users and developers
- Increase diversity of developers outside of Hortonworks
Signed off by mentor: omalley, ddas
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Amber
Amber has been incubating since July 2010. Amber is a project to develop
a Java library which provides an API specification for, and an unconditionally
compliant implementation of the OAuth v1.0, v1.0a and v2.0 specifications.
OAuth is a mechanism that allows users to authenticate and authorise access
by another party to resources they control while avoiding the need to share
their username and password credentials.
A list of the three most important issues to address in the move towards
graduation
- Clarify status of code grant
- Attract users and developers
- Generate a release
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of?
- We need copyright signoff from University of Newcastle or some guidance
on how to proceed.
How has the community developed since the last report?
- Raymond Feng joined in as a mentor
- New users / devs show up on the mailing lists both contributing patches
and asking for guidance/release
How has the project developed since the last report
- an attempt to clarify the legal issue is on going see LEGAL-134
- Fixed a bunch of issues for aligning with latest OAuth specification
Signed off by mentor: rfeng
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Clerezza
(incubating since November 27th, 2009)
Clerezza is a framework and set of components designed to make it easy to
build application for the semantic and the social web.
Graduation:
We believe Clerezza will be ready to graduate soon. Currently discussions
for a plan for community development are ongoing. Once a plan for community
development has been defined we can discuss graduation. Documentation and
tutorials are still in need of improvement and this may be addressed as
part of the community development plan but we believe lacking documentation
alone should not stand in the way of graduation.
How has the community developed since the last report:
The cooperation with the Apache Stanbol project has been improved with
two Stanbol committers becoming Clerezza committers.
How has the project developed since the last report.
- We successfully released Clerezza (0.2-incubating).
- Apache Wink has accepted a patch by a Clerezza developer. This presents
an opportunity to replace our own JAX-RS implementation with Wink's.
- Discussions about the release process and its documentation have taken
place. We have identified possible problems with our version policy and
release process when releasing only a subset of the modules Clerezza
consists of. It is our intention to be able to make such releases. No
conclusion has been reached yet.
- A drop of activity in the second half of this quarter (after the release).
This can be partially explained with the fact that many developers use
Clerezza in other projects and the release caused a temporary shift in
focus on those projects.
Signed off by mentor: bdelacretaz, rgardler
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CloudStack
CloudStack is an IaaS (“Infrastracture as a Service”) cloud orchestration
platform. CloudStack has been in incubation since 2012-04-16
Overview:
Cloudstack just entered the incubator a couple of weeks ago. Since then,
the mailing list has been setup and discussions have started to migrate
from the existing list to the ASF-hosted list, with several 'new names'
participating including one of those 'new names' submitting a patch.
Currently, the code repository and bulk of existing infrastructure is still
hosted by Citrix, but the community is looking forward to getting that
moved to Apache as soon as possible.
A list of the most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. The base level of infrastructure migration has begun but still has far
to be finished. At present the mailing lists exist, but wiki, project
website, source repository, bug tracker, etc still need to be brought
up and migrated. In many ways we are blocked on further progress by
lack of account creation for initial committers.
2. Diversity of the contributor base still needs to be expanded - this was
identified as an issue in the proposal, and remains one, though we are
encouraged by a seeming uptick (we've been in incubation for less than
a week, so trends are indeed difficult to identify at this point) in
interest on the mailing lists from previously uninvolved individuals.
3. The project needs a working process definition. What is the review
process for contributions, recommendations for engaging before writing
large amounts of code, etc.
4. The project is using source and binaries with a number of
non-ASF-approved licenses. This needs remediation.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of?
No issues that we are aware of at this point.
How has the community developed since the last report?
There has been no previous report - so nothing to report here.
How has the project developed since the last report?
There has been no previous report - so nothing to report here.
Signed off by mentor: brett, dkulp, jim
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DeltaSpike
(incubating since December 2011)
DeltaSpike will consist of a number of portable CDI extensions that provide
useful features for Java application developers. The goal of DeltaSpike is
to create a de-facto standard of CDI-Extensions that is developed and
maintained by the community.
There are currently no issues requiring IPMC or Board attention.
Since our last report in February 2012, we have accomplished the following:
- Finished the initial build structure
- Finished the initial test-infrastructure
- Finished migrating first core feature contributions from Seam3 and CODI
- Started discussions about tools for our documentation and website
- Started with the status page (based on
http://incubator.apache.org/guides/website.html)
- We received the Code grant from JBoss Inc for JBoss employee written
parts of Seam3
- We shipped the deltaspike-0.1-incubating and deltaspike-0.2-incubating
release
Upcoming major goals:
- Finish test-infrastructure to allow in-container tests
- Finish the setup for the documentation and the website
- Work on the next features: deltaspike-security, deltaspike-jpa,
deltaspike-i18n
Top 2 or 3 things to resolve before graduation:
1. Build community
2. Create Documentation
Signed off by mentors: Mark Struberg (struberg), Gerhard Petracek, jim
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Droids
Droids is an Incubator project arrived from Apache Labs. Droids entered
incubation on October, 2008.
It's an intelligent standalone robot framework that allows one to create
and extend existing web robots.
Tobias Rübner has been voted in and added as a committer and PPMC member.
Issues before graduation :
Diversity is still an issue for the podling. The addition of Tobias
is a step towards remedying that.
Signed off by mentor: rfrovarp
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Apache Flex is an application framework for easily building Flash-based
applications for mobile devices, the browser and desktop.
Summary: A large community is losing momentum as it waits for Adobe to
complete the source code transition and infrastructure.
Date of entry to the Incubator: December 31, 2011
Top three items to resolve before graduation:
- Resolve trademark donation or licensing
- Complete code and bug database donation
- Make at least one release
Is there anything that the Incubator PMC or ASF Board specifically needs
to address?
The ASF legal team will have to agree to a custom Trademark licensing.
Adobe is still finalizing its proposal for the agreement.
Are there any legal, infrastructure, cross-project or personal issues that
need to be addressed? (Are there any stumbling blocks that impede the podling?)
Besides the trademark issue mentioned previously, the import of existing
JIRA bugs is blocked by an issue with Apache JIRA's import utility. It has
failed to import the data file supplied by Adobe. Infra has opened a support
ticket with Atlassian, but the problem remains unresolved two months later.
Check that the project's Incubation Status file up to date.
http://incubator.apache.org/projects/flex
What has been done (releases, milestones, etc.) since the last report?
- The Flex compiler source code, including history, was imported into
the SVN repository.
- Additional localization resources have been donated.
- Carol Frampton is working to create a release candidate. We expect
the initial RC's to be rejected as we finalize licensing and other
policy issues.
What are the plans and expectations for the next period?
Adobe expects to complete the transfer of the mustella test suite.
We hope to get an initial release approved by IPMC.
Are there any recommendations for how incubation could run more smoothly
for you?
Our mentors continue to be very helpful.
We really need to get JIRA up and running. I still would like the incubator
to consider separate servers for projects. Having to set up external
servers as an interim is a lot of work and adds confusion when you want
to move to a final server or url later and you could have migration
issues if you didn't set up the server in a compatible way.
Signed off by mentor:
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Lucene.NET
Lucene.Net was accepted into the Apache Incubator in February 2011.
Originally it was a sub project of the Lucene Project.
Lucene.Net is a port of the Lucene search engine library, written in C# and
targeted at .NET runtime users. Lucene.Net has three primary goals:
- Maintain the existing line-by-line port from Java to C#, fully automating
and commoditizing the process such that the project can easily synchronize
with the Java Lucene release schedule.
- High-performance C# search engine library.
- Maximize usability and power when used within the .NET runtime. To that
end, it will present a highly idiomatic, carefully tailored API that
takes advantage of many of the special features of the .NET runtime.
Recent Activity:
- Released 2.9.4g (generics version of 2.9.4) at the end of january
Current Activities:
- Lucene 3.0.3 porting is nearly complete. We have some bugs to work out,
and need to clean up our contrib projects a bit, but we hope to release
that within a month or two.
Long term goals:
- Have a nearly fully automated process to convert Java Lucene to C#.
(This has been a goal, but we are discussing if this is truely the best
idea of the project). UPDATE: We have done some more investigative work
on this, but not much progress was made.
- Parity with Java Lucene (4.0)
- Have a new .NET version of Lucene utilizing .NET constructs and idioms
Graduation thought:
One of the mentors (Stefan Bodewig) has indicated he wants to start
pushing for graduation. UPDATE: Unfortunately, we have not made any
progress on this - hopefully we can have a more conclusive update next
check in. Our development/committers group is small, and work sometimes
happens in bursts and then stalls - something we need to work on a bit.
The team has started to be more vocal about the project, for example a
blog has been added, and hopes to attract more contributors.
Signed off by mentor: bodewig
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NPanday
NPanday allows projects using the .NET framework to be built with Apache Maven.
NPanday has been incubating since August 2010.
NPanday had a lull of activity over the last few months as all the committers
had other things occupying their time. This has picked up again over the last
couple of weeks, with the renewed push for another release. There is still a
need to focus on a graduation plan, and to better promote the project among
the .NET and Maven communities as a result.
As reported last time, we continue to see small growth in users, and
occasional patch submissions, but haven't added a new committer in a while.
The top priorities towards graduation are:
- work out a concrete plan towards graduation in the next quarter
- encourage newer contributors to do so on a continuing basis.
There are no issues for the Incubator PMC or board at this time.
Signed off by mentor: dennisl
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Nuvem
Apache Nuvem will define an open application programming interface for
common cloud application services, allowing applications to be easily
ported across the most popular cloud platforms.
Nuvem was accepted for Incubation on June, 2010.
The Nuvem project is slowly seeing increase of committer activity and
mailing list discussions from external users or people interested in the
project.
The project also had a GSoC project accepted and will have Dulini Atapattu
working on a Message Queue component for different cloud platforms.
Top things to resolve prior to graduation:
- Increase the number of active committers.
Signed off by mentor: lresende
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PhotArk
Apache PhotArk will be a complete open source photo gallery application
including a content repository for the images, a display piece, an access
control layer, and upload capabilities.
PhotArk was accepted for Incubation on August 19, 2008.
PhotArk has a small community of contributors, mostly student, that need a
lot of attention in order to keep them active, and the lack of attention made
the community stale for a bit and we are starting to bootstrap it again
with some committers becoming active again, and other like myself freeing
up to be able to work on the project again.
The community have also decided to move the project direction to become a
hybrid HTML5/Cordova mobile application that aggregates images from
different photo sources such as: Flickr, Instagram, Facebook, etc. And
we will have two students helping on this project as part of GSoC 2012.
Issues before graduation :
PhotArk started as a project with no initial code-base, and we have
grown the community to the minimal independent committer size required
for graduation. We need to make these contributors constantly active
in order to think about graduation again, or recruit new contributors.
Signed off by mentor: lresende
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SIS
Apache SIS is a toolkit that spatial information system builders or users
can use to build applications containing location context. This project will
look to store reference implementations of spatial algorithms, utilities,
services, etc. as well as serve as a sandbox to explore new ideas. Further,
the goal is to have Apache SIS grow into a thriving Apache top-level
community, where a host of SIS/GIS related software (OGC datastores, REST-ful
interfaces, data standards, etc.) can grow from and thrive under the
Apache umbrella.
SIS was voted into the Incubator by the IPMC on February 21, 2010.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of?
The plan proposed here: http://s.apache.org/Q2z seems to be going
well and we are happy with the direction the project is headed.
Community progress since the last report
No new PPMC members and committers added this quarter.
Project progress since last report
Looking at just mailing list activity:
sis-dev: http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-sis-dev/
went from 9 email messages in January 2012 to 32, 74 and 39 in Feb-April 2012
We are participating pretty actively in GSoC and hoping to get 1 or 2
students who are collaborating with the Apache OODT project as well
for a joint effort.
In addition, we've seen some good cross pollination between other (at
the time) incubating projects like Jena and Any23, and TLPs like OODT.
In Jena and Any23's case, there are active discussions and work going on
to implement the W3C GeoSPARQL system using Apache SIS. After Andy Seaborne
poked around on the mailing list, Chris Mattmann volunteered to implement
it, and a subsequent thread has ensued.
Chris started rolling an RC for Apache SIS 0.2-incubating, but got blocked
on some packaging issues that Kevan Miller identified that needs to be fixed.
Shouldn't be too difficult and we hope to have an IPMC VOTE on it within
the next week or so.
We have also started to regularly use the project wiki. You can find it
here: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SIS/Home. Included on
the wiki are links to all of our Incubator reports, along with 2 tutorials.
The first one is a quick start guide that Ross Laidlaw improved and copied
from the SIS README.txt file. The second demonstrates how to get Apache
OODT and SIS connected to dump spatial information out of geolocated files
in Apache OODT and to search them in SIS.
Two newcomers to the community, Peter Karich, and Charith Madusanka have been
contributing patches, issues, and working issues within SIS. Peter has been
improving the speed of SIS's Quad Tree implementation, and Charith has been
helping improve our demo.jsp file, our javadocs, and is now working on a GUI
for SIS.
SIS is actively being used and piloted by students of Dr. Ellis Horowitz and
Chris Mattmann in USC's CSCI 572: Search Engines and Information Retrieval
class: http://www-scf.usc.edu/~csci572.
If we can add some new committers soon (which we expect), roll
0.2-incubating, and then potentially get an 0.3 shortly thereafter, we
think SIS will be well on its way to graduating and its own project.
Signed off by mentor: mattmann, kevan
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Stanbol
Apache Stanbol is an open source modular software stack and reusable set of
components for semantic content management. Incubating since November, 2010.
Graduation:
We believe Stanbol will be ready to graduate in the next few days: the
issues mentioned in our previous report have been adressed, the release
is being voted on (after six iterations of release candidates) and should
be out in the next few days if all goes well. Community activity is steady
and slowly increasing.
Community:
No new committers or PPMC members since the last report, but steady activity
on our lists from both existing and new members of our community.
Two Stanbol committers have been elected as Clerezza committers, furthering
ties between both podlings.
A Stanbol GSoC project has been accepted, with Rupert Westenthaler as
its mentor.
Contribution of several EnhancementEngines based on LinguaGrid (NLP
framework) by Alessio Bosca (STANBOL-583).
Integration of DBpedia Spotlight (http://dbpedia.org/spotlight) with the
Stanbol Enhancer, led by a new Stanbol contributor.
Stanbol was presented in the Developer Track of WWW2012
(slides: http://s.apache.org/AgK)
Project activity:
- Reorganization of the codebase for the release, the one binary dependency
left that's not available in Maven Central has been moved to a separate
-deps package for the release, as discussed on the incubator general list.
- Content hub faceted search improvements.
- New EnhancementEngine based on Apache Tika
- TopicEngine (STANBOL-197) is now functional
- Full LDpath support for the Entityhub Indexing tools (STANBOL-408).
Signed off by mentor: bdelacretaz, rgardler
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Syncope
Syncope is an Open Source system for managing digital identities in enterprise
environments, implemented in JEE technology. Syncope joined the incubator
on February 10th 2012.
Community Development:
Older Syncope users-base is migrating to the new ASF infrastructure, a few
new users joined, user@ ML activity is raising: currently 27 subscribers,
including 4 archive / non human address.
No new committers have been added.
dev@ ML activity is high: currently 31 subscribers, including 4 archive /
non human address.
Project Development:
Commits activity is healthy, commits@ ML activity is high.
Committers are working for finalizing the first final version
(1.0.0-incubating).
Web Site/Communication Development:
The website is kept up-to-date on http://incubator.apache.org/syncope/
Status page http://incubator.apache.org/projects/syncope.html is updated.
It introduces Syncope and provide first content.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of:
None so far.
Signed off by mentor: elecharny, coheigea
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VCL
VCL has been incubating since December 2008. VCL is a cloud computing
platform for the management of physical and virtual machines. It provides
comparatively easy and simple base line install with a end-user self
service interface.
New Committers
The Apache VCL community recently added James O'Dell from California
State University at Fullerton as a committer. We welcome James and look
forward to his expertise and knowledge to help advance VCL project and
community.
New PPMC member
The Apache VCL PPMC recently added Aaron Coburn as a new PPMC member.
The current PPMC welcomes Aaron.
Community Involvement
- The Apache VCL community is a growing community with global interest
from Education and commercial entities.
- The community is fast to respond to user questions and discuss design
ideas in a respectful manner.
- We have seen cross project interest as through a contribution of a
VCL driver to the Apache LIBCLOUD project.
- There are community members that have expressed interest in becoming
committers. They are working through their initial contributions. We
look forward to hopefully bring them aboard.
Releases
- Our next release has been delayed from our previous board report.
- This 2.3 release is a very large release, including bug-fixes, support
from kvm, VMWare vcenter, multi-lingualization, and approved
contributions from the community.
- We are in testing now and hope to generate a 2.3 release candidate in
the next few days.
Top Issues Before Graduation
Graduation work itself - As a community discuss graduation to determine
if we are ready. If so proceed with starting the process.
Signed off by mentor: kevan, adc
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Wink
Apache Wink is a project that enables development and consumption of REST
style web services. The core server runtime is based on the JAX-RS (JSR 311)
standard. The project also introduces a client runtime which can leverage
certain components of the server-side runtime. Apache Wink will deliver
component technology that can be easily integrated into a variety of
environments.
Apache Wink has been incubating since 2009-05-27.
Development list traffic and discussions are steadily, but low. We noticed a
little increase on the traffic with some users starting to provide patches and
request for a new release, which the community have started working on.
We are having a second discussion around project status
(http://s.apache.org/5h1) and one option that was brought up was the
possibility of graduating as a sub-project of a TLP that have dependencies
on Wink (e.g. Geronimo and/or Tuscany). The community thinks that we will
have a better understanding of the direction we want to take by the next
report (in three months).
Activities since last report period :
- Apache Wink 1.2 release being finalized in the project mailing list.
- Website being migrated to Apache CMS and taking in consideration
trademark requirements
- Raymond Feng being recommended as a new PMC member
Planned Activity:
- Continue discussion around project future
Top issues before graduation:
- Increase the size/diversity of the active dev community
Signed off by mentor: kevan
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Wookie
Wookie is a Java server application that allows you to upload and deploy
widgets for your applications. Wookie is based on the W3C Widgets
specification, but widgets can also be included that use extended APIs
such as Google Wave Gadgets and OpenSocial.
Wookie has been incubating since 17th July 2009.
Progress since February 2012:
- 0.9.2 release
- Hoang Minh Tien added as Committer
- Matt Franklin added as Mentor
- Improved release documentation
- GSoC student project
Next steps:
- implement new release schedule (aligned with Apache Rave)
- 0.10.0 release using new release process
- start graduation process after release
- ASF Widgets demo
Issues before graduation:
- none
Details:
In our last report we identified our target for this period was to identify
ways to improve the diversity of the Wookie community.
Since our last report we added a new committer (Tien) and we are now diverse
enough to graduate (6 committers from 4 organisations), although we are still
a small community.
We feel that graduation of the project will also help attract new
contributors, and we will seek approval to graduate during the next
quarter, after the 0.10 release which is imminent.
As well as graduation, we have agreed that having more frequent scheduled
releases, coordinated with Apache Rave may also help with community
development.
Matt Franklin has joined Wookie as a mentor and is active in helping with
this process.
We've also created a lot of detailed documentation on the release process
and are encouraging more committers take a turn at being release manager
to both test the documentation and to spread the experience of doing this
more widely.
Our first release under the new schedule will be 15th May.
Another approach we're (still) looking at is how we can use Wookie to deploy
widgets that relate to ASF processes and activities as a way of raising
awareness and interest; we've done some experiments with Widgets using the
Jira API as a starting point for a demonstrator and we may want to explore
this further.
We also have a GSoC student project with Wookie this year.
Signed off by mentor: rgardler, mfranklin, ate
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Zeta Components
The project has decided to retire from the incubator. Code has mostly been
moved to github already. The question has raised to trademarks, if the
developers can still use their name.
Here is the vote:
http://bit.ly/IQNbi0
Here is the vote result:
http://bit.ly/IQMV2w
The reason is lack of activity.
Retirement tasks from the IPMC are still open
Signed off by mentor: grobmeier
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Attachment U: Status report for the Apache James Project
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
Mostly work is done in Apache James Hupa (which is a GWT based
Webmail). We also started to work on the migration to the CMS.
This is mostly driven by Ioan Eugen Stan.
Other then that only a few bugfixes this quarter.
COMMUNITY
We have a GSOC student who work on Apache James Hupa and also one who work
on a distributed Mailbox implementation. Beside this we will replace me with
Eric Charles as PMC Chair.
RELEASES
We did the following releases during this period:
* Apache James Server 3.0-beta4
TRADEMARKS / BRANDING
* Project Naming And Descriptions : use proper Apache forms, describe
product, etc -> Done
* Website Navigation Links : navbar links included, link to
www.apache.org included -> Done
* Trademark Attributions : attribution for all ASF marks included in
footers, etc. -> Done
* Logos and Graphics : include TM, use consistent product logo on your
site -> We lack someone which can do that atm. We will look at it
* Project Metadata : DOAP file checkedin and up to date -> Not yet
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Attachment V: Status report for the Apache Jena Project
Apache Jena is a Java framework for building Semantic Web applications
based on W3C and community standards.
Jena became a TLP April 2012.
Status:
The project is executing the graduation process. The administrative
updates have been done, the infrastructure setup started for the
transfer of resources (lists, website, svn) and the project is now
engaged in the transfer tasks.
The final piece of non-Apache project infrastructure is the demo site
sparql.org. This is in the process of migrating to an Apache hosted
zone as time permits.
Community:
In April, the user list had 293 message and the dev list 156. The
project has completely migrated from lists used before Apache; messages
to old lists receive pointers to the Apache lists. JIRA is active as a
means of reporting issues and requesting features. Some contributions
have been received. One, from SAP, may require a software grant; further
clarification of the size of the contribution has been sought.
Releases:
The project's main incubator release was in December; additional
components were released in February, March and April.
Issues:
There are no board issues.
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Attachment W: Status report for the Apache jUDDI Project
jUDDI (pronounced "Judy") is an open source Java implementation of the Universal
Description, Discovery, and Integration (UDDI v3) specification for (Web)
Services. The jUDDI project includes Scout. Scout is an implementation of the
JSR 93 - Java API for XML Registries 1.0 (JAXR).
jUDDI
- No new releases this period. Some bugs got resolved and a new release is
scheduled for the next month or so.
- Traffic on the mailing lists was fairly low
- No new committers.
Scout
- No new releases, no real activity during the last quarter.
- Very low volume of JAXR related questions on the mailing list.
No board level issues at this time.
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Attachment X: Status report for the Apache Lenya Project
The Apache Lenya CMS is a Cocoon based XML/XHTML content management system.
Issues:
No board level issues at this time.
Development:
A read only git mirror was requested by the project and
setup by infrastructure.
No new releases this quarter.
Last release: 2.0.4 on 2011-03-14
Community:
It's been another quiet quarter on the mailing lists, but requests for
information are being answered in a timely manner on all lists.
No change in community.
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Attachment Y: Status report for the Apache Libcloud Project
Libcloud is a Python library that abstracts away the differences among
multiple cloud provider APIs.
Issues
There are no issues that require the board's attention at this time.
Releases
- Libcloud 0.8.0 has been released on February 9th, 2012
- Libcloud 0.9.1 has been released on April 2nd, 2012
Community
* No new PMC Members
* Multiple patches have been contributed by external contributors
* Potential mentors have worked with GSoC students on their proposals.
We have ended up getting one slot. Student Ilgiz Islamgulov will be
working on the Libcloud REST interface this summer.
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Attachment Z: Status report for the Apache Logging Project
- Community
Gary Gregory has joined the log4j team as a new committer.
The overall project has become more active in the past weeks. This is most
likely due to the constant activity on log4php, but also of the log4j 2.0
efforts.
Curt Arnold has tendered a resignation of the PMC Chair office pending selection
of a replacement. It has been a pleasure to serve in this role and I have good
intentions to continue to contribute to the project though time constraints are
likely to continue to be severe. It is encouraging to see the recent growth in
the community and project activity. I would expect that the PMC will submit a
resolution for board consideration in time for the next board meeting.
- Project Branding Requirements
With the release of log4j 1.2.17, the log4j 1.x website should conform to the
branding requirements.
Already meeting the requirements:
- logging.apache.org
- log4net
- log4php
- log4j (pending 1.2.17 release)
Open:
- log4jcxx
- chainsaw
- log4j 2.0
The log4j 2.0 site has not been deployed yet.
- Development
log4j 1.2:
The 1.2.17 release is currently being voted on. Latest with the board meeting a
new version should be available. The project has dropped jdk 1.3 support.
With 1.2.17 the website will reference to the upcoming log4j 2.0 efforts.
log4j 2.0:
Constant activity and regular commits. The project faces an increased level of
interest. The german JavaMagazin has confirmed to publish an article on log4j
2.0 in one of the summer issues.
log4cxx:
Less activity.
log4net:
This quarter has seen no activity in svn at all. User questions are
being asked and answered by the community, but there is no real
development.
JIRA issues get discussed and some major pain points have been
identified. The current set of committers is pretty small and not
very active and we still haven't manage to attract new people who'd
want to contribute consistently.
log4php:
Constant activity, still a small team. Changes are mainly driven from one
committer.
Chainsaw:
A new chainsaw release is blocked by the companions release.
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Attachment AA: Status report for the Apache Lucy Project
The Apache Lucy search engine library provides full-text search for dynamic
programming languages.
ACTIVITY
* The transition to TLP has effectively been completed save for voting on
our bylaws.
* Development of the codebase has been active, with a focus on enabling
compiled extensions.
RELEASES
* Version 0.3.1 has been created. We are still exercising the new
mechanics of https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/lucy/ before
making an official announcement.
COMMUNITY
* No change to committer/PMC membership ranks during this period.
* The dev list has been active, the user list has seen some discussion
of Lucy compatibility with Lucene and Nutch.
* Commit diversity within the existing community is satisfactory and
continues to improve.
BRANDING
* We believe that we are in full compliance with the ASF branding
guidelines.
ISSUES
* None requiring board-level attention at this time.
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Attachment AB: Status report for the Apache OpenNLP Project
The Apache OpenNLP library 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.
Development
------------------
Last month the development stayed active and we had commits
almost every day from different committers. Most of the changes
were related to bug fixes and smaller improvements.
A discussion about the first OpenNLP release as a TLP was started
on the dev list, but it will likely take 2 or 3 month until the
release is finished.
Community
---------------
The community remains active and there is good traffic on the user list.
No new committers have been voted in.
Releases
------------
No releases since we graduated from the incubator.
Issues
--------
There are no board-level issues at this time.
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Attachment AC: Status report for the Apache Perl Project
-- mod_perl 1.0 --
The mod_perl 1.x is a maintenance track designed to work with httpd
1.3.x.
No new mod_perl 1.x releases since the last report.
--- mod_perl 2.0 --
mod_perl 2.X is designed to work with all httpd 2.X branches.
mod_perl 2.0.6 was released on April 24, 2012.
Work to fully support httpd-2.4 is moving along.
--- Apache-Test --
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, and
includes support for Apache modules written in C, mod_perl, PHP
and Parrot.
No new Apache-Test releases since the last report.
--- Apache-SizeLimit --
Apache-SizeLimit is a popular component in most mod_perl production
environments. It is used to kill off large httpd child processes
based on various environmental triggers.
Apache-SizeLimit 0.97 was released on April 2nd, 2012
--- Apache-Bootstrap --
Apache-Bootstrap is a framework to make it easier to build perl
module distributions for different mod_perl versions. It encapsulates
code developed over the years by mod_perl developers to make
maintaining Apache::* and Apache2::* modules in the same distribution easy.
No new Apache-Bootstrap releases since the last report.
--- Apache-Reload --
Apache-Reload is a popular component in most mod_perl development
environments, used to refresh compiled code in the perl interpreter
without completely restarting httpd.
Apache-Reload 0.12 was released on March 31st, 2012
-- Apache-DBI --
Apache-DBI is a popular component in many mod_perl deployments. It
is used to provide transparent database connection pooling to clients
using DBI.
No new Apache-DBI releases since the last report.
-- Development --
mod_perl continues to be a healthy development community, though
as a mature and stable product development moves at a naturally
slower pace than in years past. Bugs are found and discussed and
applied with due consideration for our production userbase.
-- Users --
The mod_perl users list is seeing an increase in activity, with a few bug
reports and user questions.
Discussion on full support for httpd-2.4 is underway.
-- PMC --
Steve Hay was invited to join the mod_perl PMC. A vote was taken in late
February and 4 +1 votes were recorded. The VP omitted to send the Board notice
of this at the time. The notice has now been sent and we are currently awaiting
approval from the Board to finalize this.
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Attachment AD: Status report for the Apache POI Project
Apache POI is a Java library for reading and writing Microsoft Office file
formats.
Project Status
--------------
We have no issues that require Board assistance at this time.
Community
---------
In the last quarter we haven't added any new committers and PMC members.
This summer a GSoC student is participating in the POI project.
His ICLA is already on file and providing all is good he will be a
committer soon.
Traffic on the mailing lists has been steady. Most of patches and bug fixes are
being applied without much delay.
Releases
--------
On March 26, 2012 we released a stable release of POI-3.8.
Next release is planned for late 2012, we hope it will include
contributions from GSoC.
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Attachment AE: Status report for the Apache Qpid Project
Apache Qpid is a cross-platform Enterprise Messaging system which implements
the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP)
Issues:
None to report at this time
Releases:
0.16 is on the cusp of going out the door
Activity:
- Releasing the JCA component.
- We have a lot of on going work on AMQP 1.0 checked in under
https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/qpid/proton/
- Kim has started to move in the c++ store component into into Qpid.
- Rob has done work to make our doc pages look the same as the website.
Comminty
Steady mail list traffic
Committer/ PMC
Weston Price voted onto the committer role.
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Attachment AF: Status report for the Apache Rave Project
Apache Rave is a widgets-based, web-and-social mashup platform.
ISSUES
There are no issues that require the board's attention.
RELEASES
Apache Rave 0.10.1 and 0.11 have been released since the last
report.
ACTIVITY
The community has been focused on delivering simpler UI extension in
0.11. Additionally, discussions continue around improving the overall
extensibility of the application and injecting additional architectural
components.
A current frequent topic of discussion is the need for a 1.0
release roadmap. The community will expand on these activities to work
toward a viable & agreed upon roadmap in the next couple of months.
COMMUNITY
The community has continued to be vibrant in the last month. We
continue to see questions & contributions from new individuals &
organizations.
COMMITTER/PMC CHANGES
No committer or PMC changes since the last report.
PRESS
A couple of articles related to graduation were published on smaller
blogs
BRANDING
No issues at the moment. A full execution of the steps followed for
the suitable name search will be performed prior to the July report.
Additionally, multiple community members have an Apache Rave Google alert
configured.
LEGAL
No issues.
INFRASTRUCTURE
We intend on requesting a new VM to host a demo version of the
codebase prior to the next report.
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Attachment AG: Status report for the Apache River Project
Apache River is a distributed computing architecture, based on the JSK
Starter Kit Source code donated by Sun Microsystems, for the Jini
Specification.
Releases:
No new releases since last report, several submissions have been made
for inclusion into our next release and are currently being reviewed
prior to merging them onto the trunk.
Branding:
The River website had one branding issue (missing DOAP file) for which
a Jira was raised (thanks Shane) and has been resolved.
Progress:
There are a trickle of SVN commits being made. We are a small
community and so this is expected. There was a discussion on building
a reference implementation to showcase River since there is little
public knowledge of River/Jini installations, similar to the Java Pet
Store. We hope this will help to get people involved in contributing
to that application, but also make it easier for end users to
understand the offering of this tech.
Community:
One PMC member has resigned citing the difficulty of working with the
code and understanding how best to measure the changes she was trying
to make. This is a valid point given the lack of hard data and
particular performance issues encountered by end users.
The PMC recently discussed the the health of our community. Whilst we
all agreed that things were pretty quiet, many of the contributors
reaffirmed their commitment to the project. Since we are such a small
community we can hardly expect the same levels of noise and activity
as those projects with many more members or who have greater numbers
of end users. As such, we have no particular concerns that the
project is slipping into dormancy.
Issues:
No board issues at this time
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Attachment AH: Status report for the Apache Roller Project
Apache Roller is a full-featured, Java-based weblogging package that works
well on Tomcat and MySQL, and is also known to run on other servers and
databases. The ASF blog site blogs.apache.org runs on Roller 5.0.0.
Issues
No board issues at this time.
Releases
The latest release of Apache Roller is v5.0, which was released
on May 8, 2011. The community is currently working on a Roller 5.0.1
security and bug fix.
Community
Since our last report, there have been a couple of patches and a new
contributor added support for Atlassian Crowd authentication.
Apart from that, the Roller community continues to be rather quiet
with low traffic that mostly concerns technical support and installation
issues. No new committers or PMC changes to report.
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Attachment AI: Status report for the Apache Santuario Project
The Apache Santuario project is aimed at providing implementation of security
standards for XML.
There was one new release during the last quarter - version 1.5.1 of the Apache
XML Security for Java library. This release fixes two important bugs in the
1.5.0 release, as well as containing performance improvements for encryption
and decryption.
A steady stream of user bugs was reported against 1.5.1 of the Apache XML
Security for Java library, and a vote on 1.5.2 is anticipated in the near
future. A vote on version 1.4.7 of the Apache XML Security for Java library is
currently under way.
There were no new committers or changes to the PMC in the last quarter. The
project activity remains low in general.
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Attachment AJ: Status report for the Apache Sqoop Project
DESCRIPTION
Apache Sqoop is a tool designed for efficiently transferring bulk data
between Apache Hadoop and structured datastores such as relational databases.
It can be used to import data from external structured datastores into Hadoop
Distributed File System or related systems like Hive and HBase. Conversely,
Sqoop can be used to extract data from Hadoop and export it to external
structured datastores such as relational databases and enterprise data
warehouses.
RELEASES
* The last release of Apache Sqoop was version 1.4.1-incubating, released on
February 16, 2012 while in Incubation.
* No new releases are planned currently for the project.
CURRENT ACTIVITY
* Development activity continues as can be seen from the following report:
http://s.apache.org/oL
COMMUNITY
* The composition of the committers and PMC members has not changed since
the last report.
* Currently there are:
- Total of 63 subscribers to the developer list.
- Total of 115 subscribers to the user list.
- Total of 14 committers
- Total of 12 PMC members
ISSUES
* There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
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Attachment AK: Status report for the Apache Subversion Project
An abbreviated, late report: the Subversion project is progressing
normally, with no issues to report to the Board. Since the last
report, we have added one committer (ashod) and one PMC member
(trent). We have released 1.7.3 (as reported in February) and 1.7.4,
and the 1.7.5 release is hitting the wire "now". Additionally, the
community made a release of 1.6.18 (a non-Apache version, distributed
from tigris.org).
A complete report will be filed in June.
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Attachment AL: Status report for the Apache Turbine Project
Apache Turbine is a servlet based framework that allows experienced Java
developers to quickly build web applications. Turbine allows you to use
personalize the web sites and to use user logins to restrict access to parts
of your application.
Turbine is a matured and well established framework that is used as the base
of many other projects.
Status
The Turbine project has as usual seen low levels of activity in the last
quarter.
The Turbine project has no board-level issues at this time.
Project Branding Board Report Checklist
The last issue left is
TODO: Logos and Graphics : include TM
Community changes
No new committers were voted in since the last board report.
No new PMC members were voted in since the last board report.
Turbine core project
No activity in this quarter.
No beta or final releases were made since the last board report.
Some questions on the user list appeared and have been answered.
Fulcrum component project
No activity in this quarter.
No beta or final releases were made since the last board report.
META project
No activity in this quarter.
No beta or final releases were made since the last board report.
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Attachment AM: Status report for the Apache Tuscany Project
Apache Tuscany is an SOA framework based on OASIS OpenCSA and SCA.
ISSUES
- There are no issues that require the board's attention.
RELEASES
- Tuscany 2.0 Beta4 release was approved, and the community is working
on the RC2 of the official 2.0 release. We also gave heads-up to
@press to help us with a 2.0 press release.
COMMUNITY ACTIVITY
- In general traffic is a little on the lower side if in the past few months.
- Tuscany community engaged with students as part of GSoC 2012, but
the candidate had proposed ideas for multiple Apache projects and the
Tuscany one was not selected.
COMMITTER/PMC CHANGES
- The Tuscany PMC voted on a new policy on election and rotation of
Project Chairs, and also recommended a new project Chair which got
approved by the Board last month.
BRANDING
- We have reviewed and updated website with some of the missing links
and added trademarks attribution on the page footer as described in
the Project Branding Board Report Checklist. We still need to update
logos with ™ and review project doap file.
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Attachment AN: Status report for the Apache Velocity Project
Apache Velocity is a general-purpose template engine with several
supporting projects.
Status
* Moderate development activity on Engine, including some key patches.
* Moderate activity on mailing lists.
Community
* GSoC project underway, student is up for committer status
Releases
* Apache Velocity Master 1 (our parent Maven POM) release is
imminent, but not completed.
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Attachment AO: Status report for the Apache Web Services Project
General
Apologies for the late report. Things have been puttering along
in WS-land, with no changes to community of late. The project's
(few but tireless) core committers are continuing to get stuff
done, and issues are being responded to on the mailing lists.
Glen is stepping down from the chair position and Sagara will be
taking over. One hopes this might result in more timely
reports. :) The project could surely use a bit more cleanup
(finishing dist/ housekeeping, website work, etc), but things
are mostly moving at a slow-and-steady pace.
Releases / Code
* WSS4J 1.6.5 was released on March 4
* Axiom 1.2.13 was released on April 9
* Neethi 3.0.2 was released on April 11
* XmlSchema 2.0.2 was released on April 11
* Work will be stopping on the WSS4J 1.5 branch
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Attachment AP: Status report for the Apache Xalan Project
1. A lot of work has been done to update the Xalan-C documentation and
web site.
2. Work has been completed to port Xalan-C to Microsoft Visual Studio
10.
3. Xalan-C was approved for a Google Summer of Code project to finish
up an implementation of the ESXLT library (http://exslt.org/) and the
contributor is up and running!
4. Work is ongoing to clean up Jira issues.
5. Gary Gregory and and Michael Glavassevich have both expressed an
interest in getting out a Xalan-J 2.7.2 bug-fix release to help show
the community that we're still alive and hopefully renew some interest
in the project to attract contributors. They haven't had the time yet
to make that a reality, but the intention is there. Steven Hathaway
volunteered to help with the documentation for a Xalan-J 2.7.2 release
when we get around to it. This was discussed recently on the mailing
list. A lot of commits to Xalan-J (more than 70) were made around the
new year to start getting the rust off.
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Attachment AQ: Status report for the Apache Xerces Project
Xerces-J
There were several students who expressed an interest in GSoC this
year and we were fortunate again to have a student with a project
proposal that was accepted. For GSoC, Shakya Wijerama will be
working on a solution to allow for validation against multiple XML
schemas with the same namespace.
With XML Schema 1.1 becoming a W3C Recommendation there appears to
be more interest from users in what we've done in Xerces-J. We still
need to figure out what remaining work needs to be done to move the
support from its beta state into the main release stream.
We are aware that the Apache Lucene project had been distributing
its own patched version of Xerces to resolve a problem they were
having. The Xerces JIRA issue reported for the problem continues to
remain open today because we have been waiting for a consumable test
case to be provided. The initial reporter's test was 20 GBs, too
large for many to download and analyze. Apparently Lucene has since
implemented a workaround and stopped distributing their own Xerces
version. We certainly welcome the Lucene developers engagement if
they're still interested in a resolution. With more direct
communication on the mailing lists this issue might have already
been resolved a long time ago.
Mailing list traffic has been moderate (and increasingly lately in
part due to GSoC); about 140+ posts on the j-dev and j-users lists
since the beginning of March.
No new releases this quarter.
Xerces-C
Moderate development activity during the reporting period: 4 bugs
have been filed, 8 have been resolved.
Mailing list traffic has been moderate; about 50+ posts on the c-dev
and c-users lists since the beginning of March.
No new releases this quarter.
Xerces-P
Nothing in particular to report. There was no development activity
over the reporting period.
XML Commons
The migration from the XML project is finally complete. Thanks to
Gareth the website and SVN location have now been moved over to the
Xerces domain.
No development activity to report.
Apache Project Branding Requirements
The "TM" symbol has been added to the first main occurrences of
"Apache Xerces" on each TLP website page. There's still some work
left to do on the TLP website, including adding "TM" to the project
logo.
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Attachment AR: Status report for the Apache XML Graphics Project
General
-------
I've organized some changes to the PMC Membership to remove 2 emeritus members
and invited 2 new more active members. A new source code component has also been
submitted to the XML Graphics umbrella too: pdf-plugin, which was kindly granted
to Apache by Jeremias Maerki. This will make it easier for committers to
maintain. Previously committers had been sending patches around between
themselves and this was becoming unmanagable.
Brand Compliance
----------------
The contents of the FOP, Commons and TLP sites have been reviewed and adjusted
to meet brand compliance. The Batik site has yet to be reviewed, but I hope we
can get to that soon. The FOP site has been republished, but the Commons and
the TLP site are awaiting re-publishing.
Moving to CMS based websites
----------------------------
We have started the process of figuring out how we can move to markdown and use
a CMS based publishing approach instead of the painful forrest based approach we
are currently using. Clay Leeds has made excellent progress on prototyping the
new approach, but we have a lot of work still to do to get fully switched over
to a CMS based website.
Transitioning from Bugzilla to JIRA
-----------------------------------
A vote has been passed to transition all of XML Graphics' Bugzilla products to
JIRA for bug and issue management. Glenn Adams has volunteered to oversee this
process.
FOP
---
One new very active committer: Glenn Adams. Since becoming a committer Glenn
has processed a lot of patches that have been sitting around for a long time
and cleaned up a lot of the bugs in preparation for doing a 1.1 release. There
have been bug fixes and enhancements committed too, the most significant are:
Complex Scripts Support, e.g., Arabic, Devanagari, Thai, etc., (Glenn Adams) and
Compressed Objects Streams for PDF (Vincent Hennebert, Peter Hancock). There
have also been a few technical discussions on the developer lists and many
questions asked and answered on the user list.
Batik
-----
There doesn't appear to be any active committers on this sub project at the
moment. No commits were made and there has been no activity on the developer
list. However, there were a few questions raised by users on the user list.
Commons
-------
A few commits this quarter, which includes some bugs fixed plus the changes
needed by Brand Compliance.
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Attachment AS: Status report for the Apache XMLBeans Project
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Attachment AT: Proposed 2012-2013 Budget
Also available: https://svn.apache.org/repos/private/foundation/Finances/budgets/2012-budget.txt
ASF budget for FY May 1 2012 - Apr 30 2013
-------------------
INCOME (projected)
== Interest ==
Interest income : $3,600.00
== Public donations ==
One-Time (by chk, etc) : $2,400.00
PayPal ($2000 x 12 mos) : $24,000.00
Car Program LLC : $1,600.00
($400 x 4 contributions)
Category total : $28,000.00
== Sponsorship Program ==
Platinum sponsors (5) : $500,000.00 (+25%)
Gold sponsors (4) : $160,000.00 (+33%)
Silver sponsors (3) : $60,000.00
Bronze sponsors (4) : $20,000.00
Category total : $740,000.00 (+22%)
== Program Income ==
Google Summer of Code : $10,000.00
Category Total : $10,000.00
== Unrelated Business Income (royalty, licenses, etc.) ==
Category Total : $0.00
Income Category Summaries:
Interest Income : $ 3,600.00
One-time donations : $ 28,000.00
Sponsorship Program : $740,000.00
Program Income : $ 10,000.00
Unrelated Business Income : $ 0.00
INCOME Total : $781,600.00 (+6%)
EXPENSES
== Fundraising Overhead ==
PayPal (@ ~ 3.74%) : $100.00
Car Program LLC : $ 0.00
Category Total : $100.00
== Administrative ==
Office Supplies (Sec'y) : $0.00
Office Supplies (Treasurer) : $500.00
President Discretionary : $5,000.00
Exec. Assistant (PT) : $30,000.00
Category Total : $35,500.00
== Infrastructure ==
Staffing System Admin (4FT) : $ 360,000.00 (+69%)
Hosting : $ 8,216.00
Cloud : $ 2,000.00
OSU OSL (OR, USA) : $ 0.00
SURFnet (AMS, NL) : $ 0.00
Traci.net (FL, USA) : $ 6,216.00
Hardware : $ 63,000.00 (-33%)
Replacement : $ 25,000.00 (-44%)
Expansion : $ 20,000.00
Build farm : $ 10,000.00 (-58%)
Disks/RAM : $ 8,000.00 (+60%)
Service contracts : $ 9,500.00 (+35%)
Dell : $ 7,000.00 (+55%)
Silicon Mechanics : $ 1,500.00
Sun : $ 500.00
Other : $ 500.00
Misc : $ 1,500.00 (-17%)
Spamhaus RBL : $ 0.00 (-100%)
SSL / DNS renewals : $ 700.00
3rd Party Thank yous : $ 800.00
OpenOffice release overflow traffic : ??? # a work in progress with sourceforge admins, tbd
Travel : $ 20,400.00 (+17%)
4 Staff+VP @ AC Event : $ 20,000.00
AC Event food 1 mtg : $ 400.00
Category Total :$ 462,616.00 (+36%)
== Publicity ==
Outside PR Services : $75,000.00
Press releases (prepaid) : $10,000.00
Travel : $5,000.00
Consultant Expenses : $2,000.00
Conference Participation : $4,000.00
Conference Support : $1,000.00
Conference Signage : $3,500.00
Collateral Printing : $1,500.00
Contact Database : $2,500.00
Clipping Service : $5,000.00
Category Total :$109,500.00
== ConCom ==
Local events & hackathons : $50,000.00
Travel : $5,000.00
Discretionary : $5,000.00
Category Total : $60,000.00
== Travel Assistance Committee ==
Sponsored Attendees (7 events) : $72,500.00 (+81%)
Category Total : $72,500.00
== Legal ==
Discretionary : $2,500.00
Category Total : $2,500.00
== Brand Management ==
Register key trademarks : $8,400.00
Register project marks : $2,000.00
Register mark ownership : $3,000.00
Category Total : $13,400.00 (+312%)
== Board ==
Chairman Discretionary : $5,000.00
Conference Calls : $0.00
Category Total : $5,000.00
== Banking Fees ==
Checks : $ 150.00
Safe-deposit box : $ 75.00
Monthly fees : $1,000.00
Lockbox : $2,500.00
Category Total : $3,725.00
== Treasury Services ==
Tax Filing : $2,000.00
Online services : $1,500.00
Category Total : $3,500.00
== Licenses / Insurance ==
Corp. Service Co. (DE Agent) : $ 299.00
D&O Insurance : $1,500.00
Property/Asset Insurance : $1,000.00
Misc. Insurance : $2,201.00
Category Total : $5,000.00
== Shipping ==
Federal Express / Courier : $500.00
Category Total : $500.00
== Misc. ==
Category Total : $0.00
Expense Category Summaries:
Fundraising overhead :$ 100.00
Administrative :$ 35,500.00
Infrastructure :$462,616.00
Publicity :$109,500.00
ConCom :$ 60,000.00
Travel Assistance :$ 72,500.00
Legal :$ 2,500.00
Brand Management :$ 13,400.00
Board :$ 5,000.00
Banking Fees :$ 3,725.00
Accounting Services :$ 3,500.00
Licenses / Insurance :$ 5,000.00
Shipping :$ 500.00
Misc :$ 0.00
Expense Total :$773,841.00
=== SUMMARY ===
Income Total : $781,600.00 (+22%)
Expense Total : $773,841.00 (+25%)
Net Total : $ 7,759.00
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== NOTES ==
Infra:
There is a significant increase in this years budget, over last year. This is
due to the sharp increase in staffing costs. We have effectively added a new
FT post over above last years budget. There is a reduced hardware budget,
as there are fewer hosts requiring replacement.
Brand Management:
With the growth in commercial popularity of many of our projects - and the
corresponding growth in third parties who use (and sometimes abuse) our
project brands, and on the advice of counsel, we plan to register a number
of trademarks in the coming year, primarily in response to approved project
requests.
We also plan to register the change of ownership of several trademarks, to
deal with key project's brand image and to ensure third parties clearly
understand our ownership of these marks (there have been several questions
about our legitimacy).
We also plan to work with DLAPiper on trademark issues going forward. They
have offered detailed docket tracking - a huge help to us - completely pro
bono, but also note that to ensure the registration process is smooth, higher
fees may be expected when processing actual registrations or transfers.
All requested budget is for national registry fees or for legal expenses
directly related to registered trademarks.
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End of minutes for the May 16, 2012 board meeting.
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