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Board of Directors Meeting Minutes
March 19, 2014
1. Call to order
The meeting was scheduled for 10:30am (Pacific) and began at
10:32 when a sufficient attendance to constitute a quorum was
recognized by the chairman. The meeting was held via
teleconference, hosted by Doug Cutting and Cloudera.
IRC #asfboard on irc.freenode.net was used for backup purposes.
2. Roll Call
Directors Present:
Shane Curcuru
Doug Cutting
Bertrand Delacretaz
Roy T. Fielding
Jim Jagielski
Chris Mattmann
Brett Porter
Sam Ruby
Greg Stein
Directors Absent:
none
Executive Officers Present:
Rich Bowen
Ross Gardler joined at 11:09
Craig L Russell
Executive Officers Absent:
none
Guests:
Jake Farrell
Sean Kelly
Daniel Gruno
Marvin Humphrey
Cory Johns
David Nalley
Michael Joyce
Henri Yandell
3. Minutes from previous meetings
Published minutes can be found at:
http://www.apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html
A. The meeting of February 19, 2014
See: board_minutes_2014_02_19.txt
Approved by General Consent.
4. Executive Officer Reports
A. Chairman [Brett]
At the last board meeting, we agreed on May 27 and 29 as the dates for
the Annual Members Meeting. I will send out the formal notice to
members and call for nominations of new members and the board in the
next couple of weeks, once we're inside the required 60 day period.
ApacheCon is coming up soon. Unfortunately, I'm not able to attend
this year, though I'm interested to hear which other directors will be
present. Given the timing, I don't expect there's a need for the board
to formally meet face to face.
B. President [Ross]
ApacheCon is progressing well, see EVP report for details. Given
the extremely short timeline on this event
I think we can consider this a success. It looks to me like
we will have an event that is at least as good as, if not better,
than most previous events. When we add to this the lack of drama
created by the producer I would like to think this is the start
of a healthy relationship that will, over time, develop a
valuable conference model that brings value to all parties.
Our EA has been (mostly) consumed by ApacheCon items this month.
We did discuss a difficulty Melissa has with respect to visibility
into sponsor payments. It is difficult for Melissa to establish
whether a payment has been made or not and thus to establish
whether she ought to send a nag mail. On occasion this has been
held up when our volunteers with access to this information are
otherwise engaged. With the excellent work VP Fundraising and
Melissa have put into creating a process for managing sponsorships
this is now the most common bottleneck. I believe our treasurer is
looking into options with respect to providing Melissa with timely
access without adding additional overhead to the role of Treasurer.
I look forward to a solution in the future.
The Audit has not progressed significantly. As this was (once again)
a priority for this year I'm disappointed with the progress since
I personally undertook to see this through. I intend to explore
the blocker over the next month since I have
finally landed in my own home now, so no more moves for many
years (I hope).
Trademarks continues to increase its demands on Shane whist
Shane continues to look for ways to streamline the process.
Our EA has indicated that she is keen to help out with the
process but still feels a little unclear as to where the
boundaries lie around what she can safely do to help. I
hope to discuss this with Shane at ApacheCon in April. From
my perspective if we can free up even an hour a month of
Shane's time this will be productive as Shane is doing such
a superb job of refining out policies and practices in the
little time available.
There is no report from VP Fundraising at the time of writing.
However Upayavira and I did touch base earlier this month and
discussed the state of Fundraising. Whilst Upayavira himself is
mostly engaged elsewhere it seems all sponsorship renewals are
under control thanks to the support of (mostly) Melissa and
Sally. Upayavira's role seems to be one of oversight at present.
Infra report no significant surprises this month but note that
the new Git features have been well received. 28 projects have
adopted them in the first month, which has resulted in a tenfold
increase in git related traffic on various apache.org email
lists. As we enter budget planning season I have specifically
asked infra to consider whether they ought to make a one-off
investment in some specialist support that will allow them to
better scale resources as the foundation continues to grow. This
suggestion was well received as some members of the infra team
feel there is an element of fire-fighting that can sometimes
slow longer term projects.
TAC reports 26 applications, of which 15 were funded at an
estimated cost of $32k. This is both more applications and
approvals in the past. The process was quicker than in the past
though not without it's hiccups. Especially with respect to
paying for flights. Thanks to Nick Burch who stepped in to
solve the problem by offering his personal card (which was the
reported fall-back position last month). I can confirm that
Nick was promptly reimbursed for this expense. Melissa reports
that she will seek to make recommendations for streamlining the
process for future events now that she has been a core part of
the TAC team.
Additionally, please see Attachments 1 through 6.
C. Treasurer [Chris]
The Treasurer's Office worked with Phil Steitz to get Amazon Payment
account data in the purview of the monthly data collection process.
This is the first month that will include a tag for Amazon payments.
Remittance to a TAC committee member for fronting the payments for
ACNA 2014 flights was completed.
Chris has been in touch with the contractor company for treasurer
services referred by Jim. Treasurer's Office has requested feedback
from the board and will arrive at a decision soon. Jim is awaiting
the decision from an audit perspective as this will affect the way
he proceeds with the audit.
The President's Office inquired to see the difficulty in providing
account access for WFS and other financials necessary for sponsorship
in-transit payment inquiries. The Treasurer's Office is considering
how best to respond to the request.
Finally, the last request for transfer out of PayPal is in transit,
completing an activity desired years ago, to completely move the
bulk of ASF money out of PayPal and into WFS. Thanks to Upayavira
and Sam and others for their help in making this happen.
Income and Expenses
Current Balances:
Wells Fargo Business Checking: 958,880.79
Wells Fargo Savings: 287,886.47
PayPal: 53,478.21
Amazon Prime: 8,504.75
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Total $ 1,300,245.47
Income Summary:
Lockbox 50,271.00
Fundraising 40,000.00
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Total $ 90,271.00
Expense Summary:
Category Amount
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EA 8,670.22
Sysadmin 31,800.00
misc expense 493.74
ASF credit card - Sam Ruby 72.42
Press 4,545.45
PayPal 46,925.88
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Total $ 92,507.71
D. Secretary [Craig]
February was a short and relatively light month for incoming
documents. 42 iclas, two cclas, and four grants were received
and filed.
E. Executive Vice President [Rich]
With ApacheCon now less than a month away, registrations are
progressing well, but rather behind my hopes. We were coming up
on 300 registrations when the Early Bird price expired. (I'll
hopefully update numbers prior to the meeting.) This is ahead
of where we were at this point last year, but still
disappointing given the expanded scope of the event. More
importantly, however, the producer is happy with the numbers,
and I view this event as an investment in the next event, so if
they're happy, I'm happy.
Everyone has been very helpful, with everyone I've asked for
assistance immediately stepping up and helping out. I'm looking
forward to doing this again, but with more lead time.
Meanwhile, we're still looking at venues in Europe, the
difficulty being that the OpenStack Summit in Paris hasn't
announced dates yet, and so we have to avoid both options that
they have announced, which greatly reduces our available venues.
Dates we are currently looking at are December 7 in Prague or
November 16 in Rome. Each of these have drawbacks, and we hope
to have something decided by the end of this month.
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 / Doug]
See Attachment 7
B. Apache Legal Affairs Committee [Jim Jagielski]
See Attachment 8
C. Apache Security Team Project [Mark Cox / Shane]
See Attachment 9
Additional officer reports approved as submitted by General Consent.
6. Committee Reports
A. Apache Abdera Project [Ant Elder / Jim]
See Attachment A
B. Apache Any23 Project [Michele Mostarda / Roy]
See Attachment B
C. Apache APR Project [Jeff Trawick / Brett]
See Attachment C
D. Apache Archiva Project [Maria Odea Ching / Sam]
See Attachment D
E. Apache Axis Project [Deepal Jayasinghe / Chris]
See Attachment E
F. Apache Bigtop Project [Roman Shaposhnik / Bertrand]
See Attachment F
G. Apache Bloodhound Project [Gary Martin / Greg]
See Attachment G
H. Apache Buildr Project [Alex Boisvert / Sam]
See Attachment H
I. Apache BVal Project [Matt Benson / Shane]
See Attachment I
J. Apache Camel Project [Christian Mueller / Jim]
See Attachment J
K. Apache Cayenne Project [Andrus Adamchik / Bertrand]
See Attachment K
L. Apache Chemistry Project [Florian Müller / Chris]
See Attachment L
M. Apache Click Project [Malcolm Edgar / Doug]
No report was submitted.
Report expected next month.
N. Apache CloudStack Project [Chip Childers / Roy]
See Attachment N
O. Apache Commons Project [Gary Gregory / Brett]
See Attachment O
P. Apache Community Development Project [Luciano Resende / Greg]
See Attachment P
AI: Sam: Discuss with ComDev the vouching process. If ComDev
decides to vouch for other organizations, the decision should
be made public. This might raise questions from others about
how to qualify for vouching and the ComDev PMC should be
prepared to discuss criteria that they use.
Q. Apache Continuum Project [Brent Atkinson / Roy]
See Attachment Q
R. Apache Cordova Project [Brian LeRoux / Bertrand]
No report was submitted.
AI: Bertrand to pursue a report for Cordova
S. Apache Creadur Project [Robert Burrell Donkin / Jim]
No report was submitted.
AI: Jim to pursue a report for Creadur
T. Apache cTAKES Project [Pei J Chen / Greg]
See Attachment T
U. Apache Curator Project [Jordan Zimmerman / Shane]
See Attachment U
AI Shane: is there a plan to attract new committers/PMC
members?
V. Apache DirectMemory Project [Raffaele P. Guidi / Chris]
See Attachment V
W. Apache Felix Project [Felix Meschberger / Doug]
See Attachment W
X. Apache Flex Project [Alex Harui / Sam]
See Attachment X
Y. Apache Giraph Project [Avery Ching / Brett]
See Attachment Y
Z. Apache Gump Project [Stefan Bodewig / Shane]
See Attachment Z
AA. Apache Helix Project [Kishore Gopalakrishna / Doug]
See Attachment AA
AB. Apache Hive Project [Carl Steinbach / Jim]
See Attachment AB
AC. Apache Incubator Project [Roman Shaposhnik / Roy]
See Attachment AC
AD. Apache Jackrabbit Project [Michael Dürig / Chris]
See Attachment AD
AE. Apache Karaf Project [Jean-Baptiste Onofré / Sam]
See Attachment AE
AF. Apache Knox Project [Kevin Minder / Bertrand]
See Attachment AF
AG. Apache Labs Project [Tim Williams / Brett]
No report was submitted.
AH. Apache Lucene Project [Uwe Schindler / Greg]
See Attachment AH
AI. Apache Lucene.Net Project [Prescott Nasser / Shane]
See Attachment AI
AJ. Apache MRUnit Project [Brock Noland / Sam]
See Attachment AJ
AK. Apache OFBiz Project [Jacopo Cappellato / Doug]
See Attachment AK
AI: Doug: discuss bringing in new PMC members
AL. Apache OODT Project [Sean Kelly / Brett]
See Attachment AL
AM. Apache Open Climate Workbench Project [Michael James Joyce / Chris]
See Attachment AM
AN. Apache OpenNLP Project [Joern Kottmann / Greg]
See Attachment AN
AO. Apache OpenWebBeans Project [Mark Struberg / Roy]
See Attachment AO
AP. Apache Pig Project [Julien Le Dem / Jim]
See Attachment AP
AQ. Apache Pivot Project [Roger Whitcomb / Bertrand]
See Attachment AQ
AR. Apache Portals Project [David Sean Taylor / Roy]
See Attachment AR
AS. Apache ServiceMix Project [Gert Vanthienen / Shane]
See Attachment AS
AT. Apache Shiro Project [Les Hazlewood / Sam]
See Attachment AT
AU. Apache Sling Project [Carsten Ziegeler / Greg]
See Attachment AU
AV. Apache SpamAssassin Project [Kevin A. McGrail / Jim]
See Attachment AV
AI: Jim: discuss service hosting issue (licensing, trademark,
etc.) with PMC.
AW. Apache Spark Project [Matei Zaharia / Bertrand]
See Attachment AW
AX. Apache Stanbol Project [Fabian Christ / Brett]
See Attachment AX
AY. Apache Synapse Project [Hiranya Jayathilaka / Chris]
See Attachment AY
AZ. Apache Tiles Project [Greg Reddin / Doug]
See Attachment AZ
BA. Apache Tomcat Project [Mladen Turk / Chris]
See Attachment BA
BB. Apache UIMA Project [Marshall Schor / Brett]
See Attachment BB
BC. Apache VCL Project [Andy Kurth / Jim]
See Attachment BC
BD. Apache Velocity Project [Nathan Bubna / Shane]
See Attachment BD
BE. Apache Whirr Project [Andrew Bayer / Sam]
See Attachment BE
BF. Apache Wicket Project [Martijn Dashorst / Doug]
See Attachment BF
BG. Apache Wink Project [Luciano Resende / Greg]
See Attachment BG
BH. Apache ZooKeeper Project [Flavio Junqueira / Roy]
See Attachment BH
BI. Apache Lenya Project [Richard Frovarp / Brett]
See Attachment BI
Committee reports approved as submitted by General Consent.
7. Special Orders
A. Establish the Apache Tajo 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 low latency
queries and extract, transform and load
(ETL) operations for the Hadoop ecosystem.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management Committee
(PMC), to be known as the "Apache Tajo Project" be and hereby is
established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the Apache Tajo Project be and hereby is responsible
for the creation and maintenance of software
related to low latency queries and extract, transform and load
(ETL) operations for the Hadoop ecosystem; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache Tajo", 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 Tajo Project, and to have primary responsibility for
management of the projects within the scope of responsibility
of the Apache Tajo 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 Tajo
Project:
* Alex Karasulu <akarasulu@apache.org>
* Eli Reisman <ereisman@apache.org>
* Henry Saputra <hsaputra@apache.org>
* Hyunsik Choi <hyunsik@apache.org>
* Jakob Glen Homan <jghoman@apache.org>
* Chris Mattmann <mattmann@apache.org>
* Owen O'Malley <omalley@apache.org>
* JaeHwa Jung <blrunner@apache.org>
* Jinho Kim <jhkim@apache.org>
* Jihoon Son <jihoonson@apache.org>
* Keuntae Park <sirpkt@apache.org>
* Roshan Sumbaly <rsumbaly@apache.org>
* Sangwook Kim <swkim@apache.org>
* Yi Liu <yliu@apache.org>
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Hyunsik Choi be appointed
to the office of Vice President, Apache Tajo, 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 Tajo Project be and hereby is tasked with
the migration and rationalization of the Apache Incubator Tajo
podling; and be it further
RESOLVED, that all responsibilities pertaining to the Apache Incubator
Tajo podling encumbered upon the Apache Incubator Project are
hereafter discharged.
Special Order 7A, Establish the Apache Tajo Project, was
approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
B. Change the Apache CloudStack Project Chair
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Chip Childers
to the office of Vice President, Apache CloudStack, and
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of
Chip Childers from the office of Vice President, Apache CloudStack,
and
WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache CloudStack
project has chosen by vote to recommend Hugo Trippaers as the
successor to the post;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Chip Childers is relieved and
discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice
President, Apache CloudStack, and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Hugo Trippaers be and hereby is
appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache CloudStack, 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 CloudStack Project Chair,
was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
C. Change the Apache Pig Project Chair
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Julien Le Dem
to the office of Vice President, Apache Pig, and
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation
of Julien Le Dem from the office of Vice President, Apache
Pig, and
WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Pig
project has chosen by vote to recommend Cheolsoo Park as the
Successor to the post;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Julien Le Dem is
relieved and discharged from the duties and responsibilities of
the office of Vice President, Apache Pig, and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Cheolsoo Park be and hereby is
appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Pig, 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 7C, Change the Apache Pig Project Chair, was
approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
D. Change the Apache Bigtop Project Chair
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed
Roman Shaposhnik to the office of Vice President,
Apache Bigtop, and
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation
of Roman Shaposhnik from the office of Vice President,
Apache Bigtop, and
WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Bigtop
project has chosen by vote to recommend Konstantin Boudnik as the
Successor to the post;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Roman Shaposhnik is
relieved and discharged from the duties and responsibilities of
the office of Vice President, Apache Bigtop, and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Konstantin Boudnik be and
hereby is appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Bigtop,
to serve in accordance with and subject to the direction of the
Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until
death, resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification, or
until a successor is appointed.
Special Order 7D, Change the Apache Bigtop Project Chair, was
approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
E. Change the Apache Hama Project Chair
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Edward J. Yoon
to the office of Vice President, Apache Hama, and
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation
of Edward J. Yoon from the office of Vice President, Apache Hama,
and
WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Hama
project has chosen by vote to recommend Chia-Hung Lin as the successor
to the post;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Edward J. Yoon is relieved and
discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office
of Vice President, Apache Hama, and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Chia-Hung Lin be and hereby is
appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Hama, to
serve in accordance with and subject to the direction of the
Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until
death, resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification, or
until a successor is appointed.
Special Order 7E, Change the Apache Hama Project Chair, was
approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
F. Change the Apache Lucy Project Chair
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Nikolas Wellnhofer
to the office of Vice President, Apache Lucy, and
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation
of Nikolas Wellnhofer from the office of Vice President, Apache Lucy,
and
WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Lucy
project has chosen by vote to recommend Logan Bell as the successor
to the post;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Nikolas Wellnhofer is relieved and
discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office
of Vice President, Apache Lucy, and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Logan Bell be and hereby is
appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Lucy, 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 7F, Change the Apache Lucy Project Chair, was
approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
G. Establish the Apache Olingo 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 providing an implementation of the
OASIS OData (Open Data Protocol) specifications, in
server and client form.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management
Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Apache Olingo Project",
be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the
Foundation; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the Apache Olingo Project be and hereby is
responsible for the creation and maintenance of software
related to providing an implementation of the OASIS OData
(Open Data Protocol) specifications, in server and client
form; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Olingo" 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 Olingo Project, and to have primary responsibility
for management of the projects within the scope of
responsibility of the Apache Olingo 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 Olingo Project:
* Florian Mueller <fmui@apache.org>
* Dave Fisher <wave@apache.org>
* Christian Amend <chrisam@apache.org>
* Francesco Chicchiriccò <ilgrosso@apache.org>
* Jens Huesken <jhuesken@apache.org>
* Michael Bolz <mibo@apache.org>
* Stephan Klevenz <sklevenz@apache.org>
* Tamara Boehm <tboehm@apache.org>
* Challen He <challenh@apache.org>
* Chandan V A <chandanva@apache.org>
* Eduard Koller <eduardk@apache.org>
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Stephan Klevenz
be appointed to the office of Vice President, Olingo, to
serve in accordance with and subject to the direction of the
Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until
death, resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification,
or until a successor is appointed; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the initial Apache Olingo PMC be and hereby is
tasked with the creation of a set of bylaws intended to
encourage open development and increased participation in the
Apache Olingo Project; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the Apache Olingo Project be and hereby
is tasked with the migration and rationalization of the Apache
Incubator Olingo podling; and be it further
RESOLVED, that all responsibilities pertaining to the Apache
Incubator Olingo podling encumbered upon the Apache Incubator
Project are hereafter discharged.
Special Order 7G, Establish the Apache Olingo Project, was
approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
H. Establish the Apache Allura 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 a software development infrastructure
platform commonly known as a "forge".
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management
Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Apache Allura Project",
be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the
Foundation; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the Apache Allura Project be and hereby is
responsible for the creation and maintenance of software
related to a software development infrastructure platform
commonly known as a "forge"; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache Allura" 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 Allura Project, and to have primary responsibility
for management of the projects within the scope of
responsibility of the Apache Allura 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 Allura Project:
* Tim Van Steenburgh <tvansteenburgh@apache.org>
* Wayne Witzel III <wwitzel3@apache.org>
* Cory Johns <johnsca@apache.org>
* Dave Brondsema <brondsem@apache.org>
* Roberto Galoppini <galoppini@apache.org>
* Alvaro del Castillo <acs@apache.org>
* Stefano Invernizzi <stefanoinve@apache.org>
* Simone Gatti <simonegatti@apache.org>
* Jim Jagielski <jim@apache.org>
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Dave Brondsema
be appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Allura, to
serve in accordance with and subject to the direction of the
Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until
death, resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification,
or until a successor is appointed; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the initial Apache Allura PMC be and hereby is
tasked with the creation of a set of bylaws intended to
encourage open development and increased participation in the
Apache Allura Project; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the Apache Allura Project be and hereby
is tasked with the migration and rationalization of the Apache
Incubator Allura podling; and be it further
RESOLVED, that all responsibilities pertaining to the Apache
Incubator Allura podling encumbered upon the Apache Incubator
Project are hereafter discharged.
Special Order 7H, Establish the Apache Allura Project, was
approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
8. Discussion Items
9. Review Outstanding Action Items
* 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: not done
* Brett: Remind PMCs to check their committee records
Status: started but not complete yet
* Greg: ask about "pending discussion by the PMC" by JMeter
Status:
* Greg: ask for an out-of-band report for next month for Web Services
Status: no longer needed, they are due to report next month
* Chris: follow up with Empire-db about steps to bringing on new blood
Status:
10. Unfinished Business
11. New Business
12. Announcements
13. Adjournment
Adjourned at 11:43 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: 90% (includes TAC)
Very busy month; progressing well - Rich will provide more information
Researched items for this year's giveaways (to be used for ACNA,
OSCON, ACEU and community events throughout the year) and awaiting
shipment.
Assisted Rich with helping "spread the word". Please forgive the
inundation of emails received on March 5th - I misunderstood Rich's
instructions and sent an email for each Project and Track to comdev@
rather than to dev@PROJECT. Well, on the plus side, ya can't say we
haven't gotten the word out!! ;)
Currently working on the booth logistics
TAC:
Sent all rejection and acceptance letters out
All flights and hotel reservations have been made and sent to the
successful applicants
All documentation required for the applicants needing a visa have been
sent. 4 out of the 5 needing a visa have successfully received it;
the 5th has a visa appointment the week of March 10th.
I've submitted a direct bill application to the Westin for the TAC'ers
and staff lodging (rather than doing a wire transfer) - awaiting
approval on that from the Westin.
Fielded a very large amount of inquiries from the TAC'ers. A handful
of folks were full of questions and uncertainty on what to do and
how to proceed; with a little TLC, I was able to guide them through
the entire process and ease their nerves.
Fundraising: 10%
Continuing to follow-up on renewals sent out
Working with the Treasurer's Office for a solution for me to gain
visibility into payments. This will alleviate some of the
workload on their end, as well as enable me to gain the
information needed in a more timely manner for following up on
the past-due invoices.
Sam has fixed the info in svn so it is now readable. Sam and
Chris will determine what is needed from WF in order for me to
gain read access into the account so that I can have "real-time"
info (the info in svn is only posted after Chris writes his
board report).
Sent out invoices for the sponsors due for renewal
A great big thank you to Sally, who has been in communications with
our Platinums. As a result, we've obtained a PO# for Google's
Platinum renewal, and I've submitted the invoice through their
online portal (invoice is showing as approved; just awaiting
payment), and I've sent out the Yahoo! renewal. She is awaiting
responses from Microsoft (they just came off of vacation, so she's
giving them adequate time to catch up) and Facebook.
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Attachment 2: Report from the VP of Brand Management [Shane Curcuru]
trademarks@ traffic continues to grow and bring up new issues. It's
been very helpful to have a couple of members really step up to help
and thoughtfully answer various questions; David Nalley has been
especially helpful in this regard.
Started a discussion on ways to improve services that trademarks@
and the ASF offers to our projects, although there's limited feedback
so far there on some new ideas.
I updated the Project Independence requirements in response to issues
raised recently with the focus of the page:
http://community.apache.org/projectIndependence.html
Had a brief but productive call at DLAPiper request; they have a number
of specific documents almost ready to offer to help improve and simplify
our brand policing and education activities that I'm looking forward to.
DLAPiper submitted a US registration for LUCENE.
DLAPiper is submitting an international registration for HADOOP covering
EU and several key first-to-file countries.
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Attachment 3: Report from the VP of Fundraising [Upayavira]
As noted by Ross in his President report, I am glad to report that the
VP Fundraising role has become an oversight one. Melissa is handling most
of the renewal work, and Sally is handling the higher value sponsors.
Phil is handling thanking our PayPal/Amazon donors.
The work required for the VP Fundraising appears to have dropped to a
much more manageable level for a volunteer, thanks to the work of the
above named.
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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 ongoing thanks to the Treasurer and Operations
teams.
II. Fundraising/Branding/Marketing liaison: no meetings are planned. Sally
Khudairi continues Sponsor renewal outreach activities, and has secured
confirmation from select Platinum-level Sponsors. The discussion regarding
project-specific marketing/promotional support that had begun in October has
resumed, this time with the Trademarks/Brand Management team as lead.
III. Press Releases: the following formal announcement was issued via the
newswire service, ASF Foundation Blog, and announce@apache.org:
- 27 February 2014: The Apache Software Foundation Announces Announces Apache™
Spark™ as a Top-Level Project
- 03 March 2014: The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache™ Open Climate
Workbench™ as a Top-Level Project
IV. Informal Announcements: five newsworthy items were announced on @TheASF,
and nine new tweets on @ApacheCon feed. No new posts were made on
"TheApacheFoundation" account on YouTube.
V. Future Announcements: we're awaiting clearance on a project milestone
announcement that we began work on in January. 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 8 media requests. The ASF received 3,030
press clips over this time period, vs. last month's clip count of 1,519.
VII. Analyst Relations: we responded to 3 analyst queries, and secured Chris
Mattmann as co-host of the GreenMonk hangout/broadcast following our
announcement of Apache Climate (GreenMonk is RedMonk's sustainability-focused
arm). Apache was mentioned in 6 reports by Gartner (as well as an upcoming
Webinar on Apache Hadoop 2.0), 4 reports by Forrester, 7 write-ups by GigaOM,
8 reports by Yankee Group, and 4 reports by IDC.
VIII. ApacheCon liaison: Sally continues to liaise with the ApacheCon
producer, with particular focus on communications and sponsor outreach. She is
also working with Melissa Warnkin on promotional items for the event.
IX. (Non-ASF) Industry Events and Outreach liaison: Sally is liaising with a
small handful of events that are requesting the ASF's presence as
speakers/presenters/sponsors/*.
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 7 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:
==========
mdrob added to infra-interest.
Finances:
==========
Operations 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.
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:
=================
* The new GitHub features have been well received, with 28 projects already
onboard with the new features in February alone. As a result, the number of
github related messages on the public ASF mailing lists have risen from 304
in January to 3,616 in February, with expectations to exceed 5,000 in
March. There has been a discussion on whether to transition from opt-in to
opt-out on these features, but for the time being, it remains opt-in.
* Instituted a weekly cron to inform private@cordova about the current list of
committers not on the PMC, which should be the empty set. Currently about a
third of the pmc is impacted with no indication that this will ever be
addressed by the chair- the requisite notices have already been sent to
board@.
* Discussed the current state of affairs with our build farms as they relate to
TrafficServer's needs. We intend to address this with increased funding in
next year's budget.
* Received a report about several compromised webpages hosted by VM's
associated with OfBiz. In the process of working with the PMC to correct
this situation.
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Attachment 6: Report from the Apache Travel Assistance Committee [Gavin McDonald]
The Travel Assistance Committee exists to help those that would like to
attend ApacheCon events, but are unable to do so for financial reasons.
Overall Activity since last report
With ApacheCon NA 2014 quickly approaching things have been in full swing.
Announcements regarding TAC funding opportunities were disseminated around
16th January 2014. Announcements were sent to pmcs@, committers@, the TAC
website and the Linux Foundation in an attempt to reach a wider audience.
Announcements were also made on social media channels.
From the above, TAC received some 26 applications which is a noticeably
larger figure than received in recent times. Based on judging by various
TAC members and a subsequent judges call, an estimation was made that
applicant reported flight costs, hotels, subsistence and conference fees
we're likely to total ~$32k for 15 successful applicants.
Further to the dissemination of acceptance and rejection letters, work has
been focused around the booking of flights, accommodation and Visa
referrals for successful TAC applicants.
How has the community developed since the last report?
No new members have joined TAC since last reporting.
Other content:
Based on feedback we received from ApacheCon 2013 in Portland, we have
arranged a 'Welcome Dinner' (as oppose to Breakfast) for TAC'ers. This way
we can ensure everyone is comfortable with the accommodation as well as the
ApacheCon experience prior to the first day of the conference.
N.B. We would also advise board@ to see the TAC section of the Post
Executive Assistant's Report. This contains a substantial amount of
information based on work undertaken by EA.
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Attachment 7: Report from the VP of W3C Relations [Andy Seaborne]
Nothing to report.
-----------------------------------------
Attachment 8: Report from the Apache Legal Affairs Committee [Jim Jagielski]
Somewhat slow but steady stream of posts with the one regarding "why is LGPL
on the Not Allowed List" receiving the honor of most posts. There is nothing
that requires board attention at this time
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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 Feb. These continue to be dealt with by
the security team.
Feb 2014
3 Support question
1 Security vulnerability question, but not a vulnerability report
11 Vulnerability reports to security@apache.org
1 [traffic server]
1 [logging]
1 [poi]
1 [archiva]
3 [httpd]
2 [cordova]
1 [cxf]
1 [tomcat]
4 Vulnerability reports to projects own security lists
1 [sling]
1 [struts]
2 [tomcat]
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Attachment A: Report from the Apache Abdera Project [Ant Elder]
Apache Abdera provides Java implementations of the IETF Atom Syndication
Format and Publishing Protocol specifications.
Abdera is very quiet, almost dormant. There was one bug report recently,
no one has had a chance to investigate it yet, other than that there has
been little activity in the project. It might be worth thinking about
moving to the attic but while there are still a few PMC members watching
the lists I think its probably ok to keep the project alive for now.
The last release was one year ago, the last committer / PMC member
addition was Nov 2011.
No board issues.
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Attachment B: Report from the Apache Any23 Project [Michele Mostarda]
Anything To Triples (Any23) is a library, a web service and a command
line tool that extracts structured data in RDF format from a variety
of Web documents.
Project Releases
The last release of Any23 (0.9.0) was on 3rd November 2013.
Overall Project Activity since last report
Project activity has been very quiet again. There has been one
proposed fix for a new RDFa compliant parser and some community
members have been trying this out very recently.
Some other issues have been fixed and the process of proposing parts
of the codebase to the Apache Tika community is the main focus.
One issue which is currently being worked on (and nearly complete)
is to migrate the 'mime' module over to Apache Tika. Please see
the below Jira ticket.
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-1208.
Due to interest/committer resources from within Any23 progress
on this issue is slower than preferred HOWEVER it is NOT dead
in the water.
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
Chris Mattmann was added back to the PMC on Wed, 15th May 2013.
How has the community developed since the last report?
There has been no community development since we last reported.
Changes to PMC & Committers
As of 17/03/2014 (dd/mm/yyyy) the community is currently VOTE'ing
on a PROPOSAL to change the Project Chair from Michele Mostarda
to Lewis John McGibbney.
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Attachment C: Report from the Apache APR Project [Jeff Trawick]
The Apache Portable Runtime (APR) project creates and maintains
software libraries that provide a predictable and consistent interface
to underlying platform-specific implementations. The sub-projects
which are released somewhat regularly are APR and APR-util. In addition,
the APR-iconv sub-project is commonly used but has not had a release
since 2007.
Releases:
---------
Nothing was released this quarter. APR 1.5.0 and APR-util 1.5.3 were
released November 18, 2013.
Community
---------
New PMC members: none
The last new PMC member was added in November of 2013.
New committers: none
The last new committer was added in March of 2013.
Ten bugs were opened during the reporting period, with some
sort of developer followup (closure or discussion) on four bugs.
(Additionally, a number of bugs that had been left open after
being fixed in older releases have been cleaned up.)
Mailing list activity has been very quiet this quarter, with no
release activity and limited discussion of bugs.
Development
-----------
Development has been very light this quarter.
Issues
------
There are no board-level issues at this time.
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Attachment D: Report from the Apache Archiva Project [Maria Odea Ching]
Apache Archiva is an extensible repository management software that helps
taking care of your own personal or enterprise-wide build artifact
repository. It is the perfect companion for build tools such as Maven,
Continuum, and ANT.
Releases
--------
* Last release was on 19 February 2014 (Archiva 2.0.0)
Community
---------
We have not added any committers or PMC members recently, with the last
addition for both groups on 14 Sep 2012.
Development
-----------
Release of 2.0.1 is currently being planned to address issues in the
recently released 2.0.0.
Issues
------
No board level issues at this time.
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Attachment E: Report from the Apache Axis Project [Deepal Jayasinghe]
The Apache Axis project is responsible for the creation and maintenance
of software related to the Axis Web Services frameworks and subsidiary
components.
Community
=========
No new committers or PMC members were nominated this quarter.
The level of participation is consistent and healthy.
Both user and developer mailing lists continue to be active with a
fair amount of traffic.
Releases
No releases for this quarter.
Last releases:
Axis2/Java: April 2012
Rampart/Java: April 2012
Sandesha2/Java: April 2012
Axis2 Transports/Java: December 2009
Axis/Java: April 2006
Axis2/C: Apr 2009
Rampart/C: May 2009
Sandesha/C: Oct 2007
Savan/C: May 2007
Axis/C++ 1.x: March 2006
Issues
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
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Attachment F: Report from the Apache Bigtop Project [Roman Shaposhnik]
Apache Bigtop is a software related to a system for integration,
packaging, deployment and validation of a big data management
software distribution based on Apache Hadoop.
RELEASES
* The last release of Apache Bigtop was version 0.7.0, released on Nov 5, 2013
* Bigtop 0.8.0 is the next release scheduled for Q2 of 2014, based on Hadoop 2.3
- release is delayed from originally planned Q1 of 2014 because of the scope
of the changes
CURRENT ACTIVITY
* Development activity continues as can be seen from the following report:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?filter=12326778
(since last board report, Dec 2013)
* Bigtop 0.8.0 is the next release the community is working on
* Groovy language runtime environment has been added to Bigtop
* Latest version of Hadoop 2.3 is being added to Bigtop
COMMUNITY
No changes
* Currently there are:
- Total of 115 subscribers to the developer list
- Total of 132 subscribers to the user list
- Total of 24 subscribers to the announce list
- Total of 25 committers
- Total of 20 PMC members
ISSUES
* The Apache Bigtop PMC has voted to recommend
Konstantin Boudnik <cos@apache.org>
be appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Bigtop
* PMC has voted on and approved establishing term limits for
the position of PMC Chair. Adopted: a position of an Apache Bigtop Chair
gets elected for a year. After a year passes it is expected of the active
Chair to start a [DISCUSS] email thread on private@bigtop.apache.org asking
PMC members to nominate themselves for the next year. It is perfectly
acceptable for the active chair to nominate him or herself. There is no
limit on the number of terms that one person can server as an Apache Bigtop
Chair. Each term, however is limited to one year.
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Attachment G: Report from the Apache Bloodhound Project [Gary Martin]
Project Description
===================
Apache Bloodhound is a software development collaboration tool, including
issue tracking, wiki and repository browsing.
Issues
======
There are no issues that we believe currently require the board's attention.
Releases
========
There have been no releases over the last three months. The last releases
were:
* apache-bloodhound-0.6 (16th July 2013)
* apache-bloodhound-0.7 (23rd August 2013)
Preparation of a new release is expected within around a week.
Community & Development
=======================
Two new committee members have been added this quarter:
* SaintGermain (1st January 2014)
* Antony Semonella (9th January 2014)
Bloodhound is once again looking to become involved with GSoC this year and
the community has prepared a number of sample projects for students interest.
This has already seen six students discussing projects on the dev mailing
list who all seem to have been engaged with promptly in order to hold their
interest. We have three PMC members who have put themselves forward for
mentorship. This has also being used as an informal opportunity for those
mentors to discuss GSoC with local students which may benefit projects beyond
Bloodhound with potential students.
Development effort has increased again after a slow January but the mailing
list traffic has remained healthy with new contributors appearing fairly
regularly. This activity has obviously been boosted significantly by the GSoC
related discussions.
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Attachment H: Report from the Apache Buildr Project [Alex Boisvert]
Apache Buildr is a Ruby-based build system for Java-based applications,
including support for Scala, Groovy and a growing number of JVM languages and
tools.
Our last release (1.4.15) happened in November. Development and community
activity (mailing lists, bug reports, etc.) has been low since then. Our last
committer/PMC changes happened in October.
In February, we discussed and agreed to move to git as our primary
version-control system, as well as "turning on" the improved GitHub integration
(https://blogs.apache.org/infra/entry/improved_integration_between_apache_and).
We have no issues that require board attention.
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Attachment I: Report from the Apache BVal Project [Matt Benson]
The Apache BVal project implements the Java EE Bean Validation specification(s)
and related extensions, and became a top-level project of the foundation on
February 15, 2012.
### Releases ###
No new releases.
### Activity ###
Development has proceeded at what can charitably be termed a crawl for the past
year while BVal's team have been expending their volunteer energies elsewhere.
A large obstacle has just been removed, however, in the form of the Apache
Commons Weaver component, which has just seen its 1.0 release. This project had
been one of the aforementioned time/energy sinks and was developed for the
express purpose of solving one of BVal's long-standing design problems; speaking
on behalf of the PMC I am hopeful that we can now resume a respectable
development velocity and finally make our 1.0 and 1.1 (implementing,
respectively, the same versions of the Java Bean Validation specification)
releases in the near future.
### Community ###
No changes in community. Romain Manni-Bucau was added to the PMC during the
previous quarter after having been elected a committer the quarter before that.
### Branding ###
Nothing to report.
### Legal ###
No concerns at present.
### Infrastructure ###
Nothing needed at the moment.
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Attachment J: Report from the Apache Camel Project [Christian Mueller]
Apache Camel is a powerful open source integration framework based on known
Enterprise Integration Patterns.
Project Status
--------------
* There are no issues that require the board attention.
* The project is healthy, active and stays at a high level.
Community
---------
* Packtpub published one new book about Apache Camel:
http://www.packtpub.com/apache-camel-developers-cookbook/book
* The previous CamelOne conference is now part of RedHat's DevNation
conference which is planned for 04/13/2014 - 04/17/2014
(http://www.devnation.org/#agenda)
* We will have two talks at ApacheCon 2014 in Denver:
* http://s.apache.org/8un
* http://s.apache.org/TPG
* We got 3 new contributors who signed the ICLA.
* The community stays at a high level (289 subscribers at dev@; 732
subscribers at users@)
* The community is active and questions being answered in short term.
* Avg. 692 mails per month on the users mailing list in December 2013 -
February 2014
* Avg. 142 mails per month on the dev mailing list in December 2013 -
February 2014
* Avg. 275 commits per month in December 2013 - February 2014
Community Objectives
--------------------
* We handled the security issues CVE-2014-0002 and CVE-2014-0003. Thanks to
David Jorm for reporting it to us.
* We are finalizing Apache Camel 2.13.0 to get it out of the door soon.
* We are discussing new features for the next minor release Apache Camel
2.14.0.
Project Composition
-------------------
* No new committer in this reporting period (last one joined 10/16/2013)
* No new PMC member in this reporting period (last one joined 10/05/2013)
Releases
--------
* 2.12.3 (02/21/14)
* 2.11.4 (02/16/14)
* 2.11.3 (01/13/14)
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Attachment K: Report from the Apache Cayenne Project [Andrus Adamchik]
Apache Cayenne is a Java persistence framework. It takes a distinct approach
to object persistence and provides an ORM runtime, remote persistence services,
and a GUI mapping/modeling tool.
Project Status
* Cayenne 3.1 Release Candidate 1 was released on Feb 18.
* New feature development continues for Cayenne 3.2.
* Git migration got stalled (mainly lack of time among the champions to restart
a conversation with infra). Looking for ways to get it back on track.
Community
* Mailing list activity is about average on developer and user lists.
* The last PMC member was added in December 2012.
* The last committer was added in May 2012.
* We have a new, but steady contributor who submitted a number of patches for
Cayenne 3.2 in the last quarter
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Attachment L: Report from the Apache Chemistry Project [Florian Müller]
Apache Chemistry is an effort to provide an implementation of the CMIS
(Content Management Interoperability Services) specification in Java,
Python, PHP, .NET, and Objective-C (and possibly other languages).
The project has graduated in February 2011.
== Project status ==
There isn't much activity except for the OpenCMIS subproject, which
receives bug fixes, improvements and new features. OpenCMIS is still
preparing the next release.
There are no board-level issues at this time.
== Community ==
No community changes this quarter.
== Releases ==
Last releases:
OpenCMIS 0.10.0 2013-08-15
ObjectiveCMIS 0.2 2013-07-30
cmislib 0.5.1 2012-12-19
DotCMIS 0.5 2013-01-19
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Attachment M: Report from the Apache Click Project [Malcolm Edgar]
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Attachment N: Report from the Apache CloudStack Project [Chip Childers]
DESCRIPTION
Apache CloudStack is open source software designed to deploy and manage
large networks of virtual machines, as a highly available, highly scalable
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud computing platform.
ISSUES
The board has a resolution on it's agenda for this meeting to change
the Apache CloudStack PMC chair (special order B).
CURRENT ACTIVITY
* The community is finalizing our Apache CloudStack 4.3.0 release. This
release was delayed from the community's initial target for a release date,
due to an issue with how we were treating a specific dependency during the
default build of the software. This issue was identified by the PMC and has
been resolved. We are actively testing our latest RC now.
* The project was informed that the Citrix-hosted realhostip.com DNS resolver
service will be going offline this summer. It is currently used by
CloudStack installations as a default installation configuration option.
Best practice for production installations include changing this to a
local solution, however we are aware that many installations do not make
this change. We will be informing our user community of this news during
our 4.3.0 release announcement, and have already committed a patch that
removes the need for this external service from 4.3.0 onward.
* The project is about to go into feature freeze for Apache CloudStack 4.4.0.
* The documentation has made the proposed transition from the publican
docbook format to .rst format. It is too early to tell if this had the
desired effect on lowering the barriers for user contributions.
* The community is working with TLF to organize the upcoming CCC14NA
conference in Denver, with the event obviously being co-located with
ApacheCon NA.
RELEASES
Apache CloudStack 4.2.1 was released on January 10, 2014.
COMMUNITY
Including the following additions, CloudStack has 86 committers and 26 PMC
members.
New Committers:
Sanjay Tripathi (sanjaytripathi) - Jan 9
Mark Hinkle (mrhinkle) - Jan 24
Chris Suich (csuich2) - Feb 6
New PMC Members:
Giles Sirret (giles) - Jan 21
Mike Tutkowski (mtutkowski) - Feb 4
The Apache CloudStack project remains a high volume community:
dev@ 761 729(+32) subs / msgs = Dec: 1298, Jan: 1977, Feb: 1691
users@ 1042(-59) subs / msgs = Dec: 514, Jan: 516, Feb: 474
issues@ 192(+15) subs / msgs = Dec: 3028, Jan: 2607, Feb: 943
commits@ 202(+8) subs / msgs = Dec: 1023, Jan: 1311, Feb: 884
marketing@ 178(+15) subs / msgs = Dec: 63, Jan: 91, Feb: 18
users-cn@ 508(+40) subs / msgs = Dec: 83, Jan: 64, Feb: 38
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Attachment O: Report from the Apache Commons Project [Gary Gregory]
The Apache Commons project focuses on all aspects of reusable Java components.
Apache Commons components are widely used in many projects, both within Apache
and without.
No issues require board attention at this time.
Overall project health is good with twelve releases this period. The [csv]
component is still inching towards 1.0 releases and [imaging] is very close to
1.0 as well.
Releases:
- 2013-12-12: Apache Commons BeanUtils 1.9.0
- 2013-12-20: Apache Commons Codec 1.9
- 2013-12-31: Apache Commons Pool 2.1
- 2014-01-01: Apache Commons Lang 3.2
- 2014-01-02: Apache Commons Exec 1.2
- 2014-01-09: Apache Commons Lang 3.2.1
- 2014-01-12: Apache Commons BeanUtils 1.9.1
- 2014-01-21: Apache Commons Compress 1.7
- 2014-02-07: Apache Commons FileUpload 1.3.1
- SECURITY - CVE-2014-0050. Specially crafted input can trigger a DoS
if the buffer used by the MultipartStream is not big enough. When
constructing MultipartStream enforce the requirements for buffer size by
throwing an IllegalArgumentException if the requested buffer size is too
small. This prevents the DoS.
- 2014-02-25: Apache Commons Pool 2.2
- 2014-03-04: Apache Commons Lang 3.3
- 2014-03-04: Apache Commons DBCP 2.0
New committers
- 2014-01-24: Duncan Jones
- 2014:02-13: Bernd Eckenfels
News
- We’ve moved Commons Attributes to dormant. Since no development has
happened for a long time, we’ve moved the Apache Commons Attributes
component to dormant. No further development is expected.
- The site has a new look and feel. Not all component sites have been
republished yet.
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Attachment P: Report from the Apache Community Development Project [Luciano Resende]
The Community Development PMC is responsible for helping people become
involved with Apache projects
Project Status
--------------
No issues require board attention at this time.
PMC changes
-----------
No Changes. The latest addition has been Suresh Marru on 2013-04-26.
Google Summer of Code
---------------------
It’s GSoC time again, we have been accepted as a Mentoring Organization and
we are currently accepting students proposals.
Ulrich Stark has volunteered as GSoC Admin and has been doing an excellent work
handling all the Organization registration and mentoring registration and
validation with the respective PMCs.
ComDev & Events
---------------
The ComDev PMC is now a "home" for some of the ConCom responsibilities.
In the last few months, Rich Bowen has been leading the RFP for ApacheCon Denver
and the schedule is now up and live at the conference website :
http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/apachecon-north-america/program/schedule.
There has also been discussion about a community panel where people would discuss
some of the Apache “hot topics” such as the “Release Process”. The panel topic hasn’t
been finalized yet and is being discussed on the comdev AT apache DOT org.
Other
-----
There has been a few threads recently about Apache Releases
and how to support a faster release process for Apache projects.
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Attachment Q: Report from the Apache Continuum Project [Brent Atkinson]
Apache Continuum is an enterprise-ready continuous integration server with
features such as automated builds, release management, role-based security,
and integration with popular build tools and source control management
systems.
The heightened activity cited in the last report resulted in a temporarily
build to address the remote execution vulnerabilities in Apache Struts 2
that lead to vmbuild being compromised and subsequently disabled by the
infrastructure team. The build has been running on vmbuild without incident
since January, 7 2014.
The last release was Continuum 1.4.1, on January 7, 2013. A release including
fixes for the previously mentioned vulnerabilities is still pending.
As expected, there has been low volume on the mailing lists and in the issue
tracker.
There have been no new committers since last cycle. The last committer was
added December 8, 2010 and the last PMC member was added on September 2, 2012.
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Attachment R: Report from the Apache Cordova Project [Brian LeRoux]
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Attachment S: Report from the Apache Creadur Project [Robert Burrell Donkin]
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Attachment T: Report from the Apache cTAKES Project [Pei J Chen]
Apache cTAKES (clinical Text Analysis and Knowledge Extraction System)
is a natural language processing (NLP) tool for information extraction
from electronic medical record clinical free-text.
Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
Releases:
- ctakes-3.0.0-incubating on 2013-02-22
- ctakes-3.1.0 on 2013-08-30
- ctakes-3.1.1 on 2013-12-05
Development:
The committee is actively working and planning for the future release.
Some of the planned code changes for the upcoming release includes:
- YTEX (Yale Extensions for Apache cTAKES) has been committed to sandbox.
Key features include storing annotations into an relational db, exporting
annotation to data mining toolkits (WEKA, R, Matlab, etc.).
- New faster dictionary lookup component has been committed to sandbox
- New temporal relations component in progress
- Various bug fixes and code enhancements tracked by Jira
Community:
Last Committers/PMC:
Murali Nagendranath (2013-10-21)
Vijay Garla (2013-11-16)
dev mailing list subscribers count: 103 (+9 since last report)
user mailing list subscribers count: 91 (+10 since last report)
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Attachment U: Report from the Apache Curator Project [Jordan Zimmerman]
Project Status
==============
* 2.4.1 maintenance released currently being voted on
Community
=========
* In the past 5 weeks 10 issues were resolved
* Last release: 2.4.0 on Feb 8, 2014
* Curator switched to a Github mirror and will now take Pull
Requests instead of patches
Issues for board consideration
==============================
* Curator continues to have only 1 active committer however
patches/PRs are coming from a good number of unique active users
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Attachment V: Report from the Apache DirectMemory Project [Raffaele P. Guidi]
Apache DirectMemory is an off-heap cache implementation for the JVM
* General Information
Development and mailing lists traffic are mostly quiet, we are working on a
minor (fix) 0.2.1 release
* Issues
No known issues at the time
* Committers or PMC members change
Last added PMC member was Noctarius (Cristoph Engelbert) on 2013-09-25
* Releases
Release 0.2 - 2013-09-17
Release 0.1 - 2012-07-09
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Attachment W: Report from the Apache Felix Project [Felix Meschberger]
Apache Felix is a project aimed at implementing specifications from the OSGi
Alliance as well as implementing other supporting tools and technologies aligned
with OSGi technology.
Community
- PMC: No new PMC members have been added in this report period. The last new
PMC member was added in Dec. 2013
- Committers: David Bosschaert has been added as a committer on Dec. 20, 2013
- Steady mailing list activity.
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
Software
- Apache Felix Utils 1.6.0 (March 5, 2014)
- Apache Felix Declarative Services (SCR) 1.8.2 (January 21, 2014)
- Apache Felix Inventory 1.0.4 (March 3, 2014)
- Apache Felix Jaas 0.0.2 (Feburary 17, 2014)
- Apache Felix Web Console 4.2.2 (Feburary 06, 2014)
- Apache Felix Inventory 1.0.2 (Feburary 06, 2014)
- Apache Felix iPOJO Runtime and Manipulator 1.11.1 (January 29, 2014)
- Apache Felix Metatype 1.0.10 (January 19, 2014)
- Apache Felix Coordinator 1.0.0 (January 19, 2014)
- Apache Felix AutoConf Processor 0.1.5 (December 10, 2013)
- Apache Felix DeploymentAdmin 0.9.5 (December 10, 2013)
- Apache Felix HTTP Service 2.2.2 (December 10, 2013)
Project Branding
- TM missing from all Logos
Licensing and other issues
- None
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Attachment X: Report from the Apache Flex Project [Alex Harui]
Apache Flex is an application framework for easily building Flash-based
applications for mobile devices, the browser and desktop.
RELEASES
-Apache Flex SDK 4.11.0 was released on 10/28/13.
-Voting is in progress for SDK 4.12.0
-Apache Flex Installer 2.7.0 was also released on 10/28/13.
-Voting is also in progress for Installer 3.0.0 which has the new
capability to use Ant script syntax to drive the install process.
ACTIVITY
Activity in Apache Flex continues to be in two main areas: improvements
to the existing Adobe Flash Platform-dependent code base, including the
releases listed above, and prototyping ways to create a version of Flex
that is independent from the Adobe Flash Platform. There is another group
working on Maven-related tools for the existing code base.
In the past three months we've seen:
- Continued JIRA activity (more bugs raised than resolved however)
- More committers becoming active again.
- Fewer new folks contributing and eventually becoming committers.
Other highlights:
-Over 70 bugs have been fixed in 4.12.0.
-Three committers will be giving presentations on Flex at ApacheCon 2014.
Code Donation Update
-FlexUnit was donated but has yet to be formulated into a release.
-Swiz donation is still pending. The donator has not filed the paperwork.
-BlazeDS donation paperwork was submitted but the code is not yet in the
repo because it was discovered that some pieces were missing. We hope to
get the missing pieces soon. The missing pieces are stuck in IP review at
Adobe.
COMMUNITY
-One person who has been helpful on the mailing list and in JIRA was
invited as a committer and declined.
-No other candidates for new committer or promotions of committers to PMC
in this reporting period.
-A non-committer claims to be starting on a book about Apache Flex.
-Latest analytics include over 3000 hits per day on the website during the
work week (less on weekends).
-There were more than 14,000 installs of 4.11.0 since its release.
-It feels like there is more interest from users based on activity on
users@.
-Slight decrease in activity-level and number of committers working on SDK
repo but more activity and committers working on FlexJS.
-Several Apache Flex committers will be presenting at the 360 Flex
conference in May
TRADEMARKS
-The new version of Flex is going to be called FlexJS. We have begun
associating the TM symbol with FlexJS per advice from trademarks@
-This site is hopefully in compliance with Apache trademark policy
http://www.madeinflex.com/terminos-legales/
INFRASTRUCTURE
* I'm still hoping to find time to resolve INFRA-4380 (attachments in old
Flex bugs).
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Attachment Y: Report from the Apache Giraph Project [Avery Ching]
Giraph is a Bulk Synchronous Parallel framework for writing programs
that analyze large graphs on a Hadoop cluster. Giraph is similar to
Google's Pregel system.
Project Status
--------------
Upcoming releases:
1.1.0 - Getting close to done (coordinated by Roman Shaposhnik)
Community
---------
* In the past 30 days we have resolved 25 issues.
* Presented at Strata 2014 -
http://strataconf.com/strata2014/public/schedule/detail/32137
* Last committer voted in 11/2012 (Nitay Joeffe)
* Last PMC member voted in 2/2014 (Eli Reisman)
* Last release 5/2013 (1.0.0)
Mailing lists:
231 subscribers on dev
379 subscribers on user
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Attachment Z: Report from the Apache Gump Project [Stefan Bodewig]
Apache Gump is a cross-project continuous integration server. Gump's
intention isn't so much to be a CI server but rather a vehicle that
makes people look beyond their project's boundaries and helps the
projects to collaborate.
Gump is written in Python and supports several build tools and version
control systems. The Apache installation of Gump builds ASF as well
as non-ASF projects and their dependencies. It started in the Java
part of the foundation but also builds projects like APR, HTTPd and
XMLUnit.NET.
== Summary ==
Gump seems to create useful results for the few projects that use it.
Activity spiked when JUnit dropped Ant build support, very little
activity apart from that.
== Releases ==
Gump has never done any releases. One reason for this is that the ASF
installations of Gump work on the latest code base almost all of the
time following its "integrate everything continuously" philosophy.
== Activity ==
The JUnit team decided to drop the Ant build and switch to "Maven
only". Gump used Ant to build JUnit and the migration caused a few
hiccups along the way. Three different people modified a few
descriptors over a period of several days until things were back to
normal. No other activity.
== Changes to the Roster ==
All ASF committers have write access to the metadata that configure
the ASF installations.
No new committers to the code base, no changes to the PMC. The most
recent addition to the PMC was in December 2006 when we added Sander
Temme.
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Attachment AA: Report from the Apache Helix Project [Kishore Gopalakrishna]
Development
===========
Fixed minor bugs and added new features on the main release branches
- Significant performance improvements to the Helix controller
- Improved CI health
- 20 new JIRAS since last report.
- 9 issues resolved.
Progress on integrating with provisioners like YARN
- Fully-functional example of Helix demonstrating the ability to integrate
with YARN and manage containers
- Initial work on integrating existing task framework to run within
provisioned containers
- Initial exploration of Mesos integration
Progress on pluggable monitoring
- Initial code for plugging in monitoring frameworks like Riemann to support
centralized actionable alerts
Community
=========
- 100+ emails on the dev list
- 70+ emails on the user list
- Establishment of regular meetings on #apachehelix
- Receiving significant community input related to improving Helix APIs
through IRC and the mailing lists
- Last committer 05/18/13
- Last PPMC 11/7/13
Releases
=========
- Making progress on 0.7.x stability
- Plan to release 0.6.3 with critical bug fixes/features.
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Attachment AB: Report from the Apache Hive Project [Carl Steinbach]
DESCRIPTION
Apache Hive is a data warehouse written on top of Apache Hadoop. It
provides SQL to query and manage data (in the form of tables and
partitions stored in HDFS or external systems) and provides a
metastore containing metadata information about the stored data.
RELEASES
* The last release of Apache Hive was version 0.12.0, released on
October 15, 2013.
* Work on the upcoming 0.13.0 release has begun.
COMMUNITY
* Development activity continues as can be seen from the following
report: http://s.apache.org/Nx9
* A Hive User Group meeting was held on March 17th at Hortonworks'
office in Palo Alto.
* Xuefu Zhang (xuefu) and Gunther Hagleitner (gunther) were voted in
as PMC members. The last addition to the Hive PMC was made on
March 3rd.
* Remus Rusanu, Sergey Shelukhin, Jason Dere, and Vikram Dixit were
voted in as committers. The last addition was made on February 26th.
* Currently there are:
- 655 subscribers to the developer list
- 1658 subscribers to the user list
- 12 committers
- 17 PMC members
- 6 Emeritus PMC members
BRANDING CHECKLIST
We have created HIVE-2432 to track this, with sub-tasks corresponding
to each item.
* Project Website Basics: [DONE]
* Project Naming And Descriptions: [DONE]
* Website Navigation Links: [IN PROGRESS]
* Trademark Attributions: [IN PROGRESS]
* Logos and Graphics: [DONE]
* Project Metadata: [DONE]
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Attachment AC: Report from the Apache Incubator Project [Roman Shaposhnik]
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 33 podlings currently under incubation.
* Community
New IPMC members:
Justin Mclean
People who left the IPMC:
(None)
* New Podlings
(None)
* Graduations
The board has motions for the following:
(None)
The following graduations have been approved by
the previous board meeting but haven't been recorded
in the incubator report:
Knox
Spark
* Releases
The following releases were made since the last Incubator report:
Feb 2 Apache Spark 0.9.0-incubating
Feb 2 Apache Falcon 0.4-incubating
Feb 5 Apache Twill 0.1.0-incubating
Feb 10 Apache Olingo 1.1.0-incubating
Feb 21 Apache Storm 0.9.1-incubating
Feb 24 Apache Celix 1.0.0-incubating
Feb 28 Apache Tez 0.3.0-incubating
It took 2-10 days for the third IPMC vote to arrive.
Release VOTE start Third IMPC +1 Days
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Apache Spark 0.9.0-incubating Jan 24 Jan 31 5
Apache Falcon 0.4-incubating Jan 24 Feb 2 10
Apache Twill 0.1.0-incubating Feb 1 Feb 4 3
Apache Olingo 1.1.0-incubating Jan 31 Feb 10 10
Apache Storm 0.9.1-incubating Feb 13 Feb 16 3
Apache Celix 1.0.0-incubating Feb 16 Feb 22 6
Apache Tez 0.3.0-incubating Feb 26 Feb 28 2
* Miscellaneous
* NPanday missed two reports in a row and community activity is low.
This has been escalated to the project's mentors.
* A proposal for Hoya, an application to deploy and manage existing
distributed applications in a YARN cluster, is still pending a vote.
* The Apache Phoenix podling is concerned that an import of existing
issues database into ASF JIRA is taking too long
-------------------- Summary of podling reports --------------------
* Not yet ready to graduate
No release(s):
BatchEE
DataFu
log4cxx2
Phoenix
Wave
Streams
Community growth:
DeviceMap
Drill
Falcon
MRQL
Kalumet
Streams
Considering retirement:
S4
* Ready to graduate
Allura
Tajo
* Did not report, expected next month
NPanday
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Table of Contents
Allura
BatchEE
DataFu
DeviceMap
Drill
Falcon
Kalumet
log4cxx2
MRQL
NPanday
Phoenix
S4
Sentry
Sirona
Storm
Streams
Tajo
Wave
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Allura
Forge software for the development of software projects, including source
control systems, issue tracking, discussion, wiki, and other software
project management tools.
Allura has been incubating since 2012-06-25.
Graduation discussions are currently ongoing.
Community Discussion: http://markmail.org/message/wdddve3kxceqvgj5
Podling vote: http://markmail.org/message/4g54fcxwb4xxys5l
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?
Two talks about Allura were accepted for ApacheCon. A few small patches
from new contributors. A guide for new contributors was written. One
person has expressed interest in participating in the GSoC with Allura.
How has the project developed since the last report?
A second release was made recently (Feb 25). Many new features and fixes
continue to land, including a new user profile page design.
Date of last release:
2014-02-25
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
2013-04-11
Signed-off-by:
[ ](allura) Ross Gardler
[ ](allura) Greg Stein
[X](allura) Jim Jagielski
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
Justin Mclean (jmclean):
IPMC has voted for graduation and just started a vote on
general@incubator.
--------------------
BatchEE
BatchEE projects aims to provide a JBatch implementation (aka JSR352) and a
set of useful extensions for this specification.
BatchEE has been incubating since 2013-10-03.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Build a Community
We really need to work on this. Mark Struberg will hold a talk
about BatchEE on JAX in early May 2014 in Mainz
2. Ship stable releases
This looks good so far. We are pretty close on getting
a first release out.
3. Establish an ASF culture.
We also need to work on this front. The committer circle does fine
on the technical side but we really need to raise attention about
the importance of structural things like not pulling in too many
foreign dependencies and shipping board reports in time.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
None yet. We still have to work on a few things but nothing critical. I
will make sure we raise issues if we cannot solve them.
How has the community developed since the last report?
The community does not yet grow much in terms of committers. There are
quite a few interested users though and the project gets used in
production projects already.
How has the project developed since the last report?
We have missed reporting for 2 consecutive months due to time constraints
of the involved leaders. We will report the next 3 month to show our
commitment
Date of last release:
none yet. We are preparing to release 0.1-incubating within
the next 2 month.
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
We still have the initial set of committers.
Signed-off-by:
[ ](batchee) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
[ ](batchee) Olivier Lamy
[X](batchee) Mark Struberg
--------------------
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?
More contributions have been received from Jian Wang, who has also
been voted in as the newest committer and PPMC member. A talk
is planned at the Apache Pig meetup to be held on March 14th.
How has the project developed since the last report?
Three JIRAs have been opened, four have been closed. The project has
migrated from Ant to the Gradle build system, which will make it easier
to add libraries for Hive, Crunch, etc.
Date of last release:
None. Second month of incubation.
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
2014-02-22
Signed-off-by:
[ ](datafu) Ashutosh Chauhan
[X](datafu) Roman Shaposhnik
[x](datafu) Ted Dunning
--------------------
DeviceMap
Apache DeviceMap is a data repository containing device information, images
and other relevant information for all sorts of mobile devices, e.g.
smartphones and tablets. While the focus is initially on that data, APIs
will also be created to use and manage it.
DeviceMap has been incubating since 2012-01-03.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Make a release
2. Get more contributors
3. Grow the community
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware
of?
DeviceMap's activity is very low and has actually gone down in the last
few months.
The next step is probably for the podling to consider whether it can
reasonably expect to grow a community and get more active, or whether it's
not active enough to graduate as an Apache project.
How has the community developed since the last report?
No changes.
How has the project developed since the last report?
Minimal changes only.
Date of last release:
None yet.
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
May 2013
Signed-off-by:
[X](devicemap) Bertrand Delacretaz
[ ](devicemap) Kevan Miller
[ ](devicemap) Andrew Savory
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
Roman Shaposhnik (rvs):
I will agree that the community activity is very low and the trend is
not positive. I would encourage mentors to probe around the question of
potential retirement.
--------------------
Apache: Project Drill
Description:
Apache Drill is a distributed system for interactive analysis of large-scale
datasets that is based on Google's Dremel. Its goal is to efficiently
process nested data, scale to 10,000 servers or more and to be able to
process petabyes of data and trillions of records in seconds.
Drill has been incubating since 2012-08-11.
Three Issues to Address in Move to Graduation:
1. Continue to attract new developers and and early users with a variety
of skills and viewpoints
2. Continue to develop deeper community skills and knowledge by building
additional releases
3. Demonstrate community robustness by rotating project tasks among
multiple project members
Issues to Call to Attention of PMC or ASF Board:
None
How community has developed since last report:
Community awareness and participation were strengthened through a meeting
of the Bay Area Apache Drill User Group in San Jose sponsored by Yahoo!
This event expanded participation to include many new to Drill and
particularly those interested as potential users (analysts rather than
developers).
Speakers included Drill project mentor Ted Dunning from MapR, Data
Scientist Will Ford from Alpine Data Labs, new Drill committer Julian Hyde
from HortonWorks and Aman Sinha, MapR Drill engineer.
Additional events include:
• Two new Drill committers accepted appointment: Julian Hyde (HortonWorks)
and Tim Chen (Microsoft).
• Drill has a new project mentor, Sebastian Schelter.
Mailing list discussions:
Subscriptions to the Drill mailing lists have risen to 399 on dev list and
308 on the user list and 508 uniques across both lists. There has been
active and increasing participation in discussions on the developer
mailing list, including new participants and developers. Participation on
the user list is growing although still small; mainly activity takes place
on developer mailing list.
Activity summary for the user mailing list:
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-drill-user/
February to date 02/26/2014: 25
January 2014, 12
December 2013, 62
Topics in discussion on the user mailing list included but not limited to:
• Feb 2014: Connecting Drill to HBase, Support for Distinct/Count
• Jan 2014: Loading Data into Drill, Data Locality
• December 2013: Loading Data into Drill, Setting Drill with HDFS and
other Storage engines
Activity summary for the dev mailing list:
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-drill-dev/
February to date 02/26/2014: 250 (jira; discussion; review requests)
January 2014, 156 (jira; focused discussions)
December 2013, 51 (jira; focused discussions)
Topics in discussion on the dev mailing list included but not limited to:
• February to date 02/26/2014: How to contribute to Drill; review requests
for Drill 357, 346, 366, 364; status of Drill functions including Hash
functions; support operators +,- for date and interval arithmetic
• January: Sql Options discussions, Casting discussions, Multiplex Data
Channel feedbacks
• December: Guide for new comers contribution, Aggregate functions code
gen feedback Code
For details of code commits, see http://bit.ly/14YPXN9
There has been continued activity in code commits
19 contributors have participated in GitHUB code activity; there have been
116 forks.
February code commits include but not limited to: Support for
Information_schema, Hive storage and metastore integration, Optiq JDBC
thinning and refactoring, Math functions rework to use codegen, Column
pruning for Parquet/Json, Moving Sql parsing into Drillbit server side,
TravisCI setup
January code commits include but not limited to: Implicit and explicit
casting support, Broadcast Sender exchange, add TPC-H test queries,
Refactor memory allocation to use hierarchical memory allocation and
freeing.
Community Interactions
Weekly Drill hangout continues, conducted remotely through Google hangouts
Tuesday mornings 9am Pacific Time to keep core developers in contact in
realtime despite geographical separation.
Community stays in touch through @ApacheDrill Twitter ID, and by postings
on various blogs including Apache Drill User http://drill-user.org/ which
has had several updates and through international presentations at
conferences.
Viability of community is also apparent through active participation in
the Bay Area Apache Drill User group meeting in early November, which has
grown to 440 members.
Sample presentations:
• “How to Use Drill” by Ted Dunning and Will Ford, Bay Area Apache Drill
Meet-up 24 February
• “How Drill Addresses Dynamic Typing” by Julian Hyde, Bay Area Apache
Drill Meet-up 24 February
• “New Features and Infrastructure Improvements” by Aman Sinha, Bay Area
Apache Drill Meet-up 24 February
Articles
Examples of articles or reports on Apache Drill since last report include:
• Drill blog post by Ellen Friedman at Apache Drill User updating
community on how people will use Drill and inviting comments/ questions
from remote participants as part of the Drill User Group
http://bit.ly/1p1Qvgn
• Drill blog post by Ellen Friedman at Apache Drill User reports on
appointment of new Drill committers and new mentor http://bit.ly/JIcwQe
Social Networking
@ApacheDrill Twitter entity is active and has grown substantially by 19%,
to 744 followers.
How project has developed since last report:
1. Significant progress is being made on execution engine and sql front
end to support more functionality, also more integrations with storage
engines.
2. Work on ODBC driver has begun with a new group led by George Chow in
Vancouver.
3. Significant code drops have been checked in from a number of
contributors and committers
4. Work toward 2nd milestone is progressing substantially.
Signed-off-by:
[x](drill) Ted Dunning
[x](drill) Grant Ingersoll
[x](drill) Isabel Drost-Fromm
[x](drill) Sebastian Schelter
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
Isabel Drost-Fromm (isabel):
For the next report, please include information on date of last
release and when last committer/PMC member was elected.
--------------------
Falcon
Falcon is a data processing and management solution for Hadoop designed for
data motion, coordination of data pipelines, lifecycle management, and data
discovery. Falcon enables end consumers to quickly onboard their data and
its associated processing and management tasks on Hadoop clusters.
Falcon has been incubating since 2013-03-27.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Continue to build community
2. Add more committers to the project
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware
of?
- No
How has the community developed since the last report?
* Two new committers have been invited to join the project
* More users & contributors have joined the falcon project and the
community continues to grow
How has the project developed since the last report?
* We have had discussions on the mailing list relating to the Roadmap of
the project with wide participation from many members in the community.
* We are currently working on major features to further enhance the
project and have a release planned (0.5-incubating) early April
* There is plenty of activity happening on the project through JIRAs
Date of last release:
2014-02-03 (0.4-incubating)
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
Two new committers have been invited to join the project.
Signed-off-by:
[ ](falcon) Arun Murthy
[X](falcon) Chris Douglas
[ ](falcon) Owen O'Malley
[ ](falcon) Devaraj Das
[X](falcon) Alan Gates
--------------------
Kalumet
Kalumet a complete environment manager and deployer including J2EE
environments (application servers, applications, etc), softwares, and
resources.
Kalumet has been incubating since 2011-09-20.
Community Development:
Apache Kalumet 0.6-incubating version has been released.
We are in the way of promoting the documentation on the website.
Project Development:
We are preparing the 0.7-incubating release.
Local branches have been created containing:
- new model and REST API
- new webconsole (remove of Echo framework)
Before Graduation (most important issues to address in the move towards
graduation):
- The documentation has been updated and aligned with the 0.6-incubating
release. The documentation will be promoted on the website and "linked"
in announcement e-mails.
- The 0.7-incubating release will fix the graduation issue, especially in
term of license (removal of Echo2 framework for the UI).
Post Graduation:
- Kalumet scripts. It's the extension of the "software" concept globally
to all Kalumet resources. It will allow users to create custom
deployment/update plan, with a set of fine-grained steps.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of:
None so far.
Date of the last release: 2013-11-25
No new committer or PMC
NB: Jim Jagielski asked to be retired from the mentors of the project.
Signed-off-by:
[X](kalumet) Jim Jagielski
[ ](kalumet) Henri Gomez
[ ](kalumet) Jean-Baptiste Onofre
[ ](kalumet) Olivier Lamy
--------------------
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 release 0.11.0 as maintenance release.
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?
N/A
How has the community developed since the last report?
The committers are still getting acquainted with each other and the
foundation. There's only little need for support currently, but
from time to time it looks like "old users" notify about themselves.
How has the project developed since the last report?
We have applied a lot of bug fixes which were collected in the last
years in JIRA and fit to a maintenance release, tested on different
platforms and started to discuss about changes in the used build
system because of different problems.
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
--------------------
MRQL
MRQL is a query processing and optimization system for large-scale,
distributed data analysis, built on top of Apache Hadoop, Hama, and Spark.
MRQL has been incubating since 2013-03-13.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. increase adoption, expand user community, and increase user list
activity
2. recruit more developers, committers, and PMCers
3. have at least one more incubator release
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
none
How has the community developed since the last report?
Nothing to report. No new developers. No new committers.
How has the project developed since the last report?
Ported MRQL to Yarn. Added support for Spark 0.9.0.
Improved the MRQL build process in many ways.
Changed the run scripts to construct assembly jars at runtime.
Date of last release:
2013-10-31
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
2013-03-13
Signed-off-by:
[X](mrql) Alan Cabrera
[ ](mrql) Anthony Elder
[ ](mrql) Alex Karasulu
[ ](mrql) Mohammad Nour El-Din
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
Roman Shaposhnik (rvs):
A reasonably sized community. Given that it has been incubating for
about a year now, I'd encourage graduation activity. A few more releases
would be a good first step.
--------------------
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?
We've been waiting more than two months for our Github issues to be
imported into our Apache JIRA.
How has the community developed since the last report?
Lots of user/dev traffic on email list and general interest. Received a
nice patch from an external contributor to replace our CSV loader with the
Apache Commons CSV loader that's under development.
No new committers.
How has the project developed since the last report?
* IP Clearance is complete.
* Vote is in progress on dev list for on our first release. Prior RC was
sunk due to the license and notice files not being correct.
* Working in parallel toward 3.0 and 4.0 releases as well.
Date of last release:
No release yet.
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
No new committers or PMC members.
Signed-off-by:
[ ](phoenix) Lars Hofhansl
[X](phoenix) Andrew Purtell
[X](phoenix) Devaraj Das
[ ](phoenix) Enis Soztutar
[ ](phoenix) Steven Noels
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S4
S4 (Simple Scalable Streaming System) is a general-purpose, distributed,
scalable, partially fault-tolerant, pluggable platform that allows
programmers to easily develop applications for processing continuous,
unbounded streams of data.
S4 has been incubating since 2011-09-26.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. No development since last release
2. Limited activity on mailing lists
3. Need new committers/contributors
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
The project is considering retirement
How has the community developed since the last report?
No development
How has the project developed since the last report?
No development
Date of last release:
June 2013: S4 0.6.0 released
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
March 2013 (Daniel Gómez Ferro)
Signed-off-by:
[x](s4) Patrick Hunt
[ ](s4) Arun Murthy
--------------------
Sentry
Sentry is a highly modular system for providing fine grained role
based authorization to both data and metadata stored on an Apache Hadoop
cluster.
Sentry has been incubating since 2013-08-08.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Grow the Sentry community
2. Add new committers that diversify the project
3. Continue to release at regular intervals
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
None
How has the community developed since the last report?
We have added a new committer to the project. Updated and redesigned the
Sentry Web site.
How has the project developed since the last report?
Work continues on the db_policy_store branch (SENTRY-37) and to issue the
1.3 release. Additionally a new website and logo have been chosen:
http://sentry.incubator.apache.org
Date of last release:
2013-09-25
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
Vamsee Yarlagadda has been added as a committer as announced on Feb 28
2014. No new PPMC members have been added since the project has entered
the incubator.
Signed-off-by:
[X](sentry) Arvind Prabhakar
[X](sentry) Joe Brockmeier
[X](sentry) David Nalley
[ ](sentry) Olivier Lamy
[x](sentry) Patrick Hunt
[ ](sentry) Thomas White
--------------------
Sirona
Monitoring Solution java oriented.
Sirona has been incubating since 2013-10-15.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Stabilize the javaagent API and features.
2. Stabilize test portability/stability (if possible).
3. Get more committers.
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?
In interest yes, not really in contributor.
How has the project developed since the last report?
The project API starts to be stable and now we start adding enhancements
in the javaagent.
Date of last release:
2013-17-12
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
None since starting the incubation
Signed-off-by:
[X](sirona) Olivier Lamy
[ ](sirona) Henri Gomez
[X](sirona) Jean-Baptiste Onofre
[ ](sirona) Tammo van Lessen
[ ](sirona) Mark Struberg
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
Roman Shaposhnik (rvs):
A great community.
--------------------
Storm
Storm is a distributed, fault-tolerant, and high-performance realtime
computation system that provides strong guarantees on the processing of
data.
Storm has been incubating since 2013-09-18.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Growing the community and adding Committers/PPMC Members
2. Release on a regular basis
3. Lower the user/developer entry barrier by improving documentation,
examples, and integration options.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
None.
How has the community developed since the last report?
We have voted in 2 additional Committers/PPMC Members. Since our first
Apache release, community and committer involvement has increased and we
hope to continue that trend.
How has the project developed since the last report?
We successfully executed our first Apache release. We have migrated the
storm-project.net website and github wiki to the podling website. To
support our initial and subsequent releases, we also migrated the Storm
build system from Leiningen to Apache Maven.
Date of last release:
2014-02-22
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
2014-03-04
Signed-off-by:
[x](storm) Ted Dunning
[X](storm) Arvind Prabhakar
[ ](storm) Devaraj Das
[ ](storm) Matt Franklin
[ ](storm) Benjamin Hindman
--------------------
Streams
Apache Streams is a lightweight server for ActivityStreams.
Streams has been incubating since 2012-11-20.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Growing the active developer community
2. Making a secondary incubator release
3. Develop concrete use cases and providing tutorials for users
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
How has the community developed since the last report?
Since the last report we have admitted a new committer Carol Hansen, who
has provided an interface for streams. We have started discussions on
modules to possible incorporate into Streams, which Steve Blackmon has
spearheaded. We have also received pull requests from outside developers
and started a migration from svn to git. Discussions have also begun on
schema clarification which is a pressing issue as the project becomes
standardized.
How has the project developed since the last report?
A substantial commit was made by Steve Blackmon including a Twitter
Firehose attachment and a Apache Storm. It has laid the ground work for
additional attachments. A Lucene connector and Elastic Search connector
are being planned.
Date of last release:
2013-01-09
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
2014-01-14 (Carol Hansen)
Signed-off-by:
[x](streams) Matt Franklin
[x](streams) Ate Douma
[ ](streams) Craig McClanahan
--------------------
Tajo
Tajo is a distributed data warehouse system for Hadoop.
Tajo has been incubating since 2013-03-07.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Apache Tajo graduation IPMC vote has been passed.
(http://markmail.org/message/qq4mxzgc4h5ripkr)
2.
3.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
No
How has the community developed since the last report?
Some committers have presented Tajo project in some conferences and
meetups. Especially, Keuntae Park, one of the committers, will present
Tajo in ApacheCon.
How has the project developed since the last report?
We have resolved more than 200 issues since the last report. There have
been real users of Tajo project. They are giving many feedbacks obtained
from real use cases. We are improving Tajo from their feedbacks.
Recently, we have started the works on multi-tenancy.
Date of last release:
2013-11-20
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
2014-01-02: Keuntae Park
Signed-off-by:
[ ](tajo) Chris Mattmann
[ ](tajo) Owen O'Malley
--------------------
Wave
A wave is a hosted, live, concurrent data structure for rich communication.
It can be used like email, chat, or a document.
Wave has been incubating since 2010-12-04.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Make a release
2. Expand the community
3. Decide on future path (application framework, or web application)
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?
Around the time of the last report, there was discussion on the list about
shutting down the project due to a lack of activity. Since then, we have
had 3 new developers submit patches adding new features to Wave, pointing
out bugs, and picking up older features that stalled before completion.
How has the project developed since the last report?
Several major patches adding support for MongoDB, full text search, and
date filtering to Wave have been submitted for review.
Some of the older ideas (e.g. the email bridge robot) have been picked up
by new developers.
Date of last release:
N/A
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
The last 2 committers were elected around 30th June 2013
Signed-off-by:
[X](wave) Christian Grobmeier
[X](wave) Upayavira
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Attachment AD: Report from the Apache Jackrabbit Project [Michael Dürig]
The Apache Jackrabbit™ content repository is a fully conforming
implementation of the Content Repository for Java™ Technology API
(JCR, specified in JSR 170 and 283).
The Apache Jackrabbit project is in good shape. We have no board-level
issues at this time.
o Releases
We made the following stable release from Jackrabbit trunk:
* Apache Jackrabbit 2.6.5 on December 13th
We made the following unstable release from Jackrabbit trunk:
* Apache Jackrabbit 2.7.4 on February 11th
We made the following releases from the Jackrabbit Oak sub project:
* Apache Jackrabbit Oak 0.13 on December 13th
* Apache Jackrabbit Oak 0.14 on January 13th
* Apache Jackrabbit Oak 0.15 on January 27th
* Apache Jackrabbit Oak 0.16 on February 10th
* Apache Jackrabbit Oak 0.17.1 on February 26th
* Apache Jackrabbit Oak 0.18 on March 11th
o Community / Development
* No new committers or PMC members joined the Jackrabbit team since
February 2013.
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Attachment AE: Report from the Apache Karaf Project [Jean-Baptiste Onofré]
Apache Karaf provides higher level features and services
specifically designed for creating OSGi-based servers.
Community
=========
The new Karaf 3.0.0 has been a good message to the community. The website has
been a bit polished to give more visibility to the documentation of the two
active Karaf branches.
Last committers addition: October 21, 2013
Last PMC addition: September 05, 2012
Development
===========
The following new releases have been voted:
- Apache Karaf 3.0.0 (major new version) (December 24, 2013)
- Apache Karaf Cave 2.3.0 (first release of the Maven/OBR repository) (January
21, 2014)
- Apache Karaf 2.3.4 (maintenance release) (February 17, 2014)
Apache Karaf and all subprojects have moved to git (thanks INFRA for that).
Issues for board consideration
==============================
None so far.
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Attachment AF: Report from the Apache Knox Project [Kevin Minder]
# Description
The Knox Gateway is a REST API gateway for securing Hadoop REST APIs at the
perimeter.
# Issues
None
# Status
* Graduation approved by board February 19, 2014
* Working through tasks required of graduating projects
* Discussing first TLP release
# Releases
* 0.3.0: 2013-10-13 (Incubating)
# Development Activity
* Community is discussing the creation of 0.4.0 as the first TLP release
* Jira: 301 total, +50 -38 (last 30 days)
* Git (Source): 43 commits over last 30 days
* SVN (Site & Docs): 7 commits over last 30 days
# Community Activity
## Membership Changes
* None since graduation.
* Have not yet made adjustments to membership due to graduation.
## Mailing List Activity
* dev@knox: 99 messages over last 30 days
* user@knox: 23 messages over last 30 days
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Attachment AG: Report from the Apache Labs Project [Tim Williams]
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Attachment AH: Report from the Apache Lucene Project [Uwe Schindler]
The Apache Lucene project develops open-source search software.
TLP
---
No new PMC members were added in the last quarter. The most recent PMC
member addition happened in April 2013.
We added three new committers in the last quarter: Areek Zillur, Benson
Margulies, Anshum Gupta.
We ack'ed two mentor requests for Google Summer of Code 2014. The following
committers will be available to mentor GSoC students: Michael McCandless,
David Smiley
Lucene Core and Solr
--------------------
Lucene Core is a search-engine toolkit.
Solr is a search server built on top of Lucene Core.
In the last quarter we made three releases of both Lucene Core and Solr:
- 4.6.1 on 28 January 2014
- 4.7.0 on 26 February 2014
The corresponding Apache Solr Reference Guides were released
as PDF versions, generated from the Confluence Wiki:
- 4.7 on 4 March 2014
The community is very active.
Open Relevance Project
----------------------
The Open Relevance Project is a project aimed at providing Lucene and others
tools for judging the quality of search and machine learning approaches. The
community is not very active, but we don't expect it to be very high volume
either as it is a niche area.
PyLucene
--------
PyLucene is a Python integration of Lucene Java. Development is almost
entirely an automated port, so this project will never require a lot of
developers. The user community is active.
In the last quarter we made one release of PyLucene:
- 4.6.1-1 on 14 February 2014
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Attachment AI: Report from the Apache Lucene.Net Project [Prescott Nasser]
Apache Lucene.Net is a port of the Lucene search engine library, written
in C# and targeted at .NET runtime users.
== Summary ==
Activity has picked up for the port of 4.3.0, the team is finishing up
testing and some contrib packages for additional functionality. It looks
like we should be approaching a release soon.
== Releases ==
Working toward 4.3.0, hopefully shortly
== Statistics ==
Nuget package downloads:
Lucene.Net 3.0.3: 53626
Lucene.Net Contrib 3.0.3: 16349
Lucene.Net Contrib Spatial: 2205
Lucene.Net Contrib Spatial.NTS: 611
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Attachment AJ: Report from the Apache MRUnit Project [Brock Noland]
MRUnit is a Java library that helps developers unit test Apache Hadoop
MapReduce jobs. Unit testing is a technique for improving project quality
and reducing overall costs by writing a small amount of code that can
automatically verify the software you write performs as intended. This is
considered a best practice in software development since it helps identify
defects early, before they're deployed to a production system.
RELEASES
* The last release of Apache MRUnit was version 1.0.0, released on
* May 21, 2013. This was MRUnit's first release since graduation in May 2012.
CURRENT ACTIVITY
* Voting on release 1.1.0rc0 is now open
* Development activity continues as can be seen from the following
report: http://s.apache.org/QMa
* 4 JIRA's was resolved since the last report.
* Mail traffic is largely on the DEV list. Messages since Jan 1st:
dev 20, user 14
COMMUNITY
The composition of the committers and PMC members has not changed since
the last report.
Currently there are:
* Total of 38 subscribers to the developer list.
* Total of 80 subscribers to the user list.
* Total of 10 committers
* Total of 10 PMC members
ISSUES
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
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Attachment AK: Report from the Apache OFBiz Project [Jacopo Cappellato]
Apache OFBiz (The Apache Open For Business Project) is an open source
enterprise automation software project. By enterprise automation we mean:
ERP, CRM, E-Business / E-Commerce, MRP, SCM, CMMS/EAM, and so on.
We have no issues that require Board assistance at this time.
*Releases*
* "Apache OFBiz 11.04.04" has been released in February 18, 2014: this is
a bug fix release of the 11.04 branch
* the stabilization of the latest release branch 13.07 is mostly complete
and we are preparing to issue the first release out of it (13.07.01)
* we are also backporting bug fixes to the other active release
branch 12.04: soon we will probably issue one release for it
*Community and Project*
* no new committers or PMC members have been added in this quarter; the
last committer was Paul Foxworthy (paulfoxworthy), invited in
November 2012; the last PMC member was Erwan de Ferrieres (erwan),
invited in December 2009
* mailing list traffic and commits are lower than in the past years but they
are still relevant
* ApacheCon 2014: OFBiz will be represented by a presentation by me
("Development of a Groovy based DSL for Apache OFBiz") and by a tutorial by
another member of the PMC, Anil Patel ("Introduction to Developing
Application for Apache OFBiz Framework")
* there is an ongoing discussion, within the PMC/committers group and in the
community, about the current status of the OFBiz project; over-simplifying
the two positions are the following:
1) the ones that are worried by the fact that the project's progress is slower
than in the past (several historical committers are indeed less active) and
push to get more committers and PMC members onboard
2) the ones that believe that slowing down is natural in a project that is
reaching a stability phase and, considering the great complexity of the
OFBiz codebase, it is important to only invite contributors that
clearly demonstrate a deep knowledge of the framework in order to maintain
and improve its quality and stability over time
** it is my personal belief that addressing the concerns of both groups is
important and I will try to encourage and facilitate a constructive
discussion about these topics; hopefully, the project will establish
the right rules and mechanisms to enlarge the committers base and
maintain a high quality code
*Infra/Legal*
We have no issues.
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Attachment AL: Report from the Apache OODT Project [Sean Kelly]
DESCRIPTION
Apache OODT is a software framework as well as an architectural style for the
rapid construction of scientific data systems. It provides components for
data capture, curation, metadata extraction, workflow management, resource
management, and data processing.
RELEASES/DEVELOPMENT
• OODT-0.6 on 2013-07-17
• OODT-0.5 on 2012-12-25
OODT-0.7 will focus on Apache Tika [1] integration and Apache CXF [2]
integration. OODT-0.7 is projected to be released in 2014-06. We resolved 8
issues in JIRA [3] since our last report.
Our development mailing lists remain popular, while the user list shows less
activity. The table below lists the number of postings by list, by month,
in 2014:
List Jan Feb Mar
---- --- --- ---
dev 90 65 18
user 4 2 0
COMMUNITY
We inducted no new committers or PMC members since our last report. (The last
committer and PMC member was brought in on 2013-10-21.)
ISSUES
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
[1] http://tika.apache.org/
[2] http://cxf.apache.org/
[3] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OODT
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Attachment AM: Report from the Apache Open Climate Workbench Project [Michael James Joyce]
Apache Open Climate Workbench is a tool for scalable comparison of remote
sensing observations to climate model outputs.
Project Activity:
OCW just graduated from Incubator at the last Board Meeting. Recent
development has been focused on improving the evaluation UI and expanding
toolkit functionality through new metric additions. Most of the mailing list
interaction has been focused around the recent graduation of the project
along with other changes being made, such as the transition to using git.
Other Activity:
Michael Joyce and Maziyar Boustani will be giving a presentation on OCW
at ApacheCon 2014.
Issues for the Board:
None
When was the last release:
2013-10-11
When was the last committer or PMC member elected:
2013-06-21
Any legal concerns?
LEGAL-193 was opened because there is code that lacks proper licensing
that was integrated into the OCW codebase some time ago. The author of
the original work has been contacted with regards to attaching an
explicit license to their work so it can be integrated into the project.
We're waiting for a response back.
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Attachment AN: Report from the Apache OpenNLP Project [Joern Kottmann]
The Apache OpenNLP library is a machine learning based toolkit for the
processing of natural language text. It supports the most common NLP tasks,
such as tokenization, sentence segmentation, part-of-speech tagging,
named entity extraction, chunking, parsing, and coreference resolution.
These tasks are usually required to build more advanced text processing
services.
Development
------------------
The team is currently working on the last issues for the 1.6.x release branch
and will soon begin testing. The next release it probably out in a couple of
weeks.
Community
---------------
The community remained stable the last three months, a few patches
were contributed and a new component to build language models was
added to the sandbox.
There are no new PMC members and there have been no PMC/PPMC additions
since the project moved to Apache.
Mark Giaconia was added as a committer in October 2013 and is active since then.
Releases
------------
The last release OpenNLP 1.5.3 was released on 15.4.2013.
Issues
--------
There are no board-level issues at this time.
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Attachment AO: Report from the Apache OpenWebBeans Project [Mark Struberg]
Apache OpenWebBeans 1.x is an ALv2-licensed implementation of the
"Contexts and Dependency Injection for the Java EE platform"
specification which is defined as JSR-299 (CDI-1.0).
OpenWebBeans 2.x will also implement the CDI-1.1 and
CDI-1.2 (MR) specifications(JSR-346).
Board Issues
There are no issues requiring board attention this time.
Development
Development continues in trunk to implement CDI 1.1 as
we switched the trunk to version 2.0.0-SNAPSHOT.
We continue to actively maintain the owb-1.2.x branch.
New Releases
OpenWebBeans 1.2.2, February 21st, 2014
This version is also used in the Apache TomEE-1.6.1 release.
Discussions.
No discussions atm.
Community
Community activity is pretty good. We are working towards CDI-1.2 now.
Last Committer: Karl Kilden on Oct 29th, 2013.
Karl helped us with improving our documentation.
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Attachment AP: Report from the Apache Pig Project [Julien Le Dem]
Pig is a platform for analyzing large data sets that consists of a
high-level language for expressing data analysis programs, coupled
with infrastructure for evaluating these programs. The salient
property of Pig programs is that their structure is amenable to
substantial parallelization, which in turns enables them to handle
very large data sets.
Releases: None this quarter
Community:
* 413 subscribers to the dev mailing list (400 in the last report)
* 1142 subscribers to the user mailing list (1096 in the last report)
* We have a new Committer: Mark Wagner
* We have a new PMC member: Aniket Mokashi
* The Pig PMC has voted for a new PMC chair candidate - Cheolsoo Park.
* The PMC has now 15 members and the project counts 8 additional
committers
* a Pig meet up is coming Fri Mar 14 at linked-in:
http://www.meetup.com/PigUser/events/160604192/
Status of branding checklist:
Project Naming and Description: DONE
Website Navigation Links: DONE
Trademark Attributions: DONE
Logos and Graphics: NOT STARTED
Project Metadata: NOT STARTED
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Attachment AQ: Report from the Apache Pivot Project [Roger Whitcomb]
Apache Pivot is a platform for building installable Internet
applications (IIAs). It combines the enhanced productivity and
usability features of a modern user interface toolkit with the
robustness of the Java platform.
Status:
Still slow but pretty steady traffic these last three months. It appears
there were several new people starting Pivot projects, so there were spikes
in the User list traffic. There have definitely been some things brought
up that could use some development attention in the coming months, as well
as some ideas for future development (integration with Piccolo2D among them).
There is still development going on for the 2.1 version, although I think
the 2.0.4 (maintenance) version is probably stable. There have been only
four new issues opened in JIRA since the last report, and three were
resolved. So, basically the product seems to be pretty stable and the
PMC are busy with other things at the moment.
Issues:
None that I know of.
Releases:
Last release was 2.0.3, published 01 Aug 2013.
Branding/Naming issues:
None.
Legal issues:
None.
Infrastructure Issues/Needs:
We have been trying to figure out what's happening with the Apache Extras
site (hosted on Google Code). ComDev was looking into things as of October
and Luciano said in early January that they were still waiting on Google
contacts for an answer. I can't follow the email discussion which is on
a "members-only" mailing list.
Community:
Last Committer Piotr Kolaczkowski (pkolaczk) was created 09 May 2012.
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Attachment AR: Report from the Apache Portals Project [David Sean Taylor]
Apache Portals is a project for building freely available and interoperable
portal software. With the Pluto project, we provide a reference implementation
for the Java portlet standard. The Jetspeed project is a full feature
enterprise open source portal. The Portals Applications project is dedicated
to providing robust, full-featured, commercial-quality, and freely available
portlet applications.
Releases
None this quarter.
March 6, 2013 - Portals Apps Web Content 1.3
October 10, 2011 - Portals Jetspeed 2.2.2
26 September 2011 - Portals Pluto 2.0.3
Committer/PMC
None
Security updates:
None
Community update
The main activity this quarter has been the continued work on the Java Portlet
Specification 3.0 reference implementation. We are working towards a Jetspeed
2.3.0 release 2nd Quarter 2014
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Attachment AS: Report from the Apache ServiceMix Project [Gert Vanthienen]
Apache ServiceMix is a flexible, open-source integration container that
unifies the features and functionality of Apache ActiveMQ, Camel, CXF and
Karaf to provide a complete, enterprise-ready ESB powered by OSGi.
Project Status
We have lost a lot of our momentum now that major parts of the functionality
are being maintained in related projects like Apache Karaf and Apache Camel.
In the past month, we've had a discussion on the users@ mailing list about
the status of the project and whether or not ServiceMix is offering any added
value over directly using the related projects. We did get quite a bit of
positive feedback and as a result, we now have more activity again in JIRA
as well as on the mailing lists.
There are no outstanding issues requiring board attention.
Community
Since our last board report, we added 3 new people to the PMC: Dan Kulp,
Jonathan Anstey and Willem Jiang. The last committer was added in November
2011.
Community Objectives
The main goal at the moment is getting the Apache ServiceMix 5.0.0 release
out, in which we will drop support for a few features considered obsolete to
ensure it's easier to keep a steady release schedule in the future.
Releases
- Apache ServiceMix Specs 2.4.0 in January
- A set of 22 OSGi bundles in January
- A set of 67 OSGi bundles in February
- A set of 59 OSGi bundles in March
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Attachment AT: Report from the Apache Shiro Project [Les Hazlewood]
Apache Shiro is a powerful and flexible open-source application security
framework that cleanly handles authentication, authorization, enterprise
session management and cryptography.
We have no issues that require Board assistance at this time.
Releases:
- We published a 1.2.3 bugfix release on 25 February 2014, 7 days ago. A 1.3
release is still on the horizon as an interim before 2.0.
Community & Project:
- Brian Demers graciously fixed the user-reported CVE-2014-0074 and pushed out
the 1.2.3 hotfix.
- A new Shiro plugin for Apache ActiveMQ has been contributed to (and accepted
by) the Apache ActiveMQ team. This allows all aspects of ActiveMQ to be
secured by Shiro - a nice addition! The plugin is scheduled to be available
in the upcoming ActiveMQ 5.10 release.
- Efforts towards a 2.0 distribution have picked up on a new dev branch. We
will still likely need a 1.3 interim release, but that has been slow-going
as of late. Hopefully we can release 1.3 next month.
- User mailing list continues to be quite active.
Last PMC Member voted in: Brian Demers on 20 May 2013
Last committer voted in: Jared Bunting on 29 Jul 2012
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Attachment AU: Report from the Apache Sling Project [Carsten Ziegeler]
Apache Sling is an OSGI-based scriptable web framework that uses a Java Content
Repository, such as Apache Jackrabbit, to store and manage content.
There are no issues which require board attention at the moment.
Community
Good activity level overall, contributions from different people continue.
1 new committers:
Tommaso Teofili
Last PMC member addition was Mike Mueller, September 2010.
Releases
Apache Sling Commons Log 4.0.0,
Apache Sling Security 1.0.0,
Apache Sling JCR Registration 1.0.0,
Apache Sling Bundle Resource 2.2.20,
Apache Sling JCR Base 2.2.2,
Apache Sling Eventing 3.3.6,
Apache Sling Scripting API 2.1.6,
Apache Sling Scripting Core 2.0.26,
Apache Sling Servlets Get 2.1.6,
and Apache Sling Servlets Post 2.3.4 (March 7th, 2014)
Apache Sling Maven Launchpad Plugin 2.3.0 (March 6th, 2014)
Apache Sling API 2.6.0,
and Apache Sling Engine 2.3.0 (March 3rd, 2014)
Apache Sling Servlets Resolver 2.3.0,
and Apache Sling Resource Merger 1.0.0 (February 24th, 2014)
Apache Sling JCR API 2.2.0,
Apache Sling JCR Base 2.2.0,
and Apache Sling JCR Resource 2.3.0 (February 17th, 2014)
Apache Sling Service User Mapper 1.0.0,
and Apache Sling Resource Resolver Mock 0.2.0 (February 6th, 2014)
Apache Sling Health Check Core 1.1.0,
Apache Sling Health Check Webconsole 1.1.0,
and Apache Sling Auth Core 1.1.6 (January 31th, 2014)
Apache Sling Pax Exam Utilities 1.0.2 (January 28th, 2014)
Apache Sling API 2.5.0,
and Apache Sling Eventing 3.3.4 (January 24th, 2014)
Apache Sling Installer Core 3.5.0,
and Apache Sling Eventing 3.3.2 (January 19th, 2014)
Apache Sling Web Console Security Provider 1.1.2 (December 17th, 2013)
Apache Sling Maven JSPC Plugin 2.0.8 (December 14th, 2013)
Documentation and infrastructure
Website has moved to Apache CMS
Dist folder has moved to svn
Project Branding is tracked in SLING-2696.
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Attachment AV: Report from the Apache SpamAssassin Project [Kevin A. McGrail]
Description
-----------
SpamAssassin is a mail filter to identify spam. It is an intelligent email
filter which uses a diverse range of tests to identify unsolicited bulk email,
more commonly known as Spam. These tests are applied to email headers and
content to classify email using advanced statistical methods. In addition,
SpamAssassin has a modular architecture that allows other technologies to be
quickly wielded against spam and is designed for easy integration into
virtually any email system.
Releases
--------
3.4.0-rc6 was released on 2/5/14.
3.4.0 was a big release introducing 2+ years of fixes and features. It was
released on 2/11/14. Thanks to Sally Khudairi and the press team for their
help in announcing this to the world (http://s.apache.org/G6b).
Our rules releases have been fairly consistent with hiccups caused by both the
new 3.4.0 release and a need for more masscheckers.
The release of 3.4.1 is imminent.
No other releases for this quarter.
Community & Development
-----------------------
The most recent addition to our PMC is Adam Katz added on 2013-01-30.
The most recent addition to the committers is Joe Quinn added on 2014-02-27.
We also have 3 contributors invited to submit a CLA on the project and begin
moving towards committer karma.
We cleaned up
https://people.apache.org/committers-by-project.html#spamassassin fixing two
users with name problems (Henrik and Doc)
We also cleaned up the PMC by removing the following PMC members who are now
considered emeritus by the project and which the board approved unanimously:
- Theo Van Dinter
- Matt Kettler
- Daryl C. W. O'Shea
- Daniel Quinlan
- Dale 'Doc' Schneider
- Malte S. Stretz "
Our RuleQA dev list has been active and community support is good allowing the
project to publish rules more consistently.
The project users' list is active; questions get asked and answered.
The project dev list has been active with both committers and community
members contributing.
We have migrated our website and dist to svnpubsub.
We are waiting on CentOS VM to transfer our zones and zones2 server off of
Solaris (Bug 6886)
We are working on getting our Jenkins build slave working under FreeBSD
instead of Solaris1 (Bug 6887).
Project Branding Requirements
-----------------------------
James Thompson at cPanel, Inc. drew and donated a new logo for the project.
The website was revised considerably with the new logo and the new release of
3.4.0. Therefore, here is a report on Project Branding Report Checklist:
DONE - Project Website Basics : homepage is project.apache.org
DONE - Project Naming And Descriptions : use proper Apache forms, describe
product, etc.
DONE - Website Navigation Links : navbar links included, link to
www.apache.org included
DONE - Trademark Attributions : attribution for all ASF marks included in
footers, etc.
IN PROCESS - Logos and Graphics : include TM, use consistent product logo
on your site - NOTE: Pending TM being added to one version of the logo to make
the announcement for the new logo.
DONE - Project Metadata : DOAP file checked in and up to date
DONE - added Read PMC Branding Responsibilities
Issues
------
As the project continues to battle spam, we find we are working quite often on
rules and related anti-spam resources that are not code such as real-time
blacklists (RBLs). I believe there is considerable value to the project, the
foundation and the anti-spam community if we were to spearhead these resources
under the ASF umbrella. I have begun the framework at
https://raptor.pccc.com/raptor.cgim?template=RBL with the intention to run
this under the project if permitted. I would like feedback if this is
possible or if it needs to be run outside of ASF.
No other issues requiring board attention.
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Attachment AW: Report from the Apache Spark Project [Matei Zaharia]
Apache Spark is a fast and general engine for large-scale data processing. It
offers high-level APIs in Java, Scala and Python as well as a rich set of
libraries including stream processing, machine learning, and graph analytics.
Project status:
The project recently became a TLP and continues to grow in terms of community
size. We switched all our infrastructure out of the incubator and to
spark.apache.org domains / repos (though the old site still needs a redirect).
We have a new minor release being finalized for later this month, and a Spark
1.0 release targeting end of April. Recent activity includes new machine
learning algorithms, updating the Spark Java API to work with Java 8 lambda
syntax, Python API extensions, and improved support for Hadoop YARN.
Releases:
Our last few releases were:
Feb 2, 2014: Spark 0.9.0-incubating
Dec 19, 2013: Spark 0.8.1-incubating
Sept 25, 2013: Spark 0.8.0-incubating
Committers and PMC:
The last committers and (podling) PMC members were added on Dec 22, 2013.
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Attachment AX: Report from the Apache Stanbol Project [Fabian Christ]
Apache Stanbol provides a set of reusable components for semantic content
management.
There are no issues which require board attention at the moment.
The project is performing well and the 0.12 release was recently published.
The trunk development is now heading towards a 1.0 release. The release-0.12
branch will be further maintained for future bug fix releases.
There is a good mail frequency on the dev list and questions from users are
handled promptly. The community is currently discussing proposals for the
upcoming GSoC.
Subscribers on the dev list: 213
We have elected two new committers who had worked on Stanbol during the
2013 GSoC projects.
Dileepa Jayakody was elected as a new committer on Jan 14th, 2014
Antonio David Perez Morales was elected as a new committer on Jan 14th, 2014
Apache Stanbol 0.12 was released on Mar 2nd, 2014
Last release was: apache-stanbol-enhancement-engines-0.10.0 on Feb 2nd, 2013
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Attachment AY: Report from the Apache Synapse Project [Hiranya Jayathilaka]
Apache Synapse is a high performance, flexible, lightweight
Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and a mediation framework.
Community
=========
No new committers or PMC members were nominated this quarter. Latest
Synapse committer was elected on December, 2013. Latest Synapse PMC
member was elected on December, 2013. These additions were reported
on our last board report.
The level of participation is consistent and healthy.
Both user and developer mailing lists continue to be active with a
moderate amount of traffic.
Releases
========
There have been no new releases during this period.
The last release of Synapse is version 2.1, which was released on
January, 2012.
Work is currently underway for a 3.0 release.
Board issues
============
None identified.
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Attachment AZ: Report from the Apache Tiles Project [Greg Reddin]
Apache Tiles is a templating framework for modern Java applications.
General:
This has been a very slow quarter for Apache Tiles. There have not been any
software releases or PMC changes in this quarter. There have been a few threads
on the user@ mailing list, but even that traffic seems to have slowed down for
the time being. The ongoing slow pace of the project continues to be something
to keep an eye on, but I don't believe it is a cause for concern at the moment.
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Attachment BA: Report from the Apache Tomcat Project [Mladen Turk]
General:
Continued healthy activity across multiple components and
responsiveness on both dev and user lists.
Issues:
There are no issues requiring Board attention at this time.
Releases:
* Apache Tomcat 8.0.0-RC10 - alpha, 2013-12-26
* Apache Tomcat 8.0.1 - beta, 2014-02-02
* Apache Tomcat 8.0.2 (not released)
* Apache Tomcat 8.0.3 - beta, 2014-02-11
* Apache Tomcat 7.0.48 (not released)
* Apache Tomcat 7.0.49 (not released)
* Apache Tomcat 7.0.50 - 2014-01-08
* Apache Tomcat 7.0.51 (not released)
* Apache Tomcat 7.0.52 - 2014-02-17
* Apache Tomcat 6.0.38 (not released)
* Apache Tomcat 6.0.39 - 2014-01-31
* Apache Tomcat Connectors 1.2.38 (not released)
* Apache Tomcat Connectors 1.2.39 - 2014-03-11
* Apache Standard Taglib 1.2.0 (not released)
* Apache Standard Taglib 1.2.1 - 2014-01-02
Development:
There was lots of development activity on Apache Tomcat 7
and Apache Tomcat 8. Recently some work has been done on
new NIO2 connector.
There was the first release of Apache Standard Taglib 1.2, an
implementation of JSTL 1.2 (JSR 052). It is the first release
of a tag library, after migrating Apache Taglibs project from
Apache Jakarta to Apache Tomcat several years ago. It is the
first release that implements JSTL 1.2 specification.
Community:
There were no changes in community since the last report.
We have organised a day long Tomcat Summit for ApacheCon.
Topics for discussion are currently based around future development
direction but any attendee is welcome to add their own topic(s).
Security:
* CVE-2013-2067 - Important: Session fixation
FORM authentication associates the most recent request
requiring authentication with the current session.
By repeatedly sending a request for an authenticated
resource while the victim is completing the login form,
an attacker could inject a request that would be executed
using the victim's credentials.
* CVE-2013-2071 - Moderate: Information disclosure
Bug 54178 described a scenario where elements of a previous
request may be exposed to a current request. This was very
difficult to exploit deliberately but fairly likely to happen
unexpectedly if an application used AsyncListeners that
threw RuntimeExceptions.
* CVE-2013-4590 - Low: Information disclosure
Application provided XML files such as web.xml, context.xml,
.tld, .tagx and .jspx allowed XXE which could be used to
expose Tomcat internals to an attacker. This vulnerability
only occurs when Tomcat is running web applications from untrusted
sources such as in a shared hosting environment.
* CVE-2013-4322 - Important: Denial of service
The fix for CVE-2012-3544 was not complete.
It did not cover the following cases:
chunk extensions were not limited
whitespace after the : in a trailing header was not limited
* CVE-2014-0050 - Important: Denial of Service
It was possible to craft a malformed Content-Type header for
a multipart request that caused Apache Tomcat to enter an
infinite loop. A malicious user could, therefore, craft a
malformed request that triggered a denial of service.
Trademark:
Detailed status:
https://svn.apache.org/repos/private/pmc/tomcat/trademark-status.txt
We have received a request from Canonical to use the Tomcat logo to
identify their Tomcat installation bundle for JuJu, their virtualised
platform. We intend to grant them permission to do so (with some
constraints).
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Attachment BB: Report from the Apache UIMA Project [Marshall Schor]
Apache UIMA's mission: the creation and maintenance of open-source
software related to the analysis of unstructured data, guided by the
UIMA Oasis Standard.
Dates:
30 Jan 2014 last release
12 Mar 2013 last PMC addition
24 Dec 2013 last Committer addition
2 Releases:
30 Jan 2014 UIMA-DUCC 1.0.0 released
http://uima.apache.org/news.html#30 January 2014
DUCC = Distributed UIMA Cluster Computing
14 Jan 2014 UIMA Java SDK 2.5.0 released
http://uima.apache.org/news.html#14 January 2014
Other Activity:
Worked with Infra to set up a demo web-server for DUCC
here: http://uima-ducc-vm.apache.org:42133/jobs.jsp
The main web page was augmented to reflect the growing
number of significant components: Ruta, DUCC, and uimaFIT
were added to the big picture.
Major work continues on DUCC and Ruta. The core Java
framework is being improved to better support large
multi-core processors.
The mailing lists are fairly active, and normal
bug finding/fixing work continues.
Community:
1 committer added in December.
Issues:
No Board level issues at this time.
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Attachment BC: Report from the Apache VCL Project [Andy Kurth]
DESCRIPTION
VCL is a modular cloud computing platform which dynamically provisions and
brokers remote access to compute resources including virtual machines,
bare-metal computers, and resources in other cloud platforms. A self-service
web portal is used to request resources and for administration. VCL became a
TLP on June 20, 2012.
CURRENT ACTIVITY
* Development progress was a bit slow over the holidays and January but is
picking up.
* Work has been completed to improve support for cluster reservations which
are distributed across different management nodes.
* Work continues to fix some minor issues. We hope to create a release late
spring or early summer which will include support for new features
including provisioning on OpenStack, Windows 8.1 images, and nested
hypervisor provisioning.
* The community continues to work to attract development contributions and
eventually additional committers. Contributions have recently been made
from people in the community who have not contributed code before.
RELEASES
* None
COMMUNITY
* Subscribers to the user list: 163
* Posts to user list, 12/13-3/14: 156
* Subscribers to the dev list: 134
* Posts to dev list, 12/13-3/14: 68
* Committers: 8 (last addition: Young Oh, 12/13)
* PMC members: 7 (last addition: 6/12)
ISSUES
* There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
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Attachment BD: Report from the Apache Velocity Project [Nathan Bubna]
Apache Velocity is a java template engine and related projects.
RELEASES
* Last release was master POM, May 2012
* Last noteworthy release was Engine in 2010
CURRENT ACTIVITY
* There were no commits or contributions this quarter.
COMMUNITY
* Last committer added April 28, 2013
* Activity is inconsistent on the user list but steady on Stack Overflow.
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Attachment BE: Report from the Apache Whirr Project [Andrew Bayer]
Whirr is a library for running services like Hadoop or ZooKeeper in the cloud.
Releases:
No new releases this quarter. Last release was 0.8.2, April 2013.
Community:
The PMC composition did not change, and we had no new committers since the last
report. The last PMC change was the addition of Andrew Bayer in November of
2012, and the last new committer was Graham Gear, also in November of 2012.
Issues:
The project attempted a release vote last month on 0.9.0 and no one
voted. We will be trying again shortly, but the project looks to be
moribund, sadly.
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Attachment BF: Report from the Apache Wicket Project [Martijn Dashorst]
Apache Wicket is a Java framework for creating highly dynamic,
component oriented web applications.
Things worthy of note:
- Wicket is 10 years old
- Wicket 7 is moving along
- Promoted experimental modules to non-experimental
- Released Wicket 6.13.0, 6.14.0, 1.5.11, 1.4.23
- Fixed CVE-2013-2055, CVE-2014-0043
- No new committers or members were added in this period
Date last committer added: 12 July 2013
10 year anniversary
From what we could gather from our archives, long time committers'
memories and creator Jonathan Locke, Wicket was conceived somewhere in
april 2004. It was not called that but when it was open sourced in
august 2004 the project was named Wicket. The project tried a start at
codehaus, but moved to sourceforge quickly when it took very long to
get resources allocated. The next couple of years Wicket grew into a
nice community and after a rather short courtship moved to Apache and
is still a healthy, if mature community.
Most first timers are still listed on the PMC and still have their
commit bits, even if their involvement has grown silent over the years.
While Wicket was grown by an exceptional community of developers, I'd
like to thank especially Jonathan Locke, for his creation of Wicket and
his foresight to invite a community to take over the project and take
Wicket further than we all could have imagined.
Wicket 7
Our development branch is still being worked on but reaches the point
where we can release betas. One thing worthy of note is the addition of
a new feature that loosens some of our strict rules of matching markup
hierarchy with a Java component hierarchy. This solves one of the most
hated 'features' since 1.0.
Experimental modules
We added some experimental modules in the beginning of the Wicket 6
timeframe, promising to graduate them when reaching maturity. The time
came for several modules to graduate from experimental to core module:
- Bean validation support
- CDI 1.1 support
- Native websocket support
Other experimental modules will remain either experimental or will be
'sunsetted'.
Releases and CVEs
Several maintenance and security releases have been performed, solving
two CVE's across our full range of releasable code: 1.4, 1.5 and 6.x.
CVE-2013-2055 allowed access to web templates stored with a Wicket
application. This is fixed in 1.4.23, 1.5.11 and 6.8.
CVE-2014-0043 allowed querying for the existence of particular classes
in the classpath by issuing requests to special urls handled by Wicket.
This only affects applications using 1.5 or 6.x and users are advised
to upgrade to 1.5.11 or 6.14.0
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Attachment BG: Report from the Apache Wink Project [Luciano Resende]
Apache Wink is a project that enables development and consumption of
REST style web services. The core server runtime is based on the
JAX-RS (JSR 311) standard. The project also introduces a client
runtime which can leverage certain components of the server-side
runtime. Apache Wink delivers component technology that can be easily
integrated into a variety of environments.
There are no issues that require Board attention at the moment.
Releases:
* Last release was Apache Wink 1.4.0 which was released on September 15
Activity:
* Regular mailing list activity (on the low side).
Committers or PMC changes:
* Voted Gerhard Petracek was added as a Wink committer in August 2013.
Trademark/Branding:
* No known issues.
Legal Issues:
* None
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Attachment BH: Report from the Apache ZooKeeper Project [Flavio Junqueira]
ZooKeeper is a reliable coordination service for distributed systems.
Bug-fix release 3.4.6 has been voted this week and we are in the process
of publishing it.
Trunk is still under development for an eventual 3.5.0 release. A couple
of important improvements on the way for 3.5.0:
- One important new feature in 3.5.0 will be the ability to reconfigure
a ZooKeeper ensemble. This feature was discussed a long time in
ZOOKEEPER-107 and we have converged and committed it;
- We are also focusing on a number of improvements over the code that
performs recovery. In particular, we are targeting an implementation that
avoids sending and taking unnecessary snapshots, which reduces time to
recover in the presence of crashes.
Also, the release is supposed to address scalability, jdk7 and openjdk support,
maven build/rel, testing and audit logging. There are other various patches
we are working on related code cleanup and refactoring.
Note that the status of releases hasn't changed since the last board report.
3.5.0 release date is not defined yet.
No infrastructure issues.
Community:
Mailing list activity is moderate and the number of patch reviews and
commits has dropped significantly.
* 10 active committers representing 8 unique organizations. No change to
the list of committers.
* 9 active PMC members representing 7 unique organizations. No change to
the list of PMC members.
* 421 subscribers on dev (up from 408 since December 2013).
* 927 subscribers on user (up from 891 last quarter).
* 1891 jira issues have been created to date (58 more since December
2013)
========
Apache BookKeeper (subproject)
Bookkeeper is a distributed, reliable, and high performance logging
service. The project also includes Hedwig which is a highly scalable
Pub/Sub service built on top of ZooKeeper and Bookkeeper with strong
durability guarantees.
We are currently working towards the 4.3.0 release, which is in its
final phase now. We project that it will be released early in April.
This release includes a lot of improvements to the bookie on-disk
performance, a new statistics framework, and protobuffer protocol
support along with numerous bugfixes.
We will also release a bugfix release on the 4.2 branch, 4.2.3, in the
next fortnight.
Infrastructure issues:
No issues.
Community:
51 subscribers to bookkeeper-dev
68 subscribers to bookkeeper-user
730 issues opened to date, 27 since 2013-12-12
496 issues resolved to date, 30 since 2013-12-12
44 people have reported issues, 3 since 2013-12-12
18 people have contributed patches, 5 since 2013-12-12
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Attachment BI: Report from the Apache Lenya Project [Richard Frovarp]
The Apache Lenya CMS is a Cocoon based XML/XHTML content management
system.
Development:
Last release: 2.0.4 on 2011-03-14
Community:
Last change to community was PMC addition in October 2011.
Activity:
The main question from the board was project activity.
The project has experienced a downturn in activity over the past 12-18
months. Activity has dropped to near zero.
Casual observation of participation indicates that there are enough active
PMC members to act on the needs of the project. However, an inquiry as to
those that were willing to participate actively in the project on votes if
necessary only resulted in two PMC members showing interest. This means that
there may not be enough PMC votes to take action on the project. The last
vote required of the PMC was October 2011.
If interest in PMC members does not pick up before the next reporting
quarter, the Attic may be the best course of action. There currently are no
committers or contributors that could be promoted to PMC status.
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