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Board of Directors Meeting Minutes
November 20, 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
Brett Porter
Sam Ruby
Directors Absent:
Greg Stein
Executive Officers Present:
Ross Gardler
Rich Bowen
Craig L Russell
Executive Officers Absent:
none
Guests:
Sean Kelly
Daniel Gruno
Lewis John McGibbney
Marvin Humphrey
Hadrian Zbarcea
Noah Slater
Daniel Kulp
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 October 16, 2013
See: board_minutes_2013_10_16.txt
Approved by General Consent.
4. Executive Officer Reports
A. Chairman [Brett]
Over the last month, we've seen a number of threads spill over to the
board mailing list, which were at times quite heated. These all appear
to have been resolved, with the relevant committees able to take the
next action where necessary. One encouragement I took from the
threads was seeing a few new faces among our members and officers
contributing helpfully.
The status of the audit, which we discussed last month, remains a
prominent topic. It appears positioned well to move forward.
Overall, projects at the ASF are going well and the reports list no
major issues. Information on community health in the reports is
steadily improving.
B. President [Ross]
A whirlwind month for me personally, but good progress is being made
across the foundation.
EVP has made some good progress on ApacheCon negotiations, although LF
are now asking for a long running contract. This is understandable since
we are not taking any financial responsibility for the event. However,
we need to discuss the implications of this. Rich intends to raise this
during the board meeting.
Martin van den Bemt has uploaded the videos from the previous two Apache
Cons to YouTube. He was assisted by many people but the vast majority
of the work was done by Martin. This was no easy task for a number of
technical reasons along with a significant time investment. Thank you
Martin.
EA and VP Fundraising have successfully cleared the fundraising backlog
(with help from others). Thank you to Upayavira for firstly reaching out
for help when it was needed and secondly helping Melissa be productive in
this role. Focus is now turning to making it easier for additional
volunteers to take on specific fundraising activities. This is
centering around adding further detail to the process documents drawn
up by Upayavira and Melissa.
VP Fundraising is considering some new fundraising activities (see
Attachment 3). I have asked Upayavira to provide an outline of his
proposal and will provide some initial feedback before bringing it to
the board for consideration. As ever early feedback is welcome.
Thanks also go out to Chris and Upayavira for finally resolving the
PayPal issues. We also have (thanks to Phil Steitz) an alternative
payment method through Amazon.
EA has also made good progress merging her observations with respect
to trademark handling with the documentation VP Brand Management has
been creating. The next step is to ensure there are clear boundaries
between "first level support", i.e. activities that anyone can
undertake and more sensitive issues that require careful handling.
This will reduce some workload but as Shane observes the bigger
problem is "the growth and popularity of our 130+ projects". I intend
to work with Shane and Melissa to address this growing problem in the
coming months.
Jim has stepped up to lead the Audit process with EA and Treasurer
available to assist. As far as I am aware work has not yet commenced
but I will be asking Melissa for a weekly update so that I can assist
in any way appropriate.
I have sent a proposal to the board (privately) to change Melissa's
contract to increase her hours to accommodate the
increasing workload she is taking on. I encourage the board to consider
this in light of Melissa's critical role in reducing the fundraising
backlog and ongoing efforts to identify additional supporting roles for
our volunteers. I welcome suggestions from the board about how best to
use this time and will continue to report plans as appropriate. The
initial use of this time will be to accelerate the Event in a Box work
and to ensure sufficient time is available to assist with the Audit.
I signed an NDA with Symantec with respect to infra's code signing work.
I'm aware that my reports have been at the last minute (including this
one). I've agreed with our Chair that my reports will be submitted the
weekend before the board meeting in future.
Additionally, please see Attachments 1 through 6.
C. Treasurer [Chris]
VP, Fundraising the EA and Treasurer's Office worked together to
fix an issue with PayPal that was preventing our donations from
going through. The issue is addressed now and the Treasurer has an
action item in progress to move the majority of our PayPal funds
into our WFS account.
Treasurer's Office confirmed payment made to PR Newswire account
at request of VP, Press/Marketing. In addition, responded to several
requests from EA to confirm sponsor delivery of funds on several
fundraising items.
Phil Steitz worked with VP, Fundraising and Treasurer's Office and
led the way to set up Amazon Simple Pay as another mechanism outside
of PayPal for receiving donations.
An audit list is being set up and will be used for communications
related to the impending audit. Jim Jagielski will lead the audit
and push it forward.
Income and Expenses
Current Balances:
Wells Fargo Business Checking: 902,869.44
Wells Fargo Savings: 287,791.84
PayPal: 183,800.24
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Total $ 1,374,461.52
Income Summary:
Lockbox 696.05
Fundraising 169,950.00
Paypal 40.00
misc deposits 2,205.00
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Total $ 172,891.05
Expense Summary:
Category Amount
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EA 7,107.90
Press 13,590.90
Trademarks 2,205.00
hardware 28,450.00
Sysadmin 65,433.33
misc expense 285.57
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Total $ 117,072.70
Amazon payments are not reflected anywhere since this is a new
account and the report reflects activity through the end of
October. Seems like a lot of money in checking not earning any
interest. AI: Chris look into getting a better rate of return
on the assets of the corporation.
D. Secretary [Craig]
October was another busy month for Secretary. There were 76 iclas, nine cclas, and four
grants received and filed.
E. Executive Vice President [Rich]
I'd like to give a verbal report on the progress of ApacheCon,
as I should be receiving some information on Monday or Tuesday,
making it difficult to get a report in on time.
Draft agreement for ApacheCon run by the Linux Foundation is
not yet available. Could not find a venue in Las Vegas; a
venue is on hold for Denver for the 2014 conference.
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 / Roy]
See Attachment 7
B. Apache Legal Affairs Committee [Sam Ruby]
See Attachment 8
C. Apache Security Team Project [Mark Cox / Jim]
See Attachment 9
Additional officer reports approved as submitted by General Consent.
6. Committee Reports
A. Apache Abdera Project [Ant Elder / Doug]
No report was submitted.
B. Apache Ant Project [Conor MacNeill / Chris]
See Attachment B
C. Apache Any23 Project [Michele Mostarda / Greg]
See Attachment C
D. Apache Attic Project [Gianugo Rabellino / Shane]
See Attachment D
AI Chris: When was the last PMC member added?
E. Apache Avro Project [Scott Carey / Bertrand]
See Attachment E
AI Bertrand: please submit a more complete report next month.
F. Apache Buildr Project [Alex Boisvert / Brett]
See Attachment F
G. Apache Cassandra Project [Jonathan Ellis / Sam]
See Attachment G
H. Apache Chukwa Project [Eric Yang / Shane]
See Attachment H
I. Apache Clerezza Project [Hasan Hasan / Jim]
See Attachment I
J. Apache Click Project [Malcolm Edgar / Roy]
No report was submitted.
AI: Brett: look at project to see if it is still viable.
K. Apache Cocoon Project [Thorsten Scherler / Chris]
See Attachment K
L. Apache Community Development Project [Luciano Resende / Doug]
See Attachment L
M. Apache Continuum Project [Brent Atkinson / Bertrand]
No report was submitted.
AI: Bertrand to pursue a report for Continuum
N. Apache CouchDB Project [Jan Lehnardt / Sam]
See Attachment N
O. Apache Creadur Project [Robert Burrell Donkin / Greg]
See Attachment O
P. Apache Curator Project [Jordan Zimmerman / Brett]
See Attachment P
Q. Apache DeltaSpike Project [Mark Struberg / Brett]
See Attachment Q
R. Apache DirectMemory Project [Raffaele P. Guidi / Jim]
See Attachment R
S. Apache Empire-db Project [Francis De Brabandere / Chris]
See Attachment S
T. Apache Etch Project [Martin Veith / Greg]
See Attachment T
U. Apache Flume Project [Arvind Prabhakar / Shane]
See Attachment U
V. Apache Forrest Project [David Crossley / Roy]
See Attachment V
W. Apache Giraph Project [Avery Ching / Doug]
See Attachment W
X. Apache Gora Project [Lewis John McGibbney / Sam]
See Attachment X
Y. Apache Hama Project [Edward J. Yoon / Bertrand]
See Attachment Y
Z. Apache HTTP Server Project [Eric Covener / Doug]
See Attachment Z
AA. Apache HttpComponents Project [Asankha Perera / Chris]
See Attachment AA
AB. Apache Incubator Project [Marvin Humphrey / Bertrand]
See Attachment AB
AC. Apache James Project [Eric Charles / Shane]
See Attachment AC
AD. Apache jclouds Project [Andrew Bayer / Brett]
See Attachment AD
AE. Apache jUDDI Project [Kurt Stam / Jim]
See Attachment AE
AF. Apache Kafka Project [Jun Rao / Greg]
See Attachment AF
AG. Apache Lenya Project [Richard Frovarp / Roy]
See Attachment AG
AH. Apache Libcloud Project [Tomaz Muraus / Sam]
See Attachment AH
AI. Apache Logging Project [Christian Grobmeier / Doug]
See Attachment AI
AJ. Apache ManifoldCF Project [Karl Wright / Jim]
See Attachment AJ
AK. Apache Oltu Project [Antonio Sanso / Chris]
See Attachment AK
AL. Apache Oozie Project [Mohammad Islam / Sam]
See Attachment AL
AM. Apache OpenJPA Project [Pinaki Poddar / Greg]
See Attachment AM
AN. Apache Perl Project [Philippe M. Chiasson / Shane]
See Attachment AN
AO. Apache POI Project [Yegor Kozlov / Brett]
See Attachment AO
AP. Apache Qpid Project [Gordon Sim / Roy]
See Attachment AP
AQ. Apache River Project [Greg Trasuk / Bertrand]
See Attachment AQ
AR. Apache Roller Project [Dave Johnson / Greg]
See Attachment AR
AS. Apache Santuario Project [Colm O hEigeartaigh / Brett]
See Attachment AS
AT. Apache SIS Project [Adam Estrada / Chris]
See Attachment AT
AU. Apache Subversion Project [Greg Stein]
No report was submitted.
AV. Apache Syncope Project [Francesco Chicchiricco / Shane]
See Attachment AV
AW. Apache Tapestry Project [Howard M. Lewis Ship / Bertrand]
See Attachment AW
AX. Apache Turbine Project [Thomas Vandahl / Sam]
See Attachment AX
AY. Apache Tuscany Project [Jean-Sebastien Delfino / Doug]
See Attachment AY
AZ. Apache Velocity Project [Nathan Bubna / Jim]
See Attachment AZ
BA. Apache Xalan Project [Steven J. Hathaway / Roy]
See Attachment BA
BB. Apache Xerces Project [Michael Glavassevich / Jim]
See Attachment BB
BC. Apache XML Graphics Project [Chris Bowditch / Roy]
See Attachment BC
Committee reports approved as submitted by General Consent.
7. Special Orders
A. Change the Apache Commons Project Chair
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Luc
Maisonobe to the office of Vice President, Apache Commons, and
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation
of Luc Maisonobe from the office of Vice President, Apache
Commons, and
WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Commons
project has chosen by vote to recommend Gary Gregory as the
successor to the post;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Luc Maisonobe is relieved
and discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office
of Vice President, Apache Commons, and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Gary Gregory be and hereby is
appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Commons, to
serve in accordance with and subject to the direction of the
Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until
death, resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification, or
until a successor is appointed.
Special Order 7A, Change the Apache Commons Project Chair, was
approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
B. Change the Apache Vice President of Legal Affairs
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Sam Ruby to the
office of Vice President, Legal Affairs, and
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of
Sam Ruby from the office of Vice President, Legal Affairs, and
WHEREAS, Sam Ruby has recommended Jim Jagielski as the successor to
the post;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Sam Ruby is relieved and
discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice
President, Legal Affairs, and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Jim Jagielski be and hereby is appointed
to the office of Vice President, Legal Affairs, to serve in
accordance with and subject to the direction of the Board of
Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until death, resignation,
retirement, removal or disqualification, or until a successor is
appointed.
Special Order 7B, Change the Apache Vice President of Legal
Affairs, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors
present.
C. Establish the Apache Marmotta 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 an open platform for Linked Data.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management
Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Apache Marmotta Project",
be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the
Foundation; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the Apache Marmotta Project be and hereby is
responsible for the creation and maintenance of software
related to an open platform for Linked Data;
and be it further
RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache Marmotta" 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 Marmotta Project, and to have primary responsibility
for management of the projects within the scope of
responsibility of the Apache Marmotta 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 Marmotta Project:
* Peter Ansell <ansell@apache.org>
* Fabian Christ <fchrist@apache.org>
* Sergio Fernández <wikier@apache.org>
* Jakob Frank <jakob@apache.org>
* Dietmar Glachs <dglachs@apache.org>
* Thomas Kurz <tkurz@apache.org>
* Nandana Mihindukulasooriya <nandana@apache.org>
* Raffaele Palmieri <rpalmieri@apache.org>
* Sebastian Schaffert <sschaffert@apache.org>
* Rupert Westenthaler <rwesten@apache.org>
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Jakob Frank
be appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Marmotta, to
serve in accordance with and subject to the direction of the
Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until
death, resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification,
or until a successor is appointed; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the Apache Marmotta Project be and hereby
is tasked with the migration and rationalization of the Apache
Incubator Marmotta podling; and be it further
RESOLVED, that all responsibilities pertaining to the Apache
Incubator Marmotta podling encumbered upon the Apache Incubator
Project are hereafter discharged.
Special Order 7C, Establish the Apache Marmotta Project, was
approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
D. Establish the Apache Ambari 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 Hadoop cluster management.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management
Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Apache Ambari Project",
be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the
Foundation; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the Apache Ambari Project be and hereby is
responsible for the creation and maintenance of software
related to Hadoop cluster management;
and be it further
RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache Ambari" 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 Ambari Project, and to have primary responsibility
for management of the projects within the scope of
responsibility of the Apache Ambari 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 Ambari Project:
* Babiichuk Andriy (ababiichuk)
* Arun Murthy (acmurthy)
* Aleksandr Kovalenko (akovalenko)
* Antonenko Aleksandr Igorevich (alexantonenko)
* Andrii Tkach (atkach)
* Bernd Fondermann (berndf)
* Billie Rinaldi (billie)
* Christopher Douglas (cdouglas)
* Chad Roberts (croberts)
* Devaraj Das (ddas)
* Dmitry Lysnichenko (dmitriusan)
* Dmytro Sen (dsen)
* Eric Yang (eyang)
* Hitesh Shah (hitesh)
* Jagane Sundar (jagane)
* Jaimin Jetly (jaimin)
* Jitendra Pandey (jitendra)
* John Speidel (jspeidel)
* Kan Zhang (kzhang)
* Mahadev Konar (mahadev)
* Papirkovskyy Myroslav (mpapirkovskyy)
* Nate Cole (ncole)
* Oleksandr Diachenko (odiachenko)
* Owen O’Malley (omalley)
* Oleg Nechiporenko (onechiporenko)
* Ramya Sunil (ramya)
* Varun Kapoor (reznor)
* Subin Modeel (subin)
* Sumit Mohanty (smohanty)
* Srimanth Gunturi (srimanth)
* Siddharth Wagle (swagle)
* Thomas Beerbower (tbeerbower)
* Suhas (vgogate)
* Vikram Dixit K (vikram)
* Vinod Kumar Vavilapalli (vinodkv)
* Xi Wang (xiwang)
* Yusaku Sako (yusaku)
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Yusaku Sako
be appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Ambari, 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 Ambari PMC be and hereby is
tasked with the creation of a set of bylaws intended to
encourage open development and increased participation in the
Apache Ambari Project; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the Apache Ambari Project be and hereby
is tasked with the migration and rationalization of the Apache
Incubator Ambari podling; and be it further
RESOLVED, that all responsibilities pertaining to the Apache
Incubator Ambari podling encumbered upon the Apache Incubator
Project are hereafter discharged.
Special Order 7D, Establish the Apache Ambari Project, was
approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
8. Discussion Items
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.
* Greg: discuss "extras" issue with OpenOffice PMC and see if there is
to be done at the "ASF level"
Status:
* Sam/MarkT: Make formal statement regarding TCK access.
Status: Done. http://s.apache.org/IOR
* Sam: see whether there is continuing development and goals for Whirr
Status:
* Chris: follow up on future of the Any23
Status: Worked with Lewis to engage Tika community. Any23 just made
a release, primarily led by Lewis. Any23 has life and will
continue to monitor it.
* Brett: ask for community health information from Aries in next report
Status:
* Greg: pursue a report for Attic
Status: report is there
* Chris: follow up on bringing on new committers and PMC members to DB
Status: No progress yet.
* Roy: pursue a more complete report for Tapestry
Status: report is there
10. Unfinished Business
11. New Business
12. Announcements
13. Adjournment
Adjourned at 11:27 a.m. (Pacific)
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ATTACHMENTS:
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Attachment 1: Report from the Executive Assistant [Melissa Warnkin]
* Daily monitoring of all email activity (ea@, fundraising@, trademarks@,
treasurer@, comdev@, and board@) and following-up with appropriate personnel
* Fundraising:
* Fundraising has been progressing very well. The backlog of sponsorship
renewal invoices to be sent out have all been sent out, so now it's a
more manageable system of "maintaining".
* Upayavira and I have agreed upon a three-strike system.
1) Renewal invoice sent out;
2) send a f/u email three weeks after the invoice was sent for a status
update;
3) three weeks after the first reminder, another reminder will go out
for another status update. In this reminder, we will be advising
them that their sponsorship info will be removed from the "thanks"
page as a sponsor.
* The "How-To" manual continues to be a WIP; we (Upayavira and I) add to
this document as we go along.
* ApacheCon:
* Progressing well - Rich will provide more information
* Treasurer's Office:
* Will be creating a "How-To" manual for the Treasurer's Office (this has
been put as a low priority for now)
* Will be assisting in the Audit in parallel with taking notes to incorporate
into the manual
* Weekly status calls with Ross and Rich
* Event-in-a-Box:
* Received a lot of valuable feedback from the community
* Started a "How To Guide"
* Will need two boxes; one for the US, and one for the UK
* Will be getting an estimate for materials of two boxes (minimal list and
maximum list); the estimate will also include shipping/insurance
charges, etc.
* ApacheCon EU & NA videos:
* The recordings from Portland are done and posted online at
http://www.youtube.com/user/TheApacheFoundation
* Martin working on the ApacheCon EU (Germany) videos
* Trademarks:
* Working with Shane to create a "How-To" manual for Trademarks
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Attachment 2: Report from the VP of Brand Management [Shane Curcuru]
No current board level issues.
Stepped up trademark enforcements for several projects with good results.
Added ea@ to the trademarks@ list and reviewed our two runbooks as we
start to find ways the EA can assist with organizing answering issues
on trademarks@.
Sent [ACTION] Review your Apache project's brand use to pmcs@ with
pointers to various updated and clarified PMC-related branding
requirements to ensure that PMCs are aware of their responsibilities.
Oddly, there were no comments directed back to trademarks@.
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Attachment 3: Report from the VP of Fundraising [Upayavira]
The main thing to report this month is that Melissa has got a handle on
contacting our outstanding bronze/silver sponsors. This is excellent,
as we can now be sure that things will progress as they need to with the
necessary follow through.
We shall contact sponsors three times, and if we hear nothing, we shall
be removing people from the thanks page.
As noted in the treasurer's report, we also managed to resolve the
issue at PayPal, meaning funds are flowing into paypal once more. Thanks
to Chris for his help providing the information required.
We also established, with the help of Phil Steitz, the ability to
receive donations via Amazon's payment service. We hope to extend our
donation services to send immediate thank you letters, with the
intention that this will meet US tax payer's need for proof of a
tax-efficient donation.
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Attachment 4: Report from the VP of Marketing and Publicity [Sally Khudairi]
I. Budget: we remain on schedule and under budget. No vendor payments are due
at this time.
II. Fundraising/Branding/Marketing liaison: no meetings are planned.
III. Press Releases: the following formal announcement was issued via the
newswire service, ASF Foundation Blog, and announce@apache.org during this
timeframe:
- 16 October: The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache(tm) Hadoop(tm) 2
IV. Informal Announcements: 5 items were announced on @TheASF and 6 new posts
were made on the @ApacheCon Twitter feeds. Hearty thanks to Martin van den Bemt
for uploading 98 presentations from ApacheCon North America 2013 on
"TheApacheFoundation" account on YouTube. There remains no working plan on
publishing the presentations from ApacheCon Europe 2012, however.
V. Future Announcements: Sally Khudairi has been reviewing podling and TLP
promotion processes and tactics. 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 9 media requests, including several
process queries. The ASF received 1,400 press clips over this time period,
vs. last month's clip count of 1,090.
VII. Analyst Relations: Apache was mentioned in 13 reports by Gartner,
13 write-ups by GigaOM, 23 reports by Yankee Group, and 8 reports by IDC.
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. She is also fielding
several questions regarding the next ApacheCon.
IX. (Non-ASF) Industry Events and Outreach liaison: the ASF has been
selected to win an award at SC13, and will be represented again this year
by Marlon Pierce and Suresh Marru, who will attend the award ceremony. We
have been nominated for a Design for Experience Award in the
"Bringing Order to Big Data" category, and invited to participate in
Data Innovation Day 2014 (responses received from the Apache Gora and
Apache cTakes PMCs thus far). Apache OpenOffice also received a
"Trusted Seal of Approval" award from PCMagazine. Sally is also following up on
two queries in the government and enterprise data space.
X. Newswire accounts: we have 10 pre-paid press releases with NASDAQ GlobeNewswire
through December 2013, and 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]
Discussed funding a pair of contractors to attend a Cloudstack
conference to gain additional skills- approved by VP Infra. Only
one will actually attend.
Acquired a free license for Jira Help Desk - rollout forthcoming.
Installed wildcard SSL cert for *.openoffice.org.
In pursuit of outsourced code-signing capability for project
releases. Negotiations have reached the NDA phase.
Migrated the bulk of our SQL infra to a centralized database server.
Discussed replenishing our Mac build infra.
Purchased a wildcard cert for *.incubator.apache.org. 3 years
at $475 per year.
Began holding informal weekly meetings via google hangouts. Open
to all infra-team members.
Had a configuration regression regarding the PIG and DRILL Confluence
wikis, which allowed additional spam to reappear on those spaces.
Apachecon.eu DNS reacquired from our registrar. Somehow it wasn’t
configured to autorenew so we lost that domain for a few days.
We are still considerably behind the curve in our Jira workload and
that is starting to inform some of the reporting at the board level.
Please be patient while we continue to ramp up with existing personnel
to support the org’s continued growth. In response we have organized
a monthly jira walkthrough day dedicated entirely to outstanding
jira requests. Raw jira stats show we have made significant progress
over the past month and we expect that trend to continue, with 116 opened
vs. 166 closed.
Aegis is reporting a bad disk and it needs to be replaced as the host
is seriously underperforming in its current state.
Dell has solicited a warranty renewal offering for arcas, our jira server.
We need to sort out licensing for our VMWare infra as we are currently in
a holding pattern for new VM’s until this gets resolved.
We’ve disabled the user ability to edit their profile page in confluence,
eliminating another common source of spam.
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Attachment 6: Report from the Apache Travel Assistance Committee [Gavin McDonald]
The committee is getting ready to help with ApacheCon North America 2014,
as best as it can with the current information shared. We are currently
reviewing our Applications webapp, to see if any changes or additions will
be needed to it, and we'll select judges as soon as the venue and dates
are announced.
In general, to secure the best prices, we like to have all flights booked
90 days before the event. It normally takes a few weeks to work out the
best flights, then get approval from everyone to book them, and the
scoring and selection is typically about 2 weeks too. That means we
normally want to close applications 120 days out from the event. A typical
application period is about 1 month, giving a 5 month lead time. If the
event is to happen in early April, that means we're already behind!
The committee will do its best to work within compressed timescales, but
it may mean we don't get quite as many people as we'd hope for, and may
mean more expensive flights due to shorter notice bookings.
We will continue to watch the board list for updates, but we wouldn't
object if someone involved in the conference could talk to us about
timescales, bookings, but most importantly how best we can help support
the conference!
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Attachment 7: Report from the VP of W3C Relations [Andy Seaborne]
ASF is no longer represented on:
* Patents and Standards Interest Group
* Push API Patent Advisory Group
(ASF was also represented on the Widgets Patent Advisory Group - this PAG
is now closed.)
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Attachment 8: Report from the Apache Legal Affairs Committee [Sam Ruby]
There was a request to classify CC-BY as a category A license, in support
of a W3C HTML WG experiment. As no ASF projects are known to be affected
by this experiment, this request was resolved as Not A Problem. In the
process, the entire Third Party Licensing Policy was called into question.
I thank everybody who helped resolve this.
Notable other discussions:
ODC-By was approved for use by VXQuery.
Distribution by ASF PMCs of ASF Projects as iOS Applications is stalled by an
Apple imposed requirement that precludes other distributions.
After over five years as VP, Legal Affairs I have decided to step down and
recommend Jim Jagielski as my replacement.
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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@ in October. These continue to be dealt with by
the security team.
1 Support question
5 Security vulnerability question, but not a vulnerability report
2 Phishing/spam/attacks point to site "powered by Apache"
9 Vulnerability Reports
1 [httpd, via security@]
1 [aoo, via security@openoffice]
1 [cloudstack, via security@cloudstack]
4 [tomcat, via security@tomcat]
2 [hadoop, via security@hadoop]
Microsoft, Facebook, and others launched a program offering a bug
bounty for flaws found in Apache httpd, https://hackerone.com/ibb
designed to run without interaction or endorsement by the ASF, but
we'll report how that actually works out in future months.
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Attachment A: Report from the Apache Abdera Project [Ant Elder]
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Attachment B: Report from the Apache Ant Project [Conor MacNeill]
Apache Ant is a Java based build tool and associated tools. It
consists of 4 main projects:
- Ant core and libraries
- Ivy - Ant based dependency manager
- IvyDE - Eclipse plugin to integrate Ivy into Eclipse
- EasyAnt - Ant and Ivy toolbox to support build processes
o Release Status
Core
---------
Ant 1.9.2 was released on July 12, 2013
Ant Compress Antlib 1.3 was released on 7th November bringing
it into line with the underlying Apache Commons Compress library 1.6
Ivy
-------
Ivy 2.3.0 was released on January 21, 2013
Ivy-DE 2.1.0 was released on Aug 20, 2010
Ive-DE 2.2.0 is currently under vote for release
EasyAnt
-------------
The current release is still from the Incubator
0.9-Incubating.
o Committers and PMC
No committers or PMC members have been added since the previous report.
The last committer was added on April 5th, 2013.
The last PMC member was added on Jun 21st, 2010.
I note with sadness the passing on September 5th of long-time committer and
PMC member, Bruce Atherton
http://www.apache.org/memorials/bruce_atherton.html
o Community
No issues.
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Attachment C: Report from the Apache Any23 Project [Michele Mostarda]
Anything To Triples (Any23) is a library, a web service and a command
line tool that extracts structured data in RDF format from a variety
of Web documents.
Project Releases
The last release of Any23 (0.9.0) was on 3rd November 2013.
Overall Project Activity since last report
Project activity has actually picked up since last month.
We were able to engage more members of the community in
VOTE'ing for the 0.9.0 release candidate which subsequently
enabled us to make the release.
We have had positive feedback from both within the Any23 community
and over on dev@tika for possibly branching Tika and gradually merging
in the aspects of the Any23 codebase from which Tika could benefit.
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
Chris Mattmann was added back to the PMC on Wed, 15th May 2013.
How has the community developed since the last report?
We have had some users on the list but lists are far from busy.
We remain positive that the 0.9.0 release and the initiative to
take Any23 over to Tika will help to reinvigorate the project
for the benefit of a wider audience.
Changes to PMC & Committers
Nothing to report.
PMC and Committer diversity
We currently have committers from a wide variety of Apache projects
including, Nutch, Tika, OODT, Gora, Jena and Maven
(this is not an exhaustive list).
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Attachment D: Report from the Apache Attic Project [Gianugo Rabellino]
The Attic is currently experiencing a lack of volunteer time. We have two
projects in the pipeline (stdcxx and ESME) who’s archival process looks
stuck – and actually even never started for stdcxx. I guess it’s time
for the Attic PMC to do an open enrollment and see if we can secure more
helping hands.
On a somewhat unrelated note, I think the board should actively be aware
of the following tidbits, which don’t apply directly to the Attic but may
well have impact one way or another:
1. Two projects (XMLBeans and DDLUtils) have theoretically moved to the
Attic. However, both archival processes have been stopped as the community
decided to try and revive them. Work hasn't been started on the Attic side,
waiting to see what happens. XML beans is currently beginning an incubation
process.
2. Axis is expected to start moving inactive projects to the Attic. No
concrete follow-up yet as of today and we hope that when they do, they
come with volunteers ready to help out.
3. A long thread on dev@click.a.o and board@ happened in September,
moving quickly from retirement of Click into a general discussion on creating
a new category of "finished" projects with no real community but still not
attic-worthy. I assume there is no action for the Attic at this point in
time, but the thread may well be revived in the near future.
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Attachment E: Report from the Apache Avro Project [Scott Carey]
Apache Avro is a cross-language data serialization system.
== Issues ==
There are no issues that require the board's attention at this time.
== Community ==
There has been work across most language implementations, and healthy interest
in new features / enhancements.
User and Developer mailing list activity has been down about 10% this quarter.
== Releases ==
Avro 1.7.5 was released on August 26, 2013.
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Attachment F: Report from the Apache Buildr Project [Alex Boisvert]
Apache Buildr is a Ruby-based build system for Java-based applications,
including support for Scala, Groovy and a growing number of JVM languages
and tools.
We've made 3 minor releases (1.4.13, 1.4.14, 1.4.15) since September.
Development activity has been fairly high compared to our average for the
past 2 years, with about 140 commits including a few bug fixes, dependency
updates and better support for Ruby 2.0. Collectively, these releases
contained 8 external contributions.
In October, we voted a new committer (Tammo van Lessen) and a new PMC member
(Peter Donald) into the project.
Our mailing lists remain relatively quiet.
We have no issues that require board attention.
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Attachment G: Report from the Apache Cassandra Project [Jonathan Ellis]
Cassandra is a distributed database providing massive scalability,
high performance, and high availability.
Releases:
1.2.6 25 Jun 13
1.2.7 25 Jul 13
1.2.8 27 Jul 13
1.2.9 29 Aug 13
2.0.0 02 Sep 13
1.2.10 22 Sep 13
2.0.1 22 Sep 13
1.2.11 21 Oct 13
2.0.2 27 Oct 13
Development:
Cassandra 2.0.x is improving with the expected maintenance releases
[1]. Work is proceeding on 2.1, which aside from user-defined types
[2] and collection indexing [3] is focusing on performance and
stability [4] [5].
Community:
The 2013 Cassandra Summit Europe [6] in October sold out with 350
attendees, more than double 2012's figure.
[1] http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/cassandra-2-0-1-2-0-2-and-a-quick-peek-at-2-0-3
[2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-5590
[3] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-4511
[4] http://www.mail-archive.com/dev@cassandra.apache.org/msg06682.html
[5] http://www.mail-archive.com/dev@cassandra.apache.org/msg06731.html
[6] http://www.planetcassandra.org/blog/post/cassandra-summit-eu-2013---video-recordings-and-slideshare-sessions
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Attachment H: Report from the Apache Chukwa Project [Eric Yang]
Apache Chukwa is a log collection and analysis framework for Apache Hadoop Clusters.
Project Status:
* The Chukwa project has open INFRA-6801, waiting for infrastructure to respond.
Releases:
* Planning for Chukwa 0.6 release.
Community:
* The last Chukwa PMC addition: Oct 16, 2013
* The last Chukwa committer addition: Oct 16, 2013
Mailing lists:
* 103 subscribers on dev
* 168 subscribers on user
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Attachment I: Report from the Apache Clerezza Project [Hasan Hasan]
DESCRIPTION
Apache Clerezza is an OSGi-based modular application and a set of components
(bundles) for building RESTFul Semantic Web applications and services.
ISSUES FOR THE BOARD
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
RELEASE
Latest release (partial-release-20130710) was created on 10.07.2013
ACTIVITY
Various improvements and bug fixes in source codes including:
- Provision of Karaf features and Sling Partial Bundle Lists so that features
of Clerezza can more easily be integrated
- Solution to problems with Scala compiling
- Improvement of smushing to allow "smushing" of owl:sameAs resources with a
flexible API that allows client customizations (as for choosing the
preferred IRI of a resource)
- Improvement of memory usage when creating zipped backup
- Several locking issues, however some more fundamental problems with
the single-dataset tdb provider are still to be addressed.
- Initial commit of the Virtuoso/Clerezza storage adapter, an implementation of
the storage API of Clerezza to use Virtuoso as storage.
- Work on the lean Apache jena ext wrappers
- Completion of the implementation of SPARQL 1.1 Preparser
COMMUNITY
Latest change was addition of a new committer and PMC member on 16.08.2013
INFRASTRUCTURE
SVN branches are cleaned up (for moving to git).
Two issues are awaiting INFRA:
- Source codes migration to Git (INFRA-5976)
- Mailing list archive of Clerezza incubation to be merged to Clerezza TLP
(INFRA-6253)
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Attachment J: Report from the Apache Click Project [Malcolm Edgar]
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Attachment K: Report from the Apache Cocoon Project [Thorsten Scherler]
Apache Cocoon 3 is a major rewrite of Cocoon 2.2. Like Cocoon 2 it
is based around the concept of pipelines and sitemaps and it is
very similar to Cocoon 2.2 in many respects but is slimmed down and
designed to be easily used with Java code (= no frameworks required!).
On top of this, Cocoon 3 has the goal of becoming the best available
platform for RESTful webservices and web applications.
Issues needing board attention:
None.
Changes in the PMC membership:
None.
Last modified: 2012/10/21 (change of PMC chair)
Community
Traffic on users and devs list continues be light. Some users asked
about the different versions of cocoon. Various devs attended the
questions and provided solutions.
Releases
2.1 has been released on 2013/03/20.
Development
None
Security issues reported:
None.
Progress of the project:
We need to release a new version of cocoon 3 and cocoon 2.2 but no
committer has stepped up yet to do so.
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Attachment L: Report from the Apache Community Development Project [Luciano Resende]
The Community Development PMC is responsible for helping people become
involved with Apache projects
Project Status
--------------
No issues require board attention at this time.
PMC changes
-----------
No Changes. The latest addition has been Suresh Marru on 2013-04-26.
Google Summer of Code
---------------------
GSoC is over. Of the initial 51 students, 45 passed the midterm
evaluations and 44 passed the final evaluations.
The ComDev PMC initially decided to send Lewis John McGibbney and Ulrich
Stärk to the GSoC Mentor Summit in Mountain View in October. Uli could not
attend and we haven't contacted Lewis for a summary yet so there is
nothing we can report on the summit.
A blog post featuring 5 of our student's projects has been published in
Google's Open Source Blog. Several other blog posts, most notably from the
Apache CloudStack community have been written as well.
Overall, GSoC seems to have been a success again.
ASF-ICFOSS Mentoring Programme
------------------------------
The ASF-ICFOSS mentoring program has finished as well. The results are
disappointing. It seems that no student actually finished their project.
There is a discussion going on on mentors@community.apache.org (formerly
known as code-awards@apache.org) exploring possible reasons for this
failure.
ComDev & Events
---------------
The ComDev PMC is now a "home" for some of the ConCom responsibilities.
Recently there have been discussions about the planned "Event-in-a-Box"
and some progress has been made thanks to Melissa. Several events have
been added to the event calendar and Melissa has been granted access in
order to help with maintenance.
Other
-----
There is uncertainty among our projects due to upcoming changes to
Google's Google Code platform. In the future, projects won't be able to
host files there anymore. It is unclear how that will affect PMCs that
rely on file hosting on apache-extras.org which runs on Google Code.
Luciano said he'd check with Google.
Invoices
--------
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Attachment M: Report from the Apache Continuum Project [Brent Atkinson]
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Attachment N: Report from the Apache CouchDB Project [Jan Lehnardt]
Apache CouchDB is a database that uses JSON for documents, JavaScript for
MapReduce queries, and regular HTTP for an API.
Releases
1.4.0 (2013-09-04)
http://www.apache.org/dist/couchdb/notes/1.4.0/apache-couchdb-1.4.0.html
1.5.0 (2013-11-06)
http://www.apache.org/dist/couchdb/notes/1.5.0/apache-couchdb-1.5.0.html
Recent Activity
- Finalising the merge of Benoit Chesneau’s rcouch fork.
- Preparation of CouchCamp Vienna, a community run weekend hackathon.
- Successful run of CouchDB Conf Vancouver with ~80 attendees, 13 speakers.
Videos will be available. Details are at http://conf.couchdb.org.
- Created an I18N list and translation team to drive translation efforts.
- Passed a proposal on using Influitive to boost our community engagement.
Community
Including the following additions, CouchDB has 29 committers and 9 PMC members.
New committers:
Andy Wenk
No new PMC members. Most recent PMC addition Nov 9th, 2012.
Mailing list stats:
announce
- 131 subscribers (+37)
- 2 message since August (+1)
user
- 1431 subscribers (-10)
- 806 messages since August (+310)
erlang
- 146 subscribers (+25)
- 22 messages since August (15)
dev
- 606 subscribers (+7)
- 880 messages since August (-130)
commits
- 105 subscribers (-2)
- 1041 messages since August (+344)
l10n
- 21 subscribers (+21)
- 103 messages since August (+103)
Issues
None.
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Attachment O: Report from the Apache Creadur Project [Robert Burrell Donkin]
Apache Creadur creates and maintains a suite of open source
software related to the auditing and comprehension of
software distributions. Any language and build system are
welcomed.
Status
------
The mailing lists were quiet in October.
There are no Board-level issues at this time.
Community
---------
Last committer was elected in August, 2012 and no new
PMC members have been elected since graduation.
Releases
--------
Rat 0.10 was released in September.
Whisker 0.1 release is being prepared.
Community Objectives
--------------------
* Release Apache Whisker 0.1
* Merge Manuel's GSOC code from GitHub into trunk
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Attachment P: Report from the Apache Curator Project [Jordan Zimmerman]
The Apache Curator Java libraries make using Apache ZooKeeper much easier and
more reliable.
Project Status:
* Most of the TLP INFRA tasks have been completed
* INFRA-6774 was re-opened and is waiting for completion
* INFRA-6955 is waiting for completion
Releases:
* Apache Curator 2.3.0 was released on Nov. 7, 2013. This is the first
TLP release
Mailing lists:
* 32 subscribers on dev
* 66 subscribers on user
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Attachment Q: Report from the Apache DeltaSpike Project [Mark Struberg]
Apache DeltaSpike is a portable JSR-299 CDI
(Contexts and Dependency Injection for Java) Extension library
which contains lots of useful tools and helpers
which are missing in the CDI core spec.
DeltaSpike is not a CDI-container itself, but a portable
Extension library which can run on all CDI-containers!
DeltaSpike is tested and runs on many Java EE Servers like Apache TomEE,
Red Hat JBoss Application Server, JBoss Wildfly, Oracle WebLogic,
Oracle Glassfish, IBM WebSphere, and also
on simple Servlet containers like Apache Tomcat or Jetty in combination
with either JBoss Weld or Apache OpenWebBeans.
Project Status:
Bugfixing goes on in the current code base.
Community is stable and active.
Mark Struberg did present DeltaSpike on the OpenBlend and W-JAX conferences.
Releases:
last release: deltaspike-0.5 on 2013-09-11.
There are discussions whether to ship 0.6 next or to go straight to 1.0.
Community:
Last Committer: Thomas Hug (thug) on 2013-06-20
Mailing list activity was ok. Users have been asking for a 1.0 release.
Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
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Attachment R: Report from the Apache DirectMemory Project [Raffaele P. Guidi]
Apache DirectMemory is an off-heap cache implementation for the JVM
* General Information
DirectMemory is being evaluated by project jackrabbit for integration of off-heap
memory into OAK.
Another, more performant back-end implementation is being contributed by
noctarius
* Issues
Development is not moving really fast and adoption is still quite limited to other
apache projects - although more than some interesting integrations have been
contributed. Any help would be appreciated, though, in suggestions, spreading the word,
testing and facilitating the adoption of the platform
* Committers or PMC members change
Noctarius has been added as a new PMC member on 2013-09-25
* Releases
Release 0.2 has seen the light on 2013-09-17 - this is the first one since we left incubation
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Attachment S: Report from the Apache Empire-db Project [Francis De Brabandere]
Apache Empire-db is a relational database abstraction layer that allows
developers to take a more SQL-centric approach in application development
than traditional ORM frameworks. Its focus is to allow highly efficient
database operations in combination with a maximum of compile-time-safety
and DBMS independence.
Project Status
After several improvements and bugfixes have been accomplished during the
recent months, we have published a new release on October, 16th.
Some more complex decisions have been postponed for a further release.
Changes in committers or PMC members
No committers have joined or left the project.
Issues
There are no issues that require the board's attention at this time.
Latest Release
Apache-Empire-db 2.4.2 was released on Oct 16, 2013.
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Attachment T: Report from the Apache Etch Project [Martin Veith]
Apache Etch is a cross-platform, language- and transport-independent
RPC-like framework for building and consuming network services.
BOARD ISSUES
There are no Board-level issues at this time.
RELEASES
* Apache Etch 1.3.0 was released on September 26, 2013.
This is the first TLP release of Etch.
ACTIVITY
* We have had some users on the list but activity on the mailing list
are still rather low.
* In order to get a better feeling about how many users we have we are
still planning
to do some analysis on download counters/page visits.
* From a development prospective the next step is to stabilize the new
C++ binding and publish it as stable.
* Furthermore some tutorials or other help for new users are planned to
increase both user and developer base.
COMMITTERS OR PMC MEMBERS CHANGE
* No changes regarding PMC or committers composition since graduation
in January 2013.
* Our committer and user base is still quite small. We were able to get
exactly thre PMC votes for the release.
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Attachment U: Report from the Apache Flume Project [Arvind Prabhakar]
DESCRIPTION
Apache Flume is a distributed, reliable, and available system for
efficiently collecting, aggregating, and moving large amounts of log
data to scalable data storage systems such as Apache Hadoop's HDFS.
RELEASES
* The last release of Flume was version 1.4.0, released on July
2, 2013.
* No further releases are planned at this time.
CURRENT ACTIVITY
* Development activity continues with steady stream of issues being
logged and resolved.
* A total of 81 issues have been filed, and 29 issues have been
resolved between the period starting August 8, 2013 and November 1,
2013.
* Approximately 870 messages were exchanged on the dev list in the
past three months, while a total of 446 were exchanged on the user
list in this period.
COMMUNITY
* Wolfgang Hoschek and Roshan Naik were added as committers to the
project on September 24, 2013.
* No new additions were made to the PMC on the project since it
graduated from Incubator.
* Currently there are:
- Total of 213 subscribers to the developer list
- Total of 478 subscribers to the user list
- Total of 24 committers
- Total of 20 PMC members
ISSUES
* There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
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Attachment V: Report from the Apache Forrest Project [David Crossley]
Apache Forrest mission is software for generation of aggregated multi-channel
documentation maintaining a separation of content and presentation.
Issues needing board attention:
None.
Changes in the PMC membership:
None.
Last modified: 2013-04-08
Most recent addition: 2009-06-09
New committers:
None.
Most recent addition: 2009-06-09
General status:
The most recent release is 0.9 on 2011-02-07.
No activity on the user mail list.
The only activity on the dev mail list was me making the progress that is
described below. That will hopefully continue the efforts to re-vitalise
this community.
Soon after my almost-late board report in August, two PMC members responded.
At this quarter, four PMC members responded to my draft report. This
confirms that there are sufficient people hanging around for us to
potentially be able to make a decision or encourage new contributors.
Security issues reported:
None.
Progress of the project:
Upgraded some of our supporting products, in particular Cocoon-2.1 and
Batik and FOP and XML Graphics Commons and Xerces.
In conjunction, upgraded our PDF output plugin to utilise FOP-1.0 version.
(Note that Cocoon uses an old version of Java so we cannot do FOP-1.1).
Finished configuring Gump. This utilises whatever products that Gump does
provide, and uses our packaged supporting products for the rest (including
Cocoon-2.1.*). So now we have various jobs for Forrest that also test some
of our key plugins. This is great news, as we are now back to getting
potential notifications from the head of some of our key supporting stuff
and potential project interaction. Thanks to Gump.
Improvements to some documentation, especially regarding building plugins
and utilising extra JavaScript and CSS in project sites.
Added some examples of the latter, and some tweaks to the system to better
enable such.
Last quarter i missed reporting that another of our PMC members did the
follow-on upgrade work on our jail server following the machine upgrade by
ASF Infra.
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Attachment W: Report from the Apache Giraph Project [Avery Ching]
Giraph is a Bulk Synchronous Parallel framework for writing programs
that analyze large graphs on a Hadoop cluster. Giraph is similar to
Google's Pregel system.
Project Status
--------------
Releases:
1.1.0 - Being discussed now (coordinated by Roman Shaposhnik)
Community
---------
* Roman Shaposhnik volunteered to coordinate the release of Giraph 1.1
* In the past 30 days we have resolved 11 issues.
* Facebook published an article on Giraph usage scaling to 1 trillion edges
- https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/scaling-apache-giraph-to-a-trillion-edges/10151617006153920
Mailing lists:
204 subscribers on dev
326 subscribers on user
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Attachment X: Report from the Apache Gora Project [Lewis John McGibbney]
The Apache Gora open source framework provides an in-memory data model and
persistence for big data. Gora supports persisting to column stores, key
value stores, document stores and RDBMSs, and analyzing the data with
extensive Apache Hadoop MapReduce support.
Project Releases
The last release of Gora (0.3) was on 8th May 2013.
Overall Project Activity since last report
Project activity has been reasonably quiet with much less mailing list
activity than the summer quarter.
There has however been promising activity from a new member of the
community Yasin Tamer. We are currently working on GORA_94 a branch
of the trunk code which focuses on a long-overdue upgrade of our
legacy Avro dependencies from 1.3.3 to 1.7.5. As this is a major
undertaking therefore once this is addressed we will be pushing a release
candidate for 0.4.
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
Roland von Herget joined as PMC member and committer
on Thu, 7th Mar 2013.
How has the community developed since the last report?
Gora again participated in this years Google Summer of Code program.
Our student Apostolos Giannakidis successfully completed his
project and Renato Marroquin (already a member of the Gora PMC)
was also successful in integrating Gora into Apache Giraph
as part of his GSoC project.
Mailing list numbers are as follows
user: from 46 --> 49
dev: from 62 --> 60
Changes to PMC & Committers
Nothing to report.
PMC and Committer diversity
We currently have committers from a wide variety of Apache projects
including, Nutch, Tika, OODT, Camel, Solr, Accumulo, Whirr, Hadoop,
Any23 & HBase (this is not an exhaustive list).
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Attachment Y: Report from the Apache Hama Project [Edward J. Yoon]
Apache Hama is a pure BSP (Bulk Synchronous Parallel) computing framework on
top of HDFS (Hadoop Distributed File System) for massive scientific
computations such as matrix, graph and network algorithms.
Project Status:
* The Hama project has no board-level issues at this time.
Releases:
* October 11, 2013 - Hama 0.6.2 has released.
Community:
* The last Hama PMC addition: Aug 4, 2013
* The last Hama committer addition: Sep 9, 2013
* Kenneth Xian's presentation have been accepted for China Hadoop Summit 2013
* Edward's presentation have been accepted for The 10th Advaned Computing Conference 2013
Mailing lists:
* 94 subscribers on dev
* 173 subscribers on user
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Attachment Z: Report from the Apache HTTP Server Project [Eric Covener]
Project Description
===================
The Apache HTTP Server Project is an effort to develop and maintain an
open-source HTTP server for modern operating systems.
Issues for the Board
====================
There are no outstanding issues that require the board's attention.
Releases
========
No new releases since last board report.
Last release was httpd 2.4.6 on July 22nd, 2013.
Commit activity is steady, albeit not as heavy as earlier in the year,
when 2.4.1 was released as the first in the 2.4 branch.
We expect httpd 2.2.26 and 2.4.7 to be T&R'ed in November.
Bug reports
===========
153 different bugs were discussed, 61 new bugs created,
34 were closed/fixed.
Community
=====================
Ubuntu 13.10 released with Apache HTTP Server 2.4.x.
There are two recently publicised "bounty" programs that include
Apache HTTP Server. Both are very hands-off wrt
project involvement. The PMC is dicussing procedures/policies.
Ben Reser was added to the PMC on September 8th, 2013.
Jan Kaluza was added as a committer on September 16th, 2013.
IRC and mailing list activity are steady.
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Attachment AA: Report from the Apache HttpComponents Project [Asankha Perera]
The Apache HttpComponents project is responsible for creating and
maintaining a toolset of low level Java components focused on HTTP
and associated protocols.
Status
Overall the project remains active.
Releases
HttpClient 4.2.6 was released on the 12th of September 2013
HttpClient 4.3 GA was released on the 12th of September 2013
HttpClient 4.3.1 GA was released on the 8th of October 2013
HttpAsyncClient 4.0 GA was released on the 31st of October 2013
Community
Simone Tripodi <simonetripodi at apache.org> was voted in as a
HttpComponents committer on Aug 23rd 2013.
The community remains small but active, but has good user
interaction on the mailing lists
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Attachment AB: 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.
There are 36 podlings currently under incubation.
* Community
New IPMC members:
Daniel Gruno
People who left the IPMC:
(None)
* New Podlings
* Sirona is a library around monitoring of Java application. It aims
to stay simple, easy and efficient.
* Graduations
The board has motions for the following:
Marmotta
* Retirements:
The Tashi podling has retired.
* Releases
The following releases were made since the last Incubator report:
Oct 11 Apache Open Climate Workbench 0.3-incubating
Oct 16 Apache Olingo (incubating) 1.0.0
Oct 21 Apache Knox Gateway 0.3.0-incubating
Oct 23 Apache Ambari 1.4.1-incubating
Oct 31 Apache MRQL 0.9.0-incubating
Nov 08 Apache Stratos 3.0.0-incubating
It took 2-22 days for the third IPMC vote to arrive.
Release VOTE start Third IMPC +1 Days
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Apache OCW 0.3-incubating Sep 24 Oct 10 16
Apache Olingo (incubating) 1.0.0 Oct 07 Oct 11 4
Apache Knox Gateway 0.3.0-incubating Oct 09 Oct 14 5
Apache Ambari 1.4.1-incubating Oct 17 Oct 19 2
Apache MRQL 0.9.0-incubating Oct 08 Oct 30 22
Apache Stratos 3.0.0-incubating Oct 16 Oct 27 11
* IP Clearance
* Rcouch, an alternative distribution of Apache CouchDB based
the 1.3 release, has been accepted by the CouchDB PMC.
* Juniper Networks, Inc has donated a plugin for Apache CloudStack to
work with their Contrail networking software.
* Citrix has donated a plugin for Apache CloudStack to support RDP
connectivity for virtual machines running within Hyper-V hypervisors.
* Miscellaneous
* Several discussion threads on project bylaws, initiated by Flex
community pursuing refinement of their own, have made it clear just how
difficult it is to draft good bylaws. A number of people expressed a
desire for a set of well-crafted, official project bylaws which all
projects would "inherit". Since that's hard, though, for the time being
we're muddling through with patches to the existing ramshackle
documentation.
* The Incubator's perpetual difficulties getting podling releases approved
has spawned another lively discussion. We seem to have reached
agreement that we can mitigate the problem by entrusting meritorious
podling contributors with a binding vote on incubating releases; debate
continues about what implementation to try. At time of writing, the
stratagem with the most popular support seems to be electing more
podling contributors directly onto the IPMC, but the thread has not yet
tailed off.
-------------------- Summary of podling reports --------------------
* Still getting started at the Incubator
Aurora
BatchEE
Sirona
Storm
Usergrid
* Not yet ready to graduate
No release:
DeviceMap
Hadoop Development Tools
Ripple
Tez
Community growth:
Blur
Knox
Sentry
Activity:
Droids
* Ready to graduate
Ambari
Open Climate Workbench
* Did not report, expected next month
NPanday
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Table of Contents
Ambari
Aurora
BatchEE
Blur
DeviceMap
Droids
Hadoop Development Tools
Knox
Open Climate Workbench
Ripple
Sentry
Sirona
Storm
Tez
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Ambari
Ambari is a monitoring, administration and lifecycle management project for
Apache Hadoop clusters.
Ambari has been incubating since 2011-08-30.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
None. Community graduation vote has passed.
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?
Users have been active on the lists and contributions from folks outside
of Hortonworks has accelerated.
users@ - 187 (was at 156 in last report)
dev@ - 130 (was at 113 in last report)
Meetup was organized for the users/developers on Sep 25th:
http://www.meetup.com/Apache-Ambari-User-Group/events/134373312/.
It was well attended.
How has the project developed since the last report?
New features have been added to newer Ambari Releases. Support for Apache
Hadoop 2.0.
Date of last release:
2013-09-10 ambari-1.2.5-incubating
2013-10-21 ambari-1.4.1-incubating
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
2013-09-03 Alex Antonenko
2013-09-03 Aleksandr Kovalenko
2013-09-19 Andriy Babiichuk
2013-09-30 Dmitry Sen
2013-09-30 Myroslav Papyrkovskyy
Signed-off-by:
[X](ambari) Owen O'Malley
[ ](ambari) Chris Douglas
[X](ambari) Arun Murthy
Shepherd notes:
Roman Shaposhnik (rvs):
Project should be pretty close to a well deserved graduation. Kudos to
the community building effort!
--------------------
Aurora
Aurora is a service scheduler used to schedule jobs onto Apache Mesos.
Aurora has been incubating since 2013-10-01.
Three most important issues
- Finish bootstrapping project, IP clearance, initial website
- Expanding the community and adding new committers
- 1st release
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
- None at this time
How has the community developed since the last report?
- All initial committers have submitted ICLAs and the accounts have been
created. The mailing lists have been setup and we have started using
them for communication.
How has the project developed since the last report?
- We have setup the incubator status page and are working with
infrastructure to get everything setup, more details are available in
INFRA-6819.
Date of last release
- No releases as of yet. Working on IP clearance.
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
- N/A, still bootstrapping the project.
Signed-off-by:
[X](aurora) Jake Farrell
[ ](aurora) Benjamin Hindman
[ ](aurora) Chris Mattmann
[X](aurora) Henry Saputra
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BatchEE
Apache BatchEE is an implementation and a set of extensions of JBatch
specification (aka JSR 352). The extensions are of course JBatch components
but a little GUI, a JAXRS front and a maven plugin too.
The implementation itself of JBatch is a fork from the IBM implementation
(the Reference Implementation of JSR 352).
BatchEE has been incubating since 2013-10-03.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
- Finish bootstrapping project, IP clearance, initial website
- Expanding the community and adding new committers
- 1st release
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
- No
How has the community developed since the last report?
- infrastructure (git, nexus, list...) is set up (since few days). We
start to get some interaction on the list and exchanges on IRC.
How has the project developed since the last report?
- the project has initially forked a project from IBM which was then
imported on github (waiting our Apache git repository). It is now in
Apache git repository.
Date of last release:
- we are working on getting everything ready to be able to release
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
- X
Signed-off-by:
[X](rmannibucau) Romain Manni-Bucau
[ ](batchee) FIXME
[ ](batchee) FIXME
Shepherd notes:
Suresh Marru (smarru):
The podling is waiting on website setup. The dev mailing list is not yet
setup (or atleast not visible in archives), surprisingly the user and
commit lists have archives, is something amiss?
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Blur
Blur is a search platform capable of searching massive amounts of data
in a cloud computing environment.
Blur has been incubating since 2012-07-24.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. We are waiting on a Trademark assign document for the Blur name
used by Near Infinity to be granted to Apache. The status of the issue
is marked as approved but we still haven't received the document to
obtain the Trademark assignment.
- https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PODLINGNAMESEARCH-34
2. Another Release
3. Another Release
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
No.
How has the community developed since the last report?
We continue to be small but active.
- Subscriptions: user@ - 51[+13]; dev@ - 60[+14]
How has the project developed since the last report?
We had our first release! The majority of effort since then has been
around bug fixes and few new features for a point release. This should
happen in the next week.
Date of last release:
2013-10-09
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
2013-08-30
Signed-off-by:
[ ](blur) Doug Cutting
[x](blur) Patrick Hunt
[x](blur) Tim Williams
Shepherd notes:
Suresh Marru (smarru):
* The podling seems to be very healthy and kudos to PPMC for pulling of
their first release and getting ready for second.
* A big kudos to couple of mentors for pro-actively engaging.
* Blur website does not conform to the branding guidelines and should
add the incubator logo and disclaimer prominently. Also, should
include the ASF, security and thanks to sponsor links.
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DeviceMap
Apache DeviceMap is a data repository containing device information, images
and other relevant information for all sorts of mobile devices, e.g.
smartphones and tablets. While the focus is initially on that data, APIs
will also be created to use and manage it.
DeviceMap has been incubating since 2012-01-03.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Make a release - progress is slow but we're getting there, expecting
our first release around the board meeting.
2. Review PPMC membership and ask who's staying on board
3. Graduate
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
No board/IPMC issues at this time.
How has the community developed since the last report?
No new committers. Minimal activity on the dev list.
How has the project developed since the last report?
OpenDDR device data updates have been contributed.
Extensive testing (hundreds of iterations through full set and various
subsets of close to half a million unique user-agent strings) of all
versions (java & .Net languages) currently in the repository showed
that DeviceMapClient is literally over a 1,000 times faster than
any other currently available tool (milliseconds vs microseconds)
with a fraction of the code. Accuracy (approaching 98%) can be
improved with n-gram tokens in resource data instead of
regex patterns.
Date of last release:
No release yet.
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
Last committer election was May 17th.
Signed-off-by:
[X](devicemap) Bertrand Delacretaz
[ ](devicemap) Kevan Miller
[ ](devicemap) Andrew Savory
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Droids
Droids aims to be an intelligent standalone robot framework that allows to
create and extend existing droids (robots).
Droids has been incubating since 2008-10-09.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Activity
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
None
How has the community developed since the last report?
No changes to community.
How has the project developed since the last report?
The project has been very quiet / dormant for the past quarter.
Date of last release:
2012-10-15
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
2012-05-07
Signed-off-by:
[ ](droids) Thorsten Scherler
[x](droids) Richard Frovarp
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Hadoop Development Tools
Eclipse based tools for developing applications on the Hadoop platform
Hadoop Development Tools has been incubating since 2012-11-09.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. we have to finish the release of version 0.0.1 and to define the build
environment using Jenkins
2. we have to define and implement an effective approach to manage the
"client connections" to multiple clusters.
3. Build 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?
- hdt-dev has seen around 118 mails during this period
How has the project developed since the last report?
- We released RC0 for 0.0.1 on the dev mailing list. There were some
feedback points for the release process/artifacts. HDT-44, was also
reported for RC0. The issue have been addressed and we can make a new
RC sometime soon.
- Around 8 JIRA were filed during thing period to complete the migration
of hadoop-eclipse source.
Date of last release:
- None
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
June 2013
Signed-off-by:
[X](hadoopdevelopmenttools) Suresh Marru
[ ](hadoopdevelopmenttools) Chris Mattmann
[X](hadoopdevelopmenttools) Roman Shaposhnik
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Knox
Knox Gateway is a system that provides a single point of secure access for
Apache Hadoop clusters.
Knox has been incubating since 2013-02-22.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Expand community to include more diverse committers.
2. Review and complete all graduation readiness items.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware
of?
1. None
How has the community developed since the last report?
1. New PPMC member elected.
2. Engaging several interested parties in contributing plugins.
3. Starting to get user questions on user list.
How has the project developed since the last report?
1. Released 0.3.0 adding support for secure clusters, HBase and Hive.
2. Resolved 99(+69) of 194(+102) total issues currently in JIRA.
3. Received name clearance from legal.
4. Positive discussion about initiating graduation processes.
Date of last release:
0.3.0: 2013-10-13
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
2013-11-01: Dilli Dorai Arumugam elected as PPMC member.
2013-07-31: Dilli Dorai Arumugam elected as committer.
Signed-off-by:
[X](knox) Owen O'Malley
[ ](knox) Chris Douglas
[X](knox) Alan Gates
[ ](knox) Mahadev Konar
[ ](knox) Devaraj Das
[ ](knox) Chris Mattmann
[X](knox) Tom White
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Open Climate Workbench
A tool for scalable comparison of remote sensing observations to climate
model outputs, regionally and globally.
Open Climate Workbench has been incubating since 2013-02-15.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Draft graduation resolution
2. Pick chair
3.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
None
How has the community developed since the last report?
Community growth has slowed but development work has continued strong. A
number of people on the project attended the International Conference on
Regional Climate - CORDEX 2013 and spoke about research that is being
powered by the Open Climate Workbench.
How has the project developed since the last report?
Quite a bit of development work has continued on the project. Michael
Joyce pushed out the 0.3-incubating release on the October 11 which
resolved about 85 issues. Denis Nadeau made a huge contribution to the
project in the obs4MIPs code base which provides a great deal of utility
to the project. Cameron Goodale added tests that run the toolkit through
an entire comparison so users can validate dependency installations and
get a feel for how to use OCW.
Date of last release:
2013-10-11
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
2013-06-21
Signed-off-by:
[ ](openclimateworkbench) Chris Douglas
[ ](openclimateworkbench) Nick Kew
[X](openclimateworkbench) Suresh Marru
[ ](openclimateworkbench) Chris A. Mattmann
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Ripple
Ripple is a browser based mobile platform development and testing tool.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Fix licensing issues, specifically some of the images.
2. Build up the community.
3. Make a release under Apache.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware
of?
No
How has the community developed since the last report?
We are still seeing increased non-committer participation in
threads, issues, etc.
However, aside from the odd contribution, most of the recent work
has been committer based.
How has the project developed since the last report?
Intel has been doing a lot of work on the project (in a fork)- still
waiting for a possible contribution back into the ASF project.
http://software.intel.com/en-us/html5/tools
Continuing Cordova 3.0 work to get to a stable, releasable product.
The Chrome Extension build target was removed altogether from the project,
in an effort to simplify and streamline the building/compilation of the
project into a usable application, and because the project has been
continually moving towards a [more feature-able] NodeJS backend, capable
of being run in any Browser.
Date of last release?
N/A
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
When we were inducted into Apache.
Signed-off-by:
[ ](ripple) Jukka Zitting
[X](ripple) Christian Grobmeier
[ ](ripple) Andrew Savory
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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?
Community development continues. Sentry was presented to various user
groups (Hive User Group, New York Hadoop User Group) with great interest.
Sentry community hosted its first meetup in NYC. Nearly 20 people attended
the meetup. There was great interest and lively discussions.
How has the project developed since the last report?
A number of new JIRAs have been filed and are being actively worked on.
Support for Solr index level authorization is under way.
Date of last release:
2013-09-25
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
[ ](sentry) Joe Brockmeier
[X](sentry) David Nalley
[ ](sentry) Olivier Lamy
[X](sentry) Patrick Hunt
[X](sentry) Thomas White
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Sirona
Apache Sirona is a library around monitoring of Java application. It aims
to stay simple, easy and efficient.
It will be composed of several modules which are globally a server very
easily extensible (and which will be integrated with other Apache softwares)
and several client modules to collect data and push them to any aggregator
you want (Sirona one or not).
Sirona has been incubating since 2013-10-15.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
- Finish bootstrapping project, IP clearance, initial website
- Expanding the community and adding new committers
- 1st release
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
- no
How has the community developed since the last report?
- since our lists and IRC channel are set up we have great discussions
about the future of the project and features we want to take care.
How has the project developed since the last report?
- several committers already pushed features/fixes.
Date of last release:
- No - we are still bootstraping the project
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
- we are still bootstraping the project
Signed-off-by:
[ ](sirona) Olivier Lamy
[ ](sirona) Henri Gomez
[ ](sirona) Jean-Baptiste Onofre
[ ](sirona) Tammo van Lessen
[ ](sirona) Mark Struberg
Shepherd notes:
Roman Shaposhnik (rvs):
Given that it has been less then a month since project entered
incubation I see that the most immediate needs of having a source code
repo, JIRA and MLs have been met. Still it would be nice if the
bootstrapping were to wrap up as quickly as possible. At this point, for
example, there's no website and no wiki, etc. Those are the tools for
helping the community growth and it would be very nice to see those
coming online in a few weeks.
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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. Release Storm 0.9.0 with the current github process (the next release,
0.9.1 will be under the Apache process -- we have promised our
community a 0.9.0 release prior to moving to the Apache process).
2. Finish bootstrapping the project, migrate github issues to JIRA.
3. Expand the community and adding new committers.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
There has been a delay with some of the committers getting user accounts.
This is an impediment to the bootstrap process.
How has the community developed since the last report?
Several new community members have submitted contributions, but we are
largely still bootstrapping the project.
How has the project developed since the last report?
We have continued to apply bug fixes necessary for the 0.9.0 release and
expect one more release candidate before releasing 0.9.0 and migrating to
the Apache process. We have adopted aspects of the apache process in
anticipation of this.
Our dev/user mailing lists have been created and we've notified the
community that those lists should be used instead of the google groups
list. We will sunset the google groups list shortly.
Date of last release:
- None. We are sill bootstrapping the project.
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
- N/A -- We are still bootstrapping the project.
Signed-off-by:
[ ](storm) Ted Dunning
[X](storm) Arvind Prabhakar
[ ](storm) Devaraj Das
[ ](storm) Matt Franklin
[ ](storm) Benjamin Hindman
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Tez
Tez is an effort to develop a generic application framework which can be
used to process arbitrarily complex data-processing tasks and also a
re-usable set of data-processing primitives which can be used by other
projects.
Tez has been incubating since 2013-02-24.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Making a release
2. Growing the community
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
None at this time.
How has the community developed since the last report?
No new PPMC members or committers added since the last report. We have had
some interest on the mailing lists both from a user and contributor
perspective. There have been a few contributions coming in from new
contributors. We are hoping to grow the community once Tez becomes a more
mainstream feature in use by Hive and Pig.
How has the project developed since the last report?
Since the first week of August, 2013 (last report), we have had around
240+ jiras filed and 200+ jiras resolved. There have been multiple
meetings with folks from the Hive and Pig projects. Folks in the Hive
community have been working on integrating with Tez for quite some time
(HIVE-4660 for more details). In the past few months, we have had more
interactions with the Pig community on using Tez as one of the execution
engines and there is quite a bit of work being done to integrate with Tez
(more details on PIG-3446).
Date of last release:
None yet, we anticipate making one end of November, 2013.
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
At project incubation. No new PPMC members or committers added since the
last report.
Signed-off-by:
[ ](tez) Alan Gates
[X](tez) Arun Murthy
[ ](tez) Chris Douglas
[ ](tez) Chris Mattmann
[ ](tez) Jakob Homan
[X](tez) Owen O'Malley
Shepherd notes:
Owen O'Malley (omalley):
The project is moving very quickly, but needs to make a release soon.
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Usergrid
Usergrid is an open-source Backend-as-a-Service (“BaaS” or “mBaaS”) composed
of an integrated distributed NoSQL database, application layer and client
tier with SDKs for developers looking to rapidly build web and/or mobile
applications.
Usergrid has been incubating since 2013-10-03.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Learning the Apache Way
2. Growing a diverse community
3. Getting project infrastructure and codebase setup at Apache
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
- None at this time
How has the community developed since the last report?
- No changes, we are still waiting for our basic infrastructure to be put
in place (for details see
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-6861)
How has the project developed since the last report?
- This is our first report.
Date of last release:
- No releases yet.
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
- When we entered incubation
Signed-off-by:
[X](snoopdave) Dave Johnson
[X](jfarrell) Jake Farrell
[X](jim) Jim Jagielski
[x](lewismc) Lewis John Mcgibbney
[x](lresende) Luciano Resende
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Attachment AC: Report from the Apache James Project [Eric Charles]
The Apache James Project delivers a rich set of open source modules and
libraries, written in Java, related to Internet mail which build into an
advanced enterprise mail server.
ISSUES
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
Please accept my apologies for missing the board report last month.
RELEASES
No new release (last release done on 19 March 2013).
We should in the coming months release the different subprojects to
rollout the first 3.0 final version.
OVERALL ACTIVITY
Committer work mainly focused on Hupa subproject (merged Hupa-evolution [1]
into Hupa trunk).
A GSOC project has been successfully delivered for a basic administration
console on top of Hupa Web UI (GWT based).
For more details, read the initial proposal [2], the project code
repository and info [3] and the final code submission to google [4].
Quite active on the user mailing list where users regularly come with questions
and often find answers.
We will relaunch the committer work on the server components, on hold for now
due to committer being busy with their professional projects.
COMMUNITY
Dongxu Wang (echo) was voted as a new committer on 29th July 2013.
No new PMC member (Last PMC member was voted on 17 Jul 2012).
TRADEMARKS / BRANDING
Still to do:
Logos and Graphics (include TM, use consistent product logo on web site).
[1] https://code.google.com/a/apache-extras.org/p/hupa-evo
[2] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2013/emma/10001
[3] https://code.google.com/a/apache-extras.org/p/bond
[4] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2013/emma/16001
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Attachment AD: Report from the Apache jclouds Project [Andrew Bayer]
Apache jclouds is a cloud agnostic library that enables developers to access
a variety of supported cloud providers using one API.
Project Status:
* Graduated to TLP on 10/16/13!
* INFRA-6912 resolved - mailing lists, git repos, website, etc all moved to TLP
Issues Needing Board Attention:
* None at this time
Releases:
* Planning underway for 1.6.3 (to come in next week or two) and 1.7.0 (to
come by end of year)
Community:
* Last jclouds PMC addition: 10/16/13
* Last jclouds committer addition: 10/16/13
Security:
* No issues reported
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Attachment AE: Report from the Apache jUDDI Project [Kurt Stam]
jUDDI (pronounced "Judy") is an open source Java implementation of the
Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration (UDDI v3) specification for
(Web) Services. The jUDDI project includes Scout. Scout is an implementation
of the JSR 93 - Java API for XML Registries 1.0 (JAXR).
jUDDI
- Very low traffic on the mailing lists this quarter.
- Working on the 3.2 release which includes a full web based console. We're
very close to completing this work.
Scout
- No release this period, not really any development took place.
- Very low volume of JAXR related questions on the mailing list.
Last PMC addition and new committer April 3, 2013 (Alex O'Ree)
Last Release jUDDI-3.1.5, May 20, 2013
There are no issues that require the boards attention at this time.
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Attachment AF: Report from the Apache Kafka Project [Jun Rao]
Apache Kafka is a distributed pub/sub system for efficiently collecting and
delivering a large number of messages to both offline and online systems.
Development
===========
We have fixed critical bugs and improved the tools since the Kafka 0.8 beta1 (supports
intra-cluster replication). We are in the process of releasing 0.8.0 final.
Next, we will be focusing on stablizing trunk and releasing 0.8.1 (including
various server side performance improvements). After that, we will start improving
the client library. An initial design is in the wiki.
Community
===========
Lots of activities in the mailing list. kafka-user has 665, 278, 582 emails in Jul,
Jun and May, respectively (up from 425 in Jul). kafka-dev has 581, 509, 595 emails
in Oct, Sep and Aug (up from 290 in Apr). Two new Kafka committers were elected:
David Arthur and Sriram Subramanian.
Releases
===========
0.8.0 final release candidate 3 is being voted now.
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Attachment AG: Report from the Apache Lenya Project [Richard Frovarp]
The Apache Lenya CMS is a Cocoon based XML/XHTML content management
system.
Issues:
No board level issues at this time.
Development:
No new releases this quarter.
Last release: 2.0.4 on 2011-03-14
Community:
Requests are being handled in a timely manner on the lists.
Last change to community was PMC addition in October 2011.
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Attachment AH: Report from the Apache Libcloud Project [Tomaz Muraus]
Libcloud is a Python library that abstracts away the differences among
multiple cloud provider APIs.
Issues
There are no issues that require the board's attention at this time.
Releases
- Libcloud 0.13.2 has been released on September 18th, 2013
Community
* No new commiters or PMC members
* Multiple patches have been contributed by external contributors
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Attachment AI: Report from the Apache Logging Project [Christian Grobmeier]
The Apache Logging Services Project creates and maintains open-
source software related to the logging of application behavior.
Currently there are no issues, which require Boards attention.
- Community
Log4j 2 remains a very active project. The overall
community is healthy and friendly. The reception of Log4j 2
in the wider community is very good.
Christian Grobmeier gave a few more talks on Log4j 2.
The latest mention of Log4j 2 was at W-Jax in Germany (Nov 7).
The activity around log4cxx has stalled again. Mailinglists are read.
Log4net activity has increased and a release has been cut.
In general, the project is healthy and growing.
- Project Branding Requirements
All components meet the branding requirements, except Chainsaw.
We are still planning for a new Chainsaw release.
- Last three community changes
* Remko Popma joined the PMC on Sep 28 2013.
* Dominik Psenner joined the PMC on Jun 03 2013.
* Nick Williams joined as a Committer on May 11 2013.
- Releases
* Log4j Extras 1.2.17 (Oct 20, 2013)
* Log4j 2.0-beta9 (Sep 21, 2013)
* Log4net 1.2.12 (Sep 13, 2013)
- Subproject summaries
Log4j 2: Active
Log4j 1, Extras was released. An issue with the build was raised,
a bugfix release is currently worked on. No further releases are anticipated.
Log4net: More activity.
A new release has been cut and work on restructuring the codebase for
log4net 1.3.x which drops support for .NET 1.x has been started.
Help has been provided on the user list and the newly incoming JIRA
tickets have all been addressed.
Some confusion arose around the log4net Nuget package which isn't
provided by the Apache community but an external developers. The
website and JIRA description have been clarified that the package is
not under control of the project.
Log4cxx: Less activity, Attic needs to be discussed again.
Log4php: Less activity.
Chainsaw: a new release is on the horizon as the previously blocking
Log4j 1 Extras release was done.
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Attachment AJ: Report from the Apache ManifoldCF Project [Karl Wright]
Board Report, ManifoldCF PMC
ManifoldCF PMC Chair: Karl Wright (kwright@apache.org)
Date: November 2013
Project description
==============
ManifoldCF is an effort to provide an open source framework for connecting
source content repositories like Microsoft Sharepoint and EMC Documentum, to
target repositories or indexes, such as Apache Solr, OpenSearchServer or
ElasticSearch. ManifoldCF also defines a security model for target
repositories that permits them to enforce source-repository security
policies.
Releases
========
ManifoldCF graduated from the Apache Incubator on May 16, 2012. Since then,
there have been five major releases, including a 1.4 release on October 28,
2013.
Committers and PMC membership
========================
The last committer and PMC member we signed up was Minoru Osuka (minoru), on
January 10, 2013. We voted in a new committer and PMC member in May, but he
declined to accept the committership due to his company's policies. Other
contributors have been approached, but have also declined to accept
consideration for possible committership. The most recent of these
encounters took place in September.
We are not entirely sure why people who are obviously interested and to some
degree committed to the project seem unwilling to become full committers. I
suspect that corporate restrictions make this a challenge in some cases.
Also, we seem to be interacting more with contractors than with employees
recently, and it may well be that contractors have less interest in a
long-standing relationship with our project.
Mailing list activity
==============
Mailing list has been active, with a wide range of topics. Most of our
connectors now have significant use cases and constituencies. Dev list
comments centered around voting, extensions to the SharePoint connector,
people looking for integration advice, etc. ManifoldCF also participated in
Google Summer of Code, and MCF committers mentored one student developer
through end of September.
External contributions and even committer contributions have been somewhat
lighter this cycle than in the last quarter. Communication with committers
indicates that this is due in some degree to the maturity of the product,
but also to an uptick in everyone's work load.
I am unaware of any mailing-list question that has gone unanswered.
Outstanding issues
==================
Both Infra issues that were outstanding at the time of the last report have
been resolved.
Branding
========
We have reviewed the site branding guidelines and believe we are now
compliant with these, with the possible exception of (TM) signs in logos
from other Apache products that don't have any such marks. Hopefully we
will be able to correct this issue soon.
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Attachment AK: Report from the Apache Oltu Project [Antonio Sanso]
DESCRIPTION
Oltu is a project to develop a Java library which provides an API
specification for, and an unconditionally compliant implementation of the
OAuth v2.0 specifications. OAuth is a mechanism that allows users to
authenticate and authorise access by another party to resources they control
while avoiding the need to share their username and password credentials.
MILESTONES
Apache Oltu OAuth2 0.31 was released on July 3rd.
CURRENT ACTIVITY
The core part of the project related to 'The OAuth 2.0 Authorization
Framework' (RFC 6749) is pretty stable due the fact RFC 6749 is now a
standard. New parts of the OAuth specification family are currently under
development (JWT, JWS and OpenId Connect)
We got a contribution of the Apache Oltu logo that has now been included in
the website and in the Oltu demo.
Users activity is growing slowly but steadily (the user@ mailing list has
got new messages from potential new users)
COMMUNITY
PMC composition has not changed since graduation
We have voted one new committer since graduation
ISSUES
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
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Attachment AL: Report from the Apache Oozie Project [Mohammad Islam]
DESCRIPTION
Apache Oozie is a system for managing and scheduling workflows that run
different types of Hadoop jobs (such as MapReduce, Pig, Hive and Sqoop)
as well as system specific jobs (such as Java programs and shell scripts).
RELEASES
* Last release was Apache Oozie version 4.0.0, released on AUG/30/2013
* Apache Oozie version 4.0.1 is WIP
CURRENT ACTIVITY
* Development activity continues as can be seen from the following
JIRA report: http://s.apache.org/zPD (since last report, Aug 2013)
COMMUNITY
* PMC composition has not changed since last report.
* Committers composition has not changed since last report.
* Currently there are:
- Total of 116 (+8) subscribers to the developer list
- Total of 314 (+30) subscribers to the user list
- Total of 14 committers
- Total of 12 PMC members
ISSUES
* There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
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Attachment AM: Report from the Apache OpenJPA Project [Pinaki Poddar]
There are no items requiring board attention at this time.
* Highlights
Apache OpenJPA provides POJO persistence for stand-alone JSE, JEE
container and many other lightweight frameworks, such as Tomcat,
TomEE, Spring or OSGi.
* Community
Mailing lists continue to be active and many applications are
migrating from other vendors to OpenJPA.
The developer community had maintained the codebase stable,
supported for previous releases and backported resolved defects.
Interest in the community to start development of new release of
OpenJPA in support of JPA 2.1.
* Governance
We continue to monitor contributors for possible committers and
PMC members.
* Releases
OpenJPA 2.3 is being discussed in the user forum. But nothing has been
finalized yet.
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Attachment AN: 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.
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Attachment AO: Report from the Apache POI Project [Yegor Kozlov]
Apache POI is a Java library for reading and writing Microsoft Office file
formats.
Releases
--------
There was a bug fix release in the last quarter:
POI 3.10 beta2 on Sep 19 2013 .
Community
---------
No new committers/PMC members added in the last quarter.
Last committer and PMC was added on Jul 8, 2013 (tallison)
Project Status
---------
Apache POI continues to be an active project, both in terms of
community and development. Traffic on the mailing lists has been
steady in the last 3 months.
Most patches are applied without much delay.
General Comments
----------------
There are no issues that require Board attention.
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Attachment AP: Report from the Apache Qpid Project [Gordon Sim]
Apache Qpid™ is a project focused on creating software based on the
Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP), currently providing a
protocol engine library, message brokers written in C++ and Java, and
client libraries for C++, Java (including JMS), .Net, Python,
Perl and Ruby.
* Releases:
There have been no releases since the last report in September 2013.
Qpid 0.26 release is currently in alpha and due to branch for beta any
day now. It is targeted for release early December. The last Qpid
release (0.24) was in 7th Sep, 2013.
Qpid Proton 0.6 release is in planning. The last Qpid Proton release (0.5)
was on 29th Aug, 2013.
* Community:
The main developer and user lists continue to be active. JIRAs are
being raised and addressed. Posts and questions around AMQP 1.0 are
becoming more frequent.
No new committers or PMC members added since last report (Sep
2013). Last committer added was Pavel Moravec on 30th Aug, 2013. Last
PMC members to be added were Andrew Stitcher, Chuck Rolke, Justin Ross
and Keith Wall in September 2011.
Development since last the report has been mainly maintenance & bug
fixing on the various components. Development of a proposed new
component, the Qpid Dispatch Router, has continued along with some
discussion regarding its scope and aims.
Increased PMC and committer diversity would be desirable. At present
all but two of the active committers - and all but one of the PMC
members - are paid to work on the project by one of two
organisations. Some discussions have begun to try and find ideas for
proactively improving this situation.
* Issues:
There are no items requiring board attention at this time.
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Attachment AQ: Report from the Apache River Project [Greg Trasuk]
Apache River is a Java-based Service Oriented Architecture, implementing
the Jini Specification and Jini Technology Starter Kit originally
donated by Sun Microsystems.
ISSUES FOR THE BOARD
There are no board-level issues at this time
RELEASES
Apache River 2.2.1 was released on May 2, 2013.
As of Nov 13, 2013, a release vote is in progress for Apache River 2.2.2 and is
expected to pass.
COMMUNITY
No new committers have been added since Nov of 2011.
We hope that with releases coming on a more regular basis, user interest will
pick up, and with it we will attract more potential new committers.
ACTIVITY
Mailing lists and development have been fairly quiet over the last few
months. 7 messages on users@ from Sept-Nov, and over 32 messages on
dev@. Activity is on the upswing in November
Two issues have been reported on Jira and resolved.
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Attachment AR: Report from the Apache Roller Project [Dave Johnson]
Apache Roller is a full-featured, Java-based weblogging package that works
well on Tomcat and MySQL, and is also known to run on other servers and
databases. The ASF blog site at blogs.apache.org runs on Roller 5.0.2.
Issues
No board issues at this time.
Releases
The latest release of Apache Roller is v5.0.2, which was released
on October 30, 2013, a security vulnerability and bug fix release.
For more information:
http://rollerweblogger.org/project/entry/apache_roller_5_0_2
Community
The Roller community has been active recently responding to
security vulnerabilities reported by Coverity. We made the 5.0.2
release and upgraded blogs.apache.org to the new release.
Apart from that activity, the Roller community continues to be rather
quiet with low traffic that mostly concerns technical support and
installation issues.
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Attachment AS: Report from the Apache Santuario Project [Colm O hEigeartaigh]
The Apache Santuario project is aimed at providing implementation of
security standards for XML.
There were no new releases in the last quarter. However a new release of the
Apache XML Security for Java project (1.5.6) is currently under vote and
should be released shortly. This release contains a minor bug fix as well as
a fix for security advisory, which will be released in due course.
Last committer addition: Marc Giger, July 2012.
Last PMC addition: Marc Giger, April 2013.
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Attachment AT: Report from the Apache SIS Project [Adam Estrada]
Apache SIS is a spatial framework that enables better representation of
coordinates for searching, data clustering, archiving, or any other
relevant spatial needs.
Development:
Implemented Matrices as a derivative of JAMA work [1]:
Experimented the use of MathML to render mathematical formulas in SIS
documentation
Submitted patches for better build support in Eclipse[2][3]
Implemented the geodetic datum package.
Community:
Nadeem Anjum successfully completed the Google Summer of Code!
Added Olivier Nouguier to SIS PMC on 2013-10-11
Branding:
Continue to enhance the project web site as well as project documentation
Issues:
Continue to seek a resolution with using the EPSG database in SIS[4]
The EPSG geodetic parameter dataset [7] is a freely available structured
repository of data used in geospatial applications. This dataset is of
critical importance to the Apache Spatial Information System (SIS) project.
All major geographic software that we know, both open-source and commercial,
include the EPSG database in one form or the other. Distributing SIS without
EPSG would be like distributing Java without data for Charset encoding
(UTF-8, ISO-LATIN-1, etc.). References to EPSG appear in many corners of
core SIS API (e.g. [8]).
The EPSG database is maintained by the "International Association of Oil &
Gas Producers" (OGP) and members are big companies like Shell. Oil & Gas
producers maintain and provide the EPSG database free of charge because the
cost of installing a drilling platform in the wrong location is too high.
Since they rely on maps and data produced by various actors (national map
agencies, etc.), it is in their best interest that those actors have access
to the most accurate Map Projection definitions when they create their data.
The ASF has criteria for inclusion of third-party products [9]. However those
criteria seem to be designed for software, while the EPSG files are data. A
volunteer can rewrite a software from scratch until it complies with a
specification, but we can not recreate definitions data - there is no way
that such information could emerge from a volunteer's imagination without
significant expertise in each of the over six thousand available
transformations.
The EPSG terms of use [10] have two conditions which may be unusual for
Apache: one restriction on modification, and one restriction on distribution.
But we think that the restriction on modifications is reasonable and well
justified, while the condition on distribution may not have practical impact
for Apache.
Restriction on modifications
----------------------------
EPSG documents precisely the kind of modifications that users are allowed to
apply on their data. For those familiar with geodesy, it is immediately
obvious that those restrictions are designed in such a way that geographical
coordinates would still locate the same points on Earth. EPSG do not forbid
modifications, but basically said "if you apply any modifications that would
alter the location of points on Earth, then give to your definition your own
code (primary key) and do not attribute that to EPSG". We think that this is
reasonable because this engage EPSG's credibility. When one said "EPSG:4326",
we expect something that match the EPSG definition of Coordinate Reference
System 4326. Changing that would be like changing the meaning of Unicode 65
from character 'A' to 'B' and still claim that it is a Unicode. If someone
really wants to make such change, he can but is probably not allowed to claim
that the modified code is Unicode (or at least, he is required to document
clearly his change according condition (c) of [11]). Likewise for EPSG, users
are allowed to make any changes they want provided that they apply their
changes on a *copy* of EPSG definition copied in the user's *own* codespace
(it doesn't have to be in a separated database - EPSG defines range of codes
reserved for user's definitions). Or if a user really wants to modify the
definition under the "EPSG" name, then the EPSG restrictions apply.
As the ASF increases in complexity and addresses more and more topics like
environment, health, laws, etc., maybe this kind of situation would happen
more often. For example if a medical authority maintained a free database of
drugs, we would not be surprised if that authority put restrictions on the
changes allowed in their database while keeping the authority's label. In SIS
domain, other potential data after EPSG (while much less critical for SIS)
could be tables and symbols from the World Meteorological Organisation for
example.
The key point of above paragraph is that this issue may not be a SIS/EPSG
issue only. Maybe it could concern the inclusion of data emitted by any
authority (as opposed to data created by volunteers on the basis of their own
observations).
Restriction on distribution
---------------------------
In a nutshell, anywone can sell SIS + EPSG for profit, but can not sell the
EPSG tables alone (without Apache's work). While this condition would need to
be mentioned somewhere (in NOTICE file?), maybe Apache does not need to be
concerned further that point? If someone download Apache SIS and delete
everything - the *totality* of Apache's work - until only EPSG tables remain,
maybe the restriction that emerge only in this situation is not Apache's
business anymore? (provided that we mentioned it).
More discussion on this restriction is in [4]. If needed, Martin knows the
chairman of OGP's Geodesy Subcommittee and could ask for further
clarification.
Releases:
Apache SIS 0.3 [5]
Press:
Martin participated in the OGC meeting held in September[6].
[1] http://s.apache.org/fn2
[2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SIS-132
[3] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SIS-133
[4] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-183
[5] http://sis.apache.org/release-notes/0.3.html
[6] http://s.apache.org/g8
[7] http://www.epsg.org
[8]
https://builds.apache.org/job/sis-jdk7/site/apidocs/org/apache/sis/referencing/GeodeticObjects.html#WGS84
[9] http://www.apache.org/legal/3party.html#criteria
[10] http://www.epsg-registry.org/help/xml/Terms_Of_Use.html
[11] http://www.unicode.org/copyright.html
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Attachment AU: Report from the Apache Subversion Project [Greg Stein]
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Attachment AV: Report from the Apache Syncope Project [Francesco Chicchiricco]
Apache Syncope is an Open Source system for managing digital identities
in enterprise environments, implemented in JEE technology.
Status
There are no outstanding issues requiring board attention.
Community
user@ ML is active, new users keep popping in for evaluating the project,
existing users get regular support in reasonable time for their issues:
currently 79 subscribers, including 4 archive / non human addresses.
dev@ ML is active, mainly discussing new features: currently 58 subscribers,
including 4 archive / non human addresses.
We have consistently started implementing new features for next version
1.2.0, while still maintaining 1.1.X (next release 1.1.5 is on its way).
Some contacts were taken with Logging, CXF and Directory communities
via their user@ ML for asking for support with - respectively - log4j2,
JAX-RS and Escimo.
We have a new contributor, Guido Wimmel.
Last committer addition (Andrei Shakirin and Christian Schneider)
is dated January 2013.
Last addition to PMC (Jan Bernhardt) is dated November 2012.
Releases since last report
* 1.1.4 (Sep 27th, 2013)
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Attachment AW: 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.
Any issues for the Board?
There are no Board-level issues at this time.
When did the project last make any releases?
The latest stable version of Tapestry (5.3.7) has been released 2013-04-29.
We made available numerous preview builds of the upcoming 5.4 release, the
latest (5.4-alpha-24) on 2013-11-04.
Describe the overall activity in the project over the past quarter.
Activity on the user mailing list is high. Questions are answered with
participation of not only the core contributors but also by the community
at large. Discussion focuses especially around new features of the upcoming
5.4 release.
Activity on the dev mailing list is medium.
The focus of development currently lies on the upcoming Tapestry 5.4 which
will bring major improvements in JavaScript support and other new features.
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
Lance Semmens has been voted in as a committer on 2013-07-07.
The last PMC addition has been Massimo Lusetti on 2012-08-27.
PMC and committer diversity
PMC and committer diversity is good. To our knowledge no two committers share
the same employer. Levels of contribution vary over time with Howard Lewis
Ship being the driving force behind Tapestry's development and various other
committers working on areas of their interest.
Project branding or naming issues, either in the project or externally.
No known issues.
Branding requirements progress:
* "Project Website Basics: homepage is project.apache.org" - completed
* "Project Naming And Descriptions: use proper Apache forms, describe product,
etc." - completed
* "Website Navigation Links: navbar links included, link to www.apache.org
included" - License and Security links are missing
* "Trademark Attributions: attribution for all ASF marks included in footers,
etc." - completed
* "Logos and Graphics: include TM, use consistent product logo on your site" -
TM missing from logo
* "Project Metadata: DOAP file checked in and up to date" - completed
Legal issues or questions:
None.
Infrastructure issues or strategic needs:
None.
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Attachment AX: Report from the Apache Turbine Project [Thomas Vandahl]
Apache Turbine is a servlet based framework that allows experienced Java
developers to quickly build web applications. Turbine allows you to
personalize the web sites and to use user logins to restrict access to
parts of your application.
Turbine is a matured and well established framework that is used as the
base of many other projects.
Status
The Turbine project has had a quite busy quarter by our measures.
The Turbine project has no board-level issues at this time.
Project Branding Board Report Checklist
The last issue left is
* TODO: Logos and Graphics : include TM
Community changes
No new committers were voted in since the last board report.
The last change to the committer base was the addition of Georg Kallidis
(2012/09/19)
Georg Kallidis has been voted into the PMC (2013/09/30).
Turbine core project
The Turbine core project proceeds slowly to the next milestone release
which shall include a modified security implementation and support for
the Quartz scheduler to replace the built-in one.
* A new parent POM (3) has been released to support site publishing with
svnpubsub (2013/09/25)
Fulcrum component project
A new JSON component has been added to the Fulcrum sub-project in this
quarter.
* Fulcrum parser 1.0.3 has been released (2013/10/11)
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Attachment AY: Report from the Apache Tuscany Project [Jean-Sebastien Delfino]
Apache Tuscany is an SOA framework based on OASIS OpenCSA and SCA.
ISSUES
- There are no issues that require the board's attention.
RELEASES
- Last release was Tuscany SCA 2.0.1, 10/3/2013.
COMMUNITY ACTIVITY
- Last committer addition was Sebastian Millies, 12/4/2012.
- Tuscany participated in the ASF - ICFOSS pilot mentoring programme and
some work on Tuscany's widget support started as part of that programme
but was not completed.
- Mailing list traffic hasn't changed much in the past few months, and
continues to be on the lower side, with a discussion and vote of the Tuscany
SCA 2.0.1 release, and a few JIRA issues and questions from users.
BRANDING
- We still need to update logos with ™ and review the project doap file.
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Attachment AZ: Report from the Apache Velocity Project [Nathan Bubna]
Apache Velocity is a java template engine and related projects.
RELEASES
* Last release was master POM, May 2012
* Last noteworthy release was Engine in 2010
CURRENT ACTIVITY
* Dev effort was zero this quarter.
* Only contribution was report of broken website links.
COMMUNITY
* Last committer added April 28, 2013
* Activity is low on the user list but steady on Stack Overflow.
* Velocity appears to be more oft used as a component of larger products
than directly used by app developers.
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Attachment BA: Report from the Apache Xalan Project [Steven J. Hathaway]
The Apache Xalan Project develops and maintains libraries and programs
that transform XML documents using XSLT standard stylesheets. Our
subprojects use the Java and C++ programing languages to implement the
XSLT libraries.
RELEASES
* Xalan Java last release November-2007
* Xalan C/C++ last release October-2012, updated Apr-2013
* No new releases this quarter.
COMMUNITY ACTIVITY
Google Summer of Code 2014 Samuel Medeiros has successfully completed a
second year with GSOC on Xalan projects. His work is well appreciated
by the Xalan team for his contributions to both the C++ and Java
products.
The community is still able to address issues from the user and
integrator community. Our limited staffing has delayed patch releases.
We have implemented patches contributed from the Debian community.
We are seeing 20-30 mail lists per month on our developer list.
PMC MEMBERSHIP
* No membership changes
PROJECT STATUS
* Xalan Java - Patch release appears stalled. The JIRA issues are
still being resolved.
* Xalan C/C++ - Patch release is still being worked on. The significant
effort is currently on documentation and packaging. The JIRA issues
are still being resolved and committed to the subversion trunk.
SECURITY
* No outstanding issues
BRANDING
* No outstanding issues
ISSUSES
* We are still wishing to expand the developer community.
* We still have enough members to vote on releases.
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Attachment BB: Report from the Apache Xerces Project [Michael Glavassevich]
Xerces-J
Some refactoring was done to the XML Schema 1.1 implementation.
One bug fix was also committed in this area to resolve a JIRA
issue reported by a user.
Mailing list traffic has been low; roughly 60 posts on the j-dev
and j-users lists since the beginning of August 2013.
No new releases this quarter. The latest release is
Xerces-J 2.11.0 (November 30th, 2010).
Xerces-C
Thanks to a patch from the community the Xerces-C XML parser was
updated this quarter to support XML 1.0 5th edition. Four other
bug fixes and improvements were also made during this period.
Mailing list traffic has been low; roughly 70 posts on the c-dev
and c-users lists since the beginning of August 2013.
No news about when the 3.2 version will be packaged. The latest
release is Xerces-C 3.1.1 (April 27th, 2010).
Xerces-P
Nothing in particular to report. There was no development activity
over the reporting period.
XML Commons
Nothing in particular to report. There was no development or mailing
list activity over the reporting period.
Committer / PMC Changes
No new committers in the last quarter. The most recent committers
were elected in July 2008 (Xerces-C) and May 2009 (Xerces-J).
No new PMC members in the last quarter. The last two additions to
the PMC were in May 2010.
Apache Project Branding Requirements
There's still some work left to do on the TLP website, including
adding "TM" to the project logo.
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Attachment BC: Report from the Apache XML Graphics Project [Chris Bowditch]
The Apache XML Graphics Project is responsible for software intended for
the creation & maintenance of the conversion of XML formats to graphical
output & related software components.
Issues for the Board
====================
No issues at present.
Community
=========
Last new committer: Robert Meyer on 05/08/13
Last new PMC member: Luis Bernardo on 04/03/13
The PMC discussed the problem of lack of active committers on Batik sub
project. There are some users logging bugs and posting occasional patches
into JIRA, but no one to process them. The PMC has agreed to allow all PMC
members commit access to all XML Graphics sub projects regardless of their
originating sub project. The vote has just concluded, so an adjustment to
the auth template file will be made later this week to implement this.
It is hoped that some of the FOP committers will periodically process
Batik patches to stop the sub project from dying.
XML GRAPHICS COMMONS
====================
2 bug fixes committed to SVN, and code added for OTF CFF Font support
There were no releases this quarter.
The latest release is 1.5 (20 October 2012)
FOP
===
User mailing list has several questions posted and answered each week. Some
new bugs logged and several patches have been submitted and processed.
27 separate commits in total to SVN. Significant new features of note,
started in this quarter are; support for a whitespace management extension
and fo:inline-container. Development for both have been started in branches
and several commits made to each as work progresses.
There were no releases this quarter
The latest release is 1.1 (20 October 2012)
BATIK
=====
Mailing list activity was very light. A few bugs have been reported by
users and a couple of patches submitted. Zero commits to the codebase,
which is why the PMC started a discussion on how to deal with the patches
and bugs being logged.
There were no releases this quarter.
The latest version is 1.7 (6 January 2008)
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