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Board of Directors Meeting Minutes
December 17, 2014
1. Call to order
The meeting was scheduled for 10:30am Pacific and began at 10:33
when a sufficient attendance to constitute a quorum was
recognized by the chairman.
Other Time Zones: http://timeanddate.com/s/2rt6
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
Ross Gardler
Jim Jagielski
Chris Mattmann
Brett Porter
Sam Ruby
Greg Stein
Directors Absent:
none
Executive Officers Present:
Craig L Russell
Executive Officers Absent:
none
Guests:
Jake Farrell
Daniel Gruno
Sean Kelly
Shane Curcuru
Hadrian Zbarcea
David Nalley
Henri Yandell
Tom Pappas (Virtual)
Marvin Humphrey
3. Minutes from previous meetings
Published minutes can be found at:
http://www.apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html
A. The meeting of November 19, 2014
See: board_minutes_2014_11_19.txt
Approved by General Consent.
4. Executive Officer Reports
A. Chairman [Brett]
Nothing specific to report this month.
B. President [Ross]
A very busy month, on many fronts. Apologies for the late filing. I'm trying
to catch up. Here's the High and Low lights.
EA has been chugging along ensuring we keep things moving. In her report
Melissa indicates getting the Credit Cards has proven problematic. This
morning I have had notification from her that Tom (Virtual) has indicated we
should expect the cards in 7-10 days.
TAC is wrapping up the EU activities and ramping up on the US activities. All
is well.
Trademarks has been busy evaluating the need to protect the ApacheCon
conference from conflicting events organized by third parties. After some long
(and often repetitive) debates an agreeable solution was found. Shane has now
encoded the details in our event policy. However, I note the whole exercise
will be have been pointless if we don't actually enforce it Relating to this
the lack of any clarity around what a "blackout date" period is could cause
problems should we ever wish to enforce those blackouts. While there is a
little more clarity the current policy and MOU is still unclear.
The trademark report also indicates there is a new trademark request relating
to a training certification program. I am unaware of the details but note that
Shane invites input on the trademarks list (and draw attention to the phrase
"charging fees" in this context).
Upayavira has finally hung up his hat over at Fundraising (though he's still
helping with the transition). Jim and Hadrian have been in office for a month
and the renewed (and doubled) energy is bearing fruit. See below for a little
more on fundraising.
Marketing has completed the usual activities (see report). In addition Sally
is putting together the initial quarterly report. The first version of which
will be retroactive in nature, but see below for further discussion. Sally is
also working with Hadrian to send out "thank you" messages during the holiday
season. Finally, I have asked Sally to work with me in crafting media campaign
focusing on the ASF as a place for "Innovation and Collaboration" this will
run prior to ApacheCon US and will be crafted to focus on a track I am
chairing at the event. Note, this will not be an ApacheCon marketing campaign,
it is an Apache Software Foundation campaign but will be designed to both
ride-on and add-to the ApacheCon wave. It is early days (with only a handful
of email exchanges at this point) so early feedback is on the high level
messaging is welcome.
Infrastructure, oh Infrastructure. Last month I took great pleasure in
reporting that the team had had lots of opportunity to pay off significant
technical debt. Not so this month (although progress is still being made).
I want to recognize that the infrastructure team responded extremely well to
three significant outages. Whilst it would be good to have no outages (see
technical debt) it is pleasing to see the team increasingly working as a team
in the face of these outages. Full details of the outages are in the infra
report all that we need here is for me to thank the team for "going the extra
mile" to minimize impact on our projects.
Greg has made some progress on the "contractors vs employees" solution, though
as I understand it he has nothing significant to report at this point. I'll
leave any fuller report to Greg.
Lastly, as previously reported, VP Infra is keen to have a longer term view of
where the ASF is heading so that he can make appropriate planning decisions.
EVP arranged a two hour meeting involving VP Infra, VPs Fundraising, EVP,
myself and the Chair in order to have an initial discussion about this. This
was largely a brainstorming meeting. We focused mostly on how to properly plan
for the consistent growth the ASF has been seen for a number of years (1.5 new
projects per month with increasingly varied infra requirements) and how to
ensure fundraising can provide income to support those plans. There were also
some discussions about how to manage community growth and health across ASF
projects, however given that those in the meeting were wearing their
Presidents Committee hats these topics were not discussed in detail.
Extensive notes were taken and will be shared in the raw form upon request.
However, I would suggest that what is really important at this point is the
immediate action items. The most important at this time (from a board
perspective) is a suggestion to implement the budget planning adjustment
suggested by some directors last year. That is to move out the budget planning
so that our budget cycle falls six months after the board elections.
If the board are agreeable this will mean that the next budget for approval
(May 1st) will be for eighteen months with the incoming board reviewing and
potentially revising after the first six months. Subsequent budget cycles will
be 12 months and will be set in the middle of the board term. I invite early
feedback on this suggestion.
If implemented this means the budget planning cycle will be:
- Jan 2015 - Categorization of Infra services according to level of importance
to our projects
- Feb 2015 - Call to all committees for budget requests
- March 2015 - Draft budget for board feedback
- April 2015 - Approval of budget by the board
- September 2015 - Revision of budget if necessary
In parallel to this I propose to deliver, in partnership with VP Infra and VPs
Fundraising a longer term (5 years), though less detailed, plan. The goal here
will be to provide VP Infra with enough clarity to prioritize effectively
whilst also giving the board an opportunity to review regularly. I propose
that this longer term plan be approved alongside the budget as outlined above.
I invite the board to provide initial feedback during the meeting but intend
to raise this on the board@ mailing list shortly after the meeting.
Additionally, please see Attachments 1 through 6.
Shane: We need the concept of "blackout dates" in the
contracts even without being explicit. Still in process.
C. Treasurer [Chris]
The Treasurer’s office continues to work with Virtual to get the
corporate credit cards up and running. A few more forms needed to
be filled out and signed and we are awaiting the cards from Citizen’s
Bank at this point.
Chris and Tom Pappas from Virtual had a call to go over some
outstanding loose ends and information to get the 990 process shored
up. We are on track to get it filed on time with Virtual and the
CPA. The President also assisted in this process by signing the
engagement forms for the 990 to be completed by the CPA and Virtual.
Income and Expenses for November 2014 CASH BASIS
Current Balances:
Citizens Checking $195,676
Amazon- ASF Payments $16,359
Paypal - ASF $40,976
Wells Fargo Checking - ASF $907,279
Wells Fargo Savings $288,103
Total Checking/Savings $1,448,392
Income Summary:
Public Donations $2,160 Amazon and Paypal
Sponsorship Program $80,000
Interest Income $24
Total Income $82,183
Expense Summary:
Infrastructure $29,200
Sponsorship Program $-
Programs Expense $-
Publicity $13,137
Brand Management $279
Conferences $-
Travel Assistance Committee $-
Treasury Services $2,850
General & Administrative $10,221
Total Expense $55,688
Net Income $26,495
D. Secretary [Craig]
The errors in the computer program that prepares incoming documents for
processing by the secretary continued to impact timely receipt and
acknowledgement of documents. The problem appears to have been resolved.
In November, 85 iclas, 11 cclas, and four grants were received and
acknowledged.
E. Executive Vice President [Rich]
We are in the ramp-up phase for ApacheCon North America, and
I'm trying to gather a group of track chairs to shepherd
content based on topic rather than specific project, as this
makes it a lot easier to get people to attend. We are also
trying to identify possible keynote speakers. Brian Behlendorf
has confirmed that he will be keynoting. I'm also trying to
contact as many of the early httpd crowd as possible to come
celebrate httpd's 20th birthday. Brian is being very helpful
with this.
There has been discussion (as you will see in other reports)
on the Trademarks list about event MOUs and blackout windows,
and, for my part, I've been working with LF to encourage
earlier planning, so that the blackout window becomes less of
a big deal. Specifically, we're going to do our best to
announce 2016 locations and dates at ApacheCon Austin. I don't
yet know if this is actually feasible.
F. Vice Chairman [Greg]
I have started work on the contractor issue, but have nothing
to report at this time.
Executive officer reports approved as submitted by General Consent.
5. Additional Officer Reports
A. VP of W3C Relations [Andy Seaborne / Chris]
See Attachment 7
B. Apache Legal Affairs Committee [Jim Jagielski]
See Attachment 8
C. Apache Security Team Project [Mark Cox / Rich]
See Attachment 9
Additional officer reports approved as submitted by General Consent.
6. Committee Reports
A. Apache Abdera Project [Ant Elder / Greg]
No report was submitted.
B. Apache Allura Project [Dave Brondsema / Jim]
See Attachment B
C. Apache Ant Project [Conor MacNeill / Bertrand]
No report was submitted.
D. Apache Any23 Project [Lewis John McGibbney / Ross]
See Attachment D
E. Apache APR Project [Jeff Trawick / Doug]
See Attachment E
F. Apache Archiva Project [Olivier Lamy / Sam]
See Attachment F
G. Apache Axis Project [Deepal Jayasinghe / Brett]
No report was submitted.
@Brett: pursue a report for Axis
H. Apache Bigtop Project [Konstantin Boudnik / Brett]
See Attachment H
I. Apache Bloodhound Project [Gary Martin / Chris]
See Attachment I
J. Apache BookKeeper Project [Ivan Kelly / Greg]
See Attachment J
K. Apache BVal Project [Matt Benson / Sam]
See Attachment K
L. Apache Camel Project [Christian Mueller / Rich]
See Attachment L
M. Apache Cayenne Project [Andrus Adamchik / Ross]
See Attachment M
N. Apache Chemistry Project [Florian Müller / Bertrand]
See Attachment N
O. Apache CloudStack Project [Hugo Trippaers / Doug]
See Attachment O
P. Apache Commons Project [Gary Gregory / Jim]
See Attachment P
Q. Apache Cordova Project [Shazron Abdullah / Chris]
See Attachment Q
R. Apache cTAKES Project [Pei J Chen / Greg]
See Attachment R
S. Apache Curator Project [Jordan Zimmerman / Rich]
No report was submitted.
T. Apache DeviceMap Project [Reza Naghibi / Ross]
See Attachment T
U. Apache DirectMemory Project [Raffaele P. Guidi / Sam]
See Attachment U
@Sam: Follow up with a more complete report next month
V. Apache Drill Project [Jacques Nadeau / Bertrand]
See Attachment V
W. Apache Felix Project [Carsten Ziegeler / Brett]
See Attachment W
X. Apache Flex Project [Alex Harui / Jim]
See Attachment X
Y. Apache Giraph Project [Avery Ching / Doug]
See Attachment Y
Z. Apache Gump Project [Stefan Bodewig / Brett]
See Attachment Z
AA. Apache Helix Project [Kishore Gopalakrishna / Rich]
See Attachment AA
AB. Apache Hive Project [Carl Steinbach / Jim]
See Attachment AB
AC. Apache Incubator Project [Roman Shaposhnik / Chris]
See Attachment AC
A number of podlings have mentors who appear not to be
actively monitoring. There are many podlings whose mentors
have not signed off on their reports.
@Rich: Discuss these concerns with Incubator chair
AD. Apache Jackrabbit Project [Michael Dürig / Doug]
See Attachment AD
AE. Apache Karaf Project [Jean-Baptiste Onofré / Sam]
See Attachment AE
AF. Apache Labs Project [Tim Williams / Greg]
No report was submitted.
AG. Apache Lucene Project [Mark Miller / Ross]
See Attachment AG
AH. Apache Lucene.Net Project [Prescott Nasser / Bertrand]
See Attachment AH
@Ross: Discuss with comdev how to get projects to engage with
them more
AI. Apache MetaModel Project [Kasper Sørensen / Sam]
See Attachment AI
AJ. Apache MRUnit Project [Brock Noland / Greg]
No report was submitted.
@Greg: pursue a report for MRUnit
AK. Apache OFBiz Project [Jacopo Cappellato / Jim]
See Attachment AK
AL. Apache Olingo Project [Christian Amend / Rich]
See Attachment AL
AM. Apache OODT Project [Sean Kelly / Ross]
See Attachment AM
@Ross: Bring statistics in line with reporting period
AN. Apache OpenJPA Project [Pinaki Poddar / Brett]
See Attachment AN
AO. Apache OpenNLP Project [Joern Kottmann / Chris]
See Attachment AO
@Chris: Discuss leaving out individual names from reports
AP. Apache OpenWebBeans Project [Mark Struberg / Doug]
See Attachment AP
AQ. Apache Perl Project [Philippe M. Chiasson / Bertrand]
See Attachment AQ
AR. Apache Pig Project [Cheolsoo Park / Sam]
See Attachment AR
AS. Apache Pivot Project [Roger Whitcomb / Ross]
See Attachment AS
AT. Apache POI Project [Yegor Kozlov / Brett]
See Attachment AT
AU. Apache Portals Project [David Sean Taylor / Jim]
See Attachment AU
AV. Apache ServiceMix Project [Gert Vanthienen / Greg]
See Attachment AV
AW. Apache Shiro Project [Les Hazlewood / Bertrand]
See Attachment AW
AX. Apache Sling Project [Carsten Ziegeler / Chris]
See Attachment AX
AY. Apache SpamAssassin Project [Kevin A. McGrail / Rich]
See Attachment AY
AZ. Apache Stanbol Project [Fabian Christ / Doug]
See Attachment AZ
BA. Apache Storm Project [P. Taylor Goetz / Brett]
See Attachment BA
BB. Apache Synapse Project [Hiranya Jayathilaka / Doug]
See Attachment BB
@Brett: Discuss how to work with Axis to make a release
BC. Apache Tajo Project [Hyunsik Choi / Jim]
See Attachment BC
BD. Apache Tiles Project [Greg Reddin / Sam]
No report was submitted.
BE. Apache Tomcat Project [Mladen Turk / Greg]
No report was submitted.
BF. Apache Tuscany Project [Jean-Sebastien Delfino / Rich]
No report was submitted.
BG. Apache UIMA Project [Marshall Schor / Ross]
See Attachment BG
BH. Apache VCL Project [Andy Kurth / Bertrand]
See Attachment BH
BI. Apache Whirr Project [Andrew Bayer / Chris]
No report was submitted.
BJ. Apache Wicket Project [Martijn Dashorst / Ross]
See Attachment BJ
@Ross: Discuss the "fork me" banner issue with the project
after discussion with members
BK. Apache Wink Project [Luciano Resende / Jim]
No report was submitted.
@Jim: pursue a report for Wink
BL. Apache ZooKeeper Project [Flavio Junqueira / Chris]
See Attachment BL
Committee reports approved as submitted by General Consent.
7. Special Orders
A. Establish the Apache Falcon 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 Big Data management platform
covering data pipelines, data motion, data lifecycle management, data
discovery & governance.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management Committee
(PMC), to be known as the "Apache Falcon Project", be and hereby is
established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the Apache Falcon Project be and hereby is responsible
for the creation and maintenance of software related to a Big Data
management platform covering data pipelines, data motion, data
lifecycle management, data discovery & governance; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache Falcon" 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 Falcon
Project, and to have primary responsibility for management of the
projects within the scope of responsibility of the Apache Falcon
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 Falcon
Project:
* Amareshwari Sriramadasu <amareshwari@apache.org>
* Arpit Gupta <arpit@apache.org>
* Jean-Baptiste Onofre <jbonofre@apache.org>
* Raghav Kumar Gautam <raghav@apache.org>
* Rishu Mehrotra <rishumehrothra@apache.org>
* Ruslan Ostafiychuk <rostafiychuk@apache.org>
* Samarth Gupta <samarthg@apache.org>
* Sanjay Radia <sradia@apache.org>
* Shaik Idris <shaikidris@apache.org>
* Sharad Agarwal <sharad@apache.org>
* Shwetha GS <shwethags@apache.org>
* Srikanth Sundarrajan <sriksun@apache.org>
* Suhas Vasu <suhasv@apache.org>
* Venkatesh Seetharam <venkatesh@apache.org>
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Srikanth Sundarrajan be
appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Falcon, 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 Falcon 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 Falcon Project;
and be it further
RESOLVED, that the Apache Falcon Project be and hereby is tasked with
the migration and rationalization of the Apache Incubator Falcon
podling; and be it further
RESOLVED, that all responsibilities pertaining to the Apache
Incubator Falcon podling encumbered upon the Apache Incubator Project
are hereafter discharged.
Special Order 7A, Establish the Apache Falcon Project, was
approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
B. Establish the Apache Flink Project
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors deems it to be in the best
interests of the Foundation and consistent with the
Foundation's purpose to establish a Project Management
Committee charged with the creation and maintenance of
open-source software, for distribution at no charge to
the public, related to fast and reliable large-scale data
analysis with focus on programmability, optimizability,
efficiency, and combination of batch and streaming data
processing.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management
Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Apache Flink Project",
be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the
Foundation; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the Apache Flink Project be and hereby is
responsible for the creation and maintenance of software
related to fast and reliable large-scale data analysis
with focus on programmability, optimizability, efficiency,
and combination of batch and streaming data processing;
and be it further
RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache Flink" 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 Flink Project, and to have primary responsibility
for management of the projects within the scope of
responsibility of the Apache Flink 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 Flink Project:
* Márton Balassi <mbalassi@apache.org>
* Ufuk Celebi <uce@apache.org>
* Stephan Ewen <sewen@apache.org>
* Gyula Fora <gyfora@apache.org>
* Alan Gates <gates@apache.org>
* Fabian Hueske <fhueske@apache.org>
* Vasiliki Kalavri <vasia@apache.org>
* Aljoscha Krettek <aljoscha@apache.org>
* Robert Metzger <rmetzger@apache.org>
* Till Rohrmann <trohrmann@apache.org>
* Henry Saputra <hsaputra@apache.org>
* Sebastian Schelter <ssc@apache.org>
* Kostas Tzoumas <ktzoumas@apache.org>
* Timo Walther <twalthr@apache.org>
* Daniel Warneke <warneke@apache.org>
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Stephan Ewen
be appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Flink, 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 Flink 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 Flink Project; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the Apache Flink Project be and hereby
is tasked with the migration and rationalization of the Apache
Incubator Flink podling; and be it further
RESOLVED, that all responsibilities pertaining to the Apache
Incubator Flink podling encumbered upon the Apache Incubator
Project are hereafter discharged.
Special Order 7B, Establish the Apache Flink Project , was
approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
C. Change the Apache Nutch Project Chair
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Julien Nioche
to the office of Vice President, Apache Nutch, and
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the
resignation of Julien Nioche from the office of Vice President,
Apache Nutch, and
WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache
Nutch project has chosen by vote to recommend Sebastian Nagel
as the successor to the post;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Julien Nioche is relieved
and discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office
of Vice President, Apache Nutch, and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Sebastian Nagel be and
hereby is appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Nutch, to
serve in accordance with and subject to the direction of the
Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until
death, resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification, or
until a successor is appointed.
Special Order 7C, Change the Apache Nutch Project Chair, was
approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
8. Discussion Items
9. Review Outstanding Action Items
* Brett: Remind PMCs to report on dates
Status: still to reach out based on updated guidelines
* Greg: Any info about the community? [ ACE ]
Status:
* Chris: The report identifies a problem with no resolution... [ Deltacloud ]
Status:
* Chris: Please clarify what "voted on" means [ James ]
Status:
* Chris: Is PMC member discussion still ongoing? [ JMeter ]
Status:
* Chris: Clarify volunteer comment. [ Tcl ]
Status:
* Jim: send message to all PMCs re: health of projects, new committers,
new PMC members
Status: Ready to go out.
* Rich: work with PMC to help resolve conflicts [ Flex ]
Status:
* Chris: does the project have enough committers to make releases? [ BVal ]
Status:
* Greg: the report states a problem but no plan to address it [ Deltacloud ]
Status:
* Sam: follow up with PMC for clarification on the relationship
between the addons and the project [ Isis ]
Status:
* Greg: find out if TCK is holding up progress [ MyFaces ]
Status:
* Chris: need more detail in the report; seems like a cut/paste from
previous reports [ OpenJPA ]
Status:
* Sam: pursue a report for Abdera
Status:
* Chris: pursue a report for DirectMemory
Status:
* Chris: Summarize comments and follow on the dev list. [ Lenya ]
Status:
* Bertrand: follow up on the WeNeedYou page issues. [ OpenMeetings ]
Status: done - the http://openmeetings.apache.org/WeNeedYou.html page
was gone before I contacted the PMC, removed in
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1642041
* Jim: pursue a report for Perl
Status:
* Rich: Ping them to make sure they've got enough people active. [ Velocity ]
Status:
* Rich: pursue a report for Giraph
Status:
* Doug: pursue a report for Tuscany
Status: I sent them a note last month but heard nothing
back. Rich sent them another note yesterday.
10. Unfinished Business
11. New Business
12. Announcements
13. Adjournment
Adjourned at 11:34 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/Virtual:
• Work still continues with Virtual re credit cards. Citizens requested
additional paperwork/ID from Chris two weeks ago, which was provided. Virtual
is doing their part – Citizens needs to step up and get the cards issued!
• Spoke with Tom and Lynsey on 12.11 re the cc situation. Tom will be on the
board call and will answer any questions.
• The credit card situation has gone on WAY TOO LONG, and we need a resolution
– we need credit cards in hand. No more excuses, let’s get it done.
• As of this writing, the sponsorship payments received since the last Board
Report are: $20k WANdisco (re-instated sponsorship); $50k Comcast; and $10k
Cerner – final installment (upgraded from Bronze and paid six months early!).
• CRM for Fundraising – should have a proposal within a week from Hot Wax
Media with their recommendation (they’ve been busy with traveling to/from
India, Thanksgiving, etc.).
• Fundraising up-to-date at the moment; Jim and Hadrian transitioning into
their roles like pros! ApacheCon Europe:
• TAC: Final hotel bill (436,48 EUR) received on 12.2 – sent to Accounting
for payment
• ACEU was a huge success – thanks to Rich for all of his hard work!! As
always, I had a lot of traffic at the booth! Everyone that I spoke with
thoroughly enjoyed the conference and the giveaways!
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Attachment 2: Report from the VP of Brand Management [Shane Curcuru]
Updated large scale event MOU with feedback from counsel and many trademark
perspectives. Renewed existing Hadoop-related MOU with updated terms.
Updated the event policy with clarifications for blackout dates and trademark
attributions.
A third party is requesting trademark permissions to use an Apache project
logo for their training certification program. Starting the process of
working with counsel to come up with a workable way to grant permissions.
Feedback on our approach - charging fees, other requirements - appreciated on
trademarks@.
Several projects and members commented on the Corporate Recognition Best
Practices, which is helpful both to better explain the practices as well as
get feedback on more real-world applications of these type of guidelines for
Apache projects.
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Attachment 3: Report from the VP of Fundraising [Upayavira]
The transition from Upayavira to Hadrian and Jim is progressing. Already
we have reached out to present (and potential) sponsors about the change.
There were some hiccups during the transition, but nothing of importance.
Hadrian is looking at ways to attract new sponsors and how we could run
fundraising campaigns. Hadrian reviewed the fundraising@ threads for the
past year and there are some good proposals we need to act on. Cleaning
up our "Thanks" page is an example. Sally and Hadrian worked on a
Holiday Thanks card project. We expect to send a digital Thank You cards
to all sponsors this week.
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Attachment 4: Report from the VP of Marketing and Publicity [Sally Khudairi]
I. Budget: there are no payments due at this time. Sally Khudairi is reviewing
the mid-year budget to ensure that we are on track for the second half of the
Fiscal Year.
II. Fundraising/Branding/Marketing liaison: Sally is working with Fundraising
on developing quarterly reports, as well as holiday communications. She
continues to liaise with Trademarks & Brand Management with usage requests.
III. Press Releases: the following formal announcements were issued via the
newswire service, ASF Foundation Blog, and announce@apache.org during this
timeframe:
- 09 December 2014 --The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache™
MetaModel™ as a Top-Level Project
- 02 December 2014 --The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache™ Drill™
as a Top-Level Project
- 19 November 2014 --The Apache Software Foundation Celebrates 15 Years of
Open Source Innovation and Community Leadership
- 17 November 2014 --Apache CouchDB™ Adds Clustering and Big Data
Capabilities With 2.0 Developer Preview Release of Its Popular NoSQL
Database
- 12 November 2014 --The ASF @ 15 -- Community Over Code
IV. Informal Announcements: 11 items were tweeted on @TheASF. Sally continues
to publish a weekly "News Roundup" of news items sent to announce@apache.org,
announce@apachecon.com, and items of interest to the Apache community. 12
weekly summaries have been issued thus far.
V. Future Announcements: no official announcements are in development. Those
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 4 media requests, and proactively reached
out to 13 journalists regarding misinformation communicated about a new
podling that entered the Apache Incubator. Sally met with the heads of
communications of the organization behind the podling submission, as well as a
company based on an Apache project regarding their communications plan for
their upcoming IPO this month. We have established an editorial framework and
publishing process for Apache blog contributions to OpenSource.com. The ASF
received 2,271 press clips over this time period, vs. last month's clip count
of 2,799.
VII. Analyst Relations: we responded to 3 analyst queries. Apache was
mentioned in 2 write-ups by Gartner, 2 reports by Forrester, 9 write-up by
GigaOM, 6 reports by 451 Research/Yankee Group, and 5 reports by IDC.
Forrester issued their vendor report on private Cloud software, with Apache
CloudStack correctly represented.
VIII. ApacheCon liaison: Sally is working with Ross on creating an ASF-wide
marketing campaign that can be mapped against the tracks at ApacheCon.
IX. (Non-ASF) Industry Events and Outreach liaison: none at this time.
X. Newswire accounts: we have 31 pre-paid press releases with NASDAQ
GlobeNewswire through the end of 2016, and continue to receive gratis news
release distribution in the UK by Pressat.
# # #
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Attachment 5: Report from the VP of Infrastructure [David Nalley]
New Karma:
==========
Andrew Bayer was added to root@
Finances:
==========
$758.48 Windows License
$761.27 Replacement Harddrives
$1607.78 Service contracts
$1247.95 AWS
Operations Action Items:
========================
n/a
Short Term Priorities:
======================
Codesigning:
------------
A number of projects inquired about codesigning at ApacheCon with
intent to sign up and request access to codesigning.
In the last 30 days no releases have been signed.
Machine deprecation:
--------------------
The failure of the machine underlying the SVN master has caused some
reprioritization of work and evaluating our older physical machines
for the important services that run there. There is ongoing work to
relocate the writable git service as well as the Bugzilla machines off
of the rapidly aging hardware.
Long Range Priorities:
======================
Monitoring
----------
Work continues on monitoring, with several advances being made
The first is work with collectd that is being deployed to all of
our puppetized-machines. This gives us insight into performance metrics
of the machine. Additionally, we've managed to get Dell's OMSA platform
for monitoring the underlying hardware deployed to a number of physical
hosts. This information is being utilized to monitor for things like
failed disks, failed power supplies, and see other overall health
information like ambient and internal temperatures.
We've gotten a platform that integrates PagerDuty, Hipchat, and email
alerts for our Dell physical hardware that has OMSA installed.
You can see the code here:
https://github.com/humbedooh/dsnmp
We are also expanding the radius of hardware notifications from root@
to infrastructure-private. All of this while reducing that down to a
single email per day.
Automation
----------
We continue to make large steps forward in our automation efforts.
The following services are now in configuration management. Several other
are currently in progress.
rsync.apache.org
Git mirrors
Subversion master
status.a.o website
Additionally, some of our work from last months' work around
getting the webserver into configuration management has been
adopted upstream.
https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-apache/pull/939
Resilience
---------
We now have a second critical service that we have the ability to
easily replicate and redeploy.
Technical Debt
--------------
We are encountering lots of touchpoints that are tied to specific
machine names, specific file locations on specific machines and
a large chunk of our time is spent in having to decouple this.
General Activity:
=================
This month has been extraordinarily taxing on Infrastructure, with
three large outages or service degradations occurring following
ApacheCon.
Several volunteers and contractors traveled to Budapest to attend
ApacheConEU. In addition to a dedicated track around Infrastructure,
an Infra hackfest table was manned where folks could come and ask
questions or get help. Many folks took advantage of this.
While at ApacheConEU, a number of volunteers and contractors met with
folks from OpenOffice to talk about existing and future needs.
Details of this meeting can be seen in Andrea Pescetti's notes:
http://s.apache.org/aooinframeetingreport
Git mirroring (including git mirroring to github) suffered some disruption
immediately following ApacheConEU. The 6+ year old machine that the
service was running on was shared with 3 project zones, and as the number
of git mirrors has increased over time, service delays began increasing
to the point that the service was non-functional. Initial attempts to
restore service on machine were not successful over the long term and we
ended up moving the service off of the affected host and into AWS. The
underlying machine that the service was running on has been deprecated. We
have sent the projects with zones there notice that we plan to shut down
the machine in the not too distant future. We have begun organizing
replacement resources in lieu of the Solaris zones.
The machine that ran the Foundation's SVN master suffered an outage caused
by a failure of the root filesystem array. The initial public reporting
is at:
https://blogs.apache.org/infra/entry/subversion_master_undergoing_emergency_maintenance
The post-mortem report from this event is at:
https://blogs.apache.org/infra/entry/svn_service_outage_postmortem
We were able to resurrect the service on new hardware with the
configuration residing completely in configuration management. This should
minimize the time to recovery for future issues.
The recovery took approximately 2 days to complete.
We suffered a loss of all network connectivity to services in our colo facility
at Oregon State University Open Source Lab on 10 December. The outage lasted
almost 2 hours. We are still working with OSUOSL, OSU, and NERO to figure out
what happened. A redundant (but disabled) network link was activated to
bring us back online.
While monitoring the newly provisioned webserver, we discovered that
Cassandra is pointing users to a .deb package repository on the main
webservers instead of utilizing the mirrors, as package repositories
won't function with our current mirror offering. After some analysis
we found that this package repository was the source of 15% of all
traffic hitting our webservers. Our initial thought was to block
that traffic. Doing so would have had a large impact on folks. We
are currently researching options to provide package repositories
so as to remove that load from our main webservers.
Uptime Statistics:
==================
Unfortunately, uptime for critical services this month saw a sharp decline due
to the subversion outage. Also affecting uptime was the brief network outage on
December 10/11, as well as the migration of the git mirrors to a new location.
Overall, due to all other services behaving exemplary, we did experience a
slight increase in overall uptime by 0.03% compared to previous months. Thus,
the total recorded uptime for 2014 (weeks 27 through 50) is as follows:
Type: Target: Reality: Target Met:
---------------------------------------------------------
Critical services: 99.50% 99.84% Yes
Core services: 99.00% 99.77% Yes
Standard services: 95.00% 98.38% Yes
---------------------------------------------------------
Overall: 98.00% 99.39% Yes
---------------------------------------------------------
For details on each service as well as average response times, see
http://s.apache.org/uptime
Contractor Details:
===================
Geoffrey Corey:
- Resolved 37 JIRA tickets
- Worked on completing the steps to graduate 4 projects to TLPs
- First round of On-Call duties
- Rename argus podling to ranger
- Coordinate with OSUOSL to replace disk in Tethys
- Coordinate with Henk P. to migrate rsync.apache.org us host off eos and
onto the AWS TLP server
- clean TLP off eos to help recover disk space
- Clean up lingering details with TLP/dist and rsync being migrated off eos
- Helped in various ways to restore svn master after the failure of eris
Daniel Gruno:
- Helped to restore the subversion master after the failure had occurred
- Worked on implementing more extensive SNMP monitoring of capable (mostly
puppetized) hosts
- Moved git.apache.org off the aging Solaris box and onto a new puppetized VM
- Tweaked svn/git-to-github syncing process to cut down execution time from
2 hours to 8 minutes
- Helped clean up some TLP snafus in relation to bringing svn templates to git.
- Various on-call duties
- Resolved 35 JIRA tickets since last report
- Fixed various rendering issues with status.apache.org by using asynchronous
calls
Chris Lambertus:
- Resolved 9 Jira tickets
- Helped to restore the subversion master after the failure had occurred
- On-call duties
- fixed FUB VPN and rebuilt oceanus as cloudstack testbed
- resolved ongoing issues with secmail.py
- resolved major outage due to eirene vmware network failure
- resolved nightly backup problems with several hosts
- ongoing prototyping and evaluation of "enterprise" backup solutions
- troubleshooting assistance with TLP/git/svn puppet migrations and service
configs
- documented nexus project creation process
- ongoing addition of hardware to Dell OME, acquisition of windows license
to make this a complete service
Tony Stevenson:
- Worked on the restoration of SVN master, including moving to Ubuntu and
puppet
- Started work on moving the git-wip-us service off of again baldr onto a
Ubuntu VM.
- Various on call activities
- Attended Apachecon, where we had several infra sessions and an Infra
meetup on the Sunday following the conf.
- Worked on several JIRA issues and some longer term background activities
like host patching.
- Conducted the SVN master post-mortem exercise
- Writing and updates of puppet modules to continue to make them platform
agnostic
Gavin McDonald:
- Worked on 75 Jira Tickets, closing 57.
- Infra commits SVN - 33
- On Call duties.
- Work with new contractors on various issues.
- Updating non puppet VMs/Machines for security updates.
- More work on reducing cron mails
- Work started on archive logging for HipChat
- Restored SVN to Buildbot Hooks mechanism after the move.
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Attachment 6: Report from the Apache Travel Assistance Committee [Gavin McDonald]
The Apache Travel Assistance Committee assisted 12 people in attending
ApacheCon Europe 2014 in Budapest. These were drawn from 9 different
countries, predominantly Europe, but with a few coming in from further
afield where their project(s) are strongly Europe focused and there was lots
for their project at the conference.
Questionnaires have been sent out to all attendees, and responses have now
been received from all. General feedback was positive, and Jan has kindly
agreed to sumarise them, hopefully for next month's report. We'll also try
to pull out some quotes for Sally. Feedback on the process is being fed into
the Austin planning.
We're still awaiting Virtual sending out the remaining wires for Budapest
costs. Once those have gone, we can finalise the Budapest costs in USD
(remaining costs are fixed in other currencies), and report. It's expected
to be slightly higher than originally planned, in large part because we
planned with hotel costs we thought was VAT inclusive but which turned out
to be ex-VAT. Still in budget though! We've learnt lessons on this for
Austin.
Applications for Austin have opened, and we've worked with Sally and PMCs to
get the word out. We have plans for additional publicity during the
applications period. Following some progress improvements agreed after
Budapest, we've been able to shorten the normal time period to fit with the
later-than-normal CPF close. We have enough committee members signed up to
cover all roles for Austin, with a little slack.
One person resigned from the committee after Budapest. We're very glad for
all Tony's hard work for TAC!
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Attachment 7: Report from the VP of W3C Relations [Andy Seaborne]
There is an election for participation (by individuals) in the W3C
Technical Architecture Group. Voting closes end 2015-01-08.
-----------------------------------------
Attachment 8: Report from the Apache Legal Affairs Committee [Jim Jagielski]
I presented at the Practicing Law Institute (PLI) last week during
their "Open Source" training session; my topic was related to open
source communities. There were also other topics regarding patents,
ethics, etc that were useful and interesting.
Nothing at this time for board action.
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Attachment 9: Report from the Apache Security Team Project [Mark Cox]
There continues to be a steady stream of reports of various kinds
arriving at security@. These continue to be dealt with by the security
team.
November 2014
1 Security vulnerability question, but not a vulnerability report
6 Vulnerability reports to security@apache.org
2 [httpd]
1 [site] rejected
1 [xerces]
1 [trafficserver]
1 [tomcat]
7 Vulnerability reports to projects own security lists
2 [struts]
2 [oo]
1 [couchdb]
1 [cloudstack]
1 [spamassassin]
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Attachment A: Report from the Apache Abdera Project [Ant Elder]
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Attachment B: Report from the Apache Allura Project [Dave Brondsema]
Apache Allura is an open source implementation of a software forge, a web site
that manages source code repositories, bug reports, discussions, wiki pages,
blogs, and more for any number of individual projects.
Project Status
--------------
No issues needing board attention. We would like to attract more
contributors, and we're working on getting into a more frequent release cycle
which may help.
Community
---------
* Latest committer & PMC member added in Oct 2014
* Ongoing tickets & commits from the active developers.
* A few email discussions with Allura users / deployers.
Community Objectives
--------------------
We completed the move of tickets from SourceForge to the Allura self-hosted
site.
We would like to find and encourage new contributors to Allura. We also want
to explore if other Apache projects would be interested in using Allura.
Releases
--------
Last release was Feb 2014. We are working on one blocker and then will
proceed with a new release.
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Attachment C: Report from the Apache Ant Project [Conor MacNeill]
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Attachment D: Report from the Apache Any23 Project [Lewis John McGibbney]
Anything To Triples (Any23) is a library, a web service and a command line
tool that extracts structured data in RDF format from a variety of Web
documents.
Project Releases
The last release of Any23 (1.1) was on 16-Oct-2014.
Overall Project Activity since last report
Project activity has been reasonably slow however this is nothing new
for Any23 generally.
Work is nearly complete on the Any23 plugin for Apache Nutch trunk codebase
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NUTCH-1129
Additionally Any23 has featured in a number of recent presentations at
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory where the software is being evaluated
for use within the Systems Engineering domain.
How has the community developed since the last report?
Since the Any23 1.0 release the release management process has included
emailing the announcement to a number of very active W3C lists. The
intention here is to interest other developers and build the Any23 community
further. This strategy is gathering traction, usually with activity immediately
after the last two Any23 releases.
http://any23.apache.org/release-howto.html#Announce_the_Release
Any23 received contributions in the form of the donation of both
any23.org and any23.com domain names. We thank Richard Cyganiak for the
contributions and also Infra for accepting them.
Changes to PMC & Committers
Stephane Corlosquet (scor) was added to the Any23 PMC on Tue, 19 Aug 2014 04:28:51 GMT.
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Attachment E: Report from the Apache APR Project [Jeff Trawick]
The Apache Portable Runtime (APR) project creates and maintains
software libraries that provide a predictable and consistent interface
to underlying platform-specific implementations. The sub-projects
which are released somewhat regularly are APR and APR-util. In addition,
the APR-iconv sub-project is commonly used but has not had a release
since 2007.
Releases
========
The project has not produced any releases this quarter. APR 1.5.1 was
released on April 21, 2014. APR-util 1.5.3 was released on November 18,
2013.
A maintenance release of APR is needed, and should be anticipated in
early 2015.
Community
=========
New PMC members: none
The last new PMC member was added in November of 2013.
New committers: none
The last two committers were added in June of 2014.
Six bugs were opened during the reporting period, with some sort
of developer followup (closure or discussion) on four bugs.
Mailing list activity has been the lightest in this quarter (thus far) as
in any quarter in the history of the project.
Development
===========
Nothing to report
Issues
======
There are no board-level issues at this time.
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Attachment F: Report from the Apache Archiva Project [Olivier Lamy]
Apache Archiva is an extensible repository management software that helps
taking care of your own personal or enterprise-wide build artifact
repository. It is the perfect companion for build tools such as Maven,
Continuum, and ANT.
Releases
--------
None since last report
Community
---------
We added a new committer: Sascha Voigt (17 July 2014)
We added a new PMC member: Jean-Baptiste Onofre (28 July 2014)
The new 2.x series releases tends to generate a bit more traffic mailing lists.
Development
-----------
On-going development is now geared towards the release of 2.2.x with
particular enhancements to LDAP support and fixing issues.
Issues
------
As some projects at Apache, Archiva was dependant on rsync services from people.a.o
to synchronize their Maven artifacts to Maven Central after a vote period based
on artifacts deployed to the Apache Archiva instance.
It looks to be now mandatory to use an external product call Nexus whereas Sonatype
still support this rsync synchronization.
Obviously the Archiva team will be happy to continue using his own dog food.
The issue has been reported here: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-8762
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Attachment G: Report from the Apache Axis Project [Deepal Jayasinghe]
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Attachment H: Report from the Apache Bigtop Project [Konstantin Boudnik]
Apache Bigtop is a software related to a system for integration,
packaging, deployment and validation of a big data management
software distribution based on Apache Hadoop.
RELEASES
* The last release of Apache Bigtop was version 0.8.0, released on Oct 5, 2014
* Bigtop 0.9.0 is the next release scheduled for Q1 of 2015, based on Hadoop 2.6
CURRENT ACTIVITY
* Development activity for 0.9.0 release continues as can be seen from the
following list:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?filter=12329840
(since last board report, Sep 2014)
* Community is working on next release, build system usability and product
testability
* The project has fully migrated away from make to Gradle build infrastructure
* Two new software components were added since last release: GridGain Hadoop
Accelerator, and Tachyon FS cache
* The project has presented a talk at ApacheCon Europe 2014
* We are working to put together Bigtop workshop at Scale 13x conference
COMMUNITY
* Project has grown with a few new contributors since last report
* No other changes in the community in this period
* Currently there are:
- Total of 118 subscribers to the developer list
- Total of 149 subscribers to the user list
- Total of 25 subscribers to the announce list
- Total of 26 committers
- Total of 21 PMC members
ISSUES
* There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
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Attachment I: Report from the Apache Bloodhound Project [Gary Martin]
Project Description
===================
Apache Bloodhound is a software development collaboration tool, including
issue tracking, wiki and repository browsing.
Issues
======
It is worth the board noting that there have been concerns raised about
the rate of development and the inability to create a release. While
there has since been a release, this is discussed below.
Releases
========
There has been one release over the last three months. The last releases
were:
* apache-bloodhound-0.6 (16th July 2013)
* apache-bloodhound-0.7 (23rd August 2013)
* apache-bloodhound-0.8 (11th December 2014)
Community & Development
=======================
No new committee members have been added this quarter. The last new
committee members to be added joined in January 2014. The last new
committers were added in May 2014 for the GSoC scheme.
Concerns have been raised on the private list about the rate of
development to the extent of a suggestion of moving the project to the
attic. This has not resulted in any great response but the reasons for
this are not clear. However, one outcome from this suggestion was that
a release was finally created and the vote passed smoothly.
It was also good to see demonstrations of continued interest from some
of the GSoC students.
It is clear that the rate of development has to increase again. Given
the recent progress, the situation will hopefully become clearer over
the next three to six months.
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Attachment J: Report from the Apache BookKeeper Project [Ivan Kelly]
Bookkeeper is a distributed, reliable, and high performance
logging service. The project also includes Hedwig which is
a highly scalable Pub/Sub service built on top of ZooKeeper
and Bookkeeper with strong durability guarantees.
= Project Status =
Since becoming TLP (2014-11-19), focus has been on getting our
new infrastructure set up. There were some delays in getting the
mailing list up and running, but it's all resolved now. Subsequently,
everything that depended on the mailing lists was delayed. We are
current voting on a set of bylaws.
Development work has been low over the last month, but a lot of work
has been done to improve the documentation and accessibility of the
project (new website, new client tutorial, etc).
= Releases =
Our last release was 4.3.0, released on 2014-10-14. We are
currently in the process of voting for a release plan for 4.3.1 and
4.2.4.
= Community Status =
There have been no committers added since we became TLP (2014-11-19).
The last committer added, when we were a subproject, was Rakesh
Radhakrishnan on 24th July 2014.
50 subscribers in dev@bookkeeper.apache.org
66 subscribers in user@bookkeeper.apache.org
811 issues opened to date, 34 since 2014-10-01
556 issues resolved to date, 14 since 2014-10-01
50 people have reported issues, 9 since 2014-10-01
24 people have contributed patches, 6 since 2014-10-01
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Attachment K: Report from the Apache BVal Project [Matt Benson]
The Apache BVal project implements the Java EE Bean Validation specification(s)
and related extensions, and became a top-level project of the foundation on
February 15, 2012.
### Releases ###
No new releases. Last release was v0.5 in September 2012.
### Activity ###
The Commons Weaver quasi-dependency bottleneck has as long last been resolved
and BVal development has resumed. We continue to work with the Apache TomEE PMC,
who bundle our project and thereby provide a clear barometer for ease of
integration. I note the question on the agenda of whether we have enough
committers to make releases... I assume this refers to BVal, though it could
have referred to Commons as we did spend an unfortunate amount of time blocked
there. While the developer energy of most of the PMC is being expended
elsewhere, I believe we have strong enough representation amongst the wider
"ApachEE" (i.e. JEE at Apache) community to be handily able to garner the votes
for a release once we are satisfied with the state of the codebase.
### Community ###
No changes in community.
Last PMC member added Q4 2013
Last committer added Q3 2013
### Branding ###
Nothing to report.
### Legal ###
No concerns at present.
### Infrastructure ###
Nothing needed at the moment.
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Attachment L: Report from the Apache Camel Project [Christian Mueller]
Apache Camel is a powerful open source integration framework based on known
Enterprise Integration Patterns.
Project Status
--------------
* There are no issues that require the board attention.
* The project is healthy, active and stays at a high level.
Community
---------
* We got 5 new contributors who signed the ICLA.
* The community stays at a high level (321 subscribers at dev@; 800
subscribers at users@)
* The community is active and questions being answered in short term.
* Avg. 552 mails per month on the users mailing list in September 2014 -
November 2014
* Avg. 183 mails per month on the dev mailing list in September 2014 -
November 2014
* Avg. 647 commits per month in September 2014 - November 2014
Community Objectives
--------------------
* We are planning to release Apache Camel 2.14.1 in the next weeks.
* Adding new features and improvements to Apache Camel in version 2.15.0.
Project Composition
-------------------
* One new committer was added in this reporting period
* Colm O hEigeartaigh 11/06/2014
* no new PMC member was added in this reporting period
* the last PMC member was added at 04/24/2014
Releases
--------
* 2.12.5 (10/27/2014)
* 2.13.3 (10/31/2014)
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Attachment M: Report from the Apache Cayenne Project [Andrus Adamchik]
Apache Cayenne is a Java persistence framework. It takes a distinct approach to
object persistence and provides an ORM runtime, remote persistence services, and
a GUI mapping/modeling tool.
Project Status
* Cayenne 3.1 Final was released on September 29.
* Active 3.2 release branch was renamed to 4.0 to reflect a significant scope
of changes.
* 4.0 development has been very active. We added a new fluent query APIs, and
a new automated way to synchronize the ORM model with DB-schema and Java
classes, made significant CayenneModeler UI improvements. More new features
are likely to happen in the coming months.
* We are in preparations to release 4.0.M2.
Community
* dev@ list activity is higher than before, due to the active discussions of
the new 4.0 features.
* There seems to be a trend of declining activity on the user@ list though.
Not specifically in this quarter, more like a long-term trend, partially
explained by good support provided on stackoverflow, partially perhaps by
the project maturity.
* We receive steady contributions from two new developers.
* The last PMC member was added in December 2012.
* The last committer was added in May 2012.
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Attachment N: Report from the Apache Chemistry Project [Florian Müller]
Apache Chemistry is an effort to provide an implementation of the CMIS
(Content Management Interoperability Services) specification in Java,
Python, PHP, .NET, Objective-C, and JavaScript (and possibly other
languages).
The project has graduated in February 2011.
== Project status ==
We added a new subproject called "Chemistry Parts".
It provides a CMIS library for JavaScript and Web Parts for SharePoint,
using the JavaScript library. The "Chemistry Parts" contributors became
committers.
The OpenCMIS subproject frequently receives bug fixes and smaller
improvements. The other subprojects are not very active at the moment.
There are no board-level issues at this time.
== Community ==
We added six new committers who look after the "Chemistry Parts"
subproject.
== Releases ==
Last releases:
OpenCMIS 0.12.0 2014-08-21
ObjectiveCMIS 0.4 2014-07-25
DotCMIS 0.6 2014-03-17
cmislib 0.5.1 2012-12-19
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Attachment O: Report from the Apache CloudStack Project [Hugo Trippaers]
DESCRIPTION
Apache CloudStack is open source software designed to deploy and manage
large networks of virtual machines, as a highly available, highly scalable
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud computing platform.
ISSUES
CVE-2014-7807: Apache CloudStack unauthenticated LDAP binds, Dec 8 2014
CURRENT ACTIVITY
* The community is working on the next major release (4.5.0) of Apache CloudStack.
The first release candidate is available already.
* Ongoing efforts in fixing bugs and findings from static code analysis
resulted in a number of bug fixes to existing branches.
* Apache CloudStack CloudMonkey 5.3.0 was released on Nov 11 2014. Apache
CloudStack CloudMonkey is a CLI tool for interacting with Apache
CloudStack and is distributed separate from Apache CloudStack
* Apache CloudStack 4.4.1 was released Oct 23 2014. This maintenance release
is followed by a second maintenance release numbered 4.4.2 at Dec 10 2014. Release
4.4.2 fixes the vulnerability reported in CVE-2014-7807
* The community enjoyed a very successful European CloudStack
Collaboration Conference (CCCEU). CCCEU in Budapest. The new format including
a full day single room track and poster sessions seemed to work out well.
* The community is still struggling with way to improve quality and prevent master
from breaking. Multiple efforts including improved automated testing and work flow
enhancements are being executed and/or proposed. There is no clear consensus other
than the generic agreement that the current situation leaves ample room for
improvement.
RELEASES
Apache CloudStack 4.4.1 was released on Oct 23, 2014.
Apache CloudStack 4.4.2 was released on Dec 10, 2014.
Apache CloudStack CloudMonkey 5.3.0 was released on Nov 11, 2014
COMMUNITY
Including the following additions, CloudStack has 96 committers and 32 (+3)
PMC members.
New Committers:
-
New PMC Members:
Ian Duffy (duffy) - Sep 29
Pierre-Luc Dion (pdion891) - Sep 29
Rajani Kuruturi (rajani) - Oct 16
The Apache CloudStack project remains a high volume community:
dev@ msgs = Nov: 1322, Oct: 1054, Sep: 1421
users@ msgs = Nov: 670, Oct: 557, Sep: 481
issues@ msgs = Nov: 1933, Oct: 1011, Sep: 1671
commits@ msgs = Nov: 1039, Oct: 696, Sep: 826
marketing@ msgs = Nov: 70, Oct: 60, Sep:69
users-cn@ msgs = Nov: 120, Oct: 46, Sep: 61
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Attachment P: Report from the Apache Commons Project [Gary Gregory]
The Apache Commons project focuses on all aspects of reusable Java
components.
The Apache Commons components are widely used in many projects, both within
Apache and without.
The last report was September 9 2014.
No issues require board attention at this time.
Overall project health is good with six releases this period.
Releases:
2014-09-25: Apache Commons Configuration 2.0-alpha1
2014-09-30: Apache Commons Weaver 1.1
2014-10-10: Apache Commons Compress 1.9
2014-11-06: Apache Commons Exec 1.3
2014-11-09: Apache Commons Codec 1.10
2014-11-16: Apache Commons CSV 1.1
New committers
None
News
2014-11-07: Proposal to create Apache Commons Text as a sandbox component.
2014-12-08: VOTE passed to allow all Apache committers to commit to Apache
Commons.
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Attachment Q: Report from the Apache Cordova Project [Shazron Abdullah]
Apache Cordova is a platform for building native mobile applications using
HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
# Status
Current releases have been voted on according to the Apache vote policy.
We have released Cordova CLI 4.0 which is the beginning of the independence
of platform versions from the cli version. For example, with the Cordova CLI
4.0 release, it includes the pinned platform versions at version 3.6.4
(except for cordova-browser, at 3.6.0). Each new platform release will
correspond with a tools release to update the pinned versions.
Since the last board report, Apache Cordova has had:
- over 2100 commits in its 52 Git repositories
- over 2800 emails in its dev mailing list
- over 4500 issues/comments on issues in JIRA
- 8 new contributors filed iCLAs specifically for contributing to Apache Cordova
- over 436,000 downloads of cordova from https://www.npmjs.org/package/cordova
Since the last board report, Apache Cordova has had 60 different releases. We
also released a new platform, cordova-browser.
# Community
Cordova welcomed the following new committers and PMC members:
- Maxim Ermilov (zaspire)
- Staci Cooper (stacic)
# Board Issues
There are no Board-level issues at this time.
# Releases (60)
- http://archive.apache.org/dist/cordova/
## Platforms (15)
Released Nov 6th, 2014
- cordova-ios@3.7.0 ............. http://s.apache.org/hzL
- cordova-windows@3.7.0 ......... http://s.apache.org/WBa
- cordova-wp8@3.7.0 ............. http://s.apache.org/WBa
Released Sep 15th, 2014
- cordova-amazon-fireos@3.6.0 ... http://s.apache.org/RjF
- cordova-android@3.6.3 ......... http://s.apache.org/RjF
- cordova-blackberry@3.6.3 ...... http://s.apache.org/RjF
- cordova-firefoxos@3.6.3 ....... http://s.apache.org/RjF
- cordova-ios@3.6.3 ............. http://s.apache.org/RjF
- cordova-ubuntu@3.6.3 .......... http://s.apache.org/RjF
- cordova-windows@3.6.3 ......... http://s.apache.org/RjF
- cordova-wp8@3.6.3 ............. http://s.apache.org/RjF
Released Oct 3rd, 2014
- cordova-android@3.6.4 ......... http://s.apache.org/L7i
Released Oct 8th, 2014
- cordova-wp8@3.6.4 ............. http://s.apache.org/jqz
- cordova-windows@3.6.4 ......... http://s.apache.org/SSo
- cordova-browser@3.6.0 ......... http://s.apache.org/0KI
## Libs (2)
Released Sep 15th, 2014
- cordova-app-hello-world@3.6.3 ...... http://s.apache.org/RjF
- cordova-mobile-spec@3.6.3 .......... http://s.apache.org/RjF
## Tools (15)
Released Nov 13th, 2014
- cordova-js@3.7.2 ............. http://s.apache.org/V7c
- cordova-cordova-lib@4.1.2 .... http://s.apache.org/V7c
- cordova-cordova@4.1.2 ........ http://s.apache.org/V7c
- cordova-plugman@0.22.16 ...... http://s.apache.org/V7c
Released Sep 15th, 2014
- cordova-cordova-lib@0.21.11 ........ http://s.apache.org/RjF
- cordova-cordova@3.6.3-0.2.11 ....... http://s.apache.org/RjF
- cordova-plugman@0.22.8 ............. http://s.apache.org/RjF
Released Sep 22nd, 2014
- cordova-js@3.6.4 .................... http://s.apache.org/vLq
- cordova-cordova-lib@0.21.13 ......... http://s.apache.org/vLq
- cordova-cordova@3.6.3-0.2.13 ........ http://s.apache.org/vLq
- cordova-plugman@0.22.10 ............. http://s.apache.org/vLq
Released Oct 15th, 2014
- cordova-js@3.7.1 .......... http://s.apache.org/esw
- cordova-lib@4.0.0 ......... http://s.apache.org/esw
- cordova-cli@4.0.0 ......... http://s.apache.org/esw
- cordova-plugman@0.22.12 ... http://s.apache.org/esw
## Plugins (28)
Released Sep 22nd, 2014
- cordova-plugin-battery-status@0.2.11 ........ http://s.apache.org/DK5
- cordova-plugin-camera@0.3.2 ................. http://s.apache.org/DK5
- cordova-plugin-console@0.2.11 ............... http://s.apache.org/DK5
- cordova-plugin-contacts@0.2.13 .............. http://s.apache.org/DK5
- cordova-plugin-device@0.2.12 ................ http://s.apache.org/DK5
- cordova-plugin-device-motion@0.2.10 ......... http://s.apache.org/DK5
- cordova-plugin-device-orientation@0.3.9 ..... http://s.apache.org/DK5
- cordova-plugin-dialogs@0.2.10 ............... http://s.apache.org/DK5
- cordova-plugin-file@1.3.1 ................... http://s.apache.org/DK5
- cordova-plugin-file-transfer@0.4.6 .......... http://s.apache.org/DK5
- cordova-plugin-geolocation@0.3.10 ........... http://s.apache.org/DK5
- cordova-plugin-globalization@0.3.1 .......... http://s.apache.org/DK5
- cordova-plugin-inappbrowser@0.5.2 ........... http://s.apache.org/DK5
- cordova-plugin-media@0.2.13 ................. http://s.apache.org/DK5
- cordova-plugin-media-capture@0.3.3 .......... http://s.apache.org/DK5
- cordova-plugin-network-information@0.2.12 ... http://s.apache.org/DK5
- cordova-plugin-splashscreen@0.3.3 ........... http://s.apache.org/DK5
- cordova-plugin-statusbar@0.1.8 .............. http://s.apache.org/DK5
- cordova-plugin-vibration@0.3.11 ............. http://s.apache.org/DK5
Released Oct 15th, 2014
- cordova-plugin-camera@0.3.3 ................. http://s.apache.org/hq
- cordova-plugin-contacts@0.2.14 .............. http://s.apache.org/hq
- cordova-plugin-file-transfer@0.4.7 .......... http://s.apache.org/hq
- cordova-plugin-globalization@0.3.2 .......... http://s.apache.org/hq
- cordova-plugin-inappbrowser@0.5.3 ........... http://s.apache.org/hq
- cordova-plugin-media@0.2.14 ................. http://s.apache.org/hq
- cordova-plugin-media-capture@0.3.4 .......... http://s.apache.org/hq
- cordova-plugin-network-information@0.2.13 ... http://s.apache.org/hq
- cordova-plugin-splashscreen@0.3.4 ........... http://s.apache.org/hq
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Attachment R: Report from the Apache cTAKES Project [Pei J Chen]
Apache cTAKES (clinical Text Analysis and Knowledge Extraction System) is
a natural language processing (NLP) tool for information extraction from
electronic medical record clinical free-text.
Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
Releases:
- ctakes-3.1.1 on 2013-12-05
- ctakes-3.2.0 on 2014-07-23
- ctakes-3.2.1 on 2014-12-10
Development:
The committee is actively working on a future release.
Some of the planned code changes for upcoming release includes:
- Hadoop/Spark Integration (example)
- Various big fixes in Jira
Community:
Last Committers/PMC:
Murali Nagendranath (2013-10-21)
Vijay Garla (2013-11-16)
Jay Vyas (2014-11-04)
There was a local cTAKES meetup hosted by the local Boston group in Oct
(http://s.apache.org/ctakesmeetupoct2014).
There is an ongoing collaborative work with integrating cTAKES with
other Apache Projects such as BigTop, Spark, etc. for Big Data processing.
he community seems to be active and continues to be growing steadily.
dev mailing list subscribers count: 135 (+4 since last report)
user mailing list subscribers count: 115 (+2 since last report)
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Attachment S: Report from the Apache Curator Project [Jordan Zimmerman]
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Attachment T: Report from the Apache DeviceMap Project [Reza Naghibi]
Apache Devicemap is a data repository containing devices attributes, and their
related browsers, and operating systems. The project also maintains an api
to classify these attributes.
CURRENT ACTIVITY
* DeviceMap recently graduated to a TLP at the last board meeting.
* Resource migration from the incubator has been completed.
* Many new devices have been added to our JIRA for inclusion on our next data
release.
RELEASES
* There have been no releases since the 1.0.1 data release on October 15th.
A new Java client release has been staged and work is in progress on our
next data release.
COMMUNITY
* There were no new additions to the PMC since the last report.
ISSUES
* There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
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Attachment U: Report from the Apache DirectMemory Project [Raffaele P. Guidi]
Apache DirectMemory is an off-heap cache implementation for the JVM
* General Information
Development and mailing lists traffic are mostly quiet
* Issues
No known issues at the time
* Committers or PMC members change
Last added PMC member was Noctarius (Cristoph Engelbert) on 2013-09-25
* Releases
Release 0.2 has seen the light on 2013-09-17
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Attachment V: Report from the Apache Drill Project [Jacques Nadeau]
Description:
Apache Drill is a distributed query layer that supports querying JSON, NoSQL
and Hadoop using SQL.
Current Activity:
Drill graduated to a TLP at the last board meeting. Since then, Drill has
migrated mailing lists, the website and the git repository to top-level
resources. Traffic is good on the user and dev mailing lists within many new
user and contributor engagements.
Releases:
* The 0.6 release of Drill was on 10/26/2014
* The 0.7 release is targeted for a release vote in the next couple weeks.
This will be the first release as a top-level project.
Community:
* 335 emails on the dev mailing list in November
* 204 emails on the user mailing list in November
* The PMC has 16 members
* No new committers or PMC members added since graduation
Issues:
* There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
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Attachment W: Report from the Apache Felix Project [Carsten Ziegeler]
Apache Felix is a project aimed at implementing specifications from the OSGi
Alliance as well as implementing other supporting tools and technologies
aligned with OSGi technology.
Community
PMC: No new PMC members have been added in this report period.
The last new PMC member was added in Dec. 2013
Committers: One new committer: Bob Paulin.
Steady mailing list activity.
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
Software
Apache Felix HTTP 2.3.2 (November 11, 2014)
Apache Felix Event Admin 1.4.2 (September 14, 2014)
Project Branding
TM missing from all Logos
Licensing and other issues
None
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Attachment X: Report from the Apache Flex Project [Alex Harui]
Apache Flex is an application framework for easily building
Flash-based applications for mobile devices, the browser and
desktop.
RELEASES
- Apache Flex Tour De Flex Component Explorer 1.2 was
released on 11/28/14.
- Apache Flex Tool API 1.0.0 was released on 11/20/14
- Apache Flex Squiggly 1.1 was released on 10/26/14
- Apache Flex Tour De Flex Component Explorer 1.1 was
released on 9/24/14.
- Apache Flex Squiggly 1.0 was released on 9/3/14
- Apache Flex Installer 3.1.0 was released on 7/14/14.
- Apache Flex SDK 4.13.0 was released on 7/16/14.
- Apache Flex FlexUnit 4.2.0 was released on 4/13/14.
- Apache FlexJS 0.0.2 was released on 7/17/14.
- Apache Flex FalconJX 0.0.2 was released on 7/17/14.
ACTIVITY
Activity in Apache Flex is becoming more diverse. While there is
still work going on fixing bugs in the existing Adobe Flash
Platform-dependent code base, and on FlexJS, a version of Flex
that is independent from the Adobe Flash Platform, there has been
more tangible activity working on Maven support for the various
releases, contributions to the Installer, Tour De Flex, the
Squiggly Spell Checking library, Text Layout Framework, Android
and IOS skins, and more.
In the past three months we've continued to see:
- Continued JIRA activity (more bugs raised than resolved however)
- New committers and potential committers.
Code Donation Update
- Swiz donation is still pending. The donor has not filed the
paperwork.
- Mahmoud Ali and Bruno Pacola donated the FlatSpark theme.
COMMUNITY
- Mahmoud Ali, Bruno Pacola, Curtis Aube, Neil Madsen and Jorge
Yabra were added as committers.
- Tom Chiverton, Piotr Zarzycki, Chris Martin and Mihai Chira were
promoted from committer to PMC member.
- Latest analytics include around 2000 hits per day on the website
during the work week (less on weekends). That’s about the same
as previous report.
- There were more than 10,000 installs of 4.13.0 since its release.
- More than 20,000 people have run the Tour De Flex application.
Tour De Flex is a set of examples folks use to learn how to
develop Flex applications.
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Attachment Y: Report from the Apache Giraph Project [Avery Ching]
Giraph is a Bulk Synchronous Parallel framework for writing programs
that analyze large graphs on a Hadoop cluster. Giraph is similar to
Google's Pregel system.
Project releases
1.1.0 - This was finally released by Roman on 11/26. Thanks Roman!
Overall project activity since the last report
Mostly bug fixes for the 1.1.0 release.
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
We have a new committer - Sergey Edunov on 11/24!
New community development
Maja presented in Boston@Scale on 11/12 on how she used Giraph as the
foundation for scalable collaborative filtering at Facebook
(http://dataatscaleboston.splashthat.com/).
Mailing list members
We continue to see steady mailing list growth.
user@ 429 -> 437
dev@ 250 -> 260
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Attachment Z: Report from the Apache Gump Project [Stefan Bodewig]
Apache Gump is a cross-project continuous integration server. Gump's
intention isn't so much to be a CI server but rather a vehicle that
makes people look beyond their project's boundaries and helps the
projects to collaborate.
Gump is written in Python and supports several build tools and version
control systems. The Apache installation of Gump builds ASF as well
as non-ASF projects and their dependencies. It started in the Java
part of the foundation but also builds projects like APR, HTTPd and
XMLUnit.NET.
== Summary ==
During this quarter we've added two new PMC members.
Gump seems to create useful results for the few projects that use it.
The FOP community has decided they no longer need the service provided
by Gump.
== Releases ==
Gump has never done any releases. One reason for this is that the ASF
installations of Gump work on the latest code base almost all of the
time following its "integrate everything continuously" philosophy.
== Activity ==
The Gump builds have been updated to run on Java8 which causes a few
builds to break (like the one of Google Guava) and forced us to
replace dependencies with pre-packaged binaries in two cases.
== Changes to the Roster ==
All ASF committers have write access to the metadata that configure
the ASF installations.
Konstantin Kolinko and Mark Thomas joined the Gump PMC.
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Attachment AA: Report from the Apache Helix Project [Kishore Gopalakrishna]
Project Description
===================
Apache Helix is a generic cluster management framework used for the
automatic management of partitioned, replicated and distributed resources
hosted on a cluster of nodes. Helix automates reassignment of resources in
the face of node failure and recovery, cluster expansion, and
reconfiguration
Development
===========
- Task framework integrated with a product service
- REST API for task framework
- Python Helix admin library contributed by the community
- 41 new JIRAS since last report
- 22 issues resolved
Community
=========
- 200+ emails on the dev list
- 50+ emails on the user list
- Community effort in building Python Helix admin library
- Community effort in evaluating Helix controller performance
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Attachment AB: Report from the Apache Hive Project [Carl Steinbach]
DESCRIPTION
Apache Hive is a data warehouse written on top of Apache Hadoop. It
provides SQL to query and manage data (in the form of tables and
partitions stored in HDFS or external systems) and provides a
metastore containing metadata information about the stored data.
RELEASES
* The last release of Apache Hive was version 0.14.0, released on
November 12, 2014.
COMMUNITY
* A Hive User Group meeting was held on December 3rd at LinkedIn's
offices in Mountain View. 110 people placed their names on the
RSVP list.
* Eugene Koifman and John Pullokkaran were voted in as committers.
The most recent addition was made on October 1st.
* Alan Gates and Prasad Mujumdar were voted in as new PMC members.
The most recent addition was made on December 9th.
* Currently there are:
- 713 subscribers to the developer list
- 1860 subscribers to the user list
- 15 committers
- 19 PMC members
- 6 Emeritus PMC members
BRANDING CHECKLIST
Since the last report all remaining branding sub-tasks have been
completed. Please refer to HIVE-2432 for the complete list.
* Project Website Basics: [DONE]
* Project Naming And Descriptions: [DONE]
* Website Navigation Links: [DONE]
* Trademark Attributions: [DONE]
* Logos and Graphics: [DONE]
* Project Metadata: [DONE]
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Attachment AC: Report from the Apache Incubator Project [Roman Shaposhnik]
The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and codebases
wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.
There are currently 36 podlings undergoing incubation. Two podlings joined
us this month, NiFi and Tamaya. Five new IPMC members and two new
Shepherds joined our ranks as well.
* Community
New IPMC members:
Andrew L. Farris
Thejas Nair
Brock Noland
Daniel Dai
Adam Estrada
New Incubator Shepherds:
Timothy Chen
Andrew L. Farris
People who left the IPMC:
None
* New Podlings
Nifi
Tamaya
* Graduations
The board has motions for the following:
Falcon
The IPMC is currently voting on graduations for:
Flink
* Releases
The following releases were made since the last Incubator report:
apache-calcite-0.9.2-incubating
apache-twill-0.4.0-incubating
apache-parquet-format-2.2.0-incubating
apache-johnzon-0.2-incubating
apache-slider-0.60.0-incubating
metamodel-4.3.0-incubating
apache-aurora-0.6.0-incubating
* IP Clearance
Sling Sightly and XSS modules
* Legal / Trademarks
There are many on going Podling Name Search requests,
with few being closed.
Droids still has an open name search.
Falcon is processing a name search currently.
Tamaya successfully cleared Podling Name Search.
Two podlings (BatchEE and Johnzon) are currently waiting
on the result of a new licensing agreement w/ Oracle to
gain access to the TCKs for new EE related JSRs. Until this
is done they could not be considered compliant implementations
* Infrastructure
SVN outage caused minor inconvenience to some podlings.
Argus/Ranger is facing some struggles with their rename.
* Miscellaneous
The Kalumet podling is currently thinking about throwing around a
retirement vote. The Samza community is voting on a draft graduation
resolution. There is a vote underway to recommend retiring for the
NPanday. Hadoop Development Tools community has voted to retire from the
Incubator.
-------------------- Summary of podling reports --------------------
* Still getting started at the Incubator
Ignite
Lens
Nifi
Tamaya
Taverna
* Not yet ready to graduate
No release:
Brooklyn
Wave
Community growth:
Johnzon
Sentry
Streams
* Ready to graduate
The Board has motions for the following:
Falcon
* Did not report, expected next month
Ranger (formerly Argus)
Kalumet
NPanday
* Not signed off by mentors
Brooklyn
MRQL
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Table of Contents
Brooklyn
Falcon
Ignite
Johnzon
Lens
log4cxx2
MRQL
NiFi
Ripple
Sentry
Streams
Tamaya
Taverna
Wave
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--------------------
Brooklyn
Brooklyn is a framework for modelling, 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. Completing our first release under Apache
2. Grow the community
3. More diversity of the committers/PPMC (currently biased towards
employees of a single organization)
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?
Our community continues to grow slowly but surely, and has received
interest and contributions from new community members.
We had the opportunity to talk about our project at ApacheCon Europe
last week, which has introduced Brooklyn to a wider audience within
Apache.
How has the project developed since the last report?
Code continues to be proposed and merged at a high rate. We are
satisfied with our technical velocity.
We are currently in the process of making our first release. As is
common with incubating project's first releases, this involves several
iterations and ongoing discussions with mentors and IPMC.
Date of last release:
No release yet, but we have begun the process for our first release
and aim to release as soon as we possibly can.
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
No change since 2014-07-02.
Signed-off-by:
[ ](brooklyn) Matt Hogstrom
[ ](brooklyn) Alex Karasulu
[ ](brooklyn) David Nalley
[ ](brooklyn) Marcel Offermans
[ ](brooklyn) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
[ ](brooklyn) Olivier Lamy
[ ](brooklyn) Chip Childers
[ ](brooklyn) Andrei Savu
[ ](brooklyn) Joe Brockmeier
[ ](brooklyn) Jim Jagielski
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Falcon
Falcon is a data processing and management solution for Hadoop designed for
data motion, coordination of data pipelines, lifecycle management, and
data discovery. Falcon enables end consumers to quickly onboard their data
and its associated processing and management tasks on Hadoop clusters.
Falcon has been incubating since 2013-03-27.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
Graduation resolution was presented to the board in Nov 2014 and the board
has asked the project team to address the following issues before it can be
considered
* Podling name search pending (PODLINGNAMESEARCH-61)
* Discrepancy in status report with respect to committer ids.
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?
* More users & contributors have joined the falcon project and the
community continues to grow
How has the project developed since the last report?
* Development activity has been very hectic more than 240 JIRAs have been
created and about 200 resolved since the last report
* There are more than 100 users subscribed on the dev mailing list
Date of last release:
2014-12-03 (0.6-incubating)
2014-09-20 (0.5-incubating)
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
Aug 28, 2014
Signed-off-by:
[ ](falcon) Arun Murthy
[X](falcon) Chris Douglas
[ ](falcon) Owen O'Malley
[ ](falcon) Devaraj Das
[ ](falcon) Alan Gates
--------------------
Ignite
A unified In-Memory Data Fabric providing high-performance, distributed in-
memory data management software layer between various data sources and user
applications.
Ignite has been incubating since 2014-10-01.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Finish migration to Apache process.
2. Grow active and healthy community around Apache Ignite product.
3. Get on a stable release schedule and have 3 successful product releases.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
None at the moment.
How has the community developed since the last report?
No new committers/PPMC members were added.
Several new contributors have joined.
How has the project developed since the last report?
- Project planning for the 1st sprint started with over 30 tickets filed
in Ignite Jira.
- Landing web page was set.
- Website design was chosen in Jira, IGNITE-7. Initial version will be
pushed early in the week of 12/9.
- Ignite code was pushed into Apache GIT repository. The code is fully
maven-enabled and buildable.
Date of last release:
No releases yet: the code is still in the development phase
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
10/01/2014 Initial committers were added.
Signed-off-by:
[X](ignite) Branko Čibej
[X](ignite) Konstantin Boudnik
[ ](ignite) Henry Saputra
[X](ignite) Roman Shaposhnik
[ ](ignite) Michael Stack
--------------------
Johnzon
Implementation of JSR-353 JavaTM API for JSON Processing (Renamed from
Fleece)
Johnzon has been incubating since 2014-06-09.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Expanding the community, increase dev list activity and adding new
committers/pmc members.
2. Complete the status page
3. Add and improve documentation
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
* Nothing
How has the community developed since the last report?
There are new people on the dev list and the project got contributions
from non-committers. On the dev list there are approx. 70 msgs (on
average) messages per month. Christian Grobmeier quits as mentor.
How has the project developed since the last report?
The project did its first and second incubator release.
During the last three month nine jira issues were reported and fixed.
Date of last release:
2014-11-22
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
Last committer was elected 2014-08-23, no new PMC members since incubation.
Signed-off-by:
[X](johnzon) Justin Mclean
[ ](johnzon) Daniel Kulp
--------------------
Lens
Lens is a platform that enables multi-dimensional queries in a unified way
over datasets stored in multiple warehouses. Lens integrates Apache Hive with
other data warehouses by tiering them together to form logical data cubes.
Lens has been incubating since 2014-10-10.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Make the first release from apache
2. Make project website available on apache
3. Reach out to people through presentations and blogs
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
We are still waiting for project website creation via
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-8549
How has the community developed since the last report?
* We are near of proposing a new committer
* We are actively working on logo for the project
* We have presented above Apache Lens in Hadoop meetup at Bangalore, India
* Proposed talks on upcoming ApacheCon and HadoopSummit conferences
* Mailing list subscription (as on 29th November):
** Dev list : 25 members
** Commits list : 11 members
** User list : 19 members
How has the project developed since the last report?
* Main activities include
** Podling setup wrt jira, reviewboard, jenkins, confluence space
** Standardizing branching and versioning in project code base
** Improving documentation
** Stabilizing the code for first stable release
* Mailing list activity :
** Dev via http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-lens-dev/
*** November - 512 messages
** Commits via http://s.apache.org/yGX is missing
*** Missing archive -https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-8744
*** November - 74 messages (counted thru subscription)
** User mailing list activity - None
* Issues 82 created and 25 resolved via http://s.apache.org/WOu
Date of last release:
NONE
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
NONE
Signed-off-by:
[X](lens) Christopher Douglas
[X](lens) Jakob Homan
[ ](lens) Jean-Baptiste Onofre
[ ](lens) Vinod Kumar Vavilapalli
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log4cxx2
Logging for C++
log4cxx2 has been incubating since 2013-12-09.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Create a release
2.
3.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
None yet.
How has the community developed since the last report?
Not grown. However the project aims to become a sub project of Apache Logging again.
Community growth is not much a matter for this podling, as long as there are
a few active contributors.
How has the project developed since the last report?
Not much: some mails were sent, but in general it was not much development.
Date of last release:
None.
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
Signed-off-by:
[X](log4cxx2) Christian Grobmeier
[ ](log4cxx2) Scott Deboy
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
Podling reported late. It doesn't look like the marvin alerts went out.
Could be a moderation issue. Mailing list activity is very light.
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MRQL
MRQL is a query processing and optimization system for large-scale,
distributed data analysis, built on top of Apache Hadoop, Hama, Spark, and
Flink.
MRQL has been incubating since 2013-03-13.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. increase the number of active committers
2. increase adoption, expand user community, and increase user list
activity
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
none
How has the community developed since the last report?
There were no new developers or new committers since our last reports.
How has the project developed since the last report?
During the last three month, 12 jira issues were reported, from which
10 were fixed. Most of these issues were related to MRQL query
evaluation in Flink mode. Finally, we have set up MRQL on ASF
Jenkins, which is a CI server that continuously checks the integrity
of our builds and validates our tests.
Date of last release:
2014-06-26
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
2014-04-17
Signed-off-by:
[ ](mrql) Alan Cabrera
[ ](mrql) Anthony Elder
[ ](mrql) Alex Karasulu
[ ](mrql) Mohammad Nour El-Din
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
Podling looks very healthy.
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NiFi
NiFi is a dataflow system based on the concepts of flow-based programming.
NiFi has been incubating since 2014-11-24.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Establishment of Apache Infrastructure. Git establishment is
outstanding with INFRA-8707
2. Produce an initial release.
3. Grow the community beyond those involved in the incubator proposal.
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?
Since podling initiation our dev mailing list has 42 subscribers and the
commits mailing list has 19.
How has the project developed since the last report?
Since podling initiation the team has mailing lists, website, and Jira
setup. Awaiting INFRA action for Git. We should then be able to better
communicate and grow. We fully understand though that Infra has been
very busy addressing the SVN server issues.
Date of last release:
N/A
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
Entered incubation 2014-11-24. There have been comments/messages/
subscriptions on the mailing lists from folks not on the initial
contributors list. We believe there is a good opportunity to bring on
more folks from a more diverse base fairly quickly.
Signed-off-by:
[X](nifi) Billie Rinaldi
[X](nifi) Arvind Prabhakar
[X](nifi) Sergio Fernández
[X](nifi) Benson Margulies
[X](nifi) Drew Farris
[ ](nifi) Brock Noland
[X](nifi) Andrew Purtell
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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 and 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 community recently discussed the lack of growth in the project.
Some members felt that retirement of the podling was appropriate.
Others have stepped up to take over essential tasks and attempt to
build a community. We have agreed with mentors to review this situation
in 6 months. It is possible that Ripple is no longer important as its
functionality is potential being replaced by Cordova-browser. Our
original champion, Ross Gardler has also up to help evaluate the
situation. For Cordova-browser idea, there was also a discussion on
the mailing list.
How has the community developed since the last report?
No new committers since last June 2014.
How has the project developed since the last report?
Minor user contributions.
Date of last release:
No release made as yet, this will be the first item to receive attention.
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
June, 2014.
Signed-off-by:
[ ](ripple) Jukka Zitting
[X](ripple) Christian Grobmeier
[ ](ripple) Andrew Savory
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
Report is past due already, and no releases has been made since
incubation. Email/Code both not quite active, has concerns about
inactivement and retirement for few months already.
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Sentry
Sentry is a highly modular system for providing fine grained role
based authorization to both data and metadata stored on an Apache Hadoop
cluster.
Sentry has been incubating since 2013-08-08.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Continue to grow the Sentry community
2. Initiate graduation discussion with community and address any
potential concerns raised
3. Update project status page, website etc
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?
The community is growing. Several new members have started actively
contributing to the project. New contributors made a significant
contribution in patches as well as release activity. The user group
meetup at NYC was well attended. Community members presented Apache
Sentry at various community meetups around the world, include Hadoop
group meetup in Hydrabad, India and ApacheCon Europe in Budapest, Hungary
How has the project developed since the last report?
A number of new features implemented in the master codeline. The sentry
community is working towards removing some of the non Apache dependencies
in order to avoid any potential concerns for the graduation processes.
Date of last release:
2014-08-19
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
Arun Suresh and Tuong Truong have been added as a committer as announced
on 9/1/2014. No new PPMC members have been added since the project has
entered the incubator.
Signed-off-by:
[ ](sentry) Arvind Prabhakar
[ ](sentry) Joe Brockmeier
[ ](sentry) David Nalley
[ ](sentry) Olivier Lamy
[X](sentry) Patrick Hunt
[ ](sentry) Thomas White
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Streams
Apache Streams (incubating) is a lightweight (yet scalable) framework for
ActivityStreams.
Streams has been incubating since 2012-11-20.
The project provides a framework for abstracting away individual data
schemas and API protocols from solutions built to collect, publish,
process, and analyze digital activity data, as well as a community-
driven process for determining best practice usage of the ActivityStreams
specification with real-world datasets - valuing working, tested,
adaptable, useful code over strict adherence to existing specs.
Importantly, the project does not impose one execution framework -
modules built to Apache Streams interfaces and coding standards may
be instantiated within multiple JVM-based runtime containers, including
popular ‘big-data' frameworks.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Establish and maintain a consistent release process.
2. Improve quality of code, tests, documentation, and examples.
3. PPMC must relieve project mentors of all responsibility for the
project's adherence to the Apache Way and long-term viability.
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?
Ryan Ebanks was voted in as committer and PPMC member on 10-17-2014.
How has the project developed since the last report?
Since the last report, 50 pull requests were submitted and merged to
master, 43 issues were marked resolved, and 78 issues were created.
Date of last release:
streams-master:0.1-incubating Jan-2013
incubator-streams:0.1-incubating in progress, ETC Dec-2014
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
Ryan Ebanks, committer and PPMC, 10-17-2014
Signed-off-by:
[ ](streams) Matt Franklin
[X](streams) Ate Douma
[ ](streams) Craig McClanahan
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Tamaya
Tamaya is a highly flexible configuration solution based on an modular,
extensible and injectable key/value based design, which should provide a
minimal but extendible modern and functional API leveraging SE, ME and
EE environments.
Tamaya has been incubating since 2014-11-14.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Project web site must be setup (ongoing).
2. Establish a collaboration model within the community and ensure a
common view on the main focus points.
3. Improve code base for being ready for a first release around Q1 2015.
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?
Many of the committers have successfully filed the ICLA and also started
to contribute, some of them already by doing first patches. Feedback in
the community was overwhelming. We could also successfully place the
topic at conferences as well as in the German Java Magazin and other
events. Also interest of people during the Zurich Hackergarten in
November was great and will definitely lead to additional committers
early 2015.
How has the project developed since the last report?
The project setup is going quite well. Initial committers are onboarding,
the initial code donation was successfully moved and other preconditions
like the project name, IP clearance, Jenkins etc. were successfully done.
Thanks to INFRA for their incredible support!
Date of last release: Still getting started.
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
Still getting started.
Signed-off-by:
[x](tamaya) John D. Ament
[ ](tamaya) David Blevins
[ ](tamaya) Mark Struberg
[ ](tamaya) Gerhard Petracek
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
Justin Mclean - Off to a good start. Email list and mentors active.
--------------------
Taverna
Taverna is a domain-independent suite of tools used to design and execute
data-driven workflows.
Taverna has been incubating since 2014-10-20.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. IP clearance to be signed by Univ of Manchester
2. Move source code, wiki, issues to apache.org. Restructure git repos.
3. Invite contributors who volunteered at October workshop
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
Infrastructure bootstrapping takes a long time and requires a series of
requests. E.g. Taverna incubator has been approved, but does not get a
web-site without explicitly asking for it. Documentation for apache.org
infrastructure assumes you are already a long-term committer.
How has the community developed since the last report?
Transition of mailing list successful (? - can we get some numbers?).
Most of the proposed initial committers have sorted CLAs
https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/TavernaProposal#Initial_Committers
and received apache.org account - see
https://people.apache.org/committers-by-project.html#taverna
Many of the remaining initial committers have not been active in the
recent years. We're following up these (and others) through private
conversations. There's been some confusion with regards to the term
"committer" - some were scared and thought it meant they had to make
a commitment to work on the source code!
Not much further development - worried that dev@taverna are scared away
by the long-dragged bootstrapping which dominates the list.
How has the project developed since the last report?
Source code is being restructured at https://github.com/taverna-incubator
before being staged to import into git.apache.org
Normal development continues at https://github.com/taverna/ - due to
prepare the final 2.5.1 non-Apache release.
Stian Soiland-Reyes was at ApacheCon in Budapest, fruitful discussions
with mentor Andy Seaborne and Gavin McDonald from INFRA with regards to
the transitioning of Taverna's existing source code repository, wiki and
issue tracker (luckily git->git, confluence->confluence and jira->jira).
Date of last release:
No release since incubation.
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
No new committers or PMC members elected since incubation.
Signed-off-by:
[x](taverna) Andy Seaborne
[ ](taverna) Chris Mattmann
[ ](taverna) Suresh Srinivas
[x](taverna) Suresh Marru
[x](taverna) Marlon Pierce
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
As noted the email list just been migrated and code repo setup, but
already show good signs of activity on the email list. Code
activity seems good so far although it's still on it's own github repo.
--------------------
Wave
A wave is a hosted, live, concurrent data structure for rich communication. It
can be used like email, chat, or a document.
Wave has been incubating since 2010-12-04.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Making release.
2. Growing community.
3. Source fixes/improvements.
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?
After some spike in activity we had a slowdown.
How has the project developed since the last report?
Some improvements were committed like full text search with Solr and some
more need to be reviewed/merged. We are working on making an updated RC
and plan to hold review/voting soon.
Date of last release:
not yet.
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
No
Signed-off-by:
[X](wave) Christian Grobmeier
[ ](wave) Upayavira
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Attachment AD: Report from the Apache Jackrabbit Project [Michael Dürig]
The Apache Jackrabbit™ content repository is a fully conforming
implementation of the Content Repository for Java™ Technology API
(JCR, specified in JSR 170 and 283).
The Apache Jackrabbit project is in good shape. We have no board-level
issues at this time.
o Releases
We made the following maintenance releases from the Jackrabbit Oak sub
project:
* Apache Jackrabbit Oak 1.0.6 on September 25th
* Apache Jackrabbit Oak 1.0.7 on October 14th
* Apache Jackrabbit Oak 1.0.8 on November 4th
We made the following unstable release from the Jackrabbit Oak sub
project:
* Apache Jackrabbit Oak 1.1.0 on October 6th
* Apache Jackrabbit Oak 1.1.1 on October 13th
* Apache Jackrabbit Oak 1.1.2 on November 10th
We made the following release from the Jackrabbit FileVault sub project:
* Apache Jackrabbit FileVault 3.1.8 on October 27th
o Community / Development
* No new committers or PMC members joined the Jackrabbit team since
June 2014.
* .adaptTo() Berlin in September and ApacheCon EU Budapest in
November featured sessions on Jackrabbit Oak.
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Attachment AE: Report from the Apache Karaf Project [Jean-Baptiste Onofré]
Apache Karaf provides higher level features and services
specifically designed for creating OSGi-based servers.
Community
=========
Three talks have been given during ApacheCon EU:
- Enterprise Development with Apache Karaf
- Best Practices for Design and Development of OSGi Applications in Apache Karaf
and a tutorial
- Application Integration in OSGi on Apache Karaf
A talk and workshop has been given during latest JUG Barcelona.
Last committer addition: October 21, 2013
Last PMC addition: September 05, 2012
Development
===========
A plan to have a periodically release cycle has been proposed and we move
forward to follow this plan.
The following new releases have been voted:
- Apache Karaf Cellar 2.3.3 (maintenance release) (November 17, 2014)
- Apache Karaf 2.3.9 (maintenance release) (November 9, 2014)
- Apache Karaf 4.0.0.M1 (technical preview release) (October 14, 2014)
- Apache Karaf 3.0.2 (maintenance release) (October 13, 2014)
- Apache Karaf 2.4.0 (maintenance release) (September 20, 2014)
- Apache Karaf 2.3.8 (maintenance release) (September 19, 2014)
- Apache Karaf 2.3.7 (maintenance release) (September 6, 2014)
Issues for board consideration
==============================
None so far.
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Attachment AF: Report from the Apache Labs Project [Tim Williams]
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Attachment AG: Report from the Apache Lucene Project [Mark Miller]
The Apache Lucene project develops open-source search software.
TLP
---
We added one new committer in the last quarter: Gregory Chanan
Lucene Core and Solr
--------------------
Lucene Core is a search-engine toolkit.
Solr is a search server built on top of Lucene Core.
In the last quarter we made two releases of both Lucene Core and Solr:
- 4.10.1 on 29 Sept 2014
- 4.10.2 on 31 Oct 2014
We have also started the process for a 4.10.3 release.
The community is very active.
Security: There was one security issue reported:
- An XXS vulnerability was reported against Apache Solr
(CVE-2014-3628). An attacker could inject javascript that is
executed via the admin ui because stored queries are not
escaped / sanitized. This will be addressed in the upcoming
4.10.3 release that is currently being voted on.
PyLucene
--------
PyLucene is a Python integration of Lucene Java. Development is almost
entirely an automated port, so this project will never require a lot of
developers. The user community is active.
In the last quarter we made one release of PyLucene:
- 4.10.1-1 on 6 Oct 2014
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Attachment AH: Report from the Apache Lucene.Net Project [Prescott Nasser]
Apache Lucene.Net is a port of the Lucene search engine library, written in C#
and targeted at .NET runtime users.
== Summary ==
The PMC has recognized we have become stagnant and have not had a release in
two years. We are actively working towards rebuilding and re-invigorating the
community.
Cleaning up our PMC processes:
- We realized several PMC members were not on the private mailing list
- There was a typo in the moderation account for the mailing list
that wasn't realized
- We had a roll call and all PMC members are now present and accounted for
- Last PMC Member Added, Paul Irwin, October 2013
Working on our community / tooling:
- We're actively brainstorming how to create better documentation around
getting started with Lucene.Net as a developer, and getting invovled
as a committer
- With the help of our community members and some free licensing, we are
in the process of setting up a CI system for our tests
- We're looking at possibly pulling in questions from stackoverflow to the
mailing list to expand visibility of those questions to the mailing list
and hopefully spur conversation (SO questions look like 1 per 1-2 days
or so at most)
- Looking at a website refresh to go along with the documentation
Pushing hard on 4.8.0.
- We were provided a contribution from MSFT over the summer of a significant
code port of the 4.8.0 Java code. We have been working to clean that up.
Currently we have 300 failing tests to fix, as well as some additional
libraries that help users make the most of Lucene.Net (encoding codecs and
contrib extensions)
We could use any advice or assistance on the above to help us build / rebuild our
community.
== Releases ==
Last Release 3.0.3 - Oct 2012
Working toward 4.8.0
== Statistics ==
Nuget package downloads:
Lucene.Net 3.0.3: 106720
Lucene.Net Contrib 3.0.3: 29343
Lucene.Net Contrib Spatial: 3987
Lucene.Net Contrib Spatial.NTS: 980
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Attachment AI: Report from the Apache MetaModel Project [Kasper Sørensen]
Apache MetaModel is a data access framework, providing a
common interface for exploration and querying of different
types of datastores.
Releases:
* November 24th, 2014: MetaModel 4.3.0-incubating
Statistics:
* Last committers added: 2014-10-14 (Alberto Rodriguez)
* Last PMC members added: 2014-11-20 (When the project graduated)
* Mailing list activity for last 3 months: 426 messages
* Mailing list subscribers: 55
* Commits the last 3 months: 51
Activity:
* October and November was active months with increased
commits, a release and graduation from Apache Incubator.
* We are finishing the process of migrating from Incubator
infrastructure to TLP infrastructure.
* Website, Mailing List, Git repository has been migrated
to TLP namespace.
* The website was updated with a "news" section and an
updated splash image.
* Working with Apache press team to make press release
about our graduation.
* There is an experimental module/connector for Neo4j in
the works, initiated by Tomasz Guzialek.
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Attachment AJ: Report from the Apache MRUnit Project [Brock Noland]
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Attachment AK: Report from the Apache OFBiz Project [Jacopo Cappellato]
Apache OFBiz is an open source product for the automation of
enterprise processes that includes framework components and business
applications for Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP),
Customer Relationship Management (CRM),
E-Business / E-Commerce, Supply Chain Management (SCM),
Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRP).
We have no issues that require Board assistance at this time.
*Releases*
* Apache OFBiz 11.04.06 has been released in September 2014; this is
the last release of the 11.04 series
* Apache OFBiz 12.04.05 has been released in September 2014
* Apache OFBiz 13.07.01 has been released in October 2014
*Community and Project*
* new committers: Nicolas Malin (nmalin) is a new committer since September 2014
* new PMC members: Sharan Foga (sharan), has been elected in the PMC
in September 2014
* mailing list traffic and commit rates are steady with significant
activity in the enhancement of documentation
* ApacheCon EU Budapest has been a successful event for the OFBiz
project; six sessions have been presented covering a range of
business and technical topics:
** "What Business Users See and Want" by Sharan Foga, PMC (Czech
Republic)
** "Brewing with Apache OFBiz - A Case Study" by Pierre Smits,
contributor (The Netherlands)
** "Introduction To A Groovy Based DSL For Apache OFBiz" by
Jacopo Cappellato, PMC (Italy)
** "Gui Unit Test For Apache OFBiz" by Olivier Heintz,
contributor (France)
** "Apache OFBiz Infra Task Automation For Deployment And Hosting" by
Nicolas Malin, committer and Gil Portenseigne, contributor (France)
** "Introduction To A Recommender System For Apache OFBiz" by
Anahita Goljahani, contributor (Italy)
*Infra/Legal*
We have no issues that require Board assistance.
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Attachment AL: Report from the Apache Olingo Project [Christian Amend]
Apache Olingo is an effort to provide an implementation of the OASIS
OData (Open Data) specification in Java, and JavaScript (and possibly
other languages). The project has graduated in April 2014.
Releases:
The latest OData V2 compliant Java release is version 2.0.1 and was built on
2014-11-06.
The latest OData V4 compliant Java release is version 4.0.0-beta-01 and was
built on 2014-09-23.
The latest OData V4 JavaScript release is version 4.0.0-beta-01 and was built
on 2014-09-19.
Overall Activity:
The main focus of the Olingo community right now is the OASIS OData 4.0
standard. There have been beta releases for Java and JavaScript.
The maintenance for the OData V2 standard is still ongoing and resulted in a
first patch release.
The mailing lists and Jira show a strong increase in traffic after the first
beta releases for OData V4. We hope this increase in interest will help the
Olingo community to grow.
Community:
Stephan Klevenz resigned as the VP of Olingo and the Olingo community elected
Christian Amend as the new VP on 2014-10-06.
The Olingo community elected Sven Kobler-Morris as a new PMC member on 2014-10-06.
The Olingo community elected Ramesh Reddy as a new committer on 2014-11-07.
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Attachment AM: Report from the Apache OODT Project [Sean Kelly]
DESCRIPTION
Apache OODT is a software framework as well as an architectural style for the
rapid construction of scientific data systems. It provides components for
data capture, curation, metadata extraction, workflow management, resource
management, and data processing.
RELEASES/DEVELOPMENT
• OODT-0.7 on 2014-09-19
• OODT-0.6 on 2013-07-17
• OODT-0.5 on 2012-12-25
We resolved 26 issues in JIRA [1] since the release of OODT-0.7 and look
forward to including these in OODT-0.8.
Our development mailing lists remain popular, while the user list shows less
activity. The table below lists the number of postings by list, by month,
in Q4 2014:
List Oct Nov Dec
---- --- --- ---
dev 177 348 7
user 2 14 0
COMMUNITY
Latest committers and PMC members:
• Angela Wang (angela_wang) on 2014-11-07 as committer and PMC member
• Valerie Mallder (vmallder) on 2014-11-25 as committer and PMC member
PRESS
OODT PMC Member Michael Starch (starchmd) spoke at NASA JPL's "Spark Day" event
where he presented a concept that integrates Apache OODT with Apache Spark,
Apache Mesos, Apache Hadoop, and Apache Kafka. Materials presented are
available at the OODT wiki [2].
[1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OODT
[2] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OODT/Streaming+OODT
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Attachment AN: Report from the Apache OpenJPA Project [Pinaki Poddar]
== Summary ==
Apache OpenJPA is a persistent object management kernel for relational and
non-relational databases. For relational database, OpenJPA provides
persistence for Plain Old Java Object (POJO). OpenJPA is compliant to
industry-standard Java Persistence Architecture (JPA) version 2.0 version
and runs in stand-alone JSE as well as JEE containers and many other
lightweight frameworks, such as Tomcat, TomEE, Spring or OSGi.
== Community ==
OpenJPA developers had, over past several years, not only developed a
general-purpose, stable software for complex Object-Relational Mapping but
also ensured its stability across many released versions. OpenJPA has a
solid user base and many have migrated their persistence provider to
OpenJPA from more well-known provider in the past. Current OpenJPA
developer/committers actively maintain the code base as well as support
via the mailing list users and the code service streams.
However, developer resource is shrinking as many senior committers are not
active and new volunteers are hard to come by as new development
opportunities are rare and hard to incorporate. Also lack of strong
corporate interest/sponsorship is affecting future growth/expansion of the
community.
PMC members are exploring how to invigorate the project.
We hope that the Board members may be able to share their experience on
how to re-energize a matured project in its maintenance phase of life.
== Recent Work ==
OpenJPA development team member Jody Grassel has upgraded Serp bytecode
library to version 1.15 for Java 8 language features (e.g. lambda
expression) and integrated OpenJPA with the upgrade.
As OpenJPA natively uses bytecode enhancement, supporting Java 8 has more
than usual impact on OpenJPA.
Many requests have been received for upgrade to JPA 2.1 compliance.
Prototype work for supporting JPA 2.1 features such as Store Procedure
support has started.
== Issues ==
One of the nightly builds (2.3.1) artifact is missing [1] in the
repository.
The issue is likely to be an infrastructure issue and is being tracked
by [2]
[1] https://repository.apache.org/snapshots/org/apache/openjpa/apache-openjpa/2.3.1-SNAPSHOT/
[2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OPENJPA-2537
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Attachment AO: Report from the Apache OpenNLP Project [Joern Kottmann]
The Apache OpenNLP library is a machine learning based toolkit for the
processing of natural language text. It supports the most common NLP tasks,
such as tokenization, sentence segmentation, part-of-speech tagging,
named entity extraction, chunking, parsing, and coreference resolution.
These tasks are usually required to build more advanced text processing
services.
Development
------------------
The development stayed active over the last 3 month and the release is finally
prepared. William Colen was elected as Release Manager and published the first
release candidate for testing.
Community
---------------
The community stayed active with the usual amount of traffic on the user mailing list.
There are no new PMC members.
Mark Giaconia was added as a committer in October 2013 and is active since then.
Releases
------------
The last release OpenNLP 1.5.3 was released on 15.4.2013.
Issues
--------
There are no board-level issues at this time.
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Attachment AP: Report from the Apache OpenWebBeans Project [Mark Struberg]
Apache OpenWebBeans 1.x is an ALv2-licensed implementation of the "Contexts
and Dependency Injection for the Java EE platform" specification which is
defined as JSR-299 (CDI-1.0).
OpenWebBeans 1.5.x also implements the CDI-1.1 and CDI-1.2 (MR)
specifications(JSR-346)
We will later also also implement CDI-2.0 (JSR-365) as OpenWebBeans-2.0.x.
Board Issues
There are no issues requiring board attention this time.
Development
Development continues in trunk to implement CDI 1.2 as OpenWebBeans-1.5.x.
We are finished with the SE parts and fully pass this TCK. We continue working
with the Apache TomEE team to also pass the EE part of the CDI-1.2 TCK.
Members of the community also actively contribute to the CDI-2.0 JavaEE
specification (ALv2 licensed) which has been filed as JSR-365.
New Releases
OpenWebBeans-1.2.7 on 2014-12-09
We still have to upload to our dist after the SVN outage.
We are also preparing to release owb-1.5.0-alpha-1 this month.
Discussions.
Nothing which requires board attention.
Community
Community activity is fine.
Last Committer: Reinhard Sandtner on Sept 23th, 2014
Last PMC addition: Thomas Andraschko and Jean-Louis Monteiro on 2014-05-28
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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 2014-07
--- mod_perl 2.0 --
mod_perl 2.X is designed to work with all httpd 2.X branches.
The work to support the 2.4 branch has finally been fully merged back on
trunk, with the remaining few little issues mostly ironed out.
2 PMC members have already volunteered to be release managers for the
next release. With the holiday period coming fast, I expect to see the first
RCs coming out in early January.
--- 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 2014-07.
--- 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 2014-07.
--- 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 2014-07.
--- 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 2014-07.
-- 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 12th, 2013
No new Apache-DBI releases since 2014-07.
-- 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 httpd-2.4 branch has come to a standstill, as all work on that
branch completed and was merged into the trunk.
-- Users --
The mod_perl users list is seeing little activity, except for the occasional
obscure bug report, or general user questions.
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 Pig Project [Cheolsoo Park]
Description:
Pig is a platform for analyzing large data sets that consists of a
high-level language for expressing data analysis programs, coupled
with infrastructure for evaluating these programs. The salient
property of Pig programs is that their structure is amenable to
substantial parallelization, which in turns enables them to handle
very large data sets.
Releases:
* 0.14.0: released in Nov 2014 that includes several new features as follows:
** Pig on Tez
** OrcStorage
** Loader predicate push down
** Constant calculation optimization
Community:
* 424 subscribers to the dev mailing list (420 in the last report)
* 1159 subscribers to the user mailing list (1163 in the last report)
* The PMC has 15 members and the project counts 6 additional committers
** No new committer
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Attachment AS: Report from the Apache Pivot Project [Roger Whitcomb]
Apache Pivot is a platform for building installable Internet
applications (IIAs). It combines the enhanced productivity and
usability features of a modern user interface toolkit with the
robustness of the Java platform.
Status:
Project activity has been very slow this quarter -- very little user
mailing list (only 6 postings). Some development activity, and
discussions about the next (2.0.5) release, which we expect sometime
in the next quarter.
There are some questions about Pivot on StackOverflow lately, which show
some interest.
There were 5 issues created in JIRA, and 7 resolved during the quarter.
Board Issues:
None that I know of.
Releases:
Last release was 2.0.4, published 19-May-2014.
Branding/Naming issues:
None.
Legal issues:
None.
Infrastructure Issues/Needs:
The migration of Apache-Extras has gotten some attention again, which
I have been following.
Community:
Last Committer Piotr Kolaczkowski (pkolaczk) was created 09 May 2012.
Latest PMC Changes: Greg Brown (gbrown) went Emeritus on 10 Sept 2013,
Martijn Dashorst (dashorst) went Emeritus in July 2012.
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Attachment AT: Report from the Apache POI Project [Yegor Kozlov]
Apache POI is a Java library for reading and writing Microsoft Office file
formats.
Releases
--------
There were two releases in the last quarter:
POI 3.10.1 on 18 August 2014
POI 3.11-beta3 on 11 November 2014
The release vote on 3.11 final is in progress and we are hoping to push it on
the mirrors within a week.
Community
---------
No new committers/PMC members added in the last quarter.
Last committer and PMC was added in December, 2013 (kiwiwings)
Project Status
---------
Apache POI continues to be an active project, both in terms of
community and development. Traffic on the mailing lists has been
steady in the last 3 months.
Most patches are applied without much delay.
General Comments
----------------
There are no issues that require Board attention.
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Attachment AU: Report from the Apache Portals Project [David Sean Taylor]
Apache Portals is a project for building freely available and interoperable
portal software. With the Pluto project, we provide a reference
implementation for the Java portlet standard. The Jetspeed project is a full
feature enterprise open source portal. The Portals Applications project is
dedicated to providing robust, full-featured, commercial-quality, and freely
available portlet applications.
Releases:
Delayed releasing Jetspeed 2.3.0, 2.2.3, and APA WebContent-2 until next
quarter
March 6, 2013 - Portals Apps Web Content 1.3
October 10, 2011 - Portals Jetspeed 2.2.2
26 September 2011 - Portals Pluto 2.0.3
Committer/PMC:
None
Security updates:
None
Community update:
Pluto team has implementing Portlet 3.0 TCK (Test Compatibility Kit and
Portlet 3.0 RI
Pluto team is now actively working on Portlet API 3.0 Implementation and
Portlet Hub
Apache Portals Web Content has been rewritten and should be released next
quarter
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Attachment AV: Report from the Apache ServiceMix Project [Gert Vanthienen]
Apache ServiceMix is a flexible, open-source integration container that
unifies the features and functionality of Apache ActiveMQ, Camel, CXF and
Karaf to provide a complete, enterprise-ready ESB powered by OSGi.
Project Status:
The project focus of Apache ServiceMix is the assembly of the integration
container, the actual functionality is being maintained in related projects
like Apache Karaf, Apache CXF and Apache Camel.
Activity on the mailing lists and in JIRA has been a bit slow, but we did
manage to stick to a steady release schedule and get a few new releases out.
Apart from the maintenance releases on the 5.0.x and 5.1.x branches, we also
released a new 5.3.0 version.
There are no outstanding issues requiring board attention.
Community:
No changes since the last board report. Last committer (Wim Verreydt) and
PMC member (Krzysztof Sobkowiak) additions were in July 2014.
Community Objectives:
We're not expecting any more dependency updates to become available for
the 5.0.x branch, but we do plan to keep our release schedule going with
the 5.1.x and 5.3.x releases.
We're also working towards further 5.x releases and a 6.0.0 release to
provide our users with major version upgrades of Karaf, Camel, CXF, ...
Releases:
- A set of 128 bundles in September
- Apache ServiceMix 5.0.4 in September
- Apache ServiceMix 5.1.2 in September
- Apache ServiceMix 5.0.5 in October
- Apache ServiceMix 5.1.3 in October
- Apache ServiceMix 5.3.0 in October
- A set of 65 bundles in October
- Apache ServiceMix 5.0.6 in November
- Apache ServiceMix 5.1.4 in November
- A set of 282 bundles in November
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Attachment AW: Report from the Apache Shiro Project [Les Hazlewood]
Apache Shiro is a powerful and flexible open-source application
security framework that cleanly handles authentication, authorization,
enterprise session management and cryptography.
We have no issues that require Board assistance at this time.
Releases:
- No new releases since our previous 1.2.3 bugfix release on 25
February 2014. A 1.3 release may be possible as an interim before
2.0, but development work last quarter has targeted the 2.0 branch.
Community & Project:
- Mailing list traffic remains steady compared to last quarter.
- Efforts towards a 2.0 distribution remain active on a separate dev
branch. Changes are ongoing, and we hope to make a 2.0 release Q1
2015.
Last PMC Member voted in: Brian Demers on 20 May 2013
Last committer voted in: Jared Bunting on 29 Jul 2012
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Attachment AX: Report from the Apache Sling Project [Carsten Ziegeler]
Apache Sling is an OSGI-based scriptable web framework that uses a Java Content
Repository, such as Apache Jackrabbit, to store and manage content.
There are no issues which require board attention at the moment.
Community
Good activity level overall, contributions from different people continue.
Three new committers: Marius Petria, Konrad Windszus and Julian Sedding, no
new PMC members.
Last PMC change was in June 2014 with six new PMC members elected.
Releases
- Apache Sling Auth Core 1.3.4 (December 2nd, 2014)
- Apache Sling Resource Merger 1.2.0 (November 29th, 2014)
- Apache Sling Resource Resolver 1.1.8 (November 27th, 2014)
- Apache Sling Servlets Resolver 2.3.6,
and Apache Sling Engine 2.3.10 (November 18th, 2014)
- Apache Sling Servlets Resolver 2.3.4 (November 14th, 2014)
- Apache Sling Eventing 3.4.4 (November 7th, 2014)
- Apache Sling Scripting JSP 2.1.6 (November 6th, 2014)
- Apache Sling Slingstart Maven Plugin 1.0.2 (November 5th, 2014)
- Apache Sling Event 3.4.2 (November 1st, 2014)
- Apache Sling Engine 2.3.8, Apache Sling Provisioning Model 1.0.0,
and Apache Slingstart Maven Plugin 1.0.0 (October 27th, 2014)
- Apache Sling JCR Resource Resolver 2.3.12 (October 26th, 2014)
- Apache Sling Eventing 3.4.0,
and Apache Sling Distributed Event Admin 1.0.0 (October 24th, 2014)
- Apache Sling JCR Resource Resolver 2.3.10 (October 22nd, 2014)
- Apache Sling Auth Core 1.3.2,
Resource Resolver Mock 1.0.0,
JCR Mock 1.0.0, OSGi Mock 1.0.0,
Sling Mock 1.0.0, Sling Mock Jackrabbit 0.1.0 (October 21st, 2014)
- Apache Sling IDE Tooling 1.0.4 ( October 18th, 2014)
- Apache Sling Settings 1.3.4, Apache Sling Discovery API 1.0.2,
and Apache Sling Discovery Impl 1.0.12 (October 10th, 2014)
- Apache Sling Resource Resolver 1.1.6 (October 4th, 2014)
- Apache Sling Superimposing Resource Provider 0.2.0,
and Apache Sling 7 (October 3rd, 2014)
- Apache Sling Scripting Java 2.0.12 (September 30th, 2014)
- Apache Sling Resource Resolver Mock 0.3.0 (September 29th, 2014)
- Apache Sling Resource Resolver 1.1.4 (September 26, 2014)
- Apache Sling JSP Taglib 2.2.4 (September 25, 2014)
- Apache Sling DavEx Access to repositories 1.2.2,
and Apache Sling Adapter Manager Implementation 2.1.2,
- Apache Sling Scripting Core implementation 2.0.28 (September 22nd, 2014)
- Apache Sling JCR ContentLoader 2.1.0,
and Apache Sling Web Console Security Provider 1.1.4 (September 21st, 2014)
- Apache Sling Resource Access Security 1.0.0,
and Apache Sling Auth Core 1.3.0 (September 20th, 2014)
- Apache Sling Engine 2.3.6, Apache Sling JCR ClassLoader 3.2.2,
- Apache Sling JCR Jackrabbit Access Manager 2.1.2,
and Apache Sling JCR Jackrabbit Server 2.2.0,
- Apache Sling JCR Jackrabbit User Manager 2.2.2,
and Apache Sling JCR Registration 1.0.2,
- Apache Sling JCR Web Console 1.0.2 (September 19th, 2014)
- Apache Sling Scripting Thymeleaf 0.0.4 (September 17th, 2014)
- Apache Sling Resource Resolver 1.1.2 (September 16th, 2014)
- Apache Sling Maven Launchpad Plugin 2.3.2 (September 15th, 2014)
- Apache Sling Filesystem Resource Provider 1.1.4,
and Apache Sling Launchpad Content 2.0.8,
- Apache Sling JSP Tag Library 2.2.2,
and Apache Sling Scripting Groovy Support 1.0.0 (September 12th, 2014)
Documentation and infrastructure
Nothing to report
Project Branding is tracked in SLING-2696.
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Attachment AY: Report from the Apache SpamAssassin Project [Kevin A. McGrail]
Description
-----------
SpamAssassin is a mail filter to identify spam. It is an intelligent
email filter which uses a diverse range of tests to identify unsolicited
bulk email, more commonly known as Spam. These tests are applied to
email headers and content to classify email using advanced statistical
methods. In addition, SpamAssassin has a modular architecture that
allows other technologies to be quickly wielded against spam and is
designed for easy integration into virtually any email system.
Releases
--------
3.4.0 was released on 2014-02-11.
Our rules releases have continued and with 73 rule sets published since the
last quarterly report.
The first release candidate for 3.4.1 was created today on Dec 16th.
Community & Development
-----------------------
The most recent addition to our PMC is Adam Katz added on 2013-01-30.
The most recent addition to the committers is Joe Quinn added on
2014-02-27.
The community has started the process to revive the SOUGHT rules project
However, we do not have any new people moving moving towards committer
but do have commits and rules being discussed and passed through to
current committers to vet and apply showing good community development
health.
Our RuleQA dev list has been active and community support is good.
The project users' list is active; questions get asked and answered.
The project dev list has been active with both committers and community
members contributing.
We still need to get our Jenkins build slave working under FreeBSD
instead of Solaris1 (Bug 6887).
https://builds.apache.org/job/SpamAssassin-trunk/ is offline and not working.
We are preparing to deprecate the zones2 server.
Thanks to Infra for the work on the SVN recovery!
Project Branding Requirements
-----------------------------
IN PROCESS - Logos and Graphics : include TM, use consistent
product logo on your site
NOTE: Will announce the new logo along with the powered by logo. Planned with
3.4.1 release.
Committee Record Review
-----------------------
We compared http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/spamassassin/trunk/CREDITS to
https://svn.apache.org/repos/private/committers/board/committee-info.txt
and no discrepancies were found.
Issues
------
No further issues.
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Attachment AZ: Report from the Apache Stanbol Project [Fabian Christ]
Apache Stanbol provides a set of reusable components for semantic content
management.
There are no issues which require board attention at the moment.
The project is performing well and the development is going towards version
1.0. Some minor tasks are still to do. In the meantime the project is
preparing a 0.12.1 maintenance release.
The Stanbol project has participated at the ApacheCon EU with a talk by
Rupert Westenthaler about a possible new annotation model for Apache
Stanbol [1, 2 (slides)]. In this context Stanbol was offered the
possibility to send a member to the W3C group working on Open Annotation.
[1] http://s.apache.org/AwS
[2] http://s.apache.org/CUX
Subscribers on the dev list: 217
No new committers or PMC members were elected.
Last new committer was
Antonio David Perez Morales on Jan 14th, 2014
No new PMC member was elected since the graduation of Apache Stanbol on
Sep 19th, 2012.
Last stack release was:
Apache Stanbol 0.12 on Mar 2nd, 2014
Last component release was:
Apache Stanbol Partial Security Release RC2 on June 5th, 2014
org.apache.stanbol.commons.security.reactor-20140602
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Attachment BA: Report from the Apache Storm Project [P. Taylor Goetz]
DESCRIPTION
APACHE Storm is a distributed, fault-tolerant, and high-performance realtime
computation system that provides strong guarantees on the processing of
data.
CURRENT ACTIVITY
* Version 0.9.3 has been released. This was the first release as a top-level
project. The Storm incubator distribution area has been cleaned up as
required.
* The developer and user lists continue to be active, and JIRAs are being
created and addressed.
* Development activity continues on version 0.10 which will be the next
major release (AKA the “security” release).
RELEASES
* The last release of Apache Storm was version 0.9.3, released
on November 25, 2014. This was the first release as a TLP.
COMMUNITY
* Storm added 4 PMC/Committer members on September 27, 2014 (Note: These
members were voted in during incubation, and added as PMC members post-
graduation via board NOTICE).
* There were no new additions to the PMC since the last report.
ISSUES
* There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
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Attachment BB: Report from the Apache Synapse Project [Hiranya Jayathilaka]
Apache Synapse is a high performance, flexible, lightweight
Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and a mediation framework.
Community
=========
No new committers or PMC members were nominated this quarter. Latest
Synapse committer was elected on December, 2013. Latest Synapse PMC
member was elected on December, 2013.
Releases
========
There have been no new releases during this period.
The last release of Synapse is version 2.1, which was released on
January, 2012.
Our release process is still blocked by the absence of a compatible
Apache Axis2 release. After our last board report, it was suggested that
we consider the option of contributing our time and effort into Axis2,
so we can get it released. This proposal was sent to our mailing
list for discussion but it hasn't garnered a positive response from
the Synapse community. I believe that the above proposal is based on
the premise that at some point in the past, both Axis2 and Synapse projects
were maintained by more or less the same people. But to my understanding
these committers are no longer active in either project. Currently
active Synapse committers were all voted in within the last three years,
and they are not Axis2 experts. And so far they haven't shown any
interest in actively working on the Axis2 project. As it stands now,
we prefer to treat Axis2 as yet another external dependency on which
we can develop Synapse code.
To get around this hurdle, we have been looking into the possibility
of branching the current Axis2 trunk and doing a Synapse-specific
release (current Axis2 trunk is stable enough for our purposes). But
this option also poses some challenges due to the long dependency
chain of Synapse and Axis2. As it turns out we also need releases
from several other projects such as Axiom, WSS4J and XmlSchema.
However, so far this is the only option that has succeeded in
gathering any kind of momentum in the Synapse dev community.
Therefore, we will continue to explore this idea.
Board issues
============
None identified, although any feedback on how to handle the above
mentioned release problem will be much appreciated.
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Attachment BC: Report from the Apache Tajo Project [Hyunsik Choi]
Apache Tajo is a robust big data relational and distributed data warehouse
system for Apache Hadoop. Tajo is designed for low-latency and scalable ad-hoc
queries, online aggregation, and ETL (extract-transform-load process) on
large-data sets stored on HDFS (Hadoop Distributed File System) and other data
sources. By supporting SQL standards and leveraging advanced database
techniques, Tajo allows direct control of distributed execution and data
flow across a variety of query evaluation strategies and optimization
opportunities.
Board Issues
=============
There are no outstanding issues requiring board attention.
Current Activity
================
Recently, we are discussing 0.9.1 release (incremental release), including
bug fixes and new features, such as HBase storage support, recap of timezone,
and Hadoop dependency removal from TajoClient. For 0.9.1 release, we have
resolved about 80 issues since last release in Oct 2014.
Releases
===============
- Apache Tajo 0.9.0 (major release) (October 21, 2014)
- Apache Tajo 0.8.0 (major release) (May 1, 2014)
The last committers or PMC members elected
===========================================
Last new PMC member: Hyoung Jun Kim <hjkim@apache.org> on 2014/12/08
Last new committer: Hyoung Jun Kim <hjkim@apache.org> on 2014/08/06
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Attachment BD: Report from the Apache Tiles Project [Greg Reddin]
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Attachment BE: Report from the Apache Tomcat Project [Mladen Turk]
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Attachment BF: Report from the Apache Tuscany Project [Jean-Sebastien Delfino]
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Attachment BG: Report from the Apache UIMA Project [Marshall Schor]
Apache UIMA's mission: the creation and maintenance of open-source
software related to the analysis of unstructured data, guided by the
UIMA Oasis Standard.
Dates:
23 Oct 2014 last release
12 Mar 2013 last PMC addition
24 Dec 2013 last Committer addition
2 Releases:
23 Oct 2014 UIMA-DUCC (Distributed UIMA Cluster Controller)
1.1.0 released
http://uima.apache.org/news.html#23 October 2014
23 Sept 2014 UIMA Ruta (rule based scripting w/ Eclipse workbench)
2.2.1 released
http://uima.apache.org/news.html#23 September 2014
Other Activity:
A Youtube channel for UIMA was started, to post tutorials;
you can see it here:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1YKyoL1W-xNHs9cv4U1V9g
There are many other previous tutorials about UIMA on youtube, posted
by various individuals, as well.
Core UIMA is quite active, working towards a next release, which will
include JSON serialization, in support of the trend toward Cloud deployments.
The mailing lists are fairly active, and normal bug finding/fixing
work continues.
Community:
The community continues to be active, with some new contributions coming in,
including some video tutorials which were posted on Youtube.
UIMA-DUCC is starting to get traffic on the email lists as users
start using it.
Issues:
No Board level issues at this time.
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Attachment BH: Report from the Apache VCL Project [Andy Kurth]
DESCRIPTION
VCL is a modular cloud computing platform which dynamically provisions and
brokers remote access to compute resources including virtual machines,
bare-metal computers, and resources in other cloud platforms. A self-service
web portal is used to request resources and for administration. VCL became a
TLP on June 20, 2012.
CURRENT ACTIVITY
* The next release of VCL was pushed back due to an underestimate of the
amount of work remaining. We plan to create a release candidate next week.
* Almost all of the development work is complete. Work is wrapping up to
add NAT support and a few minor improvements.
* After this release, we will work to improve how the project handles
release planning and management. It has been a very long time since our
last release (12/12). Some discussion has started in the thread referenced
as [1].
RELEASES
None
COMMUNITY
Subscribers to the user list: 162
Posts to user list, 9/14-11/14: 97
Subscribers to the dev list: 130
Posts to dev list, 9/14-11/14: 440
Committers: 8
PMC members: 7
ISSUES
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time
[1] http://vcl.markmail.org/thread/ejanbxnvtm2476mc
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Attachment BI: Report from the Apache Whirr Project [Andrew Bayer]
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Attachment BJ: Report from the Apache Wicket Project [Martijn Dashorst]
Apache Wicket is a Java framework for creating highly dynamic,
component oriented web applications.
Things worthy of note:
- 7.0.0-M4, 6.18.0
- Nutch Google Summer of Code delivered admin interface using Wicket
- ApacheCon EU 2014 had 2 Wicket presentations and 1 isis presentation
- Jesse Long was added as a committer and PMC member
- New site discussions
Date last committer/PMC member added: 28 September 2014
ApacheCon EU
Martijn Dashorst presented 2 sessions at ApacheCon EU in Budapest:
- Wicket and Java EE Sitting in a Tree
- Apache Wicket: 10 Years and Beyond
In the aftermath good discussions with committers of other projects
arose, including Deltaspike and Isis.
New website
In the quest for a more 2014+ design for our current aging web site a
lot of activity arose to craft a new site. The new site will be
compliant with the branding guidelines. A preview can be found at
http://dashorst.github.io/wicket-site
One of the discussions focused on the addition of the "Fork me on
Github" banner in the top right corner of every page. Community members
want a prominent link to github because they claim it attracts
contributions and because the tooling available at github is more
aligned with current open source contributors.
As Chair I voiced my concerns about linking to a non-sponsor,
commercial entity in such a prominent place (even the foundation
doesn't have such prominence). I find it rather difficult to convince
my community members of why this is wrong. Somehow it does not compute
that "Fork me on Github" is not a good message to send out and is in
fact a big banner ad for github.
In a discussion on board@ it seemed that some folks share my concerns
whereas others rather give projects leeway in how they approach such
links. The fact that both Project Thanks Pages and Product Support
Pages specifically mention that such links should not (including added
emphasis on the not) be (prominent) on the homepage, doesn't seem to
hold much if any weight.
Ultimately I removed the banner from the site. Having such a link on
every page is (according to me) against ASF policy if not in writing at
least in spirit (i.e. mark/linking policies).
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Attachment BK: Report from the Apache Wink Project [Luciano Resende]
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Attachment BL: Report from the Apache ZooKeeper Project [Flavio Junqueira]
ZooKeeper is a reliable coordination service for distributed systems.
We have released an alpha version of the 3.5 branch on Aug. 06, 2014.
This release includes important features such as reconfiguration. It fixes
a significant number of bugs and includes smaller improvements both in
the server and client. The community is now focusing on the stability of the
branch. There is also ongoing work to introduce SSL support. This is a
feature that has been long awaited.
No infrastructure issues:
Community:
* Mailing list activity hasn’t changed significantly.
* 11 active committers representing 10 unique organizations. No change
to the list of committers.
* 9 active PMC members representing 8 unique organizations. No change
to the list of PMC members.
* 437 subscribers on dev (up from 435 last quarter).
* 988 subscribers on user (up from 974 last quarter).
* 2093 jira issues have been created to date (38 more since last
quarter)
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