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Board of Directors Meeting Minutes
July 17, 2013
1. Call to order
The meeting was scheduled for 10:30am (Pacific) and began at
10:33 when a sufficient attendance to constitute a quorum was
recognized by the chairman. The meeting was held via
teleconference, hosted by Doug Cutting and Cloudera.
IRC #asfboard on irc.freenode.net was used for backup purposes.
2. Roll Call
Directors Present:
Shane Curcuru
Doug Cutting
Roy T. Fielding
Jim Jagielski
Chris Mattmann
Brett Porter
Sam Ruby
Greg Stein
Directors Absent:
Bertrand Delacretaz
Executive Officers Present:
Ross Gardler
Rich Bowen joined at 11:13
Craig L Russell
James Carman
Executive Officers Absent:
none
Guests:
Sean Kelly
Kevan Miller
Marvin Humphrey
Hadrian Zbarcea
Suresh Marru
David Nalley
Stephen Connolly
3. Minutes from previous meetings
Published minutes can be found at:
http://www.apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html
A. The meeting of June 19, 2013
See: board_minutes_2013_06_19.txt
Approved by General Consent.
4. Executive Officer Reports
A. Chairman [Brett]
At the June meeting, the Board appointed a new slate of Officers for
the coming year:
Chairman - Brett Porter
Vice Chairman - Greg Stein
President - Ross Gardler
Execute Vice President - Rich Bowen
Treasurer - Chris Mattmann
Asst Treasurer - Sam Ruby
Secretary - Craig Russell
Asst Secretary - James Carman
Our thanks go to Jim for his tireless efforts as the President, and
his service in the many executive officer appointments he has held in
the years since the Foundation was established!
Thanks also to Doug for serving as the Chairman for the last 3 years,
who leaves big shoes to fill. I'm honoured to be able to serve as the
current Chairman, and thank the Board for the opportunity.
Congratulations to Ross and Rich in their new roles as President and
EVP, and James as the new Assistant Secretary.
The new process for notifying the Board of PMC changes seems to have
transitioned smoothly. Thanks to Greg for communicating and
documenting the change. One PMC addition was pushed back in the last
month. The handling of inactive PMC members continues to come up from
time to time, but the documentation we have seems sufficient. We
haven't yet been asked to approve a removal under the revised process.
Overall, the Board is operating effectively.
B. President [Ross]
As expected I've been mostly offline this month, dealing with essential
items only as I relocated to the US. That task is now complete. Normal
service can be expected next month.
The EA contract is due for renewal - this matter is now urgent and
will be dealt with ASAP.
Our Directors and Officers Liability insurance is due for renewal.
Melissa is still working to clarify the accounts for ACNA13. The lack of
clarity around this issue, coupled with a number of other issues that
have arisen have prompted us to reconsider the plans for ApacheCon.
Melissa, Rich and myself will be meeting to discuss plans at OSCON in
July. Once a date and time is set we will extend an invite to board
members interested in attending.
I have reached out to VP of Fundraising in order to offer the assistance
of both the EA and the President during busy times (see Attachment 3).
At the suggestion of VP Infra and with input from myself and EVP the
Infrastructure contractors have drawn up a brief mission statement which
is designed to provide a "code of conduct" under which we expect all
contractors and volunteers to operate.
No TAC report has been submitted at the time of writing, Gavin sends his
apologies. There are currently no events planned that TAC are
assisting with.
VP Marketing and Publicity is unable to attend OSCON this
year. Sally is liaising with Melissa to ensure she has everything
she needs.
I will be at OSCON and will assist with the ASF booth whenever possible.
I'll be meeting with Rich as EVP in order to outline the best way for us
to work together in our new roles. More importantly I look forward to
meeting many ASF Members at the event.
Additionally, please see Attachments 1 through 6.
C. Treasurer [Chris]
The first and most important item to report this month is that Chris
has been added as a signer to the account and the list of former
signers has been culled.
The Treasurer's Office is happy
to report that Chris now has full access to the account including
Bill Pay and Direct Pay (or Direct Deposit). This means better
service for the EA, our sysadmin contractors, and others b/c now
both Chris and Sam have the needed access to get things paid and
on time.
The Treasurer's Office paid an open invoice with Corporation Service
Company.
Jim reported IRS Notices that we neglected to submit a Form 941 for
our FY2011 Tax Year. Form 941 corresponds to quarterly tax returns.
After some research Jim and Chris found out that we can simply
respond and state that we have no employees and hence there is no
need to file. Chris is preparing that response and will send it
post haste.
Interactions between Sponsorship and the Treasurer's Office remain
active, with Sam often responding to inquiries from Upayavira
regarding sponsorship visibility quickly.
Sam Ruby was impromptu contacted by Paypal and he worked with them
to add himself and Chris to the PayPal account and to remove Chuck
Murcko. In addition, Sam worked with Paypal to lift the bank transfer
limit (currently $500/month).
Travel expenses to the GSOC 2013 mentors summit were approved by
operations@.
Sam and Chris worked with Daniel Gruno to set up his payment
information now that he has been brought on as a part time
infrastructure contractor.
Chris is still working with the infrastructure team on the setup
of the treasurer website. Again this will be new home for docs and
information on Treasurer Office related policies and procedures,
and information.
Income and Expenses
Current Balances:
Wells Fargo Business Checking: 898,874.21
Wells Fargo Savings: 287,694.87
PayPal: 178,608.98
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Total $ 1,365,178.06
Income Summary:
Lockbox 262,683.78
Paypal 10,777.70
Misc Deposits 143,379.45
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Total $ 416,840.93
Expense Summary:
Category Amount
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ASF credit card - Sam Ruby 598.46
EA 3,462.00
misc expense 1,961.69
Network services - Traci.net 518.00
Press 22,954.55
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Total $ 29,494.70
D. Secretary [Craig]
Secretary continues to run smoothly. Our newly-appointed Assistant
Secretary James Carman has assumed responsibility for filing
incoming documents. June was a busy month, with 92 iclas, 2 cclas,
7 member applications, and four grants received and filed.
E. Executive Vice President [Rich]
No report was submitted.
F. Vice Chairman [Greg]
Announced the new PMC membership alteration policy, updated the
appropriate web page, and provided several followup answers to
questions that arose.
Executive officer reports approved as submitted by General Consent.
5. Additional Officer Reports
A. VP of W3C Relations [Andy Seaborne / Jim]
See Attachment 7
B. Apache Legal Affairs Committee [Sam Ruby]
See Attachment 8
C. Apache Security Team Project [Mark Cox / Bertrand]
See Attachment 9
Additional officer reports approved as submitted by General Consent.
6. Committee Reports
A. Apache Accumulo Project [Billie Rinaldi / Greg]
See Attachment A
B. Apache ACE Project [Marcel Offermans / Brett]
See Attachment B
C. Apache ActiveMQ Project [Hiram Chirino / Chris]
See Attachment C
D. Apache Airavata Project [Suresh Marru / Shane]
See Attachment D
E. Apache Aries Project [Jeremy Hughes / Roy]
See Attachment E
F. Apache Attic Project [Gianugo Rabellino / Doug]
See Attachment F
G. Apache Avro Project [Scott Carey / Sam]
See Attachment G
H. Apache Axis Project [Andreas Veithen / Doug]
See Attachment H
AI: Doug: discuss inactive sub-projects with PMC
I. Apache Crunch Project [Josh Wills / Greg]
See Attachment I
J. Apache CXF Project [Daniel Kulp / Bertrand]
See Attachment J
K. Apache DB Project [Myrna van Lunteren / Brett]
See Attachment K
L. Apache Deltacloud Project [Marios S. Andreou / Sam]
See Attachment L
M. Apache DeltaSpike Project [Mark Struberg / Chris]
See Attachment M
N. Apache Directory Project [Pierre-Arnaud Marcelot / Jim]
See Attachment N
O. Apache Geronimo Project [Kevan Miller / Roy]
See Attachment O
P. Apache Hadoop Project [Chris Douglas / Shane]
See Attachment P
Q. Apache HBase Project [Michael Stack / Roy]
See Attachment Q
R. Apache Incubator Project [Marvin Humphrey / Brett]
See Attachment R
Props for having the mentor check boxes in the report!
S. Apache Isis Project [Dan Haywood / Shane]
See Attachment S
AI: Shane contact PMC: branding report no longer needed
T. Apache James Project [Eric Charles / Jim]
See Attachment T
U. Apache Jena Project [Andy Seaborne / Bertrand]
See Attachment U
V. Apache JMeter Project [Sebastian Bazley / Sam]
See Attachment V
AI: Sam send feedback to PMC on new committers
W. Apache Lucene.Net Project [Prescott Nasser / Chris]
See Attachment W
AI: Chris: late report; ask PMC to report next month
X. Apache Lucy Project [Nick Wellnhofer / Greg]
See Attachment X
Y. Apache Mahout Project [Jake Mannix / Doug]
No report was submitted.
AI: Doug to pursue a report for Mahout
Z. Apache Maven Project [Olivier Lamy / Brett]
See Attachment Z
AA. Apache Mesos Project [Benjamin Hindman / Greg]
See Attachment AA
AB. Apache MINA Project [Emmanuel Lecharny / Doug]
See Attachment AB
AC. Apache MyFaces Project [Gerhard Petracek / Roy]
See Attachment AC
AD. Apache Nutch Project [Julien Nioche / Shane]
See Attachment AD
AE. Apache ODE Project [Tammo van Lessen / Chris]
See Attachment AE
AF. Apache Onami Project [Simone Tripodi / Bertrand]
See Attachment AF
AG. Apache OpenJPA Project [Pinaki Poddar / Sam]
No report was submitted.
Sam pinged the project before the meeting, and got no response.
Suggests that they be asked to report again next month.
AH. Apache OpenMeetings Project [Sebastian Wagner / Jim]
See Attachment AH
AI. Apache OpenOffice Project [Andrea Pescetti / Greg]
See Attachment AI
AI: Greg: discuss "extras" issue with PMC and see if there is
anything to be done at the "ASF level"
AJ. Apache PDFBox Project [Andreas Lehmkühler / Doug]
See Attachment AJ
AK. Apache Portals Project [David Sean Taylor / Sam]
See Attachment AK
AL. Apache Rave Project [Matt Franklin / Roy]
See Attachment AL
AM. Apache ServiceMix Project [Gert Vanthienen / Brett]
See Attachment AM
AN. Apache Shindig Project [Paul Lindner / Chris]
No report was submitted.
AI: Chris to pursue a report for Shindig
AO. Apache Sqoop Project [Arvind Prabhakar / Jim]
See Attachment AO
AP. Apache Steve Project [Jim Jagielski]
See Attachment AP
AQ. Apache Struts Project [Rene Gielen / Shane]
See Attachment AQ
AR. Apache Synapse Project [Paul Fremantle / Bertrand]
See Attachment AR
AS. Apache Tapestry Project [Howard M. Lewis Ship / Roy]
See Attachment AS
AT. Apache Tcl Project [Massimo Manghi / Chris]
See Attachment AT
AU. Apache Thrift Project [Jake Farrell / Greg]
See Attachment AU
AV. Apache Tika Project [Dave Meikle / Jim]
See Attachment AV
AW. Apache TomEE Project [David Blevins / Brett]
No report was submitted.
AX. Apache Traffic Server Project [Leif Hedstrom / Bertrand]
See Attachment AX
AY. Apache Web Services Project [Sagara Gunathunga / Sam]
See Attachment AY
AI: Sam: pursue a report for next month with more detail
AZ. Apache Wookie Project [Scott Wilson / Shane]
See Attachment AZ
BA. Apache XMLBeans Project [Cezar Andrei / Doug]
No report was submitted.
Committee reports approved as submitted by General Consent.
7. Special Orders
A. Terminate the Apache C++ Standard Library Project
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors deems it no longer in the best
interest of the Foundation to continue the Apache C++ Standard
Library project due to inactivity
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Apache C++ Standard Library
project is hereby terminated; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the Attic PMC be and hereby is tasked with
oversight over the software currently maintained by the Apache
C++ Standard Library Project; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache C++ Standard
Library" is hereby terminated; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the Apache C++ Standard Library PMC is hereby
terminated.
Special Order 7A, Terminate the Apache C++ Standard Library
Project, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors
present.
B. Change the Apache Synapse Project Chair
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Paul Fremantle
to the office of Vice President, Apache Synapse, and
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation
of Paul Fremantle from the office of Vice President, Apache Synapse,
and
WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Synapse
project has chosen by vote to recommend Hiranya Jayathilaka as the
successor to the post;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Paul Fremantle is relieved and
discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office
of Vice President, Apache Synapse, and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Hiranya Jayathilaka be and hereby is
appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Synapse, 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 Synapse Project Chair, was
approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
C. Establish the Apache JSPWiki 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 related to JSPWiki, a feature-rich and
extensible Wiki engine built around the standard
Java EE components Java, Servlets, and Java Server Pages,
for distribution at no charge to the public.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management
Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Apache JSPWiki Project",
be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the
Foundation; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the Apache JSPWiki Project be and hereby is
responsible for the creation and maintenance of software
related to JSPWiki, a feature-rich and
extensible Wiki engine built around the standard
Java EE components Java, Servlets, and Java Server Pages;
and be it further
RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache JSPWiki" 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 JSPWiki Project, and to have primary responsibility
for management of the projects within the scope of
responsibility of the Apache JSPWiki 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 JSPWiki Project:
* Murray Altheim <altheim@apache.org>
* Dirk Frederickx <brushed@apache.org>
* Florian Holeczek <florianh@apache.org>
* Andrew Jaquith <ajaquith@apache.org>
* Glen Mazza <gmazza@apache.org>
* Harry Metske <metskem@apache.org>
* Craig L Russell <clr@apache.org>
* Juan Pablo Santos <juanpablo@apache.org>
* Christoph Sauer <csauer@apache.org>
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Juan Pablo Santos
be appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache JSPWiki, to
serve in accordance with and subject to the direction of the
Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until
death, resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification,
or until a successor is appointed; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the Apache JSPWiki Project be and hereby
is tasked with the migration and rationalization of the Apache
Incubator JSPWiki podling; and be it further
RESOLVED, that all responsibilities pertaining to the Apache
Incubator JSPWiki podling encumbered upon the Apache Incubator
Project are hereafter discharged.
Special Order 7C, Establish the Apache JSPWiki Project, was
approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
D. Change the Apache Geronimo PMC Chair
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Kevan Miller
to the office of Vice President, Apache Geronimo, and
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation
of Kevan Miller from the office of Vice President, Apache Geronimo,
and
WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Geronimo
project has chosen by vote to recommend Jarek Gawor as the successor
to the post;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Kevan Miller is relieved and
discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office
of Vice President, Apache Geronimo, and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Jarek Gawor be and hereby is
appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Geronimo, to
serve in accordance with and subject to the direction of the
Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until
death, resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification, or
until a successor is appointed.
Special Order 7D, Change the Apache Geronimo PMC Chair, was
approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
E. Terminate the Apache XMLBeans Project
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors deems it no longer in the best
interest of the Foundation to continue the Apache XMLBeans project
due to inactivity
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Apache XMLBeans
project is hereby terminated; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the Attic PMC be and hereby is tasked with
oversight over the software developed by the Apache XMLBeans
Project; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache XMLBeans" is
hereby terminated; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the Apache XMLBeans PMC is hereby terminated.
Special Order 7E, Terminate the Apache XMLBeans Project, was
approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
8. Discussion Items
9. Review Outstanding Action Items
* Brett: "offer" to send XMLBeans to the Attic if they continue to not
report.
Status: Done
* Brett: follow up with Standard C++ Library about project future
Status: Done
* Greg: email to multiple PMCs to ask for dates on releases.
Status:
* Roy: Update the guidance for releases and communicate to all
committers.
Status: still not done
* Chris: contact Onami PMC re: off list mail responses
Status: Emailed Onami private list and CC'ed board. COMPLETE.
10. Unfinished Business
11. New Business
12. Announcements
13. Adjournment
Adjourned at 11:27 a.m. (Pacific)
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ATTACHMENTS:
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Attachment 1: Report from the Executive Assistant [Melissa Warnkin]
* Daily monitoring of all email activity and following-up with appropriate
personnel
* Further follow-up w/ComDev re CloudStack Collab Conference
* Submitted the newthinking invoice to Treasurer for the 18.72 eur duty/tax
for the shipment of stickers sent for the Berlin Buzzwords. Also submitted
the CSC invoice for the Corporate Registration Renewal for processing.
* OSCON 2013 - production of stickers and new 8x8 banner; submitted the
required paperwork for the designated passes and for the furniture/booth
rental. Secured hotel reservation for Martin van den Bemt, who has
volunteered to assist with the booth. Also secured my flight and hotel
reservations.
* Reviewed the financial breakdown of the costs in question from TOB for ACNA
2013.
* Followed up on the status of the videos from ACEU 2012 and ACNA 2013
* Email communications with Upayavira re Fundraising
Foreseeable activities for July:
* Follow-up with ex-ConCom regarding the status of the "event-in-a-box"
conversation
* Send a package of stickers to Uli
* Finalizing logistics of OSCON and shipping out the packages
* Ross, Rich, and I will be meeting at OSCON re future ApacheCons and the
direction thereof
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Attachment 2: Report from the VP of Brand Management [Shane Curcuru]
A normal month for trademarks@, although a bit behind on resolving
questions in the past couple of weeks.
Thanks to Ross for updating various policy documentation to reflect that
trademarks@ now handles all event-based branding approvals.
DLAPiper has been doing plenty of registration and recordation work for
us this month, including recording the change of ownership of various
donated registered marks in key jurisdictions.
Registration applications have been made for ACTIVEMQ and
SERVICEMIX to replace earlier applications that timed out.
OPENOFFICE application is being updated and re-submitted in Canada, which if
successful would allow us to note that name is registered.
SUBVERSION is being applied for "incontestability", which would ensure
our very clear ownership of the name in the US.
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Attachment 3: Report from the VP of Fundraising [Upayavira]
This month has been very quiet, after the activity of the previous month.
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Attachment 4: Report from the VP of Marketing and Publicity [Sally Khudairi]
I. Budget: a handful of OSCON-related charges will be submitted
towards the end of the month. Otherwise, we are ahead of plan with no
vendor payments due at this time.
II. Fundraising/Branding/Marketing liaison: no meetings are
planned. Sally Khudairi has been working with VP Fundraising
Upayavira to secure an additional Sponsorship renewals at the Silver
level, and is helping close one new Platinum Sponsor. She continues
to counsel a few organizations regarding publicity and promotion
around projects ready to enter the Apache Incubator, as well as for
podlings under incubation. Discussions with an existing ASF Sponsor
regarding strategies to market Apache Top-level Projects have gone
silent over the past month.
III. Press Releases: the following formal announcements were issued
via the newswire service, ASF Foundation Blog, and
announce@apache.org:
- 18 June -- The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache(tm)
Subversion(r) 1.8.0
IV. Informal Announcements: 2 items were announced on @TheASF Twitter
feed. No new posts were made on the @ApacheCon Twitter feed or
"TheApacheFoundation" account on YouTube.
V. Future Announcements: a podling is working with us to prepare for
graduation from the Incubator, and two TLP announcements are
currently planned to support major releases. Those PMCs wishing to
announce major project news —as well as podlings ready to graduate
from the Incubator— are welcome to contact Sally at press@apache.org
for more information. Kindly provide at least 2-weeks' notice for
proper planning and execution.
VI. Media Relations: the workload has taken a rather sharp turn
behind the scenes, with activities that included fielding 6 general
inquiries, reviewing/editing 5 Apache-supporting organizations'
proposed announcements and press plans, responding to 11 media
requests, and 6 queries on Foundation background/operational
information. The ASF received 1,695 press clips over this time
period, vs. last month's clip count of 428.
VII. Analyst Relations: Sally connected with three analyst firms, and
has one formal briefing scheduled to take place the first week of
August. Apache was mentioned in 6 reports by Gartner, 1 report by
Forrester, 3 write-ups by GigaOM, and 5 reports by 451 Research.
VIII. ApacheCon liaison: no activities are planned at this time,
however, there is still follow-up regarding the recorded videos that
are still not online.
IX. (Non-ASF) Industry Events and Outreach liaison: Sally has been
working with Melissa regarding our participation at OSCON 2013, where
we will be exhibiting in the non-profit pavilion. Melissa is
overseeing production and logistics for promotional materials, as
well as assisting with booth tactics where needed. Sally will not be
able to attend OSCON this year; Martin van den Bemt has kindly
offered to be there in her stead, and his travel/lodging expenses
will be covered by the Marketing & Publicity budget. Sally has also
been working with two events to secure speakers from the Apache
Hadoop PMC and big data community.
X. Newswire accounts: we have 14 pre-paid press releases with NASDAQ
GlobeNewswire through December 2013, and 17 pre-paid press releases
on the PRNewswire account through May 2014.
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Attachment 5: Report from the VP of Infrastructure [Sam Ruby]
Discussed the logistics of bringing the ACEU 2012 videos online.
Dealt with the fallout surrounding the recent javadoc vulnerability.
Discussed upgrading our VSphere license with VMWare.
We continue to iron out kinks with our new circonus monitoring service.
Added a brief mission statement here:
http://www.apache.org/dev/infra-contact#mission
Upgraded svn on eris (svn.us) and harmonia (svn.eu) to current versions.
Discussed making shell access from people.apache.org an opt-in service.
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Attachment 6: Report from the Apache Travel Assistance Committee [Gavin McDonald]
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Attachment 7: Report from the VP of W3C Relations [Andy Seaborne]
W3C are revising their membership fees. Thanks to Larry Rosen, W3C have
confirmed that the current arrangement for the foundations membership
remains unchanged.
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Attachment 8: Report from the Apache Legal Affairs Committee [Sam Ruby]
Busy month.
Carry overs from last month:
* Issue 144: (short version of license headers)
Despite the previously approved license header not having a copyright
statement, we have a single individual strongly opposed to approving any new
versions unless a copyright header is included in every source file that
contains a license header. A large number of people have expressed
strong opposition to any requirement for copyright header to be added to
every source file. Sadly, I don't see anybody changing their mind on this
matter, so this will need to proceed to a vote (the first time I recall this
happening since I took this position)
* Issue 167 (CC-By license)
Barring any additional discussion, this license will be moved from Category
A to Category B.
Notable new discussions:
* Our previous agreements for access to various TCKs has expired, and Oracle
has provided a new agreement. This new agreement is not consistent with
the 2002 side-letter we received from Sun:
http://jakarta.apache.org/site/sideletter.pdf
This matter was referred to the SFLC, and they provided this feedback on our
behalf to Oracle. Oracle has not yet responded.
* I've forwarded on a review the current the ECCN process to the SFLC to
see if there needs to be any updates.
* The SFLC is collecting data for a response to the Teradata request made
to the Hive PMC (see last month's Hive board report for details).
* Whether or not it is permissible to distribute third party binaries which
are made available under a license that permits distribution but has
a field of use restriction, a requirement to pay attorney's fees, and
a requirement to pass on restrictions.
* Similar discussion over shipping in source form third party code that
fixes a JavaDoc security problem, where the license limited how that
source could be used. This request was withdrawn as other, better,
alternatives were found.
* As the Maven report indicates, the project is currently not complying with
license header requirements as applied to their test data, but is working on
building a plan to correct this over time. Kudos to the Maven PMC for both
catching this and to committing to build a plan to bring Maven releases into
compliance.
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Attachment 9: Report from the Apache Security Team Project [Mark Cox]
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.
3 Support question
2 Phishing/spam/attacks point to site "powered by Apache"
15 Vulnerability reports
2 [aoo, via officesecurity@lists.freedesktop.org] [1 closed]
1 [sling, via security@sling]
2 [httpd, via security@] [CLOSED]
1 [cloudstack, via security@cloudstack]
1 [hadoop, via security@hadoop]
1 [archiva, via security@]
1 [various, via security@] [CLOSED]
2 [ofbiz, via security@]
1 [tomcat, via security@]
1 tomcat, commons via security@] [CLOSED]
1 [hbase, via security@hadoop, private@hbase]
1 [struts, via security@struts]
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Attachment A: Report from the Apache Accumulo Project [Billie Rinaldi]
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
Version 1.5.0 was released on 5/24/2013.
Activity
The mailing lists have been active. The dev list has increased by 31
subscribers to 196, and the user list has increased by 43 subscribers to
289. Development is also active.
We have begun discussing major features to be included in the 1.6.0
release and also have discussed things we would have liked to do
differently for the 1.5.0 release.
We are intending to switch from svn to git.
Community
Corey Nolet was added as a committer on 5/6/2013.
Mike Drob was added as a committer on 6/27/2013.
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Attachment B: Report from the Apache ACE Project [Marcel Offermans]
Apache ACE is a software distribution framework that allows you to
centrally manage and distribute modular software components,
configuration data and other artifacts to OSGi based and related target
systems.
Releases:
* June 17th, 2013: ACE 1.0.0 release.
Activity:
* Added Bram de Kruijff, Jan Willem Janssen and Paul Bakker to the PMC.
* Setup CI build on Jenkins.
* Lots of small things in preparation of the release.
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Attachment C: Report from the Apache ActiveMQ Project [Hiram Chirino]
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.
* Developers voted to switch ActiveMQ from SVN to Git.
* Christian Posta was voted in as a PMC member
* Several ActiveMQ related presentations were done at CamelOne.
Development:
* Development on ActiveMQ 5.9 is underway
Trademark / Branding Status:
* Sub-projects need to be reviewed to make sure they are also
compliant /w TM policies
* Documentation and readme files will also be reviewed for compliance
Releases:
* Apache.NMS.ActiveMQ 1.6.0
* Apache.NMS API 1.6.0
* ActiveMQ-CPP v3.7.0
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Attachment D: Report from the Apache Airavata Project [Suresh Marru]
Apache Airavata is a software framework to construct, execute, and
manage long running applications and workflows on distributed
computing resources.
== Releases ==
Airavata 0.7 was released on April 15th 2013.
The release vote for Airavata 0.8 version is ongoing. Community is
actively responding to RC testing and is currently on RC4. Anticipated
to release 0.8 version by mid July.
== Activity ==
The mailing list, jira and commit activity remains very high.
== Community ==
Airavata is mentoring 6 Google Summer of Code students. The community
is very well engaged with significant email traffic on the mailing
lists and issues and code commits. Airavata, OODT, SIS are engaged in
cross-cutting projects and discussions primarily initiated through
student research projects.
== Committer/PMC Changes ==
No changes to PMC this reporting period. Last member was added in
December 2012. There are close to a dozen active contributors on the
Airavata mailing lists and are in the PMC watch list. The PMC will be
discussing their contributions and additions to the PMC.
== Other Issues ==
There are no outstanding issues requiring board attention.
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Attachment E: Report from the Apache Aries Project [Jeremy Hughes]
Apache Aries delivers a set of pluggable Java components enabling an
enterprise OSGi application programming model.
## Releases
* Apache Aries Subsystems Bundle 1.0.0
This is an 'uber' bundle form of the API and implementation (core) bundles
of Aries Subsystems. Together these are the reference implementation of
the OSGi Subsystem Service Specification which "provides a declarative
model for defining resource collections, including bundles, and an API for
installing and managing those collections of resources." See OSGi
Enterprise Release 5 specification chapter 134. The 'uber' bundle is
released for a convenience for people starting out with Subsystems.
##Project update
We have voted in John Ross as a member of the PMC. No new committers since
the last report. Usage questions and interactions with other non-ASF
projects continue to be asked on the user list, showing users are putting
Aries to use in real world scenarios.
There are no board level issues.
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Attachment F: Report from the Apache Attic Project [Gianugo Rabellino]
No issues requiring board attention at this time. Quiet time in the
mailing lists, however since the last report Apache ESME and Apache
DDLUtils are in the process of moving to the Attic.
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Attachment G: Report from the Apache Avro Project [Scott Carey]
Apache Avro is a cross-language data serialization system.
== Issues ==
There are no issues that require the board's attention at this time.
== Community ==
There has been active work across all languages in the project.
User and Developer mailing list activity has been in the same range as the last couple years.
== Releases ==
There were no releases this quarter, however a 1.7.5 release should happen within a few weeks.
-----------------------------------------
Attachment H: Report from the Apache Axis Project [Andreas Veithen]
The Apache Axis project is responsible for the creation and
maintenance of software related to the Axis Web Services frameworks
and subsidiary components.
No releases this quarter.
Last releases:
Axis2/Java: April 2012
Rampart/Java: April 2012
Sandesha2/Java: April 2012
Axis2 Transports/Java: December 2009
Axis/Java: April 2006
Axis2/C: Apr 2009
Rampart/C: May 2009
Sandesha/C: Oct 2007
Savan/C: May 2007
Axis/C++ 1.x: March 2006
Inactive/abandoned subprojects: Savan/Java, Kandula
Project branding status per subproject:
Axis2/Java: OK
Rampart/Java: OK
Sandesha2/Java: OK
Axis2 Transports/Java: not OK; this subproject is in the process of
being merged into Axis2/Java and will disappear as a distinct
subproject
Axis/Java: OK
C/C++ subprojects: no progess because of lack of activity in these subprojects
svnpubsub migration status: both the Web site and the dist area have
been migrated
Community:
* New committer/PMC member: Shameera Rathnayaka, Alex Mantaut
* We started the process of PMC chair rotation; a resolution to change
the Axis PMC chair will likely be proposed to the board for the next
board meeting
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Attachment I: Report from the Apache Crunch Project [Josh Wills]
Apache Crunch is a Java library for writing, testing, and running
MapReduce pipelines on Apache Hadoop.
Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
Releases:
We made one release last quarter, version 0.6.0 on May 13th, 2013.
Work is currently underway on version 0.7.0.
Community:
The Crunch PMC voted to add Micah Whitacre as a committer on the
project and he has accepted. There have been no changes to the PMC
since becoming a TLP in February 2013.
Activity on the development list has been at a steady cadence for the last
quarter, with new issues and patches being submitted by a diverse set of
new and veteran contributors almost every day.
Eli Collins gave a talk about using the Crunch libraries with Apache Avro
to build applications on top of Apache Hadoop at QCon in June 2013. [1]
[1] http://s.apache.org/Kr4 (PDF)
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Attachment J: Report from the Apache CXF Project [Daniel Kulp]
Apache CXF is an open source services framework. CXF helps you build and
develop services using frontend 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:
2.6.8 (May 14, 2013)
2.7.5 (May 14, 2013)
Apache CXF DOSGi 1.5.0 released. (July 2, 2013)
Committer/PMC:
One new committer this period (Amichai Rothman)
Last PMC change: 2 new PMC members were added for our January 2013 report.
Security updates:
One security vulnerabilities was made public this quarter and added to
http://cxf.apache.org/security-advisories.html
CVE-2013-2160 - Denial of Service Attacks on Apache CXF
Community update:
A lot of current development work is targeting a 3.0 release of CXF.
However, there are still many bug fixes being made and ported to the
various fixes branches. We also received a grant from Talend to add
a XKMS service to CXF which enhances our security story around public
key infrastructures and management.
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Attachment K: Report from the Apache DB Project [Myrna van Lunteren]
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 ==
DdlUtils is on its way to the Attic.
Activities over the last quarter
a) - Derby is preparing for a 10.10.2 maintenance/bug fix release in September/October, and working towards a next release 10.11 thereafter.
b) Derby has 1 GSoc student working on increasing test code coverage.
c) The Derby team updated the javadoc on our web site after Oracle's report of a vulnerability.
d) Derby took advantage of the svngit2jira service.
e) Torque tightened their wiki because of increased spam-attacks.
f) JDO is working on a 3.1 Release.
=== Community ===
No PMC changes since August 2011.
No new committers since August 2010.
=== Releases ===
- Derby 10.10.1. was released on April 15, 2013.
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Attachment L: Report from the Apache Deltacloud Project [Marios S. Andreou]
Apache 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.
-- Issues for the board's consideration --
The Apache Deltacloud project has until recently been heavily sponsored by
Red Hat, in the form of full time engineers including travel budget and
a streamlined monthly testing and release cycle. Red Hat announced that
this support is being drastically reduced [1] so this is an interesting
period for the project. Furthermore, the project has recently elected a new
PMC chair as David Lutterkort was unable to continue in this position due
to other commitments.
It has been encouraging to see the continued interest with a daily trickle
of activity on the mailing list, irc channel and JIRA since the Red Hat
announcement. The biggest and most immediate impact is the change to the
release cycle - the monthly release cycle is currently unsustainable.
The next release date has not yet been determined though as PMC chair it
is my aim to encourage a release towards the end of the summer or early in Q4 2013.
-- Releases/Development --
1.1.4 - in progress
1.1.3 - 2013-04-22
1.1.2 - 2013-03-13
1.1.1 - 2013-02-13
1.1.0 - 2013-01-15
-- Overall activity in the past quarter --
JIRA: 30 JIRA tickets filed in this quarter by 10 individuals - 8
closed/resolved and work ongoing on some others (needs tidy up).
Commits: 103 individual commits [2] by 10 committers [3] in this quarter
Much work on bug fixes and improving the DMTF CIMI frontend exposed by a
Deltacloud server. Some interest in the OpenStack driver (work ongoing to
change the library used to talk to OpenStack services).
Next week (8-12 July) will see a revival of the Deltacloud community call
[4][5].
-- Last committers and PMC members elected --
Change of PMC chair 29 May 2013
(Marios S. Andreou takes over from David Lutterkort)
Tomas Sedovic (August 2012) and Dies Koper (December 2012) voted in as
committers.
[1] http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/deltacloud-dev/201305.mbox/%3C518D0F79.4000901%40redhat.com%3E
[2] git log --oneline --after={2013-04-17} --no-merges | wc -l
[3] git shortlog --oneline --after={2013-04-17} --no-merges -sne
[4] http://deltacloud.apache.org/contact.html
[5] http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/deltacloud-dev/201307.mbox/%3C51D2C2E0.5040700%40redhat.com%3E
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Attachment M: Report from the Apache DeltaSpike Project [Mark Struberg]
Apache DeltaSpike is a portable JSR-299 CDI Extension library
which contains lots of useful tools and helpers which
are missing in the CDI core spec.
DeltaSpike is not a CDI-container itself, but a
portable Extension library which can run on all CDI-containers!
DeltaSpike is tested and runs on many Java EE Servers like Apache TomEE,
JBoss AS, Oracle WebLogic, Oracle Glassfish, IBM WebSphere, and also
on simple Servlet containers like Apache Tomcat or Jetty in combination
with either JBoss Weld or Apache OpenWebBeans.
Project Status:
We are now finally done with all Graduation tasks.
We recently added 3 now Extension modules.
Releases:
last release: deltaspike-0.4 on 2013-05-31.
We are currently working towards deltaspike-0.5.
Community:
New Committer: Thomas Hug (thug) on 2013-06-20
Our first new committer after graduation.
Jim Jagielski batch-resigned as Mentor.
We still keep him around as silent PMC though ;)
Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
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Attachment N: Report from the Apache Directory Project [Pierre-Arnaud Marcelot]
The Apache Directory Project provides directory solutions entirely written
in Java. These include a directory server, which has been certified as
LDAPv3 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
-- Current activity --
* Apache Directory LDAP API:
* Three releases during this quarter.
* Low activity
* Very minor bug fixes.
* ApacheDS:
* Three releases during this quarter.
* Good activity
* Improved stability and fixed major issues related to corrupted backend.
* Apache Directory Studio:
* Two new releases during this quarter.
* Good activity
* Integration and support of the latest version of the Apache Directory
LDAP API and ApacheDS
* Added the ability to store connection passwords in a password-protected
keystore
* Improved existing value editors (Password & Hex editors) + minor bug fixes
-- Releases --
* Three releases for Apache Directory LDAP API:
* Apache Directory LDAP API 1.0.0-M17 (May 2nd 2013)
* Apache Directory LDAP API 1.0.0-M18 (June 25th 2013)
* Apache Directory LDAP API 1.0.0-M19 (July 1st 2013)
* Three releases for ApacheDS:
* ApacheDS 2.0.0-M12 (May 2nd 2013)
* ApacheDS 2.0.0-M13 (June 25th 2013)
* ApacheDS 2.0.0-M14 (July 1st 2013)
* Two releases for Apache Directory Studio:
* Apache Directory Studio 2.0.0-M7 (May 31st 2013)
* Apache Directory Studio 2.0.0-M8 (July 4th 2013)
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Attachment O: Report from the Apache Geronimo Project [Kevan Miller]
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 has generated multiple releases in the past 3
months. Most significantly, the community released Geronimo
Server 3.0.1. Several initiatives related to Java EE 7 have been
started (both by committers and also some new contributors).
New releases were:
* geronimo-tomcat 7.0.39.1 and 7.0.39.2 (May),
* Geronimo Server 3.0.1 (May),
* xbean 3.14 (June), and
* Geronimo Eclipse Plugin 3.0.1 (June)
The current PMC chair (Kevan Miller) informed the PMC that he
wished to step down as chair of the Geronimo PMC. The community
voted to recommend to the board that Jarek Gawor be appointed as
the new chair of the Geronimo PMC.
No new PMC members. The last new PMC member was added in March,
2013.
No new committers. The last new committer was added in March,
2013.
A Geronimo security vulnerability, CVE-2013-1777, was announced
on July 1st.
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Attachment P: Report from the Apache Hadoop Project [Chris Douglas]
Hadoop is a set of related tools and frameworks for creating and managing
distributed applications running on clusters of commodity computers.
There is little to report, as we submitted an off-cycle report in June.
Security discussions on the dev list converge slowly, but consensus is
developing around implementation tasks, if not the precise shape of that work.
Preparation for the 2.1-beta release continues. Contributors continue to
stabilize APIs, iron out incompatibilities with the 1.x codebase, and integrate
with related projects.
When the Hadoop project spun off subprojects a few years ago, the projects
adjusted their committer roles. We'd been ambivalent about finishing that, but
finally did, removing about 11 accounts (none had participated since then).
RELEASES
- hadoop-0.23.9 @ 2013-07-09
COMMUNITY
auth: 68 committers, 43 PMC members
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Attachment Q: Report from the Apache HBase Project [Michael Stack]
HBase is a distributed column-oriented database
built on top of Hadoop Common and Hadoop HDFS
ISSUES FOR THE BOARD’s ATTENTION
In our last report, we wrote of how the HBase PMC had gotten no
response to petitions requesting that MapR Technologies fix
conflation of Apache HBase with their MapR M7 product ("Making
HBase™ Enterprise Grade"). After a new set of violations were
raised on trademarks@ on May 3rd [1], Shane wrote them on
May 17th[2]. He got a response. Since this exchange,
there has been a marked change in how they market their MapR
M7 product; now they talk of it as being a "nosql" store.
Offending text remains[3] but is minor relative to what was
there previous.
RELEASES
0.94.7 -- 04/26/2013
0.94.8 -- 05/30/2013
0.94.9 -- 07/05/2013 Fixes "CVE-2013-2192: Apache Hadoop Man
in the Middle Vulnerability"
0.95.1 -- 06/12/2013 The second in a "Development" Series[3]
of releases that preview 0.96.0
COMMITTERS
We added the following new committer:
Jeffrey Zhong (HortonWorks) jeffreyz@apache.org
PMC
We added the following PMC members:
Enis Soztutar enis@apache.org
Elliott Clark eclark@apache.org
COMMUNITY
Contribution rate continues healthy.
We had HBase Bay Area Meetups on:
06/12/2013 Hackathon at Cloudera in San Francisco [5]
06/25/2013 Meetup before Hadoop Summit in San Jose [6]
07/16/2013 Meetup at Twitter in San Francisco [7]
We had our second conference, HBaseCon2013, in San Francisco
on June 13th, 2013[8]. Almost 800 people showed up to
listen to 72 speakers spread over four tracks and ~50 talks.
STATS
31 committers [9]
892 subscribers to the dev list (Was 872 at last report)
2020 subscribers to the user list (Was 1974 at last report)
1. https://mail-search.apache.org/members/private-arch/hbase-private/201305.mbox/%3CCA+RK=_CJ=3G-AWuyZ5pBNR8HhBHZnKbvLPu=m7uFHqPMkmMqmg@mail.gmail.com%3E
2. https://mail-search.apache.org/members/private-arch/hbase-private/201305.mbox/%3C51969652.6000009@shanecurcuru.org%3E
3. "M7 also provides instant recovery from failures, ensuring 99.999%
availability for Apache HBase™ and Hadoop applications." from
http://www.mapr.com/products/mapr-editions/m7-edition
4. http://hbase.apache.org/book.html#hbase.development.series
5. http://www.meetup.com/hackathon/events/123403802/
6. http://www.meetup.com/hbaseusergroup/events/119154442/
7. http://www.meetup.com/hbaseusergroup/events/119929152/
8. http://www.hbasecon.com/
9. http://hbase.apache.org/team-list.html
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Attachment R: Report from the Apache Incubator Project [Marvin Humphrey]
The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and codebases
wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.
The Incubator expanded to 37 podlings this month.
* Community
New IPMC members:
(None)
People who left the IPMC:
Davanum Srinivas
New IPMC Chair:
Marvin Humphrey, replacing Benson Margulies
* New Podlings
Four new podlings entered the Incubator:
MetaModel
Olingo
Spark
Stratos
* Graduations
The board has motions for the following:
Apache Mesos
Apache JSPWiki
* Releases
The following releases were made since the last Incubator report:
Jun 20 Apache Mesos 0.12.0-incubating
Jun 20 Apache jclouds 1.6.1-incubating
Jun 22 Apache ODF Toolkit 0.6-incubating
Jul 02 Apache Curator 2.1.0-incubating
The availability of IPMC votes for podling releases remains a perennial
problem and source of discontent. This month, it took between 4 and 20 days
from the start of the RC vote on the podling dev list for the third IPMC +1
vote to be cast.
Release RC VOTE start Third IMPC +1 Days
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Apache Mesos 0.12.0-incubating Jun 11 Jun 17 6
Apache jclouds 1.6.1-incubating Jun 13 Jun 17 4
Apache ODF Toolkit 0.6-incubating May 27 Jun 17 20
Apache Curator 2.1.0-incubating Jun 20 Jun 28 8
* IP Clearance
Cloudant's donation of BigCouch passed by lazy consensus.
* Miscellaneous
A schism in the IPMC membership was revealed with regards to whether the
text of a proposal may be modified while a vote is underway. It was
resolved that proposals may not be modified, but opinion remains sharply
divided.
Two new draft documentation pages were well received:
o "What to Expect", an introduction for incoming podling contributors.
o "Mailing List Options", guidance for requesting mailing lists.
The following topics were discussed on general@incubator but have not yet
resulted in concrete action:
o Provisional top-level projects ("pTLP" for short), a less radical offshoot
of the "Incubator Deconstruction" proposal.
o The language of the Incubator's IP Clearance template (*not* the software
grant form, only the checklist) is out of date.
o A "Poding Bill of Rights" was proposed. It has not been formally adopted,
but discussion influenced the subsequently spawned "What to Expect"
document.
o A formal ombud position for the Incubator was proposed, and its
composition and potential responsibilities were discussed.
o Exit interviews for graduated podlings were proposed. Debate centered on
whether responses should/could/must be anonymous.
An audit by the Chair revealed that autogenerated report reminders sent on
July 1 failed to make it to the mailing lists of three podlings (Celix,
Tajo, VXQuery), presumably because the emails did not make it through
moderation. Manual reminders were sent on July 3 (after subscribing
temporarily to the dev lists in question to sidestep moderation).
-------------------- Summary of podling reports --------------------
Still getting started at the Incubator (3 podlings)
MetaModel, Spark, Stratos
Not yet ready to graduate (12 podlings)
No release: DeviceMap, Falcon, Knox, MRQL, Open Climate Workbench,
Ripple, Tajo, VXQuery
Community growth: Celix, Marmotta, ODF Toolkit, Provisionr
Ready to graduate (5 podlings)
JSPWiki, Mesos, Chukwa, jclouds, Helix
Did not report (2 podlings)
Tashi, Tez
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Table of Contents
Celix
Chukwa
DeviceMap
Falcon
Helix
jclouds
JSPWiki
Knox
Marmotta
MetaModel
MRQL
ODF Toolkit
Open Climate Workbench
Provisionr
Ripple
Spark
Stratos
Tajo
Tashi
Tez
VXQuery
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--------------------
Celix
Celix is an OSGi like implementation in C with a distinct focus on
interoperability between Java and C.
Celix has been incubating since 2010-11-02.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Grow the community
2. Find more committers
3.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware
of?
None.
How has the community developed since the last report?
Activity on the mailing list is still a bit slow, but there is still
progress. But more importantly, the Native-OSGi effort has taken a few big
steps. The most important one is the publication of an RFP at the OSGi
Alliance[1]. The purpose of this RFP is to standardise OSGi for native (C
and C++) languages. After the RFP is finalised work will be started on a
RFC, this will be done in conjunction with writing a reference
implementation. For this purpose Apache Celix will be used. This also means
that C++ will be introduced in the Celix project. Most likely large parts of
C++ code will be donated by 2 participants of the Native-OSGi project. This
gives us a great opportunity to add extra committers and increase the
diversity of Celix.
How has the project developed since the last report?
As mentioned above, to be able to write a reference implementation for
Native-OSGi the scope of Celix will be extended to also include C++. Details
of this extension still need to be worked out. But for continuity the
current (C) code base will (for now) remain the same. So any work related to
Native-OSGi will (for now) be done independently from the current
implementation.
Also work is underway to make a second release. Whereas the first release
focused primarily on the releasing itself, this second release will focus on
the actual implementation. Important points are:
* API consistency
* Win32 support
* APR usage
More details can be found in [2]
A (Mini) Hackathon for Apache Celix was organised at June the 30th. There
where 4 people present on the hackathon (2 committers) and focus for the
hackathon was the remote services implementation. The hackathon was received
well and we like to do this more often to encourage community growth of
Apache Celix.
Apache Celix is now also involved the Google Summer of Code for 2013. Erik
Jansman is doing a project on the Event Admin for Apache Celix and Pepijn
Noltes is mentoring him. The idea is to discuss the result on the mailing
list. This is a new experience for Apache Celix and we hope that helps the
community and also provide technical progress.
Date of last release:
16-12-2012
[1]: https://www.osgi.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=165
[2]: http://incubator.markmail.org/thread/fza43iypjutcw2rm
Signed-off-by:
[x](celix) Marcel Offermans
[ ](celix) Karl Pauls
Shepherd notes:
--------------------
Chukwa
Chukwa is a log collection and analysis framework for Apache Hadoop clusters.
Chukwa has been incubating since 2010-07-14.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Generating an active community
2. Keep code up-to-date with Hadoop trend
3. Make another release
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware
of?
Chukwa code needs to be maintained to keep up with new versions of Hadoop.
How has the community developed since the last report?
Committers are communicating more actively than previous quarter.
How has the project developed since the last report?
More contributors have open JIRA to request features and experiment with
code base. Website is now svnpubsub enabled. Team member list is updated
with new committers. Javadocs are regenerated to remove frame injection
vulnerability.
Date of last release:
January 2012
Signed-off-by:
[X](chukwa) Alan Cabrera
[ ](chukwa) Anthony Elder
[ ](chukwa) Bernd Fondermann
[ ](chukwa) Jukka Zitting
Shepherd notes:
ant: I'm a mentor not sheperd but i'll add some comments here. I think we
should just graduate Chukwa. They have met all documented Incubator
requirements, the only reason they're not graduated is that there isn't
loads of development activity going on. Other low activity podlings have
graduated before, Wink is a good example, or Steve which didn't even
incubate. Chukwa has been incubating for 3 years so aren't just some
fly-by-night thing, the "How has the project developed since the last
report?" section of this report shows there is work going on, and that they
fixed the javadoc frame injection security vulnerability shows they do jump
to it when issues that need to be addressed arise. We're not adding any
value to the podling by keeping it here in the Incubator, we should graduate
them, perhaps including the mentors on the PMC if that helps alleviate any
worries.
--------------------
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. While the focus is initially on that data, APIs will
also be created to use and manage it.
DeviceMap has been incubating since 2012-01-03.
There are no issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or the ASF Board need to be
aware of.
Our last report indicated a need to reboot the podling, this has been
successfully done.
Three new committers and PPMC members have been elected since April, and have
been quite active in expanding and improving the podling's code base.
New Java and C# modules have been added and tests are ongoing to validate and
compare the various implementations.
The community stays small but is now regularly active, making a release or two
in the next period should allow DeviceMap to graduate.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Make at least one release
2. Clarify how/where DeviceMap gets its device data. Not strictly required
to graduate but good for the viability of the project, various options
are being evaluated.
3. Graduate - apart from having made a release the podling seems ready for
that.
Date of last release:
none yet.
Signed-off-by:
[X](devicemap) Bertrand Delacretaz
[ ](devicemap) Kevan Miller
[ ](devicemap) Andrew Savory
Shepherd notes:
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Falcon
Falcon is a data processing and management solution for Hadoop designed for
data motion, coordination of data pipelines, lifecycle management, and data
discovery. Falcon enables end consumers to quickly onboard their data and its
associated processing and management tasks on Hadoop clusters.
Falcon has been incubating since 2013-03-27.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Add new and diverse committers
2. Build and grow community
3. Releases at frequent and regular intervals
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware
of?
- No
How has the community developed since the last report?
* We had a meetup of Falcon Users along side Hadoop Summit @ San Jose (Jun
25th 2013)
* More users have joined the falcon users group and mailing lists
How has the project developed since the last report?
9 new JIRAs were created since the last report and 5 of them have been
resolved. We are in the process of preparing for our first release since
incubation.
Signed-off-by:
[ ](falcon) Arun Murthy
[X](falcon) Chris Douglas
[ ](falcon) Owen O'Malley
[ ](falcon) Devaraj Das
[ ](falcon) Alan Gates
Shepherd notes:
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Helix
Apache Helix is a generic cluster management framework used to build
distributed systems and provides automatic partition management, fault
tolerance and elasticity.
Helix has been incubating since 2012-10-14.
We feel we are good to graduate, we have had two smooth releases and are
working on next release 0.6.2 soon.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware
of?
- NONE
How has the community developed since the last report?
-- Added 2 committers Shirshanka Das( LinkedIn) and Vinayak Borkar (UC
Irvine)
-- Good activity on mailing list.
-- Increase in adoption of Helix outside of LinkedIn
How has the project developed since the last report?
-- Released 0.6.1-incubating with lot of new features.
-- Issues: 54 created, 25 resolved
-- Next release 0.6.2 will focus of api refactoring without adding major
features.
Date of last release:
05/30/2013 (0.6.1-incubating)
Signed-off-by:
[x](helix) Patrick Hunt
[x](helix) Olivier Lamy
[x](helix) Mahadev Konar
[ ](helix) Owen O'Malley
Shepherd notes:
Suresh Marru: The podling is healthy and I echo it seems ready to graduate.
They have cut few releases, are engaging well with contributors and voted in
two new committers. Its a small group with activity on the low end but the
diversity is decent enough and podling seems to be ready for
self-governance. If the project decides to graduate, it might be advisable
for one or two mentors continue through for a little while.
--------------------
jclouds
A cloud agnostic library that enables developers to access a variety of
supported cloud providers using one API
jclouds has been incubating since 2013-04-29.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Garnering additional committers and growing our community
2. Now that we've been through a first successful release, ensuring that
subsequent releases progress smoothly and can be handled by multiple
members of the community
3. Agreeing upon a new release schedule and roadmap input gathering strategy
as part of our first major Apache release
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware
of?
Not at the current time. Feedback on the next release will indicate whether
the work we've done around license headers is sufficient.
How has the community developed since the last report?
No changes in committer list. Still plenty of activity from existing
committers as well as submissions from "new faces" across many of the
different jclouds components.
How has the project developed since the last report?
* A very important milestone: our first Apache release!
* First meetup as an incubator project coming up:
http://www.meetup.com/jclouds/events/126378842/
Date of last release:
Jun 19, 2013 (1.6.1-incubating)
Signed-off-by:
[ ](jclouds) Brian McCallister
[X](jclouds) Tom White
[ ](jclouds) Henning Schmiedehausen
[X](jclouds) David Nalley
[ ](jclouds) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
[ ](jclouds) Mohammad Nour El-Din
[ ](jclouds) Olivier Lamy
[ ](jclouds) Tomaz Muraus
[X](jclouds) Suresh Marru
[ ](jclouds) Carlos Sanchez
Shepherd notes:
adc: I think this podling is good to go as far as activity and community
diversity goes. It's hard to discover what their real status since they've
neglected to keep http://incubator.apache.org/projects/jclouds.html up to
date, but it seems to me that none of the issues listed above are a barrier
to their graduation.
It's troubling to see "THE JCLOUDS LOGO IS TRADEMARK OF JCLOUDS, INC." on
the Apache JClouds incubator home page. Either the trademark should be
assigned to the ASF or it should be removed altogether.
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JSPWiki
Java-based wiki engine
JSPWiki has been incubating since 2007-09-17.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. IPMC vote (?, currently running)
2.
3.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware
of?
* We currently have open some JIRAs with Infra. Specifically, having
INFRA-5588 (Ubuntu VM for JSPWiki) solved would be a great +1 in terms of
community building, and would be a really nice way of entering TLP.
How has the community developed since the last report?
* Community graduation vote passed with 16 +1 (http://s.apache.org/uM)
* There was a call for completing i18n files, which has been fastly addresed
by community: Chinese, Portuguese, French, Italian, Brazilian and Russian
language files have been completed completed by community
* Mail activity has tripled previous quarter at jspwiki-dev,
2.9.1-incubating release and graduation being responsible of part of the
increase of this activity. jspwiki-user traffic has decreased a bit,
though.
How has the project developed since the last report?
* Apache JSPWiki 2.9.1-incubating released on May, 15th
* 8 JIRAs resolved in this period
* Switch to Maven as build tool almost complete
* Upgraded some libraries
Date of last release:
15/05/2013
Signed-off-by:
[ ](jspwiki) Dave Johnson
[ ](jspwiki) Craig Russell
[ ](jspwiki) Henning Schmiedehausen
[ ](jspwiki) Sam Ruby
Shepherd notes:
wave: JSPWiki is having a graduation vote which just moved to general@. I am
+1. Well done! No report as of 7/7.
--------------------
Knox
Knox Gateway is a system that provides a single point of secure access for
Apache Hadoop clusters.
Knox has been incubating since 2013-02-22.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Expand community to include more diverse committers.
2. Align technically with security work going in in Hadoop.
3. Clear the project name with legal and pick a new name if required.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware
of?
1. None
How has the community developed since the last report?
1. Voting initiated to invite a new committer to the project.
2. Increased interest in participation resulting from Hadoop Summit exposure.
How has the project developed since the last report?
1. Discussing a 0.3.0 release in the next few weeks.
2. Resolved 26 of 82 total issues currently in JIRA.
Date of last release:
Signed-off-by:
[X](knox) Owen O'Malley
[X](knox) Chris Douglas
[ ](knox) Mahadev Konar
[ ](knox) Alan Gates
[ ](knox) Devaraj Das
[X](knox) Chris Mattmann
[X](knox) Tom White
Shepherd notes:
marvin: The dev list is active and at least one Mentor is engaged.
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Marmotta
An Open Platform for Linked Data.
Marmotta has been incubating since 2012-12-03.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Ingest code and clear IP.
2. A release
3. Build dev and PMC.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware
of?
No such issues.
How has the community developed since the last report?
* dev@marmotta.i.a.o continues with high traffic but slightly decreasing:
Apr. 265, May 161, Jun. 137. We expect the numbers to raise again with the
preparation of the next release.
* Two new persons have been elected as new committer and PPMC members:
Raffaele Palmieri (Eustema Spa) on May 21st, 2013, and Peter Ansell
(University of Queensland) on Jun 24th, 2013.
How has the project developed since the last report?
* The first release (3.0.0-incubating) has been published on April 24th,
2013. Since that the project is actively working of different
improvements, bug fixes and new features, registering 266 issues at jira
(60% resolved).
* The next release (3.1.0-incubation) is planned for the upcoming weeks
(http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-marmotta-dev/201307.mbox/%3C51D40104.3060203%40apache.org%3E).
* The first two most important issues the project targets to move towards
graduation have been already achieved; and the third one, dev community,
is being addressed too. Therefore the project has already started to
discuss about such option
(http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-marmotta-dev/201305.mbox/%3C51A35FFA.2070707%40apache.org%3E).
Date of last release:
April 24th, 2013.
Signed-off-by:
[ ](marmotta) Fabian Christ
[x](marmotta) Nandana Mihindukulasooriya
[x](marmotta) Andy Seaborne
Shepherd notes:
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MetaModel
MetaModel is a data access framework, providing a common interface for
exploration and querying of different types of datastores.
MetaModel has been incubating since 2013-06-12.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Complete INFRA setup to move the code to ASF git repository (pending
INFRA action): https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-6404
2. Redirect MetaModel website to Apache one once available.
3. Bring more diverse committers and contributors to the project.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware
of?
NO
How has the community developed since the last report?
We have moved the community discussions to
dev@metamodel.incubator.apache.org to have more open and engaging
discussions.
How has the project developed since the last report?
Since the Incubator accepted MetaModel, there's obviously been a lot of
attention around the project.
The tech lead for the project, Kasper, had posted some mentionings on
TheServerSide.com and is putting the final touches on an article for
InfoQ.com as well (expected published later this week).
The base code has cut another release
(http://eobjects.org/trac/query?milestone=MetaModel+3.4.4)
We are still waiting for INFRA work
(https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-6404) to move the code to ASF
git repo.
Date of last release:
None.
Signed-off-by:
[x](metamodel) Henry Saputra
[x](metamodel) Arvind Prabhakar
[x](metamodel) Matt Franklin
[x](metamodel) Noah Slater
Shepherd notes:
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MRQL
MRQL is a query processing and optimization system for large-scale,
distributed data analysis, built on top of Apache Hadoop and Hama.
MRQL has been incubating since 2013-03-13.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Complete the first release
a) Ensure proper transfer of code
b) Verify distribution rights
2. Use maven as our project management tool
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware
of?
none
How has the community developed since the last report?
No new PPMC members or committers added since last report, We are still
working on our first release. We believe that, as soon as we make the first
release available, many users will start using the system and will become
new contributors.
How has the project developed since the last report?
We have sent a request to trademarks@apache.org to review and verify our
searches that establish that "Apache MRQL" is a suitable name. More
specifically, our US and EU trademark searches, and a Google search, show
that the project name MRQL does not conflict with a previously registered
trademark. We are now in the process of completing the MRQL codebase to
make it ready for the first release. There are two component missing that
delay this release: switching to maven as our project management tool and
verifying copyright information.
Date of last release:
none yet
Signed-off-by:
[X](mrql) Alan Cabrera
[X](mrql) Alex Karasulu
[ ](mrql) Mohammad Nour El-Din
Shepherd notes:
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ODF Toolkit
Java modules that allow programmatic creation, scanning and manipulation of
OpenDocument Format (ISO/IEC 26300 == ODF) documents
ODF Toolkit has been incubating since 2011-08-01.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Grow the community, especially attracting new developers.
2. Hold an informal graduation readiness vote
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware
of?
How has the community developed since the last report?
An uptick in activity related to our most-recent release, but no new developers.
Discussion of whether we should aim for TLP status or merge into an existing
TLP with similar alignment, such as POI or OpenOffice.
How has the project developed since the last report?
Succesful release of version 0.6
Date of last release:
2013-06-22
Signed-off-by:
[ ](odftoolkit) Sam Ruby
[ ](odftoolkit) Nick Burch
[ ](odftoolkit) Yegor Kozlov
Shepherd notes:
adc: The report seems pretty accurate.
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Open Climate Workbench
Apache Open Climate Workbench (Incubating) is an effort to develop software
that performs climate model evaluation using model outputs from a variety of
different sources (the Earth System Grid Federation, the Coordinated Regional
Downscaling Experiment, the U.S. National Climate Assessment and the North
American Regional Climate Change Assessment Program) and temporal/spatial
scales with remote sensing data from NASA, NOAA and other agencies. The
toolkit includes capabilities for regridding, metrics computation and
visualization.
Open Climate Workbench has been incubating since 2013-02-15.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Develop an Apache community for Open Climate Workbench and connect to
other relevant Apache efforts (Tika, Hadoop, SIS, OODT)
2. Make an initial release.
3. Add new contributors to the project.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware of?
None at this time.
How has the community developed since the last report?
Apache Open Climate Workbench elected its first new committer and PPMC
member, Alex Goodman, in the past month.
How has the project developed since the last report?
* Cameron Goodale is working to push the 0.1-incubating release out the door
(currently on RC #4, with #5 coming soon)
* Tons of development going on (already up to nearly 200 JIRA issues;
ReviewBoard actively being used)
* The UI is receiving the most work in particular by Michael Joyce and
Shakeh Khudikyan.
* Kyo Lee and Alex Goodman and Kim Whitehall and Jinwon Kim are working on
the metrics module.
* Documentation is now appearing on the wiki including a guide produced by
Alex Goodman for Easy RCMET, our installer.
* Maziyar Boustani has several patch reviews going on to suggest a new API
for post 0.1-incubating development for RCMET.
Date of last release:
Signed-off-by:
[X](openclimateworkbench) Chris Mattmann
[X](openclimateworkbench) Suresh Marru
[ ](openclimateworkbench) Chris Douglas
[ ](openclimateworkbench) Nick Kew
Shepherd notes:
adc: The missing report is in line with this project's weakness, filling out
paperwork. ;) The podling status page
http://incubator.apache.org/projects/climate.html needs to be filled out.
With that said, the project seems pretty active with more than one developer
doing the heavy lifting.
Again, it would be good to fill out the status page so we can see where
they're at since they may be good candidates for graduation soon.
marvin: (Alan's notes were written up before OCW filed a late report.)
--------------------
Provisionr
Provisionr provides a service to manage pools of virtual machines on multiple
clouds.
Provisionr has been incubating since 2013-03-07.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Gather feedback on the first release and plan a new one
2. Build a community
3. Document all the important bits
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware
of?
No
How has the community developed since the last report?
Some new folks on the mailing list (20 subscribers)
How has the project developed since the last report?
Our first release as an Apache Incubator project is out (0.4.0-incubating)
Date of last release:
July 2, 2013
Signed-off-by:
[ ](provisionr) Roman Shaposhnik
[X](provisionr) Tom White
[ ](provisionr) Mohammad Nour El-Din
Shepherd notes:
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Ripple
Ripple is a browser based mobile phone emulator designed to aid in the
development of HTML5 based mobile applications. Ripple is a cross platform
and cross runtime testing/debugging tool. It currently supports such runtimes
as Cordova, WebWorks aand the Mobile Web.
Ripple has been incubating since 2012-10-16.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Check if some source modules are not compatible with ASF guidelines and
need to be extracted to f. e. GitHub
2. Check license of images and - if necessary - replace them
3. Prepare first release
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware
of?
None
How has the community developed since the last report?
More issue reports, feature suggestions and general questions submitted by
users.
More code contributions from individual users (including instances where the
user who submitted an issue went and fixed it themselves).
How has the project developed since the last report?
More activity via non-committer contributions (alongside part time committer
contributions). Mainly: bug fixes.
Signed-off-by:
[ ](ripple) Jukka Zitting
[X](ripple) Christian Grobmeier
[ ](ripple) Andrew Savory
Shepherd notes:
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Spark
Spark is an open source system for fast and flexible large-scale data
analysis. Spark provides a general purpose runtime that supports low-latency
execution in several forms.
Spark has been incubating since 2013-06-19.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Finish bringing up infrastructure on Apache (JIRA, "user" mailing list,
SVN repo for website)
2. Migrate mailing lists and development to Apache
3. Make a Spark 0.8 under the Apache Incubator
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware
of?
While most of our infrastructure is now up, it has taken a while to get a
JIRA, a SVN repo for our website (so we can use the CMS), and a
user@spark.incubator.apache.org mailing list (so we can move our existing
user list, which is large).
How has the community developed since the last report?
We only entered the Apache Incubator at the end of June, but in the existing
developer community keeps expanding and we are seeing many new features from
new contributors.
How has the project developed since the last report?
In terms of the Apache incubation process, we filed our IP papers and got a
decent part of the infrastructure set up (Git, dev list, wiki, Jenkins
group).
Date of last release:
None
Signed-off-by:
[X](spark) Chris Mattmann
[ ](spark) Paul Ramirez
[ ](spark) Andrew Hart
[ ](spark) Thomas Dudziak
[X](spark) Suresh Marru
[x](spark) Henry Saputra
[ ](spark) Roman Shaposhnik
Shepherd notes:
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Stratos
Stratos will be a polyglot PaaS framework, providing developers a cloud-based
environment for developing, testing, and running scalable applications, and IT
providers high utilization rates, automated resource management, and
platform-wide insight including monitoring and billing.
Stratos has been incubating since 2013-06-20.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Finish infrastructure setup for the project
2. Perform IP audit of the codebase
3. Perform a release
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware
of?
None at this time
How has the community developed since the last report?
We have moved the code into the ASF repo.
Plan on educating the community on what the current design and structure of
the project's code
The milestone plan proposed for next immediate release so that the community
can start engaging
How has the project developed since the last report?
This is our fist report as a podling
Date of last release:
No release yet
Signed-off-by:
[ ](stratos) Afkham Azeez
[x](stratos) Anthony Elder
[X](stratos) Chip Childers
[ ](stratos) Marlon Pierce
[ ](stratos) Mohammad Nour
[x](stratos) Noah Slater
[x](stratos) Suresh Marru
Shepherd notes:
wave: The project is just starting up and still getting infrastructure in
place. Looks to be excellent energy with the usual impatience with
infrastructure. Should the IPMC and Infra collaborate on providing a
timeline to set podling expectations?
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Tajo
Tajo is a distributed data warehouse system for Hadoop.
Tajo has been incubating since 2013-03-07.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Ensure at least one Tajo release
2. Attract more contributors and committers
3. Grow Tajo community
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware
of?
None
How has the community developed since the last report?
* We are mentoring two GSoC students on Tajo (Hybrid Hash Join and Outer Join issues)
* We decided the official Tajo logo.
* Reviewboard was set up.
How has the project developed since the last report?
* The package name is changed to org.apache.tajo.
* We have improved SQL parser to support more SQL standard.
Date of last release:
Signed-off-by:
[ ](tajo) Chris Mattmann
[ ](tajo) Owen O'Malley
[ ](tajo) Alex Karasulu
Shepherd notes:
marvin: Dev list is active and at least one Mentor is participating.
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Tashi
An infrastructure for cloud computing on big data.
Tashi has been incubating since 2008-09-04.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1.
2.
3.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware
of?
How has the community developed since the last report?
How has the project developed since the last report?
Date of last release:
Signed-off-by:
[ ](tashi) Matthieu Riou
[ ](tashi) Craig Russell
Shepherd notes:
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Tez
Tez is an effort to develop a generic application framework which can be used
to process arbitrarily complex data-processing tasks and also a re-usable set
of data-processing primitives which can be used by other projects.
Tez has been incubating since 2013-02-24.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1.
2.
3.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware
of?
How has the community developed since the last report?
How has the project developed since the last report?
Date of last release:
Signed-off-by:
[ ](tez) Alan Gates
[ ](tez) Arun Murthy
[ ](tez) Chris Douglas
[ ](tez) Chris Mattmann
[ ](tez) Jakob Homan
[ ](tez) Owen O'Malley
Shepherd notes:
marvin: Active and Mentors are engaged. The dev@ list is mostly Jenkins
spam and all the action is on the issues@ and commits@ lists, which may be
surprising to people who expect that "if it didn't happen on the dev list it
didn't happen".
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VXQuery
A standards compliant parallel XML Query processor.
VXQuery has been incubating since 2009-07-06.
The most important issue to address in the move towards graduation is still
the first release. Two release candidates have been created and rejected so
far. The third release candiate is not ready yet.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware
of?
It would be great to have more active mentors.
How has the community developed since the last report?
Steven Jacobs has started to contribute to the project as part of his GSoC
project of integrating Lucene indices into VXQuery.
How has the project developed since the last report?
Work on a benchmark to evaluate the performance and applicability of a
parallel XQuery engine has been started. This has triggered further progress
on the rewriting of queries to increase the level of parallelism for some
classes of queries.
Signed-off-by:
[ ](vxquery) Sanjiva Weerawarana
[ ](vxquery) Radu Preotiuc-Pietro
[ ](vxquery) Jochen Wiedmann
Shepherd notes:
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Attachment S: Report from the Apache Isis Project [Dan Haywood]
Apache Isis is a framework to enable the creation of software using
domain-driven design principles, being an implementation of the naked
objects architectural pattern
== Community ==
Mailing list activity has been steady; user mailing list subscriptions are
increasing month-on-month (albeit slowly).
In the previous report (April 2013) we reported on a substantial new third-
party component being developed. Directly following from this, the Isis
PMC voted in Maurizio Taverna as a new committer [1], on 26 Apr 2013.
== Activity ==
Apache Isis is taking part in the Google Summer of Code [2]. We have
accepted two students [3], [4], both working, respectively, on new viewers
for Isis [5], [6]. The students are being mentored by Dan Haywood and by
Maurizio Taverna.
An introductory article on Apache Isis was published in Jun 2013 in the
Methods & Tools online magazine [7].
Presentations on Apache Isis have been accepted for the Oredev conference
in Oslo in Nov 2013 [8], and at the inaugural MedIT Symposium conference
in Sicily in Oct 2013 [9].
== Releases ==
On 31 May 2013 we made a further release of Isis [xxx]. This consisted of
our core module, 5 components, and 1 archetype:
- Apache Isis Core version 1.2.0
- Wicket Viewer 1.2.0
- Restful Objects Viewer 2.0.0
- JDO Object Store 1.1.0
- Shiro Security 1.1.1
- File Security 1.0.1
- Quickstart Archetype 1.0.3
We expect to put out a further release in the next quarter.
== Project Branding ==
Compliant as of previous report; no changes.
== Issues ==
There are no outstanding issues requiring board attention.
[1] http://markmail.org/message/o74ijpp5npw7ahph
[2] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/events/google/gsoc2013
[3] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2013/
dimuthuupe/33001
[4] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2013/
bhargavgolla/59001
[5] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ISIS-371
[6] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ISIS-374
[7] http://www.methodsandtools.com/mt/download.php?summer13
[8] http://oredev.org/2013/wed-fri-conference/rrraddd-ridiculously-rapid-
domain-driven-and-restful-apps-with-apache-isis
[9] http://www.medit-symposium.com/schedule-day-one.html
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Attachment T: Report from the Apache James Project [Eric Charles]
The Apache James Project delivers a rich set of open source modules and
libraries, written in Java, related to Internet mail which build into an
advanced enterprise mail server.
ISSUES
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
RELEASES
No new release. The lastest release has been done on 19 March 2013.
OVERALL ACTIVITY
Although this period has been quiet on new development, we have
fixed a long standing blocking bug (deadlock).
The activity on the mailing list has mainly been answering to the
user questions.
We are now ready to release the different subprojects to rollout
the first 3.0 final version after the beta ones.
COMMUNITY
A new committer (Andrzej Rusin, andrzej) has been voted.
There is no new PMC member (last was on 17 Jul 2012) voted.
TRADEMARKS / BRANDING
Still to do: Logos and Graphics (include TM, use consistent product logo
on your site)
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Attachment U: Report from the Apache Jena Project [Andy Seaborne]
== Project Description
Apache Jena is a Java framework for building Semantic Web and Linked Data
applications based on W3C and community standards.
== Issues
There are no issues to raise with the board.
== Releases
Jena 2.10.1 released on 2013-05-15
Jena SDB 1.3.6 released on 2013-05-30
== PMC
Committer/PMC last added: Jan 2013
== Activity
dev@ list: 150-200 messages a month
users@ list: 200-300 messages a month
== Community news
1/ Jena has a GSoC project just getting under way, hoping to add spatial
query to the RDF query language, SPARQL.
2/ There has been a contribution of website redesign which is gathering a
lot of support.
3/ The developer community is dealing with one module, SDB (RDF query over
SQL databases), that has up to now been released sporadically and
separately.
The last release managed to get the necessary 3 +1's but the module
receives very little in the way of contributions from the whole community.
The committers (who don't use it) have kept it working as the main codebase
changes.
The current plan is to include in the main release on a maintenance basis
on the understanding that any architectural changes to the main system may
cause it to be dropped unless active contributors emerge.
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Attachment V: Report from the Apache JMeter Project [Sebastian Bazley]
The Apache JMeter desktop application is a pure Java application
designed to load test functional behavior and measure performance.
JMeter 2.9 was released on Jan 28 2013
Work continues on fixing bugs and making improvements which will
feed into the next release which due shortly.
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 have been no committers added since October 2011, when Philippe
Mouawad was added.
There have been no changes to the PMC since it was established in October 2011.
There are no board level issues at this time
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Attachment W: Report from the Apache Lucene.Net Project [Prescott Nasser]
Apache Lucene.Net is a port of the Lucene search engine library, written in
C# and targeted at .NET runtime users.
== Summary ==
The board should be aware that while our mailing list is somewhat active -
we still answer and help the community, our development has stalled. Recently,
we have tried to reinvigorate the discussion, it's too early to tell how much
momentum we can gain and maintain.
Since last months (late report), not much progress has been made.
== Releases ==
None recently. One of the members of our community has started a 4.3 port, and
we're hoping to take that up and get that moving.
== Statistics ==
Nuget package downloads:
Lucene.Net 3.0.3: 20032
Lucene.Net Contrib 3.0.3: 6839
Lucene.Net Contrib Spatial: 905
Lucene.Net Contrib Spatial.NTS: 296
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Attachment X: Report from the Apache Lucy Project [Nick Wellnhofer]
The Apache Lucy search engine library provides full-text search for dynamic
programming languages. It is a "loose" C port of the Apache Lucene search
engine library for Java.
ISSUES
There are no Board-level issues at this time.
RELEASES
No releases in the last quarter. The latest release is version 0.3.2 from
10 Jul 2012.
We're working towards a new major release featuring C bindings, support for
compiled extensions, and Clownfish as a separate product. Clownfish is the
object system which Lucy is based on.
ACTIVITY
Development
* The C bindings are finished. Only the documentation needs some work.
* Support for compiled extensions written in C was improved.
* The code base of Clownfish was isolated from Lucy so it can be released
as a separate product.
* There's ongoing work to make Clownfish modules ABI-compatible if
methods or instance variables are added or reordered.
Mailing lists
Judging by the number of messages, participation in the developer mailing
list has increased from last quarter and is only slightly below the long-term
average. Traffic on the user list was low but all questions were answered.
COMMITTER/PMC CHANGES
No new committers in the last quarter. The last addition was on 15 Feb 2013.
No new PMC members in the last quarter and since Lucy graduated from the
incubator in March 2012.
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Attachment Y: Report from the Apache Mahout Project [Jake Mannix]
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Attachment Z: Report from the Apache Maven Project [Olivier Lamy]
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
Olivier Lamy resigned as PMC Chair.
Stephen Connolly has been elected by the PMC to act as PMC Chair.
There have been a number of discussions on the project mailing lists with regard to the foundations
requirements for releases and the exact content of source release zip files. The areas of concern to
the Maven project are:
* Ensuring that all releases have a corresponding source release zip in the dist area
* Ensuring that the NOTICE and LICENSE files in source release zip files are correct
(a number of small typographic errors have been identified in some files and are in the process
of being corrected)
* Ensuring that the appropriate compliance with the foundations requirements on source headers
has been achieved. The majority of issues in this regard is with "test resources", these are
data files which are used as resources for the integration tests used when releasing Maven and
Maven plugins.
There is the potential that some very small fraction of tests will only identify
the bugs they are designed to catch if there is no header comment in the file. Adding headers
to these test resources runs the risk of invalidating the test suite, so the current position
of the PMC is as follows:
- No releases will be permitted by the PMC where source files are violating the foundation
policy on license headers.
- A temporary exception will be made for legacy test resources, i.e. those test resources which
were encorporated in previous releases of the component
- An exception will otherwise be allowed for test resources where it can be clearly shown that
the test cannot function correctly when the test resource includes a license header.
- New test resources will only be excempt in those cases where it can be clearly shown
that the license header is interferring with the sensitivity of the test.
Once we have identified the scope of the issue, we intend to see whether we need to put a
plan in place to resolve the issue, or whether it is an issue that can be resolved relatively
quickly.
We are currently working on a tool to have a list of missing sources release zip in dist area and
setting up additional tooling to have a list of files with missing license header.
* New PMC Members
Last PMC member nominated: January 2012
* New Committers
Last added committer: March 2013
* Releases
* Apache Maven Core 3.1.0-alpha-1 (2013-06-10)
* Plugins
* Maven Site Plugin 3.3 (2013-05-13)
* Maven Project Info reports Plugin 2.7 (2013-05-16)
* Maven Dependency Plugin 2.8 (2013-05-18)
* Maven Shade Plugin 2.1 (2013-05-19)
* Maven Surefire plugin 2.15 (2013-06-10)
* Maven Failsafe plugin 2.15 (2013-06-10)
* Maven Surefire Reports plugin 2.15 (2013-06-10)
* Apache Maven Javadoc plugin (2.9.1) (2013-06-28)
* Apache Maven Enforcer plugin (1.3) (2013-06-29)
* Apache Maven War plugin (2.4) (2013-07-07)
* Other
* Apache Maven Enforcer API (1.3) (2013-06-29)
* Apache Maven Enforcer Standard Rules (1.3) (2013-06-29)
* Security
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Attachment AA: Report from the Apache Mesos Project [Benjamin Hindman]
Apache Mesos is a cluster manager that provides resource sharing and
isolation across cluster applications.
## General ##
The project is still finishing the incubator graduation process
(waiting for infrastructure updates). As part of the graduation
process we have a new logo (goo.gl/5xTsZ) and a new website in
progress (goo.gl/ygH4j).
## Releases ##
* Apache Mesos 0.11.0 (2013-06-02)
* Apache Mesos 0.12.0 (2013-06-17)
These releases contain bugfixes and improvements, notably new
functionality with Linux control groups. The next release (0.13.0,
curently at 0.13.0-rc2) will include the most significant new feature
(slave recovery) in the last 2 releases.
## Community ##
* Added 3 new committers and PMC members:
Thomas Marshall (tmarshall)
Charles Reiss (woggle)
Brenden Matthews (brenden)
* 111/184 created/resolved JIRA issues in last 90 days.
* 3074 messages to dev/user@mesos.apache.org (May - July). We need to
work on getting more user questions to user@, the precedent has
been most users send questions to dev@.
* Box hosted a meetup for the project (goo.gl/R6WZZ) and we have
another meetup scheduled for July 25.
* We are part of the Google Summer of Code:
Project: Security and Authentication Support
Student: Ilim Ugur
Mentor: Vinod Kone (PMC)
## Issues ##
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
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Attachment AB: Report from the Apache MINA Project [Emmanuel Lecharny]
Apache MINA is a network application framework which helps users
develop high performance and high scalability network applications
easily.
Releases
--------
No new release since the last report
Community
---------
* Nothing worth mentionning this quarter.
* Raphaël Barazzutti has been added as a MINA committer
Development
-----------
* We are almost ready to cut a MINA 3.0.0-M1 release, a discussion has
been started about it. The activity has been quite high this quarter,
with 4 committers participating in the effort.
* Vysper development has recently increased in activity. Interactions,
contributions and reports on user@ and dev@ are low but steady.
* Barely no activity on SSHd and FTPServer this last quarter.
* The switch to git for all the projects seems to have been gently
absorbed, which is good news.
Issues
------
No board level issues at this time.
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Attachment AC: Report from the Apache MyFaces Project [Gerhard Petracek]
The Apache MyFaces project is an umbrella project of the
Apache Software Foundation for projects relating to the
JavaServer Faces (JSF) technology.
Community
---------
* No new Committers (since October 2011)
* No new PMC Members (since July 2011)
* No new Contributors
The MyFaces community is stable. Besides working on new releases,
we discuss upcoming topics.
-> Community business as usual (nothing special to report).
Releases
--------
MyFaces (sub) projects with new releases since the last report:
** MyFaces Core v2.0.18 (04/June/13)
** MyFaces Core v2.1.12 (04/June/13)
** MyFaces Tobago 1.5.10 (27/May/13)
Wiki/CMS
--------
CWiki -> CMS migration (ongoing)
Issues
------
There are no issues that require the board's attention at this time.
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Attachment AD: Report from the Apache Nutch Project [Julien Nioche]
Apache Nutch is a highly extensible and scalable open source web crawler
software project. Stemming from Apache Lucene™, the project has diversified
and now comprises two codebases, based respectively on Apache Hadoop
datastructures and Apache Gora for leveraging NoSQL databases.
ISSUES
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
CURRENT ACTIVITY
We have done 3 releases since the previous board report:
* Nutch 1.7 : release for the trunk branch
* Nutch 2.2 : release for the 2.x branch
* Nutch 2.2.1 : minor release to include an important bug fix (NUTCH-1591)
These releases contain numerous bugfixes and improvements, notably the
upgrades of various Apache-related dependencies (Hadoop, Tika) and the
addition of NUTCH-1047 in the 1.x branch which allows to plug new indexers.
COMMUNITY
The traffic on the user and dev mailing lists has kept a relatively high
level in the last quarter. Our user@ list in June had the highest traffic
since July 2011. We are also getting contributions and bugfixes from
new users.
It has been announced during the BerlinBuzzwords conference that the
CommonCrawl project [http://commoncrawl.org/] are now using Apache Nutch
for their future crawls.
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Attachment AE: Report from the Apache ODE Project [Tammo van Lessen]
Apache ODE (Orchestration Director Engine) executes business processes
written following the WS-BPEL standard. It talks to web services,
sending and receiving messages, handling data manipulation and error
recovery as described by your process definition. It supports both long
and short living process executions to orchestrate all the services that
are part of your application.
STATUS
This was a rather quiet development period, but we found some
time to discuss several issues we want to address for the next release,
which delayed the 1.3.6 release again. We still have some development
items on our agenda, e.g. the OModel refactoring, backporting features
from our experimental branch. An ODE 1.3.6 release is still planned and
in the works.
RELEASE
No release to report in this quarter.
DEVELOPMENT
Some patches have been applied to trunk and the upcoming
1.3.6 release branch. We identified some issues with the current TX
manager configuration which we plan to fix for the next release. We're
also planning to upgrade the Axis IL to Axis 1.6.x and look into
clustering support for ODE.
COMMUNITY
Our new committers Sathwik Bantwal Premakumar and Hadrian
Zbarcea committed some nice bugfixes and have been voted into the PMC.
Alan D. Cabrera has resigned from the PMC.
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Attachment AF: Report from the Apache Onami Project [Simone Tripodi]
DESCRIPTION
Apache Onami is a project focused on the development and maintenance
of a set of Google Guice extensions not provided out of the box by the
library itself nor the Google developers team, such as integration
with 3rd part frameworks or extra functionalities.
MILESTONES
Since last report, there have been three new releases:
* Apache Onami Validation 1.0.0 - Release Date: 06/Jun/13
* Apache Onami-Configuration 6.3.0 - Release Date: 10/Jun/13
CURRENT ACTIVITY
Development activity is quite healthy, two new proposals for developing
Onami-Persist and Onami CLI-bootstrapper have been accepted.
COMMUNITY
PMC composition has not changed since graduation.
Stephan Classen is a new Onami Committer since 22/Jun/13.
Users community is quite silent, it still happens that people write
to developers directly rather than using the user@ ML
ISSUES
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
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Attachment AG: Report from the Apache OpenJPA Project [Pinaki Poddar]
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Attachment AH: Report from the Apache OpenMeetings Project [Sebastian Wagner]
Apache OpenMeetings provides video conferencing, instant messaging, white
board, collaborative document editing and other groupware tools using
API functions of the Red5 Streaming Server for Remoting and Streaming.
== Releases ==
A maintenance release of the 2.1 tree has been released: Version 2.1.1
25 issues have been resolved, main focus of the fixes has been bug fixes and
maintenance.
== Activity ==
There is constant activity in mailing list, jira and commits.
The main focus since the last report have been:
- Release 2.1.1 (finding consens around appropriate Release Notes was one
obstacle)
- Development of version 3.0 (HTML5 version) of OpenMeetings
- GSoC project (whiteboard)
== Community ==
There is a constant stream of new users, users that become developers and
developers that become PMCs.
There was one new PMC member voted:
* Yuliya Algaer (at 25th of April)
Current community statistics:
- 21 PMC members
- 112 subscribers to dev list
- 247 subscribers to user list
- 697 issues in Jira in total, (532 of them are closed)
All data based on Incubation start date at: 12-2011
== Infrastructure ==
There has been a discussion ongoing about having a basic demo server at the
Apache infrastructure as relying on private or corporate sponsored resources
is not as good as having a community owned server/hardware. However the steps
to complete that process might take weeks/months.
== Board ==
There are no outstanding issues requiring board attention.
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Attachment AI: Report from the Apache OpenOffice Project [Andrea Pescetti]
Apache OpenOffice is an open-source, office-document productivity
suite providing six productivity applications based around the
OpenDocument Format (ODF). OpenOffice is released on multiple
platforms and in dozens of languages.
Issues for Board Awareness
---------------------------
OpenOffice, like the ASF as a whole, is hit by the announced policy
change of Apache Extras. The project currently stores several libraries
there, in an area known as ooo-extras, and the build process downloads
them when options like --enable-category-b are used. A solution should
be found at the ASF level.
Community Development/Outreach Progress
---------------------------------------
The project added 4 committers (May: dwhytock, akerbeltz, vkadal;
July: pmralbuquerque) and one new PMC member (April: jani) since our
last report in April.
These new committers are primarily involved in the translation efforts
to incorporate additional native language capability into Apache
OpenOffice. Our new PMC member has many years of experience in open
source, and is assisting in administration of our LAMP servers.
A new documentation effort for an end-users manual under the ALv2
licence was started on the OpenOffice Wiki and is progressing well.
OpenOffice is participating in the Google Summer of Code program for
the first time after several years.
Community support forums remain popular with users. The mailing lists
for user support, localization, QA and marketing are quite active. As
Apache OpenOffice is a client product, we continue to investigate ways
to direct users to appropriate support venues. The developer list,
ooo-dev, remains very active.
Product/Project Development Progress
------------------------------------
We will be releasing Apache OpenOffice 4.0 in July, likely the week
of July 15.
This release will feature a new, more modern, user interface, a
reworked directory layout to simplify development and installation,
code updates to allow building on newer platforms and (at least) 23
languages.
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Attachment AJ: Report from the Apache PDFBox Project [Andreas Lehmkühler]
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
---------
There is a steady stream of contributions and bug reports from the community.
After adding Maruan Sahyoun and Thomas Chojecki to our ranks in the last
quarter there weren't any changes this time.
364 subscribers on the user@ list
156 subscribers on the dev@ list
Releases
--------
Version 1.8.2 was released on 2th of june 2013
1.8.2 is an incremental bugfix release based on PDFBox 1.8.x.
Development:
------------
We are now using the Apache CMS for our website. Thanks to Maruan Sahyoun
and Joe Schaefer the migration went smooth without any issues.
A discussion about a new major release of PDFBox just started. We already
gathered a lot of ideas of possible changes, such as
- switch to java 1.6
- modularization
- replace/enhance the parser
- refactor the underlying COS model
- update dependencies including possible api-changes, e.g. bouncy castle
- code cleanup
- ...
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Attachment AK: Report from the Apache Portals Project [David Sean Taylor]
Apache Portals is a project for building freely available and interoperable
portal software. With the Pluto project, we provide a reference
implementation for the Java portlet standard. The Jetspeed project is a full
feature enterprise open source portal. The Portals Applications project is
dedicated to providing robust, full-featured, commercial-quality, and freely
available portlet applications.
Releases
None is this quarter.
March 6, 2013 - Portals Apps Web Content 1.3
October 10, 2011 - Portals Jetspeed 2.2.2
26 September 2011 - Portals Pluto 2.0.3
Committer/PMC
No new members added this year.
Security updates:
None
Community update
The Jetspeed User list has had a small amount of traffic. The sub-project
Portals Apps, and in particular the Web Content code, has had discussions and
commit activity this month. Last month a roadmap was submitted to the
Jetspeed mailing list. Work has started, but no commits yets. Several
developers are working on a project to upgrade the new release of Jetspeed to
Java generics support. Sub-project Apache Pluto has had no mailing list
activity this quarter. While the lack of activity is concerning, I expect
discussions to pick up with increased commit activity and possible releases
this coming quarter.
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Attachment AL: Report from the Apache Rave Project [Matt Franklin]
Apache Rave is a widgets-based, web-and-social mashup platform.
ISSUES
There are no issues requiring the board's attention.
COMMUNITY
The Apache BarCamp was held in Boston and members of the Rave & Shindig
communities discussed the futures of each project.
The users and development lists have seen new faces and an increase in
general discussion.
COMMITTER/PMC CHANGES
None this reporting period. Last committer:
03/25/13 - Erin Noe-Payne was added as a new committer & PMC member.
RELEASES
05/15/13 - 0.21.1 released.
ACTIVITY
The team has been focusing on delivering a simpler UI & server integration
model with both existing and new members of the community. The most
recent branch is ready for reintegration and release before the next
reporting period.
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Attachment AM: Report from the Apache ServiceMix Project [Gert Vanthienen]
Apache ServiceMix is a flexible, open-source integration container that
unifies the features and functionality of Apache ActiveMQ, Camel, CXF and
Karaf to provide a complete, enterprise-ready ESB powered by OSGi.
Project Status:
While we continue to have decent community activity, we also have lost
a lot of our momentum now that major parts of the functionality are being
maintained in related projects like Apache Karaf and Apache Camel.
There are no outstanding issues requiring board attention.
Community:
No changes since last report. The last addition to the PMC dates back
to September 2009. The last committer was added in November 2011.
Community Objectives:
Since our last board report, we have finished the 4.5.1 release and we
are continuing to work on both a 4.5.2 and 5.0.0 release at the moment.
It was raised on the dev@ list that we can no longer publish release
artifacts larger than 200 MB without intervention from infra@. Since
some of our assemblies are larger than that, we pinged infra@ to figure
out how to get that addressed for doing these next 2 releases.
Branding Status:
Since our last board report, we have found a volunteer to add the TM
to our logo. The new logo is now being used on the website.
Releases:
- Apache ServiceMix 4.5.1 in March
- A set of 35 OSGi bundles in April
- Another set of 20 OSGi bundles in April
- A set of 24 OSGi bundles in May
- A set of 23 OSGi bundles in July
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Attachment AN: Report from the Apache Shindig Project [Paul Lindner]
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Attachment AO: Report from the Apache Sqoop Project [Arvind Prabhakar]
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 1.99.2, released on
April 24, 2013 from the sqoop2 branch.
* Work has started towards the next release version 1.4.4, to be released
from the trunk.
CURRENT ACTIVITY
* Development activity continues with most work focused on the sqoop2
branch as well as on trunk.
* A total of 114 issues have been resolved between the period starting
from April 17, 2013 to July 10, 2013.
* In the past three months, a total of 268 messages were exchanged on the
user list and a total of 1625 messages were exchange don the dev list.
COMMUNITY
* Hari Shreedharan joined as a committer on June 20, 2013. He is affiliated
to Cloudera.
* Venkat Ranganathan joined as a committer on June 20, 2013. He is affiliated
to Hortonworks.
* No new additions were made to the Sqoop PMC. Last appointment was done on
September 22, 2012 with Kathleen Ting joining the PMC.
* A Sqoop meetup was organized in San Jose on June 26, 2013 around the venue
of Hadoop Summit.
* Currently there are:
- Total of 246 subscribers to the user list
- Total of 106 subscribers to the developer list
- Total of 18 committers
- Total of 13 PMC members
ISSUES
* There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
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Attachment AP: Report from the Apache Steve Project [Jim Jagielski]
DESCRIPTION
Apache Steve is a collection of tools and programs used by the
ASF to implement the STV voting system and tallying of results.
RELEASES
* No releases yet.
CURRENT ACTIVITY
* The Apache Steve website frame is up. A logo has been selected
and work regarding populating the website will commence.
* The code was used in the Incubator PMC Chair election. This
was the 1st use of the tranferred code under the official Steve
repo.
* Work and discussion regarding porting the current Perl-based code
to Python has started. We have baselined Python 2.7.
* A REST-api and use of Sphinx is being discussed and whiteboarded.
COMMUNITY
* Since the last report we have added Alan Cabrera and Sean
Kelly as new committers.
ISSUES
* There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
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Attachment AQ: Report from the Apache Struts Project [Rene Gielen]
Apache Struts is an action-based Java web application framework.
The Struts team made five releases in the last quarter:
* Struts 2.3.14 - improvements and bugfixes (2013-04-15)
* Struts 2.3.14.1 - security fix release (2013-05-23)
* Struts 2.3.14.2 - security fix release (2013-05-27)
* Struts 2.3.14.3 - security fix release (2013-06-05)
* Struts 2.3.15 - improvements and bugfixes (2013-06-24)
A series of severe security issues popped up in the last quarter,
including one zero-day exploit. All involved Struts developers along
with the reporters of said issues did a great job regarding analysis,
resolving and releasing in a timely manner.
Our security team has received a new vulnerability report of high
severity. We have prepared a patch and we are ready to release. We have
to coordinate our actions with a company co-reporting the issue, since
some of their products are affected.
In the last quarter we saw slightly increased community activity on the
mailing lists and issue tracker along with again rather high development
activity.
Within this reporting period we added Christian Grobmeier (grobmeier -
2013-05-11) to the PMC. Bruce Phillips (bphillips - 2013-06-24) was
added as a new committer.
A group of Struts PMC members is currently preparing an open Struts
hackathon in Augsburg, Germany, in cooperation with the local Java User
Group [1]. The two-day event will start on 2013-09-06 with currently
four Struts PMC members having confirmed their participation.
We have no issues that require Board assistance at this time.
[1] http://strutsathon.opensource.io/index-en.html
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Attachment AR: Report from the Apache Synapse Project [Paul Fremantle]
Apache Synapse is a high performance, flexible, lightweight
Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and a mediation framework.
Community
=========
No new committers or PMC members were nominated this quarter. Latest
Synapse committer was elected on March, 2012. Latest Synapse PMC
member was elected on January, 2012.
The level of participation is consistent and healthy, but not currently
growing. However, the committership is active and constantly enhancing
the project.
During the reporting period there have been 6 commits from 3 committers.
Both user and developer mailing lists continue to be active with a
moderate amount of traffic.
A Google Summer of Code project related to Synapse has been accepted and
is being implemented. Project details are as follows.
Project: Versioning of Synapse Configuration Artifacts
Student: Thilini Shanika
Mentor : Udayanga Wickramasinghe (Synapse PMC member)
Releases
========
There have been no new releases during this period.
The last release of Synapse is version 2.1, which was released on
January, 2012.
However, in light of improving the mediation performance of Synapse,
several major architectural enhancements have been proposed and
contributed to Synapse by the community in the recent times.
Board issues
============
None identified.
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Attachment AS: Report from the Apache Tapestry Project [Howard M. Lewis Ship]
Apache Tapestry is a Java component-based web framework that features
high productivity, great code reuse, robust deployment, and terrific
performance.
We've very recently voted in a new committer, Lance Semmens. He's currently
getting his CLA processed.
We've added comment notifications to the public website, and are getting a
small stream of updates and other useful postings there.
We've updated our build process to address a JavaDoc-related vulnerability, and
regenerated the current set of JavaDoc files.
Progress continues on the 5.4 release, which is still in alpha. There have been
several further preview releases.
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Attachment AT: Report from the Apache Tcl Project [Massimo Manghi]
Apache Tcl is an umbrella for Tcl-Apache integration efforts. Current
projects are
* Rivet
* Websh
+ Rivet
Community: Rivet's development list has a stable number of subscribers.
Questions and feature requests show up on the list at a rather regular rate
(~120 messages written after the last report was filed)
Releases: We have just released rivet 2.1.2 with a few bug fixes and
sustaining the proposal to relax the policy followed by mod_rivet with
the HTTP accepted methods
+ Websh: no relevant activity to be reported
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Attachment AU: Report from the Apache Thrift Project [Jake Farrell]
Thrift is a framework for providing cross-platform RPC and serialization.
Project Status
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The Thrift community continues to see consistent growth with submissions from
new contributors for bug fixes and new feature requests. Over the past 30 days
there have been 87 new tickets created and 194 tickets resolved.
Community
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Latest Additions:
* PMC addition: Jens Geyer, 5.02.2013
* Contributor addition: Carl Yeksigian, 05.30.2013
Mailing list activity since last report:
* @dev 1419 messages
* @user 122 messages
Releases
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Last release: 0.9.0, Release Date: 14/Oct/12
As we progress towards our 1.0 release we have decided to create a 0.9.1
release due to the number of resolved issues and date since last release.
We are finalizing preparation for our 0.9.1rc and are planning for this to
be released later this month.
Closed issues in upcoming release: ~160
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Attachment AV: Report from the Apache Tika Project [Dave Meikle]
What is Tika?
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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.
Issues
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There are no issues that needs the board's attention.
Releases
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Version 1.4 was released on the 2nd of July[1]. This release included
several important bugfixes and new features, including improvements to the
REST server and parser components.
Work is now underway on version 1.5.
Community
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No new committers or PMC members were added since the last report, with both
the last committer and PMC member added in August 2012.
Mailing list activity on dev@ was at 126, 138 and 54 messages in May,
June and July 2013, respectively. user@ was at 7, 15 and 8 messages,
during the same timeframe.
[1] http://s.apache.org/7hB
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Attachment AW: Report from the Apache TomEE Project [David Blevins]
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Attachment AX: Report from the Apache Traffic Server Project [Leif Hedstrom]
Apache Traffic Server is an HTTP proxy server and cache, similar to Squid
and Varnish in functionality and features.
Issues
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There are no issues that needs the board's attention.
Community
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No new committers or PMC members were added since last report, we're still
at 33 currently active committers. Our primary mailing lists are seeing
small but steady increase, and normal activity:
users@ - 344 subscribers (up 4.5% since last report)
dev@ - 236 subscribers (up 2% since last report)
In Jira, 167 new tickets were created, and 150 were resolved or closed since
the last board report. 292 changes were committed to our git repository from
23 contributors.
Participation from community members on our official Blog site and Twitter
account is good, but this is still an area that needs more work. We're to
the point where we need to evangelize the project and software to attract
more contributors, to continue innovation and improve code stability.
Events
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Comcast made an interesting presentation at the CDN Summit in New York,
showing how they built their next generation CDN on Apache Traffic Server.
At Velocity, LinkedIn presented their entire content management and delivery
tools stack, based on Apache Traffic Server and plugins. They also announced
their PageSpeed plugin, which they will release to the ASF and the Apache
Traffic Server project soon.
A BarCamp is planned for July 9-10th in Denver. More details are available
at https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/TS/BarCamp+Denver+2013 .
We are also contemplating either hosting or participating in a BarCamp in
China this year. This is an area where there is a lot of potential growth
for our community, and we already have many active contributors and
committers in the area.
Releases
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Two developer releases were prepared:
Apache Traffic Server v3.3.2
Apache Traffic Server v3.3.4
Our last stable release was v3.2.4, released on January 25. Our hope is that
the next major release, v3.4.0, should be ready by the end of July. This is
later than expected, we're currently 4-6 weeks behind schedule. A v3.2.5
stable release is also imminent.
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Attachment AY: Report from the Apache Web Services Project [Sagara Gunathunga]
Releases within this quarter:
* No
Community and development:
* Old Forrest based WS web site replaced with Maven based new design. (Andreas Veithen)
Branding checklist for sub-projects with releases in the last quarters
(Axiom, Neethi, WSS4J, Project homepage ):
* 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
* XML-RPC
Subprojects
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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 AZ: Report from the Apache Wookie Project [Scott Wilson]
Apache Wookie develops software related to implementation of the W3C Widgets family of specifications.
ISSUES
There are no outstanding issues requiring board attention.
RELEASES
No new releases since last report; another release (0.15) is due later this month.
ACTIVITY
This has been a fairly quiet period for the project; we've handled user enquiries and had a small number of new bug reports.
We've also re-organised the code structure using the standard Maven folder layout to make it easier to understand for newcomers.
We tagged several issues for GSoC but sadly received no applications this year.
Our last release was 0.14 on 9th April. Our last committer added was Steve Lee on 21st February.
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Attachment BA: Report from the Apache XMLBeans Project [Cezar Andrei]
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