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Board of Directors Meeting Minutes
February 18, 2015
1. Call to order
The meeting was scheduled for 10:30am Pacific and began at 10:34
when a sufficient attendance to constitute a quorum was
recognized by the chairman.
Other Time Zones: http://timeanddate.com/s/2sep
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 joined at 11:02
Doug Cutting
Bertrand Delacretaz
Ross Gardler
Jim Jagielski
Brett Porter
Sam Ruby
Directors Absent:
Greg Stein
Chris Mattmann
Executive Officers Present:
Craig L Russell
Executive Officers Absent:
none
Guests:
Sean Kelly
Daniel Gruno
Kevin A. McGrail
Jake Farrell
Shane Curcuru
Andrea Pescetti
Chip Childers
Marvin Humphrey
Hadrian Zbarcea
Henri Yandell
David Nalley
Tom Pappas (Virtual)
Mark Radcliffe joined at 10:55
3. Minutes from previous meetings
Published minutes can be found at:
http://www.apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html
A. The meeting of January 21, 2015
See: board_minutes_2015_01_21.txt
Tabled.
4. Executive Officer Reports
A. Chairman [Brett]
I've started to pull together the resources for the Annual meeting in
late March (after the next and final meeting of the current board).
I plan to set the record date and send out formal notices in the
next week.
I hope to encourage people unable to attend the meeting to submit
non-voting proxies well in advance of the meeting, and will see what
we can do to make that process easier. I also expect to perform the
Omnibus resolution using the voter tool again, so that we do not need
to pass any resolutions during the meeting itself.
B. President [Ross]
Branding: Shane has requested that Mark Radcliffe join the board meeting
during the discussion items to help us understand the role of trademarks
within the ASF. He will join at 11AM PT. I hope that we can make time for
this.
EA: Usual support work. Shane has requested that our EA help more with
branding items. This is something we have been offering for a long
time. We are working on identifying concrete ways in which we can
empower Melissa to take action. I intend to move Melissa too a PEO
organization (Virtual) assuming no surprises in the cost of doing so or
objections from Melissa (we do not expect it to increase ASF costs
significantly, if at al). This may be a temporary measure but as
previously reported we need to take action and this point a PEO is the
only viable option. See the vice Chairman report for more detail.
Branding: VP Brand Management expresses concern about management of our
brands in projects where the brand is highly valuable. Our policies
appear to be working to date. Delegating to the PMCs has spread the
workload sufficiently that increased vigilance on complex cases is not
posing a significant problem. However, Shane warns that the recent
interest in external related foundations will only serve to increase
the brand management workload. Shane has invited Mark Radcliffe of
DLAPiper to speak to the board today, though this is not related to the
concerns raised. The discussion item is the importance of brand
management tot he ASF in preparation for budget planning.
Fundraising: We continue to iron out wrinkles in the Fundraising
process. Each month it seems to be running more smoothly. Processes are
sufficiently well defined for Hadrian to participate in the exploration
of a CRM for managing sponsor relations (something Melissa had
previously been driving in her own time), No decision has been made at
this point.
Marketing and Publicity: Sally produced our first quarterly report.
This is a good start though not quite what I had envisioned. We will
continue to work on and improve this in the coming quarters. Sally
helped with the CRM discussions and provided feedback to Hadrian. It is
not felt that VP Marketing requires a CRM, however, if possible I would
like to see us doing a better job of capturing knowledge from this
office. That being said, fundraising support remains the priority.
Sally has revisited the home page (not site) redesign discussions based
on extensive feedback from the membership.
Infrastructure: An excellent, productive month for Infra - well done
team! Hardware budget is expected to be reduced thanks to a
combination of credit with multiple cloud providers. My thanks go to VP
Infra for making this happen. Whimsy was identified as a critical
service that infra need to manage. This resulted in some discussion
about how best to manage the service. Sam Ruby has been working with
the infra team on this topic. There has been excellent progress on
automating machine builds and retiring old machines. In the case of
LDAP this introduced a few problems which are being addressed in order
of priority. We had some initial discussion about the CMS used by many
Apache projects. This system is very much hacked together and is
largely unmaintainable without significant expense. No decisions has
been made on how to proceed, future reports will update. Some project
specific services (Maven and Cassandra) are progressing nicely.
No report from Travel Assistance. Plans for ApacheCon NA are in progress.
Budget: Budget planning is a little behind schedule but I do have
complete numbers from Virtual now. We are progressing with one office
having submitted their budget numbers already. Expect an early draft
within the week.
Additionally, please see Attachments 1 through 6.
C. Treasurer [Chris]
The 2013 990 Net Assets and other items have been clarified on our
tax preparation for FY2013. Everything seems in order and Chris and
Tom had a call to discuss on 1/23/15.
The Treasurer’s Office initiated a series of wires to fully transfer
all of the remaining funds in WFS to Citizen’s Bank leaving a small
amount in WFS (less than 10K) to cover any incoming expenses. We
expect to finalize the remaining funds transfer and decommission
WFS in the next month.
1099s for contractors have been issued by Virtual.
Virtual has been working with VP, Press and Marketing for the year
in review reports and quarterly reports, providing financial data
and other information to assist in the report preparation.
Income and Expenses for January 2015 CASH BASIS
Current Balances:
Citizens Checking $701,087
Amazon- ASF Payments $17,926
Paypal - ASF $49,569
Wells Fargo Checking - ASF $399,259
Wells Fargo Savings $288,152
Total Checking/Savings $1,455,994
Income Summary:
Public Donations $1,998 Amazon and Paypal
Sponsorship Program $90,000
Programs Income $24,040
Interest Income $24
Total Income $116,062
Expense Summary:
Infrastructure $40,219
Sponsorship Program $-
Programs Expense $-
Publicity $8,750
Brand Management $-
Conferences $-
Travel Assistance Committee $-
Treasury Services $3,850
General & Administrative $16,670
Total Expense $69,489
Net Income $46,574
Jim: Will the audit be able to start soon? Tom: Can't start
the audit until books are closed; looks like mid summer for
the audit.
D. Secretary [Craig]
Secretary continues to operate smoothly. In January, 65 iclas, three cclas,
and five grants were received and filed.
E. Executive Vice President [Rich]
I will be late to the meeting by about 30 minutes. I will be there to answer
questions, if any, by the end of the meeting.
I am scrambling to get the schedule for ApacheCon NA put together, and while
I've received a LOT of help from various people, the current CFP tools are
woefully inadequate for the task. However, we should have a schedule, and
keynotes, announced early next week.
Meanwhile, I have delegated most of the work for ApacheCon EU to Jan Iversen,
so that I'm not trying to do manage two events, and I am looking around for
someone that might be interested in stepping up to rotate ApacheCon NA events
with me.
Rich needs help with ApacheCon planning; Sam volunteered to
help.
F. Vice Chairman [Greg]
Apologies for the short report, yet upon substantive matter:
after speaking with Ross (President) and David (VP Infra), we
have decided to move one contractor to an employee status via
the PEO (professional employer organization) framework provided
by Virtual as an experiment for the next two months. At the May
Board meeting, a complete solution for all US-based contractors
will be provided for Board review and consideration.
Background: there are two options remaining open: PEO-based
employment, and a third-party whole-option contract. Moving one
contractor to the PEO solution will provide us needed detail.
The goal for resolution of the contractor issue is to have a
recommendation for the incoming board.
Executive officer reports approved as submitted by General Consent.
5. Additional Officer Reports
A. VP of W3C Relations [Andy Seaborne / Ross]
See Attachment 7
B. Apache Legal Affairs Committee [Jim Jagielski]
See Attachment 8
C. Apache Security Team Project [Mark Cox / Doug]
See Attachment 9
Additional officer reports approved as submitted by General Consent.
6. Committee Reports
A. Apache Abdera Project [Ant Elder / Rich]
No report was submitted.
B. Apache ACE Project [Marcel Offermans / Sam]
See Attachment B
C. Apache ActiveMQ Project [Hiram Chirino / Chris]
See Attachment C
D. Apache Airavata Project [Suresh Marru / Greg]
No report was submitted.
E. Apache Ambari Project [Yusaku Sako / Brett]
See Attachment E
F. Apache Ant Project [Conor MacNeill / Bertrand]
See Attachment F
G. Apache Aries Project [Jeremy Hughes / Jim]
See Attachment G
H. Apache Axis Project [Deepal Jayasinghe / Sam]
See Attachment H
I. Apache BookKeeper Project [Ivan Kelly / Greg]
See Attachment I
Report was submitted but rejected and requested the following month.
J. Apache Buildr Project [Alex Boisvert / Rich]
See Attachment J
K. Apache Cassandra Project [Jonathan Ellis / Brett]
No report was submitted.
L. Apache Celix Project [Alexander Broekhuis / Chris]
See Attachment L
M. Apache Chukwa Project [Eric Yang / Bertrand]
See Attachment M
N. Apache Clerezza Project [Hasan Hasan / Jim]
See Attachment N
O. Apache Cocoon Project [Thorsten Scherler / Doug]
See Attachment O
P. Apache Community Development Project [Ulrich Stärk / Ross]
See Attachment P
Q. Apache Continuum Project [Brent Atkinson / Sam]
See Attachment Q
R. Apache CouchDB Project [Jan Lehnardt / Chris]
See Attachment R
S. Apache Creadur Project [Brian Fox / Jim]
See Attachment S
@Jim: Clarify report
T. Apache Deltacloud Project [Marios S. Andreou / Doug]
No report was submitted.
U. Apache DeltaSpike Project [Gerhard Petracek / Bertrand]
See Attachment U
@Bertrand: Ask if the git CMS work could be documented for
others to use
V. Apache DeviceMap Project [Reza Naghibi / Rich]
See Attachment V
W. Apache DirectMemory Project [Raffaele P. Guidi / Greg]
No report was submitted.
X. Apache Directory Project [Pierre-Arnaud Marcelot / Ross]
See Attachment X
Y. Apache Drill Project [Jacques Nadeau / Brett]
See Attachment Y
@Brett: Are hangouts documents so non-attendees can
participate later?
Z. Apache Empire-db Project [Francis De Brabandere / Brett]
See Attachment Z
AA. Apache Etch Project [Martin Veith / Greg]
See Attachment AA
AB. Apache Falcon Project [Srikanth Sundarrajan / Ross]
See Attachment AB
AC. Apache Flink Project [Stephan Ewen / Rich]
See Attachment AC
AD. Apache Flume Project [Arvind Prabhakar / Jim]
See Attachment AD
AE. Apache Forrest Project [David Crossley / Sam]
See Attachment AE
AF. Apache Geronimo Project [Jarek Gawor / Doug]
See Attachment AF
AG. Apache Giraph Project [Avery Ching / Chris]
See Attachment AG
AH. Apache Gora Project [Lewis John McGibbney / Bertrand]
See Attachment AH
AI. Apache Hadoop Project [Chris Douglas / Jim]
See Attachment AI
AJ. Apache Hama Project [ChiaHung Lin / Sam]
No report was submitted.
AK. Apache HBase Project [Michael Stack / Doug]
See Attachment AK
AL. Apache HTTP Server Project [Eric Covener / Bertrand]
See Attachment AL
AM. Apache HttpComponents Project [Asankha Perera / Chris]
No report was submitted.
@Chris: pursue a report for HttpComponents
AN. Apache Incubator Project [Roman Shaposhnik / Ross]
See Attachment AN
AO. Apache JMeter Project [Sebastian Bazley / Rich]
See Attachment AO
AP. Apache jUDDI Project [Alex O'Ree / Brett]
No report was submitted.
@Brett: pursue a report for jUDDI
AQ. Apache Kafka Project [Jun Rao / Greg]
See Attachment AQ
AR. Apache Knox Project [Kevin Minder / Greg]
See Attachment AR
AS. Apache Lenya Project [Richard Frovarp / Rich]
See Attachment AS
AT. Apache Libcloud Project [Tomaz Muraus / Chris]
See Attachment AT
AU. Apache Logging Project [Christian Grobmeier / Brett]
See Attachment AU
@Brett: Any action on log4j?
AV. Apache Mahout Project [Grant Ingersoll / Bertrand]
See Attachment AV
AW. Apache ManifoldCF Project [Karl Wright / Doug]
See Attachment AW
@Doug: Is there still an issue with infra?
AX. Apache Marmotta Project [Jakob Frank / Jim]
See Attachment AX
AY. Apache Mesos Project [Benjamin Hindman / Sam]
No report was submitted.
AZ. Apache MetaModel Project [Kasper Sørensen / Ross]
See Attachment AZ
BA. Apache MINA Project [Emmanuel Lecharny / Bertrand]
See Attachment BA
BB. Apache MRUnit Project [Brock Noland / Jim]
No report was submitted.
BC. Apache Nutch Project [Sebastian Nagel / Chris]
See Attachment BC
BD. Apache ODE Project [Tammo van Lessen / Ross]
See Attachment BD
BE. Apache Oltu Project [Antonio Sanso / Greg]
No report was submitted.
BF. Apache Oozie Project [Mohammad Islam / Sam]
See Attachment BF
BG. Apache Open Climate Workbench Project [Michael James Joyce / Brett]
See Attachment BG
BH. Apache OpenJPA Project [Pinaki Poddar / Doug]
No report was submitted.
BI. Apache OpenMeetings Project [Sebastian Wagner / Rich]
See Attachment BI
BJ. Apache Perl Project [Philippe M. Chiasson / Sam]
No report was submitted.
@Sam: Is anyone on the PMC looking at the reminders?
BK. Apache Phoenix Project [James R. Taylor / Chris]
See Attachment BK
BL. Apache POI Project [Yegor Kozlov / Ross]
No report was submitted.
BM. Apache Qpid Project [Robbie Gemmell / Rich]
See Attachment BM
BN. Apache River Project [Patricia Shanahan / Bertrand]
See Attachment BN
BO. Apache Roller Project [Dave Johnson / Doug]
See Attachment BO
BP. Apache Samza Project [Chris Riccomini / Jim]
See Attachment BP
BQ. Apache Santuario Project [Colm O hEigeartaigh / Greg]
See Attachment BQ
BR. Apache SIS Project [Adam Estrada / Brett]
See Attachment BR
@Brett: What is the issue with infra?
BS. Apache Spark Project [Matei Zaharia / Bertrand]
See Attachment BS
BT. Apache Stratos Project [Lakmal Warusawithana / Jim]
See Attachment BT
BU. Apache Subversion Project [Greg Stein]
See Attachment BU
BV. Apache Syncope Project [Francesco Chicchiricco / Ross]
See Attachment BV
BW. Apache Tapestry Project [Howard M. Lewis Ship / Chris]
No report was submitted.
BX. Apache Tomcat Project [Mladen Turk / Greg]
No report was submitted.
BY. Apache TomEE Project [David Blevins / Doug]
See Attachment BY
BZ. Apache Turbine Project [Thomas Vandahl / Rich]
See Attachment BZ
CA. Apache Tuscany Project [Jean-Sebastien Delfino / Brett]
No report was submitted.
CB. Apache Velocity Project [Nathan Bubna / Sam]
See Attachment CB
CC. Apache Web Services Project [Sagara Gunathunga / Doug]
See Attachment CC
CD. Apache Xalan Project [Steven J. Hathaway / Chris]
See Attachment CD
CE. Apache Xerces Project [Michael Glavassevich / Ross]
No report was submitted.
CF. Apache XML Graphics Project [Chris Bowditch / Brett]
See Attachment CF
Committee reports approved as submitted by General Consent.
7. Special Orders
A. Resolution to Change the Apache Geronimo Chair
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Jarek Gawor
to the office of Vice President, Apache Geronimo, and
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation
of Jarek Gawor from the office of Vice President, Apache Geronimo,
and
WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Geronimo
project has chosen by vote to recommend Alan Cabrera as the successor
to the post;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Jarek Gawor is relieved and
discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office
of Vice President, Apache Geronimo, and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Alan Cabrera be and hereby is
appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Geronimo, to
serve in accordance with and subject to the direction of the
Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until
death, resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification, or
until a successor is appointed.
Special Order 7A, Resolution to Change the Apache Geronimo
Chair, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors
present.
B. Resolution to Change the Apache ServiceMix Chair
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Gert Vanthienen
to the office of Vice President, Apache ServiceMix, and
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation
of Gert Vanthienen from the office of Vice President, Apache
ServiceMix, and
WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache ServiceMix
project has chosen by vote to recommend Krzysztof Sobkowiak as the
successor to the post;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Gert Vanthienen is relieved
and discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office
of Vice President, Apache ServiceMix, and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Krzysztof Sobkowiak be and hereby is
appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache ServiceMix, to
serve in accordance with and subject to the direction of the
Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until
death, resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification, or
until a successor is appointed.
Special Order 7B, Resolution to Change the Apache ServiceMix
Chair, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors
present.
C. Resolution to Change the Apache Directory Chair
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Pierre-Arnaud
Marcelot to the office of Vice President, Apache Directory, and
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation
of Pierre-Arnaud Marcelot from the office of Vice President, Apache
Directory, and
WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Directory
project has chosen by vote to recommend Kiran Ayyagari as the
successor to the post;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Pierre-Arnaud Marcelot is
relieved and discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the
office of Vice President, Apache Directory, and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Kiran Ayyagari be and hereby is
appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Directory, 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, Resolution to Change the Apache Directory
Chair, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors
present.
D. Resolution to Change the Apache OODT Chair
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Sean Kelly to
the office of Vice President, Apache OODT, and
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of
Sean Kelly from the office of Vice President, Apache OODT, and
WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache OODT project
has chosen to recommend Tom Barber the successor to the post;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Sean Kelly is relieved and
discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice
President, Apache OODT, and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Tom Barber be and hereby is appointed to
the office of Vice President, Apache OODT, to serve in accordance
with and subject to the direction of the Board of Directors and the
Bylaws of the Foundation until death, resignation, retirement, removal
or disqualification, or until a successor is appointed.
Special Order 7D, Resolution to Change the Apache OODT Chair,
was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
E. Resolution to Change the Apache OpenOffice Chair
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Andrea
Pescetti to the office of Vice President, Apache OpenOffice, and
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation
of Andrea Pescetti from the office of Vice President, Apache
OpenOffice, and
WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache
OpenOffice project has chosen by vote to recommend Jan Iversen
as the successor to the post;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Andrea Pescetti is relieved
and discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office
of Vice President, Apache OpenOffice, and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Jan Iversen be and hereby is
appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache OpenOffice, to
serve in accordance with and subject to the direction of the
Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until
death, resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification, or
until a successor is appointed.
Special Order 7E, Resolution to Change the Apache OpenOffice
Chair, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors
present.
F. Resolution to Change the Apache MINA Chair
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Emmanuel Lécharny
to the office of Vice President, Apache MINA, and
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation
of Emmanuel Lécharny from the office of Vice President, Apache MINA,
and
WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache MINA
project has chosen by vote to recommend Jean-François Maury as the
successor to the post;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Emmanuel Lécharny is relieved and
discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office
of Vice President, Apache MINA, and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Jean-François Maury be and hereby is
appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache MINA, to
serve in accordance with and subject to the direction of the
Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until
death, resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification, or
until a successor is appointed.
Special Order 7F, Resolution to Change the Apache MINA Chair,
was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
8. Discussion Items
Mark: Trademarks are a valuable asset for ASF. Trademark rules vary
by country. Virtually all countries protect rights only through registration.
Many unsavory people register other peoples' trademarks as a
business. Risks are most often on ASF users, not ASF per se.
As a practical matter, projects need to select brands that are available.
Open source has "won the war" and is now ubiquitous. Now there are
lawsuits based on GPL interpretation by people who are just trying to
make money from the legal process, not community policing as we
have seen in the past.
Jim: Need to balance the cost versus benefit of registration.
Shane: Looks like the "sweet spot" of registration is somewhat more
than we are doing now. But consider that a third party has registered
our Hadoop trademark in China.
This is not a direct legal risk to Apache, although it could well
prevent us from using the Hadoop name in China. Similarly, it may hurt
downstream users relying on the Hadoop ecosystem, and in the long run it
likely will hurt Apache Hadoop if the project loses support and/or future
contributions from those users.
Jim: Once a trademark is registered, we are then required to police it
more vigorously.
Mark: ASF is required to police brands regardless of registration (or not).
If ASF doesn't have the money, users may well contribute to registration costs.
Ross: Users are represented by PMCs. We need to make sure that
PMCs step up, with foundation support.
9. Review Outstanding Action Items
* Bertrand: Follow up with PMC regarding commercial sponsoring [ Isis ]
Status: done, I'm happy with the clarifications provided in
the "[REPORT] Apache Isis (January 2015)" thread on board@
* Brett: Remind PMCs to report on dates
Status:
* Brett: pursue a report for Axis
Status:
* Brett: Discuss how to work with Axis to make a release [ Synapse ]
Status:
* Brett: Request a better report for next month [ Deltacloud ]
Status:
* Doug: Is the project ready to retire? [ Wink ]
Status: Done. Progress is slow, but PMC still able to make releases.
* Greg: Any info about the community? [ ACE ]
Status:
* Greg: the report states a problem but no plan to address it [ Deltacloud ]
Status:
* Greg: find out if TCK is holding up progress [ MyFaces ]
Status:
* Greg: pursue a report for MRUnit
Status:
* Greg: Please don't include mentors who didn't sign off [ Incubator ]
Status:
* Greg: Is it time to retire the project? [ Tuscany ]
Status:
* Jim: send message to all PMCs re: health of projects, new committers,
new PMC members
Status: Sorry. Lack of cycles. Draft complete just haven't sent
it yet.
* Rich: work with PMC to help resolve conflicts [ Flex ]
Status: After the last salvo, I haven't heard anything more.
I think that things have quieted down for now, but I will
continue to check in.
* Ross: Discuss with comdev how to get projects to engage with them more
Status:
* Ross: Bring statistics in line with reporting period [ OODT ]
Status:
* Ross: Discuss the "fork me" banner issue with the project [ Wicket ]
Status:
* Sam: follow up with PMC for clarification on the relationship
between the addons and the project [ Isis ]
Status: Clarification present in this month's report. Action item
can be closed.
* Sam: Follow up with a more complete report next month [ DirectMemory ]
Status: Greg followed up. Action item can be closed.
* Sam: Is the project ready for retirement? [ Rave ]
Status: email sent today. Keep item open until I get a response.
10. Unfinished Business
11. New Business
12. Announcements
Jim: The corporate sponsor of Groovy have dropped support, so the
Groovy project might be interested in moving to Apache.
13. Adjournment
Adjourned at 11:49 a.m. (Pacific)
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ATTACHMENTS:
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Attachment 1: Report from the Executive Assistant [Melissa Warnkin]
Fundraising/Virtual:
• Working with a few new folks that have requested sponsorship info; one of
which has become a silver sponsor (payment already received)
• Work continues with Hadrian on upcoming renewals
• Hadrian heading up the CRM for Fundraising effort
• Responded to inquiry from Virtual re 2014 990 info ApacheCon:
• Remaining ACEU 2014 exchange rates calculated and submitted to Nick
• Invoice submitted to LF for reimbursement of $950 for three TACers they
agreed to fund for ACEU 2014
• ACNA 2015: 8 applicants approved, 7 accepted. Info sent to the travel
agent for 5 TACers to obtain proposed itins; prepping visa invitation letters,
and secured hotel for the three that will require visas
• Collaborating with Sally on giveaways
• Working with LF regarding the logistics for the TACers and the conference in
general
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Attachment 2: Report from the VP of Brand Management [Shane Curcuru]
Worked on clearing podling name search entries; however not all PPMCs are
performing the needed steps before submitting.
Submitted two educational talks on branding plus a potential barcamp/PMC
tutorial at ApacheCon Austin.
Denied a services branding request using a derivative of a registered Apache
mark that would highly likely be infringing if used. While it is positive this
third party requested permission first, it is puzzling why they would request
permissions for something so clearly inappropriate.
Requested branding updates related to improper use of our HADOOP mark on the
new opendataplatform.org website. As many popular Apache projects grow in
widespread use and broad commercial interest, it will become more important
than ever to ensure that our PMCs understand the importance of their
trademarks in managing an independent project, and ensuring that they have the
tools - education, access to counsel when needed, and the ability to register
their marks - to do so.
As a new website, the specific legal trademark issues on opendataplatform.org
are limited (so far) and it's not clear how the relevant companies will
present branding going forward. However third party projects like this that
blur the lines between their software product offerings and the underlying
Apache software products are likely to cause other issues about end user
confusion as to the true source of software, as well as concern with many
developers who may be interested in contributing to Apache projects.
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Attachment 3: Report from the VP of Fundraising [Jim Jagielski]
Fundraising continues steadily. There are a number of sponsors who indicated
that will renew, but are late to respond. I hope that more communication will
improve things in time. We did receive payments from Bloomberg, Hortonworks,
Winwork, and Samsung.
We are putting more effort in deciding on the CRM tool to manage the process.
Hadrian got actively involved had a couple of chats with HotWax Media. It is
very hard to find a solution that will make everybody happy. Hadrian did
research open source alternatives and is now researching commercial, hosted
alternatives. Hadrian is close to making a formal proposal, very likely using
a hosted solution. The proposal and hopefully a decision should be done before
the next board meeting.
We made a recommendation to update the Thanks page and Daniel Gruno provided a
concrete layout proposal. The proposal was accepted and Hadrian is working
with Daniel to update the Thanks page.
Hadrian had a couple of phone calls with sponsors. The goal is to improve the
dialogue with the sponsors and find out what sponsors see as valuable and
expect from the foundation. We anticipate this to lead to ideas and proposals
for improvements, discuss on the fundraising@ lists and report back to the
board.
Cloudera upgraded its sponsorship to Platinum level. Yay, thanks Cloudera!
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Attachment 4: Report from the VP of Marketing and Publicity [Sally Khudairi]
I. Budget: Sally Khudairi has been working with Tom Pappas of Virtual on the
Marketing & Publicity FY2014 budget expenditures to date, as well as to
prepare for the submission to ASF President Ross Gardler for the upcoming
fiscal year. There were some items totaling $8,511.02 that were erroneously
charged against the budget and were re-allocated to the TAC and Conferences
budgets accordingly.
II. Fundraising/Branding/Marketing liaison: Sally continues to liaise with
Trademarks & Brand Management with usage requests where needed. She continues
to work with Hadrian Zbarcea on items relating to the transition of the new
co-Vice Presidents of Fundraising, including brainstorming communications
requirements for their CRM solution, and producing the first ASF quarter
annual report. The next report in this cycle is the ASF FY2014 Annual Report,
which is scheduled to be published the last week of May. Sally has also
resumed discussions with HotWax Media for the new apache.org homepage project,
and anticipates having design proposals for review/discussion during
ApacheCon.
III. Press Releases: the following formal announcements were issued via the
newswire service, ASF Foundation Blog, and announce@apache.org during this
timeframe:
- 03 February 2015 --Apache™ PDFBox™ named an Open Source Partner
Organization of the PDF Association
- 02 February 2015 --The Apache Software Foundation Operations Summary:
October-December 2014
- 27 January 2015 --The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache™ Samza™
as a Top-Level Project
- 27 January 2015 --The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache™
BookKeeper™ as a Top-Level Project
IV. Informal Announcements: 9 items were published on the ASF "Foundation"
Blog, and 26 items were tweeted on @TheASF. Four Apache News Round-ups were
issued, with a total of 22 weekly summaries published thus far.
V. Future Announcements: one announcement is in development. Sally is working
on new promotional guidelines for podlings both entering as well as those
ready to graduate from the Incubator, and will be coordinating with Roman
Shaposhnik on publishing them when ready. Those PMCs wishing to announce major
project news 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 6 media requests. The ASF received 1,429
press clips over this time period, vs. last month's clip count of 696.
VII. Analyst Relations: we responded to 3 analyst queries. Apache was
mentioned in 13 write-ups and 1 online Webinar by Gartner, 7 reports by
Forrester, 3 write-ups by GigaOM, 11 reports by 451 Research/Yankee Group, and
5 reports by IDC. Sally is working with Forrester on a new report Apache
CloudStack and received their newly-published report on Apache Spark, with
thanks to the Apache Spark PMC.
VIII. ApacheCon liaison: Sally is working with the Linux Foundation team on
promotion tactics for ApacheCon, and has introduced them to the editorial team
at OpenSource.com (where several ASF members are contributors) for a possible
media partnership. She worked with Rich Bowen to include the ASF's new Code of
Conduct as part of the registration process with thanks to Noah Slater and Jan
Lehnardt of the Apache CouchDB PMC, who shared the experience from the
.concat() conference. Sally is also working with Melissa Warnkin on production
of promotional projects.
IX. (Non-ASF) Industry Events and Outreach liaison: no formal activities at
this time.
X. Newswire accounts: we have 25 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:
==========
none
Finances:
==========
17.49 - Domain name renewals
979.12 - Amazon Web Services
As a side note, we expect to spend dramatically less on hardwware than
we originally budgeted. This difference is coming about due to a number
of issues: Our build farm has been dramatically subsidized thanks to
Yahoo who have provided ~30 physical machines (a long with hosting the
hardware and providing smarthands support). We also now have multiple
cloud providers giving us extensive credits, and we are moving a number
of services to public cloud providers. This does mean a slight change
from capital expenses to operational expenses, though I don't think that
from our perspective that it matters much.
Operations Action Items:
========================
n/a
Short Term Priorities:
======================
Codesigning
-----------
Tomcat generated two signing events this month, both for Tomcat 8.0.18
Machine deprecation
-------------------
We've made significant progress in moving services off of some of our oldest hosts.
In doing so we've also have spent a good chunk of time automating these
services and making our deployment more robust. See more on this issue
in the section on Automation in Long Range Priorities.
Backups
-------
We are just now beginning the deployment of a new centralized backup service.
The client installation as well as the server has been autoamted, expect
to see more in this space in the coming months.
LDAP
----
The LDAP service has largely been rebuilt from the ground up. For
background, the old machine that formerly served as our svn master was
also one of our LDAP machines, and when it failed, we were down to one
very poorly performing instance in the US. Subsequently, we've rebuilt
the entire service using configuration management, we again have two
LDAP hosts in OSUOSL, that are easily handling the load. This has sped
up many of the authn/authz actions that were slow last month. We've also
deployed new LDAP instances to several of our cloud zones. While the
services seems to be working well at this point, we did have a few
hiccups, where the old LDAP servers were removing newly created
accounts. The older LDAP servers were left in place after we repeatedly
found a number of services that had either minotaur or harmonia
hardcoded as LDAP servers. Because of these problems we removed the
legacy instances, and are dealing with the problems caused as we find
them.
Bugzilla
--------
Our three Bugzilla instances were still running on a 6 year old machine
but have since been successfully puppetized and migrated to VMs in one of
our cloud accounts. In the process we've worked fastidiously on improving
the software deployment mechanism (software is now deployed as an
OS-native package).
Long Range Priorities:
======================
Automation
----------
Significant progress to report this month. As indicated above, LDAP
machines are all under configuration management. Additionally, we migrated
all three of the Bugzilla instances and the git repositories to being
completely managed by configuration management. After finding some
problems with some of our CM-managed instances, we've adopted a process of
destroying and recreating a service as a verification step prior to
pressing a service into production status.
Naturally the new services we are bringing online, like the backup service
are all managed under CM.
Technical Debt
--------------
The move of LDAP has uncovered a lot of hardcoded values and we've been
working to pay that off. (referring to service names rather than
specific machine identities, putting configuration in configuration
management where possible.
General Activity:
=================
Bintray
-------
As of January 30th, we enabled Cassandra's debian repository on bintray
and have been monitoring it closely. The service seems to be working
well and appears to have fulfilled the needs of reducing our overall
webserver traffic and has the bonus of giving more insight into the
downlaods. You can see some of the statistics on the dashboard here:
https://s.apache.org/bintray1
https://s.apache.org/bintray2
Maven
-----
A lot has been happening around Maven this period.
We've successfully been able to sync a copy of the Maven central
repository, and are working to provide access to that store for the Maven
PMC.
Additionally, Mark Thomas along with folks from the Maven PMC have been
working on migrating the Maven contents of the Codehaus Jira instance to
the ASF instance. Good progress has been made here, but much remains to be
done.
Uptime Statistics:
==================
We experienced an issue where status.apache.org was reporting erroneous uptime
statistics due to two unused LDAP checks, which unfortunately made it into the
weekly ASF blog posts. Other than that, services have been running fairly
smoothly aside from the Moin Moin Wiki which has experienced high load times
for a couple of weeks. We are discussing what to do to remedy this. Overall,
the total uptime for this year grew by 0.03%:
Type: Target: Reality, total: Reality, month: Target Met:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Critical services: 99.50% 99.78% 99.82% Yes
Core services: 99.00% 99.83% 99.92% Yes
Standard services: 95.00% 99.02% 98.93% Yes
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Overall: 98.59% 99.60% 99.63% Yes
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Contractor Details:
===================
Chris Lambertus
- on call duties
- closed 3 jira issues
- extensive work on centralized backup deployment
- ongoing testing and validation of zmanda evaluation
- puppet work to build fully configuration management deployed host
- resolved hardware issues with oceanus/FUB/Dell Germany
- ubuntu libc vulnerability patching
Geoffrey Corey:
- Resolved 25 JIRA tickets
- Build out supporting environment in Puppet for bugzilla migration (sql
database, webserver/proxy, bugzilla package building, etc)
- Migrate and deploy bugzilla instances off baldr and into VMs
- Investigate with others about missing LDAP accounts (and subsequently recreate)
after LDAP server rebuilds
- Fix dist.apache.org authorization template regeneration (related to svn
master rebuild)
- Work on getting postfix alias management in Puppet
- Begin learning buildbot related things from Gavin
Daniel Gruno:
- Resolved 30 JIRA tickets
- On-call duties
- Worked on GitWcSub, the git version of SvnWcSub for potentially enabling git
repos to act as web site sources
- Puppetized and tested deployment of GitWcSub
- Fixed a bunch of issues with the main MTA
- Worked with others to resolve the aftermaths of the LDAP network redesign
- Fixed some issues with uptime reporting and alert statuses on
status.apache.org
- Fixed some issues with hardcoded values in the PMC management tools
- Reached out to contacts about the DNS system overhaul
Tony Stevenson:
- A lot of my time has been spent on 3 major tasks:
- The rebuild of the LDAP service due to the poorly performing incumbent
instances. This combined with the retirement of eris (old svn-master)
following a terminal hardware fault, we were limited to 1 LDAP instance
in the US and proved too much for minotaur to cope with. It appears that
the version of slapd on FreeBSD on minotaur leaked memory at a phenomonal
rate. The new LDAP service has been moved to the latest slapd available
in Ubuntu 14.04, it has been fully built using puppet, and configured so
that new LDAP hosts can be added with ease.
- Continue preparation and understanding for a rebuild the email
infrastructure. This has mostly taken a back seat but has been brought up
to the top of my todo list now following the completion of the LDAP task
above, and the CMS task below.
- In line with our current policy of retiring hardware that is over 4 years
old, and trying to make all services pupept managed; David asked me to
review the CMS zone on baldr (which is now >7 years old) to ensure we can
move the service and have it managed with puppet. However upon
investigation it quickly became apparent moving the service was far from
trivial given the requirement for ZFS alone. Further reading of the code
highlighted some areas of concern for me that I felt needed highlighting
as they would likely carry over technical debt into the future and that
is something we are working extremely hard to remove. On the back of
these findings and my inherited knowledge of the service I presented
David with 3 options of how I thought we could manage the service going
forward along with the estimated costs, and the pro's and con's of each
option. There were:
1 - Move CMS to another FreeBSD host - undesireable given our current
trajectory of moving away from FreeBSD, it meant entirely replicating
the FreeBSD 9 jail too. This was the path of least change, but
perhaps most difficult.
2 - Move the service to Ubuntu and fully puppet controlled the beginning.
This might have been the ideal scenario, but the underlying hardcoded
FreeBSD aspects, the need for ZFS (which is present in Ubuntu), and
the very specific perl that is in place I felt this would take a long
time to complete and would be significantly error prone. We would
very likely miss something and this would need to fixed on demand. My
confidence level was low that we could execute a clean migration.
This would be the most time consuming option, but if retention of the
CMS was important the best option.
3 - Deprecate the CMS, and allow projects to determine their own
publishing/transformations options. We would still require use of
pubsub technology, but projects can commit into that their HTML,
either directly edited or dervied from markdown whcih they can keep
in their project repo (some of the finer details will need to be
worked out later. This would essentially be the cheapest option,
remove technical debt, and while the timeline would be many months
contractor/volunteer time could be kept to a minimum.
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Attachment 6: Report from the Apache Travel Assistance Committee [Gavin McDonald]
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Attachment 7: Report from the VP of W3C Relations [Andy Seaborne]
Nothing to report.
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Attachment 8: Report from the Apache Legal Affairs Committee [Jim Jagielski]
The ASF was subpoenaed to provide documents and testimony related to
U.S. Patent No. 6,691,302. I provided URLs for our mailing list archive
and our release archive and provided testimony related to our release
guidelines and procedures, especially as related to Apache httpd, mod_perl
and ApacheJserv.
No items requiring board attention at this time.
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Attachment 9: Report from the Apache Security Team Project [Mark Cox]
There continues to be a steady stream of reports of various kinds
arriving at security@. These continue to be dealt with by the security
team.
January 2015
2 Support question
2 Security vulnerability question, but not a vulnerability report
6 Confused user probably due to Android licenses
8 Vulnerability reports to security@apache.org
2 [tomcat] (1 rejected)
1 [xerces]
1 [site] rejected
1 [cassandra]
1 [batik]
1 [httpd]
1 [roller]
4 Vulnerability reports to projects own security lists
1 [hadoop]
2 [tomcat]
1 [struts]
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Attachment A: Report from the Apache Abdera Project [Ant Elder]
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Attachment B: Report from the Apache ACE Project [Marcel Offermans]
Apache ACE is a software distribution framework that allows you to
centrally manage and distribute modular software components,
configuration data and other artifacts to OSGi based and related target
systems.
Releases:
* April 22nd, 2014: ACE 2.0.1 release.
Statistics:
* Last committers added: March 27th, 2012
* Last PMC members added: June 18th, 2013
* Mailing list activity (dev+users) for last 3 months: 34 msgs
(previous 3 months: 38 msgs)
* Commits for last 3 months: 145
(previous 3 months: 45)
Activity:
* User reports with questions and issues about scripting.
* Questions from committers at Apache Celix about interoperability.
* Metatype and UI (making resource processors manageable)
improvements.
* Presentation about "Provisioning the Internet of Things" by Paul
Bakker and Sander Mak at JFokus. [1]
* Another contribution by NiclasH (shell command for logging).
* Sizeable update to the ACE website, restructuring and updating the
documentation part.
[1] http://www.slideshare.net/SanderMak/provisioning-the-iot
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Attachment C: Report from the Apache ActiveMQ Project [Hiram Chirino]
Apache ActiveMQ is a popular and powerful open source messaging
server. Apache ActiveMQ is fast, supports many Cross Language Clients
and Protocols, comes with easy to use Enterprise Integration Patterns
and many advanced features while fully supporting JMS 1.1 and J2EE
1.4.
Community:
* The development and user lists continue to stay active.
* Robbie Gemmell became a committer 12/9/14
* Emeritus PMC members removed.
* Arthur Naseef joined the ActiveMQ PMC
* Dan Kulp joined the ActiveMQ PMC
Development:
* trunk branch renamed to master to follow git naming conventions.
* Development on ActiveMQ 5.11 is in progress.
* Development on ActiveMQ 6.0 is in progress.
Trademark / Branding Status:
* Sub-projects need to be reviewed to make sure they are also
compliant /w TM policies
* Documentation and readme files will also be reviewed for compliance
Releases:
* Apache.NMS 1.7.0 - 1/8/15
* Apache.NMS.ActiveMQ 1.7.0 - 1/16/15
* Apache ActiveMQ 5.10.1 - 1/20/15
* Apache ActiveMQ 5.11.0 - 2/3/15
* Apache Apollo 1.7.1 - 2/3/15
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Attachment D: Report from the Apache Airavata Project [Suresh Marru]
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Attachment E: Report from the Apache Ambari Project [Yusaku Sako]
Apache Ambari simplifies provisioning, managing, and monitoring of Apache
Hadoop clusters.
Since the last report in Nov 2014, the community has released 1.7.0 which
included resolution of more than 1600 issues.
Since then, the community has been focused on development for the 2.0.0
release, which to-date has resolved more than 1200 issues. A branch will
be cut to prepare for the 2.0.0 release soon.
Mailing Lists:
* user@ambari.apache.org: 279 subscribers (+14 since last report)
* dev@ambari.apache.org: 165 subscribers (+2 since last report)
Releases:
* 2014-12-01 1.7.0
* 2014-07-16 1.6.1
* 2014-05-25 1.6.0
Committers:
* 2015-01-20 Added Dilli Arumugam
* 2014-12-20 Added Robert Levas
* 2014-12-01 Added Jayush Luniya
* 2014-12-01 Added Florian Barca
PMC:
* 2014-12-08 Added Jeff Sposetti
Issues:
* There are no board-level issues at this time.
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Attachment F: Report from the Apache Ant Project [Conor MacNeill]
Apache Ant is a Java based build tool along with associated tools. It
consists of 4 main projects:
- Ant core and libraries (Antlibs)
- Ivy - Ant based dependency manager
- IvyDE - Eclipse plugin to integrate Ivy into Eclipse
- EasyAnt - Ant and Ivy toolbox to support build processes
o Release Status
Core
---------
Ant 1.9.4 was released on May 5, 2014
Ivy
-------
Ivy 2.4.0 was released on December 26, 2014
Ivy-DE 2.2.0 was released on November 22, 2013
EasyAnt
-------------
The current release is still from the Incubator
0.9-Incubating.
o Committers and PMC
Jean-Louis Boudart was added to the PMC on Dec 6th, 2013
Charles Duffy was made a committer on Dec 8th, 2013.
o Community
Overall the Ant project is relatively quiet. There has been an ongoing
transition from submitted patches to pull requests coming in from Github.
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Attachment G: Report from the Apache Aries Project [Jeremy Hughes]
Apache Aries delivers a set of pluggable Java components enabling an
enterprise OSGi application programming model.
## Releases
The votes for these releases closed on 2014/10/21
* Apache Aries Maven ESA Plugin (esa-maven-plugin) 1.0.0
* Apache Aries JNDI Core (jndi-core) 1.0.2
* Apache Aries JNDI URL Handler (jndi-url) 1.1.0
* Apache Aries Transaction Manager (transaction-manager) 1.0.2
* Apache Aries Transaction Blueprint (transaction-blueprint) 1.0.2
* Apache Aries Transaction Enlisting JDBC Datasource (transaction-jdbc)
2.1.0
* Apache Aries JMS Pool (transaction-jms) 2.0.0
The votes for these releases closed on 2014/11/04
* Apache Aries JPA Container (jpa-container) 1.0.2
* Apache Aries JPA Container Managed Contexts (jpa-container-context) 1.0.4
The votes for these releases closed on 2014/12/05
* **New** Apache Aries Blueprint Maven Plugin (blueprint-maven-plugin) 1.0.0
* Apache Aries Blueprint Annotation based authorization (blueprint-authz)
1.0.0
## Project update
Creation of a new project: blueprint-maven-plugin: for generating OSGi an
blueprint.xml from CDI, JEE and Spring annotations.
Contributions continue to come in from non-committers via GitHub.
Newest PMC member voted in on 28th July 2013.
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
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Attachment H: Report from the Apache Axis Project [Deepal Jayasinghe]
The Apache Axis project is responsible for the creation and maintenance of
software related to the Axis Web Services frameworks and subsidiary
components.
Community
=========
The level of participation in dev community is considerably low.
No new committers (PMC members) during last quarter.
Releases
========================
No releases for this quarter, and currently we are planning for Axis2 java
release. We are also waiting for two release from WS project (Axiom and Woden)
which are needed for Axis2 release.
Last releases:
Axis2/Java: April 2012
Rampart/Java: April 2012
Sandesha2/Java: April 2012
Axis2 Transports/Java: December 2009
Axis/Java: April 2006
Axis2/C: Apr 2009
Rampart/C: May 2009
Sandesha/C: Oct 2007
Savan/C: May 2007
Axis/C++ 1.x: March 2006
Issues
===========================
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
Development
=========================
Number of commits - 5 (Axis2 java)
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Attachment I: Report from the Apache BookKeeper Project [Ivan Kelly]
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Attachment J: Report from the Apache Buildr Project [Alex Boisvert]
Apache Buildr is a Ruby-based build system for Java-based applications,
including support for Scala, Groovy and a growing number of JVM languages and
tools.
We made one minor release (v1.4.20 on August 23rd) since our last board report.
Development and community activity (mailing lists, bug reports, etc.) remains
relatively low. Our last committer/PMC change happened in October 2013.
We have no issues that require board attention.
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Attachment K: Report from the Apache Cassandra Project [Jonathan Ellis]
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Attachment L: Report from the Apache Celix Project [Alexander Broekhuis]
Celix is an OSGi like implementation in C with a distinct focus on
interoperability between Java and C.
Activity
In the last months there has been a lot of activity, issues have been filed
and resolved. Also we are working on removing the usage of APR.
Issues with the website have been fixed, a getting started guide has been
added [1]. Wrt publicity, a talk about Celix was given at the FOSDEM 2015.
Statistics:
* Last committer added: 2014-03-04
* Last PMC member added: 2014-07-17
* Mailing list activity in october - january: 93 messages on dev
* Commits since october: 193 commits
* Last release: 2014-02-24: Apache Celix 1.0.0 release
[1]: http://celix.apache.org/documentation/getting_started.html
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Attachment M: Report from the Apache Chukwa Project [Eric Yang]
Apache Chukwa is a log collection and analysis framework for Apache Hadoop
Clusters.
Project Status:
* Chukwa community have recently vote Sreepathi Prasanna as an committer.
ICLA has been submitted by Sreepathi Prasanna.
* Chukwa 0.6.0 was released on Nov-22-2014.
* Chukwa is used, deployed, and actively developed, but volunteer time is not
subsidized.
* Highlight on going community activities to provide better visibility into
Chukwa's community.
Releases:
* Last Release was 0.6.0, published Nov 22, 2014
Community:
* The last Chukwa PMC addition: Oct 16, 2013
* The last Chukwa committer addition: In progress
Mailing lists:
* 94 subscribers on dev
* 160 subscribers on user
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Attachment N: Report from the Apache Clerezza Project [Hasan Hasan]
DESCRIPTION
Apache Clerezza is an OSGi-based modular application and a set of components
(bundles) for building RESTFul Semantic Web applications and services.
ISSUES FOR THE BOARD
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
RELEASE
Latest release (typhandlerspace-feature) was created on 22.09.2014
Vote result:
http://s.apache.org/EjO
ACTIVITY
Various improvements and bug fixes in source codes including:
- Improve performance of smushing util
- Implemented partial graph context functionnality
- Fixed mime-type for n-triples
- Preparing rdf.core bundle to base on "commons-rdf"
COMMUNITY
Latest change was addition of a new committer and PMC member on 16.08.2013
INFRASTRUCTURE
- Website: Download page (http://clerezza.apache.org/downloads/) is to be
updated
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Attachment O: Report from the Apache Cocoon Project [Thorsten Scherler]
Apache Cocoon 3 is a major rewrite of Cocoon 2.2. Like Cocoon 2 it is based
around the concept of pipelines and sitemaps and it is very similar to Cocoon
2.2 in many respects but is slimmed down and designed to be easily used with
Java code (= no frameworks required!).
On top of this, Cocoon 3 has the goal of becoming the best available platform
for RESTful webservices and web applications.
Issues needing board attention:
nothing
Changes in the PMC membership:
None.
Last modified: 2012/10/21 (change of PMC chair)
Community
Traffic on users and devs list had been a bit better then the last quarter.
Some users asked about different hosting solution. Various devs attended the
questions and provided solutions.
Further Carlos a user and Francesco worked on the support for java8 and still
maintaining support for 1.4.
Releases
2.1 has been released on 2013/03/20.
Development
None
Security issues reported:
None.
Progress of the project:
We need to release a new version of cocoon 3 and cocoon 2.2 but still no
committer has stepped up yet to do so.
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Attachment P: Report from the Apache Community Development Project [Ulrich Stärk]
The Community Development PMC is responsible for helping people become
involved with Apache projects
Project Status
--------------
No issues require board attention at this time.
PMC changes
-----------
Daniel Gruno has been voted into the Community Development PMC on 2015-01-08.
Since artifacts produced by ComDev are usually documentation on our website
which is writable for all Apache committers, we usually do not add committers
to the ComDev project.
Google Summer of Code
---------------------
GSoC applications are open for organizations and the ASF will submit an
application again this year. A call for project ideas has been issued to
projects. Initial responses were low in numbers but in the meantime we have
gathered 88 project ideas at http://s.apache.org/gsoc2015ideas which should be
enough for getting started.
ComDev & Events
---------------
Most of the discussions on the dev@community.apache.org mailing list currently
revolve around ApacheCon 2015 in Austin with feedback and contributions coming
from all corners of the foundation.
Other
-----
Daniel Gruno is spearheading an overhaul of projects.apache.org. The current
work in progress is at https://projects-new.apache.org/.
Bertrand has initiated a discussion about a maturity model for our projects
that describes - on a high level - how our projects operate. A first version
can be found at
http://community.apache.org/apache-way/apache-project-maturity-model.html.
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Attachment Q: Report from the Apache Continuum Project [Brent Atkinson]
Apache Continuum is an enterprise-ready continuous integration server with
features such as automated builds, release management, role-based security,
and integration with popular build tools and source control management
systems.
Activity on the mailing lists was slightly increased since last report, but
still relatively low. Issue tracker and commit activity saw a significant spike
in the last month or so. There is currently an open vote for a 1.4.3 release and
work towards a 1.5 release has been steady.
The last project release was Continuum 1.4.2 on June 13, 2014. The last
committer was added December 8, 2010 and the last PMC member was added on
September 2, 2012.
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Attachment R: Report from the Apache CouchDB Project [Jan Lehnardt]
Description
Apache CouchDB is a database that uses JSON for documents, JavaScript
for MapReduce queries, and regular HTTP for an API.
Releases
None this quarter. Everyone is working hard to get 2.0 out.
Recent Activity
- Added Mango query language, contributed by IBM/Cloudant
- Final stages of 2.0 release preparations
- Continued major improvements to Fauxton admin UI.
Community
Including the following additions, CouchDB has 47 committers and 12 PMC members.
New committers:
Lynette Nolan
Michelle Phung
Kyle Snavely
Tony Sun
Eric Avdey
New PMC members:
None
Mailing list stats:
(Now generated automatically with [COUCHDB-1])
couchdb-announce:
0 message since end of October (-2)
222 subscribers (+15)
couchdb-user:
282 messages since end of October (-449)
1334 subscibers (-10)
couchdb-erlang:
1 message since end of October (-3)
We retired this mailing list
couchdb-dev:
3021 messages since end of October (+370)
569 subscribers (-5)
couchdb-commits:
659 messages since end of October (-2046)
97 subscribers (-1)
couchdb-l10n:
10 messages since end of October (+6)
41 subscribers (+-0)
couchdb-replication:
1 message since end of October (-50)
68 subscribers (+5)
couchdb-marketing:
317 messages since end of October (+84)
44 subscribers (+2)
Issues
There are recently no issues we would like to address to the board
[COUHCDB-1]: https://git1-us-west.apache.org/repos/asf?p=couchdb-admin.git;a=tree;f=board-report;
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Attachment S: Report from the Apache Creadur Project [Brian Fox]
Apache Creadur creates and maintains a suite of open source software
related to the auditing and comprehension of software distributions.
Any language and build system are welcomed.
Status
------
Since the last report in November there has been very little commit
and email list activity. There are several new jira issues and the
related Drat[1] project continues to get pull requests.
We have had a successful release of Apache Rat 0.11 in August.
[1] https://github.com/chrismattmann/drat
Community
---------
The last committer was elected in August, 2012.
In September 2013 Phil Ottlinger was elected to join the PMC.
Releases
--------
Apache Rat 0.11 was released in August, 2014
Apache Rat 0.10 was released in September, 2013.
Community Objectives
--------------------
Release Apache Whisker 0.1
Find more committers
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Attachment T: Report from the Apache Deltacloud Project [Marios S. Andreou]
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Attachment U: Report from the Apache DeltaSpike Project [Gerhard Petracek]
Apache DeltaSpike is a portable JSR-299 CDI
(Contexts and Dependency Injection for Java) Extension library
which contains lots of useful tools and helpers
which are missing in the CDI core spec.
DeltaSpike is not a CDI-container itself, but a portable
Extension library which can run on all CDI-containers!
DeltaSpike is tested and runs on many Java EE Servers like
Apache TomEE, Red Hat JBoss Application Server, JBoss Wildfly,
Oracle WebLogic, Oracle Glassfish, IBM WebSphere, and also on
simple Servlet containers like Apache Tomcat or Jetty in combination
with either JBoss Weld or Apache OpenWebBeans.
Community
---------
* No new Committers (since May 2014)
* New PMC Members
** Thomas Andraschko (November 2014)
We receive contributions from the community on a regular basis.
The project-site was converted to AsciiDoc and
moved to our Git-Repository (integrated with the Apache CMS).
Releases
--------
* DeltaSpike 1.1.0 (01/November/14)
* DeltaSpike 1.2.0 (30/November/14)
* DeltaSpike 1.2.1 (20/December/14)
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Attachment V: Report from the Apache DeviceMap Project [Reza Naghibi]
DESCRIPTION
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
* W3C layer added to our current Java release.
* Continuing work on 2.0 data specification.
RELEASES
* DeviceMap Data 1.0.2 was released on February 13th, 2015.
* DeviceMap Java Client 1.2.0 was released on December 22nd 2014.
COMMUNITY
* Several people have expressed interest in joining the project for 2.0.
* Last new committer was Eberhard Speer Jr on May 13th 2013.
ISSUES
* As questioned in the previous report, we did have an issue in January
where a PMC member took issue with some of the project discussions and
possible direction.
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Attachment W: Report from the Apache DirectMemory Project [Raffaele P. Guidi]
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Attachment X: Report from the Apache Directory Project [Pierre-Arnaud Marcelot]
The Apache Directory Project provides directory solutions entirely written
in Java. These include a directory server, which has been certified as
LDAPv3 compliant by the Open Group (ApacheDS), Eclipse-based directory tools
(Apache Directory Studio) and a client API that can be used to communicate
with any directory server (Apache LDAP API).
-- Community --
* Kiran Ayyagari has been voted as new Apache Directory Chair.
* Three new committers voted (last previous addition: October 2014):
* Colm O hEigeartaigh
* Kai Zheng
* Lin Chen
* No new PMC member voted (last previous addition: October 2014).
* Mailing lists:
* Users mailing list: 292 subscribers
* Development mailing list: 173 subscribers
* API mailing list: 69 subscribers
* Fortress mailing list: 19 subscribers
-- Current activity --
* Apache Directory LDAP API:
* Four releases during this quarter.
* Good activity
* Mainly bug fixes.
* Apache Mavibot:
* One release during this quarter.
* Good activity
* Many smaller fixes.
* Work in progress on the bulk-loader and freepage management.
* ApacheDS:
* Two releases during this quarter.
* Mainly bug fixes and an important fix to remove support for SSLv3.
* Apache Directory Studio:
* No releases during this quarter.
* Build system was migrated from Maven to Tycho.
* Apache eSCIMo:
* Low activity.
* No releases yet.
* Fortress:
* IP clearance for the project has been completed and the source code has
been brought to the Directory Git repository.
* The project now has its dedicated website, mailing list and Jira space.
* No releases yet, but a first release is currently being processed.
* Apache Kerby:
* IP clearance for the project is currently being processed and the
source code has been brought to the Directory Git repository.
* Good activity
* No releases yet.
-- Releases --
* Four release for Apache Directory LDAP API:
* Apache Directory LDAP API 1.0.0-M25 (November 11th 2014)
* Apache Directory LDAP API 1.0.0-M26 (November 22nd 2014)
* Apache Directory LDAP API 1.0.0-M27 (December 29th 2014)
* Apache Directory LDAP API 1.0.0-M28 (January 15th 2015)
* One release for Apache Mavibot:
* Apache Mavibot 1.0.0-M6 (November 16th 2014)
* Two releases for ApacheDS:
* ApacheDS 2.0.0-M18 (November 13th 2014)
* ApacheDS 2.0.0-M19 (November 22th 2014)
* No releases for Apache Directory Studio.
* No releases for Apache eSCIMo, Fortress and Kerby.
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Attachment Y: 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:
There is lots of activity around Drill. JIRA issues continue to be opened and
closed at a rapid rate. Regular Google Hangouts also bring the community
closer together to better discuss questions and welcome new contributors to
the community. Community is working towards the release of Drill 0.8.
Releases:
* No new releases since last report.
* The 0.7 release of Drill was released on 12/23/2014.
Community:
* 530 emails on the dev mailing list in January
* 402 subscribers to dev mailing list
* 219 emails on the user mailing list in January
* 374 subscribers to user mailing list
* 1624 emails to issues list reflecting substantial activity on JIRA and
commits.
* The PMC has 16 members
* Newest committer: Bridget Bevens (2/2/2015)
* Newest PMC: None added since graduation
Issues:
* There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
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Attachment Z: Report from the Apache Empire-db Project [Francis De Brabandere]
Apache Empire-db is a relational database abstraction layer that allows
developers to take a more SQL-centric approach in application development
than traditional ORM frameworks. Its focus is to allow highly efficient
database operations in combination with a maximum of compile-time-safety
and DBMS independence.
Progress of the project
With our latest stable release there has been little demand for changes of
the codebase during the past three months. However the documentation on the
web page has been extended describing how to generate code from an existing
database.
Changes in committers or PMC members
There have been no changes in committers or PMC members during the last
months.
Issues
There are no issues that require the board's attention at this time.
Releases
No releases since last report.
Latest release was Apache-Empire-db 2.4.3 released on 20/Aug/2014
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Attachment AA: Report from the Apache Etch Project [Martin Veith]
Apache Etch is a cross-platform, language- and transport-independent
RPC-like framework for building and consuming network services.
BOARD ISSUES
There are no Board-level issues at this time.
RELEASES
* Apache Etch 1.4.0 was released on August, 06 2014.
ACTIVITY
* Still very low activity, one patch was added since last report.
* Work on bug fix release 1.4.1, mainly for C++ binding
* Talk about "Enabling lot With Apache Etch and Coap" was hold by Giorgio
Zoppi at the ApacheCon Europe in November. With this talk we hoped to make
more potential users and developers aware of our project, but still no
additional traffic on mailing lists.
COMMITTERS OR PMC MEMBERS CHANGE
* No changes regarding PMC or committers composition since graduation
in January 2013.
* No changes in our committer and user base. We were able to get
exactly three binding PMC votes for the last release.
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Attachment AB: Report from the Apache Falcon Project [Srikanth Sundarrajan]
ABOUT
-----
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.
ISSUES
------
There are no issues that require board's attention at this time.
STATUS
------
Falcon was accepted as a TLP in December 2014. During the last 30
days 33 new issues were created in the issue tracking system and
30 were closed during the same period. During the last month we
have witnessed good progress on the UI front for Falcon (FALCON-790).
With UI, we expect users to find it more easier to work with the
Falcon system. The community has been having regular bi-weekly
sync ups. These sync ups are being very helpful in steering the
project. Recipes (FALCON-634) and Lifecycle functions (FALCON-965)
would open up Falcon system for easy extensions and are being
actively worked upon besides other bug fixes. Community is also
discussing on mailing list on the way forward with respect to usage
of Apache Oozie for orchestration. The outcome will decide how
pipeline and lifecycle function orchestration will happen in
Falcon going forward. We also announced Falcon as a TLP in ASF
blog (http://s.apache.org/GT2)
RELEASES
--------
* 2014-12-05: Released 0.6-incubating
* 2014-09-22: Released 0.5-incubating
COMMUNITY
---------
* 14 PMC members (No additions since last report)
* Last addition: 2014-08-28: Ruslan Ostafiychuk
* 14 Committers (No additions since last report)
* Last addition: 2014-08-28: Ruslan Ostafiychuk
* 33 New issues created in last 30 days
* 30 issues resolved in the last 30 day
* 115 - Subscriptions to dev@
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Attachment AC: Report from the Apache Flink Project [Stephan Ewen]
DESCRIPTION
Flink is a distributed Big Data system for expressive, declarative,
and efficient batch and streaming data processing and analysis.
Flink’s stack contains functional batch and streaming analysis APIs in
Java and Scala, a type analysis and serialization framework, a library of
out-of-core enabled operators, distributed task scheduling, and a data
streaming network subsystem.
Flink is a citizen of the Hadoop ecosystem and interacts
with HDFS, YARN, MapReduce, HBase, and Tez.
ISSUES
There are no issues that require board attention.
STATUS
Flink graduated in December from the Incubator. The transition is complete
by now, the first release and committer addition as a TLP have happened.
The community is growing, judging from mailing list activity, number of
meetup group talks, bug reports, etc
COMMUNITY
* Last committer was voted in February 6th, 2015 (Maximilian Michels)
* Last PMC member was added December 17, 2014, when all committers and a subset
of the mentors formed the project Flink PMC during graduation.
* The project community is active (February 1st to 11th: 57 messages in user
mailing list, 191 messages in dev mailing list, 244 messages in commits
list, 887 messages in issues mailing list)
* Community is actively developing the software. JIRA reports 139 new
issues and 121 solved issues in the last 30 days
* The issue of trademarking Flink is still ongoing. The process has started
(same as last month)
COMMUNITY OBJECTIVES
* Growing the user community further
* Integration with other Apache projects is work in progress.
As of the last 30 days specifically SAMOA (incubating) and Tez (per mailing
lists).
RELEASES
* Date of last release: January 19th, 2015 (version 0.8.0)
* Candidate for release version 0.8.1 has been created (February 10th).
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Attachment AD: Report from the Apache Flume Project [Arvind Prabhakar]
DESCRIPTION
Apache Flume is a distributed, reliable, and available system for
efficiently collecting, aggregating, and moving large amounts of log
data to scalable data storage systems such as Apache Hadoop's HDFS.
RELEASES
* The last release of Flume was version 1.5.2, released on November
18, 2014.
* Initial discussions around an incremental release version 1.6.0
are currently underway.
CURRENT ACTIVITY
* A total of 80 issues have been filed, and 33 issues have been
resolved between the period starting November 4, 2014 and February 4,
2015.
* Approximately 1095 messages were exchanged on the dev list in the
past three months, while a total of 282 were exchanged on the user
list in this period.
COMMUNITY
* The last time a new committer was added to the project was on
September 24, 2013.
* The last time a new PMC member was elected for the project was
on November 4, 2014.
* The current PMC affiliations are: Apple (2), Cloudera (9),
CyberAgent (1), Data Fueled (1), Hortonworks (1), Nextiva (1),
ScalingData (1), StreamSets (1), Vanderbilt
University (1), Zymergen (1), Not Specified (2)
* Currently there are:
- Total of 263 subscribers to the developer list
- Total of 617 subscribers to the user list
- Total of 24 committers
- Total of 21 PMC members
ISSUES
* There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
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Attachment AE: Report from the Apache Forrest Project [David Crossley]
Apache Forrest mission is software for generation of aggregated multi-channel
documentation maintaining a separation of content and presentation.
Issues needing board attention:
None.
Changes in the PMC membership:
None.
Last modified: 2013-04-08
Most recent addition: 2009-06-09
New committers:
None.
Most recent addition: 2009-06-09
General status:
The most recent release is 0.9 on 2011-02-07.
No activity on the user mail list.
There was more activity on the dev mail list.
Two PMC members discussed a potential improvement and the originator
did follow through. They also assisted each other with strange erroneous
messages from Buildbot. An emeritus PMC member returned to make some
changes as a committer, was welcomed, and two separate PMC members did
followup queries.
Just prior to report submission a discussion commenced about a potential
new skin based on Bootstrap.
The Chair reminded the dev list that the project needs to make releases.
The Chair replied to some obscure comment regarding the previous Board
report, but there was no further followup (see 2014-11-25).
At this quarter, 5 additional PMC members responded to my draft report.
This confirms that there are sufficient people hanging around for us to
potentially be able to make a decision or encourage new contributors.
Project status:
Activity: Low.
3+ people have indicated presence, so has sufficient oversight.
Security issues reported:
None.
Progress of the project:
Some improvements to i18n for the search box and the font size button.
Minor tweaks to the i18n documentation.
Some improvements to Javascript handling.
Infra advised us that the machine hosting the Forrest project's build and
demo server is being decommissioned. One of our PMC members asked for a
new VM via the issue INFRA-9093.
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Attachment AF: Report from the Apache Geronimo Project [Jarek Gawor]
Apache Geronimo is an open source server runtime that integrates the best open
source projects to create Java/OSGi server runtimes that meet the needs of
enterprise developers and system administrators.
Development:
- Overall development activity (commits, JIRA, dev mailing list traffic) was low.
- Some work being done on Java EE 7 specification jars and JavaMail component.
Releases:
- XBean 4.1 (October 2014)
- JavaMail (February 2015)
- EE 7 Specs (February 2015)
- geronimo-ejb_3.2_spec
- geronimo-jaxrs_2.0_spec
- geronimo-jms_2.0_spec
- geronimo-jta_1.2_spec
Community:
- The traffic on the user mailing list was low.
- The last new PMC member was added in July 2014.
- The last new committer was added in October 2014.
Board-level issues
- We are concerned with our current level of community activity and will begin
taking public actions to start a next-gen Geronimo effort.
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Attachment AG: 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
* We do not anticipate any upcoming releases as 1.1.0 was recently
completed.
Overall project activity since the last report
* Several bug fixes
* In process ZooKeeper support added (Thanks Sergey!).
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
* We have a new committer - Igor Kabiljob accepted on 2/10/15!
New community development
* We have an upcoming presentation at Facebook's F8 developer conference in
March.
Mailing list members
We continue to see mailing list growth.
user@ 437 -> 446
dev@ 260 -> 262
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Attachment AH: Report from the Apache Gora Project [Lewis John McGibbney]
The Apache Gora open source framework provides an in-memory data model and
persistence for big data. Gora supports persisting to column stores, key
value stores, document stores and RDBMSs, and analyzing the data with
extensive Apache Hadoop MapReduce support.
Project Releases
The last release of Gora (0.5) was on 20th September, 2014.
Overall Project Activity since last report
Consistent and encouraging. We see most activity happening
on the dev@ list which is normal. There has been a consistent
level of contribution to the codebase and community lists
since the last reporting period. Recent activity includes
work on utilising ASF Infra's Rackspace resources to run
our GoraCI testing suite, an excellent effort to provide
a suite of extension bridges to Gora from other langauges
and upgrades of key module dependencies. The PMC are currently
VOTE'ing on the release of Gora 0.6. It looks like 0.6 will
be released by the February board meeting.
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
Talat Uyarer was elected as PMC member and committer
on 2015-01-26 (yyyy-mm-dd).
How has the community developed since the last report?
We have recently seen users of Gora within the Apache Giraph
community coming to our user
Mailing list members are as follows
user@: from 64 -->
dev@: from 73 -->
commits@ from 25 -->
Changes to PMC & Committers
Talat Uyarer was added as PMC and Committer on 2015-01-26 (yyyy-mm-dd).
PMC and Committer diversity
We currently have committers from a wide variety of Apache projects
including, Nutch, Tika, OODT, Camel, Solr, Accumulo, Whirr, Hadoop,
Any23, Climate & HBase (this is not an exhaustive list). We also have
committers from many other projects outside of Apache.
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Attachment AI: Report from the Apache Hadoop Project [Chris Douglas]
Hadoop is a set of related tools and frameworks for creating and managing
distributed applications running on clusters of commodity computers.
The 2.6 release added a large set of features and made many improvements,
including transparent encryption, heterogeneous/tiered storage, support for
Docker containers, reservation-based scheduling, node labels, S3a support,
key management server (KMS), service registry, and rolling upgrades in YARN.
Ongoing development in YARN includes a new round of improvements to the
timeline server (YARN-2928), nodemanager decommission and work-preserving
restart (YARN-914, YARN-1336, YARN-556), improved locking in the RM
(YARN-3091), shared cache (YARN-1492), and disk as a resource (YARN-2139).
Ongoing development in HDFS includes erasure coding (HDFS-7285), support for
truncate (HDFS-3107), namenode synchronization (HDFS-7396), and a native
client (HDFS-6994).
MapReduce received a healthy set of bug fixes and stability improvements.
RELEASES
- hadoop-2.6.0 @ 2014-11-19
- hadoop-2.5.2 @ 2014-11-20
COMMUNITY
(+ PMC Zhijie Shen @ 2014-11)
(+ PMC Jian He @ 2014-11)
(+ committer Yi Liu @ 2014-11)
(+ committer Carlo Curino @ 2014-11)
(+ committer Gera Shegalov @ 2014-12)
(+ committer Robert Kanter @ 2014-12)
(+ committer Tsuyoshi Ozawa @ 2014-12)
(+ committer Akira Ajisaka @ 2015-01)
(+ committer Wangda Tan @ 2015-01)
(+ branch-HDFS-7285 Zhe Zhang @ 2014-11)
(+ branch-HDFS-7285 Kai Zhang @ 2014-11)
(+ branch-HDFS-7285 Bo Li @ 2014-11)
(+ branch-YARN-2139 Wei Yan @ 2014-12)
auth: 108 committers (including branch), 54 PMC members
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Attachment AJ: Report from the Apache Hama Project [ChiaHung Lin]
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Attachment AK: Report from the Apache HBase Project [Michael Stack]
HBase is a distributed column-oriented database
built on top of Hadoop Common and Hadoop HDFS
ISSUES FOR THE BOARD’s ATTENTION
WanDisco’s “Non-Stop HBase” product is in violation of
our Apache trademark. One of our PMC members works
for WanDisco and is actively working on getting this
infringement addressed.
RELEASES
0.94.25 11/14/2014
0.94.26 12/29/2014
0.98.7 10/16/2014
0.98.8 11/18/2014
0.98.9 12/23/2014
0.98.10 02/05/2015
We are about to put up our 5th RC for HBase-1.0.0.
COMMITTERS
Liu Shaohui (liushaohui) -- Xiaomi
Virag Kothari (virag) -- Yahoo!
Sean Busbey (busbey) -- Cloudera
PMC
We added no one to the PMC during this period.
COMMUNITY
We have a new look for our website and documentation.
CfP for HBaseCon2015 in San Francisco May 7th closes 02/10/2015
We had the following HBase Meetups:
January 15th, 2015 HBase meetup @ AppDynamics in San Francisco [1]
November 20th, 2014 HBase meetup @ WANdisco in San Ramon [2]
October 27th, 2014 HBase Meetup @ Apple in Cupertino
October 15th, 2014 HBase Meetup @ Google on the night before Strata/HW in NYC
STATS
37 committers [5]
1. http://www.meetup.com/hbaseusergroup/events/218744798/
2. http://www.meetup.com/hbaseusergroup/events/205219992/
3. http://www.meetup.com/hbaseusergroup/events/207386102/
4. http://www.meetup.com/HBase-NYC/events/207655552
5. http://hbase.apache.org/team-list.html
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Attachment AL: Report from the Apache HTTP Server Project [Eric Covener]
Project Description
===================
The Apache HTTP Server Project develops and maintains an
open-source HTTP server for modern operating systems.
Issues for the Board
====================
There are no outstanding issues that require the board's attention.
Releases
========
* 2.4.12 : Released on January 29, 2014
Older branches last release:
* 2.2.x: 2.2.29 released September 3 2014
* 2.0.x(EOL) 2.0.65 released July 9, 2013
Bug Activity
============
* 164 bugs worked on, 60 new, 71 closed/fixed
Community
=====================
* Yann Ylavic was added to the PMC.
* Date of last new committer : October 2014 (Steve Hay)
* Date of last new PMC member: February 2015 (Yann Ylavic)
* Overall development activity continues to slow, with the focus on
security fixes andthe maintenance of 2.4.x which is making its way
into various httpd distributions.
* Thanks to Rich Bowen for organizing a httpd/TS/Tomcat track for ACNA 2015.
-----------------------------------------
Attachment AM: Report from the Apache HttpComponents Project [Asankha Perera]
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Attachment AN: 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 35 podlings undergoing incubation. One podling
(NPanday) has retired from the incubation.
The process of seeking nominations for the new IPMC Chair has concluded
and the voting shall begin soon.
* Community
New IPMC members:
none
People who left the IPMC:
none
* New Podlings
none
* Graduations
The board has motions for the following:
none
* Releases
The following releases were made since the last Incubator report:
johnzon-0.5-incubating
apache-reef-0.10.0-incubating
htrace-3.1.0-incubating
apache-usergrid-1.0.1-incubating
nifi-nar-maven-plugin 1.0.0
nifi 0.0.1 (incubating)
streams-project-0.1-incubating
The Incubator continues to use discretion when enforcing release policy.
* Numerous releases have been approved despite having an out of date
copyright year in the NOTICE file. Fixing for the next release has been
considered a sufficient remedy.
* The REEF release was approved with an incomplete incubation
disclaimer in README (there was also a disclaimer on the podling
website).
* IP Clearance
CouchDB Mango -- IBM Corporation have built a MongoDB API Layer for
CouchDB and are donating it to the CouchDB project. This consists of of a
module that exposes a set of actions that are similar to what MongoDB
exposes.
* Legal / Trademarks
Taverna successfully cleared its name search.
* Infrastructure
* Miscellaneous
-------------------- Summary of podling reports --------------------
* Still getting started at the Incubator
TinkerPop
Zeppelin (delayed software grant)
* Not yet ready to graduate
No release:
Corinthia
Kylin
Lens
Ripple
SAMOA
Tamaya
Taverna
Community growth:
Droids
HTrace
NiFi
REEF
Slider
Twill
* Ready to graduate
Blur
* Did not report, expected next month
BatchEE
* Retired Podlings
NPanday
* Report incomplete
Sirona
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Table of Contents
BatchEE
Blur
Corinthia
Droids
HTrace
Kylin
Lens
NiFi
REEF
Ripple
SAMOA
Sirona
Slider
Tamaya
Taverna
TinkerPop
Twill
Zeppelin
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--------------------
Blur
Blur is a search platform capable of searching massive amounts of data
in a cloud computing environment.
Blur has been incubating since 2012-07-24.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. We anticipate pursuing graduation after our upcoming release.
2.
3.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
None.
How has the community developed since the last report?
We continue to be small but active.
- Subscriptions: user@ - 60[0]; dev@ - 66[0]
How has the project developed since the last report?
The majority of effort has been around stabilization for the upcoming
release.
We're pleased to have seen some new folks show up and contribute bug
reports and patches.
Date of last release:
2014-07-29
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
2014-07-28
Signed-off-by:
[ ](blur) Doug Cutting
[X](blur) Patrick Hunt
[X](blur) Tim Williams
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
Showing good dev and commit traffic and activity, still pretty low user
mailing list activity. (tnachen)
--------------------
Corinthia
Corinthia is a toolkit/application for converting between and editing common
office file formats, with an initial focus on word processing. It is
designed to cater for multiple classes of platforms - desktop, web, and
mobile - and relies heavily on web technologies such as HTML, CSS, and
JavaScript for representing and manipulating documents. The toolkit is
small, portable, and flexible, with minimal dependencies. The target
audience is developers wishing to include office viewing, conversion, and
editing functionality into their applications.
Corinthia has been incubating since 2014-12-08.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Discuss and decide on a medium-term roadmap
2. Grow the community
3. Finalize source structure change (easy access for new developers)
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?
January has been a rather quiet month, Dave Fisher joined as PPMC/Committer
(was Mentor)
How has the project developed since the last report?
Work is progressing on restructuring the filter development and 64bit
testing is ongoing
research of similar program has been structured in jira issues.
Date of last release:
XXXX-XX-XX
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
2015-01-17 Dave Fisher added as PPMC/Committer
Signed-off-by:
[x](corinthia) Dave Fisher
[x](corinthia) Daniel Gruno
[x](corinthia) Jan Iversen
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
John D. Ament (johndament):
Still a new podling, growing pretty well though. Small number of
participants that may need further growth to be viable long term.
--------------------
Droids
Droids aims to be an intelligent standalone robot framework that allows to
create and extend existing droids (robots).
Droids has been incubating since 2008-10-09.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Activity
2. Name Search
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
None.
We need to continue the name search. Branding has replied to the issue and
provided additional searches that need to performed. It is hoped that
these can be finished in the new couple weeks.
How has the community developed since the last report?
No change.
How has the project developed since the last report?
No change.
Date of last release:
2012-10-15
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
2012-05-07
Signed-off-by:
[ ](droids) Thorsten Scherler
[x](droids) Richard Frovarp
--------------------
HTrace
HTrace is a tracing framework intended for use with distributed systems
written in java.
HTrace has been incubating since 2014-11.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Continue to grow the HTrace community
2. Continue to develop and release stable HTrace incubating artifacts
3. Continue to explore the integration of the HTrace framework into other
Apache products
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
Around January 20th HTrace successfully made the first release whilst in
the Apache Incubator. This was the outcomes of no-less than 10 release
candidates and as many VOTE's. In all every release candidate was very
well managed with HTrace community providing excellent feedback to the
release manager. Rather than then entire 10 release candidate exercise
being a pain point for the community, it appears to have strengthened all
involved. Well done HTrace.
How has the community developed since the last report?
It is early incubating days for HTrace. The community has attracted in
particular a new member who is doing a sterling job on a new UI for
HTrace. Additionally it should be noted that the entire
htrace-3.1.0-incubating release effort has certainly brought the existing
community on leaps and bounds.
How has the project developed since the last report?
The project has progressed significantly. In fact, it was highlighted on
at least one occasion that documentation supporting a release candidate
should be further clarified/improved due to the dynamic progressive nature
of the HTrace codebase. As an early incubating project this is accepted as
a positive move.
Date of last release:
2015-20-01
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
???
Signed-off-by:
[X](htrace) Jake Farrell
[ ](htrace) Todd Lipcon
[X](htrace) Lewis John Mcgibbney
[ ](htrace) Andrew Purtell
[X](htrace) Billie Rinaldi
[X](htrace) Michael Stack
--------------------
Kylin
Kylin is a distributed and scalable OLAP engine built on Hadoop to support
extremely large datasets.
Kylin has been incubating since 2014-11-25.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Make the first release from apache
2. Discuss and decide on a medium-term roadmap
3. Grow user and contributor base.
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?
1. Kylin topic has been confirmed to present at Strata+Hadoop World 2015
London, also proposed to HBaseCon, Hadoop Summit and Big Data
Technology Conference 2015 Beijing
2. Offical twitter account created: @ApacheKylin
* Followers 173
3. Issue backlog status since last report:
* Created: 587 (including imported from github.com)
* Resolved: 283 (including imported from github.com)
4. Mailing list activity since last report:
* @dev 227 messages
5. Github activity:
* Star 405
* Fork 172
* Contributors 17
How has the project developed since the last report?
1. Kylin website is available on http://kylin.incubator.apache.org
2. Making changes in build and packaging with respect to apache release
process
3. Development are happening on v0.7.1 version which we are preparing for
first release.
Date of last release:
None yet.
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
NONE
Signed-off-by:
[ ](kylin) Owen O'Malley
[X](kylin) Ted Dunning
[X](kylin) Henry Saputra
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
Konstantin Boudnik (cos):
Mailing list is active; most mentors are participating in the community.
--------------------
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: the 2.0-incubating release is in
progress
2. Reach out to people through presentations and blogs
3. Establish whether "Apache Lens" is a suitable name
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
Establish whether "Apache Lens" is a suitable name via
PODLINGNAMESEARCH-63
How has the community developed since the last report?
* Lens website is available on http://lens.incubator.apache.org
* Abstract submissions made for ApacheCon, Hadoop Summit and OSCON 2015.
How has the project developed since the last report?
* Main activities include
* Stabilizing the api and code for first stable release
* Doing changes in build and packaging with respect to apache release
process
* Setting up regression suite for the project
* Mailing list activity :
* Dev
* Janauary - 1011 messsages
* Commits
* January - 43 messages
* User mailing list activity - None
* Issues 70 created and 46 resolved via 30 day summary from LENS Jira.
Date of last release:
NONE. 2.0.0-incubating release process is in progress.
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
2014-12-24
Signed-off-by:
[X](lens) Christopher Douglas
[ ](lens) Jakob Glen Homan
[X](lens) Jean-Baptiste Onofre
--------------------
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. Grow our community.
2. Establish rhythm for releases, review processes, and document how to
most effectively bring on new committers.
3. Update our release process with items learned from initial release.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
Nothing we wish to raise at this time.
How has the community developed since the last report?
We have a new PPMC member - Jenn Barnabee.
We continue to receive patches, code ideas, and bug reports from the
community. Notable contributions during this reporting period outside the
PPMC and committer base include a new website design, code which will
automate much of the documentation production, and refactoring to improve
code reuse.
The dev mailing list has grown from 62 to 80 in the last report (commits
has grown to 29).
How has the project developed since the last report?
We have successfully produced our first release within the Apache
Incubator!
Date of last release:
2015-01-29
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
2015-01-17
Signed-off-by:
[X](nifi) Billie Rinaldi
[X](nifi) Arvind Prabhakar
[X](nifi) Sergio Fernandez
[ ](nifi) Benson Margulies
[x](nifi) Brock Noland
[X](nifi) Drew Farris
[X](nifi) Andrew Purtell
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
Drew Farris (drew):
Great report. Congratulations on the first release of NiFi at
Apache. Excellent job honing the release process and keeping
up the momentum with the Release Candidates.
P. Taylor Goetz (ptgoetz):
The podling looks healthy, with active participation from 6
out of 7 mentors. Mentors were particularly helpful in
guiding the community through a first release.
--------------------
REEF
REEF (Retainable Evaluator Execution Framework) is a scale-out computing
fabric that eases the development of Big Data applications on top of
resource managers such as Apache YARN and Mesos.
REEF has been incubating since 2014-08-12.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Increase contributors and add them as committers
2. Make regular Apache releases
3. Increase efforts to reach out to potential users and contributors
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
How has the community developed since the last report?
* We have seen significant activity from the community
- 87 JIRA issues created
- 46 JIRA issues resolved
- 900+ emails on dev (including auto-generated messages)
* We have received significant contributions from non-Committers
- Joo Seong Jeong and Josh Seol of Seoul National University have
contributed significantly to the website
* We have proposed a talk at Hadoop Summit
How has the project developed since the last report?
* The first release was made as 0.10.0-incubating
- Release date: Jan 15, 2015
- Vote: 3 +1 binding votes and 0 -1 votes
- 41 issues were closed/resolved for this release
* Website added on Apache [REEF-4, http://reef.incubator.apache.org/]
* Integrated with the Apache build servers [REEF-11]
* Mesos runtime code has been added to the Apache repository [REEF-30]
* .NET code has been added to the Apache repository [REEF-51]
* Group communication code has been cleared by Microsoft to be added
to the Apache REEF code base [REEF-118]
Date of last release:
Jan 15, 2015 (0.10.0-incubating)
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
None yet
Signed-off-by:
[X](reef) Chris Douglas
[ ](reef) Chris Mattmann
[ ](reef) Ross Gardler
[ ](reef) Owen O'Malley
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
P. Taylor Goetz (ptgoetz):
The podling seems to be doing well despite low mentor participation (0
out of 4 mentors active on dev@ list for this reporting period; 1 of 4
mentors participating in REEF's first release threads).
--------------------
Ripple
Ripple is a browser based mobile phone emulator designed to aid in the
development of HTML5 based mobile applications. Ripple is a cross platform
and cross runtime testing/debugging tool. It currently supports such
runtimes as Cordova, WebWorks aand the Mobile Web.
Ripple has been incubating since 2012-10-16.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Ripple releases
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
The community is working on making a release of the Ripple project.
How has the community developed since the last report?
Community working on making a release
How has the project developed since the last report?
Minor user contributions
Date of last release:
No releases have been made. Community working on
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:
Christian Grobmeier (grobmeier):
Ross Gardler stepped up as a mentor. There are new active people on the
project which makes it likely to expand the committer team soon.
--------------------
SAMOA
SAMOA provides a collection of distributed streaming algorithms for the most
common data mining and machine learning tasks such as classification,
clustering, and regression, as well as programming abstractions to develop
new algorithms that run on top of distributed stream processing engines
(DSPEs). It features a pluggable architecture that allows it to run on
several DSPEs such as Apache Storm, Apache S4, and Apache Samza.
SAMOA has been incubating since 2014-12-15.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Create bylaws for the project
2. Migrate documentation from the old website
3. Start committing patches
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
None
How has the community developed since the last report?
We have started using the official Apache channels to discuss about SAMOA.
A couple of new people have showed up on the mailing lists. We have one
new contributor submitting patches.
Mailing list activity (since January 2015):
* @dev 101 messages
Jira issues backlog (since January 2015):
* Created: 13
* Resolved: 2
How has the project developed since the last report?
The project setup is going on nicely. We got the SGA from Yahoo and
migrated the code to the Apache git repository, enabled GitHub integration
(https://github.com/apache/incubator-samoa), migrated the website to the
Apache infrastructure and added the Incubator branding
(http://samoa.incubator.apache.org), enabled testing via Travis CI.
Date of last release:
None
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
None
Signed-off-by:
[ ](samoa) Alan Gates
[ ](samoa) Ashutosh Chauhan
[ ](samoa) Enis Soztutar
[X](samoa) Ted Dunning
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
Justin Mclean (jmclean):
Just starting, mentors active.
--------------------
Sirona
Monitoring Solution.
Sirona has been incubating since 2013-10-15.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1.
2.
3.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
None
How has the community developed since the last report?
How has the project developed since the last report?
Some refactoring of the UI. A contributor made some development to have
some features still working with java 1.5
Date of last release:
2014-06-26
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
Signed-off-by:
[x](sirona) Olivier Lamy
[ ](sirona) Henri Gomez
[x](sirona) Jean-Baptiste Onofre
[ ](sirona) Tammo van Lessen
[ ](sirona) Mark Struberg
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
Matthew B. Franklin (mfranklin):
Lot's of code is being committed to the project, but mostly by a couple of
developers. There also does not appear to be much discussion on the list
in last period, likely due to the low number of developers.
I recommend the podling focus on increasing the size and participation of
the community as one of the issues to address prior to graduation.
--------------------
Slider
Slider is a collection of tools and technologies to package, deploy, and
manage long running applications on Apache Hadoop YARN clusters.
Slider has been incubating since 2014-04-29.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Building a diverse developer and user community
2. Achieving broader adoption of the existing code and slider-deployable
applications (examples: HBase, Accumulo)
3. Making slider better at deploying other applications, so improving
takeup.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
None
How has the community developed since the last report?
We're getting more people on the mailing list asking for improvements;
anyone with a patch is being helped to get it in. That builds up the
developer base and is intended to move it from a single team to one
distributed community development. As we grow, we're proposing moving
from a single slider developer list to:a separate user mailing list, and a
third list for the JIRA/svn/git events. This will focus the developer list
around discussion, with a user list to help build that user community. We
do of course expect developers to also subscribe to the user list.
How has the project developed since the last report?
We've done a source-only release in November, 0.60.0-incubating, in sync
with features in Hadoop 2.6, with a binary packing version,
0.61.0-incubating has just been voted for release (3-feb 2015); the
incubator vote is now pending. It was nice to see tests and a vote on the
release from an external user & patch submitter -community engagement
includes things like this.
A new release, 0.70 is being created with the release planned
mid-February. This will include improved features and fixes —especially
those reported by users of the 0.60 release. For example, one group wanted
short-lived applications on secure clusters, instances where Slider does
not need to worry about keytab expiry. Another need of people writing
slider-deployed applications was for a placement policy of "only ever ask
for component placement where instances were before"; this is needed for
Kafka.
Some of the feature requests are quite "ambitious", especially those
related to deployed components providing information back to the Web/REST
GUIs, and extending the configuration model to include: more
on-target-machine configuration, per-instance configuration and better
strategies for placing components within the YARN cluster. These requests
do represent real needs; even if they are long term features we need to
think about how to get there.
We're discussing supplementing the dev@ mailing list with issues@ and
user@ lists; the issues list for all JIRA updates -creation and completion
would still go to the developer list. This is to separate the noise of
JIRA-centric development from a developer list focused on broader
application features and building a community. We don't want to scare
people off from too much JIRA, or worse: lose what they have to say in the
emails. Similarly, the user@ list is where we want to encourage users. The
original rationale for a single list was "one single community
discussion", but it's not clear its worked out that way.
Date of last release:
2014-11: Slider 0.60 (source, against Hadoop 2.6)
2015-02: (vote in progress) Slider 0.61.0 (binary, against Hadoop 2.6)
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
September 2014, new committer, Gour Saha (works at hortonworks)
Signed-off-by:
[ ](slider) Arun C Murthy
[x](slider) Devaraj Das
[x](slider) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
[x](slider) Mahadev Konar
--------------------
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. Publish a first release soon.
2. Keep focus for a reasonable functionality and way forward.
3. Keep up/increase community engagement.
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?
Reinhard Sandtner was successfully elected to join as a new committer,
PPMC member. During Zurich Hackergarten we implemented the backport of
the current Java 8 core implementation.
How has the project developed since the last report?
We identified a minimalistic but extendible API. Basic implementation work
for Java 8 and Java 7 is ongoing, but makes overall good progress.
Date of last release:
not yet defined, probably in Q2/2015
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
25th January 2015 (Reinhard Sandtner)
Signed-off-by:
[X](tamaya) John D. Ament
[X](tamaya) Mark Struberg
[ ](tamaya) Gerhard Petracek
[ ](tamaya) David Blevins
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
jda: Initial growing pains seem to be resolved, initial members
are working together better. Mailing list activity is steady and
everyone is getting adjusted to The Apache Way.
mbf: Community activity looks strong and the community is discussing
and deciding on the list.
--------------------
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
2. Release - understand/document release process
3. Grow community -- need to move forward from bootstrapping/IP issues
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?
One new (potential) contributor
One former plugin developer showing renewed interest
There were 160 mail messages to dev@taverna.incubator.apache.org
How has the project developed since the last report?
The Taverna name search has been approved.
IP clearance from University of Manchester was signed 2015-02-04.
Helped release Apache extras Beanshell 2.0b5 to allow use in Taverna
The dev community is dealing with licensing and discussing preparation
for the first release. A partial website is in place and a full website
is in-progress.
Remaining infrastructure move includes - after IP clearance:
* Github -> git.apache.org
* Jira -> Jira (still discussing if this should be in bulk or manual)
* Confluence -> Confluence
* Web content (ongoing)
Date of last release:
None
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
None
Signed-off-by:
[x](taverna) Andy Seaborne
[ ](taverna) Chris Mattmann
[ ](taverna) Suresh Srinivas
[ ](taverna) Suresh Marru
[x](taverna) Marlon Pierce
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
Andy Seaborne (andy):
Taverna remained on the monthly reporting cycle because the Software
Grant had not been received. If it arrives as per schedule, Taverna can
go onto its normal reporting cycle.
Drew Farris (drew):
Podling is active, 2 mentors participating on the mailing lists.
--------------------
TinkerPop
TinkerPop is a graph computing framework written in Java
TinkerPop has been incubating since 2015-01-16.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Software grant needs to be approved.
2. Migration to Apache infrastructure.
3. Getting our team comfortable with the new environment.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
We have been hanging on the software grant approval for a week now. Be
good to get that knocked out so we can move forward.
How has the community developed since the last report?
N/A
How has the project developed since the last report?
N/A
Date of last release:
XXXX-XX-XX
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
Signed-off-by:
[ ](tinkerpop) Rich Bowen
[ ](tinkerpop) Daniel Gruno
[X](tinkerpop) Hadrian Zbarcea
[X](tinkerpop) Matt Franklin
[X](tinkerpop) David Nalley
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
John D. Ament (johndament):
Links to mailing lists are still pointing to google, appears to be on
purpose. By doing so keeps the mailing lists active from original state.
--------------------
Twill
Twill is an abstraction over Apache Hadoop YARN that reduces the complexity
of developing distributed applications, allowing developers to focus more on
their business logic
Twill has been incubating since 2013-11-14.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. More committers from different organizations.
2. Regular releases.
3. Increase adoption.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
- None at this time.
How has the community developed since the last report?
- 8 new JIRA issues filed since last report (2014-11-01)
- 12 JIRA issues resolved since last report (2014-11-01)
- 3 new contributors submitted patches
How has the project developed since the last report?
- Version 0.4.1-incubating RC3 being voted upon
Date of last release:
- 2014-11-17: 0.4.0-incubating
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
- No new committers since incubation.
Signed-off-by:
[ ](twill) Arun C Murthy
[X](twill) Tom White
[X](twill) Patrick Hunt
[ ](twill) Andrei Savu
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
Konstantin Boudnik (cos):
Very modest activity on the mailing list: pretty much just JIRAs and very
light of it.
--------------------
Zeppelin
A collaborative data analytics and visualization tool for distributed,
general-purpose data processing systems such as Apache Spark, Apache Flink,
etc.
Zeppelin has been incubating since 2014-12-23.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. SGA: IP clearance to be signed by NFLabs
2. Finish migration to ASF infra: code and issues
3. Complete PODLINGNAMESEARCH-64
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
None.
How has the community developed since the last report?
We've received several patches from contributors outside of the initial
committers list. They are also participating in some discussions @dev
How has the project developed since the last report?
All code base is ready to be migrated.
The project is waiting for the Software Grant from NFLabs legal
department.
Major features implemented are: custom Zeppelin interpreters-to-note
binding and dynamic .jar dependency loading
Date of last release:
None.
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
None since incubation
Signed-off-by:
[X](zeppelin) Konstantin Boudnik
[X](zeppelin) Henry Saputra
[X](zeppelin) Roman Shaposhnik
[X](zeppelin) Ted Dunning
[ ](zeppelin) Hyunsik Choi
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
Project just started to migrate to ASF infra, and good amount of initial
discussions on dev/user list. (tnachen)
-----------------------------------------
Attachment AO: Report from the Apache JMeter Project [Sebastian Bazley]
The Apache JMeter application is a pure Java application designed to load test
functional behavior and measure performance.
JMeter 2.12 was released on 10th November 2014.
The JMeter user list is active and user requests are generally dealt with
promptly, either by other members of the community or the JMeter developers.
Likewise the developer list, though of course that is mainly used by the
committers.
We received many patches from external contributors during the end of last
year period. JMeter is being increasingly used in different commercial
offers ranging from Cloud SAAS to commercial plugins.
We recently welcomed Andrey Pokhilko and Mikhail Epikhin as new committers.
A proposal to a 3rd committer is still waiting for an answer from his side.
Rahul Akolkar resigned from the PMC on 20th January 2015.
Felix Schumacher joined the PMC on Feb 3rd 2015
The JMeter Twitter account has 1564 followers as of 4th Feb 2015.
There are no board level issues at this time.
-----------------------------------------
Attachment AP: Report from the Apache jUDDI Project [Alex O'Ree]
-----------------------------------------
Attachment AQ: Report from the Apache Kafka Project [Jun Rao]
Apache Kafka is a distributed pub/sub system for efficiently collecting and
delivering a large number of messages to both offline and online systems.
Development
===========
We released Kafka 0.8.2.0. The highlights in this release include (1) a
java-based new producer, which provides better performance and a cleaner api;
(2) a more scalable Kafka-based offset storage management; (3) automated
leader balancing and controlled shutdown; (4) delete topic support; (5) more
than 200 bug fixes and improvements. We are actively developing a new
java-based consumer and the security support in trunk.
Community
===========
Lots of activities in the mailing list. kafka-user has 550, 464, 665 emails in
Nov, Dec and Jan, respectively (up from 563 in Oct). kafka-dev has 1214, 881,
1632 emails in Nov, Dec and Jan (about the same as 1633 in Jul). We last
elected a new committer Guozhang Wang on Nov. 19, 2014. We had a Kafka meetup
in Mountain View, California on Jan. 27, 2015.
Releases
===========
0.8.2.0 was released on Feb. 3, 2015.
-----------------------------------------
Attachment AR: Report from the Apache Knox Project [Kevin Minder]
# Description
The Knox Gateway is a REST API gateway for securing Hadoop REST APIs at the
perimeter.
# Issues
None
# Status
* New bug fix release 0.5.1 on 1/12/2015
# Releases
* 0.5.1: 2015-12-01
* 0.5.0: 2014-11-04
* 0.4.0: 2014-04-21
* 0.3.0: 2013-10-13 (Incubating)
# Development Activity
* Community has just released 0.5.1
* Jira: 499 total, +29 -20 (last 90 days)
* Git (Source): 61 commits over last 90 days
* SVN (Site & Docs): 1 commits over last 90 days
# Community Activity
## Contributors Added
* 1 new contributor added with multiple patches contributed
## Membership Changes
* Sumit Gupta (sumit@apache.org) added as commiter and PMC member
## Mailing List Activity
* dev@knox: 130 messages over last 90 days
* user@knox: 5 messages over last 90 days
-----------------------------------------
Attachment AS: Report from the Apache Lenya Project [Richard Frovarp]
The Apache Lenya CMS is a Cocoon based XML/XHTML content management
system.
Issues:
The board submitted several questions to the PMC after the last report.
1) No commits
- It appears that there are few places using Lenya yet. Most of the
previous committers have moved their development efforts on to new
places
2) No releases
- There haven't been any releases as there haven't been any commits
that have warrented a new release. So while there are the PMC numbers
to vote on a release, no one has fealt that unreleased changes are
worth a release.
3) Questions on the list
- Questions aren't being asked, so they aren't being answered. Queries
to the list aren't being ignored.
The board follow up sparked conversation on list about options. It seems
that the community feels that it is a good time to move to the attic.
A formal vote on the resolution will be held. The voting time as per the
Lenya guidelines would call for a one week voting period. That means
that the resolution, if passed, would appear on next months agenda.
Development:
No new releases this quarter.
Last release: 2.0.4 on 2011-03-14
Community:
Last change to community was PMC addition in October 2011.
Activity:
Another quarter of almost no activity.
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Attachment AT: Report from the Apache Libcloud Project [Tomaz Muraus]
Libcloud is a Python library that abstracts away the differences among
multiple cloud provider APIs.
Issues
There are no issues that require the board's attention at this time.
Releases
- 0.16.0 on 11th of November 2014
- Vote for 0.17.0 release has just been started
Community
- Eric Johnson (erjohnso) has joined us as a committer and a PMC member on
December 4th, 2014
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Attachment AU: Report from the Apache Logging Project [Christian Grobmeier]
The Apache Logging Services Project creates and maintains open-
source software related to application logging.
Currently there are no issues, which require the board’s attention.
- Community
Log4j 2 remains an active project. The overall
community is healthy and friendly.
Log4cxx is still active at the Incubator.
In general, all subprojects are healthy.
- Project Branding Requirements
All components except Chainsaw meet the branding requirements.
We will fix the Chainsaw branding with the next release.
- Last three community changes
* Matt Sicker joined as PMC Member on Aug 10 2014
* Bruce Brouwer joined as a Committer on May 16 2014
* Matt Sicker joined as a Committer on Mar 01 2014
(no changes since last report)
- Releases
* Log4j 2.1.0 (Oct 28, 2014)
* Log4j 2.0.2 (Aug 22, 2014)
* Log4j 2.0.1 (Aug 05, 2014)
(no changes since last report)
- Subproject summaries
Log4j 2: Active.
Log4j 1: No activity. Needs to be considered for EOL.
Log4net: Almost no activity, but questions on the mailing lists are answered.
Log4cxx: Active in the Incubator. Release is considered.
Log4php: Almost no activity, but questions on the mailing lists are answered.
Chainsaw: Ready for a new release.
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Attachment AV: Report from the Apache Mahout Project [Grant Ingersoll]
=== Apache Mahout Status Report: February (missed January) 2015 ===
-----
Apache Mahout has implementations of a wide range of machine learning and
data mining algorithms: clustering, classification, collaborative filtering
and frequent pattern mining
Project Status
--------------
The project continues to have a large and active user base. Development
continues by a small number of dedicated individuals. The PMC is reviewing
how we can improve contributions as well as exploring other options to make
sure the project remains viable to the user base.
Community
---------
* As per the status, the main issue is we have only 2-3 committers who are
contributing on a regular basis. While they are doing good work, it is
concerning from a sustainment issue. We are discussing as a PMC how
to rectify this situation. The main issue is that developing machine learning
libraries is involved process that is hard to do on a part time basis and
we have yet to find anyone that can be dedicated full time to the project.
Community Objectives
--------------------
Identify next steps for either growing the list of active committers or
finding an appropriate home for the code that exists (attic or elsewhere).
Releases
--------
The migration to Spark is still ongoing and no new releases are planned at this
time.
Issues
------
See above.
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Attachment AW: Report from the Apache ManifoldCF Project [Karl Wright]
ManifoldCF PMC Chair: Karl Wright (kwright@apache.org)
Date: February 2015
Project description
==============
ManifoldCF is an effort to provide an open source framework for connecting
source content repositories like Microsoft Sharepoint and EMC Documentum, to
target repositories or indexes, such as Apache Solr, OpenSearchServer or
ElasticSearch. ManifoldCF also defines a security model for target
repositories that permits them to enforce source-repository security policies.
Releases
========
ManifoldCF graduated from the Apache Incubator on May 16, 2012. Since then,
there have been ten major releases, including a 1.8 and 2.0 release on
December 26, 2014, and a corresponding pair of point releases on February 3,
2015. The next major release is scheduled for April 30, 2015.
ManifoldCF is now in the position of supporting both a legacy set of releases
(1.x), and a non-backwards-compatible set of releases (2.x). We plan to
continue this dual support for a period of roughly one year.
Committers and PMC membership
=============================
The last committer we signed up was Alessandro Benedetti (abenedetti), on
October 10, 2014.
Mailing list activity
=====================
Mailing list has been somewhat less active than last quarter, but still
robust. Most of our connectors now have significant use cases and
constituencies. Dev list comments for this period centered around the
ManifoldCF 2.0 release. There were plenty of people looking for integration
advice as well. I am unaware of any mailing-list question that has gone
unanswered.
Outstanding issues
==================
Release upload to the dist.apache.org svn repository is quite slow, and takes
well over an hour for a single ManifoldCF release candidate. We raised this
issue with Infra but did not manage to resolve it.
Branding
========
We have reviewed the site branding guidelines and believe we are now compliant
with these, with the possible exception of (TM) signs in logos from other
Apache products that don't have any such marks. Hopefully we will be able to
correct this issue soon.
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Attachment AX: Report from the Apache Marmotta Project [Jakob Frank]
Apache Marmotta, an Open Platform for Linked Data.
Apache Marmotta was founded in December 2012 and has graduated from the
Incubator in November 2013.
On December 5th Apache Marmotta 3.3.0 with several important new features was
released:
* Full LDP 1.0 support (Marmotta is listed as reference implementation)
* Major improvements in the SPARQL -> SQL translation
After the release and towards the end of the year, the mailinglists got quite
silent. However, questions on the users-list are answered in a timely manner.
Subscribers to the projects mailing list:
dev@marmotta.a.o: 76 subscribers (+3 since last report, 2014-11)
users@marmotta.a.o: 90 subscribers (+4 since last report, 2014-11)
Releases
2014-12-05 (3.3.0)
2014-05-20 (3.2.1)
Committers & PMC
Peter Ansell (committer&PMC, 2013-06-24)
Raffaele Palmieri (committer&PMC, 2013-05-21)
Issues for the Board
There are no Board-level issues at this time.
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Attachment AY: Report from the Apache Mesos Project [Benjamin Hindman]
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Attachment AZ: 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:
* December 12th, 2014: MetaModel 4.3.1
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: 300 messages
* Mailing list subscribers: 58
* Commits the last 3 months: 26
Activity:
* Discussions are starting about new connectors: Solr, Hive
* Discussions on building a JDBC interface for MetaModel
* No important activity at the moment
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Attachment BA: Report from the Apache MINA Project [Emmanuel Lecharny]
Apache MINA is a network application framework which helps users
develop high performance and high scalability network applications
easily.
-- Community --
* No new committers (Last addition, october 2013)
* One new PMC member : Jeff Genender (October 2014)
A new committer is currently being voted in.
Users mailing list :
Sep 2014 : 479 subscribers
Feb 2015 : 486 subscribers
Dev mailing list :
Apr 2014 : 388 subscribers
Feb 2014 : 383 subscribers
Jean-François Maury has been voted as the new MINA Chairman.
(board note: subject to board approval as usual, the resolution has
been added to this agenda),
-- Current activity --
Apache MINA 2.0.9 has been released. It's a bug fix release, with
some performance improvements. Some work has been initiated to get
2.0.10 release, but reverted, due to some API modification. The
release has still to be completed.
Apache MINA 3.0 SSL code has been completed.
Apache SSHd 0.13.0 has been released, with on goung work.
A slow quarter, so to speak. The only two projects that saw
activity are MINA and SSHd.
* Apache MINA :
* MINA 2.0.9 has been released in october
* Apache SSHd:
* SSHD 0.13.0 has been released in november
* Apache FtpServer:
* No activity if the past 3 months
* Apache Vysper :
* Nothing done
* Apache AsyncWeb:
* No activity.
-- Releases --
* SSHD 0.13.0 has been released.
* MINA 2.0.9 has been released
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Attachment BB: Report from the Apache MRUnit Project [Brock Noland]
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Attachment BC: Report from the Apache Nutch Project [Sebastian Nagel]
Apache Nutch is a highly extensible and scalable open source web crawler
software project. Stemming from Apache Lucene™, the project has diversified
and now comprises two codebases, based respectively on Apache Hadoop
data structures and Apache Gora for leveraging NoSQL databases.
ISSUES
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
RELEASES
Nutch 2.3 was released on January 24, 2015.
The release includes an important upgrade of the Gora persistence layer.
It also adds a REST API based Web Application which has been written within
the Google Summer of Code 2014.
There has been no release of the Nutch 1.x branch since the previous
report (Nutch 1.9 was released in August 2014). The release of Nutch 1.10
is planned for the next weeks.
CURRENT ACTIVITY
Chris Mattmann has begun projects related to Nutch in his CSCI 572
Search Engines class at USC. This includes dynamic page rendering
and parsing with Ajax: porting of REST services from 2.x to 1.x and
visualization of the crawl graph.
We plan to participate in Google Summer of Code 2015.
COMMUNITY
Jorge Luis Betancourt Gonzalez has been invited to become a PMC
member and committer on Feb 7, 2015. Boarding process is ongoing.
Last new committer: Talat Uyarer joined the PMC and committers on Mar 31, 2014.
The traffic on the mailing lists is at a steady level.
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Attachment BD: Report from the Apache ODE Project [Tammo van Lessen]
Apache ODE (Orchestration Director Engine) executes business processes written
following the WS-BPEL standard. It talks to web services, sending and receiving
messages, handling data manipulation and error recovery as described by your
process definition. It supports both long and short living process executions
to orchestrate all the services that are part of your application.
STATUS
In this reporting period we made some progress towards a 1.3.7 release.
RELEASE
No releases in this reporting period.
DEVELOPMENT
We started developing a new monitoring console for ODE, based on AngularJS,
talking directly to the SOAP API. The goal is to replace the current console
and then continuously improve the console. Besides of this effort, we continued
working on bug fixes and some infrastructure improvements (mainly docker-based
CI).
COMMUNITY
Nothing important to report. Last committer was added on Dec 10, 2012, last PMC
member was added on Jun 28, 2013.
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Attachment BE: Report from the Apache Oltu Project [Antonio Sanso]
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Attachment BF: Report from the Apache Oozie Project [Mohammad Islam]
DESCRIPTION
Apache Oozie is a system for managing and scheduling
workflows that run different types of Hadoop jobs
(such as MapReduce, Pig, Hive and Sqoop) as well as
system specific jobs (such as Java programs and shell scripts).
RELEASES
* Apache Oozie version (4.1.0) is released
CURRENT ACTIVITY
* Development activity continues as can be seen from the
following JIRA report: http://s.apache.org/bb9 (since
last report, Nov 2014)
COMMUNITY
* No new PMC member added since last report.
* Committers composition has not changed since last report.
* Currently there are:
- Total of 428 (+12) subscribers to the user list
- Total of 128(+3) subscribers to the developer list
- Total of 17 committers (+0)
- Total of 13 PMC members (+0)
ISSUES
* There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
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Attachment BG: Report from the Apache Open Climate Workbench Project [Michael James Joyce]
Apache Open Climate Workbench is a tool for scalable comparisons of remote
sensing observations to climate model outputs.
Project Activity:
Development activity on the project has been great since the last reporting
period. The 0.5 release was pushed out in mid January and had many significant
toolkit improvements.
The project agreed that we're nearly ready for our first major 1.0.0 release
and we're actively working towards that goal. Progress has been consistent
and a number of key issues have been resolved. We should see this major
release pushed out before the next reporting period.
We saw a bit more user interaction the list recently which is always great to
see. That being said, we haven't had any major contributions from new people.
We have seen some committers who had been on hiatus become more active recently.
Issues for the Board:
None
When was the last release:
0.4 - 11 September 2014
0.5 - 14 January 2015
When was the last committer or PMC member elected:
Ross Laidlaw - 6 November 2014
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Attachment BH: Report from the Apache OpenJPA Project [Pinaki Poddar]
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Attachment BI: Report from the Apache OpenMeetings Project [Sebastian Wagner]
Apache OpenMeetings provides video conferencing, instant messaging, white
board, collaborative document editing and other groupware tools using API
functions of the Red5 Streaming Server for Remoting and Streaming.
== Releases ==
Version 3.0.3 has been released in September. Since then no major release was
published.
There is still ongoing work on the 3.0.x tree to fix recording and streaming
issues. We are still waiting on a Red5 release and will start a vote as soon
as that is available (expected next weeks). There is also ongoing work in
trunk on the 3.1.x tree.
== Activity ==
The constant activity in mailing list, jira and commits.
There are some initiatives around logos and call for help.
== Community ==
Peter Dähn has been voted as a new member to the PMC, boarding process is
still ongoing.
Maxim Solodovnik is going to the ApacheCon EU and do a presentation about
OpenMeetings.
== Infrastructure ==
No outstanding issue.
== Board ==
There are no outstanding issues requiring board attention.
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Attachment BJ: Report from the Apache Perl Project [Philippe M. Chiasson]
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Attachment BK: Report from the Apache Phoenix Project [James R. Taylor]
Phoenix is a relational database layer for accessing NoSQL datastores
such as Apache HBase for low latency applications. It is accessed as a
JDBC driver and supports querying and managing NoSQL tables using SQL.
Releases:
2014-11-17 3.2.1
2014-11-17 4.2.1
2014-12-10 3.2.2
2014-12-10 4.2.2
Recent Activity:
- Adopted new logo and improved website look-and-feel [1].
- Created "Who's using Phoenix" page with user/company quotes [2].
- Voting open on 3.3 and 4.3 releases. Notable features include map-reduce
integration, many-to-many joins and functional indexes.
- James will be presenting Apache Phoenix at the Hadoop Innovation
Summit on 2015-02-13.
- Created 202 JIRAs and resolved 208 in the past 3mo.
PMC/Committers:
Samarth Jain was elected as a committer on 2014-12-06.
Thomas D'Silva was elected as a committer on 2015-02-09.
Last PMC member was elected on 2014-04-08.
Community:
First ever Phoenix meetup scheduled for 2015-02-24.
User list activity decreased 9% (197 -> 179 msg/mo) vs last 3mo
Dev list activity decreased 4% (1052 -> 1005 msg/mo) vs last 3mo
User subscribers increased 24% (211 -> 262 subscribers) vs last 3mo
Dev subscribers increased 17% (102 -> 119 subscribers) vs last 3mo
Board Issues:
None
[1] http://phoenix.apache.org/index.html
[2] http://phoenix.apache.org/who_is_using.html
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Attachment BL: Report from the Apache POI Project [Yegor Kozlov]
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Attachment BM: Report from the Apache Qpid Project [Robbie Gemmell]
Apache Qpid™ is a project focused on creating software based on the
Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP), currently providing a
protocol engine library, message brokers written in C++ and Java, a
message 'router', and client libraries for C++, Java (including JMS),
.Net, Python, Perl and Ruby.
* Releases:
Qpid Dispatch Router 0.3 was released on 22nd January 2015.
The most recent Qpid release, 0.30, occurred on 26th September 2014.
The most recent Qpid Proton release, 0.8, occurred on 6th November 2014.
* Community:
The main developer and user lists continue to be active. JIRAs are
being raised and addressed.
Ernest Allen became a committer on the Qpid project on 21st Nov 2014.
Dominic Evans became a committer on the Qpid project on 12th Dec 2014.
There were no new additions to the PMC since the last report. The last
addition to the PMC was Fraser Adams who joined on 6th March, 2014.
* Development:
- CVE-2015-0203 and CVE-2015-0224 were raised, fixes were made available
and announcements made.
- The release process has kicked off for Qpid 0.32, an alpha has been
created and trunk is scheduled to branch for beta around 18th February.
- Following the 0.32 branch there is intent to reorganise the trunk
structure to better facilitate releasing different components
independently in future.
- There have been a couple of alphas for Qpid Proton 0.9, to verify
process following migration from svn to git. Work progresses with
intent to release in the next few weeks.
- Work on the new AMQP 1.0 compliant JMS client is progressing well, we
will begin thinking about an initial release in the near future.
* Issues:
There are no Board-level issues at this time.
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Attachment BN: Report from the Apache River Project [Patricia Shanahan]
Apache River is a Java-based Service Oriented Architecture,
implementing the Jini Specification and Jini Technology
Starter Kit originally donated by Sun Microsystems.
ISSUES FOR THE BOARD
There are no board-level issues at this time
RELEASES
Apache River 2.2.2 was released on November 18, 2013
Apache River 2.2.1 was released on May 2, 2013.
COMMUNITY
The last change in the PMC was in June 2014, when Patricia Shanahan returned
from emeritus to active status as a committer and PMC member.
ACTIVITY
There is on-going development in the following areas:
* Improved examples - important for community building by providing a good
initial experience for new users and developers.
* Update code for Java 8.
* Usability
* Security issues associated with Java Serialization.
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Attachment BO: Report from the Apache Roller Project [Dave Johnson]
Issues
No board issues at this time.
Releases
The latest release of Apache Roller is v5.1.1, which was released
on October 2, 2014 and includes a handfull of minor bug fixes.
The announcement is here:
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/roller-dev/201410.mbox/%3C542CCE9C.80903@gmail.com%3E
Community
The Roller community is small but active these days, busy with a new
release and fielding support questions about that release.
The last new PMC member and committer who joined is Gaurav Saini
who joined on July 3, 2014.
This quarter, like most recent quarters, there has been a slow but steady
stream of bug fixes, re-factorings and improvements to the Roller code
base, documentation and the wiki.
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Attachment BP: Report from the Apache Samza Project [Chris Riccomini]
Apache Samza is a distributed stream processing framework built on top of
Apache Kafka and Apache YARN.
Project Status:
* Samza graduated to a TLP on Jan-21-2015.
* Samza 0.8.0 was released on Dec-08-2014.
* Adoption has been growing. Added four new adopters to Samza's PoweredBy
page.
* Mailing list activity is a healthy mix of committers and users.
Releases:
* Last Release was 0.8.0, published Dec-08-2014.
Community:
* The last Samza PMC addition: Aug-13-2014
* The last Samza committer addition: Aug-13-2014
Mailing lists:
* 179 subscribers on dev
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Attachment BQ: Report from the Apache Santuario Project [Colm O hEigeartaigh]
The Apache Santuario project is aimed at providing implementation of
security standards for XML.
The PMC continues to actively manage the project, and there are no issues or
concerns to report to the board at this time.
There were two new bug-fix releases of the Apache XML Security for Java
project over the last quarter, 2.0.3 and 1.5.8. There were 25 commits to the
trunk branch of the Java project over the last quarter.
Development on a patch release for the C++ library addressing a number of
accumulated bug reports over the last year or two is complete, and the
release should be completed some time in March.
Last committer addition: Marc Giger, July 2012.
Last PMC addition: Marc Giger, April 2013.
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Attachment BR: Report from the Apache SIS Project [Adam Estrada]
Apache SIS is a spatial framework that enables better representation of
coordinates for searching, data clustering, archiving, or any other
relevant spatial needs.
Development:
Started the port of the framework to be used for map projections.
Work by newly added committer (Marc Le Bihan in November) on Shapefile
format.
Community:
Following on the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) meeting in December, OGC
would like to start a discussion with a larger community about geospatial
API. One reason is the fact that many projects take the XSD published by OGC
(e.g. [1]) as a starting point, then translate them to Java API using JAXB or
Eclipse. The result is a hardly usable API, but those projects continue to
use this approach. Apache SIS is one of the few projects trying to push for
standardization by OGC of a clean Java API. Consequently we are invited to
speak again about this issue in the next OGC meeting (March), to a wider
audience than previous meeting.
Branding:
Community board report drafts are now on Google Docs and available to those
who have the URL [2]
Issues:
New PMC member (Marc Le Bihan) still not added to the LDAP. Attempts by
Martin Desruisseaux and Adam Estrada to execute “modify_committee.pl sis
-add=mlebihan” resulted in following error message:
Insufficient access at /usr/local/bin/modify_group_members.pl line 102
modify_group_members.pl failed: 255
The Maven snapshot repositories [3] is polluted with old releases. A JIRA
task has been filled to INFRA for this issue [4], but the task has been
closed without being actually fixed. We apparently do not have the karma to
reopen the task. But the issue is not SIS-specific anyway. More generally:
how do we cleanup the snapshot repository after a release? We mean, how to
delete all “0.5-SNAPSHOT” artifacts after the version number has been
increased to “0.6-SNAPSHOT”?
Releases:
SIS 0.5 release this week (around February 11th). We are late on the
schedule, both on the release time (it was initially planned for December)
and on the release content (it contains only a fraction of what we said would
be in Apache SIS 0.5). Consequently this release is more like a milestone
than a full-featured release.
Press:
None
[1] http://schemas.opengis.net/iso/19139/20070417/gmd/
[2] http://goo.gl/yXD9Qf
[3] https://repository.apache.org/content/groups/snapshots/org/apache/sis/
[4] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-7553
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Attachment BS: Report from the Apache Spark Project [Matei Zaharia]
Apache Spark is a fast and general engine for large-scale data processing. It
offers high-level APIs in Java, Scala, and Python as well as a rich set of
libraries including stream processing, machine learning, and graph analytics.
Project status:
- We posted our 1.2.0 release in December, with contributions from 172
developers. Major features included stable APIs for Spark's graph
processing module (GraphX), a high-level pipeline API for machine
learning, an external data source API, better H/A for streaming, and
networking performance optimizations.
- We posted the Spark 1.2.1 maintenance release on February 9th, with
contributions from 69 developers.
- We cut a release branch and started QA for Spark 1.3.0, which should
be released sometime in March. Some features coming there include a
data frame API similar to R and Python, write support for external data
sources, and quite a few new machine learning algorithms.
- We had a discussion about adding a committer role to the project that
is separate from PMC (before, Spark had PMC = C) to bring in people
sooner, and decided to do that from this point on.
Releases:
Our last few releases were:
February 9, 2015: Spark 1.2.1
December 18, 2014: Spark 1.2.0
November 26, 2014: Spark 1.1.1
September 11, 2014: Spark 1.1.0
Committers and PMC:
The last committers were added February 2nd, 2015
(Joseph Bradley, Cheng Lian and Sean Owen)
The last PMC members were added August 12th, 2014
(Joseph Gonzalez and Andrew Or).
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Attachment BT: Report from the Apache Stratos Project [Lakmal Warusawithana]
Apache Stratos is a highly-extensible Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) framework
that helps run Apache Tomcat, PHP, and MySQL applications and can be extended
to support many more environments on all major cloud infrastructures.
Releases
========
* Last release - Apache Stratos 4.0.0 released on June 20th
Community and development
==========================
* One new committer/PMC member added
* Chip Childers has resigned from the PMC
* Announced pre-alpha and alpha developer previews for up coming 4.1.0 release.
* One public hangout for educate developers
* PMC member was spoken at ApacheCon Europe
* Mailing list activity on dev@ was at 1250 messages in November,
962 messages in December, 1246 messages in January.
* 574 commits in November, 757 commits in December, 413 commits in January
New Committer/PMC member addition
* Gayan Gunaratne - 2014.12.22
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Attachment BU: Report from the Apache Subversion Project [Greg Stein]
Apache Subversion exists to be universally recognized and adopted as
an open-source, centralized version control system characterized by
its reliability as a safe haven for valuable data; the simplicity of
its model and usage; and its ability to support the needs of a wide
variety of users and projects, from individuals to large-scale
enterprise operations.
* Board Issues
There are no Board-level issues of concern.
* Community
The community is getting ready to branch 1.9.x as part of our
release process. Assuming the branch occurs in the next week or two,
then the release should appear late March or early April.
There is some planning in-process for a Subversion hackathon to
occur around the same time as ApacheCon (Austin).
Mailing list activity:
users@ (779 subscribers): 390 messages across Nov/Dec/Jan.
dev@ (330 subscribers): 583 messages across Nov/Dec/Jan.
Our last PMC addition was February 2014, and our last (non-PMC)
committer was added in July 2013.
* Releases
The project made two releases to resolve CVE-2014-3580 and
CVE-2014-8108:
1.8.11 -- Current series, released on December 15, 2014
1.7.19 -- Prior series, receives maintenance/security patches,
released on December 15, 2014
Information about our 1.9.x releases should be present in our next
quarterly report.
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Attachment BV: Report from the Apache Syncope Project [Francesco Chicchiricco]
Apache Syncope is an Open Source system for managing digital identities in
enterprise environments, implemented in JEE technology.
Status
There are no outstanding issues requiring board attention.
Community
The mailing lists' traffic has returned quite stable, the number of subscribers
to user@ and dev@ has again slightly increased if compared to last quarter.
New and coming users are asking for support and reporting bugs; in some cases
patches are also provided, fact that can constitute ground for discussion about
inviting new committers.
Besides bugfixing of current stable release from the 1_2_X branch, we have
started a deep code re-organization towards next stable release, which will
also include a consistent contribution we received lately about integration
with Camel.
The PMC has briefly discussed in January about the opportunity to rotate the
PMC chair; such discussion brought anyway to confirmation of the current chair.
Last committer addition (Giacomo Lamonaco) is dated January 2015.
Last addition to PMC (Guido Wimmel) is dated April 2014.
Releases since last report
* 1.2.1 (Nov 17th, 2014)
* 1.2.2 (Jan 30th, 2015)
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Attachment BW: Report from the Apache Tapestry Project [Howard M. Lewis Ship]
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Attachment BX: Report from the Apache Tomcat Project [Mladen Turk]
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Attachment BY: Report from the Apache TomEE Project [David Blevins]
Apache TomEE delivers enterprise application containers and services
based on, but not limited to the Enterprise JavaBeans Specification
and Java Enterprise Edition Specifications.
Work on TomEE 2.0 has slowed. The 2.x branch now passes the Java EE 6
Web Profile TCK, however work towards Java EE 7 compliance is
understandably difficult. The 2.x branch now passes the CDI 1.2 TCK,
which is openly available from RedHat. Some work has been done to
integrate ActiveMQ 6 into TomEE 2.x. The community is running out of
threads to pull on Java EE 7 without a TCK.
Meanwhile the TomEE 1.7.x branch remains the center of the day-to-day.
A version 1.7.2 is likely to come out in the next quarter. This will
be the first release since the project switched from SVN to Git. The
change in SCM went fairly smooth despite the kind of "the rails are
off" discussions that arise from being now largely unrestricted. The
community is trying out various Git flows. This will probably
continue for quite a while before the dust truly settles.
Website traffic still slowly increasing and at an overall high of
around 72k visits/month. User list traffic stable compared to the
last 6 months, but down from last year. This would seem to be
indicative of a community in stabilizing/maintenance mode, but growing
popularity.
Last release was 1.7.1 on 2014-09-15. Last committer was added
November 2013. Last PMC addition was 2010-08-26.
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Attachment BZ: Report from the Apache Turbine Project [Thomas Vandahl]
Apache Turbine is a servlet based framework that allows experienced Java
developers to quickly build web applications. Turbine allows you to
personalize the web sites and to use user logins to restrict access to parts
of your application.
Turbine is a matured and well established framework that is used as the base
of many other projects.
Status
The Turbine project has again seen low levels of activity in the last quarter.
The Turbine project has no board-level issues at this time.
Community changes
No new committers were voted in since the last board report. The last change
to the committer base was the addition of Georg Kallidis (2012/09/19). No new
PMC members were voted in since the last board report. The last change to the
PMC was the addition of Georg Kallidis (2013/09/30).
Turbine core project
A few commits have been done in the core project. The last released component
was the parent POM (2013/09/25).
Fulcrum component project
A few commits have been done in the Fulcrum project. The last released
component was Fulcrum json 1.0.0 (2014/04/07)
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Attachment CA: Report from the Apache Tuscany Project [Jean-Sebastien Delfino]
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Attachment CB: Report from the Apache Velocity Project [Nathan Bubna]
Apache Velocity is a java template engine and related projects.
RELEASES
* Last release was master POM, May 2012
* Last noteworthy release was Engine in 2010
CURRENT ACTIVITY
* One committer has been moderately active this month doing cleanup
COMMUNITY
* Last committer added April 28, 2013
* Mailing list has been quiet community-wise.
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Attachment CC: Report from the Apache Web Services Project [Sagara Gunathunga]
Releases within this quarter:
* WSS4J 1.6.18 (RM - Colm O hEigeartaigh)
* WSS4J 2.0.3 (RM - Colm O hEigeartaigh)
* Xmlschema 2.2.0 (RM - Daniel Kulp )
* Xmlschema 2.2.1 (RM - Daniel Kulp )
Last releases for other subprojects:
* Neethi : Jan 2014
* Axiom : Dec 2012
* Woden : Feb 2011
Community and development:
* Last committer addition - Sept 2014,
* Last PMC member addition - in Sept 2013
Development
* WSS4J - 110 commits by 2 committera.
* Axiom - 15 commits by 1 committer.
* Xmlschema - 19 commits by 1 committer..
* Woden - 0 commits
* Neethi - 0 commits.
Branding checklist for sub-projects with releases in the last quarters
(Axiom, Neethi, WSS4J, Project homepage ):
* Project Naming And Descriptions: OK
* Website Navigation Links: OK
* Trademark Attributions: OK
* Logos and Graphics: OK ( Neethi and WSS4J sub projects don't have logos)
* Project Metadata: OK
Not yet compliant:
* XmlSchema
* Woden
* XML-RPC
Subprojects
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Current subproject descriptions follow, along with anything specifically
requiring the board's attention this quarter.
* Apache Woden
Woden is an open source Java implementation of the W3C WSDL 2.0
specification.
* Apache Axiom
Apache Axiom is a StAX-based, XML Infoset compliant object model which
supports on-demand building of the object tree.
* Apache XmlSchema
Apache XmlSchema is a Java object model for manipulating and utilizing
XML Schema.
* Apache Neethi
Apache Neethi is a Java implementation of the WS-Policy specifications.
* Apache WSS4J
Apache WSS4J is a Java implementation of the OASIS Web Services Security
(WS-Security) from OASIS Web Services Security TC.
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Attachment CD: Report from the Apache Xalan Project [Steven J. Hathaway]
The Apache Xalan Project develops and maintains libraries and programs
that transform XML documents using XSLT standard stylesheets. Our subprojects
use the Java and C++ programing languages to implement the XSLT libraries.
Xalan is a mature project, but we are hoping to acquire more committers
who can upgrade the project to address the newer XPath and XSLT standards.
ISSUES FOR THE BOARD
None.
CURRENT ACTIVITY
Xalan is a mature product. There is little development activity other
than patch maintenance. Most of the activity is in the Xalan-J subproject.
The Incubator Corinthia project since ApacheCon EU 2014 has been soliciting
expertise from Xalan. We are providing what we can with limited resources.
We are planning an appearance at ApacheCon NA 2015.
MEMBERSHIP
Changes in the PMC membership:
None.
Last new committer:
May 2014
PROJECT RELEASES
Xalan Java 2.7.2 April 15, 2014
Xalan C/C++ 1.11 October 31, 2012
Publishing of project releases was refreshed Oct 30, 2014.
OTHER ISSUES
Moving the original XML parent project to the Attic has caused some
frustration on the mailing lists, but these have mostly been overcome.
We still get messages posted to the old XML project with Xalan
as subprojects. Moderating these messages has helped.
No new issues regarding moving original XML parent project to the attic
have occurred.
We still have enough active members to vote on releases and other PMC issues.
BRANDING ISSUES
None.
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Attachment CE: Report from the Apache Xerces Project [Michael Glavassevich]
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Attachment CF: Report from the Apache XML Graphics Project [Chris Bowditch]
The Apache XML Graphics Project is responsible for software intended for
the creation & maintenance of the conversion of XML formats to graphical
output & related software components.
==Issues for the Board==
No issues at present.
==Community==
Last new committer: Simon Steiner on 2014/04/11
Last new PMC member: Luis Bernardo on 2013/03/04
==XML GRAPHICS COMMONS==
0 commits to SVN this quarter.
There were no releases this quarter
The latest release is 2.0 (3 October 2014)
==FOP==
19 separate commits to SVN. These are mostly bug fixes (including a couple
of patches from the community); but also includes the completion of the
fo:float feature by Luis Bernardo. This is a major milestone for the FOP
project as it represents the implementation of one of the last remaining
significant XSL-FO features. The next release (planned to be 2.0) is
currently dependent on the completion of the release of the Batik sub
project.
The FOP User list has a slow but steady stream of questions being raised
and answered; 75 e-mails in total.
There were no releases this quarter
The latest release is 1.1 (20 October 2012)
==BATIK==
49 separate commits to SVN. This breaks down into some feature development
for Complex Script support, and some bug fixing in preparation for the
release. There were some discussions about starting the release, but the
Complex Script development is still in progress. The decision is to wait
for this to be completed. The mailing lists are fairly quiet, with only 8
e-mails to the users list this quarter.
There was an e-mail received on January 23, 2015 Entitled: Vulnerability in
Apache Batik Framework (Responsible Disclosure). The team has discussed
this vulnerability, and we’ve contacted our primary Batik developer. One
committer has agreed to review & commit a PATCH as soon as one has been
submitted. We hope to have this issue resolved as quickly as possible.
There were no releases this quarter.
The latest version is 1.7 (6 January 2008)
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