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Board of Directors Meeting Minutes
October 17, 2012
1. Call to order
The meeting was scheduled for 10:30am (Pacific) and began at
10:31 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:
Rich Bowen
Roy T. Fielding
Ross Gardler
Brett Porter
Sam Ruby
Greg Stein
Directors Absent:
Doug Cutting
Jim Jagielski
Bertrand Delacretaz
Executive Officers Present:
Chris Mattmann
Craig L Russell
Executive Officers Absent:
none
Guests:
Shane Curcuru
Dan Kulp
3. Minutes from previous meetings
Published minutes can be found at:
http://www.apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html
A. The meeting of September 19, 2012
See: board_minutes_2012_09_19.txt
Approved by General Consent.
4. Executive Officer Reports
A. Chairman [Doug]
No report was submitted.
B. President [Jim]
No report was submitted.
C. Treasurer [Chris]
It's been a busy month for the Treasurer, hence the late report.
Most of the business has had to do with various odds and ends for
ApacheCon EU 2012 but the good news is that it's all been really
positive and it looks like there is a ton of progress. Treasurer
is servicing bill pay/EFT and so far so good for payments on-time,
and other such things.
Chris is set up with WFS and has received his token to get online
(thanks Sam). PayPal is set up for Chris as well so full required
access is available for Chris to lead some of the things like EFTs
and Wires which he was previously unable to complete (thanks again
to Sam there). Chris probably does need some training from Sam in
the EFT/Wire area, and Sam has agreed to spend an hour or two
providing it to him at some point in the next month.
We need to transfer the Bill pay access control from Geir to Chris
at some point soon. Chris has reached out to Geir but hasn't heard
back on that front yet. Sam and Chris also discussed our current
system of 1 other person acknowledging an EFT/Wire as something
that is a current SPOF and that should be addressed at some point
in the future.
There was discussion on 10/4 about PayPal pass through insurance
and on PayPal not being insured by the FDIC [2]. No specific actions
came from the discussion.
Chris talked to Hadrian on a telecon announced on treasurer@ to
discuss audit and to bring Hadrian up to speed on the goings on
since Chris took over as Treasurer on 10/5. No specific actions or
outcomes came from the discussion.
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ApacheCon EU 2012
* Sponsorship/Fundraising:
- Responded to a request from Sally to invoice Citrix
on 9/20 [1].
- Received confirmation for registration in RedHat Supplier
Management portal necessary for sponsorship (working
with Leslie Hawthorn/Jim Jag on RedHat side) and requested a PO
from Leslie for RedHat sponsorship.
- Confirmed that the ASF is set up as a vendor in the VMWare
system.
* Travel/Flights
- Wire Transfer for ApacheCon EU 2012 initial flights completed
by Sam on 9/24.
* Received a request from Oliver-Rainer Wittmann for Apache Open
Office - fund allocation for ACEU 2012
- Worked out a plan for the Apache OO folks to spend monies the ASF
received on travel reimbursements and other stipends associated
with ApacheCon EU 2012. Treasurer is fine with this policy and
process, and it was agreed to be coordinated with President
(Jim/Ross) and operations@ as requests for travel reimbursement
related to the OO side process occur.
General Sponsorship/Fundraising:
* Inquiries
- Responded to a request from Bill Rowe RE: information on prior
VMWare/SpringSource/Covalent sponsorships for Apache.
General/donations
* Donated Car
- Roy and Chris closed the loop with The Car Program charities
on a check for a vehicle sale donation proceeds check. Amount
unknown at this time. Should be on its way into our lockbox.
Budget Rollup/Summary
Income and Expenses - September 2012
Current Balances:
Wells Fargo Business Checking: 497,638.91
Wells Fargo Savings: 287,371.11
PayPal: 133,126.60
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Total $ 918,136.62
Income Summary:
Lockbox 2,500.00
Other 6,222.12
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Total $ 8,722.12
Expense Summary:
Category Amount
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ApacheCon EU 2012 7,250.00
Executive Assistant 2,308.00
Infrastructure Contractors 25,150.00
Network Services - Traci.net 518.00
Public Relations 4,545.45
Misc Expenses 6,177.82
ASF credit card - Jim Jagielski 864.76
ASF credit card - Sam Ruby 3,801.51
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Total $ 50,615.54
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[1] https://whimsy.apache.org/fundraising/invoice/1022
[2] http://s.apache.org/f0
D. Secretary [Craig]
September was another uneventful month for secretary@.
56 ICLAs, four grants, and one CCLA were received and filed.
As part of the process, 11 account requests were filed.
E. Executive Vice President [Ross]
ACEU is still requiring close attention. Mostly I'm operating
as a member of ConCom but I did make a request, copied to
board@, for more clarity in the budget control processes. I
finally have a contract from The Open Bastion, yet to be
signed. Since the event is now closing in on being sold out I'm
looking into providing additional on-site support for the
volunteers as the "bare bones" plan of self-organisation will
not work with the numbers that will be present. There should be
plenty of budget available to cover this, but first we need
clarity on the current budget position.
There was one request (from VP Concom) for travel expenses with
only a couple of hours notice. In the Presidents absence I
approved the request as it was a small amount and would clearly
benefit ACEU. I still have not drafted the policy for travel
expenses.
F. Vice Chairman [Greg]
Nothing particular to report, beyond that I will act as the
meeting Chair for this month.
Executive officer reports approved as submitted by General Consent.
5. Additional Officer Reports
A. VP of Brand Management [Shane Curcuru / Roy]
See Attachment 1
B. VP of Fundraising [Upayavira / Greg]
See Attachment 2
C. VP of Marketing and Publicity [Sally Khudairi / Rich]
See Attachment 3
D. VP of W3C Relations [Andy Seaborne / Brett]
See Attachment 4
E. Apache Legal Affairs Committee [Sam Ruby]
No report was submitted.
F. Apache Security Team Project [Mark Cox / Bertrand]
See Attachment 6
G. Apache Conference Planning Project [Nick Burch / Jim]
No report was submitted.
H. Apache Infrastructure Team [Sam Ruby]
See Attachment 8
I. Apache Travel Assistance Committee [Gavin McDonald / Ross]
See Attachment 9
Additional officer reports approved as submitted by General Consent.
6. Committee Reports
A. Apache Accumulo Project [Billie Rinaldi / Sam]
See Attachment A
B. Apache ACE Project [Marcel Offermans / Doug]
No report was submitted.
AI: Greg to pursue a report for ACE
C. Apache ActiveMQ Project [Hiram Chirino / Ross]
See Attachment C
D. Apache Airavata Project [Suresh Marru / Doug]
See Attachment D
E. Apache Aries Project [Jeremy Hughes / Jim]
See Attachment E
F. Apache Attic Project [Gianugo Rabellino / Greg]
See Attachment F
G. Apache Avro Project [Scott Carey / Rich]
No report was submitted.
H. Apache CXF Project [Daniel Kulp / Roy]
See Attachment H
I. Apache DB Project [Kristian Waagan / Bertrand]
See Attachment I
J. Apache Deltacloud Project [David Lutterkort / Brett]
See Attachment J
K. Apache DirectMemory Project [Raffaele P. Guidi / Sam]
See Attachment K
L. Apache Directory Project [Pierre-Arnaud Marcelot / Greg]
See Attachment L
M. Apache ESME Project [Richard Hirsch / Ross]
See Attachment M
N. Apache Geronimo Project [Kevan Miller / Rich]
See Attachment N
O. Apache Hadoop Project [Arun Murthy / Doug]
No report was submitted.
AI: Greg to pursue a report for Hadoop
P. Apache HBase Project [Michael Stack / Brett]
See Attachment P
The "owner" term is problematic, and might be misinterpreted.
AI: Brett follow up with PMC to clarify the "owner" role.
Q. Apache Incubator Project [Jukka Zitting / Jim]
See Attachment Q
R. Apache James Project [Eric Charles / Sam]
See Attachment R
S. Apache Jena Project [Andy Seaborne / Roy]
See Attachment S
T. Apache JMeter Project [Sebastian Bazley / Bertrand]
See Attachment T
U. Apache Lucy Project [Peter Karman / Greg]
See Attachment U
V. Apache Mahout Project [Jeff Eastman / Roy]
See Attachment V
W. Apache Maven Project [Olivier Lamy / Rich]
See Attachment W
X. Apache MINA Project [Emmanuel Lecharny / Jim]
See Attachment X
Y. Apache MyFaces Project [Gerhard Petracek / Doug]
See Attachment Y
Z. Apache Nutch Project [Julien Nioche / Sam]
See Attachment Z
AA. Apache ODE Project [Tammo van Lessen / Brett]
No report was submitted.
AB. Apache OpenEJB Project [David Blevins / Ross]
No report was submitted.
AC. Apache OpenJPA Project [Pinaki Poddar / Bertrand]
See Attachment AC
AD. Apache PDFBox Project [Andreas Lehmkühler / Sam]
See Attachment AD
AE. Apache Rave Project [Matt Franklin / Brett]
See Attachment AE
AF. Apache Shindig Project [Paul Lindner / Jim]
No report was submitted.
AG. Apache Sqoop Project [Arvind Prabhakar / Doug]
See Attachment AG
AH. Apache Stanbol Project [Fabian Christ / Ross]
See Attachment AH
AI. Apache Steve Project [Jim Jagielski]
No report was submitted.
AJ. Apache Struts Project [Rene Gielen / Greg]
See Attachment AJ
AK. Apache Tapestry Project [Howard M. Lewis Ship / Bertrand]
See Attachment AK
AL. Apache Tcl Project [Massimo Manghi / Rich]
See Attachment AL
AI: Rich: Follow up with PMC re: perhaps too much detail on
bugs fixed; and did the bugs end up being shipped?
AM. Apache Thrift Project [Bryan Duxbury / Roy]
See Attachment AM
AN. Apache Tika Project [Dave Meikle / Bertrand]
See Attachment AN
AO. Apache Traffic Server Project [Leif Hedstrom / Brett]
See Attachment AO
AP. Apache Web Services Project [Sagara Gunathunga / Rich]
See Attachment AP
AQ. Apache XMLBeans Project [Cezar Andrei / Roy]
See Attachment AQ
AR. Apache Bigtop Project [Roman Shaposhnik / Ross]
See Attachment AR
AS. Apache Oozie Project [Alejandro Abdelnur / Sam]
See Attachment AS
AT. Apache Lucene.Net Project [Prescott Nasser / Greg]
See Attachment AT
AU. Apache SIS Project [Adam Estrada / Brett]
See Attachment AU
Committee reports approved as submitted by General Consent.
7. Special Orders
A. Change the Apache DB Project Chair
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Kristian
Waagan to the office of Vice President, Apache DB Project,
and
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the
resignation of Kristian Waagan from the office of Vice
President, Apache DB Project;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Kristian Waagan is
relieved and discharged from the duties and responsibilities of
the office of Vice President, Apache DB Project, and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Myrna van Lunteren be and hereby is
appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache DB Project,
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 DB Project Chair, was
approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
B. Change the Apache Mahout Project Chair
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Jeff Eastman
to the office of Vice President, Apache Mahout, and
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation
of Jeff Eastman from the office of Vice President, Apache Mahout,
and
WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Mahout
project has chosen by vote to recommend Jake Mannix as the successor
to the post;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Jeff Eastman is relieved and
discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office
of Vice President, Apache Mahout, and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Jake Mannix be and hereby is
appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Mahout, 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 7B, Change the Apache Mahout Project Chair, was
approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
C. Establish the Apache ISIS 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,
to enable the creation of software using domain-driven
design principles, and the realization of this through the
naked objects architectural pattern,
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management
Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Apache Isis Project",
be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the
Foundation; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the Apache Isis Project be and hereby is
responsible for the creation and maintenance of software
related to and inspired by the naked objects architectural
pattern; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache Isis" 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 Isis Project, and to have primary responsibility
for management of the projects within the scope of
responsibility of the Apache Isis 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 Isis Project:
Dan Haywood <danhaywood@apache.org>
Robert Matthews <rmatthews@apache.org>
Kevin Meyer <kevin@apache.org>
Alexander Krasnukhin <themalkolm@apache.org>
Dave Slaughter <dslaughter@apache.org>
Jeroen van der Wal <jcvanderwal@apache.org>
Mohammad Nour El-Din <mnour@apache.org>
Mark Struberg <struberg@apache.org>
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Dan Haywood
be appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Isis, 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 Isis 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 Isis Project; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the Apache Isis Project be and hereby
is tasked with the migration and rationalization of the Apache
Incubator Isis podling; and be it further
RESOLVED, that all responsibilities pertaining to the Apache
Incubator Isis podling encumbered upon the Apache Incubator
Project are hereafter discharged.
Special Order 7C, Establish the Apache ISIS Project, was
approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
D. Change Officers to Serve at the Direction of the President
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors deems it to be in the best
interests of the Foundation for the officers responsible
for executing the operations of the Foundation to serve in
accordance with and subject to the direction of the President;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the office of
"Vice President, Brand Management" shall serve at the direction
of the President; and be it further
RESOLVED that the office of "Vice President, Fundraising"
shall serve at the direction of the President; and be it further
RESOLVED that the office of "Vice President, Marketing and
Publicity" shall serve at the direction of the President; and be
it further
RESOLVED that the office of "Vice President, Conference Planning"
shall serve at the direction of the President; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the Conference Planning Committee is hereby
terminated; and be it further
RESOLVED that the office of "Vice President, Travel Assistance" be
and hereby created, the person holding such office to serve at the
direction of the President, and to have primary responsibility
of promoting and facilitating attendance at events
which are of interest to ASF projects by individuals within the
ASF community at-large whom would otherwise not be able to
attend due to financial constraints; and be it further
RESOLVED, that Gavin McDonald be and hereby is appointed to
the office of Vice President, Travel Assistance, to serve in
accordance with and subject to the direction of the President
and the Bylaws of the Foundation until death,
resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification, or
until a successor is appointed; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the Apache Travel Assistance Committee is hereby
terminated
The board further acknowledges that an officer's committee was
established to assist in the work of Conference Planning, initially
consisting of: Ben Laurie, Cliff Skolnick, Danese Cooper, J Aaron Farr,
Jean-Frederic Clere, Jim Jagielski, Justin Erenkrantz, Ken Coar, Lars
Eilebrecht, Martin van den Bemt, Matt Franklin, Mohammad Nour El-Din,
Noel J. Bergman, Noirin Plunkett, Rich Bowen, Ross Gardler, Sally
Khudairi, Shane Curcuru, Tim Williams, and William A. Rowe, Jr.
The board further acknowledges that an officer's committee was
established to assist in the work of Travel Assistance, initially
consisting of: Matt Benson, Nick Burch, and Tony Stevenson.
Special Order 7D, Change Officers to Serve at the Direction of
the President, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors
present.
E. Change to the Apache Xalan Project Chair
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed David Bertoni
to the office of Vice President, Apache Xalan, and
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation
of David Bertoni from the office of Vice President, Apache Xalan,
and
WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Xalan
project has chosen by vote to recommend Steven Hathaway as the
successor to the post;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that David Bertoni is relieved and
discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office
of Vice President, Apache Xalan, and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Steven Hathaway be and hereby is
appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Xalan, 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 7E, Change to the Apache Xalan Project Chair,
was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
F. Establish the Apache OpenOffice 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 the OpenOffice
personal productivity applications.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management Committee
(PMC), to be known as the "Apache OpenOffice Project", be and hereby
is established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation; and be it
further
RESOLVED, that the Apache OpenOffice Project be and hereby is
responsible for the creation and maintenance of software related to
the OpenOffice personal productivity applications; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, OpenOffice" 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
OpenOffice Project, and to have primary responsibility for
management of the projects within the scope of responsibility of
the Apache OpenOffice 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
OpenOffice Project:
* Andre Fischer (af)
* Andrea Pescetti (pescetti)
* Andrew Rist (arist)
* Ariel Constenla-Haile (arielch)
* Armin Le Grand (alg)
* Dave Fisher (wave)
* Donald Harbison (dpharbison)
* Drew Jensen (atjensen)
* Ian Lynch (ingotian)
* Jürgen Schmidt (jsc)
* Kay Schenk (kschenk)
* Kazunari Hirano (khirano)
* Louis Suarez-Potts (louis)
* Marcus Lange (marcus)
* Oliver-Rainer Wittmann (orw)
* Pedro Giffuni (pfg)
* Peter Junge (pj)
* Raphael Bircher (rbircher)
* Regina Henschel (regina)
* RGB.ES (rgb-es)
* Roberto Galoppini (galoppini)
* Yang Shih-Ching (imacat)
* Yong Lin Ma (mayongl)
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Andrea Pescetti be
appointed to the office of Vice President, OpenOffice, 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 OpenOffice Project be and hereby
is tasked with the creation of a set of bylaws intended to
encourage open development and increased participation in the
OpenOffice Project; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the Apache OpenOffice Project be and hereby is tasked
with the migration and rationalization of the Apache OpenOffice.org
podling; and be it further
RESOLVED, that all responsibilities pertaining to the Apache
Incubator OpenOffice.org podling encumbered upon the Apache
Incubator Project are hereafter discharged.
Special Order 7F, Establish the Apache OpenOffice Project, was
approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
G. Change the Apache Community Development Project Chair
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Ross
Gardler to the office of Vice President, Apache Community
Development Project, and
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the
resignation of Ross Gardler from the office of Vice
President, Apache Community Development Project;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Ross Gardler is
relieved and discharged from the duties and responsibilities of
the office of Vice President, Apache Community Development
Project, and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Luciano Resende be and hereby is
appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Community
Development Project, 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 Community Development
Project Chair, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors
present.
H. Establish the Apache Cordova 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 building cross platform mobile applications with
HTML, Javascript and CSS.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management
Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Apache Cordova Project",
be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the
Foundation; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the Apache Cordova Project be and hereby is
responsible for the creation and maintenance of software
related to building cross platform mobile applications with
HTML, Javascript and CSS; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache Cordova" 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 Cordova Project, and to have primary responsibility
for management of the projects within the scope of
responsibility of the Apache Cordova 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 Cordova Project:
* Abu Obeida Bakhach <abub@apache.org>
* Andrew Grieve <agrieve@apache.org>
* Anis Kardi <anis@apache.org>
* Becky Gibson <becka11y@apache.org>
* Braden Shepherdson <braden@apache.org>
* Brett Rudd <goya@apache.org>
* Brian LeRoux <brianleroux@apache.org>
* Bryce Curtis <bcurtis@apache.org>
* David Johnson <doc@apache.org>
* Denis Kormalev <dkormalev@apache.org>
* Drew Walters <deedubbu@apache.org>
* Filip Maj <filmaj@apache.org>
* Gord Tanner <gtanner@apache.org>
* Herman Wong <hermwong@apache.org>
* Jeff Tranter <tranter@apache.org>
* Jesse MacFadyen <purplecabbage@apache.org>
* Joe Bowser <bowserj@apache.org>
* Jukka Zitting <jukka@apache.org>
* Justin Tyberg <jtyberg@apache.org>
* Longwei Su <longwei@apache.org>
* Michael Brooks <mwbrooks@apache.org>
* Michal Mocny <mmocny@apache.org>
* Patrick Mueller <pmuellr@apache.org>
* Ryan Willoughby <wildabeast@apache.org>
* Sergey Grebnov <sgrebnov@apache.org>
* Shazron Abdullah <shazron@apache.org>
* Simon MacDonald <macdonst@apache.org>
* Steven Gill <steven@apache.org>
* Tim Kim <timkim@apache.org>
* Wolfgang Koller <viras@apache.org>
* Yohei Shimomae <yohei@apache.org>
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Brian LeRoux
be appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Cordova, 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 Cordova 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 Cordova Project; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the Apache Cordova Project be and hereby
is tasked with the migration and rationalization of the Apache
Incubator Cordova podling; and be it further
RESOLVED, that all responsibilities pertaining to the Apache
Incubator Cordova podling encumbered upon the Apache Incubator
Project are hereafter discharged.
Special Order 7H, Establish the Apache Cordova Project, was
approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present, with one
abstention: Roy Fielding
8. Discussion Items
9. Review Outstanding Action Items
10. Unfinished Business
11. New Business
12. Announcements
13. Adjournment
Adjourned at 11:19 a.m. (Pacific)
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ATTACHMENTS:
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Attachment 1: Report from the VP of Brand Management
Operations And Community
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Approved several new name searches for podlings readying for graduation;
the new energy in the incubator is certainly helping with podlings being
more organized on the branding front.
External Requests
=================
Responded to a higher number of third party requests this month, nothing
unusual.
Signed an agreement for use of one of our project marks in a major
television series after working with counsel to update the agreement to
something suitable.
Trademark Registrations
=======================
OpenOffice.org trademark registrations in Taiwan are recorded as being
transferred to us. We plan to work with DLAPiper to record transfers in
major markets where the pro bono rates make sense for the relevant projects.
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Attachment 2: Report from the VP of Fundraising
This month has been quiet. We have had a few enquiries that require response
in the last few days. I have been lax, and have nothing much more to report.
I shall be at ApacheConEU - hopefully this'll be a chance to kick-start
some fundraising activity.
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Attachment 3: Report from the VP of Marketing and Publicity
I. Budget: we are ahead of plans, under budget, with no payments due at this
time.
II. Fundraising/Branding/Marketing liaison: no meetings are planned. Sally
Khudairi has been working with ApacheCon sponsorship liaison with select ASF
Platinum and Gold Sponsors. She also continues to work with a small handful
of companies that are a) actively participating in the Apache Incubator and
wanting to promote various milestones; or b) seeking to contribute projects
to the Incubator to ensure their publicity plans comply with our guidelines;
or c) are planning to launch events/products and need clearance from Brand
Management and/or ConCom.
III. Press Releases: the following formal announcements were issued via the
newswire, ASF Foundation Blog, announce@apache.org, and
announce@apachecon.com (where appropriate) --
- 2 October 2012: The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache Airavata as
a Top-Level Project
- 2 October 2012: The Apache Software Foundation Announces Call For
Participation for ApacheCon North America 2013
- 1 October 2012: The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache Stanbol as
a Top-Level Project
- 21 September 2012: The Apache Software Foundation Announces Program for
ApacheCon Europe
IV. Informal Announcements: the following items were announced on @TheASF and
@ApacheCon Twitter feeds --
- 2 October - @ApacheCon [Retweeted by Apache - The ASF] - CFP now open
for #ApacheCon North America 2013! http://s.apache.org/IXT #Apache
#OpenSource #community #conference #trainings #expo #PDX
- 2 October - @TheASF - The Apache Software Foundation Announces
#Apache #Airavata as a Top-Level Project http://s.apache.org/4xh #NSA
#Framework #Cloud #OpenSource
- 1 October - @TheASF - Congratulations to the #Apache #Hadoop Project
Management Committee for winning a 2012 Duke's Choice Award last night!
http://s.apache.org/9Oo
- 1 October - @TheASF - The Apache Software Foundation Announces
#Apache #Stanbol as a Top-Level Project http://s.apache.org/ul1
#EuropeanUnion #IKS #Semantic #CMS
- 1 October - @ApacheCon [Retweeted by Apache - The ASF] - Early Bird
registration extended until Thu 4 October! Sign up today
http://www.apachecon.eu/tickets/ --see you in Sinsheim! #Apache #conference
#Europe
- 28 September - @ApacheCon - LAST CALL! #ApacheCon #Europe Early-bird
reg ends Mon 1 Oct; €75 student rate avail thru 5 Nov http://apachecon.com/
#conference #OpenSource
- 27 September - @ApacheCon - Reminder: on 1 Oct Early-bird reg for
#ApacheCon #Europe closes + CFP for #NorthAmerica opens!
http://apachecon.com/ #conference #OpenSource
- 26 September - @TheASF - A reminder: if it's not at http://apache.org ,
it's not from #Apache http://s.apache.org/Duv #troubleshooting #helpdesk
- 21 September - @TheASF - Program, Speakers & Sponsors for #ApacheCon
#Europe announced; early reg ends 1 Oct! http://s.apache.org/vEW #Apache
#OpenSource #conference
- 21 September - @ApacheCon - We are deeply grateful to @SAP for
generously underwriting #ApacheCon Europe #Community Edition. See you in
Sinsheim! #Rhein-Neckar Arena
- 21 September - @ApacheCon - Announcing ApacheCon Europe Community
Edition program http://s.apache.org/9uw #Apache #OpenSource #conference
#BigData #Cloud #Infrastructure
- 19 September - @ApacheCon - Reminder: sign up for #ApacheCon Europe
Early-Bird registration by 1 Oct + super-discounted student rates (€75!) at
http://www.apachecon.eu
- 18 September - @TheASF - #Apache sweeps @InfoWorld Bossies 2012!
Awards to #Hadoop #Cassandra #Cordova (ne? PhoneGap) #Cloudstack &
#OpenOffice http://s.apache.org/EBc
- 18 September - @ApacheCon - Attending, sponsoring, or speaking at
#ApacheCon #Europe? Promote your #Apache love w/banners + buttons at
http://www.apachecon.eu/ #conference
No new posts were made on "TheApacheFoundation" account on YouTube.
V. Future Announcements: we remain on standby for Tuscany v2 and have
forwarded suggestions regarding possible announcement tactics. Any PMCs
wishing to announce major project news --as well as podlings ready to
graduate from the Incubator-- please contact Sally at press@apache.org for
more information. Kindly provide at least 2-weeks' notice for proper planning
and execution.
VI. Media Relations: an addition to select pre-announcement briefings, 17
media requests were responded to, and 4 interviews coordinated for various
projects. The ASF received 487 press clips over this time period, vs. last
month's clip count of 546.
VII. Analyst Relations: no analyst briefings have taken place over the past
month. Apache was mentioned in 15 reports by 451 Research and 8 reports by
Gartner.
VIII. ApacheCon liaison: Sally continues to work with Melissa Warnkin on
sponsorships for ApacheCon Europe, and is working with The Open Bastion on
overall positioning, promotions, and marketing plan for ApacheCon North
America 2013 (our 25th ApacheCon!).
IX. (Non-ASF) Industry Events and Outreach liaison: Sally has been primary
point-of-contact for several activities, including the Duke's Choice Award on
behalf of the Hadoop PMC and the V3 Virtual Security Summit.
X. Newswire accounts: we have 5 pre-paid press releases remaining on the
PRNewswire account and 9 pre-paid press releases with NASDAQ GlobeNewswire
through the end of the Fiscal Year.
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Attachment 4: Report from the VP of W3C Relations
Henry Story has joined the
"Federated Social Web Community Group".
Andy Seaborne has resigned from the
"Networked Data Community Group".
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Attachment 5: Status report for the Apache Legal Affairs Committee
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Attachment 6: Status report for the Apache Security Team Project
For Sept 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.
4 Support question
1 Security vulnerability question, but not a vulnerability report
4 Phishing/spam/attacks point to site "powered by Apache"
6 Vulnerability report
2 [tomcat, via security@tomcat.apache.org]
1 [solr, via security@apache.org]
3 [hadoop, via security@hadoop.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
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Attachment 8: Status report for the Apache Infrastructure Team
Expressed some concerns about the ongoing volunteer
support and documentation for nexus (repository.apache.org).
Spoke with a few PMCs about cleaning up temporary artifacts
in their website rsync ops.
Discussed infra meetup plans to coincide with Apachecon EU.
Due to the fact that the CIA.vc service was shut down, we
are considering other options to provide the same functionality
to our projects.
Dealt with some issues surrounding the generation of
projects.apache.org pages.
The contract for colocation service with FUB has been signed
by FUB and awaits our counter sign.
Started discussing various approaches to simplify the podling
graduation process from an infra standpoint.
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Attachment 9: Status report for the Apache Travel Assistance Committee
General
=======
No changes to the committee this month.
The list has been fairly quiet but with some ApacheCon EU/US discussions.
ApacheCon EU 2012 November
==========================
Most flights/hotels/etc have been paid for for those that are coming.
Some final pieces to tie up but looking good.
ApacheCon NA 2013
=================
We have opened for submissions for financial assistance for this event,
although no main announcement has taken place yet, there is plenty of time
for folks to apply and we expect to announce this month.
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Attachment A: 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
There have been no releases since the last report.
Activity
The mailing list activity has been steady and there has been an increase
to 192 subscribers to the user list and 139 subscribers to the dev list.
Development is active and major features are still being added to the
trunk (1.5 branch).
Community
Josh Elser added as a new committer 07/26/2012.
Bill Slacum added as a new committer 07/31/2012.
Christopher Tubbs added as a new committer 09/18/2012.
Dave Marion added as a new committer 09/18/2012.
The PMC voted on 08/07/2012 that all current and future committers should
be invited to be PMC members.
In addition to the new committers, there has been an increase in community
diversity as three committers from the same organization (NSA) have moved
to two different organizations (Sqrrl and Hortonworks).
Issues
It is still uncertain whether the bill affecting Accumulo will be passed
in the Senate (see Section 929 of [1]). There has been no further
activity or press since the Wired article [2] that came out in July just
after our last board report. Most articles focus on other controversial
aspects of the 2013 NDAA.
[1]: http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/112/s3254/text
[2]: http://s.apache.org/Us0
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Attachment B: Status report for the Apache ACE Project
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Attachment C: Status report for the Apache ActiveMQ Project
Apache ActiveMQ is a popular and powerful open source messaging server.
Apache ActiveMQ is fast, supports many Cross Language Clients and Protocols,
comes with easy to use Enterprise Integration Patterns and many advanced
features while fully supporting JMS 1.1 and J2EE 1.4.
Community:
* The development and user lists continue to stay active.
* Christian Posta was voted in to be an ActiveMQ committer
Development:
* It was a busy quarter in which we released ActiveMQ 5.7.0 along with a
native client release and an Apollo releases.
* ActiveMQ 5.8 has just started development and is working towards
implementing AMQP 1.0 using the proton library from the Apache Qpid
project.
* ActiveMQ-CPP 3.5.0 is in testing now and should be completed before years
end.
Trademark / Branding Status:
* The activemq.org and activemq.com TLD's are owned by other entities
* Need to investigate if we should be using (R) instead of (TM) for the
ActiveMQ mark
* Sub-projects need to be reviewed to make sure they are also compliant
* Documentation and readme files will also be reviewed for compliance
Releases:
* Apache ActiveMQ 5.7.0
* Apache.NMS.Stomp 1.5.3
* Apache Apollo 1.4
* Apache ActiveMQ 3.4.5 in progress.
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Attachment D: Status report for the Apache Airavata Project
Apache Airavata is a software framework providing API’s, sophisticated
server-side tools, and graphical user interfaces to construct, execute,
control and manage long running applications and workflows on
distributed computing resources.
== Summary ==
The TLP migration has happened smoothly.
* The infrastructure, svn repository, maven pom's and web pages have
been properly updated.
* Final incubator podling status is updated.
* Office and committee-info is updates with new PMC and Chair.
== Releases ==
The project is preparing for its first TLP release, which is planned to
happen within next month.
== Activity ==
The incubation momentum is nicely carry forwarded and the activity on
mailing lists, JIRA, and svn commits is very high.
== Community ==
Chathuri Wimalasena has been voted in as committer and PMC member. Her account
setup and board acknowledgment is in the process.
== Press ==
Thanks to Sally, the press release of Airavata graduation has nicely
co-ordinated and picked by lot of popular news sources.
== Infrastructure ==
Many thanks to the infrastructure team, the TLP migration was very diligent
and fast and all associated tasks have been completed within 2 days of the
board resolution.
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Attachment E: Status report for the Apache Aries Project
Apache Aries delivers a set of pluggable Java components enabling an
enterprise OSGi application programming model.
== Releases ==
Several release vote threads during the last three months saw the release of
88 bundles at version 1.0. These can be found from the downloads link on the
Aries home page. Subsequently, the following micro version update bundles
have been released:
* Apache Aries Blueprint Core 1.0.1
* Apache Aries JMX Core 1.0.1
* Apache Aries Transaction Manager 1.0.1
* Apache Aries JPA Container Managed Contexts 1.0.1
In addition, these new bundles were released.
* Apache Aries JMS Pool 1.0.0
* Apache Aries Transaction Enlisting JDBC Datasource 1.0.0
Many thanks to the release managers for their persistence in getting these
important releases out.
== Project Branding Board Report Checklist ==
* Project Website Basics : homepage is aries.apache.org (done)
* Project Naming And Descriptions : use proper Apache forms, describe
product, etc. (pending)
* Website Navigation Links : navbar links included, link to www.apache.org
included (pending - feather link done)
* Trademark Attributions : attribution for all ASF marks included in footers,
etc. (pending)
* Logos and Graphics : include TM, use consistent product logo on your site
(pending)
* Project Metadata : DOAP file checked in and up to date (done)
== Community update ==
Jeremias Maerki has proposed, and posted a patch for, an addition to the
spi-fly module called SPI Catcher. Its objective is along the lines of the
OSGi Connect work in the OSGi Alliance to make it easier to get started with
OSGi dynamic services technology. The SPI Catch approach is complementary by
introducing OSGi APIs much later, if at all, ensuring "runnability totally
outside of OSGi" is preserved.
No new committers since the last report. The user/dev lists and JIRAs have
had some varied discussions across the Aries modules.
There are no board level issues.
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Attachment F: Status report for the Apache Attic Project
No issues requiring board attention since the last report. Harmony has
now fully migrated to the Attic, XIndice is on its way. We still need
to start working on bringing the XML project as a whole to the Attic.
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Attachment G: Status report for the Apache Avro Project
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Attachment H: Status report for the Apache CXF Project
Apache CXF is an open source services framework. CXF helps you build and
develop services using front-end programming APIs, like JAX-WS and
JAX-RS. These services can speak a variety of protocols such as SOAP,
XML/HTTP, RESTful HTTP, or CORBA and work over a variety of transports
such as HTTP, JMS or JBI.
Releases of CXF:
2.4.9
2.4.10 (*)
2.5.5
2.5.6
2.6.2
2.6.3
2.7.0
(*) We announced to the community that 2.4.10 will be the last scheduled
2.4.x release.
Apache CXF Fediz subproject - 1.0.1 released.
Committer/PMC - no new committers or PMC members this quarter.
Community updates:
The community really came together nicely to get all the releases out
the door. Lots of traffic on the various mailing lists.
Security updates:
During the period, we dealt with 2 security vulnerability reports. The
first turned out to just be a poorly configured example and not a real
security problem with the CXF code itself. The second did get a CVE
assigned, CVE-2012-3451, and much work was done to address it. This
was fixed and announced as well as added to our advisory page:
http://cxf.apache.org/security-advisories.html
Infrastructure update:
During the period, CXF has completely switched over to using svnpubsub
for both the web site (buildbot build pulling data from confluence) and
for the release distributions. CXF has been using Nexus for a long
time. We believe we are now in compliance with all the requirements
Infrastructure has mandated that will go into effect in January.
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Attachment I: Status report for the Apache DB Project
The Apache DB TLP consists of the following subprojects:
o DdlUtils : a small, easy-to-use component for working with
Database Definition (DDL) files.
o Derby : an open source relational database implemented entirely in Java.
o JDO : focused on building the API and the TCK for compatibility
testing of Java Data Object implementations providing data
persistence.
o Torque : an object-relational mapper for Java.
== Status ==
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
Activities over the last quarter
a) A new PMC chair was elected - congratulations to Myrna van Lunteren :)
(resolution proposed for the October board meeting)
b) An effort is ongoing to migrate the DB site to the CMS.
c) The two GSoC students working in the Derby community passed.
d) The PMC discussed moving DdlUtils to the Attic - no action taken yet.
e) Torque released version 4.0beta1.
f) Derby is working on a 10.8 maintenance release.
g) Derby is working on a 10.9 maintenance release.
h) An informal Derby-lunch was held in San Francisco, allowing those
interested and being able to to meet up over their lunch-boxes :)
=== Community ===
No PMC changes since August 2011.
No new committers since August 2010.
The above facts caused the board to inquiry about the situation. A reply [1]
was compiled after gathering feedback from the PMC. The PMC is aware of
the situation, but doesn't consider it as a reason for major concern.
This quarter was somewhat more lively for some of the subprojects, with
a moderate increase on the user and/or dev lists.
=== Releases ===
Torque: beta feature release 4.0beta1 (September 24, 2012)
[1] The board was CC'ed, see thread "[REPORT] Apache DB July 2012".
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Attachment J: Status report for the Apache Deltacloud Project
Deltacloud defines a web service API for interacting with cloud service
providers and resources in those clouds in a unified manner. In addition, it
consists of a number of implementations of this API for the most popular
clouds. It also provides an implementation of DMTF CIMI, and tools around
that API to help make it more easily consumable.
There are no issues for board consideration.
Community
---------
Voted Tomas Sedovic <tsedovic@redhat.com> as committer (mostly for
maintaining the Python client). Still need to get him fully set up as
committer.
Releases/Development
--------------------
Switched to a model with the goal to make one release every month.
1.0.4 - any day now
1.0.3 - 2012-09-07
1.0.2 - 2012-08-20
Work on DMTF CIMI front-end continues to progress. Updates/improvements
to various drivers (OpenStack, OpenNebula). New driver for aruba.it.
Lots of bug fixes and smaller improvements.
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Attachment K: Status report for the Apache DirectMemory Project
Apache DirectMemory is an off-heap cache implementation for the JVM. It
features direct memory management (a-la BigMemory) to enable efficient
handling of a large number of Java objects without affecting JVM garbage
collection performance.
Community interest has increased since TLP graduation, we are receiving
interesting contributions on the mailing list. A proposal to join forces
with another interesting although young project (the lightning serializer)
has been accepted by the author and it is going to be defined as a
subproject. Synergies with other projects are being explored too (kryo, another
serializer, at the end DirectMemory is all about serializing objects in
off-heap memory and back).
We are probably better defining the technical direction of the project even
though there's still plenty of work to do.
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Attachment L: Status report for the Apache Directory Project
The Apache Directory Project provides directory solutions entirely written
in Java. These include a directory server, which has been certified as LDAP
v3 compliant by the Open Group (ApacheDS), Eclipse-based directory tools
(Apache Directory Studio) and a client API that can be used to communicate
with any directory server (Apache LDAP API).
-- Community --
* No new committers
* No new PMC members.
-- Development --
* ApacheDS:
* No new releases during this quarter.
* A new release is currently being voted.
* We have fixed a crucial problem that occurred when performing concurrent
searches and modifications.
* Apache Directory LDAP API:
* No new releases during this quarter.
* A new release is currently being voted.
* Refactored and simplified our entry cursor implementation and our use of
generics.
* Apache Directory Studio:
* No new releases during this quarter.
* Very low activity.
* Website:
* We are still migrating our website to use svnpubsub and the Apache CMS.
It will be ready for the January 2013 deadline.
-- Releases --
* No releases for Apache Directory LDAP API
* No releases for ApacheDS
* No releases for Apache Directory Studio
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Attachment M: Status report for the Apache ESME Project
Apache ESME's mission: Enterprise Social Messaging Environment (ESME) is a
secure and highly scalable microsharing and micromessaging platform that
allows people to discover and meet one another and get controlled access
to other sources of information, all in a business process context.
Releases:
2011-08-29 1.3
Development:
We are continuing work on our 1.4 release. We hope to focus on Akka
and Apache Camel integration.
The level of development activity has decreased dramatically the last
year. In the last quarter, we just had a few commits dealing with newer
issues. We are trying to refresh the community with new developers
but this is proving more difficult than expected.
Community:
* No new committers
* No new PMC members.
Issues:
No Board level issues at this time
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 -> In progress
* Project Metadata : DOAP file checked-in and up to date -> Done
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Attachment N: Status report for the Apache Geronimo Project
Apache Geronimo is an open source server runtime that integrates
the best open source projects to create Java/OSGi server runtimes
that meet the needs of enterprise developers and system
administrators.
The community released our Geronimo 3.0 server release along with
releases for the Geronimo Eclipse Plugin, Samples, and
DayTrader. The community also released a service update for
XBean.
Several patches have been received from new contributors.
With the help of Gavin McDonald, the community has sorted out
some issues with our automated builds.
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Attachment O: Status report for the Apache Hadoop Project
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Attachment P: Status report for the Apache HBase Project
HBase is a distributed column-oriented database built on top of Hadoop
Common and Hadoop HDFS
ISSUES FOR THE BOARD’s ATTENTION
None.
RELEASES
0.94.1 on August 8th.
0.94.2 is on its fourth release candidate.
0.92.2 on October 1st.
COMMITTERS
We added:
Gregory Chanan (Cloudera) -- gchanan@apache.org
Enis Soztutar (Hortonworks) -- enis@apache.org
Elliott Clark (Was StumbleUpon when elected, now Cloudera) -- eclark@apache.org
COMMUNITY
Contributors met at Hortonworks for a pow wow on September 11th, 2012 [1].
Notes and pointers to talks posted here [2].
After discussion up on the dev list, we introduced the notion of an
'owner' role. "Owners are volunteers who are (usually, but not necessarily)
expert in a component domain and may have an agenda on how they think
their HBase component should evolve." Owners will try and review patches
that fall within their domain and if an agenda will publish it. See
[3] for more.
23 committers [4] (Was 20 in last report)
800 subscribers to the dev list (Was 759 at last report)
1833 subscribers to the user list (Was 1734 at last report)
1. http://www.meetup.com/hbaseusergroup/events/80621872/
2. http://search-hadoop.com/m/OXGqy1dlFAE1
3. http://hbase.apache.org/book.html#OWNER
4. http://hbase.apache.org/team-list.html
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Attachment Q: Status report for the Apache Incubator Project
The biggest news this month is that of the OpenOffice project,
along with Cordova and Isis, becoming ready to graduate from
the Incubator. As noted below, we feel that these projects are
capable of governing themselves as standalone TLPs according
to Apache policies and the Apache Way, and recommend the board
to accept the respective resolutions.
In other news, Jukka Zitting announced his intention to resign
as the IPMC chair due to changes in personal life. Discussion
about and nominations for the next IPMC chair are open, and we
expect to have a related resolution ready in time for the
November board meeting.
o Community
There were no changes to the Incubator PMC since our last report.
The IPMC currently has 168 members.
The following podlings are requesting graduation to Apache TLPs:
- Apache Cordova
- Apache Isis
- Apache OpenOffice
The Incubator PMC recommends the board to accept the respective resolutions.
The following proposals for new incubating projects are being voted on:
- Apache Helix
- Apache Ripple
In addition there seems to be some interest in reviving the earlier idea of
bringing the BeanShell project (http://beanshell.org/) to the ASF through
the Incubator.
Meanwhile the AWF podling was retired due to inactivity, and the Kitty
podling is voting to retire itself for the same reason.
JSPWiki is our oldest podling with over five years in the Incubator.
Activity in JSPWiki was very low for a few years and they've yet to
create their first Apache release. Earlier this year they discussed
leaving the Incubator and the ASF since they clearly weren't making
much progress. That discussion led to some revival of activity and
the decision to continue in the Incubator. Unfortunately the podling
no longer has enough active mentors, which has led to some trouble
with premature attempts at cutting releases or graduating. Despite
these troubles the podling is making progress, and with sufficient
help from the IPMC they might well become ready to graduate within
a few quarters.
o Releases
The following incubating releases were made since our last report:
- September 20th, 2012: Apache Crunch 0.3.0-incubating
- September 24th, 2012: Apache Ambari 0.9-incubating
- October 1st, 2012: Apache Cordova 2.1.0-incubating
- October 8th, 2012: Apache Syncope 1.0.2-incubating
- October 12th, 2012: Apache Kafka 0.7.2-incubating
The Wookie podling has an open crypto export issue that's blocking
their release. Since it looks like the issue can be resolved in time
and the podling can demonstrate ability to cut releases, they can
proceed towards graduation already before the resolution of that issue.
We discussed key signing and various ways of getting more podling
release managers into the Apache web of trust. No concrete actions
have yet come out of that discussion, but there's been plenty of
good ideas that may end up being implemented after a while.
o Legal / Trademarks
The DeviceMap podling encountered a tricky issue with unclear
ownership of a data file they planned to use. The resolution for
now is to steer clear of trouble by not including that file.
See the DeviceMap report and the mentioned issue for more details.
A somewhat related question came up from CloudStack about how to
handle files that we can't redistribute due to upstream licensing
or Apache policies. They had a few such files in imported version
history, and the consensus was that it's fine as long as such files
are removed from the heads of all active branches (so they won't be
included in releases) and that there's no need to modify older
revisions as long as something like that is not explicitly requested.
o Infrastructure
The infra team started looking at ways to streamline the various
tasks related to podling setup and graduation. In practice this
would mean making podling infra resemble more that of a standalone
TLP (for example with separate podling.incubator.apache.org or even
podling.apache.org domains), which seems like a reasonable thing
to do as long as the incubation disclaimers remain prominent.
-------------------- Summary of podling reports --------------------
Still getting started at the Incubator (2 podlings)
Blur, Drill
These projects are still getting started, so no immediate progress
towards graduation is yet expected.
Not yet ready to graduate (11 podlings)
No release: Celix, Cloudstack, JSPWiki, VXQuery
Low activity: Chukwa, DeviceMap, Kitty, Tashi
Low diversity: EasyAnt, Mesos, ODF Toolkit
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 (1 podling)
Kafka
We expect this project to graduate within the next quarter.
--------------------
Blur
(incubating since August 2012)
Apache Blur is a search platform capable of searching massive amounts of
data in a cloud computing environment.
Issues needing Board/Incubator PMC Attention:
- None.
Key Activities:
- Git repo is just now in place - code cloned from Github and updated
to latest revision so the code cleanup (package naming, licensing, etc.)
are in the works.
- We decided to add a wiki and thanks to infra@ that's now up.
- Website is created and CMS-ified.
- Public Blur hack sessions/meetups are being held (Mondays) at
Near Infinity with summaries posted on dev list.
Community:
- Issues are being created and worked with discussions of
new features and modifications on the mail-list.
- Subscriptions: users@ - 19[+2]; dev@ - 21[+3]
Signed-off-by: twilliams
--------------------
Celix
Celix is an implementation of the OSGi Specification in C.
Celix entered incubation on November 2, 2010.
Over the last months we have focused on creating a first release for Celix.
As is mentioned in the graduation plan [1] we hope that a release will create
more community. We have prepared the code base and website for release
and we are very close to making a release.
The previous report [2] mentioned that we are working on a "Native-OSGi",
which could attract more community. This discussion continued in July on
the mailing list, but got quiet after that. There will be a talk about
Native-OSGi for ApacheCon EU and EclipseCon EU and we expect that this
will create attention for Celix.
Most important issues to address before we can graduate:
Make a first release, growing the community and attracting more committers.
Any issues the Incubator PMC or ASF board need to be aware of:
None at this time
How has the community developed since the last report:
There has been a small decrease on activity on the mailing list,
hopefully this is a temporary decrease due to the holidays. We did
receive patches from a contributor.
How has the project developed since the last report:
We are still working towards a first release. The code base has been
prepared for release and the website got some attention based on the
shepherd's view from last report.
[1]: http://incubator.apache.org/celix/community/boardreports/boardreports.html#2012-04
[2]: http://incubator.apache.org/celix/community/boardreports/boardreports.html#2012-07
Signed-off-by: marrs, jukka, wave
--------------------
Chukwa
Chukwa is an open source data collection system for monitoring large
distributed systems. Chukwa is built on top of the Hadoop Distributed
File System (HDFS), HBase and Map/Reduce framework and inherits Hadoop’s
scalability and robustness. Chukwa also includes a flexible and powerful
toolkit for displaying, monitoring and analyzing results to make the best
use of the collected data.
Incubating since July, 2010.
- Mailing lists have some activities.
- 2 new committers since July.
- 3 new contributors submitted patches since last report in July.
Most important issues to address:
Growing the community, especially a new release manager
Any issues that the Incubator PMC or ASF Board might wish/need to be aware of:
None at this time.
How has the community developed since the last report:
Plan to release version 0.6 to fix some of the major bugs in version 0.5.
How has the project developed since the last report:
More patches are received from new committer and contributors.
The new patches are better quality to polish Chukwa code base for
0.6 release. Chukwa community need to train new release manager to
release Chukwa 0.6 to ensure the community can continue to flourish.
The previous concern of inactive development is less concerning than
during January to July time frame.
Signed-off-by: cdouglas, berndf, jukka
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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
A list of the three most important issues to address in the move towards
graduation
1. Continuing to build the community and increase diversity
2. Shipping a release
3. Transfer trademark, etc. to Apache
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of?
No issues at this time
How has the community developed since the last report?
The project has continued to improve its diversity, adding
Chip Childers, John Kinsella, and Wido den Hollander to the PPMC
and 3 new committers since the month of August. (Mice Xia, Jason
Bausewein, and Joe Brockmeier.) We have also taken on a new mentor,
Noah Slater.
Contributors and committers have been active in promoting CloudStack
at events, such as LinuxCon, Ohio LinuxFest, PuppetConf, a get-together
at Schuberg Philis, and a number of other events.
The community is participation at LinuxCon EU and ApacheCon EU and
a number of other events through the remainder of 2012.
Citrix is acting as primary sponsor of a CloudStack Collaboration
Conference for November 30 through December 2 in Las Vegas. The
conference is open to the community, and programming for the event
will be chosen by a committee that includes members of the CloudStack
community outside Citrix.
How has the project developed since the last report?
The pending 4.0 release has been branched. The project has made a great
deal of progress towards the 4.0 release, handling a number of technical
issues (such as a move to Maven) and resolving almost all known legal
issues that would pose an obstacle to a release. The sole remaining
blocker is under discussion and should be resolved shortly.
The Jira instance for CloudStack was stood up in early September. License
checks have been automated to ensure that we remain compliant with Apache
guidelines going forward.
Signed-off-by: nslater, mfranklin
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DeviceMap
Apache DeviceMap is a data repository containing device information, images
and other relevant information for all sorts of mobile devices, e.g.
smartphones and tablets.
Entered incubation on January 3rd, 2012.
There are no issues that require the Incubator PMC's or the board's attention.
No new committers or PPMC members, and very low activity so far, but the
OpenDDR code that was mentioned in the incubation proposal has just been
donated, which should help motivate people to become more active.
The donation included a data file with had been subject to a DMCA takedown
request while hosted at Github. After some discussion we decided to exclude
that file from the donation, as the ownership of part of that data is hard
to establish. Details at https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DMAP-11 which
also links to threads on general@incubator.a.o.
The next steps are preparing that code for a first release, and discussing
how to best integrate the data that OpenDDR has been collecting themselves
and as such can be contributed without problems.
Signed-off-by: bdelacretaz (mentor), jukka
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Drill
Drill's goal is to build an open source clone of Dremel with appropriate
extensions to foster greater flexibility.
Drill has been incubating since September of 2012.
Since last month, we have been working on infrastructure. A prototype
web-site is ready and several code contributions are nearly ready to commit.
Graduation is still very far away, but the community activity has been high
and the mailing list has been active. Numerous public presentations have
been made and several Drill Users' Groups have been formed and meetings held.
Most important issues to address before we can graduate:
Get the basics in place, build up a working code base, make releases
(that is, everything)
Any issues the Incubator PMC or ASF board need to be aware of:
None at this time
How has the community developed since the last report:
Several active contributors outside the current committer group
have emerged. We are working to bind these new contributors into the
community and several appear likely to become committers over time.
How has the project developed since the last report:
The community has begun to gel nicely and significant code contributions
have moved forward.
Signed-off-by: Ted Dunning acting for Grant Ingersoll
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EasyAnt
EasyAnt is a build system based on Apache Ant and Apache Ivy.
Incubating since 2011-01-31.
Since the last report, there were discussion about the graduation process of
EasyAnt. There was confusion about what would be its final place - either a TLP
or a subproject of the Ant TLP - and the implication about the 'graduation'
process.
Things have been cleared with a vote: the EasyAnt project members are willing
to join the Ant TLP. So there is no actual need for a full classical graduation
process.
Then a vote happened in the Ant project about accepting EasyAnt as a subproject.
It failed, there were some concerns about the activity of the project. There
were actually no veto, but an insufficient number of binding +1.
So it has been decided to try again in a few month after showing some nice
activity on the EasyAnt project.
A little bit later, some Ant PMC members wrote that they were 'unplugged' when
the vote happened and were sorry to have missed it. A good sign for a retry of
the vote.
About the activity of the project since the last report: one committer did
some great job making the code base ready to be released. One other committer
was active on the dev mailing list. We have also seen some non committers
asking questions about the use of the project.
The next step for the project:
- doing a release: it will show that the EasyAnt committers are dedicated to
maintain it and keep it going
- shortly after that, ask the Ant PMC again to accept EasyAnt as a subproject
- if accepted, EasyAnt could then leave the Incubator.
Signed-off-by: ant, bodewig, jukka
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JSPWiki
JSPWiki has been incubating since September 2007.
JSPWiki is a JSP-based wiki program.
Still following the objective of making the first Apache release:
A few JIRA issues were raised in this period due to incorrect handling of
external dependencies. They have been fixed, so there aren't any other
technical issues blocking a release. A new RC and a release vote has been
cast in jspwiki-dev, with 10 +1 (6 from PPMC members). However, we don't
have any IPMC vote yet, so the release thread was forwarded to general
on Friday 26th.
It's likely that we will have our first Apache release during the first
weeks of October.
The main issues blocking graduation keep being the same as in the last
report: resolution acceptance, community and IPMC graduation vote, the
latter requiring at least one ASF release.
The developer list currently has 91 subscribers; and the user list has
186 subscribers.
Signed-off-by: jukka
IPMC comments: See paragraph on JSPWiki in the report summary.
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Kafka
(introduced to Apache incubator on Jul 4, 2011)
Kafka provides an extremely high throughput distributed publish/subscribe
messaging system. Additionally, it supports relatively long term persistence
of messages to support a wide variety of consumers, partitioning of the
message stream across servers and consumers, and functionality for loading
data into Apache Hadoop for offline, batch processing.
A list of the three most important issues to address in the move towards
graduation:
None. We started a graduation discussion on our mailing list. This was
slightly delayed due to focus on the development of the intra-cluster
replication feature.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC or ASF Board might wish/need to be aware of:
None.
How has the community developed since the last report
The mailing list continues been very active with bug reports, patch
submissions, feature requests and use case discussions. [(Jul,Aug,Sep):
kafka-users (155, 164, 126); kafka-dev (445, 532, 589)].
Received and reviewed several major patches especially in the 0.8 branch.
How has the project developed since the last report.
Intra-cluster replication (KAFKA-50): Development has been very steady on
this feature. (Hence the double volume of emails on kafka-dev since the
last report.) We set up a development dashboard at
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/Kafka+replication+development
that gives an overview of the remaining work for that release.
The vote for Kafka 0.7.2 is currently underway. This will be the third
Kafka release after its introduction to Apache incubator.
Signed-off-by: cdouglas, bmargulies
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Kitty
(No report. Kitty is voting to retire itself due to inactivity.)
By Shepherd: Retirement VOTE thread is +3 to retire with no other votes.
It has not been closed, but was started on October 1.
Signed-off-by: Wave (shepherd)
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Mesos
Mesos is a scalable cluster manager that can dynamically share resources
between multiple computing frameworks, including Hadoop, Spark, MPI, and Storm.
Mesos entered incubation on December 23, 2010.
Progress since the last report:
- Added mesos-0.9.0-incubating.jar to Maven central.
- Improved build to include warnings and errors.
- Fixes related to ZooKeeper usage to deal with network partitions.
- Committed cgroups isolation module and additional updates and fixes.
- Numerous updates to webui, including preliminary access to files of
running frameworks.
- Lots of reviews (https://reviews.apache.org/dashboard/?view=to-group&group=mesos).
Top priorities prior to graduation:
- Continue to grow community (lots of questions on the mailing list).
- Add more committers
- Establish a 6-week release cadence.
Issues for Incubator PMC or ASF Board:
Not all committers have access to Jenkins, which makes updating tests
a slow bottlenecked process.
Signed-off-by: tomwhite, jukka
IPMC comments: Jenkins access granted.
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ODF Toolkit
The ODF Toolkit is a set of Java modules that allow programmatic creation,
scanning and manipulation of OpenDocument Format (ISO/IEC 26300 == ODF)
documents. Unlike other approaches which rely on runtime manipulation of
heavy-weight editors via an automation interface, the ODF Toolkit is
lightweight and ideal for server use.
ODF Toolkit entered incubation on Aug 1st, 2011.
Our last release was January 14th, 2012.
We voted in our most recent committer on September 27th, 2012.
Most important issues to address:
Growing the community, especially attracting new developers. Generally
we'd be pleased to attract 2 or 3 additional active committers, have
another release, and then we think we'd be well-positioned for graduation.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC or ASF Board might wish/need to be aware of:
None at this time.
How has the community developed since the last report:
We successfully completed two GSoC projects. However neither led to longer
term engagement with the project.
We've seen an increase in incoming patches from users, and have a new
active contributors. One was just voted in as a Committer/PPMC member.
How has the project developed since the last report:
Working on next release.
Signed-off-by: bmargulies
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Tashi
Tashi has been incubating since September 2008.
The Tashi project aims to build a software infrastructure for cloud
computing on massive internet-scale datasets (what we call Big Data).
The idea is to build a cluster management system that enables the Big
Data that are stored in a cluster/data center to be accessed, shared,
manipulated, and computed on by remote users in a convenient, efficient,
and safe manner.
Tashi originally encompassed just the tools to manage virtual machines
using Xen and QEMU, but has been merged with Zoni, which manages the
physical aspects of a cluster like power control, network settings and
handing out physical machines.
Activities July-October:
In the period from July to October, the project did not ask to make
another incubating release, but is ready to start the process for a new
release incorporating the development efforts of the last 6 months.
Development efforts this period have included providing a separate
administration client, allowing addition of users and networks, and host
reservations and availability for scheduling.
The project has received code contributions from one non-committer in
this period. Diogo Gomes provided support for deriving the IP addresses
of guests automatically, without having to scan the subnet. Thanks Diogo!
Additional stability and user experience improvements were also
committed.
Upcoming software goals are to investigate what is needed to support
IPv6, replace RPyC, and to provide the ability to hand out server slices
(operating system level virtualization). Besides CPU and memory, disk
storage should also be a schedulable resource.
The project has a user community, but it is small. Growth mostly has
happened by word of mouth. To show potential users at large the utility
of this project, the author of this report is creating web pages to
demonstrate how to accomplish distributed computing tasks. Base images
of (free) OS installs will be provided to allow new users to get started
quickly. Hopefully this will increase visibility of the project.
Items to be resolved before graduation:
- Generate more publicity for the project.
- Develop members of the user community to submit feature extensions.
Signed-off-by: mfranklin
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VXQuery
The VXQuery Project implements a standard compliant XML Query
processor for parallel evaluation.
It has been in incubation since 2009-07-06.
VXQuery was able to maintain the increased level of activity that was
reported in the July report and made significant progress towards completing
the XQuery functionality.
The remaining top issue is a release. Recently the preparations for the
first release have started and they are still ongoing. Release artifacts
should be available and voted on in the next few weeks.
Signed-off-by: jochen, jukka
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Attachment R: 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 issue requiring board attention at this time.
CURRENT ACTIVITY
The development activity very low since July due to the holiday and also
to changes in professional situation of a few committers.
Users continue to ask questions and submit patches.
We had two GSOC
[1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAILBOX-173 to add lucene
indexing in the HBase mailbox implementation. An initial implementation
has bee achieved and we still need to integrate it in our source trunk.
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HUPA-85 We didn't have time to
make a status, we will give details in the following report.
COMMUNITY
No new committer has been voted.
RELEASES
There was no new release.
TRADEMARKS / BRANDING
Still to do: Logos and Graphics (include TM, use consistent product logo
on your site)
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Attachment S: 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.
Issues:
There are no issues to raise with the board.
Community and activity:
Releases - Jena 2.7.3
Community:
The project also asked for community testing of the SDB component - this
runs over various SQL databases and testing by the committers is
impractical. The community feedback has been very good and the project has
decided to keep the code alive and release it formally.
users@ and dev@ mailing lists had approximately 180 and 200 messages
respectively and almost all messages on the user list have had some kind of
response, whether from the user community itself or specifically from
committers.
Standards:
Apache Jena passes the full query, update and protocol test suite for the
upcoming SPARQL recommendations now the W3C process has approved final
drafts.
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Attachment T: Status report for the Apache JMeter Project
The Apache JMeter desktop application is a pure Java application
designed to load test functional behavior and measure performance.
JMeter 2.8 was released on October 6th 2012
This release includes significant performance improvements and reduced
memory requirements, as well as more features and bug fixes.
Since the last report, Henri Yandell has stepped down from the PMC and
as a committer. We thank him for his support. There have been no other
changes.
The JMeter user list is active and user requests are generally dealt
with promptly, either by other members of the community or the JMeter
developers.
Likewise the developer list, though of course that is mainly used by
the committers.
There are no board level issues at this time.
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Attachment U: Status report for the Apache Lucy Project
The Apache Lucy search engine library provides full-text search for dynamic
programming languages.
RELEASES
No new releases since July.
COMMUNITY
* Lucy Book Club (http://wiki.apache.org/lucy/LucyBookClub) has been meeting
regularly and has recently spawned some development efforts in Ruby and
Python.
* No change to committer/PMC membership ranks during this period.
* The mailing lists have been active, though traffic dipped a bit relative
to the last report period.
ISSUES
* None requiring board-level attention at this time.
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Attachment V: Status report for the Apache Mahout Project
Apache Mahout provides implementations of machine learning algorithms
(collaborative filtering, clustering, classification, and more) for
large-scale data, mostly via Hadoop-based implementations.
ISSUES
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
CURRENT ACTIVITY
Activity has remained high during the past 3 months.
The user@mahout.a.o mailing list has 1448 current subscribers.
The dev@mahout.a.o mailing list has 734 current subscribers.
Now we are embarked upon a new 0.8 release. A goal of 0.8
is to continue clean up of existing functionality to improve
consistency and improve user experience. In this release, some
new additions to Mahout functionality are also planned.
Code freeze for 0.8 is targeted for Nov 15.
A 1.0 release is not yet on the horizon.
COMMUNITY
Jake Mannix has been elected to be the new Mahout PMC Chair.
Paritosh Ranjan has been elected to the Mahout PMC.
We have no new committers since our July report
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Attachment W: Status report for the Apache Maven Project
Apache Maven is a widely-used project build tool, targeting mainly Java
development. Apache Maven promotes the use of dependencies via a
standardized coordinate system, binary plugins, and a standard build
lifecycle.
* General Information
A vote has decided moving sources to git
(http://markmail.org/message/il5mpcyn2lscxrwn). 4 people are volunteer to
help on INFRA tasks. All the svn tree won't be migrated immediately as we
have some sub projects which need to be discussed on the final git migration
format (plugins, shared paths) A wiki page is available for ETA on the
migration: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/Git+Migration.
3 sub projects has been migrated to git: surefire, wagon and scm. We are
discussing on moving others subprojects.
The distribution has been moved to use svnpubsub.
We have started discussion on moving web site too as we now have a plugin
to deploy Maven web sites to svn.
* New PMC Members
No new PMC members (last added 2012-06-07)
* New Committers
* Anders Hammar
* Releases
* Plugins
* Maven Enforcer Plugin 1.1.1 (2012-07-16)
* Maven Surefire plugin 2.12.1 (2012-08-01)
* Maven Failsafe plugin 2.12.1 (2012-08-01)
* Maven Surefire Reports plugin 2.12.1 (2012-08-01)
* Maven Dependency Plugin 2.5 (2012-08-04)
* Maven Project Info Reports Plugin 2.5 (2012-08-04)
* Maven Source Plugin 2.2 (2012-08-06)
* Maven Surefire plugin 2.12.2 (2012-08-10)
* Maven Failsafe plugin 2.12.2 (2012-08-10)
* Maven Surefire Reports plugin 2.12.2 (2012-08-10)
* Maven Invoker plugin 1.7 (2012-08-13)
* Maven Resources Plugin 2.6 (2012-08-18)
* Maven Dependency Plugin 2.5.1 (2012-08-27)
* Maven Surefire plugin 2.12.3 (2012-08-28)
* Maven Failsafe plugin 2.12.3 (2012-08-28)
* Maven Surefire Reports plugin 2.12.3 (2012-08-28)
* Maven Project Info Reports plugin 2.5.1 (2012-08-30)
* Maven EAR plugin 2.8 (2012-09-03)
* Maven Shade plugin 2.0 (2012-09-06)
* Maven Install plugin 2.4 (2012-09-07)
* Maven SCM Publish Plugin 1.0-beta-1 (2012-09-14)
* Maven Changes Plugin 2.8 (2012-09-14)
* Maven Javadoc Plugin 2.9 (2012-09-23)
* Maven Surefire plugin 2.12.4 (2012-09-27)
* Maven Failsafe plugin 2.12.4 (2012-09-27)
* Maven Surefire Reports plugin 2.12.4 (2012-09-27)
* Maven WAR Plugin 2.3 (2012-10-01)
* Other
* Maven Indexer 4.1.3 (2012-08-02)
* Maven Stylus Skin 1.5 (2012-08-02)
* Maven Dependency Tree 2.0 (2012-08-04)
* Apache Parent Pom 11 (2012-08-10)
* Maven Shared Filtering 1.1 (2012-08-13)
* Maven Shared Script Interpreter 1.1 (2012-08-13)
* Apache Parent pom 11 (2012-08-05)
* Apache Maven parent pom 22 (2012-08-13)
* Apache Maven plugins parent pom 23 (2012-08-13)
* Apache Maven shared components parent pom 18 (2012-08-13)
* Apache Maven Fluido skin 1.3.0 (2012-08-30)
* Apache Maven scm 1.8 (2012-09-08)
* Maven Doxia Tools Parent POM 2 (2012-09-26)
* Maven Doxia Integration Tools 1.5 (2012-09-26)
* Maven Plugin Testing 1.3 (2012-09-27)
* Maven Plugin Testing 2.1 (2012-09-27)
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Attachment X: Status report for the Apache MINA Project
Apache MINA is a network application framework which helps users
develop high performance and high scalability network applications
easily.
Releases
--------
* Apache MINA SSHd 0.8.0 has been released on October, 1st.
* Apache MINA 2.0.6 has been released on October 5th
* Apache MINA 2.0.7 has been released on October 9th
MINA 2.0.6 contained a big regression which has been detected the day it
was released. It wasn't announced, a new release fixing this regression has
been immediately voted instead.
No release for FtpServer and Vysper.
Community
---------
* The activity remains consistent on the various subprojects
* No new committers or PMC changes
Development
-----------
* Still some work going on for MINA 3.0, but slowly.
* Important performance improvements made on the UDP server
* The web sites are being migrated, and improved. We can expect to have
a preliminary version by the end of october, and we hope to be ready to
switch completely by the end of november.
Issues
------
No board level issues at this time.
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Attachment Y: Status report for the Apache MyFaces Project
Apache MyFaces is a project of the Apache Software Foundation, and hosts
several sub-projects relating to the JavaServer Faces (JSF) technology.
Community
---------
* No new Committers
* No new PMC Members
* No new Contributors
Releases
--------
MyFaces (sub) projects with new releases since the last report:
* MyFaces Core v2.0.15
* MyFaces Core v2.1.9
* MyFaces Extension Scripting v1.0.4
* MyFaces Tobago v1.5.7
* MyFaces Tobago v1.6.0-beta-2
* Checkstyle Rules v6
Project Branding
----------------
* Started (ongoing)
CMS and svnpubsub
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* Site -> svnpubsub migration started
(blocking issue: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-5280)
* CWiki -> CMS migration not started
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Attachment Z: Status report for the Apache Nutch Project
Apache Nutch is an open source web-search software project. Stemming from
Apache Lucene, it now builds on Apache Solr adding web-specifics, such as
a crawler, a link-graph database and parsing support handled by Apache Tika
for HTML and an array of other document formats.
ISSUES
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
CURRENT ACTIVITY
We have been quite active lately. Nutch 2.1 has been released since the last
report and we should have a 1.6 release soon.
COMMUNITY
The traffic on the user and dev mailing lists has kept a relatively high
level in the last quarter. Julien Nioche will give a talk about Nutch at
the ApacheCon Europe.
No new Committers or PMC Members since the previous report.
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Attachment AA: Status report for the Apache ODE Project
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Attachment AB: Status report for the Apache OpenEJB Project
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Attachment AC: Status report for the Apache OpenJPA Project
There are no items requiring board attention at this time.
* Highlights
Apache OpenJPA provides POJO persistence for stand-alone JSE, JEE
container and many other lightweight frameworks, such as Tomcat,
Spring or OSGi.
* Community
Mailing lists continue to be active and many applications are
migrating from other vendors to OpenJPA.
The developer community had maintained the codebase stable,
supported for previous releases and backported resolved defects.
New features (auditing, access pattern tracker) are implemented
by the community of developers.
* Governance
We continue to monitor contributors for possible committers and
PMC members.
* Releases
No new releases since last report.
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Attachment AD: Status report for the Apache PDFBox Project
The Apache PDFBox library is an open source Java tool for working with PDF
documents.
General Comments
----------------
There are no issues that require Board attention.
Community
---------
It was a quiet quarter but there is still a steady stream of contributions and
bug reports from the community. No new committers/PMC members.
Releases
--------
PDFBox 1.7.1 was released on 25th of July 2012
Development:
------------
The development on the next major release is still in progress. We are
currently working on
- improved font handling
- improved rendering
- refactoring + improved integration of xmpbox
- bugfixing
Eric finished the refactoring of the preflight module. Guillaume is still
working on the xmpbox module.
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Attachment AE: 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.
COMMUNITY
At the last OSCON, July 2012, Apache Rave was present and
represented by Matt Franklin. In addition, the OpenSocial Foundation
sponsored a combined Rave & OpenSocial meet-up there as well.
There will be two presentations about Rave on the upcoming ApacheCon
Europe 2012, Sinsheim Germany
* Integrating Social Apps with Content Driven Sites using Apache Rave
and Spring HMVC (Ate Douma)
* Mongo, it's all the Rave (Matt Franklin)
COMMITTER/PMC CHANGES
We've added two new committers and PMC members to the team: Kristen
Legacy and Stan Drozdetski.
RELEASES
Since the last board report, three new Apache Rave releases were
performed, 0.14, 0.15 and 0.16.
ACTIVITY
Development activity is currently spread out over three different
areas: ongoing trunk development, a separate branch for
refactoring the Rave persistence model, and a separate sandbox project
to add content services integration to Rave. It is expected that in the
upcoming weeks this separate branch and sandbox activities will get
merged back into trunk.
PRESS
Nothing since last report.
BRANDING
The PMC has executed the suitable name search again and has not
found anything of concern.
http://wiki.apache.org/rave/BrandingSearches/October2012
LEGAL
No legal issues to report.
INFRASTRUCTURE
No issues at this time.
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Attachment AF: Status report for the Apache Shindig Project
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Attachment AG: 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 1.4.2, released on
August 24, 2012.
* 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/00U
* Weekly conference calls that were previously hosted to facilitate
discussion about the development work for Sqoop 2 were shifted to a
bi-weekly schedule and eventually stopped, with the last call held
on September 5th, 2012. Minutes of all the calls have been recorded
at http://s.apache.org/SJf.
COMMUNITY
* Kathleen Ting joined Sqoop PMC on September 22, 2012. She is affiliated
to Cloudera.
* The affiliations in the PMC stand at Cloudera (8), JPL (1), Quest (2),
Talend (1), WibiData (1).
* Abhijeet Gaikwad joined as a committer on September 5, 2012. He is
affiliated to Persistent Systems Limited.
* Cheolsoo Park joined as a committer on September 13, 2012. He is
affiliated to Cloudera.
* A Sqoop User meetup is being organized on October 23, 2012 in New York
on the first evening of Strata/Hadoop World conference. More information
is available at http://s.apache.org/uRT.
* Currently there are:
- Total of 72 subscribers to the developer list
- Total of 153 subscribers to the user list
- Total of 16 committers
- Total of 13 PMC members
ISSUES
* There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
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Attachment AH: Status report for the Apache Stanbol Project
Apache Stanbol provides a set of reusable components for semantic
content management.
The Apache Stanbol Project was established in September 2012. Since
then, the project has moved its infrastructure to the new location.
Thanks to Infra and the graduation guide the move was really painless.
The project got lots of very positive feedback in response to the
graduation from the Incubator. This was also expressed in the official
ASF announcement. The very active community has lots of hope that
Stanbol will now establish as a reliable platform for semantic
services. The project team tries to keep the momentum up and is
steadily improving Stanbol.
The project plans to publish 1.0 releases of all components over the
next weeks.
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Attachment AI: Status report for the Apache Steve Project
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Attachment AJ: Status report for the Apache Struts Project
Apache Struts is an action-based Java web application framework.
The Struts team made one release in the last quarter:
* Struts 2.3.4.1 - Fast Track Security Fix Release
Struts 2.3.4.1 fixes two security issues regarding CSRF protection and
DOS attack prevention, see [1] and [2]. The reaction time from issue
reporting to fix release was pretty good.
Two more possible security issues were reported this quarter. The first
one allows for remote code execution in a scenario of not properly
sanitized user input. While user input sanitizing is basically a
developer issue, we have included a complex prevention patch into our
upcoming Struts 2.3.5 feature release which is currently in the process
of quality voting. The second reported issue is about possible XSS
vulnerabilities, but so far we are not exactly sure if we fully
understand the reporter and whether a real issue exists here.
The Struts project will be represented at ApacheCon EU in November,
where PMC members Johannes Geppert and René Gielen will be giving a talk
on Struts 2. Informal Struts community gatherings will be organized on
request.
In the last quarter no new committers or PMC members were added.
We have no issues that require Board assistance at this time.
[1] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/WW/S2-010
[2] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/WW/S2-011
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Attachment AK: Status report for the Apache Tapestry Project
Tapestry is a Java component-based web framework that features high
productivity, great code reuse, robust deployment, and great performance.
We've elected Massimo Lusetti to the Tapestry PMC.
Work continues in the master branch on a significant re-engineering of
Tapestry's client-side JavaScript support.
We've released three bug fixes releases (5.3.4 through 5.3.6); this has been
significantly easier to manage since the move from Subversion to Git.
We've received an security vulnerability report from the MATTA
organization. After a bit of a false start, we've had ongoing discussions with
them. Primarily, there is a need for for HMAC (hash-based message
authentication) when Tapestry stores serialized Java objects on the
client. This has been addressed as part of the 5.3.6 release.
Further security work will continue later, with support for detecting
cross-site scripting attacks.
We've been having some challenges getting Tapestry to build correctly on the
Jenkins continuous integration server.
Mailing list traffic continues in the 900 - 1000 messages per month range.
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Attachment AL: Status report for the Apache Tcl Project
Apache Tcl is an umbrella for Tcl-Apache integration efforts.
These projects combine the power of the Apache web server with the
capabilities of the mature, robust and flexible Tcl scripting language.
Apache Tcl subprojects are
:
* mod_tcl
* Rivet
* Websh
Community:
Apache Tcl welcomes Harald Oehlmann (oehhar@apache.org) as
new committer and PMC member. Harald joined Apache Tcl on Sept. 3rd 2012
Development:
+ mod_tcl: no activity to be reported
+ Rivet - several issues were tackled in the last quarter and these
efforts resulted in various bugfixes and improvements:
* Fixed bugs in DIO (Database abstraction class) main class
including problems with base class methods not returning any value and
method 'count' being too demanding on input parameters (bugs #53732
and #53733)
* Improved support for Sqlite in DIO
* Fixed timestamp handling for DIO Mysql, Oracle and Postgresql
connector classes (bug #53703)
* Fixed manual page for 'insert' method
* Fixed Oracle support in DIO
* Test suite simplified by removing unneeded dependency on
the external 'id' command (bug #53396)
* Code of shared libraries implementing various
functions reorganized and moved to specific directories
in the source tree
* Build and Installation documentation improved
* Improved manual with new icons and several corrections
* Other small fixes made to the core module (mod_rivet.c)
+ Websh: no relevant activity to be reported
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Attachment AM: Status report for the Apache Thrift Project
Thrift is a framework for providing cross-platform RPC and serialization.
Community
The Thrift community continues to see consistent growth with new contributors
enchaining Thrift and closing bugs at a steady rate. The upcoming release
shows this growth in having 50+ more tickets resolved than past releases.
Releases
With help from Gavin @infra the jenkins build slaves have been upgraded to
help Thrift utilize the newest versions of client library dependencies.
The 0.9 release candidate is in the process of being packaged for a vote with
THRIFT-1721 as the only remaining blocker which has a patch available and is
currently getting tested (sub-ticket THRIFT-1722 breaks deb build which is
needed for INFRA-4081).
Website
Community contributions for documentation and updates to the website are
coming in and the tutorials section of the site is starting to take shape
with new content and examples.
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Attachment AN: Status report for the Apache Tika Project
What is Tika?
=========================
Apache Tika is a dynamic toolkit for content detection, analysis, and
extraction. It allows a user to understand, and leverage information
from, a growing a list over 1200 different file types including most
of the major types in existence (MS Office, Adobe, Text, Images,
Video, Code, and science data) as recognised by IANA and other
standards bodies.
Releases
=========================
We released version 1.2 on the 12th of July 2012[1]. This contained
new features such as the JAX-RS based network server and XMP metadata
handling, along with new file formats and parser improvements.
Work is currently underway on version 1.3 with 22 resolved and 19
open/in progress JIRA tickets, adding support for open graph metadata,
correct rounding of geodata information and improved mime type
detection for JPEG 2000 formats.
Community
=========================
The Tika PMC added Sergey Beryozkin (July 2012), Ingo Renner (July
2012) and Jörg Ehrlich (August 2012) as PMC members and committers.
As sponsor the Tika PMC voted to recommend the graduation of the Any23
incubator project to a TLP. This passed[3] and following the Incubator
PMC vote, the board approved the graduation resolution.
The Tika PMC voted to recommend Dave Meikle as the new chair[4]. This
was accepted by the board in August 2012 and Chris has now handed
duties over to Dave.
Jukka Zitting is scheduled to speak about Tika at ApacheCon Europe.
The session is titled 'Content extraction with Apache Tika'[5] and
shows how Tika can be used with a Lucene or Solr search index.
Mailing list activity on dev@ was at 173, 61 and 7 messages in August,
September and October 2012, respectively. user@ was at 34, 31 and 1
messages, during the same timeframe.
[1] http://s.apache.org/Vzr
[2] http://s.apache.org/HoO
[3] http://s.apache.org/gHE
[4] http://s.apache.org/kBQ
[5] http://s.apache.org/lnR
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Attachment AO: Status report for the Apache Traffic Server Project
Apache Traffic Server is an HTTP proxy server and cache, similar to Squid
and Varnish in functionality and features.
Issues
======
There are no issues that needs the boards attention.
Community
=========
Three new committers were added since the last report, bringing us to a
total of 31 active committers. Paul Querna has stepped down from the PMC,
going emeritus for the time being. We would like to thank Paul for all his
contributions to the project, in particularly during incubation and the
early stages joining the Apache Foundation. The mailing lists are seeing
slightly less growth than previous quarters:
users@ - 324 subscribers (up 8% since last report)
dev@ - 219 subscribers (up 8% since last report)
The PMC has decided to combine the committer and PMC membership votes into
one. Going forward, new committers that are voted in have a choice to join
either as both committer and PMC member, or just as a committer.
We had a successful Traffic Server Hackathon at OSCON in Portland, and on
10/18 several of our committers are attending the Web Caches Meetup hosted
by Yahoo (http://s.apache.org/c1a).
An introduction to Apache Traffic Server will be presented at ApacheCon-EU
in November.
Releases
========
Development has been somewhat slow over the summer months, but we made one
release:
3.3.0 - The first development release after v3.2.
This version includes several new experimental plugins, including a Lua
plugin framework (to write plugins in Lua scripts), and a plugin to
handle stale content (RFC 5861).
On further positive notes, a SPDY plugin has been committed to the main
git repository. It's still in somewhat rough shape, but shows promise of
having full SPDY support soon. Parties interested in SPDY are encouraged
to help with the development on this plugin.
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Attachment AP: Status report for the Apache Web Services Project
Web Services Report for October 2012
Releases within this quarter:
* WSS4J 1.6.7 (RM - Colm O hEigeartaigh)
* XmlSchema 2.0.3 (RM - Daniel Kulp)
Community and development:
* Small but active community on development and mailing lists.
Branding checklist for sub-projects with releases in the last quarters
(Axiom, Neethi, WSS4J ):
* Project Naming And Descriptions: OK
* Website Navigation Links: OK
* Trademark Attributions: OK
* Logos and Graphics: OK ( Neethi and WSS4J sub projects don't have logos)
* Project Metadata: OK
Not yet compliant:
* XmlSchema
* Woden - ( A new site for Woden is under development.)
* XML-RPC
* Project homepage - (needs review and fresh look.)
Subprojects
-----------
Current subproject descriptions follow, along with anything specifically
requiring the board's attention this quarter.
* Apache Woden
Woden is an open source Java implementation of the W3C WSDL 2.0
specification.
* Apache Axiom
Apache Axiom is a StAX-based, XML Infoset compliant object model which
supports on-demand building of the object tree.
- Project branding guidelines fully implemented.
- No release during last quarter. 1.2.13 planned for next quarter.
- Community activity: slightly increased JIRA activity over the last
quarter.
* Apache XmlSchema
Apache XmlSchema is a Java object model for manipulating and utilizing
XML Schema.
- no developer activity this quarter, although a user did raise a JIRA
that needs to be looks at.
* Apache Neethi
Apache Neethi is a Java implementation of the WS-Policy specifications.
- Two minor bugs fixed on trunk, but not yet released
* Apache TCPMon
Apache TCPMon is a Java-based network trace tool, useful for debugging
Web Service interactions.
* Apache XML-RPC
Apache XML-RPC is a Java implementation of XML-RPC, a popular protocol
that uses XML over HTTP to implement remote procedure calls.
* Apache WSS4J
Apache WSS4J is a Java implementation of the OASIS Web Services Security
(WS-Security) from OASIS Web Services Security TC.
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Attachment AQ: Status report for the Apache XMLBeans Project
About XMLBeans:
XMLBeans is a tool that allows you to access the full power of XML in a
Java friendly way. The idea is that you can take advantage of the
richness and features of XML and XML Schema and have these features
mapped as naturally as possible to the equivalent Java language and
typing constructs. XMLBeans uses XML Schema to compile Java interfaces
and classes that you can then use to access and modify XML instance
data.
Since our last board report, XMLBeans had a new release 2.6.0 in August.
Also, we're in the process to add a new committer, a vote is ongoing for
a long time community member: Jerry Sy to become an XMLBeans committer.
Also one PMC member, Ken Kress, opted to become emeritus
and was marked as such in Apache records.
There are no other issues requiring board's attention.
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Attachment AR: Status report for the Apache Bigtop Project
DESCRIPTION
Apache Bigtop is a software related to a system for integration,
packaging, deployment and validation of a big data management
software distribution based on Apache Hadoop
RELEASES
* The last release of Apache Bigtop was version 0.4.0-incubating, released
on Aug 20, 2012 while in Incubation.
* A branch has been created for maintenance release 0.3.1 and it is currently
being maintained by a 0.3.1 Release Manager (Konstantin Boudnik)
* Planning for the next milestone release 0.5.0 are underway.
CURRENT ACTIVITY
* Development activity continues as can be seen from the following report:
http://s.apache.org/Cnw (since last incubator report, Sep 2012)
* Post-graduation tasks are under way. Details at: http://s.apache.org/kh
COMMUNITY
* PMC Composition has not changed since becoming a TLP.
The current affiliations in the PMC stand at: independent (5),
Cloudera (9), Hortonworks (3), Canonical(1), Oracle(1), Twitter(1),
Facebook(1)
* Currently there are:
- Total of 49 subscribers to the developer list
- Total of 52 subscribers to the user list
- Total of 21 committers
- Total of 21 PMC members
ISSUES
* There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
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Attachment AS: Status report for the Apache Oozie Project
DESCRIPTION
Apache Oozie is a system for managing and scheduling workflows that run
different types of Hadoop jobs (such as MapReduce, Pig, Hive and Sqoop)
as well as system specific jobs (such as Java programs and shell scripts).
RELEASES
* The last release of Apache Oozie was version 3.2.0-incubating, released
on Jun 06, 2012 while in Incubation.
* Work on stabilizing branch for release 3.3.0 it is still underway.
CURRENT ACTIVITY
* Development activity continues as can be seen from the following report:
http://s.apache.org/Vc2 (since last report, September 2012)
* Only post-graduation task left is website migration to http://oozie.apache.org.
COMMUNITY
* PMC Composition has not changed since becoming a TLP.
The current affiliations in the PMC stand at: independent (1),
Cloudera (2), Continuity (1), Ebay (1), Hortonworks (2), Microsoft (2),
Yahoo (2).
* Currently there are:
- Total of 93 subscribers to the developer list
- Total of 206 subscribers to the user list
- Total of 11 committers
- Total of 11 PMC members
ISSUES
* There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
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Attachment AT: Status report for the Apache Lucene.Net Project
== Description ==
Apache Lucene.Net is a port of the Lucene search engine library, written in C#
and targeted at .NET runtime users.
== Releases ==
We just passed a vote (Oct 9th, 2012) to release Apache Lucene.Net 3.0.3 with
the accompanying contrib packages. With version 2.9.4 we lost .Net 3.5
compatibility, with 3.0.3 we have brought that back. In the contrib release we
also have a completely new spatial package.
== Current Activity ==
The next planned release is 3.6 which mirrors the 3.6 code for Java Lucene. No
timeline is currently available.
== Statistics ==
Nuget package downloads:
Lucene.Net RC1 & RC2: 431
Lucene.Net Contrib RC1 & RC2: 125
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Attachment AU: Status report for the Apache SIS Project
As a newly minted TLP, Apache SIS is a spatial framework that enables better
representation of coordinates for searching, data clustering, archiving, or
any other relevant spatial needs.
Development:
We are currently in the process of moving the code base from incubator to
TLP. In doing so, we are refining the project layout and best practice for
all the code that was generously donated by Martin Desruisseaux [1].
Community:
The Apache SIS Incubator PMC added Adam Estrada, Andrew Hart, Ross Laidlaw,
Peter Karich and Charith Madusanka and Martin Desruisseaux this past quarter.
Branding:
The Website[2] and Project logo[3] are currently being worked on and will be
finalized soon
Press:
Martin Desruisseaux attended OGC meeting in Seoul Korea and promoted SIS [4]
[1] http://s.apache.org/Est
[2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SIS-31
[3] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SIS-57
[4] http://www.opengeospatial.org/event/1210tc
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