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Board of Directors Meeting Minutes
February 19, 2014
1. Call to order
The meeting was scheduled for 10:30am (Pacific) and began at
10:34 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
Bertrand Delacretaz
Roy T. Fielding
Jim Jagielski
Chris Mattmann
Brett Porter
Greg Stein
Directors Absent:
Sam Ruby
Doug Cutting
Executive Officers Present:
Ross Gardler
Rich Bowen
Craig L Russell
Executive Officers Absent:
none
Guests:
Sean Kelly
Daniel Gruno
Phil Steitz
Jake Farrell
Marvin Humphrey
David Nalley
Noah Slater
3. Minutes from previous meetings
Published minutes can be found at:
http://www.apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html
A. The meeting of January 15, 2014
See: board_minutes_2014_01_15.txt
Approved by General Consent.
4. Executive Officer Reports
A. Chairman [Brett]
The main topic of discussion on the board list over the last month has
been release practices. As it progressed, it was good to see that
ongoing operational concerns were handled separately from discussion
about how to do more frequent releases within the bounds of current
ASF policy. Releasing open source software to the public is one of the
most fundamental things we do, so it is important that it is handled
diligently.
We're getting closer to the time where we need to prepare for the
Annual Members Meeting, so I've started to canvas dates. Currently the
first week of June seems the most feasible, but I've included a
discussion item in the agenda to decide.
The ASF received an invitation to participate in the "2014 Future of
Open Source Survey", which Sally has taken forward with the PMCs.
B. President [Ross]
An extremely busy month for me personally which has kept me away from
many of my ASF duties.
The EA contract was renewed as previously agreed. A new renewal date has
been entered into the calendar. With Melissa's help we are in the
processes of updating our Director records with CSC. Please note that
Melissa is now providing an approximate breakdown of her time. As is
appropriate Melissa is in full control of her time allocation, this new
reporting is intended only to inform the board for budget monitoring as
requested.
ApacheCon proceeds thanks to continuing significant effort from Rich.
Due to my personal issues this month I have not been as helpful as I had
hoped but it seems Rich has, as always, taken it in his stride. See the
EVP report for more detail.
I am yet to make significant progress on reporting budget vs actuals.
The treasurer has provided some initial data exports but I have been
unable to find the time to process it. Since I need to create a new
budget for the following year I propose to build this reporting into a
new spreadsheet that I develop during the preparation of this budget.
Trademarks remains very busy and Shane has indicated that he is falling
behind a little. I have encouraged Shane to continue to work with
Melissa to identify areas in which she can help. I also note that an
Member has also offered to help.
Fundraising is also progressing well though it is notable that this is
taking up a reasonable chunk of both Sally's and Melissa's time. Like
trademarks we need to acknowledge this role is not one that a volunteer
can be expected to fill. Unlike Trademarks though VP Fundraising appears
to have been able to find sufficient tasks that can be handled by
contractors. I believe this is mainly due to the less legally sensitive
domain. However, I grow increasingly concerned that more support from
Officers in managing key sponsor relations is necessary.
Marketing progresses with its usual rhythm. No exceptional items to
reports.
Infra also reports nothing exceptional this month. I do note the ongoing
improvement of GitHub integration at the specific request of committers.
I engaged with the Cordova PMC with respect to their release process.
Initially this engagement was only as a member attempting to help them
understand the lay of the land. However at the request of a number of
Directors and Infra I subsequently made a formal request (cc board@ and
infra-private@) to ensure releases after 2.8.1 are formally voted upon.
Joe has been working with the PMC to define a suitable process which
does not introduce unnecessary work. I will conduct any necessary sanity
checks with the board to ensure the final solution is acceptable. For
now the PMC has acknowledged the need to address this issue (see Cordova
report) and Joe reports that he is satisfied with progress to date.
TAC has, once again, failed to submit a report (and due to my own
lateness they have not had a prompt from me). However, Melissa reports
progress has been made towards planning for ApacheCon.
Additionally, please see Attachments 1 through 6.
C. Treasurer [Chris]
The Treasurer's Office processed repayment for some items related
to the Dublin Meetup and also processed payment to NASDAQ Global
Newswire in coordination with VP Press, Marketing and the President.
The Treasurer and the President identified how a statement of actuals could
be provided to the President quarterly.
Over the past month, the office has periodically provided information
to the EA on sponsors and their incoming payments.
We have processed a payment to the EA and set up her new payment
amount to reflect her updated contract and raise.
The Office dealt with an inquiry from the Apache OOo PMC regarding
reimbursements for FOSDEM 2014.
We are actively coordinating with Virtual, Inc. to obtain a quote
for their financial services.
We are working with EA and Nick Burch to handle wire transfer for
initial payments for TAC flights for ACNA 2014.
Income and Expenses
Current Balances:
Wells Fargo Business Checking: 914,191.62
Wells Fargo Savings: 287,864.39
PayPal: 100,404.09
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Total $ 1,302,460.10
Income Summary:
Lockbox 50,737.49
Fundraising 10,965.00
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Total $ 61,702.49
Expense Summary:
Category Amount
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EA 3,462.00
Trademarks 2,613.75
Sysadmin 31,100.00
misc expense 578.29
ASF credit card - Sam Ruby 37.44
ASF credit card - Justin Erenkrantz 50.00
Press 11,545.45
Dublin Meetup 25.44
PayPal 45,312.20
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Total $ 94,724.57
D. Secretary [Craig]
January was an average month after the December doldrums. There
were 60 iclas and three cclas received and filed.
The board subscription list received some overdue maintenance.
LDAP subscriptions to pmc-chairs have been synchronized with PMC
chairs in committee-info.txt. All but three PMC chairs are
subscribed to board.
E. Executive Vice President [Rich]
ApacheCon North America 2014 will be held in Denver Colorado,
April 7-9, with tutorials and a co-located Cloudstack event to
follow on the 10th and 11th.
Since the last meeting, the ApacheCon call for papers has come
and gone, and we have, as of Monday, February 17th, selected a
schedule of talks for the event, and notified the selected
speakers. We are still receiving answers back from those
speakers and adjusting the schedule for the people who have
declined, or want their talks moved to avoid other conflicts.
Members of the Apache community were amazingly helpful in the
process of selecting the content, and I think we have a really
solid schedule for this event.
As compared to years past, the conference will have much more
content, with 10 tracks on Monday and Tuesday, and 9 on
Wednesday, and the Cloudstack Collaboration Conference on
Thursday and Friday. Additionally we have a day and a half
of tutorials, and numerous evening events.
It is now LF's responsibility to market the event and draw in
the registrations. I expect to have a report on registrations
for the next board meeting. The lead time is very short, and
they have their work cut out for them. Any way that we can help
promote the event will be important to augment their effort.
Meanwhile, we are looking at venues in Europe for November, with
Budapest and Rome being considered. And we are also very
tentatively looking at the possibility of doing an event in
Brazil, although that is unlikely to be in this calendar year.
F. Vice Chairman [Greg]
Nothing to report for this month.
Executive officer reports approved as submitted by General Consent.
5. Additional Officer Reports
A. VP of W3C Relations [Andy Seaborne / Chris]
See Attachment 7
B. Apache Legal Affairs Committee [Jim Jagielski]
See Attachment 8
C. Apache Security Team Project [Mark Cox / Brett]
See Attachment 9
Additional officer reports approved as submitted by General Consent.
6. Committee Reports
A. Apache Abdera Project [Ant Elder / Shane]
No report was submitted.
B. Apache Ambari Project [Yusaku Sako / Doug]
See Attachment B
C. Apache Ant Project [Conor MacNeill / Bertrand]
See Attachment C
D. Apache Buildr Project [Alex Boisvert / Roy]
No report was submitted.
E. Apache Cassandra Project [Jonathan Ellis / Greg]
See Attachment E
AI: Greg: follow up
F. Apache Clerezza Project [Hasan Hasan / Jim]
See Attachment F
G. Apache Click Project [Malcolm Edgar / Chris]
No report was submitted.
H. Apache Cocoon Project [Thorsten Scherler / Jim]
See Attachment H
I. Apache Community Development Project [Luciano Resende / Roy]
No report was submitted.
J. Apache Continuum Project [Brent Atkinson / Bertrand]
No report was submitted.
AI: Bertrand to pursue a report for Continuum
K. Apache CouchDB Project [Jan Lehnardt / Shane]
See Attachment K
L. Apache Creadur Project [Robert Burrell Donkin / Brett]
No report was submitted.
M. Apache DeltaSpike Project [Mark Struberg / Greg]
See Attachment M
N. Apache DirectMemory Project [Raffaele P. Guidi / Doug]
No report was submitted.
O. Apache Empire-db Project [Francis De Brabandere / Chris]
See Attachment O
AI: Chris: follow up with Empire-db
P. Apache Etch Project [Martin Veith / Roy]
See Attachment P
Q. Apache Flume Project [Arvind Prabhakar / Doug]
See Attachment Q
R. Apache Forrest Project [David Crossley / Bertrand]
See Attachment R
S. Apache Giraph Project [Avery Ching / Greg]
No report was submitted.
AI: Greg to pursue a report for Giraph
T. Apache Gora Project [Lewis John McGibbney / Brett]
See Attachment T
U. Apache Hama Project [Edward J. Yoon / Jim]
See Attachment U
V. Apache Helix Project [Kishore Gopalakrishna / Shane]
See Attachment V
W. Apache HTTP Server Project [Eric Covener / Jim]
See Attachment W
X. Apache HttpComponents Project [Asankha Perera / Bertrand]
See Attachment X
Y. Apache Incubator Project [Marvin Humphrey / Doug]
See Attachment Y
Z. Apache jclouds Project [Andrew Bayer / Roy]
See Attachment Z
AA. Apache jUDDI Project [Kurt Stam / Greg]
See Attachment AA
AB. Apache Kafka Project [Jun Rao / Brett]
See Attachment AB
AC. Apache Lenya Project [Richard Frovarp / Shane]
See Attachment AC
The report was not approved due to lack of detail, and a
report will be expected next month.
AD. Apache Libcloud Project [Tomaz Muraus / Chris]
See Attachment AD
AE. Apache Logging Project [Christian Grobmeier / Bertrand]
See Attachment AE
AF. Apache ManifoldCF Project [Karl Wright / Roy]
See Attachment AF
AG. Apache Marmotta Project [Jakob Frank / Doug]
See Attachment AG
AH. Apache Mesos Project [Benjamin Hindman / Shane]
See Attachment AH
AI. Apache Oltu Project [Antonio Sanso / Jim]
See Attachment AI
AJ. Apache Onami Project [Simone Tripodi / Greg]
See Attachment AJ
Greg: follow up on "typo"
AK. Apache Oozie Project [Mohammad Islam / Chris]
See Attachment AK
AL. Apache OpenJPA Project [Pinaki Poddar / Brett]
See Attachment AL
AM. Apache Perl Project [Philippe M. Chiasson / Bertrand]
See Attachment AM
AN. Apache POI Project [Yegor Kozlov / Shane]
See Attachment AN
AO. Apache Qpid Project [Gordon Sim / Roy]
See Attachment AO
AP. Apache River Project [Greg Trasuk / Brett]
See Attachment AP
AQ. Apache Roller Project [Dave Johnson / Doug]
See Attachment AQ
AR. Apache Santuario Project [Colm O hEigeartaigh / Jim]
See Attachment AR
AS. Apache SIS Project [Adam Estrada / Chris]
See Attachment AS
AT. Apache Subversion Project [Greg Stein]
See Attachment AT
verbal approval of late report
AU. Apache Syncope Project [Francesco Chicchiricco / Greg]
See Attachment AU
AV. Apache Turbine Project [Thomas Vandahl / Bertrand]
See Attachment AV
AW. Apache Tuscany Project [Jean-Sebastien Delfino / Brett]
See Attachment AW
AX. Apache Velocity Project [Nathan Bubna / Chris]
No report was submitted.
AI: Chris to pursue a report for Velocity
AY. Apache Xalan Project [Steven J. Hathaway / Shane]
See Attachment AY
AI: Shane: ask for an update on sufficiency of PMC members on
their next regular report
AZ. Apache Xerces Project [Michael Glavassevich / Jim]
See Attachment AZ
AI: Jim: follow up with regard to new committers next regular
report
BA. Apache XML Graphics Project [Chris Bowditch / Roy]
See Attachment BA
BB. Apache Cordova Project [Brian LeRoux / Greg]
See Attachment BB
AI: Shane: follow up with PMC with regard to cordova.io domain
name.
BC. Apache OpenOffice Project special report [Andrea Pescetti / Doug]
See Attachment BC
Committee reports approved as submitted by General Consent.
7. Special Orders
A. Establish the Apache Open Climate Workbench Project
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors deems it to be in the best interests of
the Foundation and consistent with the Foundation's purpose to
establish a Project Management Committee charged with the creation and
maintenance of open-source software, for distribution at no charge to
the public, related to the preparation, evaluation and analysis of
massive climate remote sensing and model output data.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management Committee
(PMC), to be known as the "Apache Open Climate Workbench Project", be
and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation; and be
it further
RESOLVED, that the Apache Open Climate Workbench Project be and hereby
is responsible for the creation and maintenance of software related to
preparation, evaluation and analysis of massive climate remote sensing
and model output data; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache Open Climate
Workbench", 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 Open Climate Workbench Project, and to have primary
responsibility for management of the projects within the scope of
responsibility of the Apache Open Climate Workbench 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 Open Climate
Workbench Project:
* Andrew Hart <ahart@apache.org>
* Maziyar Boustani <boustani@apache.org>
* Christopher Douglas <cdouglas@apache.org>
* Chris Jack <cjack@apache.org>
* Dan Crichton <crichton@apache.org>
* Denis Nadeau <dnadeau@apache.org>
* estani <estani@apache.org>
* Cameron Goodale <goodale@apache.org>
* Alex Goodman <goodman@apache.org>
* Huikyo Lee <huikyole@apache.org>
* Jason Peter Evans <jasonevans@apache.org>
* Jinwon Kim <jkim@apache.org>
* Michael Joyce <joyce@apache.org>
* Laura Carriere <lcarriere@apache.org>
* Lluis Fita Borrell <lfitaborrell@apache.org>
* Luca Cinquini <luca@apache.org>
* Chris Mattmann <mattmann@apache.org>
* Nick Kew <niq@apache.org>
* Paul Loikith <ploikith@apache.org>
* Paul Michael Ramirez <pramirez@apache.org>
* Paul Zimdars <pzimdars@apache.org>
* M. V. S. Rama Rao <ramarao@apache.org>
* J Sanjay <sanjay@apache.org>
* Shakeh Khudikyan <skhudiky@apache.org>
* Suresh Marru <smarru@apache.org>
* Duane Waliser <waliser@apache.org>
* Kim Whitehall <whitehall@apache.org>
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Michael Joyce be appointed
to the office of Vice President, Apache Open Climate Workbench, 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 Open Climate Workbench Project be and hereby
is tasked with the migration and rationalization of the Apache
Incubator Open Climate Workbench podling; and be it further
RESOLVED, that all responsibilities pertaining to the Apache Incubator
Open Climate Workbench podling encumbered upon the Apache Incubator
Project are hereafter discharged.
Special Order 7A, Establish the Apache Open Climate Workbench Project, was
approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
B. Change the Apache Incubator Project Chair
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Marvin Humphrey
to the office of Vice President, Apache Incubator, and
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of
Marvin Humphrey from the office of Vice President, Apache Incubator,
and
WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Incubator
project has chosen by vote to recommend Roman Shaposhnik as the
successor to the post;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Marvin Humphrey is relieved and
discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice
President, Apache Incubator, and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Roman Shaposhnik be and hereby is
appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Incubator, 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 Incubator Project Chair,
was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
C. Establish the Apache Spark 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 fast and flexible large-scale data
analysis on clusters.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management Committee
(PMC), to be known as the "Apache Spark Project", be and hereby is
established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the Apache Spark Project be and hereby is responsible
for the creation and maintenance of software related to fast and
flexible large-scale data analysis on clusters; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache Spark" 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 Spark
Project, and to have primary responsibility for management of the
projects within the scope of responsibility of the Apache Spark
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 Spark Project:
* Mosharaf Chowdhury <mosharaf@apache.org>
* Jason Dai <jasondai@apache.org>
* Tathagata Das <tdas@apache.org>
* Ankur Dave <ankurdave@apache.org>
* Aaron Davidson <adav@apache.org>
* Thomas Dudziak <tomdz@apache.org>
* Robert Evans <bobby@apache.org>
* Thomas Graves <tgraves@apache.org>
* Andy Konwinski <andrew@apache.org>
* Stephen Haberman <stephenh@apache.org>
* Mark Hamstra <markhamstra@apache.org>
* Shane Huang <shane_huang@apache.org>
* Ryan LeCompte <ryanlecompte@apache.org>
* Haoyuan Li <haoyuan@apache.org>
* Sean McNamara <smcnamara@apache.org>
* Mridul Muralidharan <mridulm80@apache.org>
* Kay Ousterhout <kayousterhout@apache.org>
* Nick Pentreath <mlnick@apache.org>
* Imran Rashid <irashid@apache.org>
* Charles Reiss <woggle@apache.org>
* Josh Rosen <joshrosen@apache.org>
* Prashant Sharma <prashant@apache.org>
* Ram Sriharsha <harsha@apache.org>
* Shivaram Venkataraman <shivaram@apache.org>
* Patrick Wendell <pwendell@apache.org>
* Andrew Xia <xiajunluan@apache.org>
* Reynold Xin <rxin@apache.org>
* Matei Zaharia <matei@apache.org>
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Matei Zaharia be
appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Spark, 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 Spark Project be and hereby is tasked
with the migration and rationalization of the Apache Incubator Spark
podling; and be it further
RESOLVED, that all responsibilities pertaining to the Apache Incubator
Spark podling encumbered upon the Apache Incubator Project are
hereafter discharged.
Special Order 7C, Establish the Apache Spark Project, was
approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
D. Establish the Apache Knox 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 secure access
for Apache Hadoop clusters.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management Committee
(PMC), to be known as the "Apache Knox Project" be and hereby is
established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the Apache Knox Project be and hereby is responsible
for the creation and maintenance of software related to secure
access for Apache Hadoop clusters; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache Knox", 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 Knox Project, and to have primary responsibility for
management of the projects within the scope of responsibility
of the Apache Knox 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 Knox
Project:
* Christopher Douglas <cdouglas@apache.org>
* Chris Mattmann <mattmann@apache.org>
* Devaraj Das <ddas@apache.org>
* Dilli Dorai <dillidorai@apache.org>
* Alan Gates <gates@apache.org>
* John Speidel <jspeidel@apache.org>
* Kevin Minder <kminder@apache.org>
* Larry McCay <lmccay@apache.org>
* Mahadev Konar <mahadev@apache.org>
* Owen O'Malley <omalley@apache.org>
* Sumit Mohanty <smohanty@apache.org>
* Tom Beerbower <tbeerbower@apache.org>
* Thomas White <tomwhite@apache.org>
* Venkatesh Seetharam <venkatesh@apache.org>
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Kevin Minder be appointed
to the office of Vice President, Apache Knox, 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 Knox Project be and hereby is tasked with
the migration and rationalization of the Apache Incubator Knox
podling; and be it further
RESOLVED, that all responsibilities pertaining to the Apache Incubator
Knox podling encumbered upon the Apache Incubator Project are
hereafter discharged.
Special Order 7D, Establish the Apache Knox Project, was
approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
8. Discussion Items
A. Select a date for the Annual Members Meeting
What availability do other directors and executive officers have?
Last week in May would be one year since the last meeting.
Ross prefers *not* the first week of June.
No holidays are in conflict from Tuesday through Thursday of prospective weeks.
May 27 through May 29 is the tentative date.
9. Review Outstanding Action Items
* Greg: email to multiple PMCs to ask for dates on releases.
Status: Brett can roll this in with note about committee records
* Roy: Update the guidance for releases to forbid shipping binary
dependencies within a source package unless their source is also
included (see board_minutes_2012_04_18.txt) and communicate to
committers.
Status: still not done
* Greg: discuss "extras" issue with OpenOffice PMC and see if there is
anything to be done at the "ASF level"
Status:
* Chris: follow up on bringing on new committers and PMC members to DB
Status:
* Brett: follow up with Click regarding the Attic or rebooting
Status: still not done
* Jim: Ask Any23 PMC if they are ready to switch chairs
Status: PMC pinged.
* Brett: Remind PMCs to check their committee records
Status: tracking, but message still not done
* Doug: to pursue a report for Helix
Status: report received
* Brett: to pursue a report for jclouds
Status: report received
* Greg: ask about "pending discussion by the PMC" by JMeter
Status:
* Doug: pursue a report for Mesos
Status: report was received
* Chris: pursue a report for OpenJPA
Status: report received
* Bertrand: inconsistency with last committer in TomEE report
Status: TomEE PMC confirms last committer was Nov 2013, all good.
* Greg: ask for an out-of-band report for next month for Web Services
Status:
10. Unfinished Business
11. New Business
12. Announcements
13. Adjournment
Adjourned at 11:41 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
ApacheCon: 70% (includes TAC)
Very busy month; progressing well - Rich will provide more information
Placed a reorder for the "Ask Me" pins and stickers (half of which is
being sent directly from the vendor to Michael Stehmann in Germany
for OOO's 2014 events, as well as for distributing amongst others in
the EU. By doing so, this will reduce our shipping costs
tremendously).
Researched items for our giveaways (will be placing an order within a
week or so)
Sent email for a volunteer to edit the website to update the ApacheCon
info at the top right of all pages (still reflects Portland info)
Sent email for volunteer to create the Speaker Slide Template
TAC:
Initial preparations made so we can proceed immediately with the
planning on Feb 10 after the judges make their decision
Fundraising: 25%
Updated "Thanks" page on website
Sent letter to Craigslist acknowledging their payment
Call w/Upayavira on Jan 22 to discuss pending renewals and upcoming
renewals. We will be having bi-weekly calls starting on Feb 6
Continuing to follow-up on renewals sent out
Sent quote to Produban (per their request) for Silver renewal (not due
until Aug 1)
Sally (per Upayavira's request) reached out to the Platinum sponsors
regarding their renewal and approached the subject of the proposed
new "Diamond" level
Misc: 5%
Sorted FedEx invoice for a shipment sent to Lewis McGibbney and
committed to svn for processing
Prepared package to Michael Stehmann for FOSDEM (Rich graciously
agreed to take with him so we could avoid the $176+ in shipping
costs...thanks again, Rich!!)
Completed the annual report questionnaire received from CSC. Sent to
Ross for review of a couple of missing bits of information
Contract renewal - signed on Jan 20
Weekly status calls with Ross and Rich
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Attachment 2: Report from the VP of Brand Management [Shane Curcuru]
This was a very busy month on trademarks@, and there are a number of
open questions still being worked on. There have also been a number of
good discussions about clarifying our policies - both for PMCs as well
as for third parties - and about improving the Project Independence
guidelines.
Incubator PMC and trademarks@ was contacted by a third party about our
use of the Apache Sentry name for our security-related product.
Discussions are continuing.
My two talks on Brand Management were accepted for ApacheCon Denver, and
also one brand talk at the following CloudStack Collab that week. Phew!
The Apache Hadoop PMC created trademarks@hadoop.a.o privately archived
mailing list; plans are to use it for better coordination of various
Hadoop-related brand policing.
Met with counsel for the CLOUDSTACK matter, and met with a representative
from UKFast to work on a settlement to ensure our registration in the EU
can continue and to ensure that UKFast recognizes our marks.
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Attachment 3: Report from the VP of Fundraising [Upayavira]
At the request of Upayavira, this month’s report is being written by Melissa.
Melissa has been continuing to follow-up on the renewals that have been sent
out. As a result of her persistence, some that we thought were “dead”, she
has revived.
We have received a Bronze payment from Cerner.
As of the writing of this, we’re awaiting an update from the Treasurer’s
office on any new payments.
Melissa has reached out to Sam to request the Tax#/EIN# be added to the quotes
and invoices.
Facebook has sent a Supplier ACH Enrollment Form, which Melissa has completed
and sent off to them.
In the process of adding “thank yous” to individual donors on the “Thanks”
page of the website.
The renewals for Yahoo! and Citrix will be going out soon, as they are up for
renewal the first week of April.
Although we’ve been making great progress, it’s clear that we still have a lot
of work ahead of us. I’ve (me, Melissa) actually been contemplating a better
invoicing/accounting system to keep track of this. I think it would be in our
best interest if we purchase an invoicing/accounting system. We might have to
pay for a program, but it would be totally worth it in the long run.
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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. All vendor payments have
been processed on time with thanks to the Treasurer and Operations teams.
II. Fundraising/Branding/Marketing liaison: no meetings are planned. Sally
Khudairi completed Sponsor renewal outreach activities for several
organizations, and has secured confirmation from select Platinum-level
Sponsors.
III. Press Releases: the following formal announcement was issued via the
newswire service, ASF Foundation Blog, and announce@apache.org:
- 11 January 2014: The Apache Software Foundation Announces Release of #Apache™
#SpamAssassin™ 3.4.0
IV. Informal Announcements: six newsworthy items were announced on @TheASF; one
new post was made on the @ApacheCon Twitter feed. No new posts were made on
"TheApacheFoundation" account on YouTube.
V. Future Announcements: one project milestone announcement is planned to take
place by the end of the month. 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, and 2 notifications for
industry award submissions. The ASF received 1,519 press clips over this time
period, vs. last month's clip count of 422.
VII. Analyst Relations: we responded to 2 analyst queries. Apache was mentioned
in 17 reports by Gartner, 7 write-ups by GigaOM, 13 reports by Yankee Group,
and 3 reports by IDC.
VIII. ApacheCon liaison: Sally is liaising with the ApacheCon producer, with
particular focus on communications and sponsor outreach.
IX. (Non-ASF) Industry Events and Outreach liaison: Sally continues
coordinating award nominations for a few Apache projects, as well as liaising
with the ASF's presence at several conferences and virtual events.
X. Newswire accounts: we have renewed our pre-paid press release agreement with
NASDAQ GlobeNewswire, and have 17 in our account through the end of the
calendar year. We also have 9 remaining pre-paid press releases on the
PRNewswire account through May 2014, as well as ongoing distribution donated by
Pressat with no pre-established termination timeframe.
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Attachment 5: Report from the VP of Infrastructure [Sam Ruby]
New Karma:
==========
Finances:
==========
Board Action Items:
===================
Short Term Priorities:
======================
* Look into mac build slaves.
* Converge on git.apache.org migration to eris. (Step 1 is merge git ->
git-wip on tyr) (opinions?)
* Investigate / negotiate external code-signing capability, currently in talks
under NDA. INFRA-3991 is tracking the status, and a Webex call has taken
place.
* Complete nagios-to-circonus migration for monitoring.
* Continue to experiment with weekly team meetings via google hangout.
* Explore the possibility of revamping the infra documents to have a more
intuitive feel about them, improve readability.
* Confluence Upgrade. Upgrade from 5.0.3 to latest. Hopefully will be less
painful this time around. (Support case closed, nothing useful came from it
other than check the logs.)
* Port tlp creation scripts over to new json-based design on whimsy.
* Ensure all contractors are participating in on-call situations, minimally by
requiring cell-phone notification (via SMS, twitter, etc) for all circonus
alarms.
* Explore better integration with GitHub that allows us to retain the same
information on the mailing list, so that vital discussions are recorded as
having taken place in the right places (if it didn't happen on the ML...).
Long Range Priorities:
======================
* Choose a suitable technology for continued buildout of our virtual
hosting infra. Right now we are on VMWare but it no longer is gratis
software for the ASF.
* Continue gradually replacing gear we no longer have any hardware warranty
support for.
* Formulate an effective process and surrounding policy documentation for
fulfilling the DMCA safe harbor provisions as they relate to Apache services.
* Institute egress filtering on all mission-critical service hosts.
General Activity:
=================
* Migrated dist.apache.org from backups of thor to eris. Unfortunately a
dozen commits were naturally lost in the process. Thanks to TRACI.NET for
providing additional bandwidth for this purpose.
* Jira: Jira is now runnning on Apache Tomcat 8.0.0 (rather than 7.0.x). While
running on 8.0.x is unsupported by Atlassian, this is providing valuable
feedback to the Tomcat community. To mitigate the risk of running an
unsupported configuration, Jira is being monitored more closely than usual for
any problems and there is a plan in place to rollback to 7.0.x if necessary.
* At the behest of committers, we have started working on a stronger
implementation of GitHub services, including 'vanity plates' for all Apache
committers on GitHub. A method of interacting with GitHub Pull Requests and
comments has been completed, that both interacts with the GitHub interface
and retains all messages on the local mailing lists and JIRA instances for
record keeping. At the time of writing, we have 367 committers on the Apache
team on GitHub. We have made a blog entry about this at
http://s.apache.org/asfgithub which seems to have reached many projects
already. Furthermore, the Incubator has been involved in the development of
this, and are thus also aware of its existence and use cases.
* The new SSL wildcard was obtained from Thawte earlier this month, and will
be rolled out to services very soon. Thanks to jimjag this got the business
end of the deal done so we could actually get the cert in before the incumbent
expires.
* All remaining SVN repos have now been upgraded to 1.8.
* Resurrected thor (mail-search) after soliciting help from SMS for on-site
repairs.
* Amended release policy to provide rationale and spent time explaining the new
section to members@. See http://www.apache.org/dev/release#why
* Work with Cordova on processing their historical releases to comport with
policy.
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Attachment 6: Report from the Apache Travel Assistance Committee [Gavin McDonald]
We had 26 applications submitted this time. Of those, based on the judges
recommendations, the committee chose to accept 15 of these. Considering the
tight timescales we've been compressed into, those numbers are actually
pretty good.
All 15 successful applicants have accepted, and we now have an almost
complete set of flight / hotel / conference / dates / etc requirements from
everyone. We're working with the travel agent to find the cheapest sensible
flights for everyone, probably about half have been finalised now, rest
expected soon. As with past conferences, we're booking non-refundable and
non-changeable tickets, and we're self-insuring for the event of someone not
getting a visa or similar. We're ensuring everyone has their own travel
insurance to cover medical costs especially, but also ideally cancellations
in case they're ill or similar.
We've 5 applicants who need to apply for visas, so these are our top
priority.
We have however hit a snag with getting the wire transfer to the Travel
Agent, so she can ticket the flights we're happy with. We think we'll
probably be fine to wait until early next week to ticket most flights, but
for next time it'd be good if more people were able to approve transfers
with the bank. If the delay looks set to increase, we'll just put more (or
perhaps even all) on credit cards.
On a related money note, only Gav and Melissa have access to
/repos/private/financials/Bills/ to submit or track invoices. It would be
good if all of the Travel Assistance Committee could be given access too,
since we do generate a fair number each year.
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Attachment 7: Report from the VP of W3C Relations [Andy Seaborne]
Nothing to report this month.
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Attachment 8: Report from the Apache Legal Affairs Committee [Jim Jagielski]
Relatively slow but steady month. No progress yet on Creative Commons
(CC-BY 4.0) issue. Geir has offered to help regarding conversations
with Oracle related to TCK access (renewals as well as new ones).
We are operating under the understanding that we still can test against
expired TCKs in the meantime.
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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 Jan. These continue to be dealt with by
the security team.
Some effort was made this month to start to chase some old issues
which we forwarded to projects but were there was no visible progress.
One of these was escalated to the board after the reporter had no
response for 6 months (the discussion was ongoing at the time of this
report, but in general the difficulty is where a PMC does not have
complete technical coverage of the project, in these cases we should
make sure the PMC build a separate security team of the folks who can
handle issues. This is in no way an ASF-only issue, we see exactly
the same problems with other upstreams including Linux kernel etc.)
Jan 2014
1 Security vulnerability question, but not a vulnerability report
4 Phishing/spam/proxy/attacks point to site "powered by Apache"
5 Vulnerability reports to security@apache.org
1 [cordova]
1 [directory]
1 [roller]
1 [archiva]
1 [shiro]
10 Vulnerability reports to projects own security lists
2 [tomcat]
2 [camel]
2 [struts]
1 [cloudstack]
2 [aoo]
1 [hadoop]
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Attachment A: Report from the Apache Abdera Project [Ant Elder]
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Attachment B: Report from the Apache Ambari Project [Yusaku Sako]
Apache Ambari simplifies provisioning, managing, and monitoring of Apache
Hadoop clusters.
Since the last report in Jan 2013, Ambari released 1.4.3 which included
resolution of 238 JIRAs.
Mailing Lists:
* user@ambari.apache.org: 201 subscribers (+6 since last report)
* dev@ambari.apache.org: 126 subscribers (-1 since last report)
Releases:
* 2014-01-21 1.4.3
* 2014-01-03 1.4.2
* 2013-10-21 1.4.1
* 1.4.4 release vote underway
Committers:
* 2013-12-23 Added Jeff Sposetti
PMC:
* 2013-11-20 Added 37 initial PMC members upon establishing TLP
Issues:
* There are no board-level issues at this time.
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Attachment C: Report from the Apache Ant Project [Conor MacNeill]
Apache Ant is a Java based build tool along with associated tools. It
consists of 4 main projects:
- Ant core and libraries (Antlibs)
- 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 1.9.3 was released on December 29, 2013
Ant Compress Antlib 1.4 was released on January 29th 2014
Ivy
-------
Ivy 2.3.0 was released on January 21, 2013
Ivy-DE 2.2.0 was released on November 22, 2013
A release candidate has been proposed for Ivy 2.4.0 but is not yet available.
EasyAnt
-------------
The current release is still from the Incubator
0.9-Incubating.
o Committers and PMC
Jean-Louis Boudart was added to the PMC on Dec 6th, 2013
Charles Duffy was made a committer on Dec 8th, 2013.
o Community
No issues.
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Attachment D: Report from the Apache Buildr Project [Alex Boisvert]
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Attachment E: Report from the Apache Cassandra Project [Jonathan Ellis]
Cassandra is a distributed database providing massive scalability,
high performance, and high availability.
Releases:
2.0.3 25 Nov 13
1.2.12 25 Nov 13
1.2.13 20 Dec 13
2.0.4 30 Dec 13
1.2.14 3 Feb 14
Development:
Work on 2.1 continues. User-defined types [1] and collection indexing [2]
are complete, and internal optimization is ongoing: we have added a persistent,
atomic b-tree that saves 60% heap space compared to SnapTreeMap [3].
Community:
The January 2014 Cassandra Summit Japan [4] [5] saw about 100 attendees, a small
increase over December 2012. About 2/3 of the audience were running Cassandra
in production. There was widespread agreement that the English language
is the largest barrier to Cassandra use in Japan, and growth will not take off
until Japanese documentation is available.
Mikhail Stepura was added as committer 16 Jan 2014.
[1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-5590
[2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-4511
[3] https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=cassandra.git;a=tree;f=src/java/org/apache/cassandra/utils/btree;h=20bf514a69d2ba368adea16388670b7b2ee257bf;hb=HEAD
[4] http://b-rabbit.jp/cassandra/cstk2014/
[5] http://d.hatena.ne.jp/oranie/20140127/1390798275
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Attachment F: 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:
- Storage Provider:
- Integration of Virtuoso: improved bnode handling, improved handling of
very long literals and literals with non-ascii characters
- SPARQL
- Bug fix of SPARQL PreParser
- Improved SPARQL engine by acquiring read locks to prevent Concurrent
Modification Exception
- Replaced deprecated TcManager method for SPARQL queries
- Improved error reporting in processing InfoDiscobit
- Improved graph management (added delete graph functionality)
- New editor to fix webpage, support graph assert/revoke in various
serializations in editor backend
- Improved JenaSerializerProvider to get a readlock before serializing graphs
- Fixed encoding issue with SRenderlets/XmlResult
- Continue creation of various Karaf features and Sling Launcher
PartialBundleLists to ease usage of Clerezza functionalities in other projects
COMMUNITY
Latest change was addition of a new committer and PMC member on 16.08.2013
INFRASTRUCTURE
- Source codes have been migrated to Git
- Jenkins configuration fixed
- Webpages require update. Minor update to the download section as requested by
sebb@apache.org has been made (removing link to snapshot version)
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Attachment G: Report from the Apache Click Project [Malcolm Edgar]
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Attachment H: 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
different issues in the different versions of cocoon. Various devs attended
the questions and provided solutions. David Crossley pointed out that I was
not subscribed to the board mailing which I fixed. Further I updated
irs-disclosures.txt to my best knowledge however Simone had not been in this
doc so I used a approx. date.
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 still no
committer has stepped up yet to do so.
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Attachment I: Report from the Apache Community Development Project [Luciano Resende]
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Attachment J: Report from the Apache Continuum Project [Brent Atkinson]
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Attachment K: 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
No releases in this time period.
Release has been blocked on a number of issues, but is actively being
worked on.
Recent Activity
- Number of the core devs met in Vienna to discuss the pending merges.
- Finalising the merge of Benoit Chesneau’s rcouch fork.
- Working on the BigCouch merge from Cloudant.
- Created a replication list to discuss specific replication topics.
- New marketing list about to be created for new marketing team.
- Confluence wiki set up, and migration being planned.
- Review Board instance set up, and discussion about review ongoing.
- Translation work going well.
- Community-provided packages added for Ubuntu Precise and upcoming
Trusty release.
- Community
Including the following additions, CouchDB has 31 committers and
9 PMC members.
New committers:
Nick North
No new PMC members. Most recent PMC addition Nov 9th, 2012.
Mailing list stats:
announce
- 151 subscribers (+20)
- 1 message since May (-1)
user
- 1405 subscribers (-26)
- 1086 messages since May (+280)
erlang
- 154 subscribers (+8)
- 14 messages since May (-8)
dev
- 602 subscribers (-4)
- 1977 messages since May (+1097)
commits
- 104 subscribers (-1)
- 2735 messages since May (+1694)
l10n
- 31 subscribers (+10)
- 207 messages since May (+104)
replication
- 47 subscribers
- 35 messages since May
Issues
None.
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Attachment L: Report from the Apache Creadur Project [Robert Burrell Donkin]
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Attachment M: 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.
Gerhard Petracek will present DeltaSpike on the JavaLand conference.
Releases:
last release: deltaspike-0.5 on 2013-09-11.
As the JSF-integration module is now pretty much production
ready we will probably ship 1.0 pretty soon.
Community:
Last Committer: Thomas Andraschko (tandraschko) on 2013-12-14
Mailing list activity was high and we had many different committers
contributing to our jsf module improvements.
Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
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Attachment N: Report from the Apache DirectMemory Project [Raffaele P. Guidi]
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Attachment O: 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.
Progress of the project
The last three months have been quite calm, nothing specific to mention.
Changes in committers or PMC members
There have been no changes in committers or PMC members during the last
months.
Issues
There are no issues that require the board's attention at this time.
Releases
NONE
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Attachment P: 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.
ACTIVITY
* We have had some users on the lists but activity on the mailing list
is still rather low.
* We got some patches for the cpp-binding from external contributors which have
been merged.
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 three PMC votes for the last release.
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Attachment Q: 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.
* Discussions around the next release are currently underway.
CURRENT ACTIVITY
* Development activity continues with steady stream of issues being
logged and resolved.
* A total of 76 issues have been filed, and 37 issues have been
resolved between the period starting November 2, 2013 and January 29,
2014.
* Approximately 1135 messages were exchanged on the dev list in the
past three months, while a total of 289 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 226 subscribers to the developer list
- Total of 523 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 R: 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 doing a few issue tracker
comments to show people some easy things that they could do to help the
project to move forward.
We received a request from a maintainer endeavouring to enable the Homebrew
package manager to handle Forrest, beyond their current workaround. I did
explain to our project what needs to happen. There has been no response.
The project was asked to review our situation regarding the recently
revised branding guidelines. No-one commented that they have done so.
At this quarter, eight 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.
The draft report did re-start a small discussion on private@ list about the
state of the project. People were reminded about the outcome of the last
time that this arose, i.e. it is okay for the project to be quiet, as long
as it is still able to make decisions. People were asked to make effort on
the dev mail list, and to assist with project tasks, and reminded about the
need for a release.
Security issues reported:
None.
Progress of the project:
Enabled per-project configuration of Cocoon error handling.
Updated our JSch supporting product.
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Attachment S: Report from the Apache Giraph Project [Avery Ching]
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Attachment T: 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 good. We've received a number of
contributions from non-pmc/committers which is really positive.
Work is ongoing 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.X. 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?
Apostolos Giannakidis as PMC member and committer
on 2014-01-17 (yyy-mm-dd).
How has the community developed since the last report?
Shadowing overall project activity the community mailing
lists and Jira have seen contributions from new faces
and new names.
This is very positive for the project showing that
people are not only using Gora but are keen to engage in
development.
Mailing list numbers are as follows
user@: from 49 --> 57
dev@: from 60 --> 64
commits@ from NA --> 26
Changes to PMC & Committers
Apostolos Giannakidis joined as PMC member and committer
on 2014-01-17 (yyy-mm-dd). Apostolos is the second GSoC
student who has been VOTE'd by the Gora PMC to join our
ranks. Sebb kept us on our toes during the board@
72hr NOTICE period so thank you to him for that.
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 U: Report from the Apache Hama Project [Edward J. Yoon]
Apache Hama is a 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.
Releases
The last release of Hama (0.6.3) was on 11th October 2013.
Overall Project Activity since last report
Traffic on the lists is stable, and we're continuously receiving
contributions and questions from new users and committers. Developers
are working on scalability issues.
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
The last PMC addition: Aug 4, 2013
The last committer addition: Sep 9, 2013
How has the community developed since the last report?
No significant difference since the last report.
dev@ subscribers: from 94 -> 97 (+3 since last report)
user@ subscribers: from 173 -> 176 (+3 since last report)
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Attachment V: Report from the Apache Helix Project [Kishore Gopalakrishna]
Apache Helix is a generic cluster management framework used to build
distributed systems and provides automatic partition management, fault
tolerance and elasticity.
Development
===========
Fixed minor bugs and added new features.
- Initial provisioning work to integrate with Resource managers like YARN and
Mesos
- Controller pipeline performance improvements.
- Task framework for tasks associated with resources
- Design and initial code for monitoring with Helix
- Atomic API to support admin operations like cluster creation etc.
- 150 new JIRAS since last report.
- 220 issues resolved.
- Redesigned website. Added version specific docs.
- Completed most of the work related to graduation
Community
=========
- 550+ emails on the dev list
- 100+ emails on the user list
Releases
=========
- Released 0.6.2 with critical bug fixes and security patches. [Stable]
- Released 0.7.0 with new high level api. [Alpha]
- Plan to release 0.7.x stable version.
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Attachment W: 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
========
We've had one maintenance release of each in-service stream
since the last reporting period:
* 2.2.26 was released Nov 18, 2013
* 2.4.7 was released Nov 25, 2013
Bug reports
===========
185 bugs had activity, 81 new, 90 resolved.
Community
=====================
Yann Ylavic and Mike Mrumph were accepted as
new committers.
IRC and mailing list activity is steady.
Development activity is relatively low. There has been a
hint of interest in SPDY and HTTP/2.0 and how we could
adjust our architecture.
A few interesting netcraft posts came out in this period,
but not much community discussion on them yet.
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Attachment X: 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
- HttpComponents 4.3.1 GA was released on the 28th of December 2013
- HttpClient 4.3.2 GA was released on the 21st of January 2014
Community
- Gary Gregory <ggregory at apache.org> was voted into the PMC on the
27th of Jan 2014.
- The community remains small but active, but has good user
interaction on the mailing lists
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Attachment Y: 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:
Suresh Srinivas
Carl Steinbach
People who left the IPMC:
Dennis Lundberg
* New Podlings
(None)
* Graduations
The board has motions for the following:
Open Climate Workbench
At time of writing, graduation votes were underway for the following:
Knox
Spark
* Releases
The following releases were made since the last Incubator report:
Jan 21 Apache Metamodel 4.0.0-incubating
It took 9 days for the third IPMC vote to arrive.
Release RC VOTE start Third IMPC +1 Days
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Apache Metamodel 4.0.0-incubating Dec 12 Dec 21 9
* IP Clearance
* Salesforce donated the code for Phoenix, an open source SQL query engine
for Apache HBase, a NoSQL data store. It is accessed as a JDBC driver
and enables querying and managing HBase tables using SQL.
* Miscellaneous
* The issue of how best to integrate with GitHub is a recurring topic of
discussion. Infra added a new feature -- forwarding of comments on pull
requests to dev lists -- which was well received. However, as GitHub's
interface is an external commercial service rather than something we run
on our own hardware, it is difficult to ensure that communications
will be archived, requiring additional vigilance from PMCs.
* A proposal for Hoya, an application to deploy and manage existing
distributed applications in a YARN cluster, was discussed at length but
has not yet been voted on.
-------------------- Summary of podling reports --------------------
* Still getting started at the Incubator
DataFu
* Not yet ready to graduate
No release:
Hadoop Development Tools
log4cxx2
Phoenix
Usergrid
Community growth:
Blur
Tez
Twill
Low activity:
Droids
* Ready to graduate
Open Climate Workbench
Knox
* Did not report, expected next month
BatchEE
DeviceMap
NPanday
Sirona
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Table of Contents
Blur
DataFu
DeviceMap
Droids
Hadoop Development Tools
Knox
log4cxx2
Open Climate Workbench
Phoenix
Tez
Twill
Usergrid
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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 received the Trademark assign document from trademarks@ and are
pursuing getting it signed by Near Infinity.
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@ - 54[+3]; dev@ - 61[+1]
How has the project developed since the last report?
The majority of effort has been around bug fixes that were
needed. The code is now solid and tested at scale now so we anticipate a
bug fix release soon.
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
--------------------
DataFu
DataFu provides a collection of Hadoop MapReduce jobs and functions in
higher level languages based on it to perform data analysis. It provides
functions for common statistics tasks (e.g. quantiles, sampling), PageRank,
stream sessionization, and set and bag operations. DataFu also provides
Hadoop jobs for incremental data processing in MapReduce.
DataFu has been incubating since 2014-01-05.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Building ASF community
2. Release
3. Remaining incubator paperwork
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?
Since initial incubation, have received contributions from two new
contributors.
How has the project developed since the last report?
First report. Have obtained all the necessary infra (git/jira/wiki,etc).
Thirty JIRAs have been opened, 14 have been closed. Active discussion on
mailing list as to community development, etc.
Date of last release:
None. First month of incubation.
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
None. First month of incubation.
Signed-off-by:
[ ](datafu) Ashutosh Chauhan
[X](datafu) Roman Shaposhnik
[ ](datafu) Ted Dunning
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
Dave Fisher (wave):
New community to the incubator just getting started. Good guidance from
Mentors. Needs Apache trademark attribution on site. Should have links
to Mailing lists on the site.
--------------------
DeviceMap
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
Marvin Humphrey (marvin):
A draft report was posted to the DeviceMap mailing list on Friday
February 7th for review, but it was never added to the official report.
--------------------
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, beside the real low traffic on mailing list and source code commits.
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 half year.
Date of last release:
2012-10-15
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
2012-05-07
Signed-off-by:
[X](droids) Thorsten Scherler
[X](droids) Richard Frovarp
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
John Ament (johndament):
Droids is a long standing podling, with a robust code base but without
much need for frequent releases. I think graduating into an existing
TLP (not their own TLP) would be a good resolution, it helps avoid some
of the over head of many binding votes to carry on while still
maintaining an area to work in. The people working on droids were fast
to respond and give feedback on what's happening, but like is mentioned
the list is not very active (in the past 6 months, the main
conversations going on were around status of the project).
--------------------
Hadoop Development Tools
Eclipse based tools for developing applications on the Hadoop platform
Hadoop Development Tools has been incubating since 2012-11-09.
1. we have to finish the release of version 0.0.1, the main issue being
resolving source and binary license and notice files.
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?
- Srimanth Gunturi joined as committer and PPMC member
How has the project developed since the last report?
- Two additional 0.0.1 release candidates as we worked through issues
- Jenkins job setup
Date of last release:
- None
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
- November 2013
Signed-off-by:
[ ](hadoopdevelopmenttools) Suresh Marru
[ ](hadoopdevelopmenttools) Chris Mattmann
[X](hadoopdevelopmenttools) Roman Shaposhnik
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
Dave Fisher (wave):
I don't see any on dev list activity since their release in November was
held up due to dependency issues and LICENSE issues.
Are these guys talking somewhere else?
--------------------
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.
3. Begin the process!
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. Two new committers added.
2. More user questions on user list trickling in.
How has the project developed since the last report?
1. Internally agreed to being graduation processes.
2. Working toward a 0.4.0 release.
3. A few IP issues found and resolved.
4. Resolved 142(+42) of 242(+52) total issues currently in JIRA.
Date of last release:
0.3.0: 2013-10-13
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
2013-12-19: Added Vladimir Tkhir as new committer
2013-12-19: Added Maksim Kononenko as new committer
Signed-off-by:
[ ](knox) Owen O'Malley
[X](knox) Chris Douglas
[ ](knox) Mahadev Konar
[X](knox) Alan Gates
[ ](knox) Devaraj Das
[ ](knox) Chris Mattmann
[X](knox) Tom White
--------------------
log4cxx2
Logging for C++
log4cxx2 has been incubating since 2013-12-09.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. We probably need to decide what's an acceptable platform/compiler
list, sort out any remaining hiccups, and then move towards a
release.
2. We need to publish the project site with updated content to
reflect the new status and fix documentation bugs.
3. We need to make a broader use of the ASF infrastructure
(notably the CI, as well as improved management of the Jira
site - notably with triaging), and establish a roadmap for
the next releases.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
We are stuck on INFRA-7209 and how to properly publish the project
site.
How has the community developed since the last report?
The committers are still getting acquainted with each other and the
foundation. There have been some discussions about how to develop
within the team of committers already, like using a CI, how
to deal with issues regarding a changelog, which fixes should be
covered by our first incubation release etc.
Moderation of the list seems to work, there were some support
requests which were answered and problems introduced by commits on
trunk discussed.
How has the project developed since the last report?
Some known bugs were fixed already and available patches applied,
which is work in progress for the new release. It has been suggested
to schedule most of the remaining available patches for an upcoming
release of 0.11.0 to include as much content which has been provided
over the years as possible.
Date of last release:
2008-04-03 was the official, pre-incubation 0.10.0
Many post-0.10.0 commits exist on trunk which we intend to get out
as 0.11.x.
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
N/A
Signed-off-by:
[X](log4cxx2) Christian Grobmeier
[ ](log4cxx2) Scott Deboy
--------------------
Open Climate Workbench
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
Justin Mclean (jmclean):
Report not submitted. Project is up for graduation at board meeting.
--------------------
Phoenix
Phoenix is an open source SQL query engine for Apache HBase, a NoSQL data
store. It is accessed as a JDBC driver and enables querying and managing
HBase tables using SQL.
Phoenix has been incubating since 12/11/2013.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1) Perform initial release out of apache incubator followed up quickly
by two new releases
2) Make our customers successful and prove value of Phoenix+HBase over
other alternatives
3) Attract new committers to the project
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
The below is informational for the IPMC (no need to forward the board):
We've been waiting for our Github issues to be imported into our Apache
JIRA but it is taking a while. We're considering doing the import
ourselves, as we're starting to see duplicate JIRAs and continue to have
to point users back to our old Github issues.
[[https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-7179|INFRA-7179]]
How has the community developed since the last report?
We've cut over from our former Github-based open source project to
our new Apache home and dev and user lists are busy.
No new committers.
How has the project developed since the last report?
* Apache Brand Management has ok'd our name of Apache Phoenix [1]
* IP Clearance is nearly complete: software grant has been
submitted and acknowledged. Vote is underway and will close
on 2/8. IP-CLEARANCE note has been posted on general.
* Reviewing proposed release on dev list and if all looks good,
will start a vote for our first release next week.
* Working in parallel toward a new 3.0.0 release as well.
Date of last release:
No release yet.
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
No new committers or PMC members.
1. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PODLINGNAMESEARCH-44?filter=-2
Signed-off-by:
[x](phoenix) Lars Hofhansl
[X](phoenix) Andrew Purtell
[X](phoenix) Devaraj Das
[ ](phoenix) Enis Soztutar
[X](phoenix) Steven Noels
--------------------
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. Growing the community
2.
3.
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
interest from both new users and contributors via mailing lists and JIRA.
The Hive project recently merged its native support for Tez into their
trunk branch. The Pig community is also working on integrating Tez and we
have seen various JIRAs filed as well as some patches from Pig developers.
How has the project developed since the last report?
Since the first week of November, 2013 (last report), we have had around
180+ jiras filed and 130+ jiras resolved. We made the first release of Tez
( version 0.2.0 ) in the first week of December, 2013. There is currently
ongoing work to make Tez work on a secure Hadoop cluster, after which we
plan to do a 0.3.0 release.
Date of last release:
2013-12-03
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
[ ](tez) Arun Murthy
[X](tez) Chris Douglas
[ ](tez) Chris Mattmann
[x](tez) Jakob Homan
[ ](tez) Owen O'Malley
--------------------
Twill
Twill is an abstraction over Apache Hadoop® YARN to reduce the complexity of
developing distributed applications.
Twill has been incubating since 2013-11-14.
Top three items to resolve before graduation:
- More committers from different organizations.
- Regular Releases.
- Increase adoption.
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?
- Activity on the dev list up from 141 messages in December to 173
in January.
- Subscribers to the dev list up from 24 to 31.
- One new contributor in January.
How has the project developed since the last report?
- IP clearance was completed.
- Web site is up and running.
- First release is currently under vote on the incubator list.
Date of last release:
- First release is under vote and expected to happen 2/6/14.
What are the plans for the next period?
- Establish a cadence of monthly releases
- Engage more members of the community to contribute actively
- Improve documentation and website
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
- No new committers since incubation.
Signed-off-by:
[ ](twill) Vinod K
[ ](twill) Arun C Murthy
[X](twill) Tom White
[X](twill) Patrick Hunt
[ ](twill) Andrei Savu
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
Roman Shaposhnik (rvs):
A brand new community off to a good start
--------------------
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?
- A couple of new names have appeared on dev@usergrid which is positive.
How has the project developed since the last report?
- Have imported JIRA issues from pre-Apache project JIRA
- Work is continuing on a new "Core Persistence" module
- Almost done with Java package renaming to org.apache.usergrid
Date of last release:
- No releases yet.
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
- Alex Karasulu, January 13, 2014
Signed-off-by:
[ ] (snoopdave) Dave Johnson
[X] (jfarrell) Jake Farrell
[X] (jim) Jim Jagielski
[X] (lewismc) Lewis John Mcgibbney
[ ] (lresende) Luciano Resende
-----------------------------------------
Attachment Z: Report from the Apache jclouds Project [Andrew Bayer]
A cloud agnostic library that enables developers to access a variety of
supported cloud providers using one API.
Project Status
--------------
jclouds was confirmed as a TLP in October 2013 and has carried out two
successful releases (1.6.3 and 1.7.0) since then. The developer and user
community is active, with a sustained number of improvements being contributed
by users. The PMC has recently discussed how to encourage some of these users
to become committers and is actively reaching out to grow the committer base.
Community
---------
''When was the last committer voted in?''
2013-08-08 (Zack Shoylev)
''When was the last PMC member added?''
2013-04-29 (initial composition of the PMC when jclouds entered the incubator)
There is regular activity on both the user and dev lists. Responses to
questions are generally fast, with multiple community members contributing.
Community Objectives
--------------------
What are the projects main plans and expectations for the community in the
next period?
* Growing the committer base by encouraging regular contributors
* Encouraging involvement and contributions by vendors of supported providers
* Improving the user and new developer experience through revamped
documentation
* "Freshening up" the project's image via a new site design
* Finishing ongoing architectural changes in preparation for the next major
version
Releases
--------
Have there been any releases from the project in the last quarter?
* 1.6.3 (2013-11-30)
* 1.7.0 (2013-12-23)
* 1.7.1 (2014-02-11)
-----------------------------------------
Attachment AA: 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.
- Release 3.2.0. For full announcement see
http://apachejuddi.blogspot.com/2014/02/juddi-320-released-now-with-full-gui.html.
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-3.2.0, Feb 5, 2014
There are no issues that require the boards attention at this time.
-----------------------------------------
Attachment AB: 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 released Kafka 0.8.0 and have since improved existing admin tools. An 0.8.1
release branch has been created and we intend to release 0.8.1 in a few weeks.
We are actively working on a new version of the producer client, which
provides better performance and a cleaner api. After that, we expect to
rewrite the consumer client for the same reasons.
Community
===========
Lots of activities in the mailing list. kafka-user has 538, 461, 436 emails in
Jan, Dec and Nov, respectively (slightly less than 582 in Oct). kafka-dev has
540, 509, 540 emails in Jan, Dec and Nov (slightly less than 581 in Oct). At
least one Kafka talk is submitted to ApacheCon 2014. We last elected two
committers in Oct. 2013.
Releases
===========
0.8.0 was released on Dec 3, 2013.
-----------------------------------------
Attachment AC: 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:
Last change to community was PMC addition in October 2011.
-----------------------------------------
Attachment AD: 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 0.14.0 has been released on January 22nd, 2014
- Libcloud 0.13.3 (security release) has been released on December 31st, 2013
- Libcloud 0.14.0-beta3 has been released on November 25th, 2013
Community
- Brian Curtin joined as a committer on November 25th, 2013
- Latest PMC addition - John Carr On August 4th, 2013
- I (Tomaz Muraus) have attended CloudStack Collaboration conference in
Amsterdam in November where we had good collaboration with CloudStack
people
Miscellaneous
- We have launched a new website -
https://libcloud.apache.org/blog/2014/01/23/welcome-to-the-new-website.html
- We have issued a security release for CVE-2013-6480
(https://libcloud.apache.org/security.html#CVE-2013-6480) in December. The
security release was out on the same day that the security issue has been
reported.
-----------------------------------------
Attachment AE: 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 the board’s attention.
- Community
Log4j 2 remains a very active project. The overall
community is healthy and friendly. We expect to add new committers in the
coming weeks.
Log4j2 talks were submitted to the ApacheCon US CFP.
Log4cxx returned to the incubator and was active for a few weeks.
A Chainsaw release is currently blocked because we don't have
access to a code signing certificate. We consider this very
important for Chainsaw. Our Infra request showed that
other projects need access to that certificate as well, like:
OpenOffice, jUDDI, Tomcat.
The ticket is unresolved since 05/Oct/2011:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-3991
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: Very active. We are discussing a new beta or release
candidate and the GA release.
Log4j 1: Almost no activity.
Log4net: Less active, but healthy and maintained.
Log4cxx: Returned to the incubator, very active since then.
Log4php: Less activity.
Chainsaw: The ticket INFRA-3991 is blocking a new release:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-3991
-----------------------------------------
Attachment AF: Report from the Apache ManifoldCF Project [Karl Wright]
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, and a point release 1.4.1 on November 16, 2014. A new major release
(1.5) is being voted on at this time.
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 still 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. Nevertheless, we have rumors of
significant contributions being prepared by at least three individuals; if any
of these contributions are made, then we will likely offer the individuals
involved committerships.
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 2013.
External contributions and even committer contributions have been significant
this quarter, despite heavy workload among most of the committer community.
I am unaware of any mailing-list question that has gone unanswered.
Outstanding issues
==================
None.
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. We have
not yet scheduled time to address this issue.
-----------------------------------------
Attachment AG: Report from the Apache Marmotta Project [Jakob Frank]
Apache Marmotta, an Open Platform for Linked Data.
Apache Marmotta was founded in December 2012 and has graduated from
the Incubator in November 2013.
The first maintenance release (3.0.1) was published this month, the
next major release is currently blocked by an incompatible transitive
dependency (LGPL).
Traffic on the lists is stable. Especially users@marmotta.a.o shows
promising engagement, we are receiving contributions from users after
questions on the list.
Subscribers to the projects mailing list:
dev@marmotta.a.o: 60 subscribers (+2 since last report, 2014-01)
users@marmotta.a.o: 66 subscribers (+5 since last report, 2014-01)
Releases
2014-01-21 (3.0.1)
2013-10-03 (3.1.0-incubating)
Committers & PMC
Raffaele Palmieri (committer&PMC, 2013-05-21)
Peter Ansell (committer&PMC, 2013-06-24)
Issues for the Board
There are no Board-level issues at this time.
-----------------------------------------
Attachment AH: Report from the Apache Mesos Project [Benjamin Hindman]
Apache Mesos is a cluster manager that provides resource sharing and
isolation across cluster applications.
## General ##
The state of the project seems healthy, lots of releases (5 since the
last board report) and continued adoption plus mailing list and
development contributions.
## Releases ##
* Apache Mesos 0.14.0 (2013-10-09)
* Apache Mesos 0.14.1 (2013-10-09)
* Apache Mesos 0.14.2 (2013-11-03)
* Apache Mesos 0.15.0 (2013-11-25)
* Apache Mesos 0.16.0 (2013-01-23)
## Community ##
* Added 2 new committers and PMC members:
Jie Yu (jieyu) on 2013-01-25
Yan Xu (shortly after becoming a committer he had a baby so he
hasn't gotten an Apache account yet!)
* 164/117 created/resolved JIRA issues in last 90 days.
* 78/49 created/resolved JIRA issues in last 30 days.
* 115 messages to user@mesos.apache.org (January - February), with
2188 messages to dev@mesos.apache.org (a lot of which is from
Review Board and JIRA).
* Sharethrough hosted a hackathon in their SF office on February 14.
* Red Hat announced that Mesos has been officially accepted into
their distribution channel.
* A large refactor to the isolation and containerization mechanisms
in Mesos has driven multiple open source code contributions from
new contributors which we're very excited about.
## Issues ##
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
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Attachment AI: 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
org.apache.oltu.commons 1.0 and org.apache.oltu.jose 1.0 were released on February 7th.
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 (JOSE) have been released this
month. Soon we will release a stable version 1.0 of OAuth core.
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 AJ: Report from the Apache Onami Project [Simone Tripodi]
DESCRIPTION
Apache Onami is a project focused on the development and maintenance
of a set of Google Guice extensions not provided out of the box by the
library itself nor the Google developers team, such as integration
with 3rd part frameworks or extra functionalities.
MILESTONES
Since last report, there have not been three new releases.
CURRENT ACTIVITY
Development activity is quite healthy, Onami-Persist proposal has been
accepted and contributed, currently in the Onami Sandbox.
COMMUNITY
PMC composition has not changed since graduation.
Users community is quite silent, development is not really active due to
committers engagement in other projects.
ISSUES
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
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Attachment AK: 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. No new release since last report.
* 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/t9c (since
last report, Nov 2013)
COMMUNITY
* PMC composition has not changed since last report.
* Committers composition has not changed since last report.
* Currently there are:
- Total of 338 (+24) subscribers to the user list
- Total of 115 (-1) subscribers to the developer 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 AL: 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
Work has started on implementation of new features for JPA 2.1.
Support for Java 7 has been incorporated.
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.
* Governance
We continue to monitor contributors for possible committers and
PMC members.
* Releases
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Attachment AM: 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.
Work on the http-2.4 branch is ongoing and we are getting closer to
being able to merge it to trunk and make an official release supporting httpd
2.4
-- Users --
The mod_perl users list is seeing steady activity, with a growing interest
in seeing the httpd-2.4 work complete.
Patches and bug reports are few, but keep on coming.
-- PMC --
No noteworthy PMC events happened since the last report.
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Attachment AN: Report from the Apache POI Project [Yegor Kozlov]
Apache POI is a Java library for reading and writing Microsoft Office file
formats.
Releases
--------
Version 3.10-FINAL was released on 8th February 2014
Community
---------
Andreas Beeker (kiwiwings) has been voted in as a POI committer/PMC member
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 AO: 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:
Qpid Proton 0.6 was released on 16th January.
Qpid Dispatch Router 0.1 was released on 17th January.
The Qpid 0.26 release vote has concluded (we have changed the
publishing process we use and publication is currently waiting on
infra-7201, but should be complete soon). The previous Qpid release
(0.24) was in 7th Sep, 2013.
* Community:
The main developer and user lists continue to be active. JIRAs are
being raised and addressed.
No new committers were added since last report (November 2013). The
last committer added was Pavel Moravec on 30th Aug, 2013. The last PMC
members to be added were Andrew Stitcher, Chuck Rolke, Justin Ross and
Keith Wall, who were originally voted in during September 2011. It was
brought to our attention however that there was no record of
notification to - or acknowledgement from, as at that time required -
the board at that time. This was rectified by a vote in Dec 2013 and
an acknowledgement was received from Jim Jagielski.
* Development Highlights:
AMQP 1.0 continues to be an area of activity as issues are reported
(often in conjunction with other AMQP 1.0 implementations) and fixed.
Development is underway on a new AMQP 1.0 based JMS client, in line
with the JMS Mapping being developed at OASIS.
The existing JMS over 1.0 client and the java broker now support
WebSockets, tracking the specification for that being developed at
OASIS.
Though not part of Qpid per se, an AMQP based NMS implementation
(using qpid::messaging under the covers) has been developed in
conjunction with the ActiveMQ project, increasing options for
interoperability between the two projects.
Dispatch Router added support for both competing and non-competing
patterns, based on patterns specified in the configuration file. (Will
be part of 0.2 release). The Dispatch Router is tracking the
specification development for AMQP management.
Proton Messenger added support for dynamic nodes. (Included in 0.6
release). Some ideas have also been discussed to simplify using the
Proton engine API, namely adding an event-oriented interface and some
generic container support.
* Issues:
There are no items requiring board attention at this time.
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Attachment AP: 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 2.2.2 was released on November 18, 2013
Apache River 2.2.1 was released on May 2, 2013.
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 reasonably active
months. 11 messages on users@ from Dec-Feb, and over 345 messages on
dev@.
Four issues have been reported on Jira and eight old issues have been resolved.
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Attachment AQ: 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.
Community
The Roller community continues to be rather quiet with low traffic that
mostly concerns technical support and installation issues. The last new
PMC member and committer who joined is Glenn Mazza in Nov 2012.
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Attachment AR: 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 three new releases of the Apache XML Security for Java project in
the last quarter. Version 1.5.6 contained a minor bug fix, as well as a fix
for security advisory CVE-2013-4517.
In addition, there were two "beta" releases for the forthcoming 2.0.0 version
of the Java project, 2_0_0-beta and 2_0_0-rc1. Release of the final version
is anticipated in the next month.
Last committer addition: Marc Giger, July 2012.
Last PMC addition: Marc Giger, April 2013.
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Attachment AS: 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:
* Investigated datum aliasing for various producers [1]
* Investigated using XSLT for processing different versions of
XML-based formats like GML [2]
* Basic CoordinateReferenceSystem implementations have been committed [3]
* Migration from Well Known Text version 1 (WKT 1) formatting to WKT
2, a.k.a. ISO 19162.
Community:
* First post to the Users@ mailing list [6]
Branding:
* The talk proposal for ApacheCon 2014 has been submitted. Martin used
David Neufeld's text [7], with minor changes. currently waiting to see
if ApacheCon accepts this proposal.
* The OGC sent Martin a private email suggesting to submit a blog post
on the OGC portal [8] about this talk. If accepted, Martin will come
back on the mailing list for proposing a blog post for OGC portal.
* There is an OGC meeting in March. Of particular interest for SIS
there is a CRS WKT SWG (currently scheduled March 26th at 11:00
AM[9]). We hope to have a fully functional WKT 2 implementation before
this meeting, so we can share our experience with the group. SIS would
be among the first WKT 2 implementations - the only other we are aware
of was made by ESRI.
Issues:
Need to add Martin as a wiki editor [4]. Thread here.[5]
Releases:
RC SIS-0.4
Press:
None
[1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SIS-145
[2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SIS-152
[3] http://s.apache.org/Eb8
[4] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SIS/SIS+Wiki
[5] http://s.apache.org/vhi
[6] http://s.apache.org/p4
[7] http://s.apache.org/7Kb
[8] http://www.opengeospatial.org/blog
[9] http://www.opengeospatial.org/event/1403tcagenda
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Attachment AT: Report from the Apache Subversion Project [Greg Stein]
* Overview
No board-level issues at this time, since our report in January.
* Community
No changes in committers or PMC makeup. Our last committer was added
in July 2013. Our last PMC addition was March 2012.
* Releases
The community is currently voting on a number of releases, at the
time of the February board meeting. These candidates consist of an
alpha for 1.9.0, for 1.8.8, and for 1.7.16.
For those keeping score at home since the prior release numbers, the
1.7.15, 1.8.6, and 1.8.7 version numbers were skipped/pulled.
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Attachment AU: 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 82 subscribers, including 4 archive / non human addresses.
dev@ ML is active, mainly discussing new features: currently 59 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 1.1.6 is almost done).
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.
Last committer addition (Guido Wimmel) is dated January 2014
Last addition to PMC (Jan Bernhardt) is dated November 2012.
Releases since last report
* 1.1.5 (Nov 28th, 2013)
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Attachment AV: 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 again seen low levels of activity in the last
quarter.
The Turbine project has no board-level issues at this time.
Project Branding Board Report Checklist
The last issue left is
TODO: Logos and Graphics : include TM
Community changes
No new committers were voted in since the last board report.
The last change to the committer base was the addition of Georg
Kallidis (2012/09/19).
No new PMC members were voted in since the last board report.
The last change to the PMC was the addition of Georg Kallidis
(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.
The last released component was the parent POM (2013/09/25).
Fulcrum component project
Some activity has taken place to come closer to a release of the
security component.
The last released component was fulcrum-parser 1.0.3 (2013/10/11).
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Attachment AW: 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.
- Mailing list traffic hasn't changed much in the past few months, and
continues to be on the lower side, mostly a few questions on the user
mailing list.
BRANDING
- We still need to update logos with ™ and review the project doap file.
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Attachment AX: Report from the Apache Velocity Project [Nathan Bubna]
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Attachment AY: 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.
ISSUES
The volunteers appear short staffed to shepherd the staging of new
patch releases and perform quality assurance activities on the
code base.
RELEASES
- Xalan Java (2.7.1) 27-Nov-2007
- Xalan C/C++ (1.11) 29-Oct-2012
COMMUNITY ACTIVITY
Xalan is a mature project with little development activity.
There are still persons able to address the issues of
developers.
The development email has little volume. The Xalan library
still has a major presence in commercial software products.
PMC MEMBERSHIP
No membership changes.
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Attachment AZ: Report from the Apache Xerces Project [Michael Glavassevich]
Xerces-J
A new XML parser configuration was developed with enhancements for
the JAXP secure processing feature. This will allow applications to
set global limits (using system properties) on the number and size
of entities that should be processed by the parser. Similar
capability was already available programmatically through the XML
APIs.
Some minor refactoring was done in the XML Schema 1.1
implementation.
Mailing list traffic has been low; roughly 50 posts on the j-dev
and j-users lists since the beginning of November 2013.
No new releases this quarter. The latest release is
Xerces-J 2.11.0 (November 30th, 2010).
Xerces-C
New project files were added to support Visual Studio 2013. A few
other minor changes were made to update copyright years.
Mailing list traffic has been low; roughly 70 posts on the c-dev
and c-users lists since the beginning of November 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
Some minor improvements were made to the XML Commons Resolver's
classloading code to better align it with the ObjectFactory classes
in Xerces-J and Xalan-J. No postings to the mailing list this
quarter.
Committer / PMC Changes
No new committers in the last quarter. A potential new Xerces-J
committer is currently being discussed by the PMC. 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 BA: 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
No new committers recently but there are a couple of active contributors
that the PMC is monitoring with a view to future committership.
== XML GRAPHICS COMMONS ==
5 bug fixes committed to SVN, 3 were patches submitted by contributors
There were no releases this quarter.
The latest release is 1.5 (20 October 2012)
== FOP ==
Mailing list activity is slightly down due to the holiday season, but is
starting to pick up again. Some new bugs logged and several patches have
been submitted and processed. 46 separate commits in total to SVN.
Significant development of note this quarter; work continues on a
whitespace management extension, a basic fo:inline-container implementation
was finished and changes checkstyle to rules being applied to the codebase.
There were no releases this quarter
The latest release is 1.1 (20 October 2012)
== BATIK ==
Mailing activity remains light, but a couple of bugs have been reported.
There were actually 3 commits made by PMC members during this quarter; 1
was a test commit, a 2nd to create a branch for a new feature and a 3rd
was a user supplied patch being committed.
There were no releases this quarter.
The latest version is 1.7 (6 January 2008)
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Attachment BB: Report from the Apache Cordova Project [Brian LeRoux]
Apache Cordova is a platform for building native mobile applications using
HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
STATUS
It was recently brought to our attention that we had not being following
Apache releases precisely as desired by policy. There has been lengthy
discussion this report will attempt to summarize actions being taken by
Cordova.
* Archived release artifacts will get a Vote thread for everything here [1]
* Current release artifacts Vote happening immediately for everything here [2]
* We will follow the Vote policy for all MAJOR/MINOR/PATCH releases moving
forward
* We have begun investigation of automating releases w/ an eye to improving
policy in the future
Open discussion to understand how this process should work with package
manager distribution. [3] [4] Related, but not directly nor an immediate
concern, is App Store distribution. [5]
[1] http://archive.apache.org/dist/cordova
[2] http://apache.org/dist/cordova
[3] https://npmjs.org/package/cordova
[4] http://plugins.cordova.io
[5] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-174
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Attachment BC: Special report from the Apache OpenOffice Project [Andrea Pescetti]
An issue about ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) statements has
been opened at https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-190
to investigate complaints about ADA compliance of the Apache/OpenOffice
web sites.
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