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Board of Directors Meeting Minutes
July 16, 2014
1. Call to order
The meeting was scheduled for 10:30am Pacific and began at 10:31
when a sufficient attendance to constitute a quorum was
recognized by the chairman.
Other Time Zones: http://timeanddate.com/s/2py4
The meeting was held via teleconference, hosted by Doug Cutting
and Cloudera.
IRC #asfboard on irc.freenode.net was used for backup purposes.
2. Roll Call
Directors Present:
Rich Bowen
Doug Cutting
Bertrand Delacretaz
Jim Jagielski
Chris Mattmann
Brett Porter
Sam Ruby
Greg Stein
Directors Absent:
Ross Gardler
Executive Officers Present:
Craig L Russell
Executive Officers Absent:
none
Guests:
Sean Kelly
Jake Farrell
Daniel Gruno
Chip Childers
David Nalley
Shane Curcuru
Andrea Pescetti
Tony Stevenson
Henri Yandell
3. Minutes from previous meetings
Published minutes can be found at:
http://www.apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html
A. The meeting of June 18, 2014
See: board_minutes_2014_06_18.txt
Approved by General Consent.
4. Executive Officer Reports
A. Chairman [Brett]
We have now received all membership applications resulting from the
May Annual Members Meeting, and I'm pleased to announce the following
new members of the Apache Software Foundation:
Rajith Attapattu Tom Barber Jeremy Boynes
Joe Brockmeier David Brondsema Bryan Call
Hyunsik Choi Adam Estrada Jake Farrell
Sebastien Goasguen Jamie Goodyear Thilina Gunarathne
Lahiru Gunathilake Chathura Herath Benjamin Hindman
Jan Iversen Jan Willem Janssen Markus Jelsma
Jay Kreps Ross Laidlaw Brian LeRoux
Romain Manni-Bucau David Meikle Kevin McGrail
Justin Mclean Jean-Louis Monteiro Sebastian Nagel
Thejas Nair Achim Nierbeck Brock Noland
Andrew Purtell Ben Reser Gilles Sadowski
Christian Schneider Roman Shaposhnik Christoper Tubbs
Rob Weir Andy Wenk Aki Yoshida
Matei Alexandru Zaharia
Over the last month there has been some discussion about the authority
of project VPs to enter into binding agreements with third parties on
behalf of the ASF. While the need for this is extremely rare, we
reiterated that this can occur as long as it is contained to the scope
of their project, the agreement has been reviewed by the Legal Affairs
Committee and any other relevant officers, and that prior approval has
been given for any associated expenses. A suggestion has been made
that this be formalised through policy.
I've started a discussion about streamlining the monthly report
process in a way that may reduce the amount of traffic going through
the board's mailing list. I plan to tie that up and make any changes
to the reporting guidelines by the end of the month, before reports
start appearing for the August meeting.
B. President [Ross]
Ross is absent due to family matters, and Rich is reporting in
his absence.
Upayavira, Melissa, and others have been preparing for meetings
at OSCON next week, with existing and potential sponsors. Details
of this are on the Fundraising@ mailing list. Officers who will
be at the conference are encouraged to make themselves available
for those meetings if they haven't already done so. VP Fundraising
has prepared a 'pitch deck' for potential sponsors at ApacheCon,
which you may wish to review if you want to participate in that
process.
The conversation with the CloudStack PMC continues, and the PMC
has now made a formal, detailed request to Infrastructure for
additional hardware. As this just happened yesterday, there hasn't
been time for a decision on this proposal yet.
The Travel Assistance Committee has received some requests for
assistance for ApacheCon Europe, but that process is still open
for a few more days. The process between TAC and LF is improved
over ApacheCon North America, and so should go more smoothly. Two
new members of the committee have joined to assist in these
activities.
The Executive Assistant has been primarily focused on
preparations around OSCON, both Fundraising related and
logistical arrangements regarding our booth presence. Other work
is detailed in her report.
VP Brand Management reports a busy month with a heavy load of
project requests and conversations.
VP Infrastructure reports progress on a signed binaries solution,
and a build server. The Infrastructure team is holding a F2F
meeting this week for team building and working through issues
that are made difficult by remote communication. The
Infrastructure report discusses the activities of the team in
great detail, as requested in last month's meeting.
In Ross's absence, the proposed budget has not been completed,
and we request the Board's indulgence to let this slip another
month, while Ross takes care of personal matters.
Additionally, please see Attachments 1 through 6.
C. Treasurer [Chris]
Transition of bill paying and other functions to Virtual continues
as planned. We have a Citizens Bank account up and running that is
being used to make payments and the remainder of the funds in WFS
are in process for being transitioned over to Citizen's and/or
potentially to other assets with higher yield, e.g., CDs. The
Treasurer's Office is awaiting further input from Virtual on a
recommendation for where the remaining assets should be housed.
Chris has received his token for Citizen's Bank. Michelle Ball from
Virtual notes that unlike WFS, Citizen's only requires 1 person to
release funds instead of 2.
Virtual has begun to generate expenses versus actuals reports
starting with data from May. The Treasurer's Office encourages those
that are interested in the gory details to inquire - otherwise they
will be summarized monthly as part of future Treasurer's reports.
Weekly calls with Virtual have continued in both an ad-hoc manner,
and moving to bi-weekly. A digest of the items discussed in the
call include:
1. Continued work on the budget with Ross.
2. Concern from Virtual regarding meeting IRS rules for
contractors.
3. Virtual will not be the ones to prepare our tax returns - this is
contrary to the Treasurer's Office understanding that Virtual
would. Chris to have an action item to follow up with
Virtual/Tom on this.
4. Continued work on documentation for Treasurer processes.
5. Tracking down various bank statements and contracts information,
e.g., for the EA.
6. Interest in collecting information on donations, including
targeted donations - Virtual states little concern in "single digit"
number of these donations, but states that under the current
contract, they would not be able to manage e.g., one targeted
donation per ASF project.
7. Virtual has made progress mapping expenditures to budget
items.
8. Virtual will provide ftp access credentials for
read-only access to
their Sharepoint server and separately to their QuickBooks
server; Sam will place this information into the ASF svn
repository.
9. Virtual will provide a phone number for our vendors to call
when they have Billing issues
10. Virtual would like to know if they can help with organizing
smaller conferences/meetups? This is a service that they provide (for
a fee). Sam and Shane will gather more information.
The invoice from the CPA for the Audit has been received and
remittance is currently awaiting approval from the President or the
EVP.
Sam set up an archived accounting@apache.org list that forwards to
Tom Pappas, Michelle Ball, Chris Mattmann, Sam, and Upayavira. Those
wishing to contact both the Treasurer's officers *and* Virtual
should use this list.
Sam Ruby created a web interface to upload Bills to the received
and approved workflow queue -
https://whimsy.apache.org/treasurer/bill-upload. Sally and others
have begun to successfully use this interface.
Chris provided all the payment information from his Treasurer's
notes to Michelle Ball and Virtual.
The Treasurer's Office is waiting on input from the President's
Office on who should have credit cards. Melissa has volunteered to
also provide help and move the conversation forward.
Treasurer's Office is working with VP, Infrastructure to financially
onboard a new contractor, Dan Norris.
Income and Expenses
Current Balances:
Wells Fargo Business Checking: 774,048.79
Wells Fargo Savings: 287,982.71
Citizen's Bank 434,588.01
PayPal: 23,097.96
Amazon: 13,532.82
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Total $ 1,519,717.47
Income Summary:
Amazon 1,625.79
Fundraising 85,000.00
Incoming Citizens 500,000.00
Lockbox 1,000.00
Returned Wire - Citizens 500,000.00
PayPal 3,681.85
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Total $ 1,091,307.64
Expense Summary:
Category Amount
---------------------------- ----------
EA 5,539.20
Sysadmin 31,800.00
misc expense 41,432.16
Press 909.09
ASF credit card - Sam Ruby 4,318.17
ASF credit card - Jim Jagielski 1,070.65
Transfer to Citizen's 1,000,000.00
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Total $ 1,085,069.27
D. Secretary [Craig]
Secretary is running well with no issues. In June, 73 iclas,
6 cclas, 25 member applications, and three grants were received
and filed.
E. Executive Vice President [Rich]
My time has been consumed by ApacheCon for the last month.
ApacheCon EU will be held in Budapest, November 17-21 of this
year, and will be produced by The Linux Foundation event team.
The CFP for ApacheCon EU closed on June 25, and speaker
notifications were scheduled to be sent out on July 15th. We did
not meet this deadline, but expect to have the schedule settled,
and notifications sent out, this weekend at the latest. The
talks have mostly been selected, with enormous help from
various people, most notably Jan Iversen, and a few details
remain to be confirmed with potential speakers. What remains is
to finalize the schedule - talk order, which days things appear
on, and so on - and identify an adequate number of fallback
talks.
At this point, we expect that the schedule will consist of 8
tracks of talks for three days, followed by one day of tutorials
(Thursday). ApacheCon will be immediately followed by the
CloudStack Collaboration Conference Europe.
We are scheduled to announce the schedule on July 28th, but I
hope to have this completed earlier than this, as I will be in
vacation for the week of July 28th through August 1st.
We are in the process of selecting a venue for ApacheCon North
America 2015, and several locations are being pursued. We hope
to have a final venue selection in August so that we can start
the CFP process before ApacheCon EU.
F. Vice Chairman [Greg]
The Quiet and The Stillness ... remains.
Executive officer reports approved as submitted by General Consent.
5. Additional Officer Reports
A. VP of W3C Relations [Andy Seaborne / Brett]
See Attachment 7
B. Apache Legal Affairs Committee [Jim Jagielski]
See Attachment 8
C. Apache Security Team Project [Mark Cox / Chris]
See Attachment 9
Additional officer reports approved as submitted by General Consent.
6. Committee Reports
A. Apache Accumulo Project [Billie Rinaldi / Sam]
See Attachment A
B. Apache ACE Project [Marcel Offermans / Greg]
See Attachment B
@Greg: Any info about the community?
C. Apache ActiveMQ Project [Hiram Chirino / Doug]
See Attachment C
@Greg: Any info on sub-projects?
D. Apache Airavata Project [Suresh Marru / Jim]
See Attachment D
E. Apache Aries Project [Jeremy Hughes / Bertrand]
See Attachment E
F. Apache Attic Project [Henri Yandell / Ross]
See Attachment F
G. Apache Avro Project [Tom White / Rich]
See Attachment G
H. Apache Buildr Project [Alex Boisvert / Brett]
No report was submitted.
I. Apache Chukwa Project [Eric Yang / Bertrand]
See Attachment I
J. Apache Crunch Project [Gabriel Reid / Ross]
See Attachment J
K. Apache CXF Project [Daniel Kulp / Jim]
See Attachment K
@Jim: Follow up with CXF and Commons to see how well they are
communicating
L. Apache DB Project [Myrna van Lunteren / Sam]
See Attachment L
M. Apache Deltacloud Project [Marios S. Andreou / Chris]
See Attachment M
@Chris: The report identifies a problem with no resolution...
N. Apache Directory Project [Pierre-Arnaud Marcelot / Greg]
See Attachment N
@Greg: Six years seems too long between additions to the PMC.
O. Apache Geronimo Project [Jarek Gawor / Doug]
See Attachment O
@Doug: Any thoughts on growing the dev community?
P. Apache Hadoop Project [Chris Douglas / Rich]
See Attachment P
Q. Apache HBase Project [Michael Stack / Bertrand]
See Attachment Q
R. Apache Helix Project [Kishore Gopalakrishna / Doug]
See Attachment R
S. Apache Hive Project [Carl Steinbach / Greg]
No report was submitted.
@Greg: pursue a report for Hive
T. Apache Incubator Project [Roman Shaposhnik / Rich]
See Attachment T
U. Apache Isis Project [Dan Haywood / Sam]
See Attachment U
V. Apache Jackrabbit Project [Michael Dürig / Jim]
See Attachment V
W. Apache James Project [Eric Charles / Chris]
See Attachment W
@Chris: Please clarify what "voted on" means
X. Apache jclouds Project [Andrew Bayer / Ross]
See Attachment X
@Brett: Clarify TODO
Y. Apache Jena Project [Andy Seaborne / Brett]
See Attachment Y
Z. Apache JMeter Project [Sebastian Bazley / Chris]
See Attachment Z
@Chris: Is PMC member discussion still ongoing?
AA. Apache JSPWiki Project [Juan Pablo Santos / Greg]
See Attachment AA
AB. Apache Labs Project [Tim Williams / Bertrand]
See Attachment AB
AC. Apache Lucy Project [Logan Bell / Brett]
See Attachment AC
AD. Apache Mahout Project [Grant Ingersoll / Doug]
See Attachment AD
AE. Apache Maven Project [Stephen Connolly / Jim]
See Attachment AE
@Brett: Please update report with PMC and committers. Also is
there a plan for reaching compliance?
AF. Apache Mesos Project [Benjamin Hindman / Ross]
No report was submitted.
AG. Apache MINA Project [Emmanuel Lecharny / Sam]
See Attachment AG
AH. Apache MRUnit Project [Brock Noland / Rich]
See Attachment AH
AI. Apache MyFaces Project [Gerhard Petracek / Rich]
See Attachment AI
AJ. Apache Nutch Project [Julien Nioche / Greg]
See Attachment AJ
AK. Apache ODE Project [Tammo van Lessen / Sam]
No report was submitted.
AL. Apache Onami Project [Simone Tripodi / Doug]
No report was submitted.
AM. Apache OpenJPA Project [Pinaki Poddar / Jim]
See Attachment AM
AN. Apache OpenMeetings Project [Sebastian Wagner / Chris]
No report was submitted.
@Chris: pursue a report for OpenMeetings
AO. Apache OpenOffice Project [Andrea Pescetti / Ross]
See Attachment AO
AP. Apache PDFBox Project [Andreas Lehmkühler / Brett]
See Attachment AP
AQ. Apache Perl Project [Philippe M. Chiasson / Bertrand]
See Attachment AQ
AR. Apache Phoenix Project [James R. Taylor / Doug]
See Attachment AR
AS. Apache Rave Project [Matt Franklin / Sam]
No report was submitted.
AT. Apache Shindig Project [Ryan Baxter / Rich]
See Attachment AT
AU. Apache Sqoop Project [Arvind Prabhakar / Brett]
See Attachment AU
@Brett: Has the SQOOP-1287 contribution been subject to the
http://incubator.apache.org/ip-clearance ?
AV. Apache Steve Project [Jim Jagielski]
See Attachment AV
AW. Apache Stratos Project [Lakmal Warusawithana / Jim]
See Attachment AW
AX. Apache Struts Project [Rene Gielen / Bertrand]
See Attachment AX
AY. Apache Tapestry Project [Howard M. Lewis Ship / Ross]
See Attachment AY
@Chris: strike sentence re: driving force
AZ. Apache Tcl Project [Massimo Manghi / Chris]
See Attachment AZ
@Chris: Clarify volunteer comment.
BA. Apache Thrift Project [Jake Farrell / Greg]
See Attachment BA
BB. Apache Tika Project [Dave Meikle / Jim]
See Attachment BB
BC. Apache TomEE Project [David Blevins / Chris]
No report was submitted.
BD. Apache Traffic Server Project [Leif Hedstrom / Greg]
See Attachment BD
BE. Apache Web Services Project [Sagara Gunathunga / Sam]
See Attachment BE
BF. Apache Wink Project [Luciano Resende / Bertrand]
See Attachment BF
@Bertrand: Given the late report, request a report for next
month
BG. Apache Wookie Project [Scott Wilson / Ross]
See Attachment BG
Committee reports approved as submitted by General Consent.
7. Special Orders
A. Change the Apache Maven Project Chair
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Stephen Connolly
to the office of Vice President, Apache Maven, and
WHEREAS, Stephen Connolly has requested the Project Management
Committee of the Apache Maven project to nominate a successor for the
office of Vice President, Apache Maven, and
WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Maven
project has chosen by vote to recommend Hervé Boutemy as the
successor to the post;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Stephen Connolly is relieved and
discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office
of Vice President, Apache Maven, and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Hervé Boutemy be and hereby is
appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Maven, 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 Maven Project Chair, was
approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
B. Establish the Apache Tez Project
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors deems it to be in the best
interests of the Foundation and consistent with the
Foundation's purpose to establish a Project Management
Committee charged with the creation and maintenance of
open-source software, for distribution at no charge to the
public, related to highly performant and scalable distributed
data processing on clusters.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management
Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Apache Tez Project", be
and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation;
and be it further
RESOLVED, that the Apache Tez Project be and hereby is
responsible for the creation and maintenance of software
related to highly performant and scalable distributed
data processing on clusters; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache Tez" be
and hereby is created, the person holding such office to serve
at the direction of the Board of Directors as the chair of the
Apache Tez Project, and to have primary responsibility for
management of the projects within the scope of responsibility
of the Apache Tez Project; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the persons listed immediately below be and
hereby are appointed to serve as the initial members of the
Apache Tez Project:
* Alan Gates <gates@apache.org>
* Arun C. Murthy <acmurthy@apache.org>
* Ashutosh Chauhan <hashutosh@apache.org>
* Bill Graham <billgraham@apache.org>
* Bikas Saha <bikas@apache.org>
* Chris Douglas <cdouglas@apache.org>
* Chris Mattmann <mattmann@apache.org>
* Daryn Sharp <daryn@apache.org>
* Devaraj Das <ddas@apache.org>
* Gopal Vijayaraghavan <gopalv@apache.org>
* Gunther Hagleitner <gunther@apache.org>
* Hitesh Shah <hitesh@apache.org>
* Jitendra Pandey <jitendra@apache.org>
* Jason Lowe <jlowe@apache.org>
* Jakob Homan <jghoman@apache.org>
* Julien Le Dem <julien@apache.org>
* Kevin Wilfong <kevinwilfong@apache.org>
* Mike Liddell <mliddell@apache.org>
* Mohammad Kamrul Islam <kamrul@apache.org>
* Namit Jain <namit@apache.org>
* Nathan Roberts <nroberts@apache.org>
* Owen O’Malley <omalley@apache.org>
* Rajesh Balamohan <rbalamohan@apache.org>
* Robert Evans <bobby@apache.org>
* Rohini Palaniswamy <rohini@apache.org>
* Siddharth Seth <sseth@apache.org>
* Tassapol Athiapinya <tassapola@apache.org>
* Thomas Graves <tgraves@apache.org>
* Tom White <tomwhite@apache.org>
* Vikram Dixit <vikram@apache.org>
* Vinod Kumar Vavilapalli <vinodkv@apache.org>
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Hitesh Shah be
appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Tez, to
serve in accordance with and subject to the direction of the
Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until
death, resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification, or
until a successor is appointed; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the Apache Tez Project be and hereby is
tasked with the migration and rationalization of the Apache
Incubator Tez podling; and be it further
RESOLVED, that all responsibilities pertaining to the Apache
Incubator Tez podling encumbered upon the Apache Incubator
Project are hereafter discharged.
Special Order 7B, Establish the Apache Tez Project, was
approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
C. Establish the Apache Celix Project
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors deems it to be in the best interests
of the Foundation and consistent with the Foundation's purpose to
establish a Project Management Committee charged with the creation and
maintenance of open-source software, for distribution at no charge to
the public, related to a native implementation of the OSGi
specification.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management Committee
(PMC), to be known as the "Apache Celix Project", be and hereby is
established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the Apache Celix Project be and hereby is responsible
for the creation and maintenance of software related to a native
implementation of the OSGi specification; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache Celix" be and
hereby is created, the person holding such office to serve at the
direction of the Board of Directors as the chair of the Apache Celix
Project, and to have primary responsibility for management of the
projects within the scope of responsibility of the Apache Celix
Project; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the persons listed immediately below be and hereby are
appointed to serve as the initial members of the Apache Celix Project:
* Alexander Broekhuis <abroekhuis@apache.org>
* Pepijn Noltes <pnoltes@apache.org>
* Bjoern Petri <bpetri@apache.org>
* Erik Jansman <ejansman@apache.org>
* Marcel Offermans <marrs@apache.org>
* Roman Shaposhnik <rvs@apache.org>
* Konstantin Boudnik <cos@apache.org>
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Alexander Broekhuis be
appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Celix, to serve in
accordance with and subject to the direction of the Board of Directors
and the Bylaws of the Foundation until death, resignation, retirement,
removal or disqualification, or until a successor is appointed; and be
it further
RESOLVED, that the initial Apache Celix PMC be and hereby is tasked
with the creation of a set of bylaws intended to encourage open
development and increased participation in the Apache Celix Project;
and be it further
RESOLVED, that the Apache Celix Project be and hereby is tasked with
the migration and rationalization of the Apache Incubator Celix
podling; and be it further
RESOLVED, that all responsibilities pertaining to the Apache Incubator
Celix podling encumbered upon the Apache Incubator Project are
hereafter discharged.
Special Order 7C, Establish the Apache Celix Project, was
approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
D. Restore Brand Management as an Executive Officer
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors deems it to be in the best interests
of the Foundation and consistent with the Foundation's purpose for
the Brand Management Committee to be charged with establishing and
managing brand policies based on the advice of legal counsel and the
interests of the Foundation.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the office of "Vice President,
Brand Management" shall 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.
Discussion:
Shane: whether brand management is an executive
office or not, PMCs need to pay more attention to branding
issues.
Brett: brand management has the authority to bring the board's
attention to issues with PMCs.
Jim: agree, regardless of the title of the position.
The consensus is that brand management has the authority to
set branding policy for the foundation and for PMCs.
Jim will work with Shane to communicate to PMCs.
Special Order 7D, Restore Brand Management as an Executive
Officer, was tabled.
E. Establish the Apache VXQuery Project
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors deems it to be in the best
interests of the Foundation and consistent with the
Foundation's purpose to establish a Project Management
Committee charged with the creation and maintenance of
open-source software, for distribution at no charge to
the public, related to providing an implementation of a
parallel XML Query processor.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management
Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Apache VXQuery Project",
be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the
Foundation; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the Apache VXQuery Project be and hereby is
responsible for the creation and maintenance of software
related to providing an implementation of a parallel XML
Query processor; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, VXQuery" be
and hereby is created, the person holding such office to
serve at the direction of the Board of Directors as the chair
of the Apache VXQuery Project, and to have primary responsibility
for management of the projects within the scope of
responsibility of the Apache VXQuery Project; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the persons listed immediately below be and
hereby are appointed to serve as the initial members of the
Apache VXQuery Project:
Vinayak Borkar (vinayakb@apache.org)
Till Westmann (tillw@apache.org)
Preston Carman (prestonc@apache.org)
Steven Jacobs (sjaco002@apache.org)
Michael Carey (dtabass@apache.org)
Ant Elder (antelder@apache.org)
Cezar Andrei (cezar@apache.org)
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Till Westmann
be appointed to the office of Vice President, VXQuery, to
serve in accordance with and subject to the direction of the
Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until
death, resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification,
or until a successor is appointed; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the initial Apache VXQuery PMC be and hereby is
tasked with the creation of a set of bylaws intended to
encourage open development and increased participation in the
Apache VXQuery Project; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the Apache VXQuery Project be and hereby
is tasked with the migration and rationalization of the Apache
Incubator VXQuery podling; and be it further
RESOLVED, that all responsibilities pertaining to the Apache
Incubator VXQuery podling encumbered upon the Apache Incubator
Project are hereafter discharged.
Special Order 7E, Establish the Apache VXQuery Project, was
approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
8. Discussion Items
9. Review Outstanding Action Items
* Brett: Remind PMCs to check their committee records, report on dates
Status: to tie together with any other reporting guidelines by end
of month
* Greg: ask about "pending discussion by the PMC" by JMeter
Status: not done.
* Jim: discuss service hosting issue (licensing, trademark, etc.) with
SpamAssassin PMC.
Status: No response yet
* Shane: follow up Open Climate Workbench regarding expanding the user
community
Status: check next month
* Doug: pursue a report for Buildr
Status: I sent them a note in May. Rich sent one in June.
Still no report. The mailing lists show project activity.
They seem to just be ignoring us. What next?
* Shane: Get River connected with comdev to recruit new blood
Status: check next month
* Brett: pursue a report for Labs
Status: received this month
* Rich: Ask Axis whether the community is really healthy? Seems Synapse is
asking
Status:
* Sam: Ask Synapse about where the development work is occurring
Status: Done. http://s.apache.org/LS4
10. Unfinished Business
11. New Business
12. Announcements
13. Adjournment
Adjourned at 11:40 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@, tm-registrations@, and board@) and following-up with
appropriate personnel
Fundraising:
• Created email and sent to Upayavira to send to current sponsors (26
customized emails sent to Upayavira) to arrange a meetup at OSCON
• Coordinating sponsor meetings at OSCON; forwarded original meet-up request
to internal contacts to help facilitate the meetings
• Participated in bi-weekly call with Virtual
OSCON:
• Keeping calendar of booth staff availability, as well as setting up sponsor
meetings
• Hotel reservations secured for Melissa and Upayavira – awaiting a scanned
copy of Jim’s CC (front and back) and ID to send to the hotel for
pre-authorization
• Collaborated with Sally for new artwork for a new 8x8 wall banner and new
table cloth; both of which have been ordered and received
• Set up call w/Cat Allmann of Google and GSoC mentors
• Sent 20 packages via FedEx
ApacheCon Europe:
• Participated in call with Angela, Dana, and Rich
• In communications with Nick to ramp up for assisting with TAC
• Working with Dana re lodging, visa letters, etc. for the TACers
• Provided ACEU past attendees registration information to Rich (for Angela)
• Provided past TAC registration fees to Nick for aiding in calculating ACEU
fees
Trademarks:
• Coordinating with Shane re TM issues
• Created a trademarks tracking s/s – captured all of the trademarks issues
(that I’m aware of) and sent to Shane – awaiting comments/further information
from him
MISC:
• Sent package of Apache swag to Rich, and a package of stickers to Chip
• Researched and created an online store at Lands’ End where folks can
purchase products with the ASF logo
• Completed and sent D&O Insurance application for review to Ross, Treasurer,
and Sam for completion
• Worked with David Nalley to secure flights and hotel for an Infra F2F in
Cambridge
• Coordinated with Helene (our travel agent) re our options of cancelling
Joe’s flight and hotel for the Infra F2F
-----------------------------------------
Attachment 2: Report from the VP of Brand Management [Shane Curcuru]
Several directors and members brainstormed on trademarks@ about ways to
improve response times and our ability to help our many Apache projects manage
their brands, including ways to better educate and empower PMCs to a much
greater degree. In particular Chip and the CloudStack PMC have made
proposals/patches to start implementing this for their project, which should
be an excellent test case to ensure our documentation is sufficiently clear
for PMCs.
Our EA has jumped in on tm-registrations@ to help organize data collection for
trademark registration details from a number of projects who have requested to
register their product marks.
As the breadth and complex types of questions both on trademarks@ and other
email addresses (including non-list emails) grows, it has reached the point
where it is becoming not practical to provide the level of support and
expertise we would like to provide to all Apache projects with all volunteers.
While our EA will be very helpful to pickup organizing registrations (in
conjunction with counsel), many of these questions need some practical
expertise to give the best answers.
I will be manning the ASF booth at OSCON next week, and hope to be able to
help out with sponsor and other contacts.
-----------------------------------------
Attachment 3: Report from the VP of Fundraising [Upayavira]
An active month so far, with preparations for OSCON, for which we emailed
every sponsor to see if they wished to meet with us. Melissa has been
collating the responses and arranging a diary.
Google asked for help with presentations at OSCON regarding GSoC, which
has been arranged.
We have a 'pitch deck' prepared by Chip that we can use for potential
sponsors at ApacheCon.
I shall be collating some financial details to make our fundraising
story at OSCON clearer.
I had a call with a Fundraising website vendor that Sally introduced me
to. Their app is very interesting, and seems very cheap. It could allow
us to build up workflows for receiving individual donations across our
projects, tracking the donations against source projects, and thanking
donors, and potentially making requests to them for additional funds
for future projects. Given the price, I think this could be worth
considering for some point in the medium term future.
I had a good conversation with a new contact at a Gold sponsor who has
agreed to renew.
-----------------------------------------
Attachment 4: Report from the VP of Marketing and Publicity [Sally Khudairi]
I. Budget: we received an invoice from Meltwater News for our clipping reports
through December 2015 that was promptly processed with thanks to Sam Ruby and
Virtual.
II. Fundraising/Branding/Marketing liaison: Sally Khudairi has transitioned
out of top-tier Sponsor communications as of the new fiscal year. Following
discussions with VP Brand Management Shane Curcuru, Sally streamlined the
template "Powered by Apache" mark for Apache project logos, and has been
working with HotWax Media on creating a final version (HotWax Media are
donating this service). The aim remains to launch during OSCON. Sally is in
the third month of working Apache CloudStack on project-specific
marketing/promotional strategy and support.
III. Press Releases: no formal announcements were issued via the newswire
service, ASF Foundation Blog, and announce@apache.org during this timeframe.
An entry was posted to blogs.apache.org on behalf of the Apache Travel
Assistance Committee (TAC).
IV. Informal Announcements: 7 items were tweeted on @TheASF, and 1 on
@ApacheCon to promote the CFPs closing for ApacheCon Europe and CloudStack
Communication Conference.
V. Future Announcements: Sally is working with a podling on a press release in
anticipation of their graduating from the Incubator this week. 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 5 media requests, and pitched several
"Apache friendly" journalists under embargo on developments in Apache
CloudStack. Sally is also pitching registered journalists for interviews
during OSCON. The ASF received 335 press clips over this time period, vs. last
month's clip count of 586. Our monitoring media hits for CloudStack (searching
coverage as "CloudStack", not "Apache CloudStack") has yielded a total of
1,089 mentions this month vs. 917 last month.
VII. Analyst Relations: responding to a request from Chip Childers for the new
Fundraising presentation deck, we sought testimonials on the ASF from various
analysts, and received excellent quotes from 451 Research, Gartner, and
RedMonk. Sally is also pitching possible analyst briefings at OSCON. Apache
was mentioned in 3 write-ups by Gartner, 3 reports by Forrester, 6 write-ups
by GigaOM, 2 reports by Yankee Group, 2 reports by IDC, and 6 write-ups by 451
Research.
VIII. ApacheCon liaison: we have promoted reminders for the CFP for ApacheCon
Europe under the usual channels.
IX. (Non-ASF) Industry Events and Outreach liaison: Sally created new
conference signage, for which Melissa Warnkin has coordinated production
(along with new promotional materials/giveaways) for the ASF booth at OSCON.
Sally will not be attending OSCON. Discussions with RedMonk regarding a
possible group of Apache-branded DevOps and DataOps events in the UK continue.
Sally and is also finalizing a tearsheet for distribution at events in Europe
as requested by Jan Iverson.
X. Newswire accounts: we have 14 pre-paid press releases with NASDAQ
GlobeNewswire through the end of the calendar year, and 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 [David Nalley]
New Karma:
==========
Dan Norris (dnorris)
Finances:
==========
* 64GB RAM for Arcas: $777.16
Operations Action Items:
========================
Short Term Priorities:
======================
* Signed binaries
Mark Thomas has made significant progress in his efforts with Symantec around
using their Binary Signing as a Service product. I have high hopes that we are
near a proposed solution.
* builds.a.o
Much work has been done around builds.a.o; and it's largely stabilized. The
past month has yielded 99.92% uptime. That's a far cry from the routine
outages that were happening on average once a day.
Long Range Priorities:
======================
* Monitoring
** Uptime monitoring and reporting:
As an extension to defining core services and service uptime targets,
Daniel has begun compiling weekly reports of uptime for most of the
publicly facing services. These reports will in turn be compressed into
monthly reports for the board as well as a yearly report detailing the
overall uptime reality vs our set targets. Eventually, these reports will
also feature inward facing services.
** Unified logging:
Discussion and exploration has begun on unifying logging on all VMs and
machines. The logging will be tied to puppet and allow for easy access to
each hosts logs from a centralized logging database, as well as allow for
cross-referencing data. Initial exploration into using LogStash with
ElasticSearch and Kibana have begun, and are expected to produce findings
for use in the next board report.
* Automation
Tony has expended effort and time in deploying a more updated, platform
agnostic base for puppet. Giridharan Kesavan and Gavin have been
experimenting with using Ansible for build slave automation. Dan Norris
has begun work on automating VM/cloud provisioning
* Technical debt
Gavin began addressing cruft in many of our automated jobs; this will be a
long term effort, but that work is underway and already yielding benefits
In some ways, we are just beginning to collect information to let us know
where we stand, and exactly how much debt we have accrued. The uptime reports,
and comparing that with our first pass at service level expectations has
started occurring.
* Resiliency
Our efforts around resiliency are still nascent. We have begun to address a
few issues caused by resource constraints, though this is a very minor attempt
to provide true resilience. As other efforts in our long term priorities take
shape, I expect that we'll begin to see this accelerate.
General Activity:
=================
* Dealt with yet another batch of OpenSSL CVEs affecting all hosts.
* Upgraded Arcas (JIRA host) with 64GB RAM to deal with slow response times.
This has greatly reduced the response time from Jira. See screenshot detailing
that change: http://people.apache.org/~ke4qqq/ss.png
* Welcomed a new contractor, Dan Norris, to the fold.
* Face-to-face meeting in Cambridge between infrastructure people
* Created 23 new committer accounts, 4 new mailing lists
Uptime Statistics:
==================
These figures currently span weeks 27 and 28 of this year, and only cover public
facing services.
Type: Target: Reality: Target Met:
---------------------------------------------------------
Critical services: 99.00% 99.98% Yes
Core services: 98.00% 99.84% Yes
Standard services: 95.00% 92.71% No[1]
---------------------------------------------------------
Overall: 97.43% 97.80% Yes
---------------------------------------------------------
For details on each service as well as average response times, see
http://s.apache.org/uptime
[1] The target for standard services was not met due to our Sonar instance
being unstable at the moment and only having around 50% uptime. We are
investigating the issue.
Contractor detail:
==================
* Gavin McDonald
Short term Jobs worked on this week:
=============================
Jira.
------
Jira tickets worked on [12] See: jql query 'project = INFRA AND updatedDate >=
'2014/06/16' AND updatedDate <= '2014/06/22' AND assignee was ipv6guru ORDER
BY updated DESC'
Jira Tickets Closed [10] See: jql query 'project = INFRA AND resolutiondate >=
"2014/06/16" AND resolutiondate <= "2014/06/22" AND assignee was ipv6guru
ORDER BY updated DESC'
My Open Jira Tickets [34] See: jql query 'project = INFRA AND status != Closed
AND assignee was ipv6guru ORDER BY updated DESC'
Commits made Infra repo: 22
June 16th saw planned downtime at OSUOSL. The downtime window was 2 hours
between 11am UTC and 1PM UTC. Both myself and Daniel Gruno covered this outage
window and also at least 2 hours before and after the planned window. Actual
downtime we saw was 2 minutes at 11:55am.
Ongoing answering of queries on the infra@ and build@ mailing lists, including
quick resolutions to issues raised. The same goes for IRC - Channels open at
time of writing are:
#sling #asfboard #jclouds #asfmembers #asftac @#abdera #avro #osuosl
#+#buildbot #asftest @#asfinfra
Worked on various buildslaves of both Buildbot and Jenkins, updating,
upgrading, patching for SSL etc. Worked on upgrading SSL for several other
VMs, at the same time taking the time and opportunity to
update/upgrade/dist-upgrade and reboot.
Ongoing Medium Term Jobs:
=======================
Dell Warranty Renewals.
------------------------------------
Involves Liaising with various Dell Reps via email. Service Tags have been
99% been brought upto date and documented in the service-tags.txt file. Make
decisions on warranty renewals based on age and whether it is in our plan to
renew the machine within the next 9 months. Get quotes for and give the go
ahead to Dell for those we intend to renew. The current email noise from Dell
regarding these is quite high so this is a task I intend to complete over the
next few weeks - to either renew, or decline and stop renewals emails.
Root Cron Job Emails.
--------------------------------
Involves sifting through root@ Cron emails from various machines and vms.
Determine the current important ones that can be assessed and fixed to
completion. Previously, this was just 'done' and perhaps followed up with an
email reply to a cron job in question. For better visibiilty and reporting, I
have now started creating Jira Tickets for these tasks; and also given these
tickets the 'Cron' label. I expect to make steady progress and have the cron
mails halved at least over the next 3 months.
See JQL Query: 'project = Infrastructure and labels = Cron'
Confluence Wiki.
-----------------------
Confluence needs an upgrade. Test instance is in progress. I hope to have this
done in the next couple of weeks.
Ongoing Longer Term Jobs:
======================
Jenkins/Buildbot
----------------------
Some time has been spent improving the stability of Jenkins Server and its
Slaves. With thanks Mainly to Andrew Bayer recently the Server has improved
dramatically. The slaves have seen improvement in stability and uptime too,
including the 2 windows machines. I have spent a fair bit of time recently on
these. I need to create new FreeBSD and Solaris slaves for Jenkins. The former
I think we can achieve in the Cloud whilst the latter I don't think is
supported at RackSpace, investigating. Might need to create our own VM image
for it. At the time of Writing, 34 Builds are in the Jenkins Queue, mostly
attributed to these missing two slave OS flavours and also Hadoop jobs.
Buildbot stabilty is just about back to normal after I rebuilt the Master from
scratch on a new OS Freebsd 10 (prepped by Tony). The forced upgrade of the
Buildbot Master version itself also caused some instability for a while due to
configuration upgrades required. This affected just about all projects using
Buildbot and the CMS. I note that the Subversion project has indicated that a
Mail should have been sent to the Subversion PMC about the downtime suffered
by the Subversion project as a result of the code changes required by the
forced upgrade. Following this advice, I'd have had to email another 30+ PMCS
also telling them the same thing. I find that my generic email to the infra
list should have been enough information for all parties concerned.
Cloud for Builds.
----------------------
Rackspace - A test machine has been created. Jenkins has yet to make use of
this however and I'm in progress of working out the best way to integrate with
our systems - do we use LDAP, Puppet etc with it or create a custom image we
can replicate. I'll also be starting work soon on a Buildbot test instance for
on demand.
Microsoft Azure - A test machine with windows server 2012 is up and running
and I have access. I am in progress of making changes to this image to make a
baseline so that the Azure team can replicate several more once I have it
right. Once done for Jenkins I'll do the same for Buildbot; and make sure to
leave 2 or 3 instances available for general project use, which I'll advertise
as available once ready.
Puppet - Have completed online pre-training puppet course as advised by David,
using a Vagrant instance via VirtualBox. I continue to invest a couple of
hours a week in looking through the Puppet Labs online and Documentation. I
continue to investigate the best methods of integrating the Jenkins and
Buildbot Slaves with Puppet, though I'm really in a waiting pattern for our
puppet master to be upgraded to v3.
* Tony Stevenson
Took two weeks of vacation
Having spent a considerable amount of time trying to make a new Puppet3 master
on a FreeBSD box this however did not pan out - there were far too many little
changes from a standard deployment needed and we were still having ssl issues
with puppetdb.
A new Ubuntu VM has been built as the new puppet master and is now about done.
One more test to run tomorrow.
Spent a little bit of time on-boarding jake into root@ activities (a/c
creation etc).
Issues with Erebus VMware host. Needed a reinstall of the vsphere agent and
reconnecting to the management console.
New infra-puppet GitHub repo
* Daniel Gruno
Work log for Week 27:
=====================
- Create mailing lists for new and existing podlings
- Access to metis+eris for jake.
- Set up svnpubsub/cms for new podlings
- Evaluate ELK stack (ElasticSearch, Logstash + Kibana)
- Work on factoid features for IRC
- Ordered 64GB RAM for Arcas (8x8GB, replacing 7x4GB)
- Upgraded hardware on Arcas (JIRA host)
- Set up dist areas (some requests proved invalid)
- Investigate and fix database issues with ASF Blogs (twice)
- Monitor and compile uptime records for core services over the
last week.
(The majority of my time was spent evaluating and tailoring the ELK
stack, as well as the math fun with semi-automating uptime reports.)
Work log for Weeks 25 and 26 (sans JIRA tickets):
=================================================
- Updated ASFBot with some minor bugfixes and feature additions
- Worked on Git mirroring between ASF and GitHub (aka svn2gitupdate)
- Assisted in applying web server updates for projects
- Design discussions with Jan and Gavin about Circonus monitoring (still
ongoing, awaiting results of initial test)
- Discussed GitHub PR usage with the Usergrid project
- Investigated and solved an issue with JIRA not responding
- Worked on updating OpenSSL on all affected machines (CVE-2014-0224 et al,
~95% done, should be done by the end of this week (ceteris paribus))
- Worked on an issue with nyx-ssl and puppet (still unresolved)
- Worked with Gavin to monitor and respond to OSUOSL network upgrades.
Resolved.
- Helped projects tweak settings for IRC relaying of commits/JIRAs
- Worked on anti-spam measures for modules.apache.org(still under infra's
umbrella)
- Worked with Dave to resolve the blogs 404 issue. Resolved in week 27 by
Brett Porter.
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Attachment 6: Report from the Apache Travel Assistance Committee [Gavin McDonald]
The Travel Assistance Committee (TAC) exists to help those that would like to
attend ApacheCon and/or other ASF Sponsored events, but are unable to do so
for financial reasons.
Overall Activity since last report
----------------------------------
* ApacheCon Europe CFP has closed, we are awaiting the acceptance letters from
this to proceed further with applicants that have submitted talks.
* Received 11 applications for ACEU so far, and another 4 pending.
* Application deadline is 20th of July. We expect to have the final scoring and
notifications to applicants done by July 28th.
How has the community developed since the last report?
------------------------------------------------------
Two new members have joined TAC since last reporting; Jan Iversen and Daniel
Gruno. There are 14 Subscribers to the TAC mailing list. (up 2 from last
report) Zoe Slattery has chosen to step down as TAC member. We thank her for
her help, and would welcome her back anytime.
Budget:
-------
To supply 2 ApacheCons and up to 2 smaller events we request the same budget
as last year - $50,000
Future Events:
--------------
ApacheCon EU is (still) the next event TAC is supporting. Discussions are under
way on list, and scoring is being done as applications roll in. Any member that
wants to help out are welcome, see the resources section for details.
Resources :-
www: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/TAC/ ::
https://apache.org/travel
-----------------------------------------
Attachment 7: Report from the VP of W3C Relations [Andy Seaborne]
W3C is discussing the idea of extending the participation roles to include
"Webizen". A "Webizen" would be an individual (or group); they would not
have the full rights of W3C membership. Discussions are at a very early
stage.
For ASF, nothing proposed so far would affect ASF current membership of
W3C.
-----------------------------------------
Attachment 8: Report from the Apache Legal Affairs Committee [Jim Jagielski]
Nothing of note to report.
-----------------------------------------
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 April. These continue to be dealt with by
the security team. Apologies for lack of update last month due to
a missed reminder. You'll notice a trend for reports against the
Apache website which are so far all false positives caused by
people who run third party scanning tools and don't bother to
interpret the results (for example reporting that you can access
a directory listing). These also included reports that www.apache.org
had a public server status page, which although deliberate for many
years, we asked infrastructure to remove (and is now done).
May 2014
13 Vulnerability reports to security@apache.org
8 [website] (all 8 closed, invalid)
1 [karaf]
1 [axis] (rejected)
1 [commons]
1 [httpd]
1 [trafficserver]
6 Vulnerability reports to projects own security lists
2 [tomcat]
1 [couchdb]
1 [hive]
1 [hadoop]
1 [struts]
June 2014
8 Support question
3 Phishing/spam/proxy/attacks point to site "powered by Apache"
11 Vulnerability reports to security@apache.org
8 [website] (8 closed, invalid)
1 [shindig] (closed, invalid)
1 [ofbiz]
1 [cordova]
6 Vulnerability reports to projects own security lists
3 [tomcat]
1 [struts] (closed, not issue)
1 [cloudstack]
1 [httpd]
-----------------------------------------
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 1.6.0 was released on 5/6/2014.
Activity
The mailing lists have been active. The dev list has increased by 4
subscribers to 235, and the user list has increased by 7 subscribers to
370.
A release plan has been submitted for the next major version, which is
tentatively planned to be 2.0.0 unless we decide there is a particular
need for 1.7.0. Minor releases 1.5.2 and 1.6.1 are also beginning to be
discussed.
Community
Sean Busbey was added as a committer and PMC member on 1/09/2014.
No new committers have been added since the last report.
The first Accumulo Summit that was held in June was very successful with
over 300 attendees.
-----------------------------------------
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:
* April 22nd, 2014: ACE 2.0.1 release.
Statistics:
* Last committers added: March 27th, 2012
* Last PMC members added: June 18th, 2013
* Mailing list activity (dev+users) for last 3 months: 85 msgs
(previous 3 months: 94 msgs)
* Commits for last 3 months: 353
(previous 3 months: 56)
Activity:
* Released 2.0.1 after the vote on 2.0.0 got cancelled because of a
showstopper issue.
* Mostly small bugfixes, 2.0.1 seems rather stable.
-----------------------------------------
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.
* Dhiraj Bokde became a committer 6/6/14
Development:
* Development on ActiveMQ 5.11 has started
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 5.10.0 - 6/10/14
-----------------------------------------
Attachment D: Report from the Apache Airavata Project [Suresh Marru]
Apache Airavata is a software framework to construct, execute, and manage
long running applications and workflows on distributed computing resources.
== Releases ==
Apache Airavata 0.12 GA release was made on June 29th 2014. The community is
currently testing 0.13 release candidate.
== Activity ==
The mailing list, jira and commit activity remains very high. The project is
moving towards a stable 1.0 release towards end of this year. Airavata is
engaging four Google Summer of Code students.
== Committer/PMC Changes ==
During this reporting period, there are no changes to PMC but during the
reporting voted in 3 new committers. Last member was added on July 24th 2013.
The community remains vibrant and we constantly are on the looks for new PMC
members and committers.
== Other Issues ==
There are no outstanding issues requiring board attention.
-----------------------------------------
Attachment E: 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
There was a significant amount of release activity this quarter. In
particular, contributions for Java 7 enablement and Pax Exam 3.x usage -
modernizing testing.
* Apache Aries Semantic Versioning Checker 0.2.0 and 0.3.0
* Apache Aries Parent Pom release (simplification)
* Apache Aries Proxy API 1.0.1
* Apache Aries Proxy Service 1.0.3
* Apache Aries JMX API 1.1.1
* Apache Aries JMX Core 1.1.2
#### Apache Aries Blueprint releases:
* Blueprint API 1.0.1
* Blueprint Parser 1.2.1
* Blueprint Annotation API 1.0.1
* Blueprint Annotation Impl 1.0.1
* Blueprint CM 1.0.4
* Blueprint Core 1.4.1
A new release of the Aries SPI fly bundles is currently being voted on.
## Project update
We're seeing almost all of our contributions from non-committers coming as
pull requests from GitHub.
The last PMC member was added 28th July 2013.
##Community
* We voted in the following new committers:
* Jean-Baptiste Onofré
* Christian Schneider
* Tom Watson
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
-----------------------------------------
Attachment F: Report from the Apache Attic Project [Henri Yandell]
Since our last report (two months ago) our process for moving projects
into the Attic has been streamlined and ESME, XMLBeans, stdcxx, and
Click have all finished the process of moving into the Attic.
Currently there are no pending tasks for the Attic community to work on.
Henk Penning has joined the Attic PMC.
-----------------------------------------
Attachment G: Report from the Apache Avro Project [Tom White]
Apache Avro is a cross-language data serialization system.
== Issues ==
There are no issues that require the board's attention at this time.
== Community ==
Committer activity continues to be low, as reported in May, with just
a few commits per month. The community has discussed soliciting more
reviews for the various Avro language implementations from those who
are more proficient in those languages. This has resulted in more
reviews, but it remains to be seen if it boosts committer activity
significantly.
Since the last board report in May, 26 Jira issues were filed and
16 resolved.
Mailing list activity is steady, with a few hundred messages total
per month.
No new committers have been added since 1/2014.
No new PMC members have been added since 9/2012.
== Releases ==
No releases have been made in the last quarter. The last release was
Avro 1.7.6 which was released on January 22, 2014.
A 1.7.7 release is under discussion; we are also discussing improvements
to make it easier to roll releases. (http://s.apache.org/ux)
-----------------------------------------
Attachment H: Report from the Apache Buildr Project [Alex Boisvert]
-----------------------------------------
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:
* 16 JIRAs has been updated since last report. Project is moving along
at a steady pace. Activity has increased in comparsion to previous
quarter.
* Development for JDK 7 upgrade, we have isolated incompatibility
between JDK 7 and Jetty 6.1.26 in NIO implementation and some
file descriptor leaks in Jetty which causes ports to be blocked,
and causes 100% CPU usage in jetty. Support for JDK 7 will be
deferred until Hadoop community move up to Jetty 9.
* Moved older releases to archive.apache.org.
* There are no outstanding issues requiring board attention.
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:
* 100 subscribers on dev
* 169 subscribers on user
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Attachment J: Report from the Apache Crunch Project [Gabriel Reid]
Apache Crunch is a Java library for writing, testing, and running
MapReduce and Spark pipelines on Apache Hadoop.
Project Status
--------------
The project has been moving along at a steady pace in the past quarter, at a
similar velocity to the previous two quarters. Since the last board report
there have been 53 new issues logged in Jira, with 44 of them being closed
in that time. The majority of recent work has been focused on minor
improvements and bug fixes, and there have also been quite a few tickets
related to improvements in Scrunch (the Scala API for Crunch).
There are no board-level issues at this time.
Community
---------
Community activity has continued to be in line with recent quarters, with an
average of several mails on the developer list per day and an average of a
message every day or two on the user list, and first-time contributions from
new contributors every few weeks.
Micah Whitacre was added to the PMC on April 3rd, 2014.
Micah Whitacre was added as a committer on July 11th, 2013.
Releases
--------
The last two releases (0.10.0 and 0.8.3) were both made on June 9th 2014.
-----------------------------------------
Attachment K: Report from the Apache CXF Project [Daniel Kulp]
Apache CXF is an open source services framework. CXF helps you build and
develop services using frontend programming APIs, like JAX-WS and
JAX-RS. These services can speak a variety of protocols such as SOAP,
XML/HTTP, RESTful HTTP, or CORBA and work over a variety of transports
such as HTTP, JMS or JBI.
Releases:
2.6.14
2.7.11
3.0.0
XJC-Utils 3.0.0 and 3.0.1
Committer/PMC:
One committer added this period (Xilai Dai)
No PMC changes this period. Last PMC addition Jan 2014.
Community update:
We released 3.0.0 this period which as a huge milestone for
us. So far, the uptake has been quite positive with a lot of new users
logging issues. We’re working on getting a 3.0.1 bug fix out shortly to fix
some of the issues that have been found.
The 2.7.11/2.6.14 releases fixed a couple of security issues that were made
public on our web site: http://cxf.apache.org/security-advisories.html
Some discussions were started about requested changes for 3.1, but that’s
being slightly delayed until we get 3.0.1/2.7.12/2.6.15 out (very shortly)
when we plan to stop supporting 2.6.x. This was to avoid having too many
fixes branches to deal with.
Much work has been done by various community members to get CXF
working with Java 8. The remaining issues require a release of BCEL from
Apache Commons which we’ve been inquiring about for over a month and a
half now. Hopefully the commons folks can get that out soon.
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Attachment L: 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) The Derby Community released 10.10.2, a bug fix release
b) The Derby Community is finalizing development/documentation for the 10.11
feature release, currently aimed for release in August.
c) 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 M: 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. The mailing list
has been somewhat active but it would appear the bulk of the PMC no
longer has the resources to dedicate the required attention (e.g. there
are still contributions pending approval).
-- 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
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Attachment N: Report from the Apache Directory Project [Pierre-Arnaud Marcelot]
The Apache Directory Project provides directory solutions entirely written
in Java. These include a directory server, which has been certified as
LDAPv3 compliant by the Open Group (ApacheDS), Eclipse-based directory tools
(Apache Directory Studio) and a client API that can be used to communicate
with any directory server (Apache LDAP API).
-- Community --
* No new committers(last addition: January 2014)
* No new PMC members (last addition: October 2008)
-- Current activity --
* Apache Directory LDAP API:
* One releases during this quarter.
* Good activity
* Small bug fixes and improvements.
* Apache Mavibot:
* One release during this quarter.
* Good activity
* Speed improvements.
* Partial support of a bulk load feature.
* ApacheDS:
* One release during this quarter.
* Good activity.
* Major fixes around Kerberos, restart issues & minor bug fixes.
* Apache Directory Studio:
* No releases during this quarter.
* Low activity
* Mainly bug fixes.
* Apache eSCIMo:
* Low activity
* No releases yet.
-- Releases --
* One release for Apache Directory LDAP API:
* Apache Directory LDAP API 1.0.0-M23 (July 4th 2014)
* One release for Apache Mavibot:
* Apache Mavibot 1.0.0-M5 (July 4th 2014)
* One release for ApacheDS:
* ApacheDS 1.0.0-M17 (July 4th 2014)
* No releases for Apache Directory Studio.
* No releases for Apache eSCIMo.
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Attachment O: 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
- Overall development activity (commits, JIRA, dev mailing list traffic) was
low.
- Some work being done on Java EE 7 specification jars.
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 P: 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.
YARN development of a generic TimelineServer, resource tracking for disk and
network resources, caching of common dependencies, support for container
preemption, and other features continues.
The HDFS extended attributes feature branch merged to trunk (2014-06-11).
Thorough specification of FileSystem semantics (HADOOP-9361) also
successfully merged. Native checksumming, hedged reads, features built over
HA interfaces, NFS, and ACLs are also actively developed in trunk and
release branches.
Across all projects, work adding encryption and security features continues
in a development branch.
The project changed its bylaws to allow 5 days for release votes, instead of
the 7 allocated for other decisions.
RELEASES
- hadoop-0.23.11 @ 2014-06-27
- hadoop-2.4.1 @ 2014-06-29
COMMUNITY
(+ PMC Andrew Wang @ 2014-06-01)
(+ PMC Arpit Agarwal @ 2014-06-01)
(+ PMC Brandon Li @ 2014-06-01)
(+ PMC Chris Nauroth @ 2014-06-01)
(+ PMC Colin McCabe @ 2014-06-01)
(+ PMC Jing Zhao @ 2014-06-01)
(+ PMC Sandy Ryza @ 2014-06-01)
(+ branch-HADOOP-10388 Abraham Elmahrek @ 2014-05-01)
(+ branch-HADOOP-10388 Yongjun Zhang @ 2014-05-01)
(+ branch-HDFS-2006 Charles Lamb @ 2014-05-12)
(+ branch-HDFS-2006 Yi Liu @ 2014-05-12)
(+ branch-fs-encryption Charles Lamb @ 2014-05-14)
(+ branch-fs-encryption Yi Liu @ 2014-05-14)
(+ branch-YARN-1051 Carlo Curino @ 2014-06-15)
(+ branch-YARN-1051 Subramaniam Venkatraman Krishnan @ 2014-06-15)
auth: 94 committers (including branch), 51 PMC members
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Attachment Q: 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
0.94.19 04/29/2014
0.94.20 05/29/2014
0.94.21 07/03/2014
0.98.2 04/30/2014
0.98.3 06/09/2014
COMMITTERS
None elected in this period. We have some prospects.
PMC
None elected in this period.
COMMUNITY
We branched 1.0. We hope to ship 1.0.0 by the time of our next report.
We moved to GIT (with INFRA's help) in late May.
HBaseCon2014 took place on May 5th, 2014 in San Francisco.
There were over 600 attendees with four tracks of talks with keynotes by
facebook, salesforce, and google. It was a good day out.
We had HBase Bay Area Meetups on:
05/06/2014 An HBase Hackathon after the Hadoop Summit in San Jose
STATS
35 committers [1]
1004 subscribers to the dev list (Was 971 at last report)
2207 subscribers to the user list (Was 2172 at last report)
1. http://hbase.apache.org/team-list.html
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Attachment R: Report from the Apache Helix Project [Kishore Gopalakrishna]
Description
==========
Apache Helix is a generic cluster management framework used to build
distributed systems and provides automatic partition management, fault
tolerance and elasticity.
Development
===========
- Initial version of the Helix task framework is now complete, enabling
scheduling and intelligent placement of jobs with DAG dependencies.
- Client-side robustness improvements
- Continued work in defining separation of API, SPI, and implementation
- Progress in building a Helix dashboard by a GSOC student
- 94 new JIRAS since last report
- 58 Issues resolved
Community
=========
- 270+ emails on the dev list
- 130+ emails on the user list
- Presentations at ApacheCon and Hadoop Summit
- Organized first public Helix meetup in the SF Bay Area
Releases
=========
- Making progress on 0.7.x stability
- Released 0.6.3 with critical bug fixes and security patches, the first
release as TLP
-----------------------------------------
Attachment S: Report from the Apache Hive Project [Carl Steinbach]
-----------------------------------------
Attachment T: 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 currently 34 podlings under incubation, with three votes to
graduate as the report is being closed. All three VOTEs have passed,
and VXQuery is still underway. S4 has voted to retire, but the retirement
tasks have not yet been finished. Fleece has joined the incubator, as of 9
June 2014.
* Community
New IPMC members:
Jean-Louis Monteiro
Romain Manni-Bucau
Vinod Kumar Vavilapalli
Konstantin Boudnik
People who left the IPMC:
David Crossley
Joe Schaefer
* New Podlings
Fleece
* Graduations
The board has motions for the following:
Tez
Celix
VXQuery
* Releases
The following releases were made since the last Incubator report:
apache-storm-0.9.2-incubating
mrql-0.9.2-incubating
samza-0.7.0-incubating
* IP Clearance
No IP Clearance requests submitted to the Incubator in this timeframe.
* Miscellaneous
S4 voted to retire. SGA received for Optiq from DynamoBI Corporation.
Discussion about exit criteria for podlings, including a suggested set
of criteria that would trigger a VOTE to retire if a podling is not
active enough. Consensus not yet reached. Stratos has graduated but
still needs to finish graduation tasks.
-------------------- Summary of podling reports --------------------
* Still getting started at the Incubator
Brooklyn
Fleece
Optiq
Parquet
* Not yet ready to graduate
No release:
Aurora
DataFu
DeviceMap
Flink
log4cxx2
NPanday
Wave
Community growth:
MetaModel
Ripple
Slider
Usergrid
* Ready to graduate
Kalumet
Samza
The Board has motions for the following:
Tez
Celix
VXQuery
* Retiring
S4
* Did not report, expected next month
ODF Toolkit
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Table of Contents
Aurora
Brooklyn
DataFu
DeviceMap
Fleece
Flink
Kalumet
MetaModel
NPanday
ODF Toolkit
Optiq
Parquet
Ripple
S4
Samza
Slider
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
* Contributor addition: Mark Chu-Carroll, 2014-01-14
Issue backlog status since last report:
* Created: 257
* Resolved: 161
Mailing list activity since last report:
* @dev 254 messages
* issues 987 messages
* @reviews 1487 messages
How has the project developed since the last report?
- IRC weekly meetings, digests sent to dev@ list
- Automating release workflows
- Fixing issues brought up in our first release candidate
Date of last release:
- No releases as of yet. We have created our first release candidate,
0.5.0-rc0, and working to fix issues found within it. 0.5.0-rc1
being targeted within the next week
Signed-off-by:
[X](aurora) Jake Farrell
[ ](aurora) Benjamin Hindman
[ ](aurora) Chris Mattmann
[X](aurora) Henry Saputra
--------------------
Brooklyn
Brooklyn is a framework for modeling, monitoring, and managing applications
through autonomic blueprints.
Brooklyn has been incubating since 2014-05-01.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Performing our first release under Apache
2. Completing migration into the Incubator - largest task is
populating Jira with existing issues
3. Growing a diverse community and PPMC
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?
A small number of new users have appeared, contributing posts to the
mailing lists, Jira issues for bug reports and suggested improvements,
and a code contribution.
How has the project developed since the last report?
The "boostrapping" process is well underway, with active mailing
lists, website, and a burst of commit activity.
Date of last release:
No releases under Apache yet.
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
Andrea Turli and Sam Corbett have become committers and joined the
PPMC on 2014-04-01 and -02 respectively. Their committer accounts
are currently being processed.
Signed-off-by:
[ ](brooklyn) Matt Hogstrom
[ ](brooklyn) Alex Karasulu
[ ](brooklyn) David Nalley
[ ](brooklyn) Marcel Offermans
[ ](brooklyn) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
[ ](brooklyn) Olivier Lamy
[X](brooklyn) Chip Childers
[ ](brooklyn) Andrei Savu
[X](brooklyn) Joe Brockmeier
[ ](brooklyn) Jim Jagielski
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
(cc) As the report notes, Brooklyn is slowly (but surely) converting over
to the ASF infrastructure and processes. They are making good progress at
this time.
--------------------
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 an ASF-based community.
2. Release.
3. Decide on the future home of the project.
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?
Will Vaughan gave a talk on DataFu at ApacheCon in April, and
Casey Stella gave a talk on Pig and DataFu at the Hadoop Summit in
June.
How has the project developed since the last report?
Lots of JIRAs on bug fixes and new features, especially in April and May.
Work slowed significantly in June, which probably means it's time for a
release to mark our progress thus far.
Date of last release:
None. Six 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:
(jmclean) : Mentor active, no obvious issues.
--------------------
DeviceMap
Apache DeviceMap is a data repository containing device information, images
and other relevant information for all sorts of mobile devices, e.g.
smartphones and tablets. While the focus is initially on that data, APIs
will also be created to use and manage it.
DeviceMap has been incubating since 2012-01-03.
The report was not delivered on time from the project itself, as a mentor
I (bdelacretaz) have sent the following challenges to the project's dev list
to try and get the current somewhat active PPMC members to take over:
1. Challenge #1: provide regular reports
2. Challenge #2: make a release
3. Challenge #3: form a PMC with 4-5 members to graduate
Those should really not be challenges but at this point that felt like an
appropriate way of indicating the importance of those actions. There's
already promising responses, we'll see if those translate into concrete
actions.
Apart from that there's been some good discussions in the last weeks, but no
concrete results yet.
Best is probably to evaluate the progress on the above challenges next month
to make a decision about the future of the project.
Date of last release:
No releases yet
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
May 2013
Signed-off-by:
[x](devicemap) Bertrand Delacretaz
[ ](devicemap) Kevan Miller
[ ](devicemap) Andrew Savory
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
(rvs) The report is missing. This on-n-off seems to continue with the
project. I know that some of the mentors are recommending giving it more
time, but it seems like we need to establish some metrics to at least get
the community in shape to do the basics (like reporting and releasing).
Without any kind of forcing function I am not sure what the future for this
project really is.
(bdelacretaz) Agreed - I have now provided a mentor report above.
--------------------
Fleece
Implementation of JSon Processing Java specification.
Fleece has been incubating since 2014-06-09.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Finish bootstrapping project, update clutch.xml and update
incubator status page.
2. Expanding the community, increase user list activity and adding
new committers.
3. Develop a set of testcases which prove correct parsing behaviour.
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?
* First communication/discussions via mailing lists took place,
first issues reported and fixed.
How has the project developed since the last report?
* Incubator status page, the mailing lists and the initial website
have been setup. Initial code have been imported.
Date of last release:
* No releases as of yet
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
* N/A
Signed-off-by:
[X](fleece) Justin Mclean
[ ](fleece) Christian Grobmeier
[ ](fleece) Daniel Kulp
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
(jmclean) : Everything set up, off to a good start, no issues.
--------------------
Flink
Flink is an open source system for expressive, declarative, fast, and
efficient data analysis. Flink combines the scalability and programming
flexibility of distributed MapReduce-like platforms with the efficiency,
out-of-core execution, and query optimization capabilities found in parallel
databases. Flink was originally known as Stratosphere when it entered the
Incubator.
Flink has been incubating since 2014-04-14.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. The new name ("Flink") has still not been confirmed by the trademark
team.
2. Setup of release infrastructure and first release
3. Continue with community growth
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware
of?
None.
How has the community developed since the last report?
Two presentations (Meetup in Nice by a committer, one in Budapest by a
contributor), new users are showing up on the mailing list and on JIRA.
How has the project developed since the last report?
Most of the infrastructure setup has been done. Users start using the new
mailing lists.
In the last month, 21 authors have pushed 120 commits to master. On
master, 910 files have changed and there have been 74,313 additions and
37,094 deletions.
Date of last release:
2014-05-31 (no incubator release yet)
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
None.
Signed-off-by:
[ ](flink) Sean Owen
[ ](flink) Ted Dunning
[ ](flink) Owen O'Malley
[X](flink) Henry Saputra
[ ](flink) Ashutosh Chauhan
[X](flink) Alan Gates
--------------------
Kalumet
Kalumet a complete environment manager and deployer including J2EE
environments (application servers, applications, etc), softwares, and
resources.
Kalumet has been incubating since 2011-09-20.
Community Developement:
Apache Kalumet 0.6-incubating version has been released.
However, due to some misunderstanding, the release vote has not been
completed by 3 IPMC. Especially, some legal files issues have been raised.
We are preparing a 0.6.1-incubating release to fix the legal files and
submit to IPMC vote. We are in the way of promoting the documentation
on the website.
Project Development:
We are preparing the 0.6.1-incubating (plan for July, 14) to fix the
legal files issues raised on 0.6-incubating release and have a complete
IPMC vote.
We are preparing the 0.7-incubating release with the development changes.
Local branches have been created containing:
- new model and REST API
- new webconsole (remove of Echo framework)
These local branches will be merged on the 0.7-incubating branch (master).
Before Graduation:
- The documentation has been updated and aligned with the 0.6-incubating
release. The documentation will be promoted on the website and "linked"
in announcement e-mails as soon as the 0.6.1-incubating release has
been voted.
- The 0.7-incubating release will fix the graduation issue, especially
in term of license (removal of Echo2 framework for the UI).
Post Graduation:
- Kalumet scripts. It's the extension of the "software" concept
globally to all Kalumet resources. It will allow users to create custom
deployment/update plan, with a set of fine-grained steps.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of:
None so far.
Date of last release:
2013-11-22
Date of next release:
2014-07-14
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
None
Signed-off-by:
[ ](kalumet) Jim Jagielski
[ ](kalumet) Henri Gomez
[X](kalumet) Jean-Baptiste Onofre
[ ](kalumet) Olivier Lamy
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
--------------------
MetaModel
MetaModel is a data access framework, providing a common interface for
exploration and querying of different types of datastores.
MetaModel has been incubating since 2013-06-12.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. More contributors to increase diversity of the community
2. Finalize 4.1 release to demonstrate new functionality and evolution
within Apache
3. Connect with other projects from Apache's ecosystem such as HBase,
Phoenix, Cassandra, Optiq
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 few new people have started to work actively on the mailing list.
It is still a small community, and growth is needed.
On the positive side we do see certain new individuals starting to
contribute continuously to the project.
We have been working on blogging, tweeting etc. to create more out-going
communication about MetaModel.
We feel that more of such activity is needed.
How has the project developed since the last report?
Apache MetaModel 4.1.0-incubating was released on Jan 21.
This time with a new release engineer, which meant that the release
instructions were re-iterated and updated.
Communication on mailing list is improving and we see more diversity
of requests.
For instance, connectivity to Hadoop and HBase was previously not very
active but now it's is taking a good share of the focus.
Date of last release:
May 12th
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
June 2013 (but a new committer is being invited just now)
Signed-off-by:
[X](metamodel) Henry Saputra
[X](metamodel) Arvind Prabhakar
[ ](metamodel) Matt Franklin
[X](metamodel) Noah Slater
--------------------
NPanday
NPanday allows projects using the .NET framework to be built with Apache
Maven.
NPanday has been incubating since 2010-08-13.
Since the last report in April, a few obstacles have been removed:
- the status page was updated with the current podling state and correct
mentors
- svnpubsub was enabled so the website can be updated again
- a number of JIRA issues have been cleaned up to prepare for the release
Not blocking, but outstanding things to do:
- resolve issues with Jenkins builds with infrastructure
- finish closing out JIRA issues that have been partially finished
for release
- apply suitable patches that have been overlooked in the past and try
to reconnect with contributors
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Ship the changes on trunk as a release and make it easier for new
users to get up to speed when interested in the project
2. Get a critical mass of committers/PPMC members that can respond to
contributors, apply patches, nominate committers, and vote on releases
3. Provide guidance on how to get involved in contributing
The incubator is already aware of the low level of activity, that many of
the PPMC are now disengaged and lack of mentors for the project. Konstantin
Boudnik has put his hand up to help out and that discussion is in progress.
There continues to be interest in a new release from users, and new
interest from some in making contributions that continue to be followed up.
Date of last release:
2011-05-16
The last committer was added on 2011-04-19. There have not been any PPMC
additions since inception.
Signed-off-by:
[ ](npanday) Raphael Bircher
--------------------
Optiq
Optiq is a highly customizable engine for parsing and planning
queries on data in a wide variety of formats. It allows
database-like access, and in particular a SQL interface and
advanced query optimization, for data not residing in a
traditional database.
Optiq has been incubating since 2014-05-19.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Migrate fully to Apache infrastructure (next: web site and
nightly builds).
2. Re-organize code into org.apache.optiq namespace.
3. Regular releases.
4. Build an ASF community.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need
to be aware of?
With the mentors' permission, we released an unofficial
release, optiq-0.8. Optiq has been making regular releases,
approximately monthly, and this has built momentum in the
community. Continuing this practice helps hold the community
together. We intend to that the next release (0.9, end of July)
is an official Apache Incubator release.
How has the community developed since the last report?
This is our first report. The community remains very similar to
the point where we joined the Incubator.
We are doing outreach.
* Julian Hyde gave two talks related to Optiq at Hadoop Summit.
* Julian Hyde attended the ACM SIGMOD conference and discussed
Optiq with several researchers. Optiq was mentioned in
several talks there.
* An online meeting (via Google hangouts) for the community is
scheduled for July 1st.
How has the project developed since the last report?
This is our first report.
Adopting Apache infrastructure:
* We have completed necessary SGAs, and transferred code from
github to Apache git, and begun committing to Apache
git. (Original github site still online, but marked
"retired" with redirection page.)
* We have transferred github issues to Apache JIRA, and are
using Apache JIRA for issue management.
* Some members have complained that the traffic on dev@ is too
great - requesting an issues@ mailing list for jira update
traffic.
We made an unofficial release (optiq-0.8) on 2014-06-27.
Date of last release:
No releases yet under the Incubator. (But see unofficial
release 0.8, above.)
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
No new committers since we joined the Incubator.
Signed-off-by:
[ ](optiq) Ted Dunning
[ ](optiq) Alan Gates
[ ](optiq) Steven Noels
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Parquet
Parquet is a columnar storage format for Hadoop.
Parquet has been incubating since 2014-05-20 .
Three most important issues
- Finish bootstrapping project(completed), IP clearance (completed),
initial website (in progress)
- Expanding the community and adding new committers
- 1st release
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
- None at this time
Latest Additions:
* PMC addition: N/A
* Contributor addition: N/A
Issue backlog status since last report:
* Created: 8
* Resolved: 2
Mailing list activity since last report:
* @dev 69 messages
How has the project developed since the last report?
- All bootstrap tickets have been completed and status page updated
- Mailing lists created, Jira setup, Code imported
- Jira issues starting to be imported to issues.apache.org
- Website in the works and will be available soon, infra for this is
all ready setup
- Working on documenting contributing guide and committers workflow
- We have now setup the mechanisms to accept contributions through
the Apache Github and have already accepted one external contribution.
Date of last release:
- No releases as of yet.
Signed-off-by:
[X](parquet) Todd Lipcon
[X](parquet) Jake Farrell
[ ](parquet) Chris Mattmann
[X](parquet) Roman Shaposhnik
[X](parquet) Tom White
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Ripple
Ripple is a browser based mobile phone emulator designed to aid in
the development of HTML5 based mobile applications. Ripple is a
cross platform and cross runtime testing/debugging tool. It
currently supports such runtimes as Cordova, WebWorks aand the
Mobile Web.
Ripple has been incubating since 2012-10-16.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
The overall decision of what to do with Ripple as an ASF project, and
whether it can become a sub-project of Cordova is still under discussion.
Additionally, there are discussion threads proposing how to more tightly
integrate and use Ripple within Cordova.
How has the community developed since the last report?
A new committer was voted in. Raymond Camden.
How has the project developed since the last report?
Minor user contributions.
Date of last release:
N/A
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
June, 2014.
Signed-off-by:
[ ](ripple) Jukka Zitting
[X](ripple) Christian Grobmeier
[ ](ripple) Andrew Savory
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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. Possible second Incubator release, otherwise ready to go.
2.
3.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
None.
How has the community developed since the last report?
Voted in two new committers/PPMC members, both from outside of the
original code contributor. Martin Kleppmann presented on the project
at Berlin Buzzwords, Sriram Subramanian will be presenting in Seattle
in August.
How has the project developed since the last report?
Currently in middle of first incubator release. 94 issues opened in
since last reporting window, 86 resolved.
Date of last release:
Vote for 0.7.0 release has just passed in podling, now being run in
Incubator.
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
June 12.
Signed-off-by:
[ ](samza) Chris Douglas
[ ](samza) Arun Murthy
[X](samza) Roman Shaposhnik
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Slider
Slider is a collection of tools and technologies to package, deploy, and
manage long running applications on Apache Hadoop YARN clusters.
Slider has been incubating since 2014-04-29.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Building a user community
2. Getting those users to contribute their work back
3. Improving the application to make it easier to use
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
No
How has the community developed since the last report?
* We've made our first ASF-based release and are starting to get people
discussing it on our dev list -our sole mailing list to date. This
shows some take up, but it also identifies the challenge in diagnosing
problems. We need to provide more application-side diagnostics to help
both users and ourselves.
How has the project developed since the last report?
* As stated, we've made our first ASF release. We plan to do this
monthly for the next few months, to get our release process refined,
as we as evolve the application from users' experiences.
* We've fully migrated to the ASF JIRA server, and have been cross-filing
issues with sibling Apache projects -notably YARN- so helping gain
awareness of us and our needs. So far the other projects have been
very helpful.
* We're trying to contribute some of our changes back into the Hadoop
and Bigtop projects -our workflow YARN services and service launcher
to Hadoop; improvements to the test runner shell for Bigtop. These will
spread the benefits of these features, and tighten our relationship with
those projects on which we depend.
Date of last release:
2014-06-02
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
2014-05
Signed-off-by:
[ ](slider) Arun C Murthy
[ ](slider) Devaraj Das
[X](slider) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
[X](slider) Mahadev Konar
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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. Obtain Usergrid release 1.0
2. Resolve relationship with Apache in general
3. Continue to grow community
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
Recently, Usergrid has been through the wars with regards to its
development ethos, entire development process and most importantly
code commit process. The latter has been an issue which resulted in one
particular Apache Member having his account temporarily disabled, and
a new contributor workflow that the project believes does satisfy board
and infrastructure requirements:
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/usergrid/Usergrid+Contribution+Workflow
It has not been an easy month for Usergrid however the community spirit is
higher than it ever has been and the community is in a strong position
to meet Incubator criteria. An extremely positive note here is that
the Usergrid community has been actively expanding throughout the above
process. This is something we can all learn from.
How has the community developed since the last report?
The Usergrid community has been growing steadily and very encouragingly
based on community VOTE's. We welcome contributions to Usergrid. Most
importantly, many members of the existing Usergrid PPMC have been
(extremely) actively involved in Usergrid's dissemination and expansion.
* 74 subscribed to dev@
How has the project developed since the last report?
Many, many commits. Usergrid is very healthy with regards to its
development. What needs to be addressed however is the following:
* Resolve commit process... MAJOR
* Reflect commit messages to commit@
Date of last release:
Usergrid (incubating) has not made an official release as of date. The
community areactively working towards a release for 1.0.
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
Askhat Asanaliev Wed, 23 Apr 2014 16:59:35 GMT
Signed-off-by:
[X](usergrid) Dave Johnson
[X](usergrid) Jake Farrell
[ ](usergrid) Jim Jagielski
[X](usergrid) Lewis John Mcgibbney
[ ](usergrid) Luciano Resende
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VXQuery
A standards compliant parallel XML Query processor.
VXQuery has been incubating since 2009-07-06.
The second release has been released (by a different release manager).
The PPMC has voted on the composition of the PMC (=committers) and
the graduation vote is ongoing on the dev-list.
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 work on better handling of big XML files and
greater functional coverage.
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:
[ ](vxquery) Anthony Elder
[ ](vxquery) Jochen Wiedmann
[x](vxquery) Marvin Humphrey
[ ](vxquery) Sanjiva Weerawarana
[ ](vxquery) Radu Preotiuc-Pietro
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Attachment U: Report from the Apache Isis Project [Dan Haywood]
Apache Isis is a framework to enable the creation of software using
domain-driven design principles, being an implementation of the naked
objects architectural pattern
== Activity ==
Mailing list activity has been steady; user mailing list subscriptions
continue to increase linearly month-on-month. There is a notable increase
in subscribers who are clearly using Isis to develop their own systems to take
through to production.
A number of the committers, and one non-committer, met up in Milan for
"Isis Con" 2014 [1] to discuss future evolution of Isis framework. We not
only got to compare how we are all using the framework for our own particular
projects, we also sketched out a roadmap for the future. The outputs of those
discussions were summarized to the mailing list [2], also in our wiki [3].
We are also participating in this year's Google Summer of Code 2014 [4].
We had two submissions, and accepted one of them. This student is tackling
his project very diligently and producing some good work; it wasn't a
difficult decision to pass him on his mid-term eval.
A number of submissions have been made to present at various conferences
later this year: ApacheCon EU, Devoxx (Belgium), Agile Cambridge (UK) and
Agile Testing/BDD Conference (UK).
== Development and Releases ==
Isis continues to be developed steadily, albeit mostly by a single committer
(myself).
This quarter we made one new release, v1.5.0 on 7 Jun 2014 [5].
== 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
== Issues ==
There are no outstanding issues requiring board attention.
[1] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/ISIS/IsisCon+2014
[2] http://markmail.org/thread/jedaujano3hcbgcc
[3] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/ISIS/IdiomaticRestApi
[4] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2014
[5] http://isis.markmail.org/thread/ynvzwuwtgdzwer7b
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Attachment V: Report from the Apache Jackrabbit Project [Michael Dürig]
The Apache Jackrabbit™ content repository is a fully conforming
implementation of the Content Repository for Java™ Technology API
(JCR, specified in JSR 170 and 283).
The Apache Jackrabbit project is in good shape. We have no board-level
issues at this time.
o Releases
We made the following stable release from Jackrabbit trunk:
* Apache Jackrabbit 2.8 on May 12th
We made the following unstable release from Jackrabbit trunk:
* Apache Jackrabbit 2.7.5 on March 17th
We made the following releases from the Jackrabbit Oak sub project:
* Apache Jackrabbit Oak 0.19 on March 24th
* Apache Jackrabbit Oak 0.20 on April 8th
* Apache Jackrabbit Oak 1.0 on May 20th
* Apache Jackrabbit Oak 1.0.1 on June 26th
We made the following release from the Jackrabbit FileVault sub project:
* Apache Jackrabbit FileVault 3.1 on March 31st
* Apache Jackrabbit FileVault 3.1.2 on April 5th
* Apache Jackrabbit FileVault 3.1.6 on April 22nd
o Community / Development
* Apache Jackrabbit Oak has finally hit the stage with its first major
release in May. Apache Jackrabbit Oak is a new JCR implementation with a
completely new architecture. Based on concepts like eventual consistency
and multi-version concurrency control, and borrowing ideas from
distributed version control systems and cloud-scale databases, the Oak
architecture is a major leap ahead for Apache Jackrabbit.
* Davide Gianella joined the Jackrabbit team as committer and PMC member
in June.
* Various sessions about Jackrabbit and Oak have been submitted / accepted
to international conferences like ApacheCon, ApacheConEU,
.adaptTo(Berlin).
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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), Bond (Web Management for server)
and mime4j.
Activity on server code remains (very) low and discussions have been
raised by users asking for releases. We will start a discussion at PMC
level to evaluate this situation and find solutions.
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 two successful releases (1.7.2 and 1.7.3) in the last
quarter and plans to release 1.7.4. The jclouds website and documentation
continues to be expanded.
The developer and user community is active, with sustained activity by the
core team. The PMC is still looking to grow the committer base and encourage
contributions across the spectrum of supported APIs and providers.
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?
* Simplifying the current multi-repo release procedure to allow for more
frequent releases
* Determine an approximate release cadence and publish a draft roadmap
* Encourage involvement and contributions by vendors of supported providers
* Help students complete their two Google Summer of Code projects
Releases
--------
Have there been any releases from the project in the last quarter?
* 1.7.2 (2014-04-16)
* 1.7.3 (2014-05-30)
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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 2.11.2 released on 23/06/2014.
== PMC
PMC member last added: 26 January 2013
Committer last added: 16 August 2013
== Activity
dev@ list: ~ 300 messages a month
users@ list: ~ 175 messages a month
== Community news
= Contribution
The project 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 has assessed this and conducted an IP-clearance process.
= Google Summer of Code
The project has 2 GSoC projects this year and these are running
successfully.
= Java7
The project took a vote on moving to the base line supported Java version
to java7 in line with the general style of supporting the latest 2 versions
of Java.
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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 951 followers as of July 2 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]
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, 2.10.1, on 29th May, 2014
Aside from efforts put into the release, it's been a quieter period than
usual, although a contribution was incorporated into trunk and questions
are being answered on MLs.
== Community
Last Committer: Glen Mazza (gmazza), on 04th Jan, 2013
Last PMC: Glen Mazza (gmazza), on 04th Jan, 2013
Back to normal levels of activity on ML, meaning a rough 30% decrease of
activity at dev@j.a.o on this period, when compared to previous period, with
an average of almost 70 messages per month, with user@j.a.o also going back
to normal levels (16-17 messages per month, on average).
88 (-1) people subscribed to dev@j.a.o, 177 (+2) people subscribed at
user@j.a.o
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Attachment AB: Report from the Apache Labs Project [Tim Williams]
Apache Labs hosts small and emerging projects from ASF committers.
[STATUS]
We finished up the ByLaws cleanup from last quarter, saw one addition, and saw
some house-cleaning activity.
[DETAILS]
== Community ==
As mentioned in the last board report, our ByLaws were a bit flawed in their
voting requirements. Last quarter saw the cleanup of the PMC roster and this
quarter the vote to correct the ByLaws passed, clearing the way for
streamlined lab additions.
Loads of cleanup occurred over the quarter including JIRA, a new VM, and the
website.
A new lab "Flexicon" was created with Gabriela Gibson as the PI. Flexicon is
tool for individuals, business and crowds to organize and maintain a personal
or community-owned compendium of compound commands and scripts, which can be
standardized, shared, tracked and searched due to having a general compatible
format and inbuilt tests. It is not tied to any particular operating system or
software, it is a general tool to keep our working methods organized and to
enable us to share and preserve them.
The Penihip lab went idle.
== Labs Statistics ==
- new: 1
- status changes (last 3 months): 1
- total number: 41
- active: 17
- idle: 15
- promoted: 3
- completed: 8
- labs with commits: panopticon, flexicon, yay
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Attachment AC: 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 still 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
* A release of Clownfish is imminent.
* The development list is currently discussing the possibility of fixed
cadence releases.
* Minor bug fix with error handling when writing JSON files.
* Release of an official Debian package of Lucy.
Mailing lists
User list subscribers: 91 (+0)
Developer list subscribers: 68 (+2)
Mailing list activity is average.
COMMITTER/PMC CHANGES
Added a new contributor to our ranks: Tim Wilkens
No new PMC members in the last quarter and since Lucy graduated from the
incubator in March 2012.
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Attachment AD: 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. We have
worked through many of these issues, but are not out of the proverbial
woods just yet.
Community
---------
* Andrew Palumbo and Pat Ferrel are new committers
* Dmitriy Lyubimov has resigned from the PMC
* The main issue concerning the community right now is the addition
of new contributions from 0xData and the integration of Mahout with Scala/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.
Issues
------
For the most part, the community has gotten back to work by adding a couple of
new committers and pursuing the path of Scala support. While there is still
not a huge developer base, people are contributing and working through the
issues.
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Attachment AE: 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
The statistics for measuring our compliance with the ASF source header policy
have not been updated since April's report.
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[1], LEGAL-27[2], LEGAL-31[3] and LEGAL-136[4].
The statistics for measuring our JDK8 compatibility status have not been
updated since April's report.
Work has been done on source download link requirement, tracked as
http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNGSITE-152. First component released with new
license and download links is
http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-scm-publish-plugin/download.cgi
* New PMC Members
* New Committers
* Releases
* Core
* Apache Maven (3.2.2) (2014-06-24)
* Plugins
* Apache Maven Changes Plugin 2.10 (2014-04-13)
* Apache Maven Checkstyle Plugin 2.12.1 (2014-04-19)
* Apache Maven Shade Plugin 2.3 (2014-05-02)
* Apache Maven SCM Publish Plugin 1.1 (2014-05-18)
* Apache Maven EAR Plugin 2.9.1 (2014-06-19)
* Apache Maven JAR Plugin 2.5 (2014-06-24)
* Apache Maven Changelog Plugin 2.3 (2014-06-24)
* Apache Maven Invoker Plugin 1.9 (2014-06-28)
* Other
* Apache Maven Plugin Tools 3.3 (2014-05-06)
* Apache Doxia base 1.6 (2014-06-27)
* Apache Doxia Site Tools 1.6 (2014-06-27)
* Apache Maven Reporting Exec 1.2 (2014-06-28)
* Apache Doxia Tools parent POM 3 (2014-06-30)
* Apache Maven Doxia Integration Tools 1.6 (2014-06-30)
* Security
* Retired
[1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-26
[2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-27
[3] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-31
[4] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-136
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Attachment AF: Report from the Apache Mesos Project [Benjamin Hindman]
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Attachment AG: 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)
* No new new PMC member : (Last addition, April 2014)
-- Current activity --
Still calm. Some discussion about MINA 3 SSL handling, but more about
how to workaround existing issues. Some work on tests.
SSHD has been gently active this quarter.
We need to get a second release of MINA 3 out by september, with the
needed fixes for SSL in it.
* Apache MINA :
* Very low activity
* Apache FtpServer:
* No activity in the past 3 months
* Apache SSHd:
* Some bug fixes.
* Apache Vysper :
* Nothing done
* Apache AsyncWeb:
* No activity.
-- Releases --
* No release this month
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Attachment AH: Report from the Apache MRUnit Project [Brock Noland]
DESCRIPTION
MRUnit is a Java library that helps developers unit test Apache Hadoop
MapReduce jobs. Unit testing is a technique for improving project quality
and reducing overall costs by writing a small amount of code that can
automatically verify the software you write performs as intended. This is
considered a best practice in software development since it helps identify
defects early, before they're deployed to a production system.
RELEASES
The last release of Apache MRUnit was version 1.1.0, released on
June 8, 2014. This was MRUnit's second release since graduation in May 2012.
CURRENT ACTIVITY
* Development activity continues as can be seen from the following report:
http://s.apache.org/ia
* 12 JIRA's was resolved since the last report.
* Mail traffic is largely on the DEV list. Messages since Apr 1st: dev 142,
user 5
COMMUNITY
* The composition of the committers and PMC members has not changed since
the last report.
* Currently there are:
Total of 41 subscribers to the developer list.
Total of 80 subscribers to the user list.
Total of 13 committers
Total of 13 PMC members
ISSUES
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
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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 Core 2.2.3 (28/April/14)
* MyFaces Tobago 2.0.0 Beta 3 (5/May/14)
* MyFaces Extensions Validator v2.0.8 (30/May/14)
* MyFaces Tobago 2.0.0 Beta 4 (2/June/14)
* MyFaces Test 1.0.7 (20/June/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
There has been a lot of activity since the previous report and we are
discussing releasing Nutch 1.9 within the next month or so. We fixed
several important bugs and committed various improvements to the trunk.
There has been no releases of the Nutch 2.x branch since the previous
report and there is limited activity on that branch. We are still
planning to release 2.3 during the summer and are waiting for a few
JIRA issues to be resolved first.
Apache Nutch has, for the first time, engaged in GSoC.
Lewis John McGibbney is working with student Fjodor Vershinin on the project
"Create a Wicket-based Web Application for Nutch" [0] which essentailly
will alow ANYONE to access, run, configure, provision, queue and execute
Nutch crawl jobs within the browser.
Progress is as follows
* 1st report progress is here http://wiki.apache.org/nutch/FirstReport
* Documentation on REST API => http://wiki.apache.org/nutch/NutchRESTAPI
* Mentors comments are positive. The project is going to succeed.
It will be a large step forward for the Nutch project in general.
We also ported the Nutch website to Apache CMS, setup an IRC channel and
a Twitter account for the project (https://twitter.com/ApacheNutch).
COMMUNITY
There has been no change in the composition of the PMC and committers
list since Talat Uyarer joined the PMC and committers on 31/03/2014.
The traffic on the mailing lists is at a steady level.
We submitted 2 talks and 1 workshop for ApacheCon EU. One of the talks
will present the results of a user survey [1] conducted by DigitalPebble Ltd.
The workshop would be done by 3 Nutch committers.
A Nutch-related talk has been submitted for LuceneRevolution by a
member of the community.
[0] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NUTCH-841
[1] http://s.apache.org/zf
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Attachment AK: Report from the Apache ODE Project [Tammo van Lessen]
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Attachment AL: Report from the Apache Onami Project [Simone Tripodi]
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Attachment AM: Report from the Apache OpenJPA Project [Pinaki Poddar]
There are no items requiring board attention at this time.
* Highlights
Apache OpenJPA provides POJO persistence for stand-alone JSE, JEE
container and many other lightweight frameworks, such as Tomcat,
TomEE, Spring or OSGi.
* Community
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
OpenJPA 2.3.0 has been released. This release enhances correctness
(resolution of 100 reported issues) and improves 55 existing features.
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Attachment AN: Report from the Apache OpenMeetings Project [Sebastian Wagner]
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Attachment AO: 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
The mail outage experienced by Apache last May is unacceptable
both for a reputable foundation like the ASF and for a
well-established project like OpenOffice. We appreciate that the
Foundation is now aware that a well-working infrastructure is a
priority and that steps are being taken to guarantee a higher
quality of service.
### Community Development/Outreach Progress
The project added 1 new committer (May: tal) since our last report
in April. The new committer is involved in localization and website
improvements. No new PMC members since November 2013 (fanyuzhen).
The OpenOffice custom infrastructure (wiki, forum) is still in a
"minimal maintenance" mode. We are now starting to address the queue
of improvements requested by the community, but faster reaction
times are needed. The infrastructure team internal to the OpenOffice
project is insufficient and lacks coordination. We are
progressively standardizing on the Infra processes to minimize the
amount of "non-standard" sysadmin work needed.
Several volunteers engaged in translating the website to their
language by simply editing the HTML files; this proved to work
better in our case than sending people to the Apache CMS and asking
them to send patches.
We have new volunteers and new developments in the main website
too, with a completely reworked download section and more visibility
for localized websites thanks to a new language drop-down.
A new documentation effort for an end-users manual under the ALv2
licence is progressing more slowly than expected on the OpenOffice
Wiki, even though new volunteers show up regularly.
The localization community is growing: OpenOffice 4.1, released
29 April 2014, is fully released in 38 languages, 6 of which
(Bulgarian, Danish, Hebrew, Hindi, Norwegian Bokmal and Thai)
were new with respect to version 4.0.
OpenOffice had a dedicated track during ApacheCon Denver and
is set to have one during ApacheCon Budapest too, judging by the
number of submitted talk proposals.
The mailing lists for user support, localization, QA are quite
active, the marketing and documentation lists are 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. The online users counter reached two peaks
in May (359) and July (404). As for graphics, the forum header is
now consistent with the Extensions and Templates sites.
### 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, was published on 29 April 2014.
A bugfix release, Apache OpenOffice 4.1.1, is expected in August.
It will contain bugfixes and a few new translations.
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;
a rewritten OOXML filter, allowing import and (later) export.
The download trend remains very strong: Apache OpenOffice celebrated
100 million downloads on 17 April 2014.
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Attachment AP: 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.
451 (452 last report) subscribers on the user@ list
153 (157 last report) subscribers on the dev@ list
Maruan gave a presentation about PDFBox at the PDF Days Europe 2014 in cologne.
We got some positive feedback and a couple of people show some interest in our
project/community.
Releases
--------
Version 1.8.5 was released on 2nd of May 2014
Version 1.8.6 was released on 22nd of June 2014
Both are incremental bugfix releases based on PDFBox 1.8.x.
GSoC
----
PDFBOX-1912 (Mentor John Hewson):
The major components of the OCR support have been completed and the code is
currently on the student’s GitHub page awaiting further integration. Student
has passed their midterm and plans to work on extended features before making
a commit towards the end of the project.
PDFBOX-1915: (Mentor Tilman Hausherr)
The first half of the project (which is also the core component) has been
completed successfully and the student has passed her midterm evaluation. It
is planned to commit the code within a few days.
Development:
------------
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
- code cleanup
- enhance rendering
We are targeting the late summer as a rough release date for the next
major release.
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Attachment AQ: Report from the Apache Perl Project [Philippe M. Chiasson]
-- mod_perl 1.0 --
The mod_perl 1.x is a maintenance track designed to work with httpd
1.3.x.
No new mod_perl 1.x releases since 2014-02
--- mod_perl 2.0 --
mod_perl 2.X is designed to work with all httpd 2.X branches.
Work to fully support httpd-2.4 is moving along.
--- Apache-Test --
Apache-Test provides a framework which allows module writers to write
test suites than can query a running mod_perl enabled server. It is
used by mod_perl, httpd and several third party applications, and
includes support for Apache modules written in C, mod_perl, PHP
and Parrot.
No new Apache-Test releases since 2014-02.
--- Apache-SizeLimit --
Apache-SizeLimit is a popular component in most mod_perl production
environments. It is used to kill off large httpd child processes
based on various environmental triggers.
Apache-SizeLimit 0.97 was released on Apr 02, 2012
No new Apache-SizeLimit releases since 2014-02.
--- Apache-Bootstrap --
Apache-Bootstrap is a framework to make it easier to build perl
module distributions for different mod_perl versions. It encapsulates
code developed over the years by mod_perl developers to make
maintaining Apache::* and Apache2::* modules in the same distribution easy.
Apache-Bootstrap 0.07 was released on Jul 13, 2009
No new Apache-Bootstrap releases since 2014-02.
--- Apache-Reload --
Apache-Reload is a popular component in most mod_perl development
environments, used to refresh compiled code in the perl interpreter
without completely restarting httpd.
Apache-Reload 0.12 was released on March 31st, 2012
No new Apache-Reload releases since 2014-02.
-- Apache-DBI --
Apache-DBI is a popular component in many mod_perl deployments. It
is used to provide transparent database connection pooling to clients
using DBI.
Apache-DBI 1.12 was released on June 12nd, 2013
No new Apache-DBI releases since 2014-02.
-- Development --
mod_perl continues to be a healthy development community, though
as a mature and stable product development moves at a naturally
slower pace than in years past. Bugs are found and discussed and
applied with due consideration for our production userbase.
Work on the http-2.4 branch is ongoing and we are getting closer to
being able to merge it to trunk and make an official release supporting httpd
2.4
Support for windows used to be difficult, having lost our main Windows developer.
However, recently, there as been more external contributions to our Windows support,
so it's looking better.
-- Users --
The mod_perl users list is seeing steady activity, with a growing interest
in seeing the httpd-2.4 work complete.
Patches and bug reports are few, but keep on coming.
-- PMC --
No noteworthy PMC events happened since the last report.
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Attachment AR: Report from the Apache Phoenix Project [James R. Taylor]
Phoenix is a SQL query engine for accessing NoSQL datastores such as
Apache HBase. It is accessed as a JDBC driver and enables querying
and managing NoSQL tables using SQL.
* When did the project last make any releases?
The latest release was version 4.0.0-incubating on 2014-04-04
* Describe the overall activity in the project over the past quarter.
Conversion to TLP complete (kudos to INFRA on the quick turnaround).
Both dev and user lists have occasional traffic.
James Taylor gave a talk on Phoenix at the recent Hadoop Summit.
Expect next release by end of July to include:
- Support for derived/nested queries to increase breadth of SQL support.
- Alternate, complementary secondary indexing strategy called local
indexes.
- Misc built-in functions contributed from various non committers.
Work has started on reworking the type system so that it can be used
when data is stored in HBase for projects such as HBase, Hive, Drill,
Kite, and Impala.
* When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
The last PMC member was elected on 2014-04-08.
Voting on two new committers is open.
* Any issues for the Board?
No
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Attachment AS: Report from the Apache Rave Project [Matt Franklin]
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Attachment AT: Report from the Apache Shindig Project [Ryan Baxter]
DESCRIPTION
Apache Shindig is an Opensocial Reference implementation in wide use by
both social networks and enterprise software. Shindig graduated from the
Incubator in January 2010.
ISSUES
The Shindig PMC has no issues that require board attention.
COMMUNITY
Mailing list traffic and contributions remain steady. The community was
asked to back a new proposal from the W3C as some portions of the
OpenSocial specification are being moved to a new group that is
part of the W3C. No one in the community objected to backing
any of the charters. Here are the relevant charters.
Activity:
http://www.w3.org/2013/socialweb/social-activity-proposal.html
Working Group:
http://www.w3.org/2013/socialweb/social-wg-charter.html
Interest Group:
http://www.w3.org/2013/socialweb/social-ig-charter.html
COMMITTER/PMC CHANGES
No PMC member changes.
RELEASES
Apache Shindig 2.5.1 was released on 2014-03-04. The community
is currently working towards a 2.5.2 release.
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Attachment AU: 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.
* The next release of Sqoop from the trunk - version 1.4.5 was held
back to ensure inclusion of a high performance Oracle connector to the
project. This connector is now committed and work towards Sqoop 1.4.5
has resumed.
CURRENT ACTIVITY
* Dell Software contributed a high performance Oracle connector to the
project. See SQOOP-1287 for more details.
* Development activity continues on both trunk as well as sqoop2
branches.
* A total of 16 issues have been resolved between the period starting
from April 1, 2014 to July 1, 2014.
* In the past three months, a total of 185 messages were exchanged on the
user list and a total of 387 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 377 subscribers to the user list
- Total of 153 subscribers to the developer list
- Total of 19 committers
- Total of 13 PMC members
* The PMC affiliation is as follows: Cloudera (4), Dell (2), Ecetera (1),
JPL (1), Magnify (1), Motorola (1), Pivotal (1), Independent (2)
ISSUES
* There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
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Attachment AV: 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
* The project DOAP file was created, as requested and required.
* Alan Cabrera has been be working on documentation
* The current codebase of Steve was used during the annual ASF
Members Meeting, the 1st time since the project was created
and the codebase "moved" to Steve. A few code changes were required
and the codebase worked perfectly.
* Discussion on how and when to roll a release will be started on
the dev list.
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 AW: Report from the Apache Stratos Project [Lakmal Warusawithana]
Apache Stratos is a highly-extensible Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) framework
that helps run Apache Tomcat, PHP, and MySQL applications and can be extended
to support many more environments on all major cloud infrastructures.
Releases
========
* Apache Stratos 4.0.0 released on June 20th
Community and development
==========================
* One new committer/PMC member added
* Apache Stratos 4.0.0 released
* Started design review of 4.1.0 release features
* Started 4.0.1 bug fixing release on 4.0.0 branch
* Started new mentoring procees to mentor newcomers who want to contribute
Stratos. (https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/STRATOS/Mentoring+scheme+for+new+contributors)
* Mailing list activity on dev@ was at 846 messages in June.
* Excluding merges, 10 authors have pushed 15 commits to master and 28 commits
to all branches.On master, 64 files have changed and there have been 1,457
additions and 567 deletions.(June 7th to July 7th)
New Committer/PMC member addition
* Dinesh Bandara - 2014.07.03
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Attachment AX: Report from the Apache Struts Project [Rene Gielen]
The Apache Struts project community provides an action-based Java web
application framework.
The Struts team made two releases in the last quarter:
* Struts 2.3.16.2 - security fix release (2014-04-24)
* Struts 2.3.16.3 - security fix release (2014-05-03)
The last quarter was dominated by dealing with a major security issue.
The root cause for this issue is a widely overseen feature in Java Core
API that, in combination with using an expression language or bean
manipulation library, might lead to class loader access which in turn
allows for RCE attacks in certain server environments. Various web
frameworks were and might still be affected. Both Struts 1 and Struts 2
turned out to be affected.
For Struts 2 we received a vulnerability report leading to a very timely
security fix release followed by another security fix release to close
an additional attack vector for the same vulnerability. In favor for
these releases the vote on our next scheduled feature release 2.3.17 was
dropped.
Soon after disclosing the Struts 2 vulnerabilities, we got notified that
Struts 1 is affected as well. Despite Struts 1 had its EOL announcement
more than one year ago, the Struts PMC felt responsible to help the wide
user base still relying on Struts 1. The HP Fortify team was very
helpful in analyzing the issue and providing a mitigation path. The
issue caused enormous mail traffic, and we did our best to deal both
with communications and providing counter measures in an ASAP fashion.
While analyzing the issue deeper we found that we should contact both
the Tomcat PMC and the Commons PMC to have them review the issue impact
and evaluate if Apache Tomcat and commons-beanutils might want to
address this as well. Not unexpectedly, the Tomcat PMC decided that the
issue should not be addressed at container level but solely on the level
of deployed applications. The Commons PMC however decided that the issue
at its root cause should be addressed in commons-beanutils. In an
admirable cross project effort folks from Commons and Struts PMC,
including emeritus members, worked hard to get a solution out the door.
We are preparing a security fix release for Struts 1 including the new
commons-beautils library fixing the said issue.
In the aftermath of the buzz created by this issue and taking into
account the industry relevance of the Struts web framework family,
Google announced to add Apache Struts to their patch reward program.
No new committers or PMC members have been added in the last quarter. We
invited Bruce Phillips to join the PMC, but he rejected. Last PMC member
addition was on 2013-05-11, last committer addition on 2014-01-06.
We have no issues that require board assistance at this time.
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Attachment AY: 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 a series of beta builds of the upcoming 5.4 release,
(most recently, 5.4-beta-6, on 2014-05-29), following successful votes.
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. There are also frequent announcements concerning third-party
libraries developed entirely outside the Tapestry team.
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?
Jochen Kenmade has been voted in as a committer on 2014-04-25.
The last PMC addition has been Massimo Lusetti on 2012-08-27.
PMC and committer diversity
PMC and committer diversity is good. To our knowledge no two committers share
the same employer. Levels of contribution vary over time with Howard Lewis
Ship being the driving force behind Tapestry's development and various other
committers working on areas of their interest.
Project branding or naming issues, either in the project or externally.
No known issues.
Branding requirements progress:
* "Project Website Basics: homepage is project.apache.org" - completed
* "Project Naming And Descriptions: use proper Apache forms, describe
product, etc." - completed
* "Website Navigation Links: navbar links included, link to www.apache.org
included" - License and Security links are missing
* "Trademark Attributions: attribution for all ASF marks included in footers,
etc." - completed
* "Logos and Graphics: include TM, use consistent product logo on your site"
- TM missing from logo
* "Project Metadata: DOAP file checked in and up to date" - completed
Legal issues or questions:
None.
Infrastructure issues or strategic needs:
None.
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Attachment AZ: Report from the Apache Tcl Project [Massimo Manghi]
Apache Tcl is an umbrella for Tcl-Apache integration efforts. Current
projects are
* Rivet
* Websh
Board issues:
Apache Tcl is one of those active, but not intensely evolving projects.
We are maintaining our software, we have an adequate number of active
PMC members when it comes to testing and voting new releases but we
failed to attract new people to our project.
In recent years we did not have spontaneous contributions from the
community that could hint at possible candidates to be invited to join
the team of committers. On the ASF lists the concept of understanding
and adhering to the ASF philosophy and bylaws was stressed
in several discussions, therefore simply going out to the mailing
lists calling for new volunteers seemed to us at least unfit to
these principles and in the long run potentially dangerous. The project
is still alive, I'm doing regular maintenance and some development
but the project needs freshmen to receive new impulse. Any guidance
from the board would be appreciated
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@: 20 subscribers
+ no bug reports filed in this quarter for both Rivet and Websh
Releases
+ Rivet: we released version 2.2.0 on June 16th with a few bug fix and a
couple of command functionality extension. Initially planned to be a bug-fix
release for Rivet 2.1 we voted to consolidate it as 2.2.0 because
it implements a strict policy on certain commands
+ Websh is maintained but no new artifacts were released after
3.6.0b5 (2009-09-24)
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Attachment BA: 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 been working towards our next release and the Apache Thrift
0.9.2 release candidate is currently under vote. We have also been involved in
the GSoC mentoring participants with the focus on our test harmonization
framework.
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: 71
* Resolved: 120
Mailing list activity since last report:
* @dev 2034 messages
* @user 119 messages
Releases
---
Last release: 0.9.1, Release Date: Aug 21, 2013
Apache Thrift 0.9.2 release candidate vote is currently in process
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Attachment BB: 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. Work has continued on version
1.6 with a many bug fixes and new features, including many new file formats.
A discussion thread has started for a 1.6 release candidate.
Community
=========================
The Tika PMC added Lewis John McGibbney as a committer and PMC Member in June
2014.
A Tika Hackathon session took place at the ApacheCon NA 2014 conference, kicking
off improvements to our JAX-RS module. There were also presentations by
Annie Bryant, Nick Burch and Jukka Zitting as part of the main conference.
Mailing list activity on dev@ was at 298, 671 and 17 messages in May,
June and July 2014, respectively. user@ was at 15, 31 and 18 messages,
during the same timeframe.
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Attachment BC: Report from the Apache TomEE Project [David Blevins]
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Attachment BD: Report from the Apache Traffic Server Project [Leif Hedstrom]
Apache Traffic Server is an HTTP proxy server and cache, similar to Squid
and Varnish in functionality and features.
Issues
======
There are no issues that needs the board's attention.
Community
=========
Two new committers were added since last report, leaving us with a total of 38
committers (note, there was a typo in the last report, which claimed we had 35
committers, when in reality it was 36). Our last committer was added on
05/28/2014. Activity on mailing list is normal, and we are seeing normal,
steady growth in mailing list subscribers:
users@ - 432 subscribers (up 4% since last report)
dev@ - 281 subscribers (up 2.5% since last report)
In Jira, 218 new tickets were opened and 136 were resolved or closed since
the last board report, which had 222 and 241 respectively. 830 changes were
committed to our git repository from 38 contributors. The number of unique
contributors is identical to the last report, but the number of commits were
almost twice as high.
Events
======
At ApacheCon 2014, we were represented with a full day track dedicated to
Traffic Server. Our spring Summit was held over two days at the same venue in
Denver, and was well received. We're planning for a fall Summit, the initial
idea was to do it in Budapest, but there seems to be little interest from the
community so far. We'll make a decision on where to host the next Summit soon,
but right now it looks like we'll do it in California instead.
Two Traffic Server community members will go to Velocity China in August and
talk about our project.
Releases
========
Two new releases were made since last report:
Apache Traffic Server v4.2.1 (released 4/29/2014)
Apache Traffic Server v5.0.0 (released 6/17/2014)
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.
Upcoming releases include:
* Soon: v4.2.2, fixing a few critical cache related issues etc.
* Possibly: v5.0.1 in July
* August: v5.1.0
Our v5.0.0 release also marked the End-Of-Life of the old v3.2.x release. No
further releases will be made for this version.
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Attachment BE: Report from the Apache Web Services Project [Sagara Gunathunga]
Releases within this quarter:
* WSS4J 1.6.16 (RM - Colm O hEigeartaigh)
* WSS4J 2.0.0 (RM - Colm O hEigeartaigh)
* WSS4J 2.0.1 (RM - Colm O hEigeartaigh)
Last releases for other subprojects:
* XmlSchema 2.1.0 : Jan 2014
* Neethi 3.0.3 : Jan 2014
* Axiom : Dec 2012
* Woden : Feb 2011
* XML-RPC : Feb 2010
Community and development:
* Last committer addition - in 2011, Last PMC member addition - in Sept 2013
Development
WSS4J - 89 commits by 2 committers.
Axiom - 140 commits by 1 committer.
Woden - 1 commits by 1 committer.
Neethi - 0 commits.
Xmlschema - 0 commits.
Branding checklist for sub-projects with releases in the last quarters
(Axiom, Neethi, WSS4J, Project homepage ):
* Project Naming And Descriptions: OK
* Website Navigation Links: OK
* Trademark Attributions: OK
* Logos and Graphics: OK ( Neethi and WSS4J sub projects don't have logos)
* Project Metadata: OK
Not yet compliant:
* XmlSchema
* Woden
Subprojects
-----------
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 BF: Report from the Apache Wink Project [Luciano Resende]
Apache Wink is a project that enables development and consumption of
REST style web services. The core server runtime is based on the
JAX-RS (JSR 311) standard. The project also introduces a client
runtime which can leverage certain components of the server-side
runtime. Apache Wink delivers component technology that can be easily
integrated into a variety of environments.
There are no issues that require Board attention at the moment.
Releases:
* Last release was Apache Wink 1.4.0 which was released on September 15, 2013
Activity:
* Regular mailing list activity (on the low side).
* The community have been helping each other on user questions.
Committers or PMC changes:
* Voted Gerhard Petracek was added as a Wink committer in August 2013.
Trademark/Branding:
* No known issues.
Legal Issues:
* None
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Attachment BG: Report from the Apache Wookie Project [Scott Wilson]
Apache Wookie develops software related to implementation of the W3C
Widgets family of specifications.
ISSUES
We haven't really grown our community over the past year, and overall
activity is slowing to a trickle. Partly this is because of problems with
the W3C specification getting wider adoption as the major browser
vendors have all continued to produce competing formats.
Looking forward we may want to consider options including moving
Wookie to the Attic or moving the project to become a sub-project of Rave
if the level of activity continues to decline.
RELEASES
Wookie 1.0 was released on 24th February 2014.
ACTIVITY
Since April we've been working on Wookie 2.0, which is aimed at making
Wookie more modular and easier to integrate into Apache Rave and
other platforms.
COMMUNITY
Our last committer added was Steve Lee on 21st February 2013.
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End of minutes for the July 16, 2014 board meeting.
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