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Board of Directors Meeting Minutes
April 16, 2014
1. Call to order
The meeting was scheduled for 10:30am (*) and began at 10:34
when a sufficient attendance to constitute a quorum was
recognized by the chairman. The meeting was held via
teleconference, hosted by Doug Cutting and Cloudera.
(*) PDT time, see here for other timezones:
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20140416T1730
IRC #asfboard on irc.freenode.net was used for backup purposes.
2. Roll Call
Directors Present:
Shane Curcuru
Doug Cutting left at 11:17
Bertrand Delacretaz
Roy T. Fielding
Jim Jagielski
Chris Mattmann
Brett Porter
Sam Ruby
Greg Stein
Directors Absent:
none
Executive Officers Present:
Ross Gardler
Rich Bowen
Craig L Russell
Executive Officers Absent:
none
Guests:
Chip Childers
Jake Farrell
Marvin Humphrey
Sean Kelly
Daniel Gruno
Sean Owen
Phil Steitz
David Nalley
Andrea Pescetti
Noah Slater
Jan Iversen
Jan Lehnardt
Henri Yandell joined at 10:38
3. Minutes from previous meetings
Published minutes can be found at:
http://www.apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html
A. The meeting of March 19, 2014
See: board_minutes_2014_03_19.txt
Approved by General Consent.
4. Executive Officer Reports
A. Chairman [Brett]
I sent a notice to members, advising them that the Annual Members
Meeting will be on May 27, and calling for nominations of new members
and nominations for the 2014-15 board. This was sent via the members
mailing list, with a separate notice sent to those members who are not
subscribed to it.
At the time of writing, we don't have a 2014-15 budget to approve for
this meeting, so I've requested an update from Ross.
ApacheCon recently completed, and while I wasn't able to attend, it
sounds as if the event went well and was of great benefit. Many thanks
to those who volunteered time to make it happen, and all the members
of our community that participated!
Jim volunteered to set up the voting tool for the Members'
meeting.
B. President [Ross]
An eventful month...
ApacheCon was a big success. I spoke to a number of conference
sponsors all were satisfied many were very happy. I spoke to many
attendees, some new, some old. The new faces were content, the old
were pleased to see an ApacheCon with no burned out volunteers
tearing their hair out. Please see the EVP report for full details
and join me in thanking Rich Bowen and his supporting team for a
job well done.
Upayavira and I met with the only ASF sponsor present at
ApacheCon and discussed how we might better engage them. There were
a number of suggestions but they mostly hinged around visibility into
the foundations activities so that there is concrete information to
communicate internally to those signing off on the sponsorship budget,
Upayavira has undertaken to hold quarterly conference calls with gold
and platinum sponsors during which he will present some basic metrics
on how the foundation is doing, raise any highlights, and invite
questions. I will work with Upayavira, Melissa and appropriate VPs to
gather this data (e.g. incubating projects, accounts, committers). It
is intended that the data will be compiled into an annual report for
broader circulation in one years time (to coincide with the 2015
members meeting). It is my belief that at least one director should
be present at each of these calls along with either myself or the
EVP.
A second sponsor request was to have more visibility at open source
events for the ASF. Both in the form of booth presence (Melissa is
willing and able to assist with this) and in the form of speakers
representing the ASF. At this time I have no plan to deliver on this
request. In the past the board (and I) have questioned the value of
this work. This is an item that will be discussed with other sponsors
in the coming months.
There has been an important step in the audit process with agreement
to request a contract from Virtual to manage the process. This is good
to see. Thanks to the audit team for unblocking this.
The EVP and two directors (Shane and Jim) met with representatives of
the CloudStack PMC to discuss specific infrastructure, marketing and
sponsorship needs that the PMC feels are not currently addressed by the
ASF. At this time the requests are quite general in nature and thus we
spent some time explaining why it is important for the PMC need to raise
specific concerns with the appropriate Committees and Officers. To date
the PMC has reached out formally to infrastructure and marketing and
informally (at ApacheCon) to fundraising. It is my belief that the PMC
is approaching these issues in an extremely constructive way and I
commend them for their efforts. I also wish to note that, at least in the
general sense, these concerns are not unique to CloudStack. It is my
belief that the CloudStack PMC genuinely wants to find a solution that
preserves the Apache Way and I encourage the board to work with the PMC
to find appropriate solutions as specific issues are identified.
Melissa spent much of this month coordinating the last aspects of
ApacheCon and TAC, including staffing the booth at the event itself.
There has been the usual work on the fundraising support activities.
Now that ApacheCon is over and there is a lull before the real work
for ApacheCon EU begins I am hoping that Melissa will be able to turn
her attention to assisting the treasurer with the contract negotiations
with Virtual and with documenting the existing practices. I plan to
discuss new priorities with her and Rich (as EVP) in our regular meeting
on Thur 17th April.
We do not have a TAC report this month. However, I can report that I met
a number of the TAC recipients at ApacheCon. They were all very grateful
for the opportunity presented by the programme and extended their thanks
to the foundation and TAC members specifically.
Infrastructure was represented at ApacheCon by Joe and Daniel, with Sam
being present for the first day. This, coupled with the fact that our
two other contractors were otherwise engaged for the same period,
resulted in a potentially incomplete coverage of our infrastructure
needs. This was an unusual set of circumstances that all collided on a
specific time period. This situation is unlikely to occur again.
However, we should perhaps consider simple measures to flag such
situations in the future.
Shane was very active in ApacheCon discussions relating to directed
sponsorships and their potential impact on our brand management. Shane
continues to be engaged in those discussions on various mailing lists.
Additionally, please see Attachments 1 through 6.
C. Treasurer [Chris]
The Treasurer's Office has reviewed a proposal from Virtual, Inc
to provide financial contracting services at the ASF. After a
favorable initial review, the Office asked for broader feedback
from the ASF board. 7 of the 9 directors and the ASF President
replied back and all were favorable of the proposal and the potential
for Virtual to help provide their services to help the financial
mission of the ASF.
Based on the above feedback, the Treasurer's Office is recommending
that we hire Virtual. I propose that Sam and I have a telecon with
Sheila, their Business manager and request a draft services
contract for review.
The EA requested some financial reports on her income and the request
was fulfilled by the Treasurer's Office.
An ASF member covered the on-site expenses for ApacheCon NA 2014,
and will be reimbursed when his request arrives and is approved by
the President or EVP as soon as possible.
Income and Expenses
Current Balances:
Wells Fargo Business Checking: 1,091,616.35
Wells Fargo Savings: 287,910.92
PayPal: 12,314.42
Amazon Prime: 9,789.08
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Total $ 1,391,841.69
Income Summary:
Lockbox 100,810.30
Fundraising 105,000.00
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Total $ 205,810.30
Expense Summary:
Category Amount
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EA 5,539.20
Sysadmin 31,800.00
misc expense 399.48
ASF credit card - Sam Ruby 50.87
ASF credit card - Jim Jagielski 1,996.63
Press 6,545.45
PayPal 41,163.79
Network Services - Traci.net 4,951.73
ApacheCon NA 2014 19,282.63
Trademarks 2,508.75
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Total $ 114,238.53
D. Secretary [Craig]
The office of secretary continues to run smoothly.
March was another slow month for documents. 45 iclas, five cclas,
and one grant were received and filed.
E. Executive Vice President [Rich]
ApacheCon North America 2014 was held April 7-9 in Denver,
Colorado, USA. Despite the very late start, we had higher
attendance than last year, and almost everyone that I have spoken
with has declared it an enormous success. Attendees, speakers and
sponsors have all expressed approval of the job that Angela and
the Linux Foundation did in the production of the event. Speaking
personally, it was the most stress-free ApacheCon I have ever
had.
Although I hope to have more detailed statistics prior to the
board meeting, at the moment the attendee numbers are:
Registered: 419
No-shows: 36
Speakers: 100ish
Committers: 100ish
We're still gathering feedback from speakers and attendees, and
should have the results of that survey by the next board meeting.
This feedback will inform any changes we make for future events.
On the first day of the event, we announced
ApacheCon Europe, which will be held November 17-21 2014 in Budapest.
The website for that is up at http://apachecon.eu/ and the CFP is
open, and will close June 25, 2014. We plan to announce the schedule
on July 28, 2014, giving us nearly 4 months lead time before the
conference. We have already received talk submissions, and a few
conference registrations. I will try to provide statistics each
month between now and the conference.
As with ApacheCon NA, there will be a CloudStack Collaboration
Conference co-located with ApacheCon. We are also discussing the
possibility of a co-located Apache OpenOffice user-focused event
on the 20th and 21st, or possibly just one day.
We eagerly welcome proposals from other projects which wish to
have similar co-located events, or other more developer- or
PMC-focused events like the Traffic Server Summit, which was held
in Denver. I will begin pursuing project-specific and
topic-specific tracks in a few weeks once I've gotten caught up
on everything else.
Discussion has begun regarding a venue for ApacheCon North
America 2015, with Austin and Las Vegas early favorites, but
several other cities being considered. We hope to have an
announcement by early summer, so that this can get into the
planning budgets of possible attendees.
F. Vice Chairman [Greg]
No report was submitted.
Executive officer reports approved as submitted by General Consent.
5. Additional Officer Reports
A. VP of W3C Relations [Andy Seaborne / Jim]
See Attachment 7
B. Apache Legal Affairs Committee [Jim Jagielski]
See Attachment 8
C. Apache Security Team Project [Mark Cox / Sam]
See Attachment 9
Additional officer reports approved as submitted by General Consent.
6. Committee Reports
A. Apache Accumulo Project [Billie Rinaldi / Doug]
See Attachment A
B. Apache ACE Project [Marcel Offermans / Greg]
See Attachment B
C. Apache ActiveMQ Project [Hiram Chirino / Brett]
See Attachment C
D. Apache Airavata Project [Suresh Marru / Shane]
See Attachment D
E. Apache Allura Project [Dave Brondsema / Chris]
See Attachment E
F. Apache Aries Project [Jeremy Hughes / Bertrand]
See Attachment F
G. Apache Attic Project [Gianugo Rabellino / Roy]
No report was submitted.
AI: Ross: what can be done to improve the Attic situation?
H. Apache Avro Project [Scott Carey / Sam]
No report was submitted.
AI: Doug: suggest naming a new chair
I. Apache Chukwa Project [Eric Yang / Brett]
See Attachment I
J. Apache Click Project [Malcolm Edgar / Bertrand]
No report was submitted.
K. Apache Cordova Project [Brian LeRoux / Jim]
See Attachment K
AI: Jim: follow up with issues regarding committers, PMC
membership, and users mailing lists
L. Apache Creadur Project [Robert Burrell Donkin / Doug]
No report was submitted.
M. Apache Crunch Project [Josh Wills / Roy]
See Attachment M
N. Apache CXF Project [Daniel Kulp / Shane]
See Attachment N
AI: Sam: ask project to file JIRA for Jenkins issues
O. Apache DB Project [Myrna van Lunteren / Chris]
See Attachment O
P. Apache Deltacloud Project [Marios S. Andreou / Greg]
See Attachment P
Q. Apache Directory Project [Pierre-Arnaud Marcelot / Shane]
No report was submitted.
AI: Shane to pursue a report for Directory
R. Apache Geronimo Project [Jarek Gawor / Bertrand]
See Attachment R
S. Apache Hadoop Project [Chris Douglas / Chris]
See Attachment S
T. Apache HBase Project [Michael Stack / Greg]
See Attachment T
U. Apache Incubator Project [Roman Shaposhnik / Roy]
See Attachment U
V. Apache Isis Project [Dan Haywood / Doug]
See Attachment V
W. Apache James Project [Eric Charles / Brett]
See Attachment W
X. Apache jclouds Project [Andrew Bayer / Jim]
See Attachment X
Y. Apache Jena Project [Andy Seaborne / Sam]
See Attachment Y
Z. Apache JMeter Project [Sebastian Bazley / Bertrand]
See Attachment Z
AA. Apache JSPWiki Project [Juan Pablo Santos / Greg]
See Attachment AA
AB. Apache Knox Project [Kevin Minder / Shane]
No report was submitted.
AC. Apache Labs Project [Tim Williams / Jim]
See Attachment AC
The board approves the removal of the following PMC members:
Erik Abele (erikabele) Gregor Rothfuss (gregor) Noel J.
Bergman (noel) Reinhard Poetz (reinhard) Scott Sanders
(sanders) J Aaron Farr (farra) Garrett Rooney (rooneg)
AD. Apache Lucy Project [Logan Bell / Chris]
See Attachment AD
AE. Apache Mahout Project [Grant Ingersoll / Doug]
See Attachment AE
AF. Apache Maven Project [Stephen Connolly / Roy]
See Attachment AF
AG. Apache Mesos Project [Benjamin Hindman / Sam]
See Attachment AG
AH. Apache MINA Project [Emmanuel Lecharny / Brett]
See Attachment AH
AI. Apache MyFaces Project [Gerhard Petracek / Jim]
See Attachment AI
AI: Jim: follow up regarding lack of new PMC members
AJ. Apache Nutch Project [Julien Nioche / Roy]
See Attachment AJ
AK. Apache ODE Project [Tammo van Lessen / Brett]
See Attachment AK
AL. Apache Olingo Project [Stephan Klevenz / Doug]
See Attachment AL
AM. Apache Onami Project [Simone Tripodi / Bertrand]
See Attachment AM
AI: Chris: follow up regarding engaging the community and
looking for potential PMC members
AN. Apache Open Climate Workbench Project [Michael James Joyce / Shane]
See Attachment AN
AI: Shane: follow up regarding expanding the user community
AO. Apache OpenJPA Project [Pinaki Poddar / Sam]
See Attachment AO
AP. Apache OpenMeetings Project [Sebastian Wagner / Greg]
See Attachment AP
AQ. Apache OpenOffice Project [Andrea Pescetti / Chris]
See Attachment AQ
AR. Apache PDFBox Project [Andreas Lehmkühler / Roy]
See Attachment AR
AS. Apache Rave Project [Matt Franklin / Doug]
See Attachment AS
AT. Apache Shindig Project [Ryan Baxter / Shane]
See Attachment AT
AU. Apache Spark Project [Matei Zaharia / Chris]
See Attachment AU
AV. Apache Sqoop Project [Arvind Prabhakar / Brett]
See Attachment AV
AW. Apache Steve Project [Jim Jagielski]
See Attachment AW
AX. Apache Struts Project [Rene Gielen / Bertrand]
See Attachment AX
AY. Apache Tajo Project [Hyunsik Choi / Greg]
See Attachment AY
AZ. Apache Tapestry Project [Howard M. Lewis Ship / Jim]
See Attachment AZ
BA. Apache Tcl Project [Massimo Manghi / Sam]
See Attachment BA
BB. Apache Thrift Project [Jake Farrell / Sam]
See Attachment BB
BC. Apache Tika Project [Dave Meikle / Bertrand]
See Attachment BC
BD. Apache TomEE Project [David Blevins / Chris]
No report was submitted.
BE. Apache Traffic Server Project [Leif Hedstrom / Jim]
See Attachment BE
BF. Apache Web Services Project [Sagara Gunathunga / Greg]
See Attachment BF
BG. Apache Wookie Project [Scott Wilson / Roy]
See Attachment BG
BH. Apache CloudStack Project [Hugo Trippaers / Brett]
See Attachment BH
Committee reports approved as submitted by General Consent.
7. Special Orders
A. Change the Apache Any23 Project Chair
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Michele Mostarda
to the office of Vice President, Apache Any23, and
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation
of Michele Mostarda from the office of Vice President, Apache Any23,
and
WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Any23
project has chosen by vote to recommend Lewis John McGibbney as the
successor to the post;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Michele Mostarda is relieved and
discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office
of Vice President, Apache Any23, and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Lewis John McGibbney be and hereby is
appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Any23, to
serve in accordance with and subject to the direction of the
Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until
death, resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification, or
until a successor is appointed.
Special Order 7A, Change the Apache Any23 Project Chair, was
approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
B. Change the Apache Crunch Project Chair
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Josh Wills
to the office of Vice President, Apache Crunch, and
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation
of Josh Wills from the office of Vice President, Apache Crunch,
and
WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Crunch
project has chosen by vote to recommend Gabriel Reid as the successor
to the post;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Josh Wills is relieved and
discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office
of Vice President, Apache Crunch, and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Gabriel Reid be and hereby is
appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Crunch, 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 Crunch Project Chair, was
approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
8. Discussion Items
* Directed sponsorship
Ross reviewed a small number of concerns with directed sponsorship:
accounting overhead; somewhat less of an issue assuming we contract out
some accounting tasks
neutrality of PMC; mitigated if the PMC is very diverse and sponsors
similarly diverse
Ross mentioned that there are no specific proposals at the moment
Ross proposed thinking about these four categories of items that could use
directed sponsors:
1. Items that don't cost much and are broadly applicable to many projects
2. Items that don't cost much but apply to only a few projects
3. Items that have high cost and apply to only a few projects
directed sponsorships would mostly apply here
would need to be managed closely by pmc
4. Items that have high cost and are broadly applicable to many projects
Ross suggested his thinking for category 4 above:
Perhaps we should look at outside organizations to support some of
these, e.g. Linux Foundation
Shane: We should provide higher level of services for our projects, using
either inside or outside funding
We can do this more easily with pmcs that know what they need
Roy: we're ahead of ourselves with regard to accounting overhead issues
since we do not yet have help
Don't see a need to break out into four categories
Prefer to think about categories:
1. pmc can do by themselves;
2. pmc needs help with e.g. publicity
If need is identified, projects could identify people to work directly
with marketing/publicity
Ross: No problem with this approach for marketing/publicity
The bigger issue is with infrastructure; maintaining different systems
for many projects Infrastructure is not set up to provide much more than
what they currently do
Roy: Running infra at this level would need major increase in budget and
support system
Chris: Is the open office special fund relevant?
The project has some money earmarked for travel assistance
Ross: This was a special case; OO project had this money before joining
apache
No additional funding is being accepted but can only spend based on the
original intent of the donation
Ross: I will continue to work with cloudstack on concrete proposals for
infrastructure and marketing
I will put together a broader plan for identifying ASF wide policies for
board approval
These policies will be informed by the ongoing discussions in various
locations of the ASF
Roy: If pmc really wants to market they can set up groups inside the project
As long as pmc is deciding what to work on, they have the ability to do it
Also, projects can ask for additional resources in marketing
Ross: Prospective sponsors have asked for accountability for donations
Chip: The Cloudstack project is looking for diversity of sponsors to help
with infrastructure and marketing
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: followed up
* Brett: Remind PMCs to check their committee records
Status: not quite, sorry
* Greg: ask about "pending discussion by the PMC" by JMeter
Status:
* Chris: follow up with Empire-db about steps to bringing on new blood
Status:
* 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.
Status: In progress. Current status: http://s.apache.org/ubj
* Bertrand: pursue a report for Cordova
Status: Report present
* Jim: pursue a report for Creadur
Status: done
* Shane: ask Curator if there a plan to attract new committers/PMC members?
Status:
* Doug: discuss bringing in new PMC members with OFBiz
Status: not done
* Jim: discuss service hosting issue (licensing, trademark, etc.) with
SpamAssassin PMC.
Status: not yet done (apologies)
10. Unfinished Business
11. New Business
12. Announcements
13. Adjournment
Adjourned at 11:49 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
Placed orders for this year's giveaways and shipped to the venue
Shipped the Apache booth material to the venue
Finalized the booth logistics with the venue
Staffed the booth at ApacheCon and the Cloudstack Collaboration
Conference
Assisted with getting the BarCamp organized and set-up
It was a very successful week, with 100% positive feedback from
everyone that I spoke with
TAC:
Continued to work with the TAC applicants to answer all their
inquiries prior to arriving in Denver, as well as on-site
Followed through with the direct bill application to the Westin for
the TAC'ers and staff lodging with the Westin’s Accounting rep.
Fundraising: 10%
Continuing to follow-up on renewals sent out
Monitoring and preparing invoices for upcoming renewals
Sam and Chris will work with Wells Fargo to add me to the account for
“read access” so that I can monitor the incoming payments and
follow-up on the past-due renewals more efficiently and effectively.
Sent out invoices for the sponsors due for renewal
Met with Upayavira at ACNA to discuss fundraising activities and
processes in which to improve upon
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Attachment 2: Report from the VP of Brand Management [Shane Curcuru]
* Operations
trademarks@ volume and variety of questions continues to be
heavy. In particular we have a number of new requests to make Apache
branded swag.
A key need is a way to ensure that our own /marks/list listings
of Apache marks is kept updated and includes sufficient information
to provide to third parties reviewing our trademark policies. While
Ross has suggested tasking EA to begin this as a manual process (by
reading board graduation votes), an automated one that takes into
account future product releases is needed. If we can't attract
volunteers for this kind of task, will work with president@ to find
appropriate infrastructure work to complete.
* ApacheCon / CloudStackCollab
I gave three presentations about Apache branding at both
conferences last week, to moderate audiences but with very good
feedback from attendees. Posted on the conference site and:
http://www.slideshare.net/shanecurcuru
It was clear both from hallway/after hours conversations and from
specific feedback on my talks that more education is needed, both for
PMCs (to best protect our brands) and for vendors who commonly engage
with Apache projects (to ensure they understand that Apache product
names are our trademarks, for example).
Recorded a podcast about Apache branding activities at ApacheCon:
http://community.redhat.com/blog/2014/04/upstream-podcast-4/
Similarly, I had a number of conversations with the CloudStack
PMC about their desires for getting better support for branding and
marketing (and infra) activities; the result of which can be seen in
their monthly board report and emails to press@ / infra@
Met with Linux Foundation (LF) staff about ApacheCon and other
conference branding. IMO branding at these conferences was great.
LF is already producing the upcoming MesosCon, so we will need to
work on ensuring an improved event approval process to work with LF
events for our many Apache projects.
* Registrations
Registration of APACHE has succeeded in Switzerland! While we
have made several registrations, this one has finished it's process,
mostly merely because of the timing of the paperwork.
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Attachment 3: Report from the VP of Fundraising [Upayavira]
Fundraising continues to move along. We are on top of sponsorship
renewals, with one platinum still up for discussion, but others in
reaching the PO stage.
Useful discussions were had at ApacheCon, both with those sponsors that
were present, and with the Linux Foundation. Ross has been asking "what
do we offer our high value sponsors?" The idea arose, that I propose to
follow through on, to offer quarterly conference calls with gold and
platinum sponsors. At these calls we will present some basic metrics on
how the foundation is doing, raise any highlights, and ask whether our
sponsors have any questions they wish to raise, either in public or in
private. Other than renewals, this will be the mainstay of our
relationship management.
There were significant discussions at ApacheCon about targeted
donations, which have been mentioned elsewhere. I continue to follow
these discussions, but have yet to form a clear opinion.
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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 and general outreach activities with
Platinum-level Sponsors. The discussion regarding project-specific
marketing/promotional support that had begun in October continues, and Sally
is working with interested third parties as well as VP Brand Management where
needed. This issue has gained additional interest at ApacheCon, and Sally has
been asked by a TLP to to help develop a strategic marketing plan to help
bring visibility to the project.
III. Press Releases: the following formal announcements were issued via the
newswire service, ASF Foundation Blog, and announce@apache.org:
- 08 April 2014: The Apache Software Foundation Announces the 5th
Anniversary of Apache™ Cassandra™
- 07 April 2014: The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache™ Olingo™ as
a Top-Level Project
- 01 April 2014: The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache™ Allura™ as
a Top-Level Project
- 01 April 2014: The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache™ Tajo™ as a
Top-Level Project
- 26 March 2014: The Apache Software Foundation Celebrates Document Freedom
Day 2014
- 25 March 2014: The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache™
CloudStack™ v4.3
IV. Informal Announcements: 8 items were tweeted on @TheASF, and @ApacheCon
tweeted 91 newsworthy items in advance and during the event. No new posts
were made on "TheApacheFoundation" account on YouTube.
V. Future Announcements: we're preparing to announce a project milestone this
week, as well as a ComDev-momentum update. 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 17 media requests. The ASF received
2,259 press clips over this time period, vs. last month's clip count of
3,030.
VII. Analyst Relations: we responded to 2 analyst queries, with interest in
future updates on several projects. Apache was mentioned in 13 reports by
Gartner, 6 reports by Forrester, 7 write-ups by GigaOM, 11 reports by Yankee
Group, 5 reports by IDC, and 6 write-ups by 451 Research. In addition, Chris
Mattmann will be featured on an upcoming episode of "Technology for Good",
run by GreenMonk, RedMonk's sustainability-focused division.
VIII. ApacheCon liaison: Sally successfully worked with the ApacheCon
producer, with particular focus on communications and sponsor outreach, as
well as handled some short-notice PR requests for the CloudStack
Communication Conference. Special thanks to Melissa Warnkin for running the
ASF promotional activities during the event.
IX. (Non-ASF) Industry Events and Outreach liaison: Sally continues liaison
with a small handful of events that are requesting the ASF's presence as
speakers/presenters/sponsors/*, and is coordinating with Melissa on our
presence at OSCON.
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 have used all our remaining pre-paid press releases on the
PRNewswire account and will not be renewing the pre-paid press release
distribution via PR Newswire at this time, but will revisit our needs midway
through the upcoming fiscal year. We continue to receive gratis news release
distribution by Pressat (UK) with no pre-established termination timeframe.
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Attachment 5: Report from the VP of Infrastructure [Sam Ruby]
New Karma:
==========
Finances:
==========
No purchases/renewals for the month since last report.
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:
=================
* New 3-year wildcard SSL cert purchased and installed for *.openoffice
* Thrift migrated to CMS with the aim of providing better support for similar
sites. Blog entry here:
http://blogs.apache.org/infra/entry/scaling_down_the_cms_to
* The number of confluence administrators was significantly reduced, this was
to try and keep the list as small as possible. Historically this permission
level was required to operate and manage the autoexport plugin which has
since been deprecated. see https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-7487
* An inter-project communication site was requested by the community at
ApacheCon and is being looked into by infra. This will essentially be an
aggregator of project development wishes/requests, and will most likely
reside on wishlist.a.o.
* As a way of lowering the bar for and securing security reports, infra is
looking into creating a system which, based on LDAP, accepts and encrypts
security reports for projects. The exact setup and nature of this system is
being discussed, primarily with members of the subversion PMC.
* Heartbleed happened: see
https://blogs.apache.org/infra/entry/heartbleed_fallout_for_apache
* Two members of the infrastructure team attended Apachecon NA 2014 and had a
few community sessions with committers to hear their concerns and attempt to
address them. Also met with Cloudstack members to discuss their widely
publicized proposal for additional infrastructure needs surrounding project
builds.
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Attachment 6: Report from the Apache Travel Assistance Committee [Gavin McDonald]
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Attachment 7: Report from the VP of W3C Relations [Andy Seaborne]
Nothing to report this month.
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Attachment 8: Report from the Apache Legal Affairs Committee [Jim Jagielski]
Due to a new pluggable transparent mechanism allowing users to store
certain columns in RDBMS in an encrypted form, Apache Cayenne was
required to classify themselves in order to compliant with US export
regulations. Unfortunately, the ASF crypto page has been "outdated"
for awhile concerning the new process; I advised them to continue with
the old process but I will work on updating the page to reflect the
current required (and hopefully more streamlined) process.
There was a long, but useful thread regarding the iCLA and its applicability
with non-copyrighted material (usually since the creator is a US government
employee). The end-result is the general consensus that this is a non-
issue.
JIRA questions are being handled in a timely fashion.
No open issues requiring board attention.
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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 March. These continue to be dealt with by
the security team.
March 2014
1 Support question
2 Phishing/spam/proxy/attacks point to site "powered by Apache"
8 Vulnerability reports to security@apache.org
1 [traffic-server]
3 [website] (closed, not issue)
2 [httpd] (closed, not issue)
1 [couchdb] (complete)
1 [syncope] (in progress)
4 Vulnerability reports to projects own security lists
2 [hadoop]
1 [geronimo]
1 [httpd]
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Attachment A: Report from the Apache Accumulo Project [Billie Rinaldi]
The Apache Accumulo sorted, distributed key/value store is a robust,
scalable, high performance data storage system that features cell-based
access control and customizable server-side processing. It is based on
Google's BigTable design and is built on top of Apache Hadoop,
Zookeeper, and Thrift.
Releases
Version 1.5.1 was released on 2/27/2014.
Version 1.4.5 was released on 4/03/2014.
Activity
The mailing lists have been active. The dev list has increased by 16
subscribers to 231, and the user list has increased by 25 subscribers to
363. In March 2014, we again surpassed our previous record for number
of commits per month.
Testing is still ongoing for 1.6.0 and we have not begun voting on its
release yet.
Community
Sean Busbey was added as a committer and PMC member on 1/09/2014.
Over recent months we have engaged in much discussion regarding
codifying our bylaws, which has resulted in [1]. The initial version has
been approved by vote [2]. Since there was majority, but not resounding
approval, we are in the process of making clarifications and adjustments.
It is largely a recording of our previously accepted practices, with a
few exceptions, one of which is that we have added some structure around
release planning that we hope will tighten our release process for major
releases.
Also, we look forward to the first ever Accumulo Summit on June 12th [3].
[1]: http://accumulo.apache.org/bylaws.html
[2]: http://s.apache.org/YSn
[3]: http://accumulosummit.com
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Attachment B: Report from the Apache ACE Project [Marcel Offermans]
Apache ACE is a software distribution framework that allows you to
centrally manage and distribute modular software components,
configuration data and other artifacts to OSGi based and related target
systems.
Releases:
* June 17th, 2013: ACE 1.0.0 release.
Statistics:
* Last committers added: March 27th, 2012
* Last PMC members added: June 18th, 2013
* Mailing list activity (dev+users) for last 3 months: 94 msgs
(previous 3 months: 98 msgs)
* Commits for last 3 months: 56
(previous 3 months: 120)
Activity:
* We are in progress of creating a new release for ACE.
* Work on enabling baselining support in preparation of the release.
* Large performance improvements after extensive profiling.
* Reviewed and closed a lot of issues.
Presentations:
* Continuous Automated Deployment with Apache ACE
at ApacheCon NA 2014, April 8th
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Attachment C: Report from the Apache ActiveMQ Project [Hiram Chirino]
Apache ActiveMQ is a popular and powerful open source messaging server. Apache
ActiveMQ is fast, supports many Cross Language Clients and Protocols, comes
with easy to use Enterprise Integration Patterns and many advanced features
while fully supporting JMS 1.1 and J2EE 1.4.
Community:
* The development and user lists continue to stay active.
* The Debate over the inclusion of the hawt.io web console in the ActiveMQ 5.9
release had been resolved. It has been removed in the 5.9.1 release and the
upcoming 5.10.
Development:
* An ActiveMQ 5.10 release is being prepared.
* The project moved to the new svnpubsub way to publish distros (INFRA-7539)
Trademark / Branding Status:
* Sub-projects need to be reviewed to make sure they are also compliant /w TM
policies
* Documentation and readme files will also be reviewed for compliance
Releases:
* Apache ActiveMQ 5.9.1 - 4/4/14
* Apache Apollo 1.7 - 3/10/14
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Attachment D: Report from the Apache Airavata Project [Suresh Marru]
Apache Airavata is a software framework to construct, execute, and manage
long running applications and workflows on distributed computing resources.
== Releases ==
No releases were made during this reporting period. The community is working
towards version 0.12 which got delayed due to major refactoring in integrating
with Apache Thrift for public API’s and internal component CPI interfaces.
The latest Apache Airavata version (0.11) was released on January 1st 2014.
== Activity ==
The mailing list, jira and commit activity remains very high.
== Community ==
Airavata has successfully engaged Google Summer of Code students in previous
years and continuing to be attractive this year as well. 5 students have
submitted proposals which are currently in review. In addition, the PMC
has voted on a new architecture mailing which has worked out well. There is
a sudden increase of volunteers who are actively taking part in architecture
discussions. These volunteers previously had trouble to keep up with dev list
traffic. We hope to recruit few of these active contributors into the PMC.
== Committer/PMC Changes ==
During this reporting period, there are no changes to PMC. Last member was
added on July 24th 2013. The PMC has voted on diverging from PMC=Committers
to lowered the entry barrier. This has enabled the PMC to vote in 3 committers
in past couple of months. We hope the committers use these as a stepping stone,
feel motivated to hangout and get voted into the PMC.
The community remains vibrant and we constantly are on the looks for new PMC
members and committers. Airavata has migrated to git (with a mirror in github)
which seem to resonate well with new contributors. We are yet to unleash this
enthusiasm into code contributions.
== Other Issues ==
There are no outstanding issues requiring board attention.
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Attachment E: Report from the Apache Allura Project [Dave Brondsema]
Apache Allura is an open source implementation of a software forge, a web site
that manages source code repositories, bug reports, discussions, wiki pages,
blogs, and more for any number of individual projects.
Project Status
--------------
Allura graduated to a Top Level Project last month. We, with infrastructure,
have moved our resources out of the incubator. A press release was issued, and
there has been coverage on a few other media websites as well.
Community
---------
* Dave Brondsema and Wayne Witzel presenting about Allura at ApacheCon
* There is a small increase in user activity (often on IRC) as people find out
about Allura and try it out.
* Project development continues at a moderate pace.
* No new committers or PMC members since TLP formation (Apr 2014)
Community Objectives
--------------------
We would like to find and encourage new contributors to Allura. We also want to
explore if other Apache projects would be interested in using Allura.
We need to move our tickets from SourceForge to the Allura self-hosted site.
Releases
--------
Last release was Feb 2014.
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Attachment F: Report from the Apache Aries Project [Jeremy Hughes]
Apache Aries delivers a set of pluggable Java components enabling an
enterprise OSGi application programming model.
Releases
* No releases done this quarter.
Project update
* The Aries Subsystem implementation now works on Apache Felix 4.4.0.
* Discussion held about decoupling Subsystems from Blueprint.
* Discussion held about the process of applying Github pull requests.
JIRA Issues
* Issues created: 26
* Issues resolved: 8
Community
* PMC: No changes. The last PMC member was added on 28th July 2013.
* A number of issues originally filed as Github Pull Requests have been
applied to the Apache Aries codebase.
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
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Attachment G: Report from the Apache Attic Project [Gianugo Rabellino]
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Attachment H: Report from the Apache Avro Project [Scott Carey]
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Attachment I: Report from the Apache Chukwa Project [Eric Yang]
Apache Chukwa is a log collection and analysis framework for Apache Hadoop
Clusters.
Project Status:
* Planning for integration with Apache Kafka to replace Chukwa Collector
* Abstract submitted to Hadoop Summit for Machine Learning Algorithm to
analyze Hadoop metrics.
* Upgrading to JDK 7.
Releases:
* Last Release was 0.5.0, published Jan 26, 2012
Community:
* The last Chukwa PMC addition: Oct 16, 2013
* The last Chukwa committer addition: Oct 16, 2013
Mailing lists:
* 99 subscribers on dev
* 169 subscribers on user
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Attachment J: Report from the Apache Click Project [Malcolm Edgar]
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Attachment K: Report from the Apache Cordova Project [Brian LeRoux]
Apache Cordova is a platform for building native mobile applications using
HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
STATUS
Past releases have been voted (noted below). Future/current releases also
following vote policy (also noted below). Positive discussion to enhance
release tooling to restore the ability to release with speed. Community is
loving the new Github integrations: high fives to infra.
COMMUNITY
Cordova welcomed the following new committers:
* Archana Naik
* James Long
* Mark Koudritsky
* Josh Soref
RELEASES
* cordova@2.8.1 ............. http://s.apache.org/hnP
* cordova@2.9.0 ............. http://s.apache.org/cyo
* cordova@3.0.0 ............. http://s.apache.org/Y82
* cordova@3.1.0 ............. http://s.apache.org/ICo
* cordova@3.2.0 ............. http://s.apache.org/9Q9
* cordova@3.3.0 ............. http://s.apache.org/VvP
* cordova@3.4.0-0.1.3 ....... http://s.apache.org/MgN
* cordova-plugman@0.20.2 .... http://s.apache.org/MgN
* cordova-plugman@0.21.0 .... http://s.apache.org/gwx
* cordova-cli@3.4.1-0.1.0 ... http://s.apache.org/ixv
* cordova-plugman@0.21.0 .... http://s.apache.org/ixv
* cordova-ios@3.4.1 ......... http://s.apache.org/ixv
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Attachment L: Report from the Apache Creadur Project [Robert Burrell Donkin]
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Attachment M: Report from the Apache Crunch Project [Josh Wills]
Apache Crunch is a Java library for writing, testing, and running
MapReduce pipelines on Apache Hadoop.
General:
The Crunch community has been steadily fixing issues for the last
quarter, with 48 issues filed and fixed since the last release in December
2013, which means it's just about time for a new release. Since our
last report we dramatically improved the quality and depth of the user
guide [1] and getting started information [2] for the project on our website,
and we have a proposal for the board to approve a new PMC chair for the
project. We have also added one new PMC member since our last report.
[1] http://crunch.apache.org/user-guide.html
[2] http://crunch.apache.org/getting-started.html
Releases:
Last releases were 0.9.0 and 0.8.2, both made on December 17th, 2013.
Community:
Micah Whitacre was added to the PMC on April 3rd, 2014.
Micah Whitacre was added as a committer on July 11th, 2013.
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Attachment N: Report from the Apache CXF Project [Daniel Kulp]
Apache CXF is an open source services framework. CXF helps you build and
develop services using front-end programming APIs, like JAX-WS and
JAX-RS. These services can speak a variety of protocols such as SOAP,
XML/HTTP, RESTful HTTP, or CORBA and work over a variety of transports
such as HTTP, JMS or JBI.
Releases:
2.6.12
2.6.13
2.7.9
2.7.10
3.0.0-milestone2
Committer/PMC:
One committer added this period (Andriy Redko) and one is being voted on now
One PMC member added this period (Andrei Shakirin)
Community update:
There has been a lot of work on trunk to get 3.0.0 out the door. We did a
second milestone release which resulted in an influx of issues as people
started trying out the new things.
An external party sent a note to the security@apache list and our private
list to describe a potential DOS attack. We worked with them to clarify
the issue, create a test case, ad debug/fix the issues. As a result, two
new CVE’s were issued. The 2.7.11/2.6.14 releases (voting now, out
shortly) will fix the issues and the CVE’s (along with 2 other CVE’s from
last reporting period) will be made public at that point.
There was a note sent privately to a couple of the PMC members about the
wording of the JAX-RS compliance with the JCP spec. This was mostly due
to the lack of TCK access for the latest JAX-RS 2.0 TCK. We worked with
that person to clarify the statement about lack of TCK access is the main
reason for lack of official compliance.
The lack of stability in the Jenkins build farm is an ongoing concern.
Unfortunately, many of the Jenkins errors are being ignored due to the
issues with Jenkins causing a lot of wasted time. Also, turn around from
Jenkins takes a lot longer than expected due to the large build queue that
seems to always be there. Not sure if additional build slaves are in the
plans or not.
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Attachment O: Report from the Apache DB Project [Myrna van Lunteren]
The Apache DB TLP consists of the following subprojects:
o DdlUtils : a small, easy-to-use component for working with
Database Definition (DDL) files.
o Derby : an open source relational database implemented entirely in Java.
o JDO : focused on building the API and the TCK for compatibility
testing of Java Data Object implementations providing data
persistence.
o Torque : an object-relational mapper for Java.
== Status ==
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
Activities over the last quarter
a) Matthew Adams joined the PMC in January.
b) The Derby Community is testing and voting on a 10.10.2 bug fix release
c) The Derby Community is adding features and fixes for a 10.11 feature release
d) The DB community has voted to use svnpubsub to publish project release
artifacts
e) The community continues to log and fix bugs, and ask and answer questions
in the Derby, JDO and Torque subprojects.
=== Community ===
No PMC changes since January 2014.
No new committers since August 2010.
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Attachment P: Report from the Apache Deltacloud Project [Marios S. Andreou]
Apache Deltacloud defines a web service API for interacting with cloud
service providers and resources in those clouds in a unified manner. In
addition, it consists of a number of implementations of this API for the
most popular clouds. It also provides an implementation of DMTF CIMI,
and tools around that API to help make it more easily consumable.
-- Releases/Development --
1.1.4 - in progress
1.1.3 - 2013-04-22
1.1.2 - 2013-03-13
1.1.1 - 2013-02-13
1.1.0 - 2013-01-15
-- Overall activity in the past quarter --
There has been relatively little activity this quarter though there are three
major contributions on the mailing list - a new PACI driver [1], a new
implementation of the OpenStack driver and a new vCloud driver [2]. I will
reach out for reviews from folk.
-- Last committers and PMC members elected --
Change of PMC chair 29 May 2013
(Marios S. Andreou takes over from David Lutterkort)
Tomas Sedovic (August 2012) and Dies Koper (December 2012) voted in as
committers.
Dies Koper was voted into the Deltacloud PMC in July 2013.
all the best, marios
[1] http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/deltacloud-dev/201403.mbox/%3C532CB8D7.4030700%40gmail.com%3E
[2] http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/deltacloud-dev/201404.mbox/%3Cab47e6a1fd594105880e8965646af0d0%40mmambx3.global.ad%3E
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Attachment Q: Report from the Apache Directory Project [Pierre-Arnaud Marcelot]
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Attachment R: Report from the Apache Geronimo Project [Jarek Gawor]
Apache Geronimo is an open source server runtime that integrates the best open
source projects to create Java/OSGi server runtimes that meet the needs of
enterprise developers and system administrators.
Development
- Released XBean 3.17 on April 4th, 2014.
- Overall development activity (commits, JIRA, dev mailing list traffic) has
slowed down.
Community
- The traffic on the user mailing list was low.
- No new PMC members. The last new PMC member was added in March 2013.
- No new committers. The last new committer was added in March 2013.
Board-level issues
None.
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Attachment S: Report from the Apache Hadoop Project [Chris Douglas]
Hadoop is a set of related tools and frameworks for creating and managing
distributed applications running on clusters of commodity computers.
The YARN execution platform continues to evolve by generalizing from the
specific requirements of the MapReduce framework. As one prominent example,
a development branch implementing a more general application history server
(YARN-321) merged to trunk and the 2.x release series. The operability and
robustness of the platform is also improved by recent attention to failover
and recovery in the ResourceManager and NodeManager components (e.g.,
YARN-1336, YARN-1815).
The HDFS subproject also merged two significant development branches to
trunk: rolling upgrades (HDFS-5535) and ACLs (HDFS-4685). Improvements in
the Common RPC layer, short-circuit reads, and 'hedged' reads (HDFS-5776)
evolve Hadoop storage toward more heterogeneous workloads and architectures.
RELEASES
- hadoop-2.3.0 @ 2014-02-20
- hadoop-2.4.0 @ 2014-04-07
COMMUNITY
(+ committer Haohui Mai @ 2014-02-11)
(+ committer Vinayakumar B @ 2014-03-04)
(+ committer Xuan Gong @ 2014-03-13)
(+ branch-HADOOP-10388 Binglin Chang @ 2014-03-13)
(+ branch-HADOOP-10388 Wenwu Peng @ 2014-04-07)
auth: 88 committers (including branch), 44 PMC members
The last addition to the PMC was Bikas Saha 2013-10
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Attachment T: Report from the Apache HBase Project [Michael Stack]
HBase is a distributed column-oriented database
built on top of Hadoop Common and Hadoop HDFS
ISSUES FOR THE BOARD’s ATTENTION
None
RELEASES
0.94.13 - 11/07/2014
0.94.14 - 11/25/2013
0.94.15 - 12/29/2013
0.94.16 - 01/20/2014
0.94.17 - 02/25/2014
0.94.18 - 03/24/2014
0.96.0 - 10/19/2013
0.96.1 - 12/16/2013
0.96.1.1 - 12/20/2013
0.96.2 - 04/03/2014
0.98.0 - 02/16/2014
0.98.1 - 04/06/2014
COMMITTERS
We added the following new committers:
Liang Xie l(liangxie) of Xiaomi
Honghua Feng (fenghh) of Xiaomi
PMC
Anoop Sam John (anoopsamjohn) of Intel
COMMUNITY
We had HBase Bay Area Meetups on:
At Facebook in NYC 10/29/2013 [0]
At Continuuity in Palo Alto 02/10/2014 [1]
At Ancestry.com in San Francisco 03/12/2014 [2]
BOF in Amsterdam before Hadoop Summit [3]
We are getting ready for hbasecon2014, May 5th, in San Francisco [4]
STATS
35 committers [5]
971 subscribers to the dev list (Was 930 at last report)
2172 subscribers to the user list (Was 2093 at last report)
0. http://www.meetup.com/HBase-NYC/events/135434632/
1. http://www.meetup.com/hbaseusergroup/events/163139322/
2. http://www.meetup.com/hbaseusergroup/events/160757912/
3. http://www.meetup.com/Hadoop-Summit-Community-Amsterdam/events/167306932/
4. hbasecon.com
5. http://hbase.apache.org/team-list.html
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Attachment U: 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 32 podlings currently under incubation.
* Community
New IPMC members:
Rob Weir
Sean Owen
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:
Tajo
Olingo
Allura
* Releases
The following releases were made since the last Incubator report:
March 13 Phoenix 2.2.3-incubating
It took 2-10 days for the third IPMC vote to arrive.
Release VOTE start Third IMPC +1 Days
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Apache Phoenix 2.2.3-incubating Mar 7 Mar 13 6
* Miscellaneous
* A proposal for Stratosphere: an open source system for parallel data
analysis has been submitted
* A proposal for Slider has superseded the former proposal for Hoya
* A POC with Black Duck software and a few incubator projects has been
submitted and actively discussed
-------------------- Summary of podling reports --------------------
* Not yet ready to graduate
No release:
NPanday
ODF Toolkit
Samza
Community growth:
NPanday
ODF Toolkit
* Did not report, expected next month
Celix
DeviceMap
Ripple
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Table of Contents
Aurora
DataFu
MetaModel
NPanday
ODF Toolkit
Phoenix
Samza
Stratos
Usergrid
VXQuery
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Aurora
Aurora is a service scheduler used to schedule jobs onto Apache Mesos.
Aurora has been incubating since 2013-10-01.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. First release, progress being tracked in ticket AURORA-147
2. Establish a consistent development process and release rhythm.
3. Expanding the community and continuing to add new committers.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
- None at this time.
How has the community developed since the last report?
Latest Additions:
* PMC addition: Mark Chu-Carroll, 2014-02-03
Jake Farrell, 2014-01-23
* Contributor addition: Mark Chu-Carroll, 2014-01-14
Issue backlog status since last report:
* Created: 296 (includes initial import)
* Resolved: 141
Mailing list activity since last report:
* @dev 624 messages
* issues 503 messages
* @reviews 1499 messages
How has the project developed since the last report?
- Jira issues have been imported to issues.apache.org
- Documented contributing guide and committers workflow
- Automating release workflows and preparing for our first release
candidate
Date of last release:
- No releases as of yet. Targeting first release within the next couple
weeks.
Signed-off-by:
[X](aurora) Jake Farrell
[ ](aurora) Benjamin Hindman
[ ](aurora) Chris Mattmann
[X](aurora) Henry Saputra
--------------------
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?
A talk was given at an Apache Pig meetup held on March 14th. A talk
is scheduled to be given at ApacheCon in Denver on April 7th. Jian
Wang accepted the invitation to become a committer.
How has the project developed since the last report?
Two new Jiras have been filed and received patches.
Date of last release:
None. Third 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
[ ](datafu) Ted Dunning
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
Justin Mclean (jmclean):
Relative new podling yet to make a release. One mentor is active on
public mailing list no obvious issues that need attention.
--------------------
MetaModel
MetaModel is a data access framework, providing a common interface for
exploration and querying of different types of datastores.
MetaModel has been incubating since 2013-06-12.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Finalize 4.1 release to demonstrate new functionality and evolution
within Apache
2. More contributors to increase diversity of the community
3. Determine approach to technical documentation across different software
versions
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 finished our first release and are seeing some initial interest from
users. Mostly there are interactions to add new features or connectivity
to new types of datastores. For instance, it has been proposed to look
into building connectivity to semantic web technologies, iRods, Apache
Phoenix - and within the contributors group there has been some focus on
adding HBase and Cassandra support.
Discussions about community by-laws are not very active at this point. It
does not seem to be top-of-mind for most community members, and also
shepherd/mentor notes from January 2014 indicate that this is not
important right now.
We're improving on the point of registering JIRA issues and running
patches through the review board. By now this is the approach taken every
time, unless a commit is found to be very trivial.
Still the core group of developers seems a bit small, but by focusing on
broader connectivity and keeping the releases coming, we think we can
attract a larger community to the project.
How has the project developed since the last report?
Apache MetaModel 4.0.0-incubating was released on Jan 21.
We are working on new features for a 4.1 version. The 4.1 version will
represent the point in time where Apache MetaModel starts to show
significant new functionality when compared to the old eobjects.org
MetaModel project.
A new module for providing easy Spring framework integration has been
implemented.
Finishing touches are being made to a new module for connecting to Apache
HBase.
Various API changes are being planned and discussed.
Many bugfixes and performance improvements has been implemented.
Date of last release:
Jan 21, 2014
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
June 2013
Signed-off-by:
[X](metamodel) Henry Saputra
[X](metamodel) Arvind Prabhakar
[X](metamodel) Matt Franklin
[X](metamodel) Noah Slater
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NPanday
NPanday allows projects using the .NET framework to be built with Apache
Maven.
NPanday has been incubating since 2010-08-13.
In previous reports, we indicated that there was a regression that blocked
releasing the next version. This has now been resolved, and the only thing
that stands in the way is sufficient cycles to push it out. There have been
a small number of users (not yet committers) who've stepped forward to help
test when that happens, which might help build some much needed momentum.
However, as before, it's still a concern whether sufficient release votes
could be found as many of the existing PPMC are inactive. The last release
was made on 16 May 2011.
The steps that have been identified are:
- apply patches that have been contributed recently
- convert the website to svnpubsub so updated documentation can be published
- perform the release steps
The NPanday automated builds have been impacted by changes to the Windows
build infrastructure again, but this is probably something that needs to be
worked around on our end.
Signed-off-by:
[ ](npanday) Raphael Bircher
--------------------
ODF Toolkit
Java modules that allow programmatic creation, scanning and manipulation of
OpenDocument Format (ISO/IEC 26300 == ODF) documents
ODF Toolkit has been incubating since 2011-08-01.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Grow the community in terms of committers
2. Have regular releases
3. Decide if we would like to be a top level project or join an existing
project
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
We've been struggling to get 3 +1 IPMC votes for our latest release
candidate. We're stuck at two +1 votes.
How has the community developed since the last report?
We issued a "call for volunteers" to our users list and got a good
response: http://s.apache.org/4Vx
Of course, it will be easier to grow the community if we can reliably
conduct a release vote.
How has the project developed since the last report?
We've been trying to get a release out since February 11th.
Date of last release:
2013-06-22
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
2012-10-29
Signed-off-by:
[ ](odftoolkit) Sam Ruby
[ ](odftoolkit) Nick Burch
[ ](odftoolkit) Yegor Kozlov
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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) Make our customers successful and prove value of Phoenix+HBase over
other alternatives
2) Attract new committers and continue to get contributions from existing
committers to the project
3) Figure out a bundling strategy with HBase so that Phoenix is
pre-installed in HBase distributions.
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?
Continued growth of user/dev traffic on email list. James Taylor is giving
a talk on Apache Phoenix at ApacheCon.
How has the project developed since the last report?
* First release has been completed.
* Vote is in progress on general list for our second and third releases.
* Work in parallel on next point releases has already begun.
Date of last release:
March 13, 2014
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
No new committers or PMC members, but a discussion has begun to add a new
committer
Signed-off-by:
[ ](phoenix) Lars Hofhansl
[X](phoenix) Andrew Purtell
[ ](phoenix) Devaraj Das
[ ](phoenix) Enis Soztutar
[ ](phoenix) Steven Noels
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
John Ament (johndament):
Phoenix is a newer podling, however they are growing quite fast. While
there were some release issues, those were resolved quite quickly on the
general list and new releases cut quickly. Based on this I would
strongly recommend that the podling consider graduation sooner than
later. Most of their status report is complete as well.
--------------------
Samza
Samza is a stream processing system for running continuous computation on
infinite streams of data.
Samza has been incubating since 2013-07-30.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Release a version of Samza.
2. Pull in at least one more committer.
3. Building expertise in the community.
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?
Community development has been strong. Our mailing list saw an all-time
high in March of 275 emails. Collectively, March and February had more
emails than all prior months.
How has the project developed since the last report?
The project is developing well. We're trying to stabilize the codebase,
and have our first release. JIRA information:
Period Created Resolved
January 2014 24 18
February 2014 27 26
March 2014 51 38
Date of last release:
Currently in the process of beginning first release.
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
March 17th, 2014
Signed-off-by:
[X](samza) Chris Douglas
[ ](samza) Arun Murthy
[X](samza) Roman Shaposhnik
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Stratos
Stratos will be a polyglot PaaS framework, providing developers a
cloud-based environment for developing, testing, and running scalable
applications, and IT providers high utilization rates, automated resource
management, and platform-wide insight including monitoring and billing.
Stratos has been incubating since 2013-06-20.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Resolve name search issue
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PODLINGNAMESEARCH-45
2. Community diversity
3. Start Graduation vote
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
The Stratos PPMC would be glad if the name search issue could be resolved
soon. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PODLINGNAMESEARCH-45
How has the community developed since the last report?
Six new committers & PMC members have been added to the project. (In
Stratos, committers are also invited to join the PMC). Community members
have written several blog posts. Lakmal Warusawithana was unanimously
elected as the potential Stratos PMC chair.
How has the project developed since the last report?
Stratos has developed a very active community. Community diversity was a
concern during the last report as well, and it is being addressed by bringing
in a number of non-WSO2 committers & PPMC members. There is lot of interest
expressed from & participation from many people. A single Stratos
distribution with multiple profiles has been created. The team is also
working on creating a simple VM which will allow people to easily try
Stratos out. This will bring down the barrier to entry most potential
contributors are facing right now, since setting up Stratos is a bit
tedious right now. The project is actively working towards further
diversification by attracting more non-WSO2 contributors. The domain
stratoslive.com has been donated by WSO2 to the Stratos PMC. The project
seems ready for graduation. A draft resolution towards graduation has been
prepared & is being reviewed. The community is thinking about starting a
graduation vote in the near future.
Date of last release:
2014-02-27 - Stratos (incubating) 4.0.0-Alpha (Developer preview only)
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
2013-03-31
Signed-off-by:
[x](stratos) Afkham Azeez
[ ](stratos) Anthony Elder
[ ](stratos) Chip Childers
[ ](stratos) Marlon Pierce
[ ](stratos) Mohammad Nour
[X](stratos) Noah Slater
[X](stratos) Suresh Marru
--------------------
Usergrid
Usergrid is Backend-as-a-Service (BaaS) composed of an integrated database
(Cassandra), application layer and client tier with SDKs for developers.
Usergrid has been incubating since 2013-10-03.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Grow the Usergrid community
2. Further embrace the Apache methodology including using Apache
infrastructure to move Usergid forwards
3. Make our first incubating release
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
There are currently some issues with regards to licensing of existing
Usergrid code. The community is however aware of this and are working
towards suitable replacement(s).
How has the community developed since the last report?
The dev@ mailing list has seen increased amounts of traffic in recent
months. As of close of March there are 55 subscriber to dev@. Individual
posts to dev@ are shown below.
Jan --> 113
Fed --> 106
Mar --> 179
How has the project developed since the last report?
We have addressed a number of release dependent issues. We continue to
work towards these issue with the aim of having our first incubating
release soon.
Date of last release:
Usergrid has not yet made an incubating release.
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
The Usergrid PPMC elected Shawn Feldman (sfeldman) to join the PPMC on
Mon, 17 Mar 2014.
Signed-off-by:
[ ](usergrid) Dave Johnson
[X](usergrid) Jake Farrell
[ ](usergrid) Jim Jagielski
[X](usergrid) Lewis John Mcgibbney
[ ](usergrid) Luciano Resende
--------------------
VXQuery
A standards compliant parallel XML Query processor.
VXQuery has been incubating since 2009-07-06.
As stated in the last report, there are no formal issues blocking
graduation. While not a formal requirement, the current plan is
(still) to do a second incubator release before graduation (the
reasons to do this have not changed).
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?
No change.
How has the project developed since the last report?
There has been a lot of progress
- improving the performance of the system, and on
- running VXQuery on a cluster.
For most tests that we are running now, we see near-linear
speed-up and scale-up.
Source code has been moved from svn to git.
The second (and hopefully last) incubator release is being
finalized.
Date of last release:
2013-12-06
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
Marvin Humphrey was added to the PPMC as a mentor in November 2013.
Steven Jacobs was elected as a committer in September 2013.
Signed-off-by:
[x](vxquery) Anthony Elder
[x](vxquery) Jochen Wiedmann
[x](vxquery) Marvin Humphrey
[ ](vxquery) Sanjiva Weerawarana
[ ](vxquery) Radu Preotiuc-Pietro
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Attachment V: Report from the Apache Isis Project [Dan Haywood]
Apache Isis is a framework to enable the creation of software using
domain-driven design principles, being an implementation of the naked
objects architectural pattern
== Community ==
Mailing list activity has been steady; user mailing list subscriptions
continue to increase linearly month-on-month.
A number of the committers are meeting up in Milan 2014 [1] to discuss
future evolution of Isis framework. An open invitation to others in the
community has also been made [2] (though realistically given the size of the
community we don't expect very much if any take-up).
Any significant discussions made in Milan will of course be taken back to the
dev mailing list to ensure full involvement of other committers not present.
We are signed up for Google Summer of Code 2014 [3], and have had two
submissions. One of these is very good and there's a very good chance (based
on our experience in GSOC last year) that this project will go ahead.
== Committers and PMC ==
There have been no changes to the committers or PMC this quarter
* last committer added: Oscar Bou, 19 Aug 2013
* last PMC change: Oscar Bou, 19 Aug 2013
== Activity ==
Isis continues to be developed steadily, and this quarter was noteworthy for
the release of a significant major open source application (Estatio [4])
based on Isis. As mentioned in previous status reports, much of Isis'
development over the last two years has been in support of building Estatio,
for and on behalf of Eurocommercial Properties [5]. ECP have committed to
continue funding through 2014, with new features planned that build upon
Isis' support for Restful Objects spec [6]. (This will be one of the topics
of conversation in Milan).
== Releases ==
This quarter we made two releases, v1.4.0 on 11 Mar 2014, and a follow-up
patch release v1.4.1 on 14 Mar 2014 [7].
== Issues ==
There are no outstanding issues requiring board attention.
[1] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/ISIS/IsisCon+2014
[2] http://markmail.org/thread/hbjp7jl5pkodnowo
[3] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2014
[4] https://github.com/apache/isis
[5] http://www.eurocommercialproperties.com/
[6] http://restfulobjects.org/
[7] http://markmail.org/thread/2lchs4akfurvhhpe
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Attachment W: Report from the Apache James Project [Eric Charles]
The Apache James Project delivers a rich set of open source modules and
libraries, written in Java, related to Internet mail which build into an
advanced enterprise mail server.
ISSUES
There are no issue requiring board attention at this time.
RELEASES
No new release (last release done on 19 March 2013).
OVERALL ACTIVITY
Work has been done on Hupa (Web Mail) and mime4j.
We had patch and submitted by users and discussion on the mailing lists.
COMMUNITY
No new committer (Last committer was voted on 30 of Nov 2013).
No new PMC member (Last PMC member was voted on 17 Jul 2012).
TRADEMARKS / BRANDING
Still to do:
Logos and Graphics (include TM, use consistent product logo on web site).
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Attachment X: Report from the Apache jclouds Project [Andrew Bayer]
A cloud agnostic library that enables developers to access a variety of
supported cloud providers using one API.
Project Status
--------------
jclouds has carried out one successful release (1.7.1) in the last quarter and
is currently in the process of releasing 1.7.2. A lot of work has also gone
into overhauling the jclouds website, the new version of which is now live.
The developer and user community is active, with an increasing number of
submissions from outside the usual committer group, and sustained activity by
the core team. The PMC is still looking to grow the committer base and has
identified some suitable candidates.
Community
---------
A slightly more detailed look at the project community. It should still be
brief, issues to think about include:
''When was the last committer voted in?''
2014-04-02 (Jeremy Daggett)
''When was the last PMC member added?''
2013-04-29 (initial composition of the PMC when jclouds entered the incubator)
There is regular activity on both the user and dev lists. Responses to
questions are generally fast, with multiple community members contributing.
Community Objectives
--------------------
What are the projects main plans and expectations for the community in the
next period?
* Onboarding and mentoring new committers
* Encouraging involvement and contributions by vendors of supported providers
* Improving the user and new developer experience through revamped
documentation
* Finishing ongoing architectural changes in preparation for the next major
version
* Evaluate Google Summer of Code proposals and help students begin their
projects
Releases
--------
Have there been any releases from the project in the last quarter?
* 1.7.1 (2014-02-11)
* 1.7.2 (ongoing)
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Attachment Y: Report from the Apache Jena Project [Andy Seaborne]
== Project Description
Apache Jena is a Java framework for building Semantic Web
and Linked Data applications based on W3C and
community standards.
== Issues
There are no issues to raise with the board.
== Releases
Jena 2.11.1 released on 23/01/2014.
== PMC
PMC member last added: 26 January 2013
Committer last added: 16 August 2013
== Activity
dev@ list: ~ 200 messages a month
users@ list: ~ 200 messages a month
== Community news
= Contribution
The project has received a significant contribution from Cray of code to
work with RDF data on Hadoop.
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JENA-666
The project is assessing whether full IP-clearance process for this
contribution is appropriate.
= Google Summer of Code
The project is interested in running 2 GSoC projects this year. We
received more interest than could be met; the number of mentors is the
limiting factor.
= Release Frequency
The project original planned to release roughly 6-monthly but in practice
has releasing nearer to 3-monthly. We're now backing-off a little to try
to aim for regular 6-monthly releases if there are no major bug fixes
needed.
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Attachment Z: Report from the Apache JMeter Project [Sebastian Bazley]
The Apache JMeter desktop application is a pure Java application
designed to load test functional behavior and measure performance.
JMeter 2.11 was released on Jan 05 2014.
The JMeter user list is active and user requests are generally dealt
with promptly, either by other members of the community or the JMeter
developers.
Likewise the developer list, though of course that is mainly used by
the committers.
There have been no committers added since October 2011, when Philippe
Mouawad was added. There are a few regular contributors who may be
suitable candidates for committership, pending discussion by the PMC.
There have been no changes to the PMC since it was established in October 2011.
The JMeter Twitter account has 632 followers as of April 03 2014.
There are no board level issues at this time
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Attachment AA: Report from the Apache JSPWiki Project [Juan Pablo Santos]
== Project Description
JSPWiki is a Java-based wiki engine
== Anything the board should be aware of?
There are no Board-level issues at this time.
== Releases / Development
Last release on 1st Feb, 2014
As an effect of releasing 2.10.0, we've had several JIRAs raised,
accompanied by their corresponding patches, 5 of them already
on trunk.
A 2.10.1 release is being discussed at dev@jspwiki.apache.org, which
should fix a couple of issues found after 2.10.0; this release will
also add the ability of loading plugins from an outside directory.
Aside from this, there is work in progress on a new template / UI for
JSPWiki and on having portable binaries.
== Community
Last Committer: Glen Mazza (gmazza), on 04th Jan, 2013
Last PMC: Glen Mazza (gmazza), on 04th Jan, 2013
We asked one individual to join as PMC and committer, but the
invitation was declined.
One JSPWiki talk at ApacheCon, given by Siegfried Göeschl
2.10.0 release brought a rough 30% increase on activity at dev@j.a.o
this period, with ~120 messages per month, with user@j.a.o also
having a big spike this quarter.
89 (-3) people subscribed to dev@j.a.o, 175 (+0) people subscribed at
user@j.a.o
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Attachment AB: Report from the Apache Knox Project [Kevin Minder]
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Attachment AC: Report from the Apache Labs Project [Tim Williams]
Apache Labs hosts small and emerging projects from ASF committers.
[STATUS]
We saw a good bit of activity around improving our processes and community this quarter, details below.
[DETAILS]
== Community ==
We saw a cascade of problems this quarter. Starting with a new Lab that
failed to attain three binding votes, we realized that we actually don’t want
that hurdle for new Labs and would rather just a pure lazy approval. So, we
set about fixing our bylaws to approve labs with simple lazy approval.
Unfortunately, the bylaws change requires a ⅔ approval vote which caused us to
realize that we have too many inactive PMC members to achieve that success.
This caused us to set about cleaning up the PMC roster by asking folks to
voluntarily resign if they don’t feel they can be participate any longer -
obviously, welcome to come back too.
We believe that cleaning up the roster will allow us to get the bylaws in
order and move forward.
Jan Iversen gave a presentation on Labs at a Fast Feather session at ApacheCon.
== Labs Statistics ==
- new: 0
- status changes (last 3 months): 0
- total number: 40
- active: 17
- idle: 14
- promoted: 3
- completed: 8
- labs with commits: panopticon, yay, penihip
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Attachment AD: Report from the Apache Lucy Project [Logan Bell]
The Apache Lucy search engine library provides full-text search for dynamic
programming languages. It is a "loose" C port of the Apache Lucene search
engine library for Java.
ISSUES
There are no Board-level issues at this time.
RELEASES
Version 0.3.3 was released on 05 Aug 2013.
We're working towards a new major release featuring C bindings, support for
compiled extensions, and Clownfish as a separate product. Clownfish is the
object system which Lucy is based on.
ACTIVITY
Development
* Created new repos for Charmonizer and Clownfish sub projects.
* Clownfish "explicit-dependencies" work is underway.
Mailing lists
User list subscribers: 91 (+1)
Developer list subscribers: 66 (+0)
Mailing list activity below average.
COMMITTER/PMC CHANGES
No new committers in the last quarter. The last addition was on 15 Feb 2013.
No new PMC members in the last quarter and since Lucy graduated from the
incubator in March 2012.
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Attachment AE: Report from the Apache Mahout Project [Grant Ingersoll]
Apache Mahout has implementations of a wide range of machine learning and
data mining algorithms: clustering, classification, collaborative filtering
and frequent pattern mining
Project Status
--------------
The project continues to have a large and active user base. While
the developer base has continued to grow, there is a very active
and healthy debate going on about where Mahout goes next. Please
see the Issues section below for more details.
Community
---------
* Andrew Musselman was voted in as new committer.
* No changes to the PMC in the reporting period.
* The main issue concerning the community right now is the addition
of new contributions from 0xData and the integration of Mahout with Spark.
Community Objectives
--------------------
Our goal is to build scalable machine learning libraries. See the Issues
section below for the debate in the community about our objectives.
Releases
--------
In addition to an ongoing debate on Mahout's future, the community is actively
working on integrating Mahout with Scala/Spark, and bringing in new code and
committers to update the core project.
A lot of work on improving documentation has been done. The project has
finished the move from the wiki to Apache CMS, redesigned the project
website and is in the process of updating all pages.
Issues
------
The Mahout community is at a crossroads in terms of where
to go next. While the project has a broad number of users and interested
parties, most committers are trying to maintain the code base on a purely
part time basis, when the amount of work to sustain these users
clearly points to it needing to
be full time. Furthermore, much of our original code base is written
for Hadoop MapReduce 1.0, which many in the community have come to realize
is not well-suited for solving the kinds of problems that Mahout has set
out to solve. There have been several lengthy discussions and prototypes
going on to work out next directions along the lines of the Spark and
0xData contributions (there are numerous threads on the dev@mahout.a.o
mailing list.)
The PMC does not think this requires Board intervention at this time
as the debate is, as far as we can tell, healthy. We do, however,
expect that this debate will take some time to resolve and may mean we
won't be shipping a 1.0 release any time soon. We will keep the Board
apprised of our next steps as we work through the process.
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Attachment AF: Report from the Apache Maven Project [Stephen Connolly]
Apache Maven is a widely-used project build tool, targeting mainly Java
development. Apache Maven promotes the use of dependencies via a
standardized coordinate system, binary plugins, and a standard build
lifecycle.
* General Information
We have been making slow but steady progress on our compliance with
the ASF source header policy. Of our current 105 release roots, we now
have only 23 release roots that still report issues using the Apache Rat
tooling. This is down 3 and 7 respectively compared to the last board
report. One of the measures that we have been using for voting on
releases is that the Rat report is either better or no worse than
the previous release. Once we get more release roots compliant, we
will configure Rat to fail those builds if they are no longer compliant.
There has been no update to the LEGAL JIRAs concerning the confusion over
the the requirements of LICENSE and NOTICE files in source control:
LEGAL-26[4], LEGAL-27[5], LEGAL-31[6] and LEGAL-136[7].
* JDK8
The team has started to verify if Apache Maven and all underlying projects
are JDK8 ready. We've checked more than 50% of all the release roots. All
issues, either to be fixed by Oracle or by the Apache Maven Team, have been
gathered under MNG-5551[1] with extra info on the wiki[2]
We've spotted 2 blocking issues in the JDK which have already been fixed
by Oracle.
There's still 1 regression which is planned to be fixed for JDK9.[3]
* New PMC Members
* New Committers
Mirko Friedenhagen (2014-03-17)
* Releases
* Core
* Apache Maven (3.2.1) (2014-02-24)
* Plugins
* Apache Maven Jarsigner Plugin 1.3.1 (2014-01-07)
* Apache Maven SCM Plugin 1.9 (2014-01-10)
* Apache Maven GPG Plugin 1.5 (2014-02-25)
* Apache Maven SCM Publish Plugin 1.0 (2014-02-03)
* Apache Maven Release Plugin 2.5 (2014-03-05)
* Apache Maven Checkstyle Plugin 2.12 (2014-03-13)
* Apache Maven PMD Plugin 3.1 (2014-03-14)
* Apache Maven Surefire Plugin 2.17 (2014-03-16)
* Apache Maven Failsafe Plugin 2.17 (2014-03-16)
* Apache Maven Jarsigner Plugin 1.3.2 (2014-03-23)
* Apache Maven Reactor Plugin 1.1 (RETIRED) (2014-04-02)
* Other
* Apache Maven Shared Jarsigner 1.3.1 (2014-01-07)
* Apache Maven SCM 1.9 (2014-01-10)
* Apache Maven Plugin Testing 3.1.0 (2014-02-12)
* ASF Parent POM 14 (2014-03-06)
* Apache Maven Filtering 1.2 (2014-03-10)
* Apache Maven Shared Utils 0.6 (2014-03-23)
* Apache Maven Shared Jarsigner 1.3.2 (2014-03-23)
* Apache Maven Parent POM 24 (2014-03-27)
* Apache Maven Plugins Parent POM 25 (2014-03-27)
* Apache Maven Shared Parent POM 20 (2014-03-27)
* Apache Maven Skins Parent POM 9 (2014-03-27)
* Security
* Retired
* Apache Maven Reactor Plugin (2014-03-24)
* Apache Maven 2.2.1 (2014-02-18)
* Apache Maven 2.0.11 (2014-02-18)
Minimum Apache Maven version supported now is 3.0.5
[1] https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-5551
[2] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/Java+8+Upgrade
[3] https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/issues/?jql=labels%20%3D%20apache-maven-found
[4] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-26
[5] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-27
[6] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-31
[7] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-136
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Attachment AG: Report from the Apache Mesos Project [Benjamin Hindman]
Apache Mesos is a cluster manager that provides resource sharing and
isolation across cluster applications.
## General ##
The state of the project seems healthy, another two releases have been
made since the last board report and continued increase in
contributors and committers.
## Releases ##
* Apache Mesos 0.17.0 (2013-01-23)
* Apache Mesos 0.18.0 (2013-04-01)
## Community ##
* Added 1 new committer and PMC members:
Ian Downes (idownes) on 2013-03-20
* 300/165 created/resolved JIRA issues in last 90 days.
* 103/46 created/resolved JIRA issues in last 30 days.
* 144 messages to user@mesos.apache.org (February - April), with
4,940 messages to dev@mesos.apache.org (a lot of which is from
Review Board and JIRA).
* There were two talks on Mesos at ApacheCon which we generally felt
was a big success.
* Twitter hosted an Aurora/Mesos Frameworks meetup as well as a
mini-conference where some members from the community talked about
Mesos (Tom Petr from Hubspot and Christina Delimitrou from
Stanford).
## Issues ##
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time but I'd
like to apologize for getting this report submitted so late, I'll be
happy to resubmit for next month as well.
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Attachment AH: Report from the Apache MINA Project [Emmanuel Lecharny]
Apache MINA is a network application framework which helps users
develop high performance and high scalability network applications
easily.
-- Community --
* No new committers (Last addition, october 2013)
* One new PMC member : Jean-François Maury, voted in on April
Users mailing list :
Jan 2014 : 442 subscribers,
Apr 2014 : 476 subscribers,
Dev mailing list :
Jan 2014 : 390 subscribers,
Apr 2014 : 387 subscribers,
-- Current activity --
Another very calm quarter, except on SSHD project. We have some
bug fix pending on MINA, and do expect that a 2.0.8 release will
come soon.
* Apache MINA :
* Very low activity
* Apache FtpServer:
* No activity if the past 3 months
* Apache SSHd:
* Guillaume has pushed many fixes again, and a release have been
voted
* Apache Vysper :
* Nothing done
* Apache AsyncWeb:
* No activity. This project is still dormant at this point.
-- Releases --
* SSHD 0.10.0 and 0.10.1 have been released.
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Attachment AI: Report from the Apache MyFaces Project [Gerhard Petracek]
The Apache MyFaces project is an umbrella project of the
Apache Software Foundation for projects relating to the
JavaServer Faces (JSF) technology.
Community
---------
* No new Committers (since November 2013)
* No new PMC Members (since July 2011)
* No new Contributors
The MyFaces community is stable. Besides working on new releases,
we discuss upcoming topics.
-> Community business as usual (nothing special to report).
Releases
--------
MyFaces (sub) projects with new releases since the last report:
* MyFaces Tobago 2.0.0 Alpha 3 (7/January/14)
* MyFaces Tobago 1.5.12 (10/January/14)
* MyFaces Core 2.0.20, 2.1.14, 2.2.0 (13/January/14)
* MyFaces Test 1.0.6 (17/February/14)
* MyFaces CODI 1.0.6 (3/March/14)
* MyFaces Core 2.0.21, 2.1.15(4/March/14)
* MyFaces Core 2.2.1 (8/March/14)
* MyFaces Core 2.2.2 (20/March/14)
* MyFaces Tobago 1.0.41 (25/March/14)
* MyFaces Tobago 1.5.13 (25/March/14)
* MyFaces Tobago 2.0.0 Beta 1 (25/March/14)
* MyFaces Tobago 2.0.0 Beta 2 (31/March/14)
Wiki/CMS
--------
CWiki -> CMS migration (almost done)
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Attachment AJ: Report from the Apache Nutch Project [Julien Nioche]
Apache Nutch is a highly extensible and scalable open source web crawler
software project. Stemming from Apache Lucene™, the project has diversified
and now comprises two codebases, based respectively on Apache Hadoop
datastructures and Apache Gora for leveraging NoSQL databases.
ISSUES
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
CURRENT ACTIVITY
Apache Nutch v1.8 was released on 17th March 2014 and contained many
improvements, bug fixes and dependencies upgrades.
There has been no releases of the Nutch 2.x branch but that branch is benefiting
from the work being done on Apache GORA, partly by Nutch users and contributors.
COMMUNITY
Talat Uyarer joined the PMC and committers on 31/03/2014.
Ferdy Galema became emeritus in Feb 2014.
The traffic on the mailing lists is at a steady level.
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Attachment AK: Report from the Apache ODE Project [Tammo van Lessen]
Apache ODE (Orchestration Director Engine) executes business processes
written following the WS-BPEL standard. It talks to web services, sending
and receiving messages, handling data manipulation and error recovery as
described by your process definition. It supports both long and short living
process executions to orchestrate all the services that are part of your
application.
STATUS
This reporting period was rather quiet. We've got some feedback and a couple
of bug reports we want to fix within the next reporting period. We got three
GSoC proposals that address some larger outstanding issues, so we're looking
forward to working with them, though the ranking is still in progress.
RELEASE
No releases in this period.
DEVELOPMENT
Nothing important to report.
COMMUNITY
Nothing to report. Last committer was added on Dec 10, 2012, last PMC member
was added on Jun 28, 2013.
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Attachment AL: Report from the Apache Olingo Project [Stephan Klevenz]
Briefly describe what your primary software product actually does.
------------------------------------------------------------------
Apache Olingo are libraries that implements the Open Data Protocol
(OData). Apache Olingo serves client and server aspects of OData
protocol.
When did the project last make any releases?
--------------------------------------------
The latest release is version 1.2.0 and was built on 2014-03-24.
Describe the overall activity in the project over the past quarter.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Main activity was the graduation of Apache Olingo. The project has
finished all major and required tasks to leave incubator and to reach
top level state. The project has a healthy community and many
stakeholders. Mailing list and Jira do show constant traffic. Olingo
community is working on support for OASIS OData 4.0 standard.
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
-----------------------------------------------------
This is the initial PMC after graduation:
* 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>
PMC and committer diversity
---------------------------
PMC and committers build together an international team sponsored by
various companies (Microsoft, SAP, Tirasa).
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Attachment AM: Report from the Apache Onami Project [Simone Tripodi]
DESCRIPTION
Apache Onami is a project focused on the development and maintenance
of a set of Google Guice extensions not provided out of the box by the
library itself nor the Google developers team, such as integration
with 3rd party frameworks or extra functionalities.
MILESTONES
Since last report, there have not been new components releases.
CURRENT ACTIVITY
Onami-Persist has been imported and new APIs had been discussed and
new implementation was checked-in during last week.
New Parent release
COMMUNITY
PMC composition has not changed since graduation.
Users community is quite silent.
ISSUES
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
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Attachment AN: 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 development has been active since the last Board Meeting. Chatter
on the lists has been mostly developer related, but there has been
a good bit of activity none the less. The project is settling down
from the graduation hustle and bustle and a release of 0.4 is planned
before the March meeting.
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
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Attachment AO: Report from the Apache OpenJPA Project [Pinaki Poddar]
There are no items requiring board attention at this time.
* Highlights
Apache OpenJPA provides POJO persistence for stand-alone JSE, JEE
container and many other lightweight frameworks, such as Tomcat,
TomEE, Spring or OSGi.
* Community
Work has started on implementation of new features for JPA 2.1.
Support for Java 8 is in progress.
Mailing lists continue to be active.
The developer community had maintained the codebase stable,
supported for previous releases and backported resolved defects.
* Governance
We continue to monitor contributors for possible committers and
PMC members.
* Releases
-----------------------------------------
Attachment AP: Report from the Apache OpenMeetings Project [Sebastian Wagner]
Apache OpenMeetings provides video conferencing, instant messaging, white
board, collaborative document editing and other groupware tools using API
functions of the Red5 Streaming Server for Remoting and Streaming.
== Releases ==
Version 3.0.0 has been released! Version 3.0.0 is the first release that uses
Apache Wicket for roughly 50% of the UI. It is a HTML5 / Flash hybrid. The
conference room is still Flash, everything else is in Wicket. Further
advancing into HTML5 for the real-time components is planned as they become
available.
== Activity ==
There is constant activity in mailing list, jira and commits.
The main focus in since the last report have been:
- Release and review
- Migrating to Maven
Maxim Solodovnik has migrated parts of the complex ANT/Ivy based build
process to Maven. Great effort has gone into this and we are excited to
further advance our build process into a fully Maven enhanced build, dev,
test and release process.
== Community ==
There have been a number of GSoC candidates but no project was selected this
year so far. Probably part of the problem was the lack of tailoring out some
suitable project scopes where mentors and students equally confident can
commit to.
== Infrastructure ==
We are still waiting on some resources for a demo server (INFRA-6906). We
would like to advance our project with Selenium Tests to establish a
regression testing suite. The demo server would be an integral part of that
enhancement.
We are also keen on the result of the Infra’s team effort to create a code
signing certificate from a trusted auth (INFRA-3991).
== Board ==
There are no outstanding issues requiring board attention.
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Attachment AQ: Report from the Apache OpenOffice Project [Andrea Pescetti]
Apache OpenOffice is an open-source, office-document productivity
suite providing six productivity applications based around the
OpenDocument Format (ODF). OpenOffice is released on multiple
platforms and in dozens of languages.
Issues for Board Awareness
---------------------------
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-190 was opened to
check whether we need to have uniform ADA (Americans with
Disabilities Act) statements for all the public websites of the
Apache projects.
Community Development/Outreach Progress
---------------------------------------
The project added 3 committers (January: rbd; February: clarence_guo;
March: astepukonis) since our last report in January. The new
committers are involved in QA, development, localization. No new
PMC members since November 2013 (fanyuzhen).
The OpenOffice custom infrastructure (wiki, forum) is still in a
"minimal maintenance" mode. Important fixes get applied timely, but
many improvements requested by the community have been in queue for
months. The infrastructure team internal to the OpenOffice project
is insufficient and cannot work effectively due to disagreements on
the system administration policy. The best option seems to
progressively standardize on the Infra processes and minimize the
amount of "non-standard" sysadmin work needed.
Experimental solutions to make website translation easier have
been tested. The first ones are already online and we are engaging
new volunteers.
A new documentation effort for an end-users manual under the ALv2
license is progressing on the OpenOffice Wiki.
The localization community is growing: OpenOffice 4.1, expected
mid-April, will be fully released in 38 languages, 6 of which
(Bulgarian, Danish, Hebrew, Hindi, Norwegian Bokmal and Thai)
are new with respect to version 4.0.
OpenOffice co-organized a track (devroom) at FOSDEM, a major
European free and open source software conference, in February 2014
and will have a dedicated track during ApacheCon Denver.
The mailing lists for user support, localization, QA are quite
active, the marketing list is moderately active. Activity in social
media is progressing well. The developer (dev) list remains very
active.
Community support forums remain popular with users, with an average
of over 100 posts per day.
In the previous report OpenOffice mentioned that the new policy
announced for Apache Extras http://s.apache.org/hzJ would have been
a major problem. But three months later no complaints were seen on
the dev list. It must be considered, though, that in the past months
the focus was mainly on consolidating the 4.1 release, so no
external libraries like the ones hosted in Apache Extras were
updated.
Product/Project Development Progress
------------------------------------
Apache OpenOffice 4.1.0, a release with some major improvements
including IA2 accessibility, OOXML compatibility, Mac OS X specific
features (64-bit application), replacement of outdated Mozilla code
with the NSS libraries, is currently in Release Candidate phase and
is expected to be approved mid-April. Apache OpenOffice 4.1.0-beta
was officially voted and released for public testing on 10 March
2014.
Activities that are still ongoing include: actions for an easier
installation and availability on mainstream Linux distributions; a
new localization process, now progressing in the l10n40 branch; a
redesign of the build approach, dropping the historical dmake;
implementation of export to OOXML formats.
The download trend remains very strong, with about 95 million
downloads of Apache OpenOffice as of 31 March 2014.
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Attachment AR: Report from the Apache PDFBox Project [Andreas Lehmkühler]
The Apache PDFBox library is an open source Java tool for working with PDF
documents.
General Comments
----------------
There are no issues that require Board attention.
Community
---------
There is a steady stream of contributions and bug reports from the community.
John Hewson and Tilman Hausherr were added as committers and PMC members to
our ranks in February 2014.
Eric Leleu stepped back and went emeritus per his own request in March 2014.
452 (429 last report) subscribers on the user@ list
157 (164 last report) subscribers on the dev@ list
Maruan Sahyoun is going to present PDFBox at the PDF Days Europe in Cologne
on June 16th-17th.
http://www.pdfa.org/event/pdf-days-europe-2014-2/
http://www.pdfa.org/2014/03/pdf-days-europe-2014-agenda/
Releases
--------
Version 1.8.4 was released on 31st of January 2014
1.8.4 is an incremental bugfix release based on PDFBox 1.8.x.
GSoC
----
John Hewson and Tilman Hausherr prepared 2 projects to be mentored at GSoC 2014
PDFBOX-1912 https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-1912
PDFBOX-1915 https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-1915
We received 4 proposals and the rating is ongoing, see timeline at
https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/events/google/gsoc2014
Development:
------------
Most likely the next bugfix version 1.8.5 will be released in the 2nd quarter.
The work on our next major release is an ongoing effort. The main topics are:
- switch to java 1.6
- modularization
- replace/enhance the parser
- refactor the underlying COS model
- code cleanup
- enhance rendering
-----------------------------------------
Attachment AS: Report from the Apache Rave Project [Matt Franklin]
Apache Rave is a widgets-based, web-and-social mashup platform.
ISSUES
There are no issues requiring the board's attention.
COMMUNITY
The user and development lists dropped in activity from the last
board report; but, still remain somewhat active. The community is
looking to organize a meetup at ApacheCon NA.
COMMITTER/PMC CHANGES
08/29/13 - Dan Gornstein was added as a new committer & PMC member.
RELEASES
01/07/14 - 0.23 released.
ACTIVITY
Activity has been mostly minor enhancements and bug fixes. We have
yet to reintegrate the AngularJS branch.
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Attachment AT: Report from the Apache Shindig Project [Ryan Baxter]
Apache Shindig is an Opensocial Reference implementation in wide use by
both social networks and enterprise software. Shindig graduated from the
Incubator in January 2010.
General Comments
----------------
The Shindig PMC has no issues that require board attention.
Community
---------
Mailing list traffic and contributions remain steady.
Committer/PMC Changes
---------------------
No PMC member changes.
Releases
--------
Apache Shindig 2.5.1 was released on 2014-03-04.
-----------------------------------------
Attachment AU: 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 finished switching our infrastructure to spark.apache.org, including
recently importing our JIRA instance. We completed the vote on a 0.9.1 minor
release last week (it will be posted on April 9th), and we reached the
feature freeze and QA point for our 1.0 release, which is coming in a few
weeks. Apart from the new features coming in 1.0, a major update in the
community has been a change towards a Semantic Versioning-like policy, where
maintenance releases are clearly marked and API compatibility is preserved
across all minor releases (i.e. all 1.x.y will be compatible). This has been
put in action for both 0.9.x and 1.x.
Releases:
---------
Our last few releases were:
Apr 9, 2014: Spark 0.9.1
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.
-----------------------------------------
Attachment AV: Report from the Apache Sqoop Project [Arvind Prabhakar]
DESCRIPTION
Apache Sqoop is a tool designed for efficiently transferring bulk data
between Apache Hadoop and structured datastores such as relational
databases. It can be used to import data from external structured
datastores into Hadoop Distributed File System or related systems like
Hive and HBase. Conversely, Sqoop can be used to extract data from
Hadoop and export it to external structured datastores such as relational
databases and enterprise data warehouses.
RELEASES
* The last release of Apache Sqoop was version 1.99.3, released on
November 6, 2013 from the sqoop2 branch.
* Work is currently underway for the next release of Sqoop from
the trunk, targeting version 1.4.5.
CURRENT ACTIVITY
* Dell Software is working on contributing a high performance Oracle
connector to the project. This work is currently tracked via
SQOOP-1287.
* Development activity continues on both trunk as well as sqoop2
branches.
* A total of 27 issues have been resolved between the period starting
from January 2, 2014 to April 1, 2014.
* In the past three months, a total of 222 messages were exchanged on the
user list and a total of 369 messages were exchanged on the dev list.
COMMUNITY
* Last addition to committers was on Feb 5, 2014 when Mengwei Ding
joined as a committer.
* Last appointment to Sqoop PMC was done on September 22, 2012 with
Kathleen Ting joining the PMC.
* Currently there are:
- Total of 348 subscribers to the user list
- Total of 145 subscribers to the developer list
- Total of 19 committers
- Total of 13 PMC members
ISSUES
* There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
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Attachment AW: Report from the Apache Steve Project [Jim Jagielski]
DESCRIPTION
Apache Steve is a collection of tools and programs used by the
ASF to implement the STV voting system and tallying of results.
RELEASES
* No releases yet.
CURRENT ACTIVITY
* We are on-task to create a project DOAP file, as requested and
required.
* Alan Cabrera will be working on documentation
* We assume that additional suggestions and improvements will result
from the Annual ASF Members Meeting coming up, since that is the
main use-case for Steve.
COMMUNITY
* The last 2 new committers were added in July 2013; since then there
has been no change.
ISSUES
* There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
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Attachment AX: Report from the Apache Struts Project [Rene Gielen]
Apache Struts is an action-based Java web application framework.
The Struts team made one release in the last quarter:
* Struts 2.3.16.1 - security fix release (2014-03-02)
In the last quarter we had to deal with a security vulnerability in
commons-fileupload and a class loader manipulation issue. The issues
were fixed in a timely manner, resulting in the release of Struts
2.3.16.1. Currently the team is about to release Struts 2.3.17, which
will include a major number of enhancements and bug fixes.
Within the reporting period the Struts 2 codebase has been successfully
moved to git. The team decided to adopt a git-flow based workflow.
In this period we saw slightly increased community activity on the
mailing lists and issue tracker, along with increased development activity.
No new committers or PMC members have been added in the last quarter.
Last PMC member addition was on 2013-05-11, last committer addition on
2014-01-06.
The employer our fellow PMC member Łukasz Lenart, the Poland-based
company SoftwareMill, was kind enough to donate design resources to the
Apache Struts project. We are currently in the process of new logo and
unique web site design development.
We have no issues that require board assistance at this time.
-----------------------------------------
Attachment AY: Report from the Apache Tajo Project [Hyunsik Choi]
Apache Tajo is a robust big data relational and distributed data warehouse
system for Apache Hadoop. Tajo is designed for low-latency and scalable ad-hoc
queries, online aggregation, and ETL (extract-transform-load process) on
large-data sets stored on HDFS (Hadoop Distributed File System) and other data
sources. By supporting SQL standards and leveraging advanced database
techniques, Tajo allows direct control of distributed execution and data
flow across a variety of query evaluation strategies and optimization
opportunities.
Project status:
===============
The project recently became a TLP and continues to grow in terms of community
size. We migrated our site and git repo to our TLP infrastructures.
Recently, we are preparing the 0.8.0-alpha release.
We freezed the features and have spent QA time in various contexts.
We expect that we will release 0.8.0-alpha in next week.
Release
==========
Our last release was:
* Nov 20, 2013: Tajo 0.2.0-incubating
The last committers or PMC members elected
===========================================
This is the initial PMC after graduation:
Alex Karasulu <akarasulu@apache.org>
Chris Mattmann <mattmann@apache.org>
Eli Reisman <ereisman@apache.org>
Henry Saputra <hsaputra@apache.org>
Hyunsik Choi (chair) <hyunsik@apache.org>
JaeHwa Jung <blrunner@apache.org>
Jakob Glen Homan <jghoman@apache.org>
Jihoon Son <jihoonson@apache.org>
Jinho Kim <jhkim@apache.org>
Keuntae Park <sirpkt@apache.org>
Owen O'Malley <omalley@apache.org>
Roshan Sumbaly <rsumbaly@apache.org>
Sangwook Kim <swkim@apache.org>
Yi Liu <yliu@apache.org>
After graduation, we elected a new committer, Min Zhou <mzhou@apache.org>.
-----------------------------------------
Attachment AZ: Report from the Apache Tapestry Project [Howard M. Lewis Ship]
Apache Tapestry is a Java component-based web framework that features high
productivity, great code reuse, robust deployment, and terrific performance.
Any issues for the Board?
There are no Board-level issues at this time.
When did the project last make any releases?
The latest stable version of Tapestry (5.3.7) has been released 2013-04-29.
We have made available the first beta build of the upcoming 5.4 release,
5.4-beta-3, on 2014-03-03, following a successful vote.
Describe the overall activity in the project over the past quarter.
Activity on the user mailing list is high. Questions are answered with
participation of not only the core contributors but also by the community
at large. Discussion focuses especially around new features of the upcoming
5.4 release.
Activity on the dev mailing list is medium.
The focus of development currently lies on the upcoming Tapestry 5.4 which
will bring major improvements in JavaScript support and other new features.
At this point we are primarily looking at fixing bugs (from our large backlog)
and documenting the significant new features.
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
Lance Semmens has been voted in as a committer on 2013-07-07.
The last PMC addition has been Massimo Lusetti on 2012-08-27.
PMC and committer diversity
PMC and committer diversity is good. To our knowledge no two committers share
the same employer. Levels of contribution vary over time with Howard Lewis
Ship being the driving force behind Tapestry's development and various other
committers working on areas of their interest.
Project branding or naming issues, either in the project or externally.
No known issues.
Branding requirements progress:
* "Project Website Basics: homepage is project.apache.org" - completed
* "Project Naming And Descriptions: use proper Apache forms, describe
product, etc." - completed
* "Website Navigation Links: navbar links included, link to www.apache.org
included" - License and Security links are missing
* "Trademark Attributions: attribution for all ASF marks included in footers,
etc." - completed
* "Logos and Graphics: include TM, use consistent product logo on your site"
- TM missing from logo
* "Project Metadata: DOAP file checked in and up to date" - completed
Legal issues or questions:
None.
Infrastructure issues or strategic needs:
* We have been unable to run builds on the Jenkins CI server for some time. We
have been waiting for Uli to investigate.
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Attachment BA: Report from the Apache Tcl Project [Massimo Manghi]
Apache Tcl is an umbrella for efforts aimed at integrating
the Apache HTTP Web Server with the Tcl programming language.
Current projects are
* Rivet
* Websh
Issues
======
There are no issues that needs the board's attention.
Community
=========
No new committers were added. Last committer and PMC member joined
Apache/Tcl in Sept. 2012. Current number of subscribers to our
active mailing lists are
rivet-dev@ - 44 subscribers
websh-dev@ - 19 subscribers
Events
=========
No significant events to be reported for both Rivet and Websh
Releases
==========
+ Rivet released 2.1.4 on March 3rd. Fixes done in response to
an issue opened after 2.1.4 release will probably be integrated
in a new release soon. The PMC voted on March 25th to discontinue
support for rivet 2.0 and deprecate it. Artifacts for such
version of rivet were removed from distribution
+ Websh is maintained but no new artifacts were released after
3.6.0b5 (2009-09-24)
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Attachment BB: Report from the Apache Thrift Project [Jake Farrell]
Thrift is a framework for providing cross-platform RPC and serialization.
Project Status
---------
The Apache Thrift community continues to see consistent growth with
submissions from new contributors for bug fixes and client library
improvements. Since our last report we have added two new PMC members, a new
committer and are close to having a release candidate ready for our Apache
Thrift 0.9.2 release.
We have switched over to using the Apache CMS for our website from local content
generation with nanoc and svn pubsub. A blog post was created detailing the new
additions to the Apache CMS
http://blogs.apache.org/infra/entry/scaling_down_the_cms_to
Community
---
Latest Additions:
* PMC addition: Ben Craig, 3.20.2014
Henrique Mendonca, 3.20.2014
* Contributor addition: Randy Abernethy, 3.17.2014
Issue backlog status since last report:
* Created: 80
* Resolved: 143
Mailing list activity since last report:
* @dev 1828 messages
* @user 170 messages
Releases
---
Last release: 0.9.1, Release Date: Aug 21, 2013
We are preparing for our 0.9.2 release candidate and estimate that it will be
available within the next week.
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Attachment BC: Report from the Apache Tika Project [Dave Meikle]
What is Tika?
=========================
Apache Tika is a dynamic toolkit for content detection, analysis, and
extraction. It allows a user to understand, and leverage information from, a
growing a list over 1200 different file types including most of the major
types in existence (MS Office, Adobe, Text, Images, Video, Code, and science
data) as recognised by IANA and other standards bodies.
Issues
=========================
There are no issues that need the boards attention.
Releases
=========================
The last release (1.5) was made in February 2014. Since then progress has
been steady on version 1.6 with a number of bug fixes and improvements.
Community
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No new committers or PMC members were added since the last report. Prior to
this the last new Committer and PMC Member was added in January 2014.
Tika is well represented at ApacheCon NA with four talks from three different
speakers (Jukka Zitting, Nick Burch and Annie Burgess). There is also plans to
conduct a couple of Hackathon sessions during the conference.
Mailing list activity on dev@ was at 293, 226 and 29 messages in February,
March and April 2014, respectively. user@ was at 26, 35 and 1 messages,
during the same timeframe.
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Attachment BD: Report from the Apache TomEE Project [David Blevins]
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Attachment BE: Report from the Apache Traffic Server Project [Leif Hedstrom]
Apache Traffic Server is an HTTP proxy server and cache, similar to Squid
and Varnish in functionality and features.
Issues
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There are no issues that needs the board's attention.
Community
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No new committers were added since last report, leaving us with a total of 35
committers. We do however expect a number of new committers and PMC members to
get voted on in the near future. Our last committer was added on 11/7/2013.
Activity on mailing list is normal, and we are seeing normal, steady growth in
mailing list subscribers:
users@ - 416 subscribers (up 3.5% since last report)
dev@ - 274 subscribers (up 4% since last report)
In Jira, 222 new tickets were opened and 241 were resolved or closed since
the last board report, which had 215 and 115 respectively. 450 changes were
committed to our git repository from 39 contributors. The number of unique
contributors is identical to last report (also 39).
Events
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At ApacheCon 2014, we are represented with a full day track dedicated to
Traffic Server. In addition, the spring 2014 ATS Summit is being held at the
same conference venue, Thursday and Friday. Many thanks to the ACNA organizers
for helping us planning this summit! Dinners are planned for the community
both on Wednesday night and Thursday night.
Releases
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One new release was made since last report, and it's worth repeating that all
ATS releases are considered stable.
Apache Traffic Server v4.2.0 (released 3/19/2014)
The v4.2.x family of releases is also a LTS branch, and this release marks
the EOL of all v4.1.x releases. The v4.2.x version will be supported until
v6.0.0 is released, roughly May 2015, and we expect a number of releases to be
made in the next year. Our normal release cycles continues of course, with the
next stable release being v5.0.0.
Upcoming releases include
* Soon: v4.2.1, fixing a few critical cache related issues
* May: v5.0.0, which starts our new major release cycle.
The release of v5.0.0 will also see the end of life of the old v3.2.x
releases. No further releases in the v3.2.x family is expected, we will make
public announcements of this in the near future. We know the ASF is still
running some servers on v3.2.x, and we'd be happy to provide resources to help
a smooth migration to a newer version.
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Attachment BF: Report from the Apache Web Services Project [Sagara Gunathunga]
Releases within this quarter:
* WSS4J 1.6.14 (RM - Colm O hEigeartaigh)
* Neethi 3.0.3 (RM - Daniel Kulp)
* XmlSchema 2.1.0 (RM - Daniel Kulp)
* WSS4J 2.0.0-rc1 (RM - Colm O hEigeartaigh)
* WSS4J 1.6.15 (RM - Colm O hEigeartaigh)
Last releases for other subprojects:
* Axiom : Dec 2012
* Woden : Feb 2011
Community and development:
* Last committer addition - in 2011, Last PMC member addition - in Sept 2013
* Due to lack of active development following sub-projects have moved to attic.
1. XML-RPC to
2. TCPMON
3. XmlSchema 1.4 - This is delayed till XmlSchema 2 based Axis2 release
happen in near future.
Development
WSS4J - 147 commits by 3 committers.
Axiom - 15 commits by 1 committer.
Neethi - 9 commits by 1 committer.
Xmlschema - 15 commits by 1 committer.
Woden - 4 commits by 1 committers.
Branding checklist for sub-projects with releases in the last quarters
(Axiom, Neethi, WSS4J, Project homepage ):
* Project Naming And Descriptions: OK
* Website Navigation Links: OK
* Trademark Attributions: OK
* Logos and Graphics: OK ( Neethi and WSS4J sub projects don't have logos)
* Project Metadata: OK
Not yet compliant:
* XmlSchema
* Woden
* XML-RPC
Subprojects
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Current subproject descriptions follow, along with anything specifically
requiring the board's attention this quarter.
* Apache Woden
Woden is an open source Java implementation of the W3C WSDL 2.0
specification.
* Apache Axiom
Apache Axiom is a StAX-based, XML Infoset compliant object model which
supports on-demand building of the object tree.
* Apache XmlSchema
Apache XmlSchema is a Java object model for manipulating and utilizing
XML Schema.
* Apache Neethi
Apache Neethi is a Java implementation of the WS-Policy specifications.
* Apache WSS4J
Apache WSS4J is a Java implementation of the OASIS Web Services Security
(WS-Security) from OASIS Web Services Security TC.
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Attachment BG: Report from the Apache Wookie Project [Scott Wilson]
Apache Wookie develops software related to implementation of the W3C
Widgets family of specifications.
ISSUES
There are no outstanding issues requiring board attention.
RELEASES
Wookie 1.0 was released on 24th February 2014.
ACTIVITY
We've created a new 2.x project in trunk and moved the existing codebase
into a 1.x stable branch. The aim of 2.0 is to modularise the project
structure so its easier for newcomers to develop against, and to make
the build and deploy process simpler.
COMMUNITY
Our last committer added was Steve Lee on 21st February 2013.
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Attachment BH: Report from the Apache CloudStack Project [Hugo Trippaers]
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.
CURRENT ACTIVITY
As this is an out of cycle report, and we just reported last month,
this report does not include all of the typical elements.
The CloudStack community has just held its Collaboration Conference
in Denver, and would like to report that the event was a success. The
fact that it was co-located with ApacheCon for the first time was a
significant improvement on past events. Primarily, this is because it
offered an opportunity for the CloudStack community to better
integrate into the larger ASF family (and for ASF community members to
learn more about CloudStack). We would like to thank the board, the
executive officers and specifically Rich for his support.
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