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The Apache Software Foundation

Board of Directors Meeting Minutes

April 22, 2015

1. Call to order

The meeting was scheduled for 10:30am Pacific and began at 10:32
when a sufficient attendance to constitute a quorum was
recognized by the chairman.

Other Time Zones: http://timeanddate.com/s/2tf1

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
Shane Curcuru
Bertrand Delacretaz
Jim Jagielski
Chris Mattmann
David Nalley
Brett Porter
Sam Ruby
Greg Stein

Directors Absent:

none

Executive Officers Present:

Craig L Russell
James Carman

Executive Officers Absent:

none

Guests:

Sean Kelly
Owen O'Malley
Daniel Gruno
Gavin McDonald
Jake Farrell
Jan Iversen
Tom Pappas (Virtual)
Christopher Douglas
Marvin Humphrey
Henri Yandell
Hadrian Zbarcea
Chris Nauroth

3. Minutes from previous meetings

Published minutes can be found at:

http://www.apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html

A. The meeting of March 18, 2015

See: board_minutes_2015_03_18.txt

Approved by General Consent.

4. Executive Officer Reports

A. Chairman [Brett]

On March 24, we held the Annual Members Meeting. There are still a
couple of days for the remaining applications to come in, so we'll
hold off the formal announcement of who the new members are, but I'm
pleased to say that we added more than 100 new members this year! Our
gratitude goes to the Secretary & assistant for processing all of the
applications in addition to their regular workload.

We had no concerns reaching quorum this year, in part due to the
easier method of requesting a proxy. This will still remain a topic
of some interest as the Foundation continues to grow.

This is the first meeting of the newly elected board, and we welcome
back Shane Curcuru, and for the first time David Nalley. I'd like to
again thank Doug and Ross for their service to the ASF on the board
after they stood down at the meeting.

Below is the report that I shared with the members for the Annual
Meeting:

------

I'd like to welcome all of our Members to our Annual Members Meeting
for 2015. Thanks for taking some time out to participate in the
governance of the ASF, including electing new Members, and electing
the new Board of Directors. A special welcome again to the 40 new
members elected during 2014.

This year the meeting is being held slightly earlier than it has been
in recent years. This allows the new board to be in place before the
end of our fiscal year, and to review and approve the budget for the
next year - a pattern I hope will be continued in the future.

Even with a shorter period of time since the last meeting, there has
been a lot happening within the ASF! We have added 13 new top-level
projects: Tez, Celix, VXQuery, Storm, DeviceMap, Drill, MetaModel,
BookKeeper, Falcon, Flink, Samza, Aurora and Zest. We retired just one
project, with Whirr moving to the Apache Attic. Finally, we wound up
our second oldest committee - Conference Planning - with
responsibility moving to the President/EVP and our event and community
partners. We now have 162 Project Management Committees, with a
further 37 podlings in the Incubator. This means that within the next
month we should expect to cross the milestone of having 200 projects
under management at the ASF. Further to that, we've appointed
replacement PMC chairs 29 times, showing that PMCs continue to rotate
important positions, share the load and avoid volunteer burnout.

We have grown at this steady rate while continuing to ensure that our
projects operate under the pattern of open, collaborative and
independent development known as "The Apache Way".

Over the last year we have streamlined some processes to support this
growth - adding to and expanding the tools that help manage PMC
membership, monthly project reports, and management of the monthly
board agenda. I expect this to continue, and thank the volunteers
who have initiated and contributed to those efforts.

The operations team are building a stable base for future growth. Our
income and reserves have to date kept pace with growth, and we have
gradually seen a transition from a day-to-day mode of operation
towards a mode of planning and execution as we move forward each year.
This helps ensure that these areas are able to provide the support
that the Foundation and projects need, with a minimum number of
distractions from producing software and building communities.
Communication between the operations team and the board has been
effective, and the board has adequate oversight and input into the
work without needing to get more directly involved. Many thanks go to
the President, EVP, and the VPs and committees that work with them for
their significant efforts. We thank the sponsors and individual donors
that contribute financially to the success of the ASF and its
projects.

Our thanks also go to the Treasurer, Secretary and their assistants
who as volunteers put significant amounts of time into those roles and
have kept them running extremely smoothly.

As we looked back in 2014 at the 15 years of incorporation of the ASF,
we recognised the massive impact that the Foundation has had on both
the open source landscape, and computing in general. Every committer,
PMC member, and contributor to our projects should be proud of what
we've achieved and the part they have played in it.

While many aspects of hosting and developing an open source project
have become easier to do independently over the years, the benefits of
being backed by a Foundation are routinely recognised within the open
source development community. The ASF will certainly play a valuable
role for many, many years to come.

Finally, I'd like to thank the directors who served in 2014-15 for
their dedication to the ASF and their regular contributions to its
success both inside and outside of the board's activities. Particular
thanks go to Ross Gardler (who will continue to serve as President)
and Doug Cutting, who have opted not to stand at the coming election.
Their presence among the board will be missed.

We are therefore assured of welcoming new directors to the board this
year, and the members have once again put forward a wonderful group of
nominees. I wish the new board all the best for the coming year!

B. President [Ross]

Welcome to the new board!

This month has been a mixed month. On the one hand it has been
relatively quiet since the members meeting and ApacheCon have sucked
up most of our time and energy. On the other hand it has been very
busy because the members meeting ad ApacheCon has sucked up most of
our time.

The most important item is the Budget. The proposed budget has been
available for the previous board and the new board to consider for
some weeks I trust that all Directors are familiar with it. However, I
have made some significant last minute change requests to cover
increased expenses for moving three contractors to Virtual as a PEO. I
managed to speak with most directors in person about this (at
ApacheCon) and have notified the others by email. In order to ensure a
budget is passed I have called out the additional expenses so that the
budget can be approved without these expenses if the board feel this
is necessary.

I request the board approve the budget as provided in Special Order G.

From a financial position the foundation remains in good standing with
a significantly higher cash surplus than the industry benchmark (as
reported by Virtual). We have a surplus of 20.8 months at the FY15
spend rate, the benchmark is 6 months. This means the increased
deficit is not problematic from a financial planning perspective.
Though we should recognize that this increased cost is a recurring
cost. I have started working on a 5 year budget estimate to ensure we
monitor this situation.

Brand management
---------------------------
The currently brand budget covers US registrations only. VP Brand
Management has received a request from a PMC to register in EU/CTM,
India, and China in addition and, as a result has requested an
increased budget of $2,425. I have denied this request indicating that
it request should be repeated if the budgeted amount for the year falls
short.

Shane continues to work on a risk assessment indicates he will be
ready to report next month.

Fundraising
----------------
Migration to using ZoHo is well underway. Renewals are being processed.
All is good.

Marketing and Publicity
-------------------------------
In addition to the "business as usual" items Sally reports the end of
year report is in preparation. The refresh/redesign of the apache.org
homepage has been completed with thanks to extensive work donated by
HotWax Systems. Sally was also successful in securing a Proclamation
from the City of Austin for the foundations 15 year anniversary.

Infrastructure
------------------
A request for feedback on a proposal to deprecate the CMS caused some
"interesting" reactions. Amongst the unnecessary noise there was a
great deal of valuable feedback. The infra team are now formulating a
plan for the CMS and will report to the community soon.

Travel Assistance
------------------------
6 successful applicants attended ApacheCon NA. Thanks to the team for
their diligence and hard work that make this possible.

Additionally, please see Attachments 1 through 6.

C. Treasurer [Chris]

The Treasurer’s Office worked with Virtual to prepare a report for
the ASF annual members meeting.

Virtual and the Treasurer’s Office worked together to provide input
to the ASF president and his FY16 budget activities for the foundation.

Virtual and the Treasurer’s Office have worked with ASF officers
over the last month to review their budgets, e.g., Brand.

Income and Expenses for March 2015 CASH BASIS

Current Balances:

Citizens Checking $1,087,042
Amazon- ASF Payments $18,168
Paypal - ASF $52,702
Wells Fargo Checking - ASF $243,006
Wells Fargo Savings $288,191
Total Checking/Savings $1,689,109

Income Summary:
Public Donations $2,403 Amazon and Paypal
Sponsorship Program $115,000
Programs Income $-
Interest Income $17
Total Income $117,419

Expense Summary:
Infrastructure $44,363
Sponsorship Program $-
Programs Expense $-
Publicity $5,455
Brand Management $-
Conferences $-
Travel Assistance Committee $7,058
Treasury Services $2,850
General & Administrative $6,889
Total Expense $66,615
Net Income $50,805

D. Secretary [Craig]

Secretary is running smoothly, with the Assistant Secretary picking up
much of the workload. In March, a new record was set for activity,
with 92 iclas, five cclas, 74 membership applications, four emeritus
requests, and three grants received and filed.

E. Executive Vice President [Rich]

We held ApacheCon North America in Austin last week, April
13-16, and had 449 registrations, up by 50 from Denver. We
had the honor of hosting several of the founding members of
the httpd project at the event[1], and had a birthday celebration
for the 20th birthday of the httpd project. We also received a
proclamation from the City of Austin declaring April 13-16 to
be Apache Days.[2]

There was also a lively BarCamp on Thursday, with a good
number of people in attendance. Several projects (Spark,
Traffic Server, Cassandra) held project summits.

On the whole, we appear to have had a successful event by most
measures, although the size of the attendance is still a
source of frustration for many.

There was an incident at ApacheCon where a keynote speaker
was subject to a verbal barrage while in the refreshment line
in the exhibit area, and felt intimidated and threatened. A
great deal of discussion has happened on the members list,
as well as numerous other places, about what action should be
taken. The conference producer has been made aware of the
incident, but is still traveling and doing events, so I haven't
had a chance to discuss this at length with her. Meanwhile,
the individual in question has apologized to the speaker
(cc'ing myself and the conference producer), and I am also
awaiting communication from her regarding whether she wishes
to pursue this further with the conference producer, pursuant
to enforcing the conference Code of Conduct and blacklisting
this individual from future events. I ask for the continued
patience of the membership as we work through this. I've also
discussed this incident directly with the individual in
question, explaining our stance that this kind of thing won't
be tolerated in our community.

We had very productive meetings with the LF producers
regarding how future events will be run. As reported before,
LF is stepping up to provide more leadership in upcoming
events, and have proposed that ApacheCon EU (September) have a
much narrower content focus, with three days primarily
focusing on our Big Data projects, and then a fourth day
populated by community talks, and project-specific tracks. The
goal is to make the conference easier to market, because we
will be able to state what the conference is about in terms
that the market understands. The secondary goal is to have the
main part of the event fund the community portion of the
event, which has, in a sense, been a goal of ApacheCon from
the beginning.

Projects are welcome to propose content in the CFP[3], as per
earlier events, but LF will make the final content determination,
rather than a committee of ASF people. This is a significant
change from earlier events. It is anticipated that it will
result in some tensions in the community, but given that we
are asking LF to take 100% of the financial risk, it is
reasonable that they also have the majority of the decision
power also. We remind the board that our mandate was to
license our brands to a producer, and get out of their way as
much as possible, and this is the goal towards which we have
been working for the last year.

Jan Iversen will be our primary contact for ApacheCon Europe,
while I (Rich) will focus primarily on the North America
event.

ApacheCon Europe will be held in Budapest [4], September 28 -
October 1, 2015. The CFP is open, but has not been announced
yet, as there is discussion about running two separate CFPs,
one for the Big Data event, and a second of the
yet-to-be-named community event.

ApacheCon North America will be held in Vancouver, BC, May 9 -
12, 2016. The CFP will open soon, but a date has not yet been
determined. I will be visiting the venue [5] while I am at the
OpenStack Summit in 3 weeks.

[1] https://www.flickr.com/photos/rbowen/sets/72157651553317030/
See also https://www.flickr.com/photos/iamamoose/63963722/

[2] https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/at_apachecon_austin_mayor_steve

[3] http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/apachecon-europe/program/cfp

[4] http://apachecon.eu/

[5] http://vancouver.hyatt.com/

F. Vice Chairman [Greg]

No report was submitted.

Executive officer reports approved as submitted by General Consent.

5. Additional Officer Reports

A. VP of W3C Relations [Andy Seaborne / Bertrand]

See Attachment 7

B. Apache Legal Affairs Committee [Jim Jagielski]

See Attachment 8

C. Apache Security Team Project [Mark Cox / Brett]

See Attachment 9

Additional officer reports approved as submitted by General Consent.

6. Committee Reports

A. Apache Abdera Project [Ant Elder / Jim]

See Attachment A

B. Apache Accumulo Project [Billie Rinaldi / Chris]

See Attachment B

@Chris: Anyone identified as potential new committers/PMC
members?

C. Apache ACE Project [Marcel Offermans / Shane]

See Attachment C

@Shane: Is this level of activity normal?

D. Apache ActiveMQ Project [Hiram Chirino / David]

See Attachment D

@David: Please file board reports for the next three months to
address PMC issues

E. Apache Airavata Project [Suresh Marru / Rich]

No report was submitted.

F. Apache Aries Project [Jeremy Hughes / Sam]

See Attachment F

@Jim: Any prospects for new committers/PMC members?

G. Apache Attic Project [Henri Yandell / Greg]

See Attachment G

H. Apache Aurora Project [Bill Farner / Greg]

See Attachment H

I. Apache Avro Project [Tom White / Jim]

See Attachment I

J. Apache Axis Project [Deepal Jayasinghe / Sam]

See Attachment J

@Sam: Need to resolve issues with Synapse PMC; please report
next month

K. Apache Bigtop Project [Konstantin Boudnik / Bertrand]

See Attachment K

L. Apache Bloodhound Project [Gary Martin / Rich]

See Attachment L

M. Apache Celix Project [Alexander Broekhuis / Shane]

See Attachment M

@Shane: Please submit a more detailed report next month

N. Apache Chukwa Project [Eric Yang / David]

See Attachment N

O. Apache Commons Project [Gary Gregory / Chris]

See Attachment O

P. Apache Crunch Project [Gabriel Reid / Brett]

See Attachment P

Q. Apache Curator Project [Jordan Zimmerman / Sam]

See Attachment Q

R. Apache CXF Project [Daniel Kulp / Rich]

See Attachment R

@David: The infra service was deprecated a while ago

S. Apache DB Project [Myrna van Lunteren / Shane]

See Attachment S

@Shane: Need to review activity on sub-projects

T. Apache Deltacloud Project [Marios S. Andreou / Chris]

No report was submitted.

@Chris: pursue a report for Deltacloud

U. Apache DirectMemory Project [Raffaele P. Guidi / Brett]

See Attachment U

@Brett: Need a real report for this project

V. Apache Directory Project [Kiran Ayyagari / Greg]

See Attachment V

W. Apache Geronimo Project [Alan Cabrera / Jim]

See Attachment W

X. Apache Hadoop Project [Chris Douglas / Bertrand]

See Attachment X

Y. Apache HBase Project [Andrew Purtell / David]

See Attachment Y

@David: Please don't include company names in reports

Z. Apache Helix Project [Kishore Gopalakrishna / Greg]

See Attachment Z

AA. Apache Hive Project [Carl Steinbach / David]

No report was submitted.

AB. Apache Incubator Project [Ted Dunning / Rich]

See Attachment AB

AC. Apache Isis Project [Dan Haywood / Brett]

See Attachment AC

AD. Apache James Project [Eric Charles / Sam]

No report was submitted.

AE. Apache jclouds Project [Andrew Phillips / Chris]

See Attachment AE

AF. Apache Jena Project [Andy Seaborne / Bertrand]

See Attachment AF

AG. Apache JMeter Project [Sebastian Bazley / Shane]

See Attachment AG

AH. Apache JSPWiki Project [Juan Pablo Santos / Jim]

See Attachment AH

AI. Apache Lucy Project [Marvin Humphrey / David]

See Attachment AI

AJ. Apache Mahout Project [Grant Ingersoll / Rich]

See Attachment AJ

AK. Apache Maven Project [Hervé Boutemy / Chris]

See Attachment AK

AL. Apache Mesos Project [Benjamin Hindman / Brett]

No report was submitted.

AM. Apache MINA Project [Jean-François Maury / Bertrand]

See Attachment AM

AN. Apache MRUnit Project [Brock Noland / Greg]

See Attachment AN

AO. Apache MyFaces Project [Gerhard Petracek / Sam]

See Attachment AO

@Sam: Any prospects for new committers/PMC members?

AP. Apache Nutch Project [Sebastian Nagel / Shane]

See Attachment AP

AQ. Apache ODE Project [Tammo van Lessen / Jim]

See Attachment AQ

AR. Apache Onami Project [Nino Martinez Wael / Chris]

See Attachment AR

@Chris: Very low activity; please report next month

AS. Apache OpenJPA Project [Pinaki Poddar / Sam]

No report was submitted.

AT. Apache OpenMeetings Project [Sebastian Wagner / Brett]

No report was submitted.

AU. Apache OpenOffice Project [Jan Iversen / Jim]

See Attachment AU

AV. Apache PDFBox Project [Andreas Lehmkühler / Greg]

See Attachment AV

AW. Apache POI Project [Yegor Kozlov / David]

See Attachment AW

AX. Apache Rave Project [Matt Franklin / Rich]

See Attachment AX

AY. Apache Samza Project [Chris Riccomini / Shane]

See Attachment AY

AZ. Apache Shindig Project [Ryan Baxter / Bertrand]

See Attachment AZ

BA. Apache SpamAssassin Project [Kevin A. McGrail / Greg]

See Attachment BA

@Greg: Any prospects for new committers/PMC members?

BB. Apache Sqoop Project [Arvind Prabhakar / Chris]

See Attachment BB

@Rich: Please don't put company affiliations in board reports
unless there is a concern

BC. Apache Steve Project [Jim Jagielski]

See Attachment BC

BD. Apache Struts Project [Rene Gielen / Rich]

See Attachment BD

BE. Apache Tapestry Project [Howard M. Lewis Ship / Shane]

See Attachment BE

BF. Apache Tcl Project [Massimo Manghi / Jim]

See Attachment BF

BG. Apache Tez Project [Hitesh Shah / Brett]

See Attachment BG

BH. Apache Thrift Project [Jake Farrell / Sam]

See Attachment BH

BI. Apache Tika Project [Dave Meikle / Bertrand]

See Attachment BI

BJ. Apache TomEE Project [David Blevins / David]

See Attachment BJ

BK. Apache Traffic Server Project [Leif Hedstrom / Brett]

See Attachment BK

BL. Apache Tuscany Project [Jean-Sebastien Delfino / David]

No report was submitted.

@David: pursue a report for Tuscany; missed February as well

BM. Apache VXQuery Project [Till Westmann / Chris]

See Attachment BM

BN. Apache Web Services Project [Sagara Gunathunga / Greg]

See Attachment BN

@Greg: Is the community healthy?

BO. Apache Wookie Project [Scott Wilson / Bertrand]

See Attachment BO

BP. Apache Zest Project [Niclas Hedhman / Shane]

See Attachment BP

Committee reports approved as submitted by General Consent.

7. Special Orders

A. Establish the Apache Orc Project

WHEREAS, the Board of Directors deems it to be in the best
interests of the Foundation and consistent with the
Foundation's purpose to establish a Project Management
Committee charged with the creation and maintenance of
open-source software, for distribution at no charge to the
public, related to high performance columnar file formats
for distributed computing.

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management
Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Apache Orc Project", be
and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation;
and be it further

RESOLVED, that the Apache Orc Project be and hereby is
responsible for the creation and maintenance of software
related to composite oriented programming; and be it further

RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache Orc" be
and hereby is created, the person holding such office to serve
at the direction of the Board of Directors as the chair of the
Apache Orc Project, and to have primary responsibility for
management of the projects within the scope of responsibility
of the Apache Orc Project; and be it further

RESOLVED, that the persons listed immediately below be and
hereby are appointed to serve as the initial members of the
Apache Orc Project Management Committee:

* Chris Douglas <cdouglas@apache.org>
* Alan Gates <gates@apache.org>
* Prasanth Jayachandran <prasanthj@apache.org>
* Lefty Leverenz <leftyl@apache.org>
* Owen O'Malley <omalley@apache.org>

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Owen O'Malley be
appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Orc, to serve
in accordance with and subject to the direction of the Board of
Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until death,
resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification, or until
a successor is appointed; and be it further

RESOLVED, that the initial Apache Orc Project be and hereby
is tasked with the creation of a set of bylaws intended to
encourage open development and increased participation in the
Apache Orc Project.

Special Order 7A, Establish the Apache Orc Project, was
approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.

B. Change the Apache Bigtop Project Chair

WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Konstantin Boudnik
to the office of Vice President, Apache Bigtop, and

WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of
Konstantin Boudnik from the office of Vice President, Apache Bigtop, and

WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Bigtop project
has chosen by vote to recommend Andrew Purtell as the Successor to the
post;

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Konstantin Boudnik is relieved and
discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice
President, Apache Bigtop, and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Andrew Purtell be and hereby is appointed to
the office of Vice President, Apache Bigtop, to serve in accordance with
and subject to the direction of the Board of Directors and the Bylaws of
the Foundation until death, resignation, retirement, removal or
disqualification, or until a successor is appointed.

Special Order 7B, Change the Apache Bigtop Project Chair, was
approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.

C. Change the Apache Crunch Project Chair

WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Gabriel Reid
to the office of Vice President, Apache Crunch, and

WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation
of Gabriel Reid from the office of Vice President, Apache Crunch,
and

WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Crunch
project has chosen by vote to recommend Micah Whitacre as the
successor to the post;

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Gabriel Reid is relieved and
discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office
of Vice President, Apache Crunch, and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Micah Whitacre be and hereby is
appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Crunch, to
serve in accordance with and subject to the direction of the
Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until
death, resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification, or
until a successor is appointed.

Special Order 7C, Change the Apache Crunch Project Chair, was
approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.

D. Establish the Apache Parquet Project

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management
Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Apache Parquet Project",
be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the
Foundation; and be it further

RESOLVED, that the Apache Parquet Project be and hereby is
responsible for the creation and maintenance of software
related to a columnar storage format for Hadoop; and be it further

RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache Parquet" be
and hereby is created, the person holding such office to
serve at the direction of the Board of Directors as the chair
of the Apache Parquet Project, and to have primary responsibility
for management of the projects within the scope of
responsibility of the Apache Parquet Project; and be it further

RESOLVED, that the persons listed immediately below be and
hereby are appointed to serve as the initial members of the
Apache Parquet Project:

* Chris Aniszczyk <caniszczyk@apache.org>
* Ryan Blue <blue@apache.org>
* Jonathan Coveney <jcoveney@apache.org>
* Tim <tianshuo@apache.org>
* Jake Farrell <jfarrell@apache.org>
* Marcel Kornacker <marcel@apache.org>
* Mickael Lacour <mlacour@apache.org>
* Julien Le Dem <julien@apache.org>
* Alex Levenson <alexlevenson@apache.org>
* Nong Li <nong@apache.org>
* Todd Lipcon <todd@apache.org>
* Chris Mattmann <mattmann@apache.org>
* Aniket Mokashi <aniket486@apache.org>
* Lukas Nalezenec <lukas@apache.org>
* Brock Noland <brock@apache.org>
* Wesley Graham Peck <wesleypeck@apache.org>
* Remy Pecqueur <rpecqueur@apache.org>
* Dmitriy Ryaboy <dvryaboy@apache.org>
* Roman Shaposhnik <rvs@apache.org>
* Daniel Weeks <dweeks@apache.org>
* Thomas White <tomwhite@apache.org>

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Julien Le Dem
be appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Parquet, to
serve in accordance with and subject to the direction of the
Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until
death, resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification,
or until a successor is appointed; and be it further

RESOLVED, that the initial Apache Parquet PMC be and hereby is
tasked with the creation of a set of bylaws intended to
encourage open development and increased participation in the
Apache Parquet Project; and be it further

RESOLVED, that the Apache Parquet Project be and hereby
is tasked with the migration and rationalization of the Apache
Incubator Parquet podling; and be it further

RESOLVED, that all responsibilities pertaining to the Apache
Incubator Parquet podling encumbered upon the Apache Incubator
Project are hereafter discharged.

Special Order 7D, Establish the Apache Parquet Project, was
approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.

E. Change the Apache MyFaces Chair

WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Gerhard Petracek
to the office of Vice President, Apache MyFaces, and

WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the
resignation of Gerhard Petracek from the office of Vice
President, Apache MyFaces, and

WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache MyFaces
project has chosen by vote to recommend Mike Kienenberger
as the successor to the post;

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Gerhard Petracek is
relieved and discharged from the duties and responsibilities of
the office of Vice President, Apache MyFaces, and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Mike Kienenberger be and hereby is
appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache MyFaces, to
serve in accordance with and subject to the direction of the
Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until
death, resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification, or
until a successor is appointed.

Special Order 7E, Change the Apache MyFaces Chair, was
approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.

F. Terminate the Apache Lenya Project

WHEREAS, the Board of Directors deems it no longer in the best
interest of the Foundation to continue the Apache Lenya project
due to inactivity

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Apache Lenya
project is hereby terminated; and be it further

RESOLVED, that the Attic PMC be and hereby is tasked with
oversight over the software developed by the Apache Lenya
Project; and be it further

RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache Lenya" is
hereby terminated; and be it further

RESOLVED, that the Apache Lenya PMC is hereby terminated.

Special Order 7F, Terminate the Apache Lenya Project, was
approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.

G. Change the Apache Mahout Chair

WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Grant Ingersoll
to the office of Vice President, Apache Mahout, and

WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation
of Grant Ingersoll from the office of Vice President, Apache Mahout,
and

WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Mahout
project has chosen by vote to recommend Suneel Marthi as the successor
to the post;

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Grant Ingersoll is relieved and
discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office
of Vice President, Apache Mahout, and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Suneel Marthi be and hereby is
appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Mahout, 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 7G, Change the Apache Mahout Chair, was approved
by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.

H. Change the Apache ActiveMQ Chair

WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Hiram Chirino to
the office of Vice President, Apache ActiveMQ, and

WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation
of Hiram Chirino from the office of Vice President, Apache
ActiveMQ, and

WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache ActiveMQ
project has chosen by vote to recommend Bruce Snyder as the Successor
to the post;

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Hiram Chirino is
relieved and discharged from the duties and responsibilities of
the office of Vice President, Apache ActiveMQ, and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Bruce Snyder be and hereby
is appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache ActiveMQ, 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 7H, Change the Apache ActiveMQ Chair, was
approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.

I. Approve the 2016 FY ASF Budget

The board is requested to approve the following budget for FY16.
This budget includes budget for using a Professional Services
Organization for appropriate US contractors. The additional costs
for using a PEO are $40k on Infrastructure and $20k on General
& Administrative.

Income
Total Public Donations 60,000
Total Sponsorship 815,000
Total Programs 17,200
Interest Income 250
=======
Total Income 892,450

Expense
Infrastructure 636,216
Progam Expenses 2,200
Publicity 124,000
Brand Management 39,250
Conferences 7,500
Travel Assistance 50,000
Treasury 49,200
General & Administrative 134,877
=========
1,043,243

Special Order 7I, Approve the 2016 FY ASF Budget, was approved
by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.

8. Discussion Items
Greg will take responsibility for tracking action items from board meetings.

Executive Officer appointments will be postponed until the next board meeting.

9. Review Outstanding Action Items

* Bertrand: Ask if the git CMS work could be documented for others to
use [ DeltaSpike ]
Status: N/A, I misunderstood what they did with the CMS, there's
nothing relevant to document.

* Brett: pursue a report [ Axis ]
Status: see report discussion

* Brett: help Axis and Synapse PMCs to work together to unblock the
release [ Synapse ]
Status: see above

* Brett: Are hangouts documents so non-attendees can participate later?
[ Drill ]
Status: CLOSED. answered on board list, answer was yes:
http://s.apache.org/GpE

* Brett: Any action on log4j? [ Logging ]
Status: no progress

* Brett: What is the issue with infra? [ SIS ]
Status: no progress

* Brett: follow up with PMC regarding board reports: please list PMC
and committer list changes [ Chemistry ]
Status: no progress

* Brett: clarify report regarding email activity for oak-dev and
oak-commits [ Jackrabbit ]
Status: CLOSED. Minutes were updated.

* Chris: help PMC improve report for next month [ Samza ]
Status:

* Chris: join the mail list to see if action needs to be taken to help
and suggest discussing with comdev [ Flex ]
Status:

* Doug: ask if PMC needs help with release policy/procedure [ Portals ]
Status:

* Doug: please fix release history data [ Wicket ]
Status:

* Greg: Any info about the community? [ ACE ]
Status:

* Greg: find out if TCK is holding up progress [ MyFaces ]
Status:

* Greg: Is it time to retire the project? [ Tuscany ]
Status:

* Jim: Clarify report [ Creadur ]
Status:

* Rich: could the PMC use some help from comdev to attract new
blood? [ Deltacloud ]
Status: Got an initial email from the Deltacloud PMC chair
saying that they were interested, but they haven't turned up
on the comdev mailing list. I will ask, myself, on ComDev,
to see if anyone has any interest in trying to get the word
out about Deltacloud and their desire for more contributors.

* 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:

* Ross: follow up with PMC regarding the resignation of PMC members and
the health of the community [ Bigtop ]
Status: Done per report.

* Sam: pursue a report [ MRUnit ]
Status: Report is present; PMC is discussing changes

10. Unfinished Business

11. New Business

* Self-Service ICLAs: There has been some discussion regarding
automating our ICLA submission process to the point that it
is completely self-service. There are some concerns about us
exposing the ASF to risk by using a web form to submit the
ICLAs. We need legal counsel to advise us. - James Carman

- I talked to Jim at ApacheCon. I don't think that legal will
be a problem. I have a demo that people can play with and
contribute to:

https://whimsy.apache.org/test/icla/

- Sam Ruby

12. Announcements

13. Adjournment

Adjourned at 12:14 p.m. (Pacific)

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ATTACHMENTS:
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Attachment 1: Report from the Executive Assistant [Melissa Warnkin]

Daily monitoring of all email activity (ea@, fundraising@, trademarks@,
treasurer@, comdev@, tm-registrations@, and board@) and following-up with
appropriate personnel Fundraising:
• Hadrian has migrated the information from the spreadsheet over to Zoho CRM.
We will be meeting in Austin to discuss workflow processes with Zoho
• Payments received for renewals:
• $50k for the first of two installments from a platinum
• $5k for a bronze
• $110 – prorated amount for a gold that upgraded to platinum (great work,
team!!)
• $40k from a gold

Virtual:
• Upon receiving and reviewing the employment offer from Virtual, I had
discussions with Ross and Virtual to confirm salary details. Upon receiving
feedback from Virtual, it was decided that the salary terms were not
acceptable and the paperwork was not signed. The ASF is seeking an alternative.

ApacheCon and TAC:
• All work with TAC completed
• Booth logistics all sorted
• Giveaways all en route to the venue
• Sorted hotel reservations for a few last-minute folks

Trademarks:
• Flowing smoothly – all requests have been caught up- some projects still
need to provide the information to us in order to process the application, but
they are aware of this and just need a little time to compile all of the data.

Misc:
I’d like to extend a heartfelt thank you for being nominated and voted
in as a Member. This is truly a huge honor, and it really made my heart
smile! So, thank you very much!

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Attachment 2: Report from the VP of Brand Management [Shane Curcuru]

## Budget: *Board action needed*

* BUDGET REQUEST INCREASE: += $2,425.00 on behalf of the well organized Tomcat
project who wishes to register their name as both a service mark in
the US, as well as a software product mark in the EU/CTM, India, and China.

Given the President's adjusted budget request for brand, the core budget
is only meant to (primarily) cover a US software product registration for any
TLP that requests one. Thus I would like to increase the brand budget request
by +$2425 to meet the Tomcat PMC's request (which I support).

Separately, please FYI that due to a billing error, over $12K of legal
fees and outside counsel expenses incurred during 2014 was not actually
billed to the ASF until last month; apologies if this caused some confusion as
to the monthly brand expenses in the past.

## Operations:

Gave two well-received talks at ApacheCon Austin related to brands, one
focused on education for PMCs and the other focused on helping vendors
working in our project technology spaces how to respectfully use Apache
brands. The level of questions I got both after the talks and during
the conference was much better than in past years in terms of PMC
members asking more detailed and thoughtful questions.

Work on the requested detailed risk analysis for the board of not
registering our project trademarks is progressing slowly due to ApacheCon,
budgets, and the like. Propose to present something next month.

Interesting questions on trademarks@ this month about the recent Groovy
project submission to the Incubator (no TM issues expected), the use
of trademarks in relation to email addresses (to reduce spam), as well as
questions about detailed uses of marks including the Apache Attic as
well as a higher volume then usual from both PMCs and outside parties.

(Outstanding) Waiting on infra to confirm if supporting a regularly maintained
list of all Apache product trademarks is feasible; if it is not feasible, then
I would expect to ask for an additional budget item to
complete this task in the future.

## Registrations:

At the request of the relevant PMCs, we submitted US registration applications
this month for: Accumulo, ManifoldCF, Tomcat.

The Tajo, ManifoldCF, DeltaSpike, Accumulo, Bigtop, OFBiz have requested to
register their project names; we're still coordinating getting all the
information needed for those and previous requests to counsel.

The PMC requested Cassandra and CouchDB applications are on hold pending
various legal consent issues.

The Tomcat PMC has requested additional registrations, both as software
products in the EU/CTM, India, China and as a service (i.e. the service
of providing developer support to contributors) in the US. This is on
hold pending a decision on budget.

The Corinthia podling has requested to register their product name, and
may have volunteers to donate the costs associated with the registration
if the official Brand budget cannot be used to pay for podling
registrations. Awaiting feedback from the Corinthia PPMC currently.

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Attachment 3: Report from the VP of Fundraising [Jim Jagielski]

Fundraising progresses very well (see Melissa's report
for more details).

Most notable event was Pivotal's upgrade to platinum
(announced at acna).

The "Thanks" page has been updated and looks much better.
Many thanks to Daniel Gruno for making it happen and for
his attention to details (a few follow up fixes). This happened
before the site update and although a bit eclipsed by the
whole site update it is still great.

Information about all accounts is now in Zoho. Hadrian is
in the process of adding data to all the accounts and potentials
and uploading all the existing documents (invoices and
payments) in zoho for reference and accuracy of reports. We
will go back and upload docs starting with 01/01/2015, but not
before that. While doing that we need to add tasks and
renewal reminders. The desire and expectation is to fully
finish this for all sponsors this cycle (i.e. until the next board
meeting). For the next couple of cycles the plan is to
iron out and document our process.

There are still very few outstanding items that should be taken
care this week, hopefully before the board meeting.

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Attachment 4: Report from the VP of Marketing and Publicity [Sally Khudairi]

I. Budget: Sally Khudairi submitted a request to augment the 2015-2016
Marketing & Publicity budget by at least $5,000 to accommodate the
increasing number of requests for collateral/promotional items for
project-related events. All vendor payments are up-to-date.

II. Fundraising/Branding/Marketing liaison: Sally is working with
Hadrian and Melissa on providing recognition for ASF Sponsors that
require M&P visibility. She has begun work on the ASF FY2014 Annual
Report which will be published the last week of May. The
refresh/redesign of the apache.org homepage has been completed with
thanks to extensive work donated by HotWax Systems; we are
anticipating the new homepage to be launched the week of ApacheCon.

III. Press Releases: the following formal announcements were issued
via the newswire service, ASF Foundation Blog, and announce@apache.org
during this timeframe:

- 30 March 2015 --The Apache™ Software Foundation to celebrate 15
years of community-led innovation at ApacheCon
- 17 March 2015 -- The Apache Software Foundation Accepted as a Google
Summer of Code 2015 Mentoring Organization
- 11 March 2015 --Groovy Submitted to Become a Project at The Apache
Software Foundation

IV. Informal Announcements: 7 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 26 weekly summaries
published thus far.

V. Future Announcements: there is one announcement in development that
will be released during ApacheCon. Projects preparing to graduate from
the Apache Incubator as well as PMCs wishing to announce major project
milestones and "Did You Know?" success stories are welcome to contact
Sally at <press@apache.org> for more information. Kindly provide at
least 2-weeks' notice for proper planning and execution.

VI. Media Relations: we responded to 4 media requests. The ASF
received 1,040 press clips over this time period, vs. last month's
clip count of 1,611.

VII. Analyst Relations: we responded to 4 analyst queries. Apache was
mentioned in 1 report by Gartner, 6 reports by Forrester, 6 reports by
451 Research, and 4 reports by IDC. Sally received the 451 Research
report on Apache CloudStack.

VIII. ApacheCon liaison: Sally submitted the M&P highlights to Ross
Gardler for the State of the Feather presentation and has arranged for
a special recognition for the ASF. She has also assisted the producers
with outreach to potential attending members of the media/analyst
community, and will be at the ASF booth alongside Melissa Warnkin
through 15 April.

IX. (Non-ASF) Industry Events and Outreach liaison: no formal
activities over the past month. Sally created promotional materials
for several Apache project events, including the Cincinnati Apache
Spark Meetup.

X. Newswire accounts: we have 19 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:
==========
$53 domain renewals
$2165 Cloud Services

Operations Action Items:
========================
n/a

Short Term Priorities:
=======================

LDAP
----
We've increased our spread of LDAP so that all of our cloud regions now
possess an LDAP server for authentication to work over the local network.

CMS
----
We've generated a FAQ to catalog issues and questions that came up during
the RFC. We hope to have some direction during or shortly after ApacheCon.

Long Range Priorities:
======================

Automation
-----------
We've been working on a number of automation efforts. One of our
recent deployments of LDAP has proven we can deploy a new host in
less than 10 minutes from provisioning to functional service.
Additionally we've been working on moving more services. One of
the highlights this month includes the SteVe deployment. We now
have the service in a state where it is trivial for us to deploy
a fresh machine with a STeVe deployment for projects to use.

Resilience
----------
We've begun moving VMs off of our internal VMware deployment. At the
same time we have been working on spinning up our VMware-based cloud
deployment at PhoenixNAP.

Technical Debt
--------------
We suspect (but are unable to prove) that some of our VMware issues
are related to using EOL/EOS software from VMware that requires us
to run the deployment for at least one machine in a suboptimal
manner.

Monitoring
----------
While monitoring has been useful in identifying issues, we haven't
materially expanded its use this month, something we hope to remedy
this month.

General Activity:
=================
Incidents
------------
We had a total of 98 incidents in the month of March that we alerted on
and paged the on call contractor out for. The relatively high number has
caused some concern, and we are tracking ways to reduce the number
of alerted incidents to the truly severe.
http://s.apache.org/WjC
http://s.apache.org/jQs

Jira
-----
A number of Jira imports have successfully been handled. These include the
plethora of Maven project imports, Tinkerpop, and Groovy among others. The
bulk of this work has been done by Mark Thomas who deserves special thanks
for tackling this work.

VMware hosts
-------------
One of our VMware hosts has been suffering from intermittent network
failures as well as the entire machine dying. This originally appeared
to be time related. We've begun migrating services off of this host in
order of priority, but the outages have affected a number of important
services to include the git services as well as blogs.

Uptime Statistics:
==================

Contractor Details:
===================

Gavin McDonald
--------------

Engage with OpenOffice community regarding a few Infrastructure related issues, such as the Mac Buildbots

Revisit and engage with CouchDB PMC to sort out 2 outstanding Domain Name
transfers. Sort out couch.[org|com] domains with Dotster, Domains are
successfully transferred. Next step is to sort out secondary DNS and httpd
configs.

Covered on-call whilst folks were travelling to ACNA

Jira Tickets: 68 worked on and 56 competed as of 04/20/15

Confluence Wiki migration was completed.

Began work on moving the Blogs service to Puppet 3 and a new home in the cloud.
Began work on preparing to migrate TLP playgrounds to Puppet 3 and the cloud.

Prepared a draft policy covering VCS canonical locations.

on 4/17 qmail stopped sending mails and the queue went above 100000. Resolved
issues and service running normally again.

commonsrdf cms setup refuses to create a staging site. Looked extensively into
the problem but remains unresolved at this time. This is a blocker for the
project as they have no website and are waiting on it to do a release. See:
INFRA-9260

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Attachment 6: Report from the Apache Travel Assistance Committee [Gavin McDonald]

Note that this is a pre-ACNA board report. A full report on how things went at
ACNA will be reported next month.

The Travel Assistance Committee (TAC) exists to help those that would like to
attend ApacheCon and/or other ASF Sponsored events, but are unable to do so for
financial reasons.

Overall Activity since last report

----------------------------------

* Everything is set to go for ApacheCon NA in Austin Texas. Jan with assistance
from Nick and Lewis are taking on the ‘man on the ground’ position in
organising the TAC attendees to perform their roles as needed and also to
ensure they get the most out of the event itself.

* 8 applicants were accepted with 2 later dropping out so 6 successful
applicants are attending this time around. That is a lower than usual figure
so we need to find a way to get more successful applicants next time.

* We have deprecated use of IRC in favour of using HipChat as our synchronous
communication channel.

Any ASF member is welcome to join this channel and hang out. Ask Infra for a
HipChat invite as guests will not be invited in to the private channel.

How has the community developed since the last report?

------------------------------------------------------

No members have joined or left. There are currently 13 subscribers to the main
mailing list.

Budget:

-------

We missed the original request for a budget submission. Since then we have
replied to a board email stating that we’d like the same budget as last year,
i.e $50,000 to supply 2 ApacheCons and up to 2 smaller events. Decision is
pending.

Future Events:

--------------

ApacheCon EU is the next event TAC is supporting. Nothing has been started on
this yet but imagine that we’ll get started around the end of May - there may be
a meeting to discuss some details including a timeline at ACNA. Any ASF member
that wants to help out are welcome, see the resources section for details.

Jan - whom has been a prolific contributor to ACNA and previous ApacheCons, has
indicated he will be much less available for ACEU. Therefore we need to consider
this and encourage others to join the effort for this next event.

Resources :

www: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/TAC/ ::

https://apache.org/travel

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Attachment 7: Report from the VP of W3C Relations [Andy Seaborne]

Nothing to report this month.

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Attachment 8: Report from the Apache Legal Affairs Committee [Jim Jagielski]

The draft of the privacy policy is still being reviewed; the DMCA policy
is (still) being drafted. Numerous JIRA items have been closed. A dis-
cussion regarding online submission of (i)CLAs has started, in cooperation
with the Operations team.

The question of whether or not the ASF could use Github as the canonical and
official repo for any ASF project was asked: the decision of VP Legal is
that the unavailability of the push logs from Github results in an increased
risk to our developers and end-users, and would make the consumption of, or
leverage of, ASF projects by end-users a more difficult proposition due to
the ASF not being able to completely and independently verify and perform
the required IP provenance of our released code. A blog post and/or JIRA
ticket, to further make this policy decision more known, is likely.

No issues 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.

March 2015

3 Support Question
5 Confused user probably due to Android licenses
11 Vulnerability reports to security@apache.org
3 [site] rejected
2 [httpd]
1 [solr]
1 [camel]
1 [ambari]
1 [activemq]
1 [flex]
1 [cordova]
5 Vulnerability reports to projects own security lists
1 [sling]
1 [hive]
1 [httpd]
1 [struts]
1 [tomcat] rejected

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Attachment A: Report from the Apache Abdera Project [Ant Elder]

Apache Abdera provides Java implementations of the IETF Atom
Syndication Format and Publishing Protocol specifications.

No activity and it looks like Abdera will be retired to the attic now.
We need to mention this on the dev list and then if there are no
objections i'll endevour to get a retirement resolution by the next
report.

No board issues.

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Attachment B: Report from the Apache Accumulo Project [Billie Rinaldi]

The Apache Accumulo sorted, distributed key/value store is a robust,
scalable, high performance data storage system that features cell-based
access control and customizable server-side processing. It is based on
Google's BigTable design and is built on top of Apache Hadoop,
Zookeeper, and Thrift.

Releases
Version 1.6.2 was released on 2/16/2015.

Activity
The number of subscribers to the user list is the same as in the last
report, 384; however, 28 subscribers left and 28 were added. The dev
list went down by 6 to 227 subscribers, with 16 leaving and 10 new.
Mailing lists are active.

In the past 3 months, there have been 345 commits from 14 authors,
5 of whom are not yet committers.

We are in the process of triaging open tickets for 1.7.0 and will
begin testing it on Monday April 13th in preparation for a release.

Community
Sean Busbey was added as a committer and PMC member on 1/09/2014.
No new committers have been added since the last report. We have a
couple of contributors actively working on patches.

This month will be the second annual Accumulo conference [1].

[1]: http://accumulosummit.com/

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Attachment C: 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: 30 msgs
(previous 3 months: 34 msgs)
* Commits for last 3 months: 8
(previous 3 months: 145)

Activity:
* Discussions about moving to Java 8 and Dependency Manager 4.
* Improvements in the Workspace API (for scripting).
* User questions about templates, Jenkins and Apache Karaf integration.

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Attachment D: 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.
* Several ActiveMQ based presentation were given at Apachecon NA.
* The ActiveMQ community has voted to name the HortnetQ code donation
ActiveMQ Artemis.
* Apache board members requested a special report to address what the
plan is of the hornetq code donation. There were some specific
question what were directed at the PMC:

Q. Red Hat has a product, called HornetQ, which includes a website;
branding, etc. http://hornetq.jboss.org/

A. ActiveMQ PMC does not intend to use the HornetQ branding in any code,
docs or website. The code donation has been updated to remove such
references. The HornetQ open source project is now considered a legacy
project and the code is no longer maintained as the open source project
HornetQ. The ActiveMQ community is beginning to work together to
develop a plan to take the donated code base forward and to develop
community around this code base.

Q. The ActiveMQ PMC needs to deliver a plan for:
A. Apache ActiveMQ has multiple products with multiple versions:
a. ActiveMQ - (version 5.x.x)
b. ActiveMQ Artemis - (version 1.x.x)

This means that we are not yet ready to declare that
ActiveMQ Artemis is the successor to ActiveMQ 5.x. We will wait until
the product matures to make that decision.

Q. The current chair has been the chair for *many* years and based on the
current status and issues in the community, I would strongly
suggest having a plan for potentially replacing the chair of the project.

A. The PMC agrees.

* The PMC has voted to give the code donation a code name so that it
is not referred to as HornetQ anymore within ActiveMQ.
* IP clearance for the code donation is almost complete:
http://incubator.apache.org/ip-clearance/hornetq.html
* At least one member of the PMC, as well as several members of the
community, feels strongly that disagreements and concerns are not
getting addressed. They would rather have Artemis go through the
incubator.
* PMC is in discussions looking for ways to increase community diversity
* PMC has voted to appoint Bruce Snyder as the ActiveMQ PMC chair.
The PMC requests that the board approve the the following resolution:

----------------------------------------------------------

WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Hiram Chirino to
the office of Vice President, Apache ActiveMQ, and

WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation
of Hiram Chirino from the office of Vice President, Apache
ActiveMQ, and

WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache ActiveMQ
project has chosen by vote to recommend Bruce Snyder as the Successor
to the post;

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Hiram Chirino is
relieved and discharged from the duties and responsibilities of
the office of Vice President, Apache ActiveMQ, and

----------------------------------------------------------

Development:
* Development on ActiveMQ 5.12 is in progress.
* Development on ActiveMQ Artemis 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 ActiveMQ 5.11.1 - 2/17/15
* Apache ActiveMQ 5.10.2 - 2/17/15
* Apache ActiveMQ-CPP v3.8.4 - 2/19/15

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Attachment E: Report from the Apache Airavata Project [Suresh Marru]

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Attachment F: Report from the Apache Aries Project [Jeremy Hughes]

Apache Aries delivers a set of pluggable Java components enabling an
enterprise OSGi application programming model.

## Releases

Last report was February. The following releases have been created with
promotion to maven central dates:

* Apache Aries Blueprint Core (blueprint-core) 1.4.3 2015/02/23
* Apache Aries Blueprint CM (blueprint-cm) 1.0.6 2015/02/23
* Apache Aries Blueprint Maven Plugin (blueprint-maven-plugin) 1.1.0
2015/03/03
* Apache Aries Blueprint no-OSGI (blueprint-noosgi) 1.1.0 2015/03/03
* Apache Aries Blueprint Web (blueprint-web) 1.1.02015/03/03
* Apache Aries JMX Core (jmx-core) 1.1.3 2015/03/09
* Apache Aries Transaction Enlisting JDBC Datasource (transaction-jdbc)
2.1.1 2015/03/09

* Apache Aries SPI Fly Core (internal module) (spi-fly-core) 1.0.2
2015/03/24?
* Apache Aries SPI Fly Dynamic Weaving Bundle (spi-fly-dynamic-bundle) 1.0.2
2015/03/24?
* Apache Aries SPI Fly Static Weaving Bundle (spi-fly-static-bundle) 1.0.2
2015/03/24?
* Apache Aries SPI Fly Static Weaving Tool (spi-fly-static-tool) 1.0.2
2015/03/24?

Together the new SPI Fly releases pass the OSGi Enterprise R5 Service Loader
Mediator 1.0 CT tests

* Apache Aries Subsystem API (subsystem-api) 1.1.0 2015/03/24
* Apache Aries Subsystem Core (subsystem-core) 1.2.0 2015/03/24
* Apache Aries Subsystem OBR (subsystem-obr) 1.0.1 2015/03/24
* Apache Aries Subsystems Bundle (subsystem-bundle) 1.2.0 2015/03/24

Along with enhanced documentation.

## Project update

User questions across many of the Aries modules continue on the users@ list.
Discussions about the refactoring of JPA and Quiesce modules on the dev@
list.
A new contribution from a non-committer: esa-ant-plugin for building
Enterprise Subsystem Archives (ESAs), made it into trunk.

The SPI Fly releases were successfully voted, but the voting thread wasn't
closed off in the usual way with a results tally. It looks like it was
closed on 2015/03/24 as stated above.

There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.

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Attachment G: Report from the Apache Attic Project [Henri Yandell]

## Description:
- The Attic is where projects slumber when their communities fade away.

## Activity:
- Whirr is being added to the Attic, per the previous board meeting.
- Sebb identified that various old Jakarta websites went offline and
Infra are looking into this: INFRA-9251
- It was reported that the Excalibur API docs have also gotten lost.
- Retirement of 3 Web Services projects needs closing out.

## Issues:
- There are no board issues at this time.

## PMC changes:

- Currently 21 PMC members in the project.
- Sebastian Bazley was added to the PMC on Sun Mar 22 2015

## Mailing list activity:

- general@attic.apache.org:
- 32 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
- 20 emails sent to list (18 in previous quarter)

## JIRA activity:

- 2 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 0 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months

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Attachment H: Report from the Apache Aurora Project [Bill Farner]

## Description:

Aurora is a service scheduler used to schedule jobs onto Apache Mesos.

## Activity:

- Graduated from the Incubator in March.
- Promising adoption increase in the last 3 months: increased dev@ and IRC
activity, and patches from the community.
- Community activity has identified some promising candidates to add as
committers and/or PMC members.
- Release and deprecation processes are starting to take shape, making for a
clear development path between releases.
- 0.8.0 release is likely to be cut in April.

## Issues:

No major issues. We endured a long bout of CI noise due to Jenkins slave
flakiness (INFRA-9019, now resolved), but continue to face a whack-a-mole of
other related issues.

## PMC/Committership changes

- New PMC member: Zameer Manji, 2014-01-14
- New committer: Joshua Cohen, 2015-02-02

## Releases

Last release: 0.7.0-incubating, Release Date: Feb 05, 2015

## Mailing list activity

- dev@aurora.apache.org:
- 126 subscribers
- 487 e-mails in the last 3 months [1]

## JIRA activity

- 264 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months [2]
- 176 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months [3]

[1] http://s.apache.org/4uA
[2] http://s.apache.org/AT6
[3] http://s.apache.org/W6r

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Attachment I: Report from the Apache Avro Project [Tom White]

Apache Avro is a cross-language data serialization system.

== Issues ==

There are no board-level issues at this time.

== Community ==

Since the last board report in January, 31 Jira issues were filed and 7
resolved. Committer activity is lower than last quarter. Mailing list
activity is also lower with around a hundred messages total per month.

No new committers have been added since January 2015.
No new PMC members have been added since September 2012.

== Releases ==

There have been no releases this quarter. Avro 1.7.7 was released in July
2014.

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Attachment J: 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/PMC community was considerably low, while
there were some activities in user community.

No new committers (PMC members) during last quarter.

Releases
========================
Apache Synapse is waiting for an Axis2 release and now Axis2 is also waiting
an Axiom release from WS project. The good news is WS is working on it and
hopefully we will get it soon. Soon after Axiom release we will do a release.
Axis2 release will include (Rampart, Sandesha2 as well).

Last releases:
===================
Axis2/Java: April 2012

Rampart/Java: April 2012

Sandesha2/Java: April 2012

Axis/Java: April 2006

Axis2/C: Apr 2009

Rampart/C: May 2009

Axis/C++ 1.x: March 2006

Issues
===========================
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.

-----------------------------------------
Attachment K: Report from the Apache Bigtop Project [Konstantin Boudnik]

## Description:
A 100% community-driven Bigdata management platform.

## Activity:
- PMC has voted new project committer Nate D'Amico with assignment to be
Apache Bigtop community manager, helping PMC with project outreach,
conferences and marketing materials. Vote thread http://s.apache.org/1Mf
- Amazon EM2 team has reached with an offer to host Bigtop CI
infrastructure, which is CPU and RAM intensive. We are currently
investigating the options
- As per project bylaws a new PMC Chair election has been started
(vote thead: http://s.apache.org/B40; vote result: http://s.apache.org/Mla).
Andrew Purtell was elected as the new Chair.
- All other project activities were outlined in the March 2015 project
report to the board.

## Issues:
Following up on a number of discussion within this PMC and some of the now
former board directors the following "social media" guidelines were
developed in consensus with the project community
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/BIGTOP/Social+Media+Guidelines
The consensus has been confirmed by two votes:
http://s.apache.org/6i4 - Social media guidelines
http://s.apache.org/gMc - Amending the guidelines w/ more precise language
The twitter account @ASFBigtop is now hosted on Twitterdeck where any community
member can be added and make posts as per the guidelines above. Hence the issue
seems to be fully resolved via normal community process.

## PMC/Committership changes:

- Currently 32 committers and 20 PMC members in the project.
- New commmitters:
- Evans Ye was added as a committer on Fri Jan 02 2015
- Dasha Boudnik was added as a committer on Fri Jan 23 2015
- R J Nowling was added as a committer on Fri Mar 06 2015
- Olaf Flebbe was added as a committer on Fri Jan 23 2015
- Youngwoo Kim was added as a committer on Thu Mar 05 2015
- Nate D'Amico was added as a committer on Tue Mar 24 2015
- New PMC members
- Jay Vyas was added to the PMC on Wed Dec 17 2014
- Sean Mackrory was added to the PMC on Fri Jan 16 2015

## Releases:
- Last release was 0.8.0 on Fri Oct 03 2014
- Community is preparing to release Bigtop 1.0 around ApacheCon time in
April, 2015

## Mailing list activity:

- dev@bigtop.apache.org:
- 120 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 3203 emails sent to list (1815 in previous quarter)

- user@bigtop.apache.org:
- 154 subscribers (up 4 in the last 3 months):
- 137 emails sent to list (152 in previous quarter)

- ci@bigtop.apache.org:
- 13 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months):
- 418 emails sent to list (273 in previous quarter)

- announce@bigtop.apache.org:
- 30 subscribers (up 5 in the last 3 months):
- 0 emails sent to list (1 in previous quarter)

- issues@bigtop.apache.org:
- 5 subscribers (up 5 in the last 3 months)

## JIRA activity:

- 217 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 189 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months

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Attachment L: Report from the Apache Bloodhound Project [Gary Martin]

Project Description
===================
Apache Bloodhound is a software development collaboration tool, including
issue tracking, wiki and repository browsing.

Issues
======

There are no issues requiring board attention at the current time.

Releases
========
There has no release over the last three months. The last releases
were:

* apache-bloodhound-0.6 (16th July 2013)
* apache-bloodhound-0.7 (23rd August 2013)
* apache-bloodhound-0.8 (11th December 2014)

PMC/Committer Changes
=====================

There are currently 15 PMC members on the project.
* New PMC members:
* Last additions were in January 2014
* Resigning PMC members:
* Hyrum K Wright resigned on 16th February 2015

The last new committers were added in May 2014 for the GSoC scheme.

Community & Development
=======================

Committer activity has remained low over this quarter though there have been
efforts from committers to get unstable automated builds working and we have
also been taking time to update the issue tracker to the latest version of
Bloodhound. This in particular has brought one of our original PMC members
into a position to increase his involvement in the project.

There have been a few long running INFRA tickets for work related to
Bloodhound that remain open. In particular access to a read-only nfs mount
of the bloodhound svn repository continues to be missing. However, no
attempt has been made to press for progress on this issue from the PMC.

In contrast INFRA were able to provide site monitoring for the main issue
tracker and demo sites in a reasonable time. This gives us good confidence
in the stability of the main issue tracker but appear to show that our demo
servers are struggling under their load.

Although we have been involved with GSoC for the previous two years, we did
not organise ourselves to continue for this year. It was also suggested that
we should put more effort into the integration of previous work before
considering taking on further students.

The user email list has increased in response to our release in December.
Discussions on the dev mailing list have also increased in comparison to
the previous quarter.

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Attachment M: 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
* Moved from SVN to GIT
* Worked on removing APR

Statistics:
* Last committer added: 2014-03-04
* Last PMC member added: 2014-07-17

* Mailing list activity in february - now: 39 messages on dev
* Commits since october: 41 SVN commits, 46 GIT commits

-----------------------------------------
Attachment N: Report from the Apache Chukwa Project [Eric Yang]

## Description:

Chukwa is an open source data collection system for monitoring
large distributed systems.

## Activity:
- Switch source code repository from svn to git.
- New committer - Sreepathi Prasanna.
- Some development to integrate Chukwa + Gora + HBase for log storage.
- Trunk is updated to Hadoop 2.6 + HBase 1.0.

## Issues:

- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.

## PMC/Committership changes:

- Currently 17 committers and 12 PMC members in the project.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Grace Huang at Sun Dec 01 2013
- Sreepathi Prasanna was added as a committer on Mon Mar 16 2015

## Releases:

- Latest Chukwa 0.6.0 released on November 22 2014

## Mailing list activity:

- dev@chukwa.apache.org:
- 94 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
- 149 emails sent to list (45 in previous quarter)

- user@chukwa.apache.org:
- 159 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
- 12 emails sent to list (4 in previous quarter)

## JIRA activity:

- 11 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 11 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months

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Attachment O: Report from the Apache Commons Project [Gary Gregory]

The Apache Commons project focuses on all aspects of reusable Java components.

The Apache Commons components are widely used in many projects, both within
Apache and without.

The last report was in December 9 2014.

No issues require board attention at this time.

Overall project health is good with 7 releases this period.

Releases:
- 2014-12-18: Apache Commons Configuration 2.0-alpha2
- 2014-12-28: Apache Commons Math 3.4
- 2014-12-31: Apache Commons Pool 2.3
- 2015-01-12: Apache Commons Math 3.4.1
- 2015-01-14: Apache Commons Validator 1.4.1
- 2015-02-24: Apache Commons DBCP 2.1
- 2015-04-07: Apache Commons Lang 3.4

New committers
- None

News
- 2014-12: All Apache committers can commit to Apache Commons.
- Charles Matthew Chen <cmchen@apache.org> has resigned from the Apache
Commons PMC on 02-20-2015, we all thank him for his service.
- Rahul Akolkar <rahul@apache.org> has resigned from the Apache Commons
PMC on 02-20-2015, we all thank him for his service.
- Stephen Colebourne <scolebourne@apache.org> has resigned from the Apache
Commons PMC on 02-20-2015, we all thank him for his service.
- Rory Winston <rwinston@apache.org> has resigned from the Apache Commons PMC
on 02-20-2015, we all thank him for his service.
- Apache Commons Lang is planning to migrate from Subversion to Git.
- Discussions have started to migrate the Commons RDF component that is
currently incubating to Apache Commons.

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Attachment P: Report from the Apache Crunch Project [Gabriel Reid]

Apache Crunch is a Java library for writing, testing, and running
MapReduce and Spark pipelines on Apache Hadoop.

Project Status
--------------

The project has been moving at a similar pace to the previous quarter, with
20 new JIRA issues logged since the previous board report, with 15 of them
being closed in that time. The majority of the work on the project continues
to focus on maintenance.

The addition of a new committer was successfully voted on, but the person in
question decided to make a major career change just at the same moment, which
was an unfortunate loss for the Crunch community.

This report also marks the resignation (due to the term of one year being up)
of Gabriel Reid, the current PMC chair. There has been a successful vote to
recommend Micah Whitacre as the new PMC chair.

There are no board-level issues at this time.

Community
---------

Community activity continues to be similar with the previous reporting period.
The user mailing list was more active, with an average of more than one
message per day (nearly double of the previous reporting period), while
the dev mailing list activity has dropped slightly in comparison with the
previous reporting period.

Micah Whitacre was added to the PMC on April 3rd, 2014.
Micah Whitacre was added as a committer on July 11th, 2013.

Releases
--------

There were no releases made in this quarter. The last releases were:
* Apache Crunch 0.11.0, released Sept 10, 2014
* Apache Crunch 0.8.4, released Sept 13, 2014

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Attachment Q: Report from the Apache Curator Project [Jordan Zimmerman]

## Description:
A set of Java libraries that make using Apache ZooKeeper much easier.

## Activity:
- Normal activity for Curator. We continue to support the community and grow
the project.
- In addition to maintenance releases we have a separate task to support the
upcoming ZooKeeper 3.5.x

## Issues:
- None

## PMC/Committership changes:

- Currently 10 committers and 10 PMC members in the project.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Scott Blum at Fri Aug 29 2014
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Scott Blum at Thu Aug 28 2014

## Releases:

- 2.7.1 was released on Fri Jan 16 2015

## Mailing list activity:

- dev@curator.apache.org:
- 41 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months):
- 296 emails sent to list (416 in previous quarter)

- user@curator.apache.org:
- 137 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 95 emails sent to list (39 in previous quarter)

## JIRA activity:

- 25 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 16 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months

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Attachment R: Report from the Apache CXF Project [Daniel Kulp]

## Description:
Apache CXF is an open source services framework. CXF helps you build and
develop services using frontend programming APIs, like JAX-WS and
JAX-RS. These services can speak a variety of protocols such as SOAP,
XML/HTTP, RESTful HTTP, or CORBA and work over a variety of transports
such as HTTP, JMS or JBI.

## Activity:
- Work is progressing to get 3.1.0 released, hopefully later this month
- Work is also progressing to get CXF Fediz (WS-Federation project) 1.2
released
- In support of the above, lots of work around some new features related to
management, metrics, logging, etc...
- Lots of work with the WebServices project to get WSS4J updated to the latest
OpenSAML release to support CXF 3.1.0.

## Issues:
- No major issues at this time. However, there was an "issue" last week that
we are concerned about. The process that is used to keep CXF's website
up to date stopped working. An issue was raised (INFRA-9328) on May 24th,
it wasn't looked at at all (from what I can tell) for 50 hours when it was
assigned to someone. And then nothing. On March 31st, I raised the
priority to Critical as it was blocking SEVERAL projects (CXF, ActiveMQ,
Camel, etc...) from getting sites updated. Joe had it diagnosed 10
minutes later, but the "fix" was not applied for another 26 hours. So 9
days to fix something that was causing problems for multiple projects.
That's concerning.

## PMC/Committership changes:

- Currently 35 committers and 22 PMC members in the project.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Andriy Redko at Wed Sep 10 2014
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Jan Bernhardt at Wed Sep 10 2014

## Releases:

- 3.0.4 was released on Mon Feb 16 2015
- 2.7.15 was released on Mon Feb 16 2015

## Mailing list activity:

- users@cxf.apache.org:
- 994 subscribers (up 11 in the last 3 months):
- 649 emails sent to list (924 in previous quarter)

- dev@cxf.apache.org:
- 437 subscribers (up 5 in the last 3 months):
- 198 emails sent to list (274 in previous quarter)

- notifications@cxf.apache.org:
- 28 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 452 emails sent to list (551 in previous quarter)

- jaxrs-tck@cxf.apache.org:
- 4 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months)

- issues@cxf.apache.org:
- 126 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 1130 emails sent to list (955 in previous quarter)

## JIRA activity:

- 166 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 127 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months

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Attachment S: Report from the Apache DB Project [Myrna van Lunteren]

The Apache DB TLP consists of the following subprojects:
o DdlUtils: a small, easy-to-use component for working with Database
Definition (DDL) files.
o Derby: an open source relational database implemented entirely in Java.
o JDO: focused on building the API and the TCK for compatibility testing of
Java Data Object implementations providing data persistence.
o Torque: an object-relational mapper for Java.

== Status ==

Issues requiring attention from the board:

At this time, I'd like to gently alert the board to the fact that I have sent
a message to private@db to indicate my intention to resign the chair position
because of time constraints and to ask for a volunteer to replace me. This was
on March 23. No one has stepped up yet. It is now clear that the Derby
project, which was the most active of our subprojects until October 2014, is
suffering because key companies have pulled back their support of the
project. Although some people are still monitoring the lists, the effects are
very obvious. The last several PMC chairs (including myself) all have been
from the Derby project, and this well has now dried up. It seems possible that
taking on the responsibilities for all subprojects is a hurdle in finding a
replacement for the chair position. I will follow up on this when I have more
time to look into things.

Activities over the last quarter

a) The JDO community released JDO version 3.1. in March.
b) The Derby community has embarked on a Google Summer of Code project, with
a mentor and student.
c) The Derby community is still answering questions. However, new development
outside of GSoC has stopped.

=== Community ===
No PMC changes since January 2014.
No new committers since August 2010.

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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 DirectMemory Project [Raffaele P. Guidi]

Apache DirectMemory is an off-heap cache implementation for the JVM

* General Information
Development and mailing lists traffic are mostly quiet.

* Issues
No known issues at the time

* Committers or PMC members change
Last added PMC PMC member was Noctarius (Cristoph Engelbert) on 2013-09-25

* Releases
Release 0.2 has seen the light on 2013-09-17

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Attachment V: Report from the Apache Directory Project [Kiran Ayyagari]

I have been elected as the new Chairman of the project. I have been
contributing to Directory project since January, 2008. I thank my
mentors and PMC for entrusting me with this duty.

Current Activity and Status
---------------------------

The last three quarters have seen an increased activity on almost all
of the Directory projects. After years of stable number of committers
and PMC members, we have added 5 new committers (all of them active)
and 2 new PMC members (and we are thinking about voting another in)

From the project point of view, we are still moving forward with stable
releases, but released as milestones. Hopefully, we can expect an RC
for the LDAP API soon, a couple of more milestone for Mavibot, followed
by an RC for ApacheDS. At the same time, we are cutting the first RC for
Fortress, which was added as a sub-project last September. The release
is currently blocked by a problem with Nexus, but that should be solved
quickly.

We do think that the new Kerberos server (Kerby) will be better
than the current implementation we have, and the goal is to simply
replace what we have with the new code. At the same time, we will
most certainly benefit from some of the modules of this project,
like the new ASN.1 codec, for ApacheDS. In the similar fashion,
Kerby might benefit from a stable version of Mavibot.

Studio is expecting to be released soon too. A new build system is put
in place, which lead to a lot of modifications. At the same time, many
additional plugins have been injected (template editor, OpenLDAP
configuration editor, and we also have a new contribution for an eDirectory
configuration editor).

There is an increased activity on the user and developer mailing lists.

We are quite happy with the recent evolution of the project!

------------------------- Detailed Information ------------------

-- Community --
* One new committer (last previous addition: Feb 2015):
* Radovan Semancik

* One new PMC member (last previous addition: October 2014).
* Pierre Smits

* Mailing lists:
* Users mailing list: 297 subscribers (+4)
* Development mailing list: 175 subscribers (+4)
* API mailing list: 68 subscribers (-2)
* Fortress mailing list: 19 subscribers (+2)

-- Current activity --
* Apache Directory LDAP API:
* One release during this quarter.
* Good activity
* Mainly bug fixes and improvements in schema loaders.

* Apache Mavibot:
* One release during this quarter.
* Good activity
* Many smaller fixes.
* Work in progress on the freepage management.

* ApacheDS:
* No new releases during this quarter.
* Low activity.

* Apache Directory Studio:
* No releases during this quarter.
* Good activity.
* Added support for editing OpenLDAP configuration.
* Added template editor.

* Apache eSCIMo:
* Low activity.
* No releases yet.

* Fortress:
* Good activity preparing for releasing the first version.

* Apache Kerby:
* Good activity
* No releases yet.

-- Releases --
* One release for Apache Directory LDAP API:
* Apache Directory LDAP API 1.0.0-M29 (March 30th 2015)
* One release for Apache Mavibot:
* Apache Mavibot 1.0.0-M7 (March 27th 2015)
* No releases for ApacheDS:
* No releases for Apache Directory Studio.
* No releases for Apache eSCIMo, Fortress and Kerby.

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Attachment W: Report from the Apache Geronimo Project [Alan Cabrera]

## Description:
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.

## Activity:
- Overall development activity (commits, JIRA, dev mailing list traffic) was
low
- Some work being done on Java EE 7 specification jars and XBean

## Issues:
- We are concerned with our current level of community activity and will begin
taking public actions to start a next-gen Geronimo effort.

## PMC/Committership changes:

- Currently 69 committers and 42 PMC members in the project.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Romain Manni-Bucau at Thu Aug 07 2014
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Hendrik Saly at Thu Oct 23 2014

## Releases:

- Geronimo XBean-4.2
- EE 7 Specs (April 2015)
- geronimo-jcdi_1.1_spec-1.0
- geronimo-annotation-1.2_spec v1.0
- geronimo-interceptor-1.2_spec v1.0
- geronimo-jms_2.0_spec alpha2

## Mailing list activity:

- dev@geronimo.apache.org:
- 366 subscribers (down -3 in the last 3 months):
- 121 emails sent to list (150 in previous quarter)

- servicemix-tck@geronimo.apache.org:
- 9 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months)

- xbean-scm@geronimo.apache.org:
- 17 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 16 emails sent to list (26 in previous quarter)

- xbean-user@geronimo.apache.org:
- 34 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 0 emails sent to list (0 in previous quarter)

- tck-commits@geronimo.apache.org:
- 4 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months)

- user@geronimo.apache.org:
- 466 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
- 49 emails sent to list (25 in previous quarter)

- geronimo-tck@geronimo.apache.org:
- 43 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months)

- scm@geronimo.apache.org:
- 102 subscribers (down -3 in the last 3 months):
- 167 emails sent to list (38 in previous quarter)

- xbean-dev@geronimo.apache.org:
- 34 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 15 emails sent to list (7 in previous quarter)

## JIRA activity:

- 10 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 4 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months

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Attachment X: 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.

In YARN, the next iteration of the TimelineServer, work on network shaping,
per-queue policies, and collecting node metrics for scheduling have made
progress. Work on erasure coding in HDFS continues. A design document for
the object store (HDFS-7240) also appeared. Activity is low in MapReduce,
mostly bug fixes and repairs for unstable tests. Overhaul of shell scripts
continues in Common, in addition to changes supporting pluggable
authentication and authorization.

RELEASES

None

COMMUNITY

(+ PMC Haohui Mai 2015-02)
(+ committer Arun Suresh 2015-03)
(+ committer Xiaoyu Yao 2015-03)

auth: 110 committers (including branch), 55 PMC members

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Attachment Y: Report from the Apache HBase Project [Andrew Purtell]

HBase is a distributed column-oriented database built on top of
Hadoop Common and Hadoop HDFS

ISSUES FOR THE BOARD’S ATTENTION

None

RELEASES

0.94.27 03/25/2015

0.98.10 02/05/2015
0.98.10.1 02/13/2015 -- Patch release for HBASE-12979
0.98.11 03/09/2015

1.0.0 02/21/2015

NEW COMMITTERS

Srikanth Srungarapu (ssrungarapu) -- Cloudera
Jing Chen (Jerry) He (jerryjch) -- IBM

NEW PMC

Sean Busbey (busbey) -- Cloudera

PMC CHANGES

We rotated our Chair from Michael Stack (stack) to Andrew Purtell
(apurtell)

COMMUNITY

HBaseCon 2015 happens in San Francisco May 7th, 2015 [1]

We had the following HBase Meetups:

January 15th, 2015 HBase+Phoenix developer meetup @ Salesforce in San
Francisco [2]

January 15th, 2015 HBase Meetup @ AppDynamics in San Francisco [3]

February 27th, 2015 HBase Strata+Hadoop World meetup @ Hortonworks in
Santa Clara [4]

STATS

43 committers
27 PMC
1024 subscribers to the dev list (Was 1011 at last report)
2253 subscribers to the user list (Was 2218 at last report)

1. http://www.hbasecon.com/
2. http://www.meetup.com/hbaseusergroup/events/219648544/
3. http://www.meetup.com/hbaseusergroup/events/218744798/
4. http://www.meetup.com/hbaseusergroup/events/219260093/

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Attachment Z: Report from the Apache Helix Project [Kishore Gopalakrishna]

Project Description
===================
Apache Helix is a generic cluster management framework used for the
automatic management of partitioned, replicated and distributed resources
hosted on a cluster of nodes. Helix automates reassignment of resources in
the face of node failure and recovery, cluster expansion, and
reconfiguration

Development
===========
- 0.6.5 Release with support for handling thousands of partitions
- Improved activity on github PR. 9 PR's merged.
- New visualization module (helix-ui) contributed.
- 28 new JIRAS since last report
- 37 issues resolved in last 12 weeks

Community
=========
- 40+ emails on the dev list
- 150+ emails on the user list

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Attachment AA: Report from the Apache Hive Project [Carl Steinbach]

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Attachment AB: Report from the Apache Incubator Project [Ted Dunning]

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 40 podlings currently in incubation. There is another
climate project in discussion for incubation which is an interesting
continuation of the nascent trend of academic projects coming to
Apache. This may be a singleton due to Chris Mattmann's efforts, but it
would be an interesting development if it gathers momentum.

There is a new ASFIncubator twitter entity. It has little activity so
far, but has had a lot of followers jump on after Sally's announcement
on @ASF.

Datafu and ODF Toolkit are showing very low activity. This isn't
necessarily a serious problem yet, but may be a leading
indicator. Wave has previously had a warning, but may be doing a
little better.

* Community

New IPMC members:

Andrew Bayer
Gary Gregory

People who left the IPMC:

None

* New Podlings

Groovy
SINGA
(Myriad vote result was sent on March 1st, but the project is
just barely beginning)

* Graduations

Parquet

* Releases

The following releases were made since the last Incubator report:

2015-03-03 apache-lens-2.0.1-beta-incubating
2015-03-16 nifi-0.0.2-incubating
2015-03-23 apache-calcite-1.1.0-incubating
2015-03-24 incubator-ignite-1.0.0-rc3
2015-03-27 slider-0.70.1-incubating

* IP Clearance

Usergrid is working feverishly to finish up their IP Clearance.
Updated SGA sent to secretary@a.o

CommonsRDF SGA filed 2015-03-27.

Zeppelin SGA submitted and acknowledged on 2015-03-20.

* Legal / Trademarks

The old debate about how to submit SGAs for ALv2 projects with huge
numbers of copyright holders reappeared with Groovy's SGA. In the end,
the SGA was signed by a single community member.

Ambiguity around Legal Policy language on when optional GPL library
dependencies are permitted caused confusion.

* Infrastructure

The "Marvin" report reminders have not run in a timely manner for podlings
for 4 months in a row. A dedicated Incubator-specific replacement is
being contemplated.

* Miscellaneous

An official Twitter account for the Incubator was initialized but has not
yet been used. Access will be maintained via TweetDeck.

-------------------- Summary of podling reports --------------------

* Still getting started at the Incubator

AsterixDB
CommonsRDF
Groovy
Myriad
OpenAZ
SINGA

* Not yet ready to graduate

No release:

Parquet (some components released but not others)
Ripple
TinkerPop
Zeppelin

Community growth:

Calcite
Lens
Usergrid
Wave

* Did not report, expected next month

DataFu
ODF Toolkit

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Table of Contents
AsterixDB
Calcite
CommonsRDF
DataFu
Groovy
Lens
Myriad
ODF Toolkit
OpenAz
Parquet
Ripple
SINGA
TinkerPop
Usergrid
Wave
Zeppelin

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AsterixDB

Apache AsterixDB is a scalable big data management system (BDMS) that
provides storage, management, and query capabilities for large collections
of semi-structured data.

AsterixDB has been incubating since 2015-02-28.

Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:

1. Get SGA signed from UCI and others.
2. Code drop and start actively using lists.
3. Do an Apache release.

Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?

No, still getting started.

How has the community developed since the last report?

Account setup is mostly done and code repositories are in place. Right now
working mostly on the SGA to do the code drop.

How has the project developed since the last report?

Account and other infrastructure setup mostly done.
SGA and code drop still open.

Date of last release:

No Releases yet.

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?

No elected PMC and/or committers

Signed-off-by:
[X] (asterixdb) Chris Mattmann
[X] (asterixdb) Henry Saputra
[ ] (asterixdb) Ted Dunning
[X] (asterixdb) Ate Douma
[ ] (asterixdb) Jochen Wiedmann

--------------------
Calcite

Calcite is a highly customizable engine for parsing and planning queries on
data in a wide variety of formats. It allows database-like access, and in
particular a SQL interface and advanced query optimization, for data not
residing in a traditional database. (Renamed from Optiq on 2014-09-30.)

Calcite has been incubating since 2014-05-19.

Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:

1. Continue to build community
2. Add more committers and PPMC members
3. Demonstrate community robustness by rotating project tasks among
multiple project members

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?

In March, there were 159 messages on dev@, 41 commits, 52 issues
created, 37 issues resolved by 8 contributors.

Julian Hyde gave a talk “Why you care about relational algebra (even
though you didn’t know it)" about Calcite at Enterprise Data World in
March. He also spoke at a Phoenix meet-up in San Francisco about
Phoenix-Calcite integration.

Collaborations are under way with other Apache projects:
* Phoenix is going to use Calcite for SQL parsing and planning; and a
separate project is using Calcite’s Avatica component to build a remote
JDBC driver.
* Added support for parsing/validating streaming SQL and collaborating
with the Samza project on adding streaming SQL to Samza.
* Collaboration with Hive and Drill continues.

How has the project developed since the last report?

We completed our milestone 1.0 release, continued our monthly release
tempo with release 1.1, and are preparing 1.2.

Date of last release:

2015-03-23

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?

December 2014.

Signed-off-by:

[x](calcite) Ted Dunning
[X](calcite) Alan Gates
[X](calcite) Steven Noels
[X](IPMC) Chris Mattmann

Shepherd/Mentor notes:

Chris Mattmann:

* Calcite being discussed by Tom Barber at ApacheCon NA 2015.

--------------------
CommonsRDF

Commons RDF is a set of interfaces and classes for RDF 1.1 concepts and
behaviours. The commons-rdf-api module defines interfaces and testing
harness. The commons-rdf-simple module provides a basic reference
implementation to exercise the test harness and clarify API contracts.

CommonsRDF has been incubating since 2015-03-06.

Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:

1. Grow the CommonsRDF Community such that we can progress
towards gradution
2. Further engage the podling with the nuances of the Apache
Incubation process
3. Drive towards the first incubating release

Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?

A SGA was recently filed with secretary@ and the CommonsRDF codebase now
resides at the ASF with the canonical source residing at
https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=incubator-commonsrdf.git

Project is not yet decided on goal of TLP or Commons component - but still
aiming at the Commons component.

How has the community developed since the last report?

There have been no new committers, however the overwhelming majority of
project-related development conversation is already taking place on the
Apache lists.

How has the project developed since the last report?

CommonsRDF very recently joined the Apache Incubator. Bootstrapping and
migration have quickly progressed (mailing lists, git, Jira) and the
initial committer community is transitioning very well into the Apache
incubator ecosystem.

Web site remains to be sorted - evaluating technologies (considering
INFRA's proposed CMS deprecation).

Date of last release:

XXXX-XX-XX

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?

N/A Commons RDF has only just joined the Apache Incubator.

Signed-off-by:

[X](commonsrdf) Rob Vesse
[X](commonsrdf) John D Ament
[ ](commonsrdf) Gary Gregory
[X](commonsrdf) Lewis John McGibbney
[X](IPMC) Chris Mattmann

Shepherd/Mentor notes:

Chris Mattmann:

* template dates can be removed.

--------------------
Groovy

Apache Groovy is a multi-faceted programming language for the Java platform.
Groovy is a powerful, optionally typed and dynamic language, with static-
typing and static compilation capabilities, aimed at multiplying developers’
productivity thanks to a concise, familiar and easy to learn syntax. It
integrates smoothly with any Java program, and immediately delivers to your
application powerful features, including scripting capabilities, Domain-
Specific Language authoring, runtime and compile-time meta-programming and
functional programming.

Groovy has been incubating since 2015-03-24

The most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:

1. All the ICLA of all the PMC / Committers have been sent.
Most Apache accounts have already been created.
2. On behalf of the whole Groovy development team and the community,
Guillaume Laforge signed and scanned the SGA, and sent it to Secretary
on April 1st.
3. We've communicated to the historical mailing-lists about the new lists,
encouraging subscribers to join the new ones. The JIRA migration should
be taking place over the week-end, and we'll also communicate with our
community about that change. And last but not least, we need the Git
repository to be created and import our current sources from Github.

Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?

No, just getting started.

How has the community developed since the last report?

Currently, the pretty large Groovy community is happy about the move into
the ASF, but continues to be centered around our old infrastructure.
That’s why we’re going to start attracting the community towards our new
lists, to get them involved in this new era for the project.

How has the project developed since the last report?

No last report, as this is the first!

Date of last release:

We did a last non-Apache release as the vote for incubation was still
ongoing, but we haven’t yet planned the next release dates.

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?

No new elected PMC or committers.

Signed-off-by:

[X](groovy) Bertrand Delacretaz
[X](groovy) Emmanuel Lecharny
[X](groovy) Jim Jagielski
[X](groovy) Roman Shaposhnik
[ ](groovy) Andrew Bayer
[X](groovy) Konstantin Boudnik

Shepherd/Mentor notes:

Bertrand Delacretaz:

Thanks Guillaume for taking the lead on this!

Emmanuel Lecharny:

Quite a good start for a podling... Even the user mailing list starts to
be active ! Waiting for the JIRA migration this week-end, and the code
migration asap, then the podling will be almost fully setup, as soon as
the web site will be available. Great work by the Groovy fellows, and
the Infra peeps !

John D. Ament:

Project seems to be going well initially, doing the expected up front
house keeping required considering the largish size of the code base.
I would expect email volume to pick up quickly as the Codehaus services
begin to shutdown.

--------------------
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. Grow user and developer community and add more committers
2. Document all features and do one more release

Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?

NONE

How has the community developed since the last report?

- Apache Lens talk accepted at ApacheCon and GIDS, 2015
- We saw user queries coming up on user mailing list regarding usage
- Establish whether "Apache Lens" is a suitable name : CLOSED through
PODLINGNAMESEARCH-63
- Subscriptions:
- dev@: 37
- user@: 29
- commits: 17

How has the project developed since the last report?
- The first release: 2.0.1-beta-incubating has been published
- Added improvements in the project to reduce time taken for rest
api response
- Add features for metering, partition timeline cache, namespace
level jars
- Mailing list activity :
* Commits@ : 266 in feb, 61 in March
* dev@ : 1512 in feb, 965 in March
* user@ : 18 in feb, 1 in March
- Issues :
* 30 Day Summary (as on 2nd March) 116 created and 81 resolved
* 30 day Summary (as on 29th March) 98 created and 78 resolved

Date of last release:

2.0.1-beta-incubating on 2015-03-04

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

--------------------
Myriad

Myriad enables co-existence of Apache Hadoop YARN and Apache Mesos together
on the same cluster and allows dynamic resource allocations across both
Hadoop and other applications running on the same physical data center
infrastructure.

Myriad has been incubating since 2015-03-01.

Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:

1. Get ebay to donate the code to ASF. Ebay is willing and has done this
before. The process is started, but will take time.
2. Get ICLAs from all committers and give them Apache accounts and karma.
3. Integrate with Apache infrastructure and make our first release.

Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?

None. Just getting started.

How has the community developed since the last report?

First report. Now we have mailing lists and discussions have started on
dev@. In addition to committers/contributors from the 3 initial
organizations (ebay, MapR, Mesosphere), we have 5 more contributors from
at least two different organizations.

Gave presentations at Strata/Hadoop World and the March Bay Area Mesos
Users Group and London MUG meetups. Upcoming presentations at ApacheCon,
Data Science MD, and East Bay Big Data Group.

How has the project developed since the last report?

First report. Recent commits/PRs include:

1. Mesos framework authentication
2. Gradle builds, checkstyle, and Spock unit testing
3. In progress: Remote binary distribution
4. In progress: High availability for the Scheduler/RM
5. In progress: Dockerizing the Scheduler and Executor

Date of last release:

No releases yet. Still at 0.0.1 in the source.

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?

Still working on getting ICLAs for intial committers. Then we will vote in
new committers from the existing developer community.

Signed-off-by:

[ ](myriad) Benjamin Hindman
[ ](myriad) Danese Cooper
[X](myriad) Ted Dunning
[ ](myriad) Luciano Resende

Shepherd/Mentor notes:

P. Taylor Goetz (ptgoetz):

The Myriad podling is still ramping up.

--------------------
ODF Toolkit

Java modules that allow programmatic creation, scanning and manipulation of
OpenDocument Format (ISO/IEC 26300 == ODF) documents

Shepherd/Mentor notes:

Justin Mclean (jmclean):

Did not report. Low activity on the mailing list but code still being
worked on, some discussion about graduation but community seems to be
lacking motivation to do so. May need some help.

Chris Mattmann:

* report missing?

--------------------
OpenAz

OpenAz is a project to create tools and libraries to enable the
development of Attribute-based Access Control (ABAC) Systems in a
variety of languages. In general the work is at least consistent with
or actually conforming to the OASIS XACML Standard.

OpenAZ has been incubating since 01-2015

Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:

1. Get ICLA’s from all the committers. So far AT&T and JP Morgan have done,
but Oracle is taking more time.
2. Merging the source code from AT&T, JP Morgan and Oracle and creating
POM’s. AT&T and JP Morgan source code has been merged and POM’s created,
it needs uploading into the Apache repository.
3. Get our first release done.

Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?

None. Just getting started.

How has the community developed since the last report?

First report. Now we have mailing lists and discussions have started on
dev@. Moving all communications onto the new mailing lists.

How has the project developed since the last report?

First report. Will be committing initial codebase by the end of the week
April 10th.

Date of last release:

No releases yet. Still at 0.0.1 in the source.

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?

Still working on getting ICLAs for initial committers. Then we will vote
in new committers from the existing developer community.

Signed-off-by:
[ ](openaz) Paul Fremantle
[X](openaz) Emmanuel Lecharny
[ ](openaz) Colm O Heigeartaigh
[ ](openaz) Hadrian Zbarcea

Shepherd/Mentor notes:

Konstantin Boudnik:
The podling is in the initial stages: nothing to shepherd on just yet.

Marvin Humphrey:
Report was filed late.

Emmanuel Lecharny
Until we get all the iCLAs filed, it will stale. We probably should
urge Oracle fellow to get it done.

--------------------
Parquet

Parquet is a columnar storage format for Hadoop.

Parquet has been incubating since 2014-05-20.

Three most important issues

- 1st releases toward org.apache Parquet 1.6.0 GA
- Expanding the community and adding new committers
- Ensuring timely code reviews by committers, developing reviewers

Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?

- None at this time

Latest Additions:

* PMC addition: None
* Committer addition: Dan Weeks and Alex Levenson (from last report)

Issue backlog status since last report:

* Created: 34
* Resolved: 50

Mailing list activity since last report:

* dev 560 messages: 111 in Jan, 136 in Feb, and 313 in Mar

How has the project developed since the last report?

- Preparing last commits for the first parquet-mr release candidate
- Planned parquet-mr 1.6.0 release schedule
- ASF required changes to parquet-mr are finished
- Released parquet-format 2.3.0, with org.apache packages
- Parquet presentation at Strata 2015 San Jose and the Presto meetup

Date of last release:

- parquet-format 2.3.0 released 19 Feb
- Not yet released: parquet-mr and parquet-cpp

Signed-off-by:

[ ](parquet) Todd Lipcon
[X](parquet) Jake Farrell
[X](parquet) Chris Mattmann
[X](parquet) Roman Shaposhnik
[ ](parquet) Tom White

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Ripple

Ripple is a browser based mobile phone emulator designed to aid in the
development of HTML5 based mobile applications. Ripple is a cross platform
and cross runtime testing/debugging tool. It currently supports such
runtimes as Cordova, WebWorks and the Mobile Web.

Ripple has been incubating since 2012-10-16.

Two most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:

1. Making a new release of Ripple
2. Contributors and community engagement

Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?

Working on making a release for Ripple

How has the community developed since the last report?

Added 3 new committers

- Ilya
- Tim Barham
- Parashuram N

How has the project developed since the last report?

Working on a new release. We started a new vote, but it was reverted due
to issues. A new package has been generated and we are in [DISCUSS] mode

Date of last release:

N/A

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?

March 2015

Signed-off-by:

[ ](ripple) Jukka Zitting
[X](ripple) Christian Grobmeier
[ ](ripple) Andrew Savory

Shepherd/Mentor notes:

Christian Grobmeier:

The project faces more activity recently.

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SINGA

SINGA is a distributed platform for deep learning that is easy to use,
exetendible and scalable.

SINGA has been incubating since 2015-03-17.

Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:

1. Grow the community of developers and users.
2. Finish moving the project to Apache infrastructure.
3. Add examples, documents, tests and benchmarks for the first release.

Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?

N/A.

The project Incubation Status file is NOT yet up to date

The current project URL is: www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~dbsystem/singa

What has been done since the last report?

N/A. This is the first report.

Other project activities:

1. The Github repository now has 12 forks as developers are contributing
features and doing testing.
2. SINGA is being used for several scientific papers being under
submission.

What are the plans and expectations for the next period?

1. Finish moving the project to the Apache's ecosystem.
2. Focus on the scalability feature, documentation and testing.

Date of last release:

N/A.

Signed-off-by:

[ ](SINGA) Daniel Dai
[ ](SINGA) Alan Gates
[X](SINGA) Ted Dunning
[X](SINGA) Thejas Nair

--------------------
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. Releasing TinkerPop 3.0.0.M8 out under Apache Incubator.
2. Getting more active committers on the project.
3. Growing the homepage and documentation presence.

Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?

None.

How has the community developed since the last report?

We have added Daniel Kuppitz as a Committer. A long time Gremlin designer
and promoter.

How has the project developed since the last report?

We have fully migrated to Apache infrastructure and are very close to our
first Apache release.

Date of last release:

XXXX-XX-XX

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?

2 weeks ago.

Signed-off-by:

[X](tinkerpop) Rich Bowen
[X](tinkerpop) Daniel Gruno
[ ](tinkerpop) Hadrian Zbarcea
[ ](tinkerpop) Matt Franklin
[X](tinkerpop) David Nalley

Shepherd/Mentor notes:

Daniel Gruno:

While I am happy that a new committer has been invited to the group, it
seems that the project is struggling with the how-to of the ASF. We need
to further educate the PPMC on our procedures.

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Usergrid

Usergrid is Backend-as-a-Service (BaaS) composed of an integrated database
(Cassandra), application layer and client tier with SDKs for developers.

Usergrid has been incubating since 2013-10-03.

Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:

1. Continue to grow the Usergrid Incubating Community
2. Clarify the SGA for Apache Usergrid Incubating codebase
3. Drive towards another Usergrid incubating release

Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?

The Usergrid community has been working to clarify the status of the SGA
for the Usergrid codebase. The original SGA listed a GitHub repo that did
not include all of the source code that Apigee intended to grant. We
are preparing a new SGA that will cover all code that is currently part of
the project.

How has the community developed since the last report?

In short, the Usergrid incubating community is healthy with loads of
mailing list and development traffic from a growing community. Usergrid
continues to see new community members making themselves known on the
mailing lists.

How has the project developed since the last report?

Development is very dynamic. The codebase is being actively developed with
correspondence taking place on the Usergrid JIRA instance. The processes
and workflows for development are pretty solid now.

Date of last release:

2015-01-21

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?

John D. Ament (johndament) 05 Jan 2015

Signed-off-by:

[X](usergrid) Dave Johnson
[X](usergrid) Jake Farrell
[X](usergrid) Jim Jagielski
[X](usergrid) John D. Ament
[X](usergrid) Lewis John Mcgibbney
[ ](usergrid) Luciano Resende

--------------------
Wave

A wave is a hosted, live, concurrent data structure for rich communication.
It can be used like email, chat, or a document.

Wave has been incubating since 2010-12-04.

Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:

1. Wave is very close to making its first release. This is the top
priority.
2. The project needs to determine what the next few technical goals are.
3. The project needs to attract more developers and users.

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?

The community has been slow to develop. There are still many people
downloading and using the software, we have seen several bug reports and
questions, but there has not been much contribution by new members.

How has the project developed since the last report?

The code for the release has largely been finalized. We believe that
major legal and technical issues have been overcome. Only a few finals
steps remain. The project believes that we are finally ready to make a
release.

Date of last release:

N/A

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?

July 2014

Shepherd/Mentor notes:

Christian Grobmeier:

The mentors have missed to sign this report last time. For that reason I
am adding it again. Since last month there was some discussion on how to
prevent the project going to the attic.

Upayavira:

We have received a GSoC application, and a committer has accepted the
role of mentor. The task involves simplification of the codebase which
will make it more accessible to others, hopefully facilitating greater
involvement, as it seems the greatest impediment to Wave is the
(over)complexity of its codebase.

Signed-off-by:

[X](wave) Christian Grobmeier
[X](wave) Upayavira

--------------------
Zeppelin

A collaborative data analytics and visualisation 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. Complete PODLINGNAMESEARCH-64.
2. Finish issues migration to ASF JIRA.
3. First Apache release.

Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?

None.

How has the community developed since the last report?

First vote on a new committer happened this month.

At least 2 new contributors actively participating on the mailing
lists\sending patches regular. There is also a fair amount of discussion
@dev on the feature project direction.

How has the project developed since the last report?

SGA was submitted and acknowledged.
Source code have been migrated to ASF infrastructure (with GH mirror).

Work on running interpreters in a separate processes is finished.
Python interpreter was implemented with a pyspark support.
Scatter chart visualisation added.
Support of Spark 1.3.0.
Support of Debian (.deb) package.

Date of last release:

None

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?

2015-03-27 first new commiter\PPMC vote passed.

Signed-off-by:

[X](zeppelin) Konstantin Boudnik
[X](zeppelin) Henry Saputra
[X](zeppelin) Roman Shaposhnik
[X](zeppelin) Ted Dunning
[ ](zeppelin) Hyunsik Choi

-----------------------------------------
Attachment AC: Report from the Apache Isis Project [Dan Haywood]

## Description:
Apache Isis is a framework for rapidly developing domain-driven
applications in Java.

## Activity:

Mailing list activity has been steady, while this quarter we also released
v1.8.0, a major release of approximately 4 months development effort.

Plans for v1.9.0 include tidying up and fully testing the code
contribution from one of our user community [1,2] to update our dependency
on DataNucleus; this will enable us to properly support JDK 1.8 (important
with support for Java 7 about to end).

We have also solicited quotes from the user community and have used
these (with permission) to update the Apache Isis home page [3].

## Issues:

After our last report Bertrand Delacretaz contacted the Isis PMC through
private@i.a.o with two concerns. The first related to the Isis Addons
website: "from your report It sounds like the Isis PMC owns that external
addons website, which we don't think is right." The second related to
our mention some corporate entities for whom some Isis committers are
working: "independence from corporate entities and not paying for
development work are core principles of the ASF".

We replied to Bertrand on the private list to clarify the position.
Without repeating the entire thread here, we committed to:

1) explicitly state that Isis Addons is not directly related to Apache
2) avoid mentioning employers in future reports

Bertrand was happy with these assurances.

I have since gone through the Isis website and ensured that any links to
the Isis Addons website are followed by "(non ASF)", and there are
explicit statements on the site [4]. There are also similar statements on
the Addons site [5].

Accordingly we believe there are no issues requiring board attention at
this time.

## PMC/Committership changes:

- Currently 11 committers and 11 PMC members in the project.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Martin Tzvetanov Grigorov at Tue Dec 16 2014
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Martin Tzvetanov Grigorov at Thu Dec 11 2014

## Releases:

- 1.8.0 was released on Mon Feb 23 2015

## Mailing list activity:

- users@isis.apache.org:
- 121 subscribers (up 8 in the last 3 months):
- 406 emails sent to list (408 in previous quarter)

- dev@isis.apache.org:
- 72 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 1126 emails sent to list (997 in previous quarter)

## JIRA activity:

- 132 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 113 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months

[1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ISIS-789
[2] https://github.com/apache/isis/pull/27
[3] http://isis.apache.org/
[4] http://isis.apache.org/documentation.html#modules
[5] http://www.isisaddons.org/

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Attachment AD: Report from the Apache James Project [Eric Charles]

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Attachment AE: Report from the Apache jclouds Project [Andrew Phillips]

A cloud agnostic library that enables developers to access a variety of
supported cloud providers using one API.

# Project Status

jclouds has carried out one successful release (1.9.0) in the last quarter.

After a quiet period during the 2014 holiday season, development activity has
picked up quite substantially at the beginning of 2015, with both Google and
Microsoft contributing resources to the project.

The latest release is also the first to make use of an almost fully-automated
release process, which will hopefully make it much easier to publish minor
versions on a more regular basis.

# Community

Last committer: 2014-07-30 (Andrea Turli)
Last PMC member: 2014-11-30 (Chris Custine)

# Community Objectives

* Ensure that functionality for the most widely used clouds works and is
up-to-date:
* Remove API and provider cruft (async APIs, stale providers)
* Increase integration test coverage
* Broaden portable abstractions
* Continue to support the ongoing contributions by new committers
* Provide example code demonstrating current best coding and design practices
* Create a more predictable "graduation path" for new contributions

# Releases

* 1.9.0 (2015-03-29)

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Attachment AF: Report from the Apache Jena Project [Andy Seaborne]

## Description:

A framework for developing Semantic Web and Linked Data
applications in Java.

## Activity:

The project has one potential GSoC proposal in progress.

Amongst several major features in the last release, the project added
Jena Elephas (RDF processing support for Hadoop). This has had interest
from users both during development and on release.

## Issues:

There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.

## PMC/Committership changes:

- Currently 12 committers and 10 PMC members in the project.
- Bruno P. Kinoshita was added to the PMC on Wed Mar 25 2015
- Bruno P. Kinoshita was added as a committer on Wed Jan 28 2015

## Releases:

- 2.13.0 was released on Fri Mar 13 2015

## Mailing list activity:

- users@jena.apache.org:
- 570 subscribers (down -9 in the last 3 months):
- 673 emails sent to list (349 in previous quarter)

- dev@jena.apache.org:
- 154 subscribers (down -4 in the last 3 months):
- 1177 emails sent to list (760 in previous quarter)

## JIRA activity:

- 73 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 263 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months

The project engaged in some clearing up recently.
Jena does not usually close this many JIRA per quarter!

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Attachment AG: Report from the Apache JMeter Project [Sebastian Bazley]

## Description:
Pure Java application for load and functional testing

## Activity:

The JMeter website has been refreshed to use a more modern design. This is
sensitive to the screen size, improving the readability on smaller devices
such as tablets and phones.

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.

The JMeter Twitter account has 1725 followers as of 8th April 2015.

## Issues:

There are no issues requiring board attention at this time

## PMC/Committership changes:

- Currently 10 committers and 7 PMC members in the project.
- Felix Schumacher was added to the PMC on Tue Feb 03 2015
- Last committer addition was Mikhail Epikhin at Wed Oct 29 2014

## Releases:

- 2.13 was released on Sat Mar 14 2015

This included a new backend listener which allows live viewing of results.

## Mailing list activity:

- dev@jmeter.apache.org:
- 128 subscribers (up 4 in the last 3 months):
- 335 emails sent to list (371 in previous quarter)

- issues@jmeter.apache.org:
- 38 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 392 emails sent to list (503 in previous quarter)

- user@jmeter.apache.org:
- 789 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months):
- 431 emails sent to list (308 in previous quarter)

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Attachment AH: Report from the Apache JSPWiki Project [Juan Pablo Santos]

## Description:

A feature-rich and extensible WikiWiki engine built around the standard
J2EE components (Java, servlets, JSP).

## Activity:

- Again, slow pace of development, including (but not limited to) some
interesting functionalities committed into trunk:
* Portable builds of JSPWiki.
* Complete rewrite of AJAX functionality.
* JSPWiki configurable via environment variables, which allows easy
dockerization.

- Few questions at user@j.a.o, with their follow-ups, with dev@j.a.o mostly
containing JIRA notifications.

## Issues:

- there are no issues requiring board attention at this time.

## PMC/Committership changes:

- Currently 15 committers and 10 PMC members in the project.
- David Vittor was added to the PMC on Thu Jan 22 2015.
- Last committer addition was David Vittor at Fri Jan 02 2015.
- Glen Mazza resigned from PMC on 31/03/2015, we all thank him for his
service.

## Releases:

- Last release was 2.10.1 on Thu May 29 2014.

## Mailing list activity:

- dev@jspwiki.apache.org:
- 86 subscribers (down -2 in the last 3 months):
- 127 emails sent to list (60 in previous quarter).

- user@jspwiki.apache.org:
- 173 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 29 emails sent to list (14 in previous quarter).

## JIRA activity:

- 5 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months.
- 16 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months.

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Attachment AI: Report from the Apache Lucy Project [Marvin Humphrey]

## Description:

The Apache Lucy search engine library provides full-text search for dynamic
programming languages. It is a "loose" C port of the Apache Lucene search
engine library for Java.

## Activity:

Development activity continues to focus on adding new language bindings, with
Go being the top priority and Python next in line.

A "Virtual MeetUp" via Google Hangouts is scheduled for Tuesday April 7.
It is hard to get Lucy's developers to congregate at an ApacheCon or another
conference; instead, we will attempt to build on our positive experiences
with the virtual Lucy Book Club. Naturally, any discussions will be taken
back to the dev list, just as they would for an in-person MeetUp.

Commit activity for this quarter was below average. The last several releases
were maintenance releases; making a feature release may provide a spark.

## Issues:

There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.

## PMC/Committership changes:

- Currently 14 committers and 13 PMC members in the project.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Tim Wilkens at Thu Oct 02 2014
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Tim Wilkens at Fri Sep 26 2014

## Releases:

- 2014-12-30 Apache Lucy 0.4.2
- 2014-12-30 Apache Clownfish 0.4.2

## Mailing list activity:

- dev@lucy.apache.org:
- 64 subscribers (down -2 in the last 3 months):
- 72 emails sent to list (87 in previous quarter)

- user@lucy.apache.org:
- 91 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 22 emails sent to list (14 in previous quarter)

- issues@lucy.apache.org:
- 22 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 24 emails sent to list (17 in previous quarter)

## JIRA activity:

- 2 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 0 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months

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Attachment AJ: Report from the Apache Mahout Project [Grant Ingersoll]

Apache Mahout has implementations of a wide range of machine learning and
data mining algorithms: clustering, classification, collaborative filtering
and frequent pattern mining.

Project Status
--------------

The project continues to have a large and active user base. The project now has
integrations with Spark and H2O execution engines, this is in addition to the
traditional MapReduce. Integration with Apache Flink is next on the cards with
a possibly dedicated resource available from the Flink community to work with
Mahout.

The new integrations with H2O and Spark engines extend Mahout Machine Learning
to other more popular Big Data platforms.

Community
---------

* We have added 3 new PMC members: Pat Ferrel, Andrew Musselman and
Andrew Palumbo

There is a healthy committer base to the project that are actively working on
the project on a voluntary basis. There is no dedicated full time resource
available for the project yet as most large scale Machine Learning libraries
cannot be built and sustained on voluntary contributions.

Community Objectives
--------------------

The project has an active committer base and there’s a renewed interest in the
project with the new Scala based Engine agnostic distributed linear algebra
library with bindings for Spark, H2O and Flink in the future. The project got a
shot in the arm with backing from Apache BigTop community and we are looking to
keep that momentum going for future releases.

The project is targeting more frequent minor releases and a major release once
every quarter. While the 0.10.0 release is targeted for the week of April 7-11
2015, a subsequent 0.10.1 release is planned in the subsequent releases.

Releases
--------

The team is working towards Mahout 0.10.0 release targeted for the week of April
7-11 in time for ApacheCon North America 2015.

Issues
------
None now.

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Attachment AK: Report from the Apache Maven Project [Hervé Boutemy]

Apache Maven is a widely-used project build tool, targeting mainly Java
development. Apache Maven promotes the use of dependencies via a
standardized coordinate system, binary plugins, and a standard build
lifecycle.

* General Information

* Work on plugin releases to define common 2.2.1 minimum Maven version
and Java 5 requirements is near done: automated report [1] shows 48 plugins
are ready from 49. The plan to start 3.x.x line of plugins with Maven 3 and
Java 6 minimum requirements has been announced [2]: implementation will
start shortly.

* JIRA migration from Codehaus to Apache was done on April 5th: 60 Maven
projects were migrated [3].
The PMC thanks Codehaus for the support during this migration and more
generally for the great service given to us for many years.
The PMC thanks Mark Thomas, volunteer at Infra, for the huge work done on
import.

* There was a major Maven 3.3.1 release with new requirements:
- Support for Win9x has been dropped
-> mvn.bat has been renamed to mvn.cmd, as well as for mvnDebug
- Java *Runtime* Environment 1.7 required
-> Improved toolchains support, so plugins can still use older JDKs
(e.g. maven-compiler-plugin)

* Community

* Currently 54 committers and 27 PMC members in the project.

* No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
* Last PMC addition was Karl Heinz Marbaise on Mon Aug 25 2014

* New Committers

Chris Graham (2015-04-06)

* Mailing List activity

- users@maven.apache.org:
- 1798 subscribers (down -14 in the last 3 months):
- 620 emails sent to list (679 in previous quarter)

- dev@maven.apache.org:
- 653 subscribers (down -3 in the last 3 months):
- 1319 emails sent to list (1525 in previous quarter)

- notifications@maven.apache.org:
- 175 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 946 emails sent to list (1492 in previous quarter)

- announce@maven.apache.org:
- 692 subscribers (up 4 in the last 3 months):
- 30 emails sent to list (27 in previous quarter)

- issues@maven.apache.org:
- 250 subscribers (down -4 in the last 3 months):
- 1886 emails sent to list (4865 in previous quarter)

* JIRA activity

- 277 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 309 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months

* Releases

Core

* Maven 3.3.1 (2015-03-21)

Plugins

* Maven JarSigner Plugin 1.4 (2015-01-24)
* Maven Dependency Plugin 2.10 (2015-01-27)
* Maven PMD Plugin 3.4 (2015-02-03)
* Maven Checkstyle Plugin 2.14 (2015-02-05)
* Maven PDF Plugin 1.3 (2015-02-16)
* Maven Repository Plugin 2.4 (2015-02-22)
* Maven Stage Plugin 1.0 (2015-03-03)
* Maven Patch Plugin 1.2 (2015-03-09)
* Maven Jar Plugin 2.6 (2015-03-09)
* Maven DOAP Plugin 1.2 (2015-03-17)
* Maven JavaDoc Plugin 2.10.2 (2015-03-18)
* Maven Checkstyle Plugin 2.15 (2015-03-20)
* Maven Compiler Plugin 3.3 (2015-03-26)
* Maven Invoker Plugin 1.10 (2015-04-03)
* Maven JavaDoc Plugin 2.10.3 (2015-04-14)
* Maven Verifier Plugin 1.1 (2015-04-14)

Other

* Maven JarSigner 1.4 (2015-01-21)
* Maven Dependency Analyzer 1.6 (2015-01-21)
* Maven Enforcer 1.4 (2015-01-29)
* Maven Shared Resources 2 (2015-02-05)
* Apache Resource Bundles 5 (2015-02-24)
* Apache Source Release Assembly Descriptor 1.0.5 (2015-02-24)
* Maven Archetype 2.3 (2015-03-13)
* Maven Invoker 2.2 (2015-03-24)
* Maven SCM 1.9.4 (2015-04-01)

[1] https://builds.apache.org/job/dist-tool-plugin/site/dist-tool-prerequisites.html

[2] http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/maven-announce/201503.mbox/%3C20150320213920.6AE4B17423%40minotaur.apache.org%3E

[3] https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/BrowseProjects.jspa#10510

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Attachment AL: Report from the Apache Mesos Project [Benjamin Hindman]

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Attachment AM: Report from the Apache MINA Project [Jean-François Maury]

Apache MINA is a network application framework which helps users
develop high performance and high scalability network applications
easily.

-- Community --
* No new committers (Last addition, october 2013)
* No new PMC member (Last addition october 2014)

Users mailing list :
Feb 2015 : 486 subscribers (64 emails)
April 2015: 489 subscribers (84 emails)

Dev mailing list :
Feb 2015 : 383 subscribers (326 emails)
April 2015: 374 subscribers (395 emails)

ftpserver-users mailing list:
Feb 2015: 139 subscribers (6 emails)
April 2015: 140 subscribers (8 emails)

Jean-François Maury has been approved by the board as the new MINA Chairman.

-- Current activity --

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 SSHd 0.14.0 has been released.

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 2014

* Apache SSHd:
* SSHD 0.14.0 has been released in march 2015

* Apache FtpServer:
* No activity if the past 3 months

* Apache Vysper :
* Nothing done

* Apache AsyncWeb:
* No activity.

-- Releases --
* SSHD 0.14.0 has been released.

-- JIRA activity --
63 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
59 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months

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Attachment AN: Report from the Apache MRUnit Project [Brock Noland]

## Description:
Apache MRUnit is a Java library that helps developers unit test Apache
Hadoop map reduce jobs.

## Activity:
- The project is quite stable and the API which the project is built
for is is not changing. As such activity other than downloads has came
to a crawl.
- The community needs to have a discussion about the direction of the project.

## Issues:
- The current Chair (the author of this report) has been MIA. We'll
discuss internally if someone else would like to take up the role.

## PMC/Committership changes:

- Currently 15 committers and 12 PMC members in the project.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- New commmitters:
- Mac Noland was added as a committer on Tue Feb 10 2015
- Jason E Tedor was added as a committer on Tue Jan 27 2015

## Releases:

- Last release was 0.9.0 on Tue May 01 2012
- As mentioned above, the API this is built for has become quite stable.

## Mailing list activity:

- dev@mrunit.apache.org:
- 39 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 10 emails sent to list (41 in previous quarter)

- user@mrunit.apache.org:
- 79 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months):
- 2 emails sent to list (8 in previous quarter)

## JIRA activity:

- 1 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 0 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months

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Attachment AO: Report from the Apache MyFaces Project [Gerhard Petracek]

The Apache MyFaces project is an umbrella project of the
Apache Software Foundation for projects relating to the
JavaServer Faces (JSF) technology.

Community
---------
* No new Committers (since November 2013)
* No new PMC Members (since July 2011)
* No new Contributors

The MyFaces community is stable. Besides working on new releases,
we discuss upcoming topics.

-> Community business as usual (nothing special to report).

Releases
--------
* MyFaces (sub) projects with new releases since the last report:
* MyFaces Core 2.0.23 (12/January/15)
* MyFaces Core 2.1.17 (12/January/15)
* MyFaces Core 2.2.7 (12/January/15)
* MyFaces Tobago 2.0.6 (24/February/15)
* MyFaces Tobago 2.0.7 (22/March/15)

Issues
------
The TCK issue mentioned in our January report for 2014 still exists.
Werner Punz [1] and Leonardo Uribe [2] discussed the impacts of this issue and
the impacts are summarized as follows:
* It reduces our marketability, since consumers are more likely to pick
an open-source JSF implementation certified as
"TCK-compliant" over a non-certified one.
* It reduces our ability to be distributed as part of a Java EE stack,
such as Apache TomEE and Apache Geronimo,
since their TCK certification depends upon our TCK certification.

[1] http://s.apache.org/OdR
[2] http://s.apache.org/RuK

There are no new issues that require the board's attention at this time.

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Attachment AP: 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

There have been no releases since the last board report:
- Nutch 2.3 was released on January 24, 2015,
- Nutch 1.9 in August 2014

The release of Nutch 1.10 is planned to be soon after release
of Tika 1.8 which will fix a licensing issue of a library
dependency (TIKA-1581).

CURRENT ACTIVITY

We hope to participate in Google Summer of Code 2015
and have 3 mentors and 6 students registered.

Nutch is used to prepare datasets for the TREC Dynamic
Domain Track (http://trec-dd.org/) as part of Memex and
NSF Polar projects.

COMMUNITY

Jorge Luis Betancourt Gonzalez has joined the PMC and become
a committer on February 18, 2015. Mo Omer followed on March 21.

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Attachment AQ: 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 and
improved our Jenkins CI builds. We also got three GSoC applications and will
enter the ranking phase soonish.

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 console code is now in a separate git
project so that we can enter an independent release cycle. There are still
some minor issues to fix before we can make the first release. We have also
improved our Docker-based CI builds to that we can now reliably build our
branches again. We basically use Docker to avoid installing build dependencies
on Jenkins. Instead, we mount the working copy into the docker container and
run the build process within this container. This also ensures that the
environment is always under our control.

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 AR: Report from the Apache Onami Project [Nino Martinez Wael]

DESCRIPTION

Apache Onami is a project focused on the development and maintenance of a set
of Google Guice extensions not provided out of the box by the library itself
nor the Google developers team, such as integration with 3rd part frameworks
or extra functionalities.

MILESTONES

Onami-Persist 1.0.1 has been released

CURRENT ACTIVITY

PMC are discussing how to manage releases using GIT. And has now setup a trial
GIT repo on github (just to experiment with for the release process).

COMMUNITY

Currently the project are migrating from SVN to GIT.

Users community is quiet silent.

ISSUES

There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.

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Attachment AS: Report from the Apache OpenJPA Project [Pinaki Poddar]

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Attachment AT: Report from the Apache OpenMeetings Project [Sebastian Wagner]

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Attachment AU: Report from the Apache OpenOffice Project [Jan Iversen]

## Description:
Apache OpenOffice is an open-source, office-document productivity
suite providing six productivity applications based around the
OpenDocument Format (ODF). OpenOffice is released on multiple
platforms and in dozens of languages.

## Activity:
Andrea Pescetti resigned as Chair after 2 years in order to enable
a "rotating" Chair role (i.e., a change every 1-2 years). Andrea
remains an active PMC member. Jan Iversen was elected as new Chair
and the transition was smooth.

The mailing lists for users and the development list are fairly
active, while specialized lists see a lower, but steady, activity
(which is natural considering their specialized nature).

The support channels (users mailing list and official forums) are
very active as usual, thanks to the work of many of volunteers.

New volunteers for development show up regularly, but our lack of
mentors have made it very difficult to keep them active. The level
of commits on trunk remain low, only a few simple fixes have been
committed.

The challenging position as release manager remains open since
Jürgen Schmidt announced he wanted to resign as release manager.
Jürgen is still an active PMC member.

The 2 Mac (buildbot) delivered Q3 2014 from Infra are not
operational, but a little group of volunteers work on installing
the AOO development platform.

Proof of concept for Digital Signing was made mid. 2014, no further
work have been done. Once version 4.1.2 is ready for internal
testing, work will continue.

OpenOffice was present at FOSDEM (January 2015 in Brussels,Belgium),
with talks and had a table that was well visited. We look forward to
the idea of having an Apache Stand in 2016, where AOO want to be an
integrated part.

A BoF was held in CSDN OSTC (March 2015, China).

2 Volunteers worked on preparing a AOO track for Austin, in the end
it was decided not to make a track. Traditionally Europe is stronger
for AOO so we look forward to Budapest.

A major issue for AOO is the current activity level (practically no
development). The community only has a few active developers, which
makes a bootstrapping a challenge.

As always AOO wants to cooperate with derived project, and believe
derived projects benefit from a AOO with a high development level.
Talks are (as usual) ongoing and are currently focused on how
development in derived projects can be integrated in AOO and thereby
help the whole eco-system. Talks in particular with one project, has
been more intensive, but has currently not lead to any agreements,
except it is clear that a cooperation must be a win-win situation,
where AOO make changes adapting to the needs to the derived project.

## Issues:
The current CMS discussion based on a proposal to decommission the
tool and ask projects to find other solutions would cause a
significant problem for AOO. The AOO Web pages depend on the
features of CMS that cannot be easily ported to other tools. If
Infra is to stop the service, AOO will need to either only maintain
only a few pages or run CMS on a project VM. The Board should
remember to look at the total cost of this change, not only the
Infra costs.

## PMC/Committership changes:
- Currently 140 committers and 29 PMC members in the project.
- New PMC members:
- Jan Iversen was added to the PMC on Wed Feb 11 2015
- Mechtilde Stehmann was added to the PMC on Sat Jan 03 2015
- Dr. Michael Stehmann was added to the PMC on Sat Jan 03 2015
- Dennis E. Hamilton was added to the PMC on Fri Feb 13 2015
- Last committer addition was Tal Daniel at Tue Apr 29 2014

## Releases:
- Last release was 4.1.1 on Thu Aug 21 2014

Even though AOO remains committed to bring out version 4.1.2, it is
only progressing slowly. It is decided this will be the first
digitally signed release. The slowness is due to focus on other
challenges (like electing a new chair) and to lack of developers /
release manager.

## Mailing list activity:
- users@openoffice.apache.org:
- 569 subscribers (down -16 in the last 3 months):
- 917 emails sent to list (866 in previous quarter)
- dev@openoffice.apache.org:
- 500 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 1377 emails sent to list (1195 in previous quarter)
- private@openoffice.apache.org:
- 507 emails sent to list (624 in previous quarter)
We are working on reducing the amount of unnecessary mails as
it is too high for the private mailing list.

- progetto-it@openoffice.apache.org:
- 203 subscribers (up 4 in the last 3 months):
- 6 emails sent to list (27 in previous quarter)
- marketing@openoffice.apache.org:
- 171 subscribers (down -3 in the last 3 months):
- 22 emails sent to list (25 in previous quarter)
- geral-ptbr@openoffice.apache.org:
- 18 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 0 emails sent to list (4 in previous quarter)
- doc@openoffice.apache.org:
- 149 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months):
- 20 emails sent to list (36 in previous quarter)
- forum-admin@openoffice.apache.org:
- 3 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months)
- utenti-it@openoffice.apache.org:
- 356 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 109 emails sent to list (51 in previous quarter)
- announce@openoffice.apache.org:
- 11334 subscribers (down -37 in the last 3 months):
- 1 emails sent to list (0 in previous quarter)
- general-ja@openoffice.apache.org:
- 24 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 1 emails sent to list (0 in previous quarter)
- issues@openoffice.apache.org:
- 97 subscribers (up 9 in the last 3 months):
- 1698 emails sent to list (1919 in previous quarter)
- general-es@openoffice.apache.org:
- 87 subscribers (up 4 in the last 3 months):
- 4 emails sent to list (21 in previous quarter)
- l10n@openoffice.apache.org:
- 251 subscribers (up 5 in the last 3 months):
- 257 emails sent to list (118 in previous quarter)
- qa@openoffice.apache.org:
- 280 subscribers (down -5 in the last 3 months):
- 57 emails sent to list (57 in previous quarter)
- api@openoffice.apache.org:
- 155 subscribers (up 10 in the last 3 months):
- 65 emails sent to list (38 in previous quarter)

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Attachment AV: Report from the Apache PDFBox Project [Andreas Lehmkühler]

## Description:
The Apache PDFBox library is an open source Java tool for working with
PDF documents.

## Activity:

- Apache™ PDFBox™ named an Open Source Partner Organization of the PDF
Association, see http://s.apache.org/Wsf for further details
- there is a steady stream of contributions and bug reports from the
community
- we've just released another bugfix release 1.8.9
- the work on our next major release 2.0 is an ongoing effort
- we are planning to cut a first release candidate in April

## GSoC:
- PDFBox participates in GSoC2015 with issue PDFBOX-2530
- Tilman Hausherr is the registered mentor
- there have been two applications

## Issues:

- there are no issues requiring board attention at this time

## PMC/Committership changes:

- Currently 16 committers and 16 PMC members in the project.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was John Hewson at Tue Feb 11 2014
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was John Hewson at Fri Feb 07 2014

## Releases:

- 1.8.9 was released on Sat Mar 28 2015

## Mailing list activity:

- users@pdfbox.apache.org:
- 480 subscribers (down -9 in the last 3 months):
- 589 emails sent to list (344 in previous quarter)

- dev@pdfbox.apache.org:
- 151 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months):
- 3710 emails sent to list (4297 in previous quarter)

## JIRA activity:

- 153 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 196 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months

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Attachment AW: Report from the Apache POI Project [Yegor Kozlov]

Apache POI is a Java library for reading and writing Microsoft Office file
formats.

Releases
--------
There were two releases in the last quarter:
POI 3.12-beta1 on 28 February 2015
POI 3.11-FINAL on 21 November 2014

Community
---------

No new committers/PMC members added in the last quarter.

Project Status
---------

Apache POI continues to be an active project, both in terms of
community and development. Traffic on the mailing lists has been
steady in the last 3 months.

Most patches are applied without much delay.

General Comments
----------------
There are no issues that require Board attention.

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Attachment AX: Report from the Apache Rave Project [Matt Franklin]

Apache Rave is a widgets-based, web-and-social mashup platform.

ISSUES
Low community activity.

COMMUNITY
The community activity has continued to wane. New contributors to the
list are being encouraged to contribute more. The existing community
needs to expand efforts to engage new individuals.

COMMITTER/PMC CHANGES
02/17/15 - Stanton Sievers was added as a new committer & PMC member.

RELEASES
01/07/14 - 0.23 released.

ACTIVITY
The list activity saw an increase in traffic and the community has laid
out a path forward. Little progress has been made against it, but at
this point, it would be prudent to see the year through and if there is
no significant traction, re-evaluate the project's status.

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Attachment AY: 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.
* Release was 0.9.0, published Apr-03-2014.
* Mailing list activity is a healthy mix of committers and users.

Releases:

* Last Release was 0.9.0, published Apr-03-2014.

Community:

* The last Samza PMC addition: Aug-13-2014
* The last Samza committer addition: Aug-13-2014
* Vote finished Apr-06-2014 to add a new committer.

Mailing lists:

* 209 subscribers (up 39 in the last 3 months) (912 emails sent in the past 3
months, 505 in the previous cycle)

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Attachment AZ: Report from the Apache Shindig Project [Ryan Baxter]

DESCRIPTION

Apache Shindig is an Opensocial Reference implementation in wide use by
both social networks and enterprise software. Shindig graduated from the
Incubator in January 2010.

ISSUES

The Shindig PMC has no issues that require board attention.

COMMUNITY

The Shindig community has seen a noticeable decline in mailing list activity as
well as contributions to the code base over the past few months. Some of this
might have to do with the OpenSocial Foundation being dissolved and portions of
the OpenSocial specification being taken over by the W3C
(http://www.w3.org/2014/12/opensocial.html.en). The Shindig community has not
seen any contributions due to specification changes coming from the W3C since
the move has taken place.

COMMITTER/PMC CHANGES

No PMC member changes.

RELEASES

Apache Shindig 2.5.2 was released the 2014-10-26. The community
is currently working towards a 2.5.3 release.

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Attachment BA: Report from the Apache SpamAssassin Project [Kevin A. McGrail]

## Description:
SpamAssassin is a mail filter to identify spam. It is an intelligent
email filter which uses a diverse range of tests to identify unsolicited
bulk email, more commonly known as Spam. These tests are applied to
email headers and content to classify email using advanced statistical
methods. In addition, SpamAssassin has a modular architecture that
allows other technologies to be quickly wielded against spam and is
designed for easy integration into virtually any email system.

## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.

## PMC/Committership changes:

- Currently 26 committers and 7 PMC members in the project.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Joe Quinn at Sun Mar 02 2014

- We do not have any new people moving moving towards committer
but do have commits and rules being discussed and passed through to
current committers to vet and apply showing good community development
health. We are trying to encourage this more.

- We have one mentor for GSoC, Kevin A. McGrail and one project
we are excited if it is chosen from Sarang Shrivastava:

https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/org/google/gsoc2015/xlr_24/5629499534213120

He is an open source enthusiast from Motilal Nehru National Institute of
Technology, Allahabad, India.

## Project Branding Requirements

- IN PROCESS - Logos and Graphics : include TM, use consistent
product logo on your site. The artist has finished adding the TM
mark to all our logos ready for publishing.

NOTE: Will announce the new logo along with the powered by logo with
the 3.4.1 release.

- We have created the new Powered By logo for the press kit last week.

- No decision has been made to register the trademark of the project.

## Activity

- Releases:

- 3.4.0 was released on 2014-02-11.

- 3.4.1-rc2 was release on 2015-04-16. All blockers for this release are
closed and we are hopeful to announce a release in the next few days.
Thanks to Sally and her work for the press release about the upcoming
release.

- Our rules releases have continued and with 81 rule sets published since
the last quarterly report.

- We have some exciting ideas for what will likely be Apache SpamAssassin 4.0

## Mailing list activity:

- users@spamassassin.apache.org:
- 1685 subscribers (down -20 in the last 3 months):
- 1216 emails sent to list (1419 in previous quarter)

- dev@spamassassin.apache.org:
- 269 subscribers (down -7 in the last 3 months):
- 672 emails sent to list (289 in previous quarter)

- announce@spamassassin.apache.org:
- 2392 subscribers (up 11 in the last 3 months):
- 0 emails sent to list (0 in previous quarter)

- friends@spamassassin.apache.org:
- 15 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months)

- blogspam@spamassassin.apache.org:
- 25 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 0 emails sent to list (0 in previous quarter)

- ruleqa@spamassassin.apache.org:
- 36 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
- 53 emails sent to list (70 in previous quarter)

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Attachment BB: Report from the Apache Sqoop Project [Arvind Prabhakar]

DESCRIPTION

Apache Sqoop is a tool designed for efficiently transferring bulk data
between Apache Hadoop and structured datastores such as relational
databases. It can be used to import data from external structured
datastores into Hadoop Distributed File System or related systems like
Hive and HBase. Conversely, Sqoop can be used to extract data from
Hadoop and export it to external structured datastores such as relational
databases and enterprise data warehouses.

RELEASES

* The last release of Apache Sqoop was version 1.99.5, released on
February 24, 2015 from the sqoop2 branch.
* Work has started on the next release from main branch for Sqoop
version 1.4.6, and on the next release from sqoop2 branch for
Sqoop version 1.99.6.

CURRENT ACTIVITY

* Development activity continues on both trunk as well as sqoop2
branches.
* A total of 223 issues have been resolved between the period starting
from January 1, 2015 to April 1, 2015.
* In the past three months, a total of 185 messages were exchanged on the
user list and a total of 4285 messages were exchanged on the dev list.

COMMUNITY

* The last addition of a new committer was done in January 2015.
* The last appointment to the PMC was done in March 2015.
* Currently there are:
- Total of 429 subscribers to the user list
- Total of 149 subscribers to the dev list
- Total of 22 committers
- Total of 15 PMC members
* The current PMC affiliations are: Apple (2), Cloudera (5), Dell Software
(2), Etcetera (1), Hortonworks (1), JPL (1), Pivotal (1), StreamSets (1),
Zymergen (1)
* A proposal was accepted by Sqoop community to conduct regular contributor
meetings. The details of the proposal are available at [1]. The first
contributors meeting is currently being planned for late April. The Sqoop
PMC will oversee the execution of these meetings to ensure that:
- all decisions are made on the dev list
- the meetings are open to all current and future contributors
- sufficient notice is given before every meeting with published agenda
- all meeting minutes are captured promptly and shared on the dev list

ISSUES

* There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.

REFERENCES

[1] http://s.apache.org/sqoop-contrib-meetings

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Attachment BC: Report from the Apache Steve Project [Jim Jagielski]

Apache Steve is a collection of tools and programs used by the
ASF to implement the STV voting system and tallying of results.

RELEASES

* No releases yet.

CURRENT ACTIVITY

* As expected, the annual ASF Members Meeting and elections have resulted
in a *huge* flurry of activity, especially from one of our new PMC
members: Daniel Gruno. Work on a Python version of STeVe, codenamed
pysteve, is ongoing, with some detailed implementation designs being
discussed.

COMMUNITY

* The previous 2 new committers were added in July 2013; since then we
have 4 new committers and PMC members:

o Alan Cabrera (03/2015)
o Sean Kelly (03/2015)
o Daniel Gruno (03/2015)
o Rich Bowen (04/2015)

ISSUES

* There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.

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Attachment BD: Report from the Apache Struts Project [Rene Gielen]

The Apache Struts MVC framework is a solution stack for creating elegant
and modern action-based Java web applications. It favors convention over
configuration, is extensible using a plugin architecture, and ships with
plugins to support technologies such as REST, AJAX and JSON.

The Struts team made no releases in the last quarter. A release vote for
Struts 2.3.22 test build was canceled, a vote for a Struts 2.3.23
release is currently underway.
The last GA release was Struts 2.3.20 (2014-12-07)

Within the last quarter we saw reasonable development and community
activity. Since moving to git based SCM along with our git mirror being
available at GitHub, we see an increase in pull requests issued by
community members contributing valuable patches to the project. In
combination with requiring JIRA tickets for pull request to be accepted
as contributions, we seem to a have a lightweight yet solid process in
place, enabling both for easy accessible contributions as well as
meaningful and documented code reviews and a well guarded patch
acceptance workflow.

No new committers or PMC members have been added in the last quarter.
The PMC voted to invite Christoph Nenning (cnenning) to join the PMC, we
are currently awaiting his response.
Last PMC member addition was on 2013-05-11, last committer addition on
2014-01-06.

We have no issues that require board assistance at this time.

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Attachment BE: Report from the Apache Tapestry Project [Howard M. Lewis Ship]

Apache Tapestry is a Java component-based web framework that features high
productivity, great code reuse, robust deployment, and terrific performance.

Any issues for the Board?

There are no Board-level issues at this time.

When did the project last make any releases?

The latest stable version of Tapestry (5.3.7) has been released 2013-04-29.
We have made available the a series of beta builds of the upcoming 5.4
release, (most recently, 5.4-beta-26, on 19 Jan 2015), following successful
votes. A release candidate is expected in the coming quarter.

Describe the overall activity in the project over the past quarter.

Activity on the user mailing list is fair. Questions are answered with
participation of not only the core contributors but also by the community
at large. Discussion focuses especially around new features of the upcoming
5.4 release. There are also frequent announcements concerning third-party
libraries developed entirely outside the Tapestry team.

Activity on the dev mailing list is medium.

The focus of development currently lies on the upcoming Tapestry 5.4 which
will bring major improvements in JavaScript support and other new features.
At this point we are primarily looking at fixing bugs (from our large backlog)
and documenting the significant new features.

When were the last committers or PMC members elected?

Jochen Kenmade has been voted in as a committer on 25 Apr 2014, and
subsequently been voted into the PMC (2 Mar 2015).

PMC and committer diversity

PMC and committer diversity is good. To our knowledge no two committers share
the same employer. Levels of contribution vary over time.

Project branding or naming issues, either in the project or externally.

No known issues.

Branding requirements progress:

* "Project Website Basics: homepage is project.apache.org" - completed
* "Project Naming And Descriptions: use proper Apache forms, describe
product, etc." - completed
* "Website Navigation Links: navbar links included, link to www.apache.org
included" - License and Security links are missing
* "Trademark Attributions: attribution for all ASF marks included in footers,
etc." - completed
* "Logos and Graphics: include TM, use consistent product logo on your site"
- TM missing from logo
* "Project Metadata: DOAP file checked in and up to date" - completed

Legal issues or questions:

None.

Infrastructure issues or strategic needs:

None.

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Attachment BF: Report from the Apache Tcl Project [Massimo Manghi]

Apache Tcl is an umbrella for Tcl-Apache integration efforts. Current
projects are

* Rivet
* Websh

Board issues:

No issues relevant to the board

Community:

The last committer and PMC member joined the project in
November 2014.

We tried to privately contact 3 PMC members who have been
totally inactive for very long time.
I asked them if they still had interest in
Apache Tcl or if they could see ahead any chance to
be actively involved.

I will make one more attempt to have a formal resignation
statement to ease the procedures, but in case I won't have
it we will ask the board to have them removed from the PMC.
I want to stress that this is not meant to be an exclusion,
we would be happy to have them back on Apache Tcl if they
will find a renewed interest in Apache Tcl.

There is a similar issue with some committers. I will tackle
it soon.

Current number of subscribers to our public mailing lists are

rivet-dev@: 46 subscribers
websh-dev@: 15 subscribers

+ 2 bug reports were filed for rivet. Fixes for these bugs
are making urgent a rivet 2.2.2 bugfix release which is due
this month

Releases:

+ Rivet released version 2.2.1 on Jan 20 2015. A rivet
2.2.2 RC is under evaluation

+ Websh is maintained but no new artifacts were released after
3.6.0b5 (2009-09-24)

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Attachment BG: Report from the Apache Tez Project [Hitesh Shah]

## Description:
Apache Tez is an effort to develop a generic application
framework which can be used to process arbitrarily complex
directed-acyclic graphs (DAGs) of data-processing tasks and
also a re-usable set of data-processing primitives which can
be used by other projects.

## Activity:

There has been decent activity over the past few months. The
maintenance lines for 0.5 and 0.6 are going strong with
various fixes. Users are looking forward to a new release of
0.6.1 which hopefully should happen in the next few weeks.
New enhancements such as making the more performant
PipelinedSorter the default sort implementation as well
as initial work on a PipelinedShuffle have gone into the
master branch. Branch TEZ-2003 created for work related
to allowing Tez to co-ordinate execution with external
services ( initial focus to work with Hive’s LLAP engine)
The release for 0.6.0 ( with the emphasis on the Tez UI )
went out in January. On a different note, although the PMC
has been following the same implicit policies that had been
applied whilst incubating, we are now finally getting
around to formalizing them into the project by-laws
(jira TEZ-2231).

## Issues:

There are no major issues at this time that require the
Board’s attention.

## PMC/Committership changes:

- Currently 33 committers and 31 PMC members in the project.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Jonathan Turner Eagles at Mon Oct 20 2014
- Prakash Ramachandran was added as a committer on Thu Jan 08 2015
- Alan Gates resigned from the PMC in February, 2015, citing his lack
of activity on the project and the presence of enough other
experienced Apache people on the project.

## Releases:

- 0.6.0 was released on Fri Jan 23 2015

## Mailing list activity:

- dev@tez.apache.org:
- 152 subscribers (up 7 in the last 3 months):
- 247 emails sent to list (202 in previous quarter)

- issues@tez.apache.org:
- 55 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
- 3701 emails sent to list (2874 in previous quarter)

- user@tez.apache.org:
- 157 subscribers (up 11 in the last 3 months):
- 107 emails sent to list (157 in previous quarter)

## JIRA activity:

- 359 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 227 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months

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Attachment BH: Report from the Apache Thrift Project [Jake Farrell]

Thrift is a framework for providing cross-platform RPC and serialization.

Project Status
---------
Since our last 0.9.2 release Apache Thrift has seen an increase in user
list traffic as well as activity from pull requests coming in from Github. We
have been working towards our next release, 0.9.3, which will contain developer
velocity improvements such as docker build environments, improved test
coverage, py3 support and initial cmake support. We anticipate having a release
candidate available soon

Community
---
Latest Additions:

* PMC addition: Ben Craig, 3.20.2014
Henrique Mendonca, 3.20.2014
* Contributor addition: Konrad Grochowski, 9.22.2014

Issue backlog status since last report:

* Created: 154
* Resolved: 105

Mailing list activity since last report:

* @dev 1693 messages
* @user 116 messages

Releases
---
Last release: 0.9.2, Release Date: Nov 7, 2014

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Attachment BI: Report from the Apache Tika Project [Dave Meikle]

What is Tika?
=========================
Apache Tika is a dynamic toolkit for content detection, analysis, and
extraction. It allows a user to understand, and leverage information from, a
growing a list over 1200 different file types including most of the major
types in existence (MS Office, Adobe, Text, Images, Video, Code, and science
data) as recognised by IANA and other standards bodies.

Issues
=========================
There are no issues that need the boards attention.

Releases
=========================
The last release (1.7) was made in January 2015. There has been much progress
since then with a release candidate for 1.8 currently being voted on.

Community
=========================
The Tika PMC added Luis Filipe Nassif in March 2015 and Giuseppe Totaro in
April 2015 as committers and PMC Members.

There are six talks related to Tika scheduled to take place at ApacheCon NA
2015.

Chris Mattman has registered to be a mentor for Google Summer of Code 2015
with some Tika issues marked as potential projects.

Mailing list activity on dev@ was at 445, 891 and 107 messages in February,
March and April 2014, respectively. user@ was at 15, 15 and 1 messages,
during the same timeframe.

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Attachment BJ: 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 remains slow as noted in the February report. Work towards
Java EE 7 compliance is understandably difficult and the community is running
out of threads to pull on Java EE 7 without a TCK. The TomEE 1.7.x branch
remains the center of the day-to-day. Some fixes and minor enhancements are
in progress for a future 1.7.2 release likely to come out in this quarter.
The stability and gradual movement of the 1.7.x branch seems to be carrying
the project forward.

Particular new developments in the 1.7.x branch involve the addition of a
enhanced command-line library for managing TomEE. It was added externally by
some non-committers in a Github project, however discussion has moved to the
Apache lists and we'll see if we can get the ideas added and potentially some
good new committers as well.

There has been some discussion in the community around Apache rules for
including snapshot downloads links in the website. There is a page[1] that
includes them and features a red disclaimer. Links to this page were recently
removed by request. Looking at the Google Analytics project for the last 12
months, exactly 0.09% of the website traffic ever saw the snapshot page. This
would seem to me be in an acceptable range. With my VP hat on -- and barring
board disapproval -- I'm inclined to rule it responsible use and allow links
to be restored as it does appear to enable the right people yet still
discourage the general public.

Last release was 1.7.1 on 2014-09-15. Last committer was added November 2013.
Last PMC addition was 2010-08-26.

[1] http://tomee.apache.org/download/tomee-2.0.0-snapshot.html

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Attachment BK: Report from the Apache Traffic Server Project [Leif Hedstrom]

Apache Traffic Server is an HTTP proxy server and cache, similar to Squid
and Varnish in functionality and features.

Issues
======

There are no issues that needs the board's attention.

Community
=========

One new committer was added since last report, leaving us with a total of 41
committers and 40 PMC members. Our last committer and PMC member was added on
2/13/2015. Activity on mailing list is normal, growth in subscriber list is
less than previous reports:

users@ - 461 subscribers (up 1% since last report)
dev@ - 298 subscribers (identical to last report)

In Jira, 216 new tickets were opened and 167 were resolved or closed since
the last board report, which had 178 and 258 respectively. 459 changes were
committed to our git repository from 36 contributors. Last report had 786
commits from 31 contributors.

Events
======

In addition to several presentations being given at ApacheCon in Austin, we're
also holding our Spring Summit Thu-Fri the same week. More details at

https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/TS/Spring+2015+Summit

Releases
========

Three new releases were made since last report:

- v5.2.1 was released on Mon Mar 30 2015 (latest release)
- v4.2.3 was released on Tue Feb 03 2015

The v4.2.x versions will be supported until Q3 2015, this is extended by an
additional 6 month from the initial plan. Future adjustments to the release
schedules are planned after the v6.0.0 release.

Planned releases include:

- v5.3.0: April 2015 (currently in -RC1)
- v6.0.0: July 2015

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Attachment BL: Report from the Apache Tuscany Project [Jean-Sebastien Delfino]

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Attachment BM: Report from the Apache VXQuery Project [Till Westmann]

Apache VXQuery implements a parallel XML Query processor.

ISSUES

There are no issues that require the board's attention at this time.

STATUS

Apache VXQuery graduated from the incubator in July 2014. The paper that we
reported on was finished but has not been published yet. Apache VXQuery 0.5
was released incorporating the changes that were required for the paper.
Mailing list activity has picked up, mostly due to the release and interest
in Google Summer of Code.

COMMUNITY

All PMC members came in through graduation, all committers are PMC members.
The community is still small. Last committer (Steven Jacobs) was added in
September 2013.

COMMUNITY OBJECTIVES

Continued focus on completing the engine and on growing the community. In the
past Google Summer of Code has helped the project to grow, hopefully this year
will be similar.

RELEASES

Apache VXQuery 0.5 was released on Mar 5, 2015

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Attachment BN: Report from the Apache Web Services Project [Sagara Gunathunga]

No releases within this quarter.

Last releases for other subprojects:

* Xmlschema 2.2.1 : Feb 2015
* WSS4J 2.0.3/1.6.18 : Feb 2015
* Neethi 3.0.3 : 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 - 82 commits by 2 committers.
* Axiom - 1 commits by 1 committer.
* Xmlschema - 0 commits .
* 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
-----------

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 BO: Report from the Apache Wookie Project [Scott Wilson]

Apache Wookie develops software related to implementation of the W3C
Widgets family of specifications.

ISSUES
As mentioned in previous reports, activity in the project has declined and is
now at a minimum with some questions from users and implementers but little on
the development side and also the community has not grown since 2013. The
reasons for this remain the same, in particular the lack of non-proprietary
adoption of the W3C widget specification.

FUTURE
Having said that, there have been some new use cases suggested in the
community which have lead to development discussions on the part of the
primary team. One use case suggestion has been to develop a github link
allowing widgets to be directly imported from github thus facilitating an easy
mechanism to develop and deploy widgets outside of the wookie tree.

RELEASES
Wookie 1.0 was released on 24th February 2014.

ACTIVITY
Work is still being undertaken on Wookie 2.0.

COMMUNITY
Our last committer added was Steve Lee on 21st February 2013.

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Attachment BP: Report from the Apache Zest Project [Niclas Hedhman]

Inception: 18 March 2015
Last PMC addition: 18 March 2015
Last Committer additions: n/a (In progress)

Description
Apache Zest contains platforms and tools to explore the Composite Oriented
Programming paradigm.

Activity
3 weeks has passed since the inception of the project and being one of
very few TLPs not coming from the Incubator, some smaller stumbling blocks
were encountered by infra. But infra has been great, and we have gotten;
- Mailing lists dev, users, private and commits has been created
- Subversion repository for static HTML website has been created
- Git repositories has been created.
- Requests for Software Grants from all previous contributors have been
sent
- Jira is set up.

Community
The PMC had no objections to invite the previous contributors, and
invitations has been sent out, including requesting ICLAs (standard invite
letter). One previous contributor passed on the invitation (moved on to
other things)

Mailing list activity
Development discussions have started on dev@zest, and the Google groups
one is quickly deserted.

Next Steps
* Ensure IP is free of encumbrance.
* Migrate website (incl re-design and branding compliance)
* Import codebase

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End of minutes for the April 22, 2015 board meeting.

The meeting of March 18, 2015

Executive Officer Reports

Chairman [Brett]
President [Ross]
Treasurer [Chris]
Secretary [Craig]
Executive Vice President [Rich]
Vice Chairman [Greg]

Additional Officer Reports

VP of W3C Relations [Andy Seaborne / Bertrand]
Apache Legal Affairs Committee [Jim Jagielski]
Apache Security Team Project [Mark Cox / Brett]

Committee Reports

Apache Airavata Project [Suresh Marru / Rich]
Apache Deltacloud Project [Marios S. Andreou / Chris]
Apache Hive Project [Carl Steinbach / David]
Apache James Project [Eric Charles / Sam]
Apache Mesos Project [Benjamin Hindman / Brett]
Apache OpenJPA Project [Pinaki Poddar / Sam]
Apache OpenMeetings Project [Sebastian Wagner / Brett]
Apache Tuscany Project [Jean-Sebastien Delfino / David]

Special Orders

Establish the Apache Orc Project
Change the Apache Bigtop Project Chair
Change the Apache Crunch Project Chair
Establish the Apache Parquet Project
Change the Apache MyFaces Chair
Terminate the Apache Lenya Project
Change the Apache Mahout Chair
Change the Apache ActiveMQ Chair
Approve the 2016 FY ASF Budget

Discussion Items
Review Outstanding Action Items
Unfinished Business
New Business
Announcements
Adjournment
Report from the Executive Assistant [Melissa Warnkin]
Report from the VP of Brand Management [Shane Curcuru]
Report from the VP of Fundraising [Jim Jagielski]
Report from the VP of Marketing and Publicity [Sally Khudairi]
Report from the VP of Infrastructure [David Nalley]
Report from the Apache Travel Assistance Committee [Gavin McDonald]
Report from the VP of W3C Relations [Andy Seaborne]
Report from the Apache Legal Affairs Committee [Jim Jagielski]
Report from the Apache Security Team Project [Mark Cox]
Report from the Apache Abdera Project [Ant Elder]
Report from the Apache Accumulo Project [Billie Rinaldi]
Report from the Apache ACE Project [Marcel Offermans]
Report from the Apache ActiveMQ Project [Hiram Chirino]

The current chair has been the chair for *many* years and based on the
The PMC agrees.

Report from the Apache Airavata Project [Suresh Marru]
Report from the Apache Aries Project [Jeremy Hughes]
Report from the Apache Attic Project [Henri Yandell]
Report from the Apache Aurora Project [Bill Farner]
Report from the Apache Avro Project [Tom White]
Report from the Apache Axis Project [Deepal Jayasinghe]
Report from the Apache Bigtop Project [Konstantin Boudnik]
Report from the Apache Bloodhound Project [Gary Martin]
Report from the Apache Celix Project [Alexander Broekhuis]
Report from the Apache Chukwa Project [Eric Yang]
Report from the Apache Commons Project [Gary Gregory]
Report from the Apache Crunch Project [Gabriel Reid]
Report from the Apache Curator Project [Jordan Zimmerman]
Report from the Apache CXF Project [Daniel Kulp]
Report from the Apache DB Project [Myrna van Lunteren]
Report from the Apache Deltacloud Project [Marios S. Andreou]
Report from the Apache DirectMemory Project [Raffaele P. Guidi]
Report from the Apache Directory Project [Kiran Ayyagari]
Report from the Apache Geronimo Project [Alan Cabrera]
Report from the Apache Hadoop Project [Chris Douglas]
Report from the Apache HBase Project [Andrew Purtell]
Report from the Apache Helix Project [Kishore Gopalakrishna]
Report from the Apache Hive Project [Carl Steinbach]
Report from the Apache Incubator Project [Ted Dunning]
-- Calcite
-- CommonsRDF
-- Groovy
-- Lens
-- Myriad
-- ODF Toolkit
-- OpenAz
-- Parquet
-- Ripple
-- SINGA
-- TinkerPop
-- Usergrid
-- Wave
-- Zeppelin
Report from the Apache Isis Project [Dan Haywood]
Report from the Apache James Project [Eric Charles]
Report from the Apache jclouds Project [Andrew Phillips]
Report from the Apache Jena Project [Andy Seaborne]
Report from the Apache JMeter Project [Sebastian Bazley]
Report from the Apache JSPWiki Project [Juan Pablo Santos]
Report from the Apache Lucy Project [Marvin Humphrey]
Report from the Apache Mahout Project [Grant Ingersoll]
Report from the Apache Maven Project [Hervé Boutemy]
Report from the Apache Mesos Project [Benjamin Hindman]
Report from the Apache MINA Project [Jean-François Maury]
Report from the Apache MRUnit Project [Brock Noland]
Report from the Apache MyFaces Project [Gerhard Petracek]
Report from the Apache Nutch Project [Sebastian Nagel]
Report from the Apache ODE Project [Tammo van Lessen]
Report from the Apache Onami Project [Nino Martinez Wael]
Report from the Apache OpenJPA Project [Pinaki Poddar]
Report from the Apache OpenMeetings Project [Sebastian Wagner]
Report from the Apache OpenOffice Project [Jan Iversen]
Report from the Apache PDFBox Project [Andreas Lehmkühler]
Report from the Apache POI Project [Yegor Kozlov]
Report from the Apache Rave Project [Matt Franklin]
Report from the Apache Samza Project [Chris Riccomini]
Report from the Apache Shindig Project [Ryan Baxter]
Report from the Apache SpamAssassin Project [Kevin A. McGrail]
Report from the Apache Sqoop Project [Arvind Prabhakar]
Report from the Apache Steve Project [Jim Jagielski]
Report from the Apache Struts Project [Rene Gielen]
Report from the Apache Tapestry Project [Howard M. Lewis Ship]
Report from the Apache Tcl Project [Massimo Manghi]
Report from the Apache Tez Project [Hitesh Shah]
Report from the Apache Thrift Project [Jake Farrell]
Report from the Apache Tika Project [Dave Meikle]
Report from the Apache TomEE Project [David Blevins]
Report from the Apache Traffic Server Project [Leif Hedstrom]
Report from the Apache Tuscany Project [Jean-Sebastien Delfino]
Report from the Apache VXQuery Project [Till Westmann]
Report from the Apache Web Services Project [Sagara Gunathunga]
Report from the Apache Wookie Project [Scott Wilson]
Report from the Apache Zest Project [Niclas Hedhman]