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Board of Directors Meeting Minutes
October 16, 2013
1. Call to order
The meeting was scheduled for 10:30am (Pacific) and began at
10:32 when a sufficient attendance to constitute a quorum was
recognized by the chairman. The meeting was held via
teleconference, hosted by Doug Cutting and Cloudera.
IRC #asfboard on irc.freenode.net was used for backup purposes.
2. Roll Call
Directors Present:
Shane Curcuru
Doug Cutting
Bertrand Delacretaz
Roy T. Fielding
Jim Jagielski
Chris Mattmann departed 11:45
Brett Porter
Sam Ruby
Greg Stein joined 10:44; departed 11:35
Directors Absent:
none
Executive Officers Present:
Rich Bowen
Craig L Russell
James Carman
Executive Officers Absent:
Ross Gardler
Guests:
Sean Kelly
Daniel Gruno
Hadrian Zbarcea
Marvin Humphrey
Henri Yandell
3. Minutes from previous meetings
Published minutes can be found at:
http://www.apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html
A. The meeting of August 21, 2013
See: board_minutes_2013_08_21.txt
Approved by general consent.
B. The meeting of September 18, 2013
See: board_minutes_2013_09_18.txt
Approved by general consent.
4. Executive Officer Reports
A. Chairman [Brett]
The last month has been rather quiet at the board level, with no
particular issues needing our attention. In contrast, there is plenty
happening on the operations end of the Foundation, and of course
within our projects. That is a good thing.
We do have some long standing items on the agenda for the meeting,
which I hope we can bring some closure to.
I've also raised the question of whether we should hold a special
members meeting this year as we are at about the time where that
process would need to start.
I will be on holidays during the first week of November.
B. President [Ross]
It's been a busy month.
Thanks to Melissa for moving forwards on providing hands on support
for our VPs, most significantly VP Fundraising. As a result of her
excellent work Upayavira reports that his backlog is reducing. Melissa
has been working with VP Branding and the treasurer to identify first
level support activities there. Furthermore Melissa has been working
on an "Event in a Box" via the ComDev PMC to help support small event
production within our projects. Finally, Melissa has been working with
EVP on ApacheCon.
Melissa, EVP and myself meet weekly to discuss progress on these items.
Starting this week I will circulate notes from these meetings to board@
for increased visibility. There is no need for the board to review these
notes, but we will be happy to address any concerns that are raised as a
result.
The EVP report contains more information about the ApacheCon status. I
want to raise one concern I have with progress to date. In the initial
discussions I was told that the proposed producer would underwrite the
event. However, as we have progressed it has become apparent that this is
not the case. To my mind this changes the relationship significantly. I've
asked Rich to expand on this in his verbal report in order to get early
feedback from the Directors.
A director asked for an update on the status of our Audit. In response I
reached out to Hadrian and am working with both Hadrian and Treasurer to
come up with a plan for delivering on the report. The problem seems to
be one of "ownership" since Hadrian's recommendations include
recommendations for process change which affect both fundraising and
treasurer. I've asked Hadrian to own this and drive it forward with my
full support. At the time of writing I'm awaiting a response.
We are still working on getting our bank to own the problem with missing
payments to a Brazilian company.
I'm speaking twice with an ASF hat, once today in London at Subversion &
Git live (standing in or Greg) and one next week at All Things Open (this
is mostly ASF and partly day job).
Additionally, please see Attachments 1 through 6.
C. Treasurer [Chris]
The big issue this month is the status of the ASF Audit. Provided
information as requested by the President's Office as to the
Treasurer's side of the audit. Interacted with ASF Audit Lead,
Hadrian Zbarcea and suggested what the next steps as seen by the
Treasurer's Office:
1. Develop contract/procurement order/invoice between ASF and CPA
agency depending on cost/etc. Treasurer's Office is happy for a
recommendation or to simply receive a list and make a selection.
2. Someone besides the Treasurer's Office (Chris/Sam) take point
in starting the audit and levying a set of requests/steps on the
Treasurer's Office. Maybe the EA or the President/EVP?
3. Treasurer's Office replies and provides as much information as
we have in response to requests from #1.
4. Hired CPA agency goes through their audit process based on
responses from #2 and delivers report/results in a timely fashion
(some agreed upon X months after contracting date) to the Treasurer's
Office/Prezo/EVP and EA.
5. Treasurer reports on results to the board in following board
report and identifies responses/actions to the results.
Also referenced former report from May 2013 in which the plan for
the audit was documented.
Working with Sally/Press to handle payment to PR Newswire.
The VP Fundraising and Treasurer's Office are working together to
deal with an issue that has prevented our PayPal contribution system
from accepting payments. Should be closed/fixed this month.
DirectPay set up for the EA and Joe Schaefer as tests to validate
Chris's access to WFS DirectPay. Successfully used to remit payment
to both parties last month.
Was put in touch with our new WFS relationship manager and committed
contact info to financials SVN repo. Investigating issue with wire
payment regarding CloudStack trademark.
Provided information to Ross as requested to deal with lingering
SVN trademark payment questions.
Working with the EA to identify a potential CPA firm to deal with our
corporate tax filing.
Income and Expenses
Current Balances:
Wells Fargo Business Checking: 847,091.09
Wells Fargo Savings: 287,767.40
PayPal: 183,212.11
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Total $ 1,318,070.60
Income Summary:
Lockbox 516.04
GSOC 2013 26,622.13
Paypal 78.62
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Total $ 27,216.79
Expense Summary:
Category Amount
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ASF credit card - Jim Jagielski 4,640.84
ASF credit card - Sam Ruby 1,847.73
misc expense 367.38
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Total $ 6,855.95
D. Secretary [Craig]
The office of secretary is running well. September was a relatively
light month with 47 iclas, three cclas, one grant, and one trademark
assignment received and filed.
E. Executive Vice President [Rich]
Over the last several weeks we (primarily Melissa and myself) have
been in discussion with the Linux Foundation about producing an
ApacheCon in the May/June timeframe, in the United States. There's
been some back-and-forth regarding some items that we're concerned
about (most importantly, content selection, sponsorship, co-location
with related events), and we are content that we're seeing eye to eye
on these issues, with some details remaining to be worked out.
The summary, however, is that we intend to let them run the show in a
way that they feel is most likely to lead to success - that we will
pitch in where required, but not volunteer to do any of the tasks
that they offer as part of their service. This leaves us with content
as our only real task.
The notes from our meeting on Thursday the 10th may be found in SVN,
in $SVN/foundation/ApacheCon/2014 and questions should be directed to
me and Melissa.
We hope to have a contract signed in the early November time frame,
so that we can get a CFP out at the end of 2013, or very early 2014,
and so that we can be on the Linux Foundation event sponsorship
prospectus for 2014.
A concern that still remains to be worked out is that the Linux
Foundation will not be underwriting the event, so, if the event is
unsuccessful, we will be on the line for losses. This is a point
which we are still discussing with Angela.
Details will be send to the dev@community.apache.org mailing list
when they are worked out, but at the moment Melissa and I are
handling this with the Linux Foundation, and expect to have more to
report very soon.
F. Vice Chairman [Greg]
No report was submitted.
Executive officer reports approved as submitted by General Consent.
5. Additional Officer Reports
A. VP of W3C Relations [Andy Seaborne / Sam]
See Attachment 7
B. Apache Legal Affairs Committee [Sam Ruby]
Sam submitted a brief verbal report. Committee is running routinely.
One item Sam would appreciate board members (and others) weighing
in on the distribution of iOS applications in the App Store:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-174
C. Apache Security Team Project [Mark Cox / Shane]
See Attachment 9
Additional officer reports approved as submitted by General Consent.
6. Committee Reports
A. Apache Accumulo Project [Billie Rinaldi / Roy]
See Attachment A
B. Apache ACE Project [Marcel Offermans / Chris]
See Attachment B
C. Apache ActiveMQ Project [Hiram Chirino / Jim]
See Attachment C
D. Apache Airavata Project [Suresh Marru / Doug]
See Attachment D
E. Apache Any23 Project [Michele Mostarda / Bertrand]
See Attachment E
AI: Chris: follow up on future of the project
F. Apache Aries Project [Jeremy Hughes / Brett]
See Attachment F
AI: Brett ask for community health
G. Apache Attic Project [Gianugo Rabellino / Greg]
No report was submitted.
AI: Greg follow up with Gianugo
H. Apache Avro Project [Scott Carey / Jim]
No report was submitted.
I. Apache Cordova Project [Brian LeRoux / Greg]
See Attachment I
J. Apache Crunch Project [Josh Wills / Shane]
See Attachment J
K. Apache Curator Project [Jordan Zimmerman / Sam]
See Attachment K
L. Apache CXF Project [Daniel Kulp / Bertrand]
See Attachment L
M. Apache DB Project [Myrna van Lunteren / Chris]
See Attachment M
AI: Chris follow up on bringing on new committers and PMC
members
N. Apache Deltacloud Project [Marios S. Andreou / Doug]
See Attachment N
O. Apache Directory Project [Pierre-Arnaud Marcelot / Roy]
See Attachment O
P. Apache Geronimo Project [Jarek Gawor / Brett]
See Attachment P
Q. Apache Hadoop Project [Chris Douglas / Greg]
See Attachment Q
R. Apache HBase Project [Michael Stack / Jim]
See Attachment R
S. Apache Hive Project [Carl Steinbach / Roy]
See Attachment S
T. Apache Incubator Project [Marvin Humphrey / Shane]
See Attachment T
U. Apache Isis Project [Dan Haywood / Chris]
See Attachment U
V. Apache James Project [Eric Charles / Doug]
No report was submitted.
W. Apache Jena Project [Andy Seaborne / Brett]
See Attachment W
X. Apache JMeter Project [Sebastian Bazley / Bertrand]
See Attachment X
Y. Apache JSPWiki Project [Juan Pablo Santos / Sam]
See Attachment Y
Z. Apache Lucy Project [Nick Wellnhofer / Greg]
See Attachment Z
AA. Apache Mahout Project [Grant Ingersoll / Sam]
See Attachment AA
AB. Apache Maven Project [Stephen Connolly / Shane]
See Attachment AB
AC. Apache Mesos Project [Benjamin Hindman / Chris]
See Attachment AC
AD. Apache MINA Project [Emmanuel Lecharny / Jim]
See Attachment AD
AE. Apache MyFaces Project [Gerhard Petracek / Doug]
See Attachment AE
AF. Apache Nutch Project [Julien Nioche / Brett]
See Attachment AF
AG. Apache ODE Project [Tammo van Lessen / Bertrand]
See Attachment AG
AH. Apache OpenJPA Project [Pinaki Poddar / Roy]
No report was submitted.
AI. Apache OpenMeetings Project [Sebastian Wagner / Jim]
See Attachment AI
AJ. Apache OpenOffice Project [Andrea Pescetti / Roy]
See Attachment AJ
AK. Apache PDFBox Project [Andreas Lehmkühler / Sam]
See Attachment AK
AL. Apache Perl Project [Philippe M. Chiasson / Shane]
See Attachment AL
AM. Apache Rave Project [Matt Franklin / Doug]
See Attachment AM
AN. Apache Shindig Project [Ryan Baxter / Greg]
See Attachment AN
AO. Apache SpamAssassin Project [Kevin A. McGrail / Brett]
See Attachment AO
AP. Apache Sqoop Project [Arvind Prabhakar / Chris]
See Attachment AP
AQ. Apache Steve Project [Jim Jagielski]
See Attachment AQ
AR. Apache Struts Project [Rene Gielen / Bertrand]
See Attachment AR
AS. Apache Tapestry Project [Howard M. Lewis Ship / Roy]
See Attachment AS
AI: Roy pursue a better report for next month
AT. Apache Tcl Project [Massimo Manghi / Shane]
See Attachment AT
AU. Apache Thrift Project [Jake Farrell / Chris]
See Attachment AU
AV. Apache Tika Project [Dave Meikle / Jim]
See Attachment AV
AW. Apache Tiles Project [Greg Reddin / Greg]
See Attachment AW
AX. Apache TomEE Project [David Blevins / Brett]
See Attachment AX
AY. Apache Traffic Server Project [Leif Hedstrom / Bertrand]
See Attachment AY
AZ. Apache Web Services Project [Sagara Gunathunga / Sam]
See Attachment AZ
Sam will see if the new pmc member should be elided
BA. Apache Wookie Project [Scott Wilson / Doug]
See Attachment BA
Committee reports approved as submitted by General Consent.
7. Special Orders
A. Establish Apache jclouds 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
providing a cloud agnostic library for the JVM that enables
developers to access a variety of supported cloud providers using
one API, for distribution at no charge to the public.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management
Committee (PMC), to be known as the "The Apache jclouds Project",
be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the
Foundation; and be it further
RESOLVED, that The Apache jclouds Project be and hereby is
responsible for the creation and maintenance of a software
project related to providing a cloud agnostic library for the JVM
that enables developers to access a variety of supported cloud
providers using one API; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, jclouds" 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
jclouds Project, and to have primary responsibility for
management of the projects within the scope of responsibility of
The Apache jclouds 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 jclouds Project:
* Adrian Cole (adriancole@apache.org)
* Andrew Bayer (abayer@apache.org)
* Andrew Gaul (gaul@apache.org)
* Andrew Phillips (andrewp@apache.org)
* Becca Wood (silkysun@apache.org)
* Everett Toews (everett@apache.org)
* David Nalley (ke4qqq@apache.org)
* Ignasi Barrera (nacx@apache.org)
* Ioannis Canellos (iocanel@apache.org)
* Matt Stephenson (mattstep@apache.org)
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Andrew Bayer be and
hereby is appointed to the office of Vice President, jclouds, to
serve in accordance with and subject to the direction of the Board
of Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until death,
resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification, or until a
successor is appointed; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the initial Apache jclouds Project be and hereby
is tasked with the migration and rationalization of the Apache
Incubator jclouds podling; and be it further
RESOLVED, that all responsibility pertaining to the Apache
Incubator jclouds podling encumbered upon the Apache Incubator
PMC are hereafter discharged.
Special Order 7A, Establish Apache jclouds Project, was
approved by unanimous vote of directors present.
B. Establish Apache Chukwa Project
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors deems it to be in the best
interests of the Foundation and consistent with the Foundation's
purpose to establish a Project Management Committee charged with
the creation and maintenance of open-source software, for distribution
at no charge to the public, related to data streaming, monitoring, and
visualization for Hadoop services.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management
Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Apache Chukwa Project",
be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the
Foundation; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the Apache Chukwa Project be and hereby is
responsible for the creation and maintenance of a software
project related to data streaming, monitoring and visualization
for Hadoop services; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache Chukwa" 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
Chukwa Project, and to have primary responsibility for
management of the projects within the scope of responsibility of
the Apache Chukwa 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 Chukwa Project:
* Ahmed Fathalla (afathalla)
* Alan D. Cabrera (adc)
* Ant Elder (antelder)
* Ariel Rabkin (asrabkin)
* Bill Graham (billgraham)
* Eric Yang (eyang)
* Grace Huang (grace.huang)
* Ivy Tang (ivytang)
* Jerome Boulon (jboulon)
* Jiaqi Tan (tanjiaqi)
* Shreyas Subramanya (shreyas)
* Sourygna Luangsay (sluangsay)
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Eric Yang,
be appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Chukwa,
to serve in accordance with and subject to
the direction of the Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the
Foundation until death, resignation, retirement, removal or
disqualification, or until a successor is appointed; and be it
further
RESOLVED, that the initial Apache Chukwa Project PMC be hereby is
tasked with the creation of a set of bylaws intended to
encourage open development and increased participation in the
Apache Chukwa Project; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the initial Apache Chukwa Project be and hereby
is tasked with the migration and rationalization of the Apache
Incubator Chukwa podling; and be it further
RESOLVED, that all responsibility pertaining to the Apache
Incubator Chukwa podling encumbered upon the Apache Incubator
PMC are hereafter discharged.
Special Order 7B, Establish Apache Chukwa Project, was
approved by unanimous vote of directors present.
8. Discussion Items
A. Status of audit
Jim volunteered to help if needed.
B. Status of Email to PMCs re: TCK availability (ASF policy)
Sam will work on this.
C. Special meeting for member elections
In some years a special meeting has been called, primarily to allow
for the election of new members more than once a year. November marks
six months since the annual meeting, so a suitable time to hold a
mid-year meeting would be mid-December, or mid-January. We have not
held one since January 2011.
There are pros and cons. On the upside, it allows new members to be
elected sooner, and may reduce the volume of voting required at the
annual meeting. However, it does require some time and effort from
our volunteer members, and particularly the executive officers.
I'm interested in whether the Board feels this would be valuable to
conduct this year, and if so what their availability is for those
timeframes.
Discussion:
Most of the people on the member watch list have been elected.
Time is getting short to plan a meeting to avoid the holidays.
Suggest asking members@ for guidance.
9. Review Outstanding Action Items
* Greg: email to multiple PMCs to ask for dates on releases.
Status: Brett will help Greg on this task.
* Roy: Update the guidance for releases and communicate to all
committers.
Status: Still not done, though now in my plan for this month.
* Greg: discuss "extras" issue with OpenOffice PMC and see if there is
to be done at the "ASF level"
Status: not done
* Sam/MarkT: Make formal statement regarding TCK access.
Status: not done
* Greg: pursue a report for Tiles
Status: report is there
* Sam: see whether there is continuing development and goals for Whirr
Status: not done
* Bertrand: follow up with responsibilities of PMC chair with ZooKeeper
Status: done
10. Unfinished Business
11. New Business
12. Announcements
13. Adjournment
Adjourned at 11:56 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
Fundraising:
* PayPal - Our PayPal account is "locked" and cannot accept donations. Chris,
Upayavira, and I have been working to get this situation rectified.
* Verizon - we received a matching gift notification. Followed the online
procedures to claim the matching gift, which should hit our account by the
end of October.
* Started creating a "How-To" manual - it is designed to be like a
"Fundraising for Dummies"...step-by-step directions complete with
screenshots.
ApacheCon:
* We've made a lot of progress with this. We're in the pre-contract
negotiations stage with the Linux Foundation. We've received a proposal
from LF, we sent back our feedback on that proposal and are having a
ConCall at the end of this week to discuss it.
* We're interested in doing a joint event in the May/June timeframe, which
we are very excited about - details to follow.
Treasurer:
* Follow-up needed to secure estimates for outsourcing the taxes to a CPA
* Will be creating a "How-To" manual for the treasurer's duty
Weekly status calls with Ross and Rich
* Event-in-a-Box:
* Created and sent out an initial content list to ComDev for comments and
feedback
* Will create a "How To Guide"
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Attachment 2: Report from the VP of Brand Management [Shane Curcuru]
No board level issues.
Progress on getting through the backlog of requests and podling name
searches is going well. Otherwise a slightly busy month for trademarks
but no major unexpected controversies.
I have started documenting foundation/Brand/runbook.txt for common
procedures in answering questions on trademarks@; in particular
questions that either relevant Apache project VPs can answer themselves,
or that members of the Trademarks Committee can answer directly.
Similarly, the President has asked the EA to assist with monitoring
the trademarks@ list, and she has started a set of "common questions
and how to address" list which looks to be helpful in the future.
I have a call with counsel shortly before the board meeting to discuss
specific legal agreements for intake of trademarks, in particular to
cover graphical logos. This is needed to ensure that we have clear
trademark rights in the future for our projects, as we have seen in
some cases where for-profit companies who at the start have the best of
intentions, but over the long run change behavior to our detriment.
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Attachment 3: Report from the VP of Fundraising [Upayavira]
Fundraising has been progressing, with Melissa's help. We have received
a platinum payment from Citrix, and welcomed a new Silver sponsor,
Produban.
We are still battling to resurrect PayPal, and have a concurrent effort
to build an equivalent using Amazon as the payment processor. We have
managed to get past a major vendor invoicing system problem with the
vendor finally accepting a PDF invoice
We are still behind on seeing renewals, which needs to be our next task.
Melissa has been extremely helpful in getting fundraising moving again.
I have asked to have as much of her time as possible over the next month
or so in order to work through the backlog. My intention is that after
that, it can be maintained as more of a background activity, with
Melissa handling a reasonable amount of the day to day fundraising
activities.
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Attachment 4: Report from the VP of Marketing and Publicity [Sally Khudairi]
I. Budget: Sally Khudairi submitted an invoice by PR Newswire for executive
signoff and payment processing. No other vendor payments are due at this
time.
II. Fundraising/Branding/Marketing liaison: no meetings are planned.
III. Press Releases: an unusually quiet period, no formal announcements were
issued via the newswire service, ASF Foundation Blog, or announce@apache.org
during this timeframe.
IV. Informal Announcements: no 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: Sally has been reviewing project promotion processes
and tactics, both with podlings and TLPs. 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: we responded to 13 media requests, including a small
handful of background/process queries. The ASF received 1,090 press clips
over this time period, vs. last month's clip count of 625.
VII. Analyst Relations: Apache was mentioned in 16 reports by Gartner
(including the 2014 Cloud Computing and Data Management Planning Guides, as
well as the Who's Who Among Providers of Enterprise Service Bus Open-Source
Software and the Magic Quadrant reports for Horizontal Portals and Enterprise
Content Management), 1 write-up by GigaOM, 36 reports by Yankee Group
(including Global Consumer, Enterprise, and Mobile Forecasts), and 8 reports
by IDC (including 2013 U.S. Cloud Security Survey)
VIII. ApacheCon liaison: Sally will be working with Rich Bowen and Melissa
Warnkin on any issues needed for planning the next ApacheCon, with particular
focus on sponsor-related activities.
IX. (Non-ASF) Industry Events and Outreach liaison: we await submission
feedback regarding Apache participation in various Cloud, big data, security,
and mobile-focused conferences.
X. Newswire accounts: we have 11 pre-paid press releases with NASDAQ
GlobeNewswire through December 2013, 17 pre-paid press releases on the
PRNewswire account through May 2014. Our donation of free press release
distribution by UK-based service Pressat has no pre-established distribution
timeframe(s).
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Attachment 5: Report from the VP of Infrastructure [Sam Ruby]
An onslaught of Confluence spam required us to change
the default permission scheme to match what we've done
for the moin wiki. We've also formally withdrawn all
support for the autoexport plugin.
Closed out the account of a deceased committer.
Received delivery at OSUOSL of the gear we ordered last
month. Now in the process of bringing it online.
Upped the default per-file upload limit for dist/ to
200MB (from 100MB).
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Attachment 6: Report from the Apache Travel Assistance Committee [Gavin McDonald]
Zero activity on the mailing lists for 3 months now. As there
are no events requiring the attention of TAC; all is as it
should be.
The committee will wake up when it has something to do.
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Attachment 7: Report from the VP of W3C Relations [Andy Seaborne]
Henry Story has joined the RDF JavaScript Libraries Community Group.
Andy Seaborne has joined the Property Graphs Model and API Community Group.
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Attachment 8: Report from the Apache Legal Affairs Committee [Sam Ruby]
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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@, a large number of reports in October. These
continue to be dealt with by the security team.
2 Support question
2 Security vulnerability question, but not a vulnerability report
1 Phishing/spam/attacks point to site "powered by Apache"
14 Vulnerability Reports
4 [httpd, via security@]
1 [tomee, via security@]
3 [struts, via security@]
1 [xbean, via security@]
1 [camel, via security@]
1 [wink, via security@]
2 [struts, via security@struts]
1 [sling, via security@sling]
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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 1.4.4 was released on 8/23/2013.
Activity
The mailing lists have been active. The dev list has increased by 16
subscribers to 212, and the user list has increased by 27 subscribers to
316.
We have set a feature freeze date for 1.6.0 to November 1st. We have
voted on a process to take if there is disagreement about whether a
major feature has been tested enough at the feature freeze date to be
included in the release, as we had difficulty in 1.5.0 with incomplete
features coming in and extending the testing cycle unreasonably.
We have successfully switched from svn to git.
Community
No new committers since the last report.
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:
* Developed a new management agent.
* Added a shell client API.
* Increase in community involvement.
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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.
* Most SCM roots in ActiveMQ have switched from SVN to Git.
Development:
* It's been a busy quarter preparing for the The ActiveMQ 5.9
release. It should be done soon!
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:
* ActiveMQ-CPP v3.8.1 - Sep 19th 2013
* ActiveMQ-CPP v3.8.0 - Sep 6th 2013
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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 ==
Apache Airavata 0.9 was released on September 24th 2013. The release
planning for 0.10 version is ongoing. Community is brainstorming the readiness
to do the Apache Airavata 1.0 release towards end of the year.
== Activity ==
The mailing list, jira and commit activity remains very high.
== Community ==
Airavata has mentored 6 Google Summer of Code students. The community has
deeply engaged with students and plans to integrate student contributions to
the main code base. The students seems to be committed (rather hoping to)
continue to contribute to the project. Airavata, OODT, SIS are engaged in
cross-cutting projects and discussions primarily initiated through student
research projects.
== Committer/PMC Changes ==
During this reporting period, one PMC member was added to the roster. Last
member was added on July 24th 2013. There are close to a dozen active
contributors from GSoC students and otherwise on mailing lists and are in
the PMC watch list. The PMC will be discussing their contributions and
additions to the PMC/committers within the next quarter.
== Other Issues ==
There are no outstanding issues requiring board attention.
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Attachment E: Report from the Apache Any23 Project [Michele Mostarda]
Having missed last months report, this months report is rather
peculiar in the sense that we are at crossroad within the very few
(active) members of the community as to where to take the project.
Progress has been very very slow. There have been a couple of new
users of the software but the community, for all intent and means,
has been unable to help them on mailing list. It is therefore sad
that new users questions have gone virtually unanswered... which
is a real pity.
This email I suppose serves to act as a direct line of communicating
the current community position within Apache Any23. This is not the
first time that the attic has been mentioned.
It is also important to say that we intend to approach the Apache
Tika community in an attempt to invoke motivation behind merging
some/all of the Any23 codebase into Apache Tika as there are numerous
areas which one could define as being of common interest to both
projects. I am kicking off this discussion on dev@tika.a.o
<mailto:dev@tika.a.o> after I close this thread.
If a formal report in the usual structure is required then I will
be more than happy to post it here, however in all honesty there
is literally zilch to report.
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Attachment F: 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 Blueprint Parser 1.1.0
Reusable component for parsing Blueprint xmls.
* Apache Aries Blueprint Core 1.2.0
Core of the implementation of the OSGi Blueprint Container Specification
Currently being voted on:
* Apache Aries Blueprint CM 1.0.2
Integration of OSGi Blueprint with the OSGi Configuration Admin Service.
##Project update
There has been a variety of discussion traffic on the dev and user lists
primarily across blueprint, trasnaction, esa-maven-plugin, jpa, subsystem.
There are no board level issues.
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Attachment G: Report from the Apache Attic Project [Gianugo Rabellino]
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Attachment H: Report from the Apache Avro Project [Scott Carey]
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Attachment I: Report from the Apache Cordova Project [Brian LeRoux]
Apache Cordova is a platform for building native mobile applications using
HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
STATUS
Work continues on plugin discovery, cli, medic testing infra, and post 3.0
release hardening. This is in addition to regular platform maintenance. Also
worth noting we are growing active on Firefox OS and Ubuntu Phone! The
community is as strong as ever.
COMMUNITY
- Mike Sierra voted as committer.
- Carlos Santana voted as committer.
- David Kemp voted as committer.
RELEASES
- 2.7 released 05/02/13
- 2.8 released 06/11/13
- 2.9 released 06/29/13
- 3.0 released 07/19/13
- 3.1 released 10/02/13
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Attachment J: Report from the Apache Crunch Project [Josh Wills]
Apache Crunch is a Java library for writing, testing, and running
MapReduce pipelines on Apache Hadoop.
General:
The Crunch community continues to develop features and fix bugs
at a healthy pace: there are currently 28 JIRA issues that have been
resolved since the 0.7.0 release, with input from 10 different contributors.
Given our current rate of issue resolution, I believe that the community
will vote to create a new release within the next few weeks.
Releases:
The 0.7.0 release was made on July 25, 2013.
The 0.6.0 release was made on May 13th, 2013.
Community:
Chao Shi was added to the PMC on August 20th, 2013, our first new
PMC member since leaving the Incubator.
Micah Whitacre was added as a committer on July 11th, 2013.
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Attachment K: Report from the Apache Curator Project [Jordan Zimmerman]
Curator is a set of Java libraries that make using Apache ZooKeeper much easier.
== ISSUES
Curator is a brand new TLP. The board accepted the resolution at its last meeting,
September 18, 2013. Three weeks later, Curator is still waiting for INFRA to create
TLP resources: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-6771
== RELEASES
2.2.0-incubating was released August, 2013. We'd like to do our first TLP release,
2.3.0 and are waiting for INFRA to create our resources.
== ACTIVITY
dev@ list: 200-300 messages a month
users@ list: 30-50 messages a month
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Attachment L: 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:
2.6.9 (July 17, 2013)
2.6.10 (Sept 14, 2013)
2.7.6 (July 14, 2013)
2.7.7 (Sept 14, 2013)
Committer/PMC:
No committer/pmc changes this period
Last committer change: One committer added for July 2013 report
Last PMC change: 2 new PMC members were added for our January 2013 report.
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're hoping to do a milestone release of 3.0 shortly to get more
feedback from users.
There is also work to produce a new 1.1 version of the Fediz subproject to
update it to the latest CXF releases as well as provide some additional
functionality requested by users. That should be completely shortly.
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Attachment M: Report from the Apache DB Project [Myrna van Lunteren]
The Apache DB TLP consists of the following subprojects:
* DdlUtils : a small, easy-to-use component for working with
Database Definition (DDL) files.
* Derby : an open source relational database implemented entirely in Java.
* JDO : focused on building the API and the TCK for compatibility
testing of Java Data Object implementations providing data
persistence.
* Torque : an object-relational mapper for Java.
== Status ==
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
Activities over the last quarter
* Derby decided to postpone the 10.10.2 release until there are officially
released binaries for Java 8.
* Derby's GSoC student's project finished successfully to mutual benefit of the
student and Derby.
* JDO voted to release JDO 3.1-rc1.
* The DB PMC has received interest in reviving DDLUtils community, and so the move to
the Attic was postponed.
=== Community ===
No PMC changes since August 2011.
No new committers since August 2010.
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Attachment N: 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.
-- 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: 3 JIRA tickets filed in this quarter by 2 individuals
Commits: 33 individual commits [2] by 4 committers [3] in this quarter.
One community call (google hangout) was held in this quarter [4].
Mostly work on bug fixes and improvements. A new driver has been contributed
for the ProfitBricks cloud provider.
-- 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.
Dies Koper was voted into the Deltacloud PMC in July.
all the best, marios
[1]
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/deltacloud-dev/201305.mbox/%3C518D0F79.4000901%40redhat.com%3E
[2] git log --oneline --after={2013-07-01} --no-merges | wc -l
[3] git shortlog --oneline --after={2013-07-01} --no-merges -sne
[4] http://deltacloud.apache.org/contact.html
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Attachment O: 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 (last addition: July 2012)
* No new PMC members (last addition: October 2008)
* Mavibot, a project that started in the Labs, is now a sub-project of the
Apache Directory project. Apache Mavibot is a Multi Version Concurrency
Control (MVCC) BTree implementation in Java. It is expected to be a
replacement for JDBM (the current backend for ApacheDS), but could be a
good fit for any other project in need of a Java MVCC BTree
implementation.
* Escimo is also a new sub-project of the Apache Directory project. Apache
Escimo is a SCIM v2 protocol implementation in Java.
-- Current activity --
* Apache Directory LDAP API:
* One release during this quarter.
* Low activity / Very minor bug fixes.
* Apache Mavibot:
* Voted as an Apache Directory sub-project on August 3rd 2013 (from the
Apache Labs).
* One release during this quarter.
* Apache Escimo:
* Created as an Apache Directory sub-project on July 7th 2013.
* No releases yet.
* ApacheDS:
* One release during this quarter.
* Good activity.
* Integrated Apache Mavibot as a usable backend for ApacheDS (in addition
to JDBM)
* Apache Directory Studio:
* No releases during this quarter.
* A new release is pending on a new version of ApacheDS.
* Low activity / Very minor bug fixes.
-- Releases --
* One release for Apache Directory LDAP API:
* Apache Directory LDAP API 1.0.0-M20 (August 18th 2013)
* One release for Apache Mavibot:
* Apache Mavibot 1.0.0-M1 (August 6th 2013)
* No releases for Apache Escimo.
* One release for ApacheDS:
* ApacheDS 2.0.0-M15 (August 18th 2013)
* No releases for Apache Directory Studio.
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Attachment P: Report from the Apache Geronimo Project [Jarek Gawor]
Description
===========
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.
Development
===========
- Work done on providing Servlet 3.1 API and Batch API specification jars.
- A few bugs were reported and fixed.
- No new releases since June 2013.
Community
=========
- The traffic on the user mailing list was low but steady.
- 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.
Board-level issues
==================
None.
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Attachment Q: 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.
The 2.x series reached beta status in August, targeting a GA release before the
end of the year. Work hardening the release continues apace.
The project updated its bylaws to allow for "branch committers" in support of
feature development by newer contributors. The first set are collaborating on a
security initiative that has been discussed on the dev list, in meetups, and in
related JIRAs since last spring. No work on the branch has started, despite
exchanges on the lists on possible, seminal issues to tackle.
RELEASES
- hadoop-1.2.1 @ 2013-08-05
- hadoop-2.0.6-alpha @ 2013-08-22
- hadoop-2.1.0-beta @ 2013-08-25
- hadoop-2.1.1-beta @ 2013-09-30
COMMUNITY
(+ PMC Bikas Saha @ 2013-10-07)
(+ committer Arpit Agarwal @ 2013-08-08)
(+ committer Sanford Ryza @ 2013-07-25)
(+ committer Andrew Wang @ 2013-07-25)
(+ committer Devaraj K @ 2013-07-23)
auth: 74 committers, 44 PMC members
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Attachment R: 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 noted a marked improvement
in how MapR refer to their “HBase compatible” M7
product. A 09/25/2013 press release relapses at
least regards putting the ‘Apache’ prefix before
first-mentions of HBase and Hadoop.
We are very probably going to commit code that makes
use of the JDK’s cryptographic APIs [1]. Apache legal
affairs [3] were notified as per [2].
RELEASES
0.94.10 -- 07/24/2013
0.94.11 -- 08/21/2013
0.94.12 -- 09/24/2013
0.95.2 -- 08/19/2013 Third developer release off 0.95 branch.
0.96.0RCs -- We are currently on our 5th release candidate.
COMMITTERS
We added the following new committers:
Rajeshbabu Chintaguntla (Huawei) rajeshbabu@apache.org
Nick Dimiduk (HortonWorks) ndimiduk@apache.org
PMC
We added no new PMC members during this period.
COMMUNITY
We had HBase Bay Area Meetups on:
At Flurry in San Francisco on August 20th, 2013 [4]
At Arista in San Francisco on 09/26/2013 [5]
STATS
33 committers [6]
930 subscribers to the dev list (Was 892 at last report)
2093 subscribers to the user list (Was 2020 at last report)
1. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-7544Transparent table/CF encryption
2. http://www.apache.org/dev/crypto.html
3. https://mail-search.apache.org/members/private-arch/hbase-private/201310.mbox/browser
4. http://www.meetup.com/hbaseusergroup/events/120534362/
5. http://www.meetup.com/hbaseusergroup/events/135862292/
6. http://hbase.apache.org/team-list.html
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Attachment S: Report from the Apache Hive Project [Carl Steinbach]
DESCRIPTION
Apache Hive is a data warehouse written on top of Apache Hadoop. It
provides SQL to query and manage data (in the form of tables and
partitions stored in HDFS or external systems) and provides a
metastore containing metadata information about the stored data.
RELEASES
* The last release of Apache Hive was version 0.11.0, released on
May 16th, 2013.
* Work on the 0.12.0 release is in progress. A release branch has
been created and all blockers have been closed. We expect that
the first release candidate will be made available for testing
within the coming week.
* HIVE-5087 has been committed to the Hive 0.12.0 release branch.
This patch changes the name of the "nPath" UDF to "matchpath".
This was done to honor a promise made by lawyers representing the
ASF and Hive PMC to Teradata's legal team in late August.
COMMUNITY
* Development activity continues as can be seen from the following
report: http://s.apache.org/nfv
* Hive User Group meetings were held on June 25th in San Jose and
on July 24th in Mountain View. 120 people RSVPed for the former event
and 100 people for the latter.
* The next user group meetup is scheduled for October 28th in
New York City.
* Yin Huai (yhuai), Thejas Nair (thejas), Gunther Hagleitner
(gunther), and Brock Noland (brock) were voted in as committers.
* Currently there are:
- 650 subscribers to the developer list
- 1619 subscribers to the user list
- 9 committers
- 11 PMC members
- 6 Emeritus PMC members
BRANDING CHECKLIST
We have created HIVE-2432 to track this, with sub-tasks corresponding
to each item.
* Project Website Basics: [DONE]
* Project Naming And Descriptions: [IN PROGRESS]
* Website Navigation Links: [IN PROGRESS]
* Trademark Attributions: [IN PROGRESS]
* Logos and Graphics: [DONE]
* Project Metadata: [DONE]
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Attachment T: 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 grew to 39 podlings this month.
Mailing list activity on general@incubator went back up after light months
in July and August.
* Community
New IPMC members:
Tammo van Lessen
Christian Müller
People who left the IPMC:
(None)
* New Podlings
The Incubator has voted in four new podlings.
* Aurora is a scheduler that provides all of the primitives necessary
to quickly deploy and scale stateless and fault tolerant services in
a datacenter.
* Storm is a distributed, fault-tolerant, and high-performance realtime
computation system that provides strong guarantees on the processing
of data.
* BatchEE will be an ALv2-licensed implementation of the JBatch
Specification which is defined as JSR-352 (for version 1.0).
* Usergrid is a multi-tenant Backend-as-a-Service stack for web &
mobile applications, based on RESTful APIs.
* Graduations
The board has motions for the following:
Chukwa
jclouds
* Releases
The following releases were made since the last Incubator report:
Sep 11 Apache Ambari 1.2.5-incubating
Sep 27 Apache Drill 1.0.0-m1-incubating
Sep 24 Apache Spark 0.8.0-incubating
Sep 25 Apache Sentry 1.2.0-incubating
Sep 27 Apache Blur 0.2.0-incubating
Oct 03 Apache Marmotta 3.1.0-incubating
It took 1-8 days for the third IPMC vote to arrive.
Release RC VOTE start Third IMPC +1 Days
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Apache Ambari 1.2.5-incubating Sep 04 Sep 10 6
Apache Drill 1.0.0-m1-incubating Sep 11 Sep 18 7
Apache Spark 0.8.0-incubating Sep 17 Sep 23 6
Apache Sentry 1.2.0-incubating Sep 19 Sep 24 5
Apache Blur 0.2.0-incubating Sep 18 Sep 19 1
Apache Marmotta 3.1.0-incubating Sep 24 Oct 02 8
* Miscellaneous
* Allura's release candidate, which spent weeks waiting for IPMC
feedback, was ultimately withdrawn after flaws were discovered.
* Commons-monitoring seems likely to enter the Incubator. The name is
still under discussion.
* A question about old Chukwa binary artifacts was resolved by
reaffirming that the ASF makes no guarantees about convenience
binaries.
* The Incubator paid elevated attention to trademarks this month.
* Old controversies about what criteria to apply when adding personnel to
a proposed podling finally bit an unlucky live podling candidate
(Usergrid). Hopefully it will never happen again.
-------------------- Summary of podling reports --------------------
* Still getting started at the Incubator
Storm
* Not yet ready to graduate
No release:
MetaModel
Olingo
Samza
Stratos
VXQuery
Community growth:
Celix
ODF Toolkit
Sentry
* Ready to graduate
Chukwa
Helix
jclouds
Marmotta
* Did not report, expected next month
DeviceMap
Ripple
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Table of Contents
Celix
Chukwa
DeviceMap
Helix
jclouds
Marmotta
MetaModel
ODF Toolkit
Olingo
Ripple
Samza
Sentry
Spark
Storm
Stratos
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. Publish a new 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?
Several new people are working on additional code for the project. One
person is working on a GSoC project, someone else is working on a new
remote services protocol and is actively communicating over the list and
using jira to post patches. Overall this is an increase in activity.
The Native-OSGi project is still progressing, but rather slow. So there
isn't anything new on that end. Celix is still the reference
implementation, so I still expect this to be a great drive for Celix, for
the code as well as the committers.
How has the project developed since the last report?
As mentioned above, a student is working on a GSoC project and has
implemented an Event Admin which will be included in Celix. Also a
additional Remote Services implementation based on shared memory is being
made.
Work for a new release is still ongoing, the focus is slightly changing,
one of the main users has requested a release. Since they don't use
Win32, Win32 support can be stripped from the release plan and postponed
to a later release.
Date of last release:
16-12-2012
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
2013-01-07 Roman Shaposhnik joins as a mentor.
2012-03-20 Pepijn elected as committer.
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. Update DNS entry for chukwa.apache.org
2. Update mailing list location
3. Update chukwa source and website to the new url.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
Chukwa has been voted to graduate to TLP in September in
general@incubator. This will be the last incubator report.
How has the community developed since the last report?
Community has been stable and adding new features to Chukwa.
How has the project developed since the last report?
New heatmap feature and updating to work with being developed. New
demux parser improvement for configuring reducer parser has been
developed.
Date of last release:
2012-01-26
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
2012-09-06
Signed-off-by:
[X](chukwa) Alan Cabrera
[ ](chukwa) Anthony Elder
[ ](chukwa) Bernd Fondermann
[X](chukwa) Jukka Zitting
Shepherd notes:
--------------------
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.
Shepherd notes:
Dave Fisher (wave):
I see good activity recently. It looks like it took DeviceMap quite
awhile to get started, but the community has grown and it looks like
they are working towards a release. Mentors are active. I'm not sure
why they have not reported. (Oct 6)
Marvin Humphrey (marvin):
Podling did not report, expected next month.
--------------------
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 that we are ready for graduation and have started the discussion
internally. We need to update the status page with new committers and also
resolve trade mark.Our processes are continuing to improve and adoption is
increasing both inside and outside of LinkedIn.
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 Kanak Biscuitwala as a committer
- Receiving external contribution in developing JavaScript bindings for
Helix (see https://github.com/sudowork/node-helix-participant)
- Steady activity on the mailing list
How has the project developed since the last report?
- Making progress on 0.7.0, a release that examines and rethinks every
interaction that Helix exposes to increase ease of use. We hope to
release this month.
- Introduced new coding style guidelines, and simplified the code review
process with new scripts
- Increased documentation of the development process on JIRA pages
- Actively populating the developer wiki and increased the amount of
documentation on the project website
- Received a patch integrating Helix with YARN, to automate management of
YARN containers.
Date of last release:
2013-05-30 (0.6.1-incubating)
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
- Kanak Biscuitwala (committer) - 2013-09-20
Signed-off-by:
[X](helix) Patrick Hunt
[X](helix) Olivier Lamy
[ ](helix) Mahadev Konar
[ ](helix) Owen O'Malley
Shepherd notes:
Roman Shaposhnik (rvs):
A very solid project on the clear path to graduation.
--------------------
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:
The jclouds IPMC graduation vote passed on Sep 23rd, 2013.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
The jclouds community is looking forward to the next ASF Board meeting
and hopes to be confirmed as a TLP.
How has the community developed since the last report?
jclouds held its first committer vote as an Apache project and is proud
to have Zack Shoylev on board!
How has the project developed since the last report?
Our second incubating release was successful, with no issues related to
ASF process or guidelines raised. The remaining trademark and IP issues
have been resolved, and changes to the project website to bring it in
line with ASF guidelines successfully made. The project also held a
successful vote to adopt a set of Bylaws.
With those items completed and a new committer on board, the jclouds PPMC
proceeded to a graduation vote, which was passed and confirmed by the
IMPC. Andrew Bayer was elected as the first project PMC chair and will
thus be proposed as Vice President, Apache jclouds.
Date of last release:
2013-08-28 (1.6.2-incubating)
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
2013-08-08 (Zack Shoylev as committer)
Signed-off-by:
[ ](jclouds) Brian McCallister
[ ](jclouds) Tom White
[ ](jclouds) Henning Schmiedehausen
[X](jclouds) David Nalley
[ ](jclouds) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
[ ](jclouds) Mohammad Nour El-Din
[X](jclouds) Olivier Lamy
[ ](jclouds) Tomaz Muraus
[ ](jclouds) Suresh Marru
[ ](jclouds) Carlos Sanchez
Shepherd notes:
--------------------
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. Check whether Marmotta is a suitable name
(https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PODLINGNAMESEARCH-39)
2. PPMC & IPMC discussion and vote about gratuation
3. Graduate tasks
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?
* The NOTICE&LICENSE issues from last time are now properly solved.
* The 3.1.0-incubating release was rescheduled to "after summer
vacation time" and prepared in late September (released October 3rd).
* Traffic on dev@marmotta.i.a.o was decreasing over the summer
months, but is rising again in September during the preparation of
the last release.
* We are starting to get bug reports from non-committers in JIRA
while traffic on users@marmotta.i.a.o is slowly evolving.
How has the project developed since the last report?
* The 3.1.0-incubating release has been accepted on October 3rd.
* The project was explicitly recommended for graduation after the
last report in July (<http://s.apache.org/LIF8>)
but we wanted to have another release before graduation to stabilize
the release process and and have another check of the N&L by the
incubator community.
* Consequently the discussion graduation is being resumed after the
release, trying the do it by the end of October if no new issues
appear.
Date of last release:
2013-10-03 (3.1.0-incubating)
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
2013-05-21 (Raffaele Palmieri, committer&PPMC)
2013-06-24 (Peter Ansell, committer&PPMC)
So no new committers and/or PPMC member since the last report.
Signed-off-by:
[X](marmotta) Fabian Christ
[ ](marmotta) Nandana Mihindukulasooriya
[X](marmotta) Andy Seaborne
Shepherd notes:
Andrei Savu (asavu):
Project is on track for graduation. Nothing jumped out at me as
requiring any special attention. Good luck guys!
--------------------
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. More contributors to increase diversity of the community
2. Make first release under ASF umbrella
3. Looking forward to setup CI builds under ASF infra
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?
Ankit Kumar has taken the role of being release engineer for our first
ASF release.
A draft for bylaws for the project has been added to the wiki, we are
discussing and finalizing the details.
We are still not seeing a lot of involvement from new contributors, but
expect that a release will give us more users and thus involvement from
more newcomers.
How has the project developed since the last report?
The primary focus has been on making our first release under ASF
umbrella. The work is coming along well and we have a practical TODO
list of less than 5 points now.
Date of last release:
None
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
June 2013
Signed-off-by:
[X](metamodel) Henry Saputra
[X](metamodel) Arvind Prabhakar
[X](metamodel) Matt Franklin
[ ](metamodel) Noah Slater
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. Address issues of too much code development happening outside of
Apache
3. Hold an informal graduation readiness vote
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware
of?
It has recently been pointed out that the project status page on the
Incubator project site is out of date, we hope to update that shortly.
How has the community developed since the last report?
Higher feed-back from the users mailing list, but no new developers.
Discussion has started, but without much conclusion, 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?
Clear unnecessary dependency from the Clarizza project.
Date of last release:
2013-06-22
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
Not for a long while...
Signed-off-by:
[ ](odftoolkit) Sam Ruby
[X](odftoolkit) Nick Burch
[ ](odftoolkit) Yegor Kozlov
Shepherd notes:
Marvin Humphrey (marvin):
Report not filed in time for shepherd review.
--------------------
Olingo
Apache Olingo provides libraries which enable developers to implement
OData producers and OData consumers. While starting with an initial
code base implementing OData version 2.0 it is also a clear goal to
start implementing a library for OData 4.0 once the OData standard is
published at OASIS. The focus within the community is currently on the
Java technology but it is up to the community to discuss if other
environments find interest.
Olingo has been incubating since 2013-07-08.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Make the first release
2. Work on documentation
3. Grow community
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
- n/a
How has the community developed since the last report?
- Committers actively working on making the release. Effort is
coordinated by Jira and mailing list.
- Committers are in mailing list contact with mentors and infrastructure
to extend infrastructure setup (e.g. Jenkins, KEYS files ...).
- Some committers have started with KEY signing. This is in progress to
get all committers involved.
How has the project developed since the last report?
- There is currently no feature development
- Instead committers do concentrate on making the first release
- A release candidate is available and discussed by community on mailing
list
- Release voting has started
- Documentation on web site is growing and will be published as soon as
the first release is available
Date of last release:
- not released so far
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
- n/a
Signed-off-by:
[X](olingo) Alan Cabrera
[X](olingo) Dave Fisher
[X](olingo) Florian Müller
Shepherd notes:
Raphael Bircher (rbircher):
Apache Olingo goes direction first release. They allready use mailing
list in a good way. It looks like they allready knows how to work with
lazy consensus. The Mentors are active in a good way. Well, the
documentation is poor at the moment. But the project knows this problem
and work on it. Looking forward for a release.
--------------------
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.
Shepherd notes:
Marvin Humphrey (marvin):
Podling did not report, expected next month.
--------------------
Samza
Samza is a stream processing system for running continuous computation on
infinite streams of data.
Samza has been incubating since 2013-07-30.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Bring in new community members
2. Make a release
3. Cement ASF way to 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?
Community development continues. Chris Riccomini presented Samza to YARN
Dev User Group with great interest. Similar talks planned for Bay Area
and London Hadoop User Groups this month. Interest (and patches)
continue to begin to appear.
How has the project developed since the last report?
Several JIRAs opened and committed. Ready to start working on first
release.
Date of last release:
None.
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
None.
Signed-off-by:
[X](samza) Chris Douglas
[ ](samza) Arun Murthy
[X](samza) Roman Shaposhnik
Shepherd notes:
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Sentry
Sentry is a highly modular system for providing fine grained role
based authorization to both data and metadata stored on an Apache Hadoop
cluster.
Sentry has been incubating since 2013-08-08.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Build community and add new committers
2. Continue to release at regular intervals
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?
Sentry User Meetup group has nearly 50 members. The project's first
meetup is planned for the end of Oct. We have 23 sign ups on the dev
list.
How has the project developed since the last report?
We have migrated all of the infrastructure to ASF. The website is up and
running. Podling name search has been successfully completed. Project
had its first release since starting incubation. On the development
front, a number of new JIRAs have been filed and are being actively
worked on.
Date of last release:
2013-09-25 (1.2.0-incubating)
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
Last committers and PMC members were elected when the project entered
incubation.
Signed-off-by:
[X](sentry) Arvind Prabhakar
[X](sentry) Joe Brockmeier
[X](sentry) David Nalley
[ ](sentry) Olivier Lamy
[X](sentry) Patrick Hunt
[ ](sentry) Thomas White
Shepherd notes:
Matt Franklin (mfranklin):
No issues. Looks like the project is off to a great start.
--------------------
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. Move JIRA over to Apache (still haven't gotten success from INFRA
on this: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-6419)
2. Add more committers under Apache process
3. Make further Apache releases
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
We still need some help importing our JIRA -- see INFRA-6419. For some
reason we've had a lot of trouble with this. It should be easier now
because Apache's JIRA was updated and now matches our version.
How has the community developed since the last report?
We made the Spark 0.8.0 release, which was the biggest so far, with 67
developers from 24 organizations contributing. The release shows how far
our community has grown -- our 0.6 release last October had only 17
contributors, and our 0.7 release in February had 31. Most of the
contributors are now external to the original UC Berkeley team.
How has the project developed since the last report?
We made the Spark 0.8.0 release mentioned above, which so far seems to
be doing well. It brings a number of deployability features, improved
Python support, and a new standard library for machine learning; see
http://spark.incubator.apache.org/releases/spark-release-0-8-0.html
for what's new in the release.
Date of last release:
2013-09-25
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
June 2013
Signed-off-by:
[X](spark) Chris Mattmann
[ ](spark) Paul Ramirez
[ ](spark) Andrew Hart
[ ](spark) Thomas Dudziak
[ ](spark) Suresh Marru
[X](spark) Henry Saputra
[X](spark) Roman Shaposhnik
Shepherd notes:
Dave Fisher (wave):
Very active community on a fast track. Good report. Get your JIRA over
and you are getting close. (Oct. 7)
Marvin Humphrey (marvin):
Report not filed in time for shepherd review.
--------------------
Storm
Storm is a distributed, fault-tolerant, and high-performance realtime
computation system that provides strong guarantees on the processing of
data.
Storm has been incubating since 2013-09-18.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Transition community to new infrastructure and mailing lists
2. Test and mature the Netty message passing implementation so all future
releases do not include 0mq transport (which is LGPL)
3. Make a release under Apache
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
We are still waiting for ICLA's from Flip Kromer and David Lao.
We are waiting for infrastructure to be set up so we can switch mailing
lists and code hosting over to Apache.
How has the community developed since the last report?
A few more users have been added to the Powered By page. Otherwise, we've
received a steady amount of new patches and messages on the mailing list.
How has the project developed since the last report?
A software grant has been filed by Nathan Marz for the project. Also, all
contributor agreements Nathan has collected pre-Apache have been
submitted to Apache. All committers except for two have filed ICLA's and
CCLA's.
We are making one last release via the old route during the transition
into the incubator (0.9.0). We have switched development to an
Apache-like consensus-driven approach and have made lots of progress on
closing pull requests (as well as getting committers active in
discussions, merging, and managing release process).
Date of last release:
None
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
N/A, this is the first status report.
Signed-off-by:
[X](storm) Ted Dunning
[X](storm) Arvind Prabhakar
[X](storm) Devaraj Das
[X](storm) Matt Franklin
[X](storm) Benjamin Hindman
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. Moving all Stratos related trademarks from WSO2 to Apache. Certain
WSO2 technologies such as StratosLive still bear the Stratos name.
These have to be resolved in the near future. We are in the process of
sorting these out.
2. Get the first Apache Stratos (incubating) release out, and in the
process ensure all ASF release requirements are met.
3. Build the 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?
Three new committers & PMC members have been added to the project. (In
Stratos, committers are also invited to join the PMC). Six Google
Hangouts were held in order to educate the community about the project &
the technical details/architecture in the project. A Cloud BarCamp is
being organized for end of October to enable the Stratos community
members as well as other Apache cloud project community members to meet
up & exchange ideas & build synergy. Community members have also written
several blog posts. The project has also seen a number of new
contributors who have started actively participating in the project.
How has the project developed since the last report?
Code has been refactored to get rid of non ASL 2.0 compatible third party
library dependencies. Package names have been changed. License files
added. Several bugs have been fixed. Builds have been made available for
review & testing. In anticipation of the first release, the project has
made available several RC packs to get community feedback. Documentation
has been added to the wiki. The project site has been properly setup. The
roadmap discussions are currently taking place on the dev list.
Date of last release:
- none -
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
2013-09-23
Signed-off-by:
[x](stratos) Afkham Azeez
[ ](stratos) Anthony Elder
[x](stratos) Chip Childers
[ ](stratos) Marlon Pierce
[ ](stratos) Mohammad Nour
[ ](stratos) Noah Slater
Shepherd notes:
Roman Shaposhnik (rvs):
Stratos appears in a solid shape and working on its first incubator
release. That said, their report is late which makes it difficult for
the shepherding work to feel complete. I will try to ping some of the
mentors.
Marvin Humphrey (marvin):
Report not filed in time for shepherd review.
--------------------
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. The third release candidate is currently up
for vote on vxquery-dev. So far there at 4 positive votes.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
We are still a little low on mentors, but since Ant Elder has agreed
to help out, the situation has improved.
How has the community developed since the last report?
Steven Jacobs has been voted in as a committer.
How has the project developed since the last report?
Benchmarking data and queries have been added to the project. A
number of issues discovered when running the benchmark have been fixed.
Steven contributed an integration with Lucene.
A new release candidate has been created and is currently being voted on.
Date of last release:
never
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
2013-09-19
Signed-off-by:
[ ](vxquery) Sanjiva Weerawarana
[ ](vxquery) Radu Preotiuc-Pietro
[x](vxquery) Jochen Wiedmann
[ ](vxquery) Ant Elder
Shepherd notes:
-----------------------------------------
Attachment U: 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
continue to slowly increase month-on-month.
This quarter we voted in a further new committer to Isis, Oscar Bou [1],
on 12 Aug 2013. Oscar was also voted to the PMC. We also voted our
previous two committers, Jeroen van der Wal and Maurizio Taverna, to the PMC
as well [1].
== Activity ==
This year Apache Isis took part in the Google Summer of Code [2]. We
accepted two students [3], [4], both working, respectively, on new viewers
for Isis [5], [6]. Both have successfully completed their
projects.
Because the students projects were standalone components, we decided that
they would work in their own github projects [7], [8] (while interacting on
the Isis dev mailing list, of course). Both have expressed a willingness to
continue with their projects after GSOC. We therefore intend to bring their
code into Isis codebase (both have completed ICLAs), such that they can
continue to develop through patches. If they do do this (given that they
are no longer being paid by Google!), then this will provide visibility to
the rest of the community such that we might vote them in as committers.
As noted in the previous report, I will be presenting on Apache Isis at the
Oredev conference in Oslo in Nov 2013 [9]. In addition, Isis has been
accepted for a presentation and a one-day tutorial slot at the UK's largest
developer conference, DevWeek, in Mar 2014 [10].
== Releases ==
Our last release was on 31 May 2013. We had expected to put out a further
release this quarter; instead it will be later this month (in time for the
Oredev presentation).
== Issues ==
There are no outstanding issues requiring board attention.
[1] http://isis.markmail.org/thread/cofzf4o2d6jdqzld
[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] https://github.com/DImuthuUpe/ISIS_Android_Viewer
[8] https://github.com/bhargavgolla/isisJavaScript
[9] http://oredev.org/2013/wed-fri-conference/rrraddd-ridiculously-rapid-
domain-driven-and-restful-apps-with-apache-isis
[10] http://www.devweek.com/
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Attachment V: Report from the Apache James Project [Eric Charles]
-----------------------------------------
Attachment W: 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 2.11.0 released on 2013-09-18
== PMC
PMC member last added: 26 January 2013
Committer last added: 16 August 2013
== Activity
dev@ list: 200-560 messages a month
users@ list: 200-450 messages a month
August was the busiest month on both users@ and dev@ since being at Apache.
== Community news
1/ The Jena GSoC project has successfully finished and the latest release
includes the new spatial indexing module.
2/ New website design contributed.
3/ 4 new modules in the last release from different contributors.
4/ The SDB module was mentioned last time as not seeing enough attention.
The dev community has decided to roll this into the main release process,
while it does not block a release, to reduce overhead. While it still has
users, none have come forward to actively maintain it so it remains "at
risk" of being moved to a separate area and not released any more.
-----------------------------------------
Attachment X: 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. We hope to release 2.10 soon.
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 are a few regular contributors who may be
suitable candidates for committership, pending discussion by the PMC.
There have been no changes to the PMC since it was established in October 2011.
We are looking into setting up a Twitter account.
There are no board level issues at this time
-----------------------------------------
Attachment Y: Report from the Apache JSPWiki Project [Juan Pablo Santos]
JSPWiki is a Java-based wiki engine
Anything the board should be aware of?
---------------------------------------
There are no Board-level issues at this time.
Releases / Development
----------------------
Last release on 15th May, 2013
Little activity regarding development this month.
Development has been mainly focused on setting up our public wikis,
which are near complete, pending for some redirections to be performed
at infra, cleaning up the website now that we're able to edit the
site, and fixing an issue regarding oscache to ehcache transition.
Community
---------
Last Committer: Glen Mazza (gmazza), on 04th Jan, 2013
Last PMC: Glen Mazza (gmazza), on 04th Jan, 2013
Almost silent month at dev@j.a.o, whereas user@j.a.o continues
with more or less the same amount of (little) activity
92 (+1) people subscribed to dev@j.a.o, 176 (+1) people subscribed at
user@j.a.o
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Attachment Z: 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
Version 0.3.3 was released on 05 Aug 2013.
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
* Started with migration to immutable strings.
* Renamed some variables generated by Clownfish.
* Moved some Lucy-specific code from Clownfish to Lucy.
* Made Clownfish modules ABI-compatible if methods or instance variables
are added or reordered.
Mailing lists
User list subscribers: 88 (+2)
Developer list subscribers: 65 (-1)
Judging by the number of messages, participation in the developer mailing
list decreased from the quarter before and was below average. Traffic on the
user list was up and 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 AA: Report from the Apache Mahout Project [Grant Ingersoll]
Apache Mahout has implementations of a wide range of machine learning and
data mining algorithms: clustering, classification, collaborative filtering
and frequent pattern mining
Project Status
--------------
The project continues to have a large and active user base and the developer
base continues to grow, as well.
Suneel Marthi was added to the PMC.
Community
---------
The third quarter of 2013 has seen continued activity on par with the
last report. We are primarily working on 0.9 release, some new
recommendation integration with Solr. The user list is quite
active with a mix of new and experienced users.
No new committers have been added since the last report.
If all goes well one of the committers will be having her first baby
early April 2014. Patches/commits from her will need some extra
careful review from the community. [Disclaimer: Due to timing issues
this amendment was added to the report after it was submitted by the
committer in question. Sorry for the additional noise.]
Community Objectives
--------------------
Our main focus is on cleanup and preparation of 0.9 and 1.0 releases, as
well as the usual bug fixes.
Releases
--------
None since last report. Next likely one is sometime between Nov. '13 and Jan. '14.
Issues
------
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
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Attachment AB: Report from the Apache Maven Project [Stephen Connolly]
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
We have begun reviewing our compliance with the ASF source header policy.
Counting the number of release roots we ended up at the number 108, after
retiring 3 components. Using Apache Rat we then determined that 72 of our
release roots did not fully comply with the source header policy. At the
time of writing we have pushed that number down to 31. Most of the
offending files so far have been in integration tests.
We are currently in discussion with the legal-discuss@a.o list to clarify
whether our understanding of the requirements for NOTICE and LICENSE files
in source control are aligned with legal's thinking. If our current
understanding proves to be at odds with legal's thinking then we may
have to ensure that there are NOTICE and LICENSE files checked in for
each and every module (i.e. not just the 108 release roots, but also each
sub-module of those release roots)
* New PMC Members
Jason van Zyl added as PMC member 19th September 2013
Last PMC member nominated: September 2013
* New Committers
Tibor Digana added as committer 6. September 2013
* Releases
* Core
* Apache Maven (3.1.1) (2013-10-04)
* Plugins
* Apache Maven Enforcer plugin (1.3.1) (2013-07-17)
* Apache Maven IDEA Plugin 2.2.1 (2013-07-26)
* Apache Maven One Plugin 1.3 (2013-07-30)
* Apache Maven Remote Resources Plugin 1.5 (2013-08-14)
* Apache Maven Install Plugin 2.5 (2013-09-06)
* Apache Maven Deploy Plugin 2.8 (2013-09-27)
* Other
* Apache Maven Enforcer API (1.3.1) (2013-07-17)
* Apache Maven Enforcer Standard Rules (1.3.1) (2013-07-17)
* Apache Maven Model Converter 2.3 (2013-07-26)
* Apache Maven Mapping 1.0 (2013-08-14)
* Apache Maven Surefire 2.16 (2013-08-17)
* Security
* Retired
* Apache Maven IDEA Plugin
* Apache Maven Model Converter
* Apache Maven One Plugin
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Attachment AC: Report from the Apache Mesos Project [Benjamin Hindman]
Apache Mesos is a cluster manager that provides resource sharing and
isolation across cluster applications.
## Releases ##
* Apache Mesos 0.14.0 (out for vote)
The primary feature in the 0.14.0 release is "slave recovery" which
allows slaves to restart (e.g., in order to upgrade, or after a
crash) to recover and "reconnect" with live executors/tasks. This was
a much anticpated feature that Twitter engineer and Mesos committer
Vinod Kone has been working on for a while.
Regarding releases, we plan to move to a model where the conversation
around releases will take place on a public JIRA ticket rather than
via release candidate tags. We hope this will bring more people into
the community and help them contribute to and vet releases.
## Community ##
* No new committers added in the past month. Last committer and PMC
member added on 2013-08-05. We have 2 contributors that we'll
likely be adding as committers imminently.
* 42/37 created/resolved JIRA issues in last 30 days.
* A meet up was hosted in Washington D.C. in early October.
* The Google Summer of Code project has concluded. The committers
used the contributions of the GSOC to complete the authentication
component of Mesos.
## Issues ##
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
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Attachment AD: 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.
-- Community --
* No new committers (last addition: June 2013). A discussion has been
started to add a new committer, but the potential candidate told us he
was not anymore using MINA, but just like to provide some help on the ML.
* No new PMC members (last addition: January 2010).
-- Current activity --
* Apache MINA :
* Very slow activity in the past two months
* A new release has been done for MINA 3.0, but a lot remains to be done
before we reach a RC
* MINA 2.0 deserves a new release, but we need some time to get it done
* Apache FtpServer:
* A lot of modifications have been injected in august this year, but no
release so far
* Apache SSHd:
* Some activity, with some pull requests
* A new release has been voted
* Apache Vysper :
* Slow quarter
* Apache AsyncWeb:
* No activity. This project is still dormant at this point.
-- Releases --
* One release for Apache MINA 3:
* Apache MINA 3.0.0-M2 (July 31th 2013)
* One release for Apache SSHd:
* Apache SSHd 0.9.0 (August 29th 2013)
* No releases for Apache FtpServer.
* No release for Apache Vysper.
* No releases for Apache AsyncWeb.
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Attachment AE: 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 Tobago 2.0.0 Alpha1 (6/August/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 AF: 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
No releases since the previous board report but quite a few bugfixes and
improvements, notably a contribution from Amazon for indexing to AWS
CloudSearch (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NUTCH-1517) (which needs
additional work) and a discussion on how to improve document deduplication
(https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NUTCH-656).
We are seeing contributions and bugfixes from new users.
COMMUNITY
No new committers/ PMC member since the previous report.
The traffic on the user and dev mailing lists has come back to its usual
levels after a few months of exceptional high activity.
A talk on Nutch by Julien Nioche has been accepted for Lucene/Solr
Revolution EU 2013.
DigitalPebble Ltd published a benchmark comparing the performance of both
versions of Nutch which should help improving Apache Gora and hence Nutch
2.x in the longer term.
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Attachment AG: 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
After a couple of rather quiet development periods, this one was pretty busy.
We were able to successfully cut our 1.3.6 release, the vote is still open but
it looks like everything is fine and we're looking forward that it will be
published in this reporting period.
RELEASE
Apache ODE 1.3.6 has been released (hopefully).
DEVELOPMENT
Main development focus was on the release. We have fixed 42 bugs in total,
some were bug fixes, some were minor to major improvements, some addressed
compatibility issues with recent ServiceMix versions. We have also addressed a
bunch of issues that have been discovered by Betsy, a BPEL standard compliance
testing tool, provided by the University of Bamberg. Besides of this, the
JACOB refactoring has been pushed forward as well.
COMMUNITY
Nothing to report. Last committer was added on Dec 10, 2012, last PMC member
was added on Jun 28, 2013.
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Attachment AH: Report from the Apache OpenJPA Project [Pinaki Poddar]
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Attachment AI: 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 ==
There are no outstanding releases. There might be also some more months to
come as the HTML5 rework has to be done step by step and is a major
component.
== Activity ==
There is constant activity in mailing list, jira and commits.
The main focus since the last report have been:
- Development of version 3.0 (HTML5 version) of OpenMeetings
- GSoC project (whiteboard)
- Advancing Test with UI Testing framework (Selenium)
== Community ==
There is a constant stream of new users, users that become developers and
developers that become PMCs.
Community statistics (as of 30th Sept 2013):
- 21 PMC members (+/- 0 since last report)
- 120 subscribers to dev list, (+8 since last report)
- 267 subscribers to user list, (+20 since last report)
- 808 issues in Jira in total, (+111 since last report)
- 669 of them are closed or resolve (+137 since last report)
== Infrastructure ==
There has been a spec for an OpenMeetings server discussed and approved in
the PMC and submitted to @Infra for review/approval.
(http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/openmeetings-dev/201309.mbox/%3CCACeMiA_fU8whT__%2BpxkGKnSm1-q-Bd9RMY5meWU%2Bm2oAgC%2BKWg%40mail.gmail.com%3E)
== Board ==
There are no outstanding issues requiring board attention.
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Attachment AJ: 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 hopes that a solution will be
found at the ASF level.
Community Development/Outreach Progress
---------------------------------------
The project added 3 committers (July: elish, christef; August: sebb)
since our last report in July. The last PMC addition is jani (April
2013).
The new committers span different areas of expertise, ranging from
QA to localization, recruitment of new volunteers, website updates
and procedural advice.
A new documentation effort for an end-users manual under the ALv2
licence is progressing well on the OpenOffice Wiki.
The OpenOffice forum infrastructure was successfully updated last
Summer. The OpenOffice custom infrastructure is now in a "minimal
maintenance" mode, and the project could benefit from more
volunteers helping with infrastructure work and more well-defined
processes for system administration. A proposal is currently under
preliminary discussion, with contributions from Infra.
Experimental solutions to make website translation easier are
being developed, with a couple of translated versions of the
website close to completion.
New versions of the Extensions and Templates sites, externally
hosted, were put online in the last months.
OpenOffice participated in the Google Summer of Code program for
the first time after several years.
OpenOffice was accepted for a track (devroom) at FOSDEM, a
major European free and open source software conference, to be held
1-2 February 2014 in Brussels, Belgium.
Community support forums remain popular with users: on the
English forum, registered users reached 60,000 on 17 September and
the forum hit 300 users online, a new traffic record.
The mailing lists for user support, localization, QA and marketing
are quite active. Activity in social media is progressing well. As
Apache OpenOffice is a client product, we continue to investigate
ways to direct users to appropriate support venues. The developer
(dev) list remains very active.
Product/Project Development Progress
------------------------------------
Apache OpenOffice 4.0 was released on 23 July 2013, followed by
another release, Apache OpenOffice 4.0.1, on October 1st.
Version 4.0 featured a new, more modern, user interface, a
reworked directory layout to simplify development and installation,
code updates to allow building on newer platforms and 23 languages.
Version 4.0.1 added 9 languages (some of which hadn't been updated
in years) and important bugfixes. The additional translations were
made possible by the community growth and the availability of new
volunteers.
Activities that are already ongoing for the next release include:
the rejuvenate01 branch, to explore using native platform
capabilities and libraries for building; the IA2 accessibility work;
actions for an easier installation and availability on mainstream
Linux distributions; a new localization process, now progressing in
the l10n40 branch; a build approach that is progressively dropping
the historical dmake in favor of GNU make.
The download trend remains very strong, with over 70 million
downloads of Apache OpenOffice so far.
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Attachment AK: 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 March 2013
there weren't any changes so far.
404 (364 last report) subscribers on the user@ list
160 (156 last report) 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:
------------
Most likely the next bugfix version 1.8.3 will be released this quarter. We
already started making the preparations.
The work on our next major release just started. The main topics are:
- switch to java 1.6
- modularization
- replace/enhance the parser
- refactor the underlying COS model
- code cleanup
- enhance rendering
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Attachment AL: Report from the Apache Perl Project [Philippe M. Chiasson]
-- mod_perl 1.0 --
The mod_perl 1.x is a maintenance track designed to work with httpd
1.3.x.
No new mod_perl 1.x releases since the last report.
--- mod_perl 2.0 --
mod_perl 2.X is designed to work with all httpd 2.X branches.
Work to fully support httpd-2.4 is moving along.
--- Apache-Test --
Apache-Test provides a framework which allows module writers to write
test suites than can query a running mod_perl enabled server. It is
used by mod_perl, httpd and several third party applications, and
includes support for Apache modules written in C, mod_perl, PHP
and Parrot.
Apache-Test 1.38 was released on August 6th, 2012
No new Apache-Test releases since the last report.
--- Apache-SizeLimit --
Apache-SizeLimit is a popular component in most mod_perl production
environments. It is used to kill off large httpd child processes
based on various environmental triggers.
No new Apache-SizeLimit releases since the last report.
--- Apache-Bootstrap --
Apache-Bootstrap is a framework to make it easier to build perl
module distributions for different mod_perl versions. It encapsulates
code developed over the years by mod_perl developers to make
maintaining Apache::* and Apache2::* modules in the same distribution easy.
No new Apache-Bootstrap releases since the last report.
--- Apache-Reload --
Apache-Reload is a popular component in most mod_perl development
environments, used to refresh compiled code in the perl interpreter
without completely restarting httpd.
Apache-Reload 0.12 was released on March 31st, 2012
No new Apache-Reload releases since the last report.
-- Apache-DBI --
Apache-DBI is a popular component in many mod_perl deployments. It
is used to provide transparent database connection pooling to clients
using DBI.
Apache-DBI 1.12 was released on June 12nd, 2013
No new Apache-DBI releases since the last report.
-- Development --
mod_perl continues to be a healthy development community, though
as a mature and stable product development moves at a naturally
slower pace than in years past. Bugs are found and discussed and
applied with due consideration for our production userbase.
The httpd-2.4 branch has generated more activity recently, with more users
reporting a desire to have mod_perl for it.
mod_perl 2.0.8 was released on April 17th 2013
-- Users --
The mod_perl users list is seeing an increase in activity, with a few bug
reports and user questions.
More patches for httpd-2.4 are making their way into trunk. Also, more patches
to keep supporting newer Perls have landed.
-- PMC --
This report was late being submitted, apologies to the board for the tardiness..
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Attachment AM: 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 development list has seen quite a lot of posts from new individuals
looking to contribute. User's list remains fairly light in traffic.
A few of the original PMC members have elected to go emeritus.
COMMITTER/PMC CHANGES
08/29/13 - Dan Gornstein was added as a new committer & PMC member.
RELEASES
07/13/13 - 0.22 released.
ACTIVITY
Development has been focused on a new UI driven by AngularJS. We hope
to reintegrate the branch within the next couple of months and will
perform a release of the current state of trunk before reintegration.
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Attachment AN: Report from the Apache Shindig Project [Ryan Baxter]
Apache Shindig is an Opensocial Reference implementation in wide use by
both social networks and enterprise software. Shindig graduated from the
Incubator in January 2010.
ISSUES:
* The Shindig PMC has no issues that require board attention.
COMMUNITY:
* Mailing list traffic and contributions remain steady
COMMITTER/PMC CHANGES:
* No new PMC members or committers were approved.
* Ryan Baxter was appointed the PMC Chair.
* Jesse Ciancetta has requested to go emeritus.
* The last PMC addition (Stanton Sievers, Dan Dumont, Jesse Ciancetta)
was made on 2011-11-29.
RELEASES:
* Working towards a 2.5.0-update1 release. This should be completed before the next report.
* The last release was Shindig 2.5.0 on 2013-08-04.
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Attachment AO: Report from the Apache SpamAssassin Project [Kevin A. McGrail]
SpamAssassin is a mail filter to identify spam. It is an intelligent email
filter which uses a diverse range of tests to identify unsolicited bulk email,
more commonly known as Spam. These tests are applied to email headers and
content to classify email using advanced statistical methods. In addition,
SpamAssassin has a modular architecture that allows other technologies to be
quickly wielded against spam and is designed for easy integration into
virtually any email system.
Releases
--------
Release of version 3.4.0 is still imminent. The latest release candidates
were created Jun 20th and Oct 10th.
Our rules releases have been much more consistent with 62 nightly rule
collections published since 8/9 which is a perfect record!
No other releases for this quarter.
3.4.0 will be a major release. It introduces nearly two years of bug fixes
and features including the Bayes Redis back-end (bug 6879), eDNS changes (bug
6910), Native IPv6 Support, numerous URIBL.pm changes/features and a small API
change in libspamc (bug 6562) with many other subtle changes.
Overall, this release has been tested in many production-level environments
for nearly a year. It is highly recommended and stable.
Community & Development
-----------------------
Our RuleQA dev list has been active and community support is good allowing the
project to publish rules more consistently. We have had much fewer problems
this quarter getting rules published nightly!
The project users' list is active; questions get asked and answered.
The project dev list has been active with both committers and community
members contributing.
Need to migrate our website to svnpubsub. Bug 6885. We may have a volunteer
for this task!
Need to migrate our zones and zones2 server off of Solaris to yet to be
determined resource. Bug 6886.
Need to get our Jenkins build slave working under FreeBSD instead of Solaris1.
Bug 6887. Need access to the box to figure out what is killing it on the
build slave.
Project Branding Requirements
-----------------------------
None
Issues
------
None
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Attachment AP: 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 1.4.4, released on
July 31, 2013 from the trunk.
* Work has started towards the next release version 1.99.3, to be
released from the sqoop2 branch.
CURRENT ACTIVITY
* Development activity continues on both trunk as well as sqoop2
branches.
* A total of 49 issues have been resolved between the period starting
from July 17, 2013 to October 8, 2013.
* In the past three months, a total of 406 messages were exchanged on the
user list and a total of 1363 messages were exchanged on the dev list.
COMMUNITY
* Last addition to committers was on June 20, 2013 when Hari Shreedharan and
Venkat Ranganathan joined as committers.
* Last appointment to Sqoop PMC was done on September 22, 2012 with
Kathleen Ting joining the PMC.
* A Sqoop meetup is being planned around the venue of Strata Hadoop World
2013 conference in New York on October 28, 2013.
* Currently there are:
- Total of 293 subscribers to the user list
- Total of 124 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 AQ: 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
* Activity has slowed down quite a bit since last report. However,
the project has been referred to by other external entities
looking for STV voting tools.
COMMUNITY
* Since the last report, when we added 2 new committers, there has
been no change.
ISSUES
* There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
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Attachment AR: Report from the Apache Struts Project [Rene Gielen]
Apache Struts is an action-based Java web application framework.
The Struts team made two releases in the last quarter:
* Struts 2.3.15.1 - critical security fix release (2013-07-16)
* Struts 2.3.15.2 - security fix release (2013-09-20)
In the last quarter we had to deal with various security issues, including a
severe code execution vulnerability that led to the release of Struts
2.3.15.1. The said release was prepared with highest priority and published
in coordination with a well known company whose products were partly
affected by this vulnerability. Nevertheless, we heard a lot of news that
many high profile Struts 2 adopters did not update in a timely manner,
leading to successful hacking attacks by exploiting the said vulnerability.
In coordination with the Apache Security Team we adjusted our vulnerability
disclosure procedure to not include detailed information such as proof of
concept examples, at least within a reasonable waiting period after the
release date.
Again all involved Struts developers along with the reporters of said issues
did a great job regarding analysis, resolving and releasing in a timely
manner.
In the last quarter we saw constant community activity on the mailing lists
and issue tracker. The development activity was noticeably influenced by
resources being busy with security topics, leading to slightly slowed down
development on new features.
A group of Struts PMC members, most notably Christian Grobmeier, organized
an open Struts hackathon in Augsburg, Germany, in cooperation with the local
Java User Group. The two-day event started on 2013-09-06 with a mini
conference which was overwhelmingly attended. On day two we had a hackathon
featuring three Struts PMC member, some Struts adopters and people being
just curious about Struts and open source development. All in all the event
was huge success.
Our fellow PMC member Łukasz Lenart is currently organizing a similar event
in Warsaw, Poland, in cooperation with the Warsaw Java User Group.
We have no issues that require Board assistance at this time.
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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.
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
Community:
+ Rivet
Community: The membership of the rivet-dev mailing list slightly grew
lately and we get a few bug reports every month. Traffic on the list is
low but new threads are started at a rather steady pace (~100 messages
after last report). We are actively committed to respond to every new
issue opened on bugzilla.
+ Websh: no relevant activity to be reported
Latest Additions:
We last voted in a committer and PMC member on Sept. 2012 (Harald Oehlmann)
Releases:
We have released Rivet 2.1.3 on October 1st with a few bug fixes and
some enhancements.
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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
---------
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 53 new tickets created and 33 tickets resolved. We are seeing
an increase in github pull requests from new contributors interested in helping
in several different client libraries.
Community
---
Latest Additions:
* PMC addition: Jens Geyer, 5.02.2013
* Contributor addition: Ben Craig, 8.23.2013
Mailing list activity since last report:
* @dev 1151 messages
* @user 166 messages
Releases
---
Last release: 0.9.1, Release Date: Aug 21, 2013
As we progress towards our 1.0 release we have decided to create a 0.9.2
release which will focus on unit testing and our cross language test suite.
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Attachment AV: Report from the Apache Tika Project [Dave Meikle]
What is Tika?
=========================
Apache Tika is a dynamic toolkit for content detection, analysis, and
extraction. It allows a user to understand, and leverage information from, a
growing a list over 1200 different file types including most of the major
types in existence (MS Office, Adobe, Text, Images, Video, Code, and science
data) as recognised by IANA and other standards bodies.
Issues
=========================
There are no issues that need the boards attention.
Releases
=========================
The last release (1.4) was made in July 2013 and work is currently underway
on version 1.5 with 23 issues currently resolved, comprising a mixture of
bug fixes and new features.
Community
=========================
The Tika PMC added Tim Allison as a committer and PMC Member in July 2013.
Chris Mattmann has won a National Science Foundation proposal for a project
at the University of Southern California to deliver an open source framework
for metadata exploration, automatic text mining and information retrieval of
polar data using Apache Tika[1].
Mailing list activity on dev@ was at 103, 86 and 29 messages in August,
September and October 2013, respectively. user@ was at 4, 18 and 0 messages,
during the same timeframe.
[1] http://s.apache.org/QqY
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Attachment AW: Report from the Apache Tiles Project [Greg Reddin]
General:
Apache Tiles is a templating framework built to simplify the
development of web application user interfaces.
Tiles continues to be one of those projects with very little development
activity but a decent-sized user base. There does not seem to be much momentum
for future development with the project. Questions are continuing to be answered
and the PMC continues to be responsive to requests that come in. The existing
community has been in place for several years now, moving at a slow pace. I see
no reason to believe that will change anytime soon.
Releases:
There have been no releases this quarter. The last Tiles release was in Q2 2013
when we released the Tiles Request library 1.0.3 Beta.
Community:
There have been no changes to the Tiles community in this quarter.
The last addition to the PMC was in April, 2012.
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Attachment AX: Report from the Apache TomEE Project [David Blevins]
Apache TomEE delivers enterprise application containers and services based on,
but not limited to the Enterprise JavaBeans Specification and Java Enterprise
Edition Specifications.
Demand for the 1.6.0 is quite high with 2 or 3 requests a week. Development
of features has slowed, bug fixes still remain quite high and the codebase is
nearing release quality. The last remaining details are waiting for the
dependencies in snapshot form to be released. Most snapshot dependencies have
been resolved to their related released versions in the last two months. The
last remaining dependency is OpenJPA 2.3.0 snapshot, which should hopefully be
ready for release at some point soon.
Work on an administration console has revived, which is a frequently requested
feature. The new effort is more or less a "from scratch" effort and shows
great promise. Exploratory work has also started in the community on adding
support for TomEE in Microsoft Azure.
Java EE 7 is still highly demanded. I spoke with a few people at Oracle while
at JavaOne and expressed some of the concerns about communities retaining
control of projects and more. At individual levels, everyone I spoke with is
very open to finding common ground and willing to compromise. My personal
take: the will is definitely there.
Last release was 1.5.2 in April. Last committer was added 2011-12-14. Last
PMC addition was 2010-08-26.
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Attachment AY: 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
======
There are no issues that needs the board's attention.
Community
=========
One new committer (and PMC) member joined our ranks, bringing it to a total
of 34 currently active committers. Our primary mailing lists are seeing more
activity, and more new subscribers than normal:
users@ - 388 subscribers (up 12.5% since last report)
dev@ - 252 subscribers (up 6.5% since last report)
In Jira, 226 new tickets were created, and 171 were resolved or closed since
the last board report. 425 changes were committed to our git repository from
25 contributors.
The project made the "Apache Software Foundation: 10 Projects That Are
Making a Difference" EWeek article.
Yahoo! officially announced their intention to once again become a large,
active contributor to the project. The community is very excited to see
Yahoo! return, with all their expertise and experienced developers.
Events
======
A BarCamp was held July 9-10th in Denver. This was received as an overall
positive experience, and as such, we're doing it again. October 16-17 we'll
hold our 2013 Fall Summit, hosted by Yahoo! More information is available at
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/TS/Fall+2013+Summit
The tentatively planned BarCamp in China was unfortunately canceled. We hope
to revisit this next year.
Releases
========
Three releases were made in the last quarter, 1 development and two stable
releases. This includes the latest, new stable release, v4.0.1.
Apache Traffic Server v4.0.1
Apache Traffic Server v3.2.5
Apache Traffic Server v3.3.5
This also marks a major update to our release process. For more details, see
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/TS/Release+Management. Some
highlights from this are:
* Strict Semantic Versioning. Upgrading within a major version is always
compatible from APIs, ABIs and configurations perspective.
* Patch releases (e.g. v4.0.2) are made for security and critical bugs.
* All releases are considered stable (i.e. no more development release).
* Quarterly minor releases, on fixed schedules (May, Aug, Nov and Feb).
* Major releases at the most once a year, but could be longer.
Upcoming releases include
* Imminent: v4.0.2, fixing 4 critical bugs in v4.0.1.
* November: v4.1.0
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Attachment AZ: Report from the Apache Web Services Project [Sagara Gunathunga]
Releases within this quarter:
* WSS4J 1.6.12 (RM - Colm O hEigeartaigh)
Last releases for other subprojects:
* Axiom : Dec 2012
* XmlSchema : July 2012
* Neethi : April 2012
* Woden : Feb 2011
* XML-RPC : Feb 2010
Community and development:
* WS community decided to disconnect development on WSS4J 1.5.x branch due to inactivity.
* Last committer addition - in 2011, Last PMC member addition - in 2010
(Note - Few weeks ago WS PMC has voted Marc Giger to become a PMC member at
the moment we are waiting for his acceptance. )
WSS4J - 46 commits by 2 committers.
Axiom - 27 commits by 1 committer.
Neethi - 4 commits by 1 committer.
xmlschema - 0 commits
Woden - 0 commits
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 BA: 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
Wookie 0.15 was released on 23rd September 2013.
ACTIVITY
We've handled user enquiries and had a small number of new bug reports
relating to support for Websphere. Overall traffic has been quite low
over the summer months.
COMMUNITY
Our last committer added was Steve Lee on 21st February, 2013.
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End of minutes for the October 16, 2013 board meeting.
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