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Board of Directors Meeting Minutes
August 19, 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/2ut1
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 - left at 11:47
Brett Porter
Sam Ruby
Greg Stein
Directors Absent:
none
Executive Officers Present:
Ross Gardler - left at 11:12
Kevin A. McGrail
Craig L Russell
Executive Officers Absent:
Jan Iversen
Guests:
Bruce Snyder
Daniel Gruno
Daniel Kulp
John D. Ament
Marvin Humphrey
Richard Eckart de Castilho
Sean Kelly
Tom Pappas (Virtual)
3. Minutes from previous meetings
Published minutes can be found at:
http://www.apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html
A. The meeting of July 15, 2015
See: board_minutes_2015_07_15.txt
Approved by General Consent.
4. Executive Officer Reports
A. Chairman [Brett]
I have nothing additional to report this month, other than what is
already covered throughout the agenda.
B. President [Ross]
Nothing particular important to report this month. Mostly the
operations side of the foundation is flowing smoothly.
Headlines:
* On behalf of the ASF Membership and the broader open source
community I would like to extend our sympathies to the family and
friends of Nóirín Plunkett who passed away on July 29th 2015.
http://www.apache.org/memorials/noirin.html
* Proposal to purchase a laptop for our EA (from Presidents
discretionary)
* OSCON booth was successfully executed but of questionable value
* D&O Insurance has been renewed with no break in coverage
* A large (potential) infrastructure sponsor is causing the
fundraising team to evaluate our current policies for sponsor
recognition
* Uptime statistics for core services are now available at
http://status.apache.org/sla/ - I recommend taking a look standard,
core and critical services have all met their SLA in the last 5
reporting periods
* TAC has been brought in on time despite the late start to the
process
OSCON
======
Our booth at OSCON was well staffed by volunteers ably coordinated by
Geoff Corey who stepped in to replace Melissa who was unable to
travel. In recent years we have debated whether having a formal
presence at the OSCON provided significant benefit to the foundation.
I've been somewhat split on this. I am no longer split (though have
not consulted everyone involved at this point). The "not-for-profit"
pavilion this year was an afterthought for the event as a whole. It
was physically separated from the main expo floor and not signposted.
I found many people who simply didn't know it was there. This had the
result that the majority of foot traffic were people who actively
sought out the pavilion. Consequently, in my stints on the booth I did
not have a single conversation with people not already connected with
one or more of our projects.
Executive Assistant
===============
Melissa has been very busy this month with TAC arrangements (see
below) in addition to her usual duties. I would like to thank Melissa
for going above and beyond for the foundation despite having to attend
to some personal issues as well.
For some time Melissa has been struggling with an old and failing
laptop. EVP and I are in agreement that we need to purchase a laptop
for the foundation, to be used by Melissa for foundation activities.
We currently do not have a budget for this and thus I propose to pay
for it from the Presidents discretionary budget ($500-$1000 price). We
will then budget for this to be replaced every two years with the
outgoing laptop becoming part of the "event in a box".
Brand Management
===============
As previously reported we no longer receive pro-bono support for
trademark registrations. VP Brand Management has entered into an
agreement which involves a capped spend to ensure we remain in budget.
Fundraising
=========
In the monthly budget report Virtual indicated that Fundraising was
significantly behind schedule. However, the budget is calculated based
on averages over the year, rather than actual expected income dates.
VP Fundraising reports that this has indeed been a slow quarter but
that it does not reflect an expected drop in annualized revenue.
Starting in the next budget cycle we should seek to provide a finer
grained budget (which, with our improved record keeping, should be a
relatively simple affair).
As we become more pro-active in our outreach to sponsors we are
increasingly seeing feedback that they want "more" in return for their
sponsorship. I remain firm in my opinion that we will not provide
anything that risks upsetting the neutrality of the foundation and its
projects. Hadrian as one VP Fundraising is exploring options that we
might be able to entertain. Hadrian and I met at LinuxCon to discuss
the issue. It is my opinion that the requests are coming in because
first contact with new sponsors is often with marketing rather than
engineering contacts within companies. This is something that Hadrian
and I will explore further in order to validate or invalidate as
appropriate.
That being said, we continue to report new sponsors on an almost
monthly basis, including this month. All in all Fundraising is in good
shape.
Marketing
=======
"Business as usual."
Infrastructure
==========
Some problems with mail archives have been uncovered. There is no lost
data, but archives are not correctly being built. Investigations are
ongoing.
Monitoring of services is now provided by an external service,
resulting in an increased level of visibility into our services.
Uptime statistics, previously manually created and reported most
months, have now been fully automated. Results can be viewed at
http://status.apache.org/sla/
Travel Assistance Committee
======================
No report has been submitted. However, the EA report includes details
and since I volunteered to help for ApacheCon EU I have higher
visibility than in previous cycles.
I want to explicitly thank our EA for her tireless work ensuring that
the very late start in the process did not result in us failing to
deliver assistance where needed. As a result we have TACers attending
our event from Korea, France, Russia, Spain, Sri Lanka, Australia,
Netherlands, India, Denmark, China, Toronto and France. The amount of
work in processing the paperwork for TAC recipients should not be
underestimated. We tend to assume the work is in the evaluation of
proposals, but this is a tiny fraction of the work involved (though,
naturally we are grateful to the team for their work here too).
It should also be noted that our Virtual have also been very flexible
in ensuring payments were made out of cycle for flights and hotel
bookings.
Additionally, please see Attachments 1 through 6.
No objections from any board member to use President's
discretionary funds to purchase new laptop for EA.
C. Treasurer [Chris]
The Treasurer's Office is working to reduce PayPal chargebacks which
since 2013 have cost $1855.00 plus $720 in fees. Thanks to Virtual
for their help in analyzing this and reaching out to PayPal. Based
on our investigation, the chargebacks happen because people do not
recognize the name on their statement. Current Statement name:
APACHESOFTW. There is an 11-character limit on this name as well
as a 19 character longer optional that is not currently used. We
are investigating using the domain name “APACHE ORG” with the
assumption that a period is not an acceptable character with no
longer choice.
We also identified that the paypal donation buttons on a.o and AOO
website were incorrectly setup as item/services to be shipped/provided
instead of as donations. The a.o button has been updated however
AOO has made the change but a CMS bug must be resolved before it
can be published.
Virtual is working on the Fiscal Q1 May-June-July 2015 report.
Virtual has reached out to the CPA re: 4.30.15 YE for the
ASF and requested the 990 questionnaire. The need for an extension
will be handled before the Sept 15th deadline. Virtual also added
that they keep track of all 990’s for all our clients. And that
the questionnaire for this year should be very similar to the one
for last year which we helped facilitate for ASF. Books and records
are present for the entire year last year, so there should be very
few questions we will need the Treasurer’s assistance with.
The Treasurer’s Office processed a donation of $4K.
The Office suggests that a thank you is sent due to the size of the
donation and we will work VP, Fundraising to discuss.
Virtual has transferred the remaining funds in Amazon Payments into
the ASF's operational account at Citizens. In a few more months,
they will change the account email to accounting@ instead of the
individual ASF member email that it was under before.
The Treasurer would like to thank for Kevin McGrail, Assistant
Treasurer, who led the preparation of this report.
Income and Expenses for July 2015 CASH BASIS
Current Balances:
Citizens Checking $909,719
Amazon- ASF Payments $338
Paypal - ASF $61,210
Wells Fargo Checking - ASF $334,887
Wells Fargo Savings $288,249
Total Checking/Savings $1,594,402
Income Summary:
Public Donations $3,322
Sponsorship Program $25,000
Programs Income $-
Interest Income $15
Total Income $28,337
Expense Summary:
Infrastructure $44,026
Sponsorship Program $-
Programs Expense $-
Publicity $13,516
Brand Management $1,104
Conferences $1,273
Travel Assistance Committee $-
Treasury Services $3,100
General & Administrative $8,915
Total Expense $71,934
Net Income $(43,598)
D. Secretary [Craig]
July was another reasonably busy month, with two documents per day to
record. In July, 62 iclas, five cclas, and two grants were received
and filed.
Still no progress on filing ICLAs via email/web. Secretary
will make more of an effort to get this back on track.
E. Executive Vice President [Rich]
Very uneventful month. I expect to meet with Angela today or tomorrow
and get Apachecon Vancouver rolling.
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 / Chris]
See Attachment 7
B. Apache Legal Affairs Committee [Jim Jagielski]
See Attachment 8
Jim provided a verbal report.
Open JIRA count is down significantly, due in a large part to the
efforts of Henri Yandell.
Special order 7G and the Discussion Items will cover actions being
taken to restore order to the legal discuss mailing list.
C. Apache Security Team Project [Mark Cox / David]
See Attachment 9
Additional officer reports approved as submitted by General Consent.
6. Committee Reports
Summary of Reports
The following reports required further discussion:
# ActiveMQ [rb]
# Celix [bp]
# Cocoon [bp]
# DeviceMap [dn]
# Drill [bp]
# Etch [dn]
# Gora [bp]
# Oltu [bp]
# Onami [bp]
# Open Climate Workbench [bp]
# OpenJPA [bp]
# Perl [bp]
# SIS [dn]
# TomEE [bp]
# Whimsy [bp]
# Xerces [rb]
A. Apache Abdera Project [Ant Elder / Bertrand]
See Attachment A
B. Apache ACE Project [Marcel Offermans / Rich]
See Attachment B
C. Apache ActiveMQ Project [Bruce Snyder / Brett]
See Attachment C
There seem to be some issues in the PMC but not a lot of
specifics have been surfaced. Hadrian Z, who had some issues
with governance, has resigned from the PMC. Bruce Snyder is
trying to get more details on the issues. The situation
appears to be improving.
D. Apache Ambari Project [Yusaku Sako / Shane]
See Attachment D
E. Apache Ant Project [Conor MacNeill / Greg]
See Attachment E
F. Apache BookKeeper Project [Sijie Guo / Sam]
See Attachment F
G. Apache Buildr Project [Alex Boisvert / Jim]
See Attachment G
H. Apache Cassandra Project [Jonathan Ellis / Jim]
See Attachment H
I. Apache Celix Project [Alexander Broekhuis / Rich]
See Attachment I
J. Apache Clerezza Project [Hasan Hasan / David]
See Attachment J
K. Apache Cocoon Project [Thorsten Scherler / Bertrand]
No report was submitted.
L. Apache Community Development Project [Ulrich Stärk / Shane]
See Attachment L
M. Apache Continuum Project [Brent Atkinson / Brett]
See Attachment M
N. Apache CouchDB Project [Jan Lehnardt / Sam]
See Attachment N
O. Apache Creadur Project [Brian E Fox / Greg]
See Attachment O
P. Apache DeltaSpike Project [Thomas Andraschko / Chris]
See Attachment P
Q. Apache DeviceMap Project [Reza Naghibi / Greg]
See Attachment Q
The project was already small when it graduated. The project
will probably be retired. Bertrand is still on the PMC and
will keep an eye on it.
R. Apache Drill Project [Jacques Nadeau / Chris]
No report was submitted.
S. Apache Empire-db Project [Francis De Brabandere / Shane]
See Attachment S
T. Apache Etch Project [Martin Veith / Bertrand]
See Attachment T
@David follow up on activity in PMC.
U. Apache Flume Project [Arvind Prabhakar / Brett]
See Attachment U
V. Apache Forrest Project [David Crossley / Jim]
See Attachment V
W. Apache Giraph Project [Avery Ching / David]
See Attachment W
X. Apache Gora Project [Lewis John McGibbney / Rich]
No report was submitted.
Y. Apache Hama Project [ChiaHung Lin / Sam]
See Attachment Y
Z. Apache Hive Project [Carl Steinbach / Rich]
See Attachment Z
AA. Apache HTTP Server Project [Eric Covener / Greg]
See Attachment AA
AB. Apache HttpComponents Project [Asankha Perera / Sam]
See Attachment AB
AC. Apache Incubator Project [Ted Dunning / Shane]
See Attachment AC
AD. Apache jUDDI Project [Alex O'Ree / Bertrand]
See Attachment AD
AE. Apache Kafka Project [Jun Rao / Chris]
See Attachment AE
AF. Apache Knox Project [Kevin Minder / Jim]
See Attachment AF
AG. Apache Libcloud Project [Tomaz Muraus / David]
See Attachment AG
AH. Apache Logging Project [Christian Grobmeier / Brett]
See Attachment AH
AI. Apache ManifoldCF Project [Karl Wright / Shane]
See Attachment AI
AJ. Apache Marmotta Project [Jakob Frank / Sam]
See Attachment AJ
AK. Apache MetaModel Project [Kasper Sørensen / David]
See Attachment AK
AL. Apache NiFi Project [Joe Witt / Jim]
See Attachment AL
AM. Apache Oltu Project [Antonio Sanso / Brett]
No report was submitted.
AN. Apache Onami Project [Nino Martinez Wael / Bertrand]
See Attachment AN
@Bertrand follow up to see if the project is still ok.
AO. Apache Oozie Project [Mohammad Islam / Chris]
See Attachment AO
AP. Apache Open Climate Workbench Project [Michael James Joyce / Greg]
No report was submitted.
AQ. Apache OpenJPA Project [Pinaki Poddar / Rich]
See Attachment AQ
@Rich please provide more details in the next scheduled report
AR. Apache Perl Project [Philippe M. Chiasson / Shane]
No report was submitted.
AS. Apache Phoenix Project [James R. Taylor / Bertrand]
See Attachment AS
AT. Apache POI Project [Dominik Stadler / Brett]
See Attachment AT
AU. Apache Qpid Project [Robbie Gemmell / Sam]
See Attachment AU
AV. Apache Rave Project [Matt Franklin / David]
See Attachment AV
AW. Apache River Project [Patricia Shanahan / Chris]
See Attachment AW
AX. Apache Roller Project [Dave Johnson / Jim]
See Attachment AX
AY. Apache Santuario Project [Colm O hEigeartaigh / Greg]
See Attachment AY
AZ. Apache SIS Project [Martin Desruisseaux / Rich]
See Attachment AZ
BA. Apache Spark Project [Matei Zaharia / Brett]
See Attachment BA
BB. Apache Steve Project [Jim Jagielski]
See Attachment BB
BC. Apache Stratos Project [Lakmal Warusawithana / Chris]
See Attachment BC
BD. Apache Subversion Project [Greg Stein]
See Attachment BD
BE. Apache Syncope Project [Francesco Chicchiricco / David]
See Attachment BE
BF. Apache Tapestry Project [Howard M. Lewis Ship / Bertrand]
See Attachment BF
BG. Apache TomEE Project [David Blevins / Greg]
No report was submitted.
BH. Apache Turbine Project [Thomas Vandahl / Jim]
See Attachment BH
BI. Apache Tuscany Project [Jean-Sebastien Delfino / Shane]
See Attachment BI
BJ. Apache Velocity Project [Nathan Bubna / Rich]
See Attachment BJ
BK. Apache Web Services Project [Sagara Gunathunga / Sam]
See Attachment BK
BL. Apache Whimsy Project [Ross Gardler / Brett]
No report was submitted.
BM. Apache Xalan Project [Steven J. Hathaway / Bertrand]
See Attachment BM
BN. Apache Xerces Project [Michael Glavassevich / Greg]
See Attachment BN
BO. Apache XML Graphics Project [Chris Bowditch / Shane]
See Attachment BO
Committee reports approved as submitted by General Consent.
7. Special Orders
A. Change the Apache Sqoop Project Chair
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Arvind Prabhakar
to the office of Vice President, Apache Sqoop, and
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of
Arvind Prabhakar from the office of Vice President, Apache Sqoop, and
WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Sqoop project
has chosen to recommend Jarek Jarcec Cecho as the successor to the
post;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Arvind Prabhakar is relieved and
discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice
President, Apache Sqoop, and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Jarek Jarcec Cecho be and hereby is
appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Sqoop, to serve in
accordance with and subject to the direction of the Board of Directors.
and the Bylaws of the Foundation until death, resignation, retirement,
removal or disqualification, or until a successor is appointed.
Special Order 7A, Change the Apache Sqoop Project Chair, was
approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
B. Establish the Apache Lens 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 unified analytics across multiple tiered
data stores.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management
Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Apache Lens Project", be
and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation;
and be it further
RESOLVED, that the Apache Lens Project be and hereby is
responsible for the creation and maintenance of software
related to unified analytics across multiple tiered data
stores; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache Lens" 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 Lens Project, and to have primary responsibility for
management of the projects within the scope of responsibility
of the Apache Lens 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 Lens Project:
* Amareshwari Sriramadasu <amareshwari at apache dot org>
* Arshad Matin <arshadmatin at apache dot org>
* Gunther Hagleitner <gunther at apache dot org>
* Himanshu Gahlaut <himanshugahlaut at apache dot org>
* Jaideep Dhok <jdhok at apache dot org>
* Jean Baptiste Onofre <jbonofre at apache dot org>
* Raghavendra Singh <raghavsingh at apache dot org>
* Rajat Khandelwal <prongs at apache dot org>
* Raju Bairishetti <raju at apache dot org>
* Sharad Agarwal <sharad at apache dot org>
* Sreekanth Ramakrishnan <sreekanth at apache dot org>
* Srikanth Sundarrajan <sriksun at apache dot org>
* Suma Shivaprasad <sumasai at apache dot org>
* Vikram Dixit <vikram at apache dot org>
* Vinod Kumar Vavilapalli <vinodkv at apache dot org>
* Yash Sharma <yash at apache dot org>
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Amareshwari
Sriramadasu be appointed to the office of Vice President,
Apache Lens, to serve in accordance with and subject to the
direction of the Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the
Foundation until death, resignation, retirement, removal or
disqualification, or until a successor is appointed; and be it
further
RESOLVED, that the Apache Lens Project be and hereby is tasked
with the migration and rationalization of the Apache Incubator
Lens podling; and be it further
RESOLVED, that all responsibilities pertaining to the Apache
Incubator Lens podling encumbered upon the Apache Incubator
Project are hereafter discharged.
Special Order 7B, Establish the Apache Lens Project, was
approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
C. Establish the Apache Ignite 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 delivering an In-Memory Data Fabric - a
high-performance, integrated and distributed in-memory platform
for computing and transacting on large-scale data sets in
real-time
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management
Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Apache Ignite Project", be
and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation;
and be it further
RESOLVED, that the Apache Ignite Project be and hereby is
responsible for the creation and maintenance of software
related to the automated and managed flow of information
between systems and be it further
RESOLVED, that the Apache Ignite Project be and hereby is
responsible for the creation and maintenance of software
related to delivering an In-Memory Data Fabric - a
high-performance, integrated and distributed in-memory platform
for computing and transacting on large-scale data sets in
real-time and be it further
RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache Ignite" 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 Ignite Project, and to have primary responsibility for
management of the projects within the scope of responsibility
of the Apache Ignite 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 Ignite Project:
Semen Boikov (sboikov@apache.org)
Konstantin Boudnik (cos@apache.org)
Branko Cibej (brane@apache.org)
Ognen Duzlevski (maketo@apache.org)
Sergey Evdokimov (sevdokimov@apache.org)
Alexey Goncharuk (agoncharuk@apache.org)
Nikita Ivanov (nivanov@apache.org)
Sergey Khisamov (skhisamov@apache.org)
Valentin Kulichenko (vkulichenko@apache.org)
Alexey Kuznetsov (akuznetsov@apache.org)
Gianfranco Murador (murador@apache.org)
Andrey Novikov (anovikov@apache.org)
Vladimir Ozerov (vozerov@apache.org)
Dmitriy Setrakyan (dsetrakyan@apache.org)
Roman Shaposhnik (rvs@apache.org)
Ilya Sterin (isterin@apache.org)
Nikolay Tikhonov (ntikhonov@apache.org)
Irina Vasilinets (ivasilinets@apache.org)
Anton Vinogradov (av@apache.org)
Sergei Vladykin (sergi@apache.org)
Evans Ye (evansye@apache.org)
Yakov Zhdanov (yzhdanov@apache.org)
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Dmitriy Setrakyan
be appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Ignite, to
serve in accordance with and subject to the direction of the
Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until
death, resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification, or
until a successor is appointed; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the Apache Ignite Project be and hereby is
tasked with the migration and rationalization of the Apache
Incubator Ignite podling; and be it further
RESOLVED, that all responsibilities pertaining to the Apache
Incubator Ignite podling encumbered upon the Apache Incubator
Project are hereafter discharged.
Special Order 7C, Establish the Apache Ignite Project, was
approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
D. Change the Apache DeviceMap Project Chair
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Reza Naghibi to
the office of Vice President, Apache DeviceMap, and
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of
Reza Naghibi from the office of Vice President, Apache DeviceMap, and
WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache DeviceMap
project has chosen by vote to recommend Radu Cotescu as the successor
to the post;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Reza Naghibi is relieved and
discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice
President, Apache DeviceMap, and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Radu Cotescu be and hereby is appointed
to the office of Vice President, Apache DeviceMap, to serve in
accordance with and subject to the direction of the Board of Directors
and the Bylaws of the Foundation until death, resignation, retirement,
removal or disqualification, or until a successor is appointed.
Special Order 7D, Change the Apache DeviceMap Project Chair,
was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
E. Establish the Apache Usergrid 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 related to the Usergrid BaaS software,
for distribution at no charge to the public.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management
Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Apache Usergrid Project",
be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the
Foundation; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the Apache Usergrid Project be and hereby is
responsible for the creation and maintenance of open-source
software related to the Usergrid BaaS software; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Usergrid" 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 Usergrid Project, and to have primary responsibility for
management of the projects within the scope of responsibility
of the Apache Usegrid 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 Usegrid Project:
* Tim Anglade <timanglade@apache.org>
* Askhat Asanaliev <aasanaliev@apache.org>
* John D. Ament <johndament@apache.org>
* Ed Anuff <edanuff@apache.org>
* Furkan Bıçak <fbicak@apache.org>
* Ryan Bridges <ryanb@apache.org>
* Jake Farrell <jfarrell@apache.org>
* Scott Ganyo <scottganyo@apache.org>
* Sungju Jin <sungju@apache.org>
* David M. Johnson <snoopdave@apache.org>
* Alex Karasulu <akarasulu@apache.org>
* Salih Kardan <skardan@apache.org>
* Jim Jagielski <jim@apache.org>
* Strong Liu <stliu@apache.org>
* Nate McCall <zznate@apache.org>
* Lewis John McGibbney <lewismc@apache.org>
* Alex Muramoto <amuramoto@apache.org>
* Todd Nine <toddnine@apache.org>
* Luciano Resende <lresende@apache.org>
* Yiğit Şaplı <yigits@apache.org>
* Rod Simpson <rockerston@apache.org>
* Jeff West <jeffreyawest@apache.org>
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Todd Nine
be appointed to the office of Vice President, Usergrid, 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 Usergrid Project be and hereby
is tasked with the migration and rationalization of the Apache
Incubator Usegrid podling; and be it further
RESOLVED, that all responsibility pertaining to the Apache
Incubator Usergrid podling encumbered upon the Apache Incubator
PMC are hereafter discharged.
Special Order 7E, Establish the Apache Usergrid Project, was
approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
F. Establish the Apache Serf 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 HTTP and associated protocols.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management
Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Apache Serf Project", be
and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation;
and be it further
RESOLVED, that the Apache Serf Project be and hereby is
responsible for the creation and maintenance of software
related to HTTP and associated protocols; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache Serf" 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 Serf Project, and to have primary responsibility for
management of the projects within the scope of responsibility
of the Apache Serf 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 Serf Project:
Justin Erenkrantz <jerenkrantz@apache.org>
Roy Fielding <fielding@apache.org>
Lieven Govaerts <lgo@apache.org>
Bert Huijben <rhuijben@apache.org>
Jim Jagielski <jim@apache.org>
C. Michael Pilato <cmpilato@apache.org>
Ben Reser <breser@apache.org>
Stefan Sperling <stsp@apache.org>
Greg Stein <gstein@apache.org>
Andreas Stieger <astieger@apache.org>
Ivan Zhakov <ivan@apache.org>
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Bert Huijben
be appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Serf, 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 Serf 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 Serf Project.
Special Order 7F, Establish the Apache Serf Project, was
approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
G. Revoke an ASF Member's Access and Privileges
Based on advice of counsel, we have redacted these minutes for web
publication. An ASF Member confidential record of the full resolution
can be found at http://s.apache.org/7tp.
Special Order 7G, Revoke an ASF Member's Access and
Privileges, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors
present.
H. Establish the Apache Yetus 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 libraries and tools that enable contribution
and release processes for software projects
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management
Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Apache Yetus Project",
be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the
Foundation; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the Apache Yetus Project be and hereby is
responsible for the creation and maintenance of software
related to libraries and tools that enable contribution
and release processes for software projects;
and be it further
RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache Yetus" 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 Yetus Project, and to have primary responsibility
for management of the projects within the scope of
responsibility of the Apache Yetus 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 Yetus Project:
* Andrew Bayer <abayer@apache.org>
* Sean Busbey <busbey@apache.org>
* Nick Dimiduk <ndimiduk@apache.org>
* Chris Nauroth <cnauroth@apache.org>
* Andrew Purtell <apurtell@apache.org>
* Allen Wittenauer <aw@apache.org>
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Sean Busbey
be appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Yetus, 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, Establish the Apache Yetus Project, was
tabled.
8. Discussion Items
A. Discuss preventive and punitive actions to take against current
member abusing mailing list privileges.
B. Discuss revisiting the ASF bylaws to determine whether or not the 2008
interpretation of the requirements of the phrase "affirmative vote of a
two-thirds majority of the members of the corporation" was correct,
and/or whether any adjustment of the bylaws is in order.
http://s.apache.org/dsG - see 12:07:26, 12:09:50, and 12:10:03 PM.
@Jim work with counsel to review the bylaws and propose changes (if
necessary) to clarify how to apply "two-thirds majority" when counting
votes.
9. Review Outstanding Action Items
* Ross: Discuss with comdev how to get projects to engage with them more
[ Lucene.Net 2014-12-17 ]
Status: Complete - minimal volunteer energy
* Brett: Any action on log4j?
[ Logging 2015-02-18 ]
Status: This announcement has been made now
* Chris: help PMC improve report for next month
[ Samza 2015-03-18 ]
Status:
* Greg: ask if PMC needs help with release policy/procedure
[ Portals 2015-03-18 ]
Status:
* Greg: Is the community healthy?
[ Web Services 2015-04-22 ]
Status: six releases in the past quarter. over 600 commits.
so there is activity at least.
* Jim: Any prospects for new committers/PMC members?
[ Aries 2015-04-22 ]
Status:
* Brett: work with the PMC to get a better report
[ Libcloud 2015-05-20 ]
Status: current report looks like being approved. I've mailed for some
clarified and reminded them to include more community info in
future.
* Chris: There is low activity and it may be time for retirement.
[ Onami 2015-05-20 ]
Status:
* David: follow up with last PMC and committer additions.
[ Santuario 2015-05-20 ]
Status:
* Chris: No response from the pmc on list. Attic is the next step.
[ Deltacloud 2015-06-17 ]
Status:
* David: pursue a report for Hive
[ Hive 2015-06-17 ]
Status: August report present. [gs]
* Jim: Establish Apache policy for cookies on web sites.
[ Pivot 2015-06-17 ]
Status:
* Ross: What can be done with regard to Apache Extras?
[ Pivot 2015-06-17 ]
Status: In progress - some finer details to resolve
* David: Chair has no time to devote to the project. May be time for the
Attic.
[ Tuscany 2015-06-17 ]
Status:
* Ross: @Shane discuss how to move this issue [marketing using Apache brands]
[ Discussion Items 2015-06-17 ]
Status: No progress
* Brett: please report next month
[ OpenJPA 2015-07-15 ]
Status: submitted
* Owen: please update the records on IP clearance for the code move from
github
[ Orc 2015-07-15 ]
Status: this is done
* David: please submit a new report next month with some changed content
[ Tapestry 2015-07-15 ]
Status:
* Rich: check with the project to determine status
[ Wink 2015-07-15 ]
Status: done, project indicated inactivity but people around
10. Unfinished Business
11. New Business
12. Announcements
We, the foundation and its members, were deeply saddened to learn of the
death of Nóirín Plunkett on July 29th 2015. Nóirín was a friend to many
of us, and Nóirín's passing will be a great loss. Not just for us but
Nóirín's friends and family too.
A memorial page has been created, in Nóirín's memory.
Our condolences are with those who were close to Nóirín.
Nóirín - we hope you are now at peace. Your ASF family.
13. Adjournment
Adjourned at 11:56 a.m. (Pacific)
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ATTACHMENTS:
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Attachment 1: Report from the Executive Assistant [Melissa Warnkin]
Daily monitoring of all email activity (ea@, fundraising@, trademarks@,
treasurer@, comdev@, tm-registrations@, and board@) and following-up with
appropriate personnel OSCON:
• Special thanks to Geoff Corey who took on the responsibility of booth
coordinator in my absence, as well as all of the other wonderful volunteers
that helped Geoff with the booth!
• All receipts submitted in svn and sent to Accounting ApacheCon and TAC:
• We had a total of 27 submissions; 12 successful recipients ranging the globe
from: Korea, France, Russia, Spain, Sri Lanka, Australia, Netherlands, India,
Denmark, China, Toronto and France.
• All flights booked, with the exception of the young man coming from China;
however, that is expected to be booked by the 13th. His flight exceeds the
maximum limit of $1,750, and we (the committee, backed by Ross) have advised
him that he/his company will be responsible to pay the difference prior to my
booking his ticket. o Special thanks to the wonderful Accounting Dept for
accommodating my wire transfer request out-of-cycle, which ended up saving the
Foundation money in fare increases expenses. o Flight expenses paid to date
are GBP 7693.10; one remaining flight of GBP 1123.36, makes the grand total
for flights GBP 8816.46, which is $13,734.58 USD, which is way over the
estimated budget of $8,809!!
• All visa letters sent out
• Preliminary rooming assignments sent in o Will submit the wire transfer
request for the lodging prior to the 15th of September.
• Processing of the registrations is undergoing – awaiting the discounted code
from LF
D&O Insurance:
• Worked with Tom from Virtual on obtaining quotes for our D&O insurance
• Opted to renew with Connie at Carolina Casualty
MISC
• Donation sent to St. John's Ambulances - http://www.stjohn.ie - in Nóirín's
name on behalf of the ASF.
• Package of stickers sent to a colleague of Chris Mattmann's, per Sally's
request.
• Fruit & nut basket sent to Craig @LF for the loss of his brother, per Rich’s
request.
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Attachment 2: Report from the VP of Brand Management [Shane Curcuru]
A quieter month than usual for requests, but running a little behind due to
summer vacation time. Thanks as always to members helping to constructively
answer questions.
Secured agreements allowing registration applications of APACHE in Norway and
Australia to proceed.
Signed updated engagement letter with DLAPiper outlining their new cost
structure. Operationally they will continue providing services we need,
however registration related items are no longer pro bono, but will be charged
at a discounted rate with a monthly cap to limit our expenses.
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Attachment 3: Report from the VP of Fundraising [Hadrian Zbarcea]
This was a slower quarter reflected in a much lower income than usual. There
are a few reasons for that, including a very good previous quarter and the
summer. I don't think there are any reasons for concern at this point, nor a
need to reevaluate our budget or direction.
RedHat is now a sponsor (again) and I did not receive a notification about the
payment. For the reason the logo is not yet up the thanks page (but it will
be before the board meeting). I was close to sending a reminder, but I asked
Lynsey first. We need to make sure communication works the way we planned.
Last month I had a proposal to remove the 'nofollow' restriction for links for
all sponsors (including bronze). In the absence of any feedback, I will assume
there are no objections and will update the site accordingly.
Another important topic is that we had numerous discussions with a potential
sponsor, who is interested in a very large contribution, but they also need
help that falls beyond what the ASF usually does (and in some cases beyond
what the ASF can do). While the discussions will continue, and I have high
hopes of being able to get them on board, we need to continue the discussion
about our pitch to the sponsors. I heard the same questions from at least half
a dozen potential sponsors in the past couple of months and they are not easy
to answer.
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Attachment 4: Report from the VP of Marketing and Publicity [Sally Khudairi]
I. Budget: we remain within budget with no vendor payments due at this
time.
II. Fundraising/Branding/Marketing/ComDev liaison: Sally Khudairi is
working with ASF President, Secretary, Operations, Fundraising,
Community Development, Infrastructure, and Brand Management teams to
prepare the ASF Operations Summary for Q1 of the current Fiscal Year
(May-July 2015).
III. Press Releases: the following announcements were issued via the
newswire service, ASF Foundation Blog, or announce@apache.org during
this timeframe:
- 5 August 2015 --Apache™ Logging Services™ Project Announces Log4j™ 1
End-Of-Life; Recommends Upgrade to Log4j 2
- 4 August 2015 --The Apache Software Foundation announces Apache™
Zest™ v2.1
- 20 July 2015 --The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache™
NiFi™ as a Top-Level Project
IV. Informal Announcements: 5 items were published on the ASF
"Foundation" Blog, and 21 items were tweeted on @TheASF. No new videos
have been updated on the ASF YouTube channel. 4 Apache News Round-ups
were issued, with a total of 46 weekly summaries published to date.
V. Future Announcements: we are working on an upcoming announcement
with two podlings preparing to graduate from the Incubator. Projects
planning to graduate from the Apache Incubator as well as PMCs wishing
to announce major project milestones and/or "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 8 media requests. The ASF
received 819 press clips over this time period, vs. last month's clip
count of 973.
VII. Analyst Relations: we responded to 3 analyst queries. Apache was
mentioned in 12 reports by Gartner, 13 reports by Forrester, 15
reports by 451 Research, and 10 reports by IDC.
VIII. ApacheCon liaison: Sally helped promote the "Apache: Big Data"
and "ApacheCon: Core" Europe events in Europe, and has registered 1
journalist and 3 analysts to attend both events.
IX. (Non-ASF) Industry Events and Outreach liaison: no formal
activities at this time.
X. Newswire accounts: we have 10 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:
==========
LastPass: $168
Dinner meeting with Lance from OSUOSL $65.50
Cloud Services: $4619
(The cloud services cost was somewhat inflated by the fact that we purchased
reserved instances (roughly $1k was due to this.) However, it reduces our long
term payout somewhat dramatically)
Operations Action Items:
========================
Short Term Priorities:
======================
- Sort out mail archives not updating for certain lists
- Figure out and solve emails supposedly being denied from certain senders
Long Range Priorities:
======================
- Mailman/HyperKitty proof-of-concept, implement ASF account design into it
- Revisit unified logging with a new machine setup
- Fully deprecate the remaining few large non-config-mgmt boxes
General Activity:
=================
Mail archives
-------------
An issue has arisen where certain mailing list archives have not been
updating with emails from August. The issue has been narrowed down to the
mod_mbox list database not updating, despite the raw data being present on
the archive servers. While the investigation is not complete, we have
uncovered some permission and shell environment issues that are related to
it, and expect to be able to solve this issue before the next report.
infra@ ML split
---------------
It has been suggested, and agreed upon, that the infrastructure mailing list
be split into a development and a commit part, so as to not burden people,
who are only interested in the former part, with the latter. This split is
expected to be implemented in the coming weeks.
infra@apache.org -> dev@infra.apache.org
infra-dev@apache.org -> dev@infra.apache.org
infra-cvs@apache.org -> commits@infra.apache.org
infrastructure-private@apache.org -> private@infra.apache.org
root@apache.org -> root@infra.apache.org
The root@ address is not a list (but an alias) and will remain so.
We intend to keep the old addresses working, but forward them to the new
list addresses. Also, as infra@ is currently privately archived we will not
make those archives public. Going forward however, they will of course be
made public.
Mailman3/Hyperkitty update
--------------------------
Work has been progressing, and the most recent activity has been a discussion
on how we will implement authentication and maintain the concept of
/private-arch/ (where foundation members are entitled to interrogate any
private mailing list). This feature is fairly unique to the ASF and as such
no mailing list provider has this capability natively.
The PoC has been stood up, and is accepting mails for a couple of test domains
as soon as the platform is ready for people to look at it, and test it,
further information will be shared at that time.
Monitoring
-----------
We're now using Datadog as a SaaS monitoring service. It's done a decent job
of getting us a decent baseline of metrics. This has given us an increased
level of visibility, at least into the systems that are managed by
configuration management.
Uptime Statistics:
==================
Going forward, uptime statistics, as they relate to our SLAs, have now been
fully automated and can be found at: http://status.apache.org/sla/
While primarily done to save us from using 3-4 days of contractor time on
these statistics every year, we also felt that there were no compelling
reasons to not have this publicly available ahead of report time, as both
our SLAs and the uptime data itself have (technically) been publicly available
for a long time in its raw form.
To sum up quickly, all service level goals have been reached for the past
5 reporting cycles:
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Cycle: | Critical (>=99.5%) | Core (>=99%) | Standard (>=95%) | Average
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Mar - Apr | 99.52% | 99.81% | 99.14% | 99.58%
Apr - May | 99.83% | 99.96% | 99.22% | 99.75%
May - Jun | 99.72% | 99.67% | 99.32% | 99.59%
Jun - Jul | 99.50% | 99.13% | 99.65% | 99.34%
Jul - Aug | 99.50% | 99.87% | 99.80% | 99.77%
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Contractor Details:
===================
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Attachment 6: Report from the Apache Travel Assistance Committee [Gavin McDonald]
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Attachment 7: Report from the VP of W3C Relations [Andy Seaborne]
Henry Story (bblfish@) has resigned from the Social Web WG.
The Foundation is still represented by Matt Franklin (mfranklin@).
Sergio Fernández (wikier@) has joined the LDP Next Community Group.
The Foundation has signed up to the terms and conditions of the CG.
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Attachment 8: Report from the Apache Legal Affairs Committee [Jim Jagielski]
Will provide a verbal report.
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Attachment 9: Report from the Apache Security Team Project [Mark Cox]
Short stats for July, we received:
2 Security vulnerability question, but not a vulnerability report
9 Phishing/spam/proxy/attacks point to site
"powered by Apache" or Confused user due to Android licenses
Vulnerability reports:
1 [cloudstack, via security@cloudstack]
1 [couchdb, via security@couchdb]
1 [struts, via security@struts]
1 [hive, via security@hive]
1 [commons, via security@ and direct]
1 [httpd, via security@]
1 [thrift, via security@]
1 [trafficserver, via security@]
1 [blaze, via security@]
1 [apr, via security@]
1 [groovy via security@]
1 [alurra, via security@]
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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.
Also reported just last month and there have been no changes since
then - Abdera is in maintenance mode with minimal activity. I believe
there are at least three PMC members providing oversight still.
The last release was over two years ago, the last commiter / PMC
member addition was Nov 2011.
No board issues.
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Attachment B: Report from the Apache ACE Project [Marcel Offermans]
Apache ACE is a software distribution framework that allows you to
centrally manage and distribute modular software components,
configuration data and other artifacts to OSGi based and related target
systems.
Releases:
* April 22nd, 2014: ACE 2.0.1 release.
Statistics:
* Last committers added: March 27th, 2012
* Last PMC members added: June 18th, 2013
* Mailing list activity (dev+users) for last 4 months: 14 msgs
(previous 3 months: 30 msgs)
* Commits for last 4 months: 48
(previous 3 months: 8)
Activity:
* Some improvements to the website after user feedback.
* Enhancements to the way the agent reports certain errors.
* Accepted a few patches by a user (we are watching to see if he keeps
contributing).
* Made the handling of user tags a bit more strict, to prevent names
that could not be properly stored in XML.
* Upgraded to DM4 (which is a core internal component).
Notes:
This report was late last month, so it it sent in a month later than
the normal reporting schedule.
Last time the board asked some questions about community activity and
specifically adding "new blood". We are actively trying to engage
users that are contributing suggestions and patches. Hopefully that
will lead to new committers. Traffic is still relatively slow.
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Attachment C: Report from the Apache ActiveMQ Project [Bruce Snyder]
*HornetQ IP clearance has been completed 100%
**HornetQ code base migrated to ActiveMQ Artemis
***Eliminated all HornetQ references
***The code base is now 100% an ActiveMQ project
*Discussion around development methodology differences between the 5.x code
base and the ActiveMQ Artemis
**Garnered fairly active participation from many committers
**It did result in a good description of the commit then review process that
was agreed upon on the mailing list which was then documented at
http://s.apache.org/zD7
**There were also good discussions around code formatting setups to make
working on the various codebases within ActiveMQ more consistent and easier to
pull ideas and code back and forth
*ActiveMQ Artemis code base is now receiving contributions from a wider scope
of people (beyond just the original HornetQ contributors)
**Long standing committers from the 5.x project are starting to contribute to
ActiveMQ Artemis
*Active collaboration between 5.x development and ActiveMQ Artemis development
is now taking place
**ActiveMQ 5.x features actively being migrated to Artemis
***Test framework from 5.x migrated ActiveMQ Artemis
***Migration of the MQTT protocol from 5.x to ActiveMQ Artemis
**Also discussion is taking place to improve the the 5.x code base with regard
multi-protocol detection on a single socket based on ideas from Artemis and
Apollo
*PMC is actively working toward diversifying the community by inviting more
committers to the project
**Christopher Shannon was added this month
**Three others added since May 2015
*Artemis 1.0 was successfully released
**Work is on-going for the 1.0.1 release
*Back in the April report, one PMC member voiced the following concern:
*"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 in a
manner that will move the community toward consensus."
**While this comment is true, the community member who was raising these
concerns has gone silent
* Initiated discussion to address past issues from some community members as
instructed by the board
** Result so far is zero replies
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Attachment D: Report from the Apache Ambari Project [Yusaku Sako]
## Description:
- Apache Ambari simplifies provisioning, managing, and monitoring of Apache
Hadoop clusters.
## Activity:
- Since the last report in May 2015, the community has released
2.1.0 which included resolution of 1986 JIRAs. This release boasted major
new features such as Enhanced Configs and Customizable Dashboards, with
expanded OS/JDK support for CentOS 7 and JDK 8, as well as general
stabilization and performance at scale.
The community has also focused on stabilizing the 2.0 line via 2.0.1
(56 JIRAs resolved) and 2.0.2 (14 JIRAs resolved).
Currently, stabilization work for 2.1.1 is underway.
There have been a couple of Meetups held to educate and raise awareness on
Ambari, especially around extensibility
(June 8 at Hadoop Summit and July 29 at Pivotal Open Source Hub).
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## PMC/Committership changes:
- Currently 53 committers and 41 PMC members.
- Jonathan Hurley was added to the PMC on Wed May 20 2015
- Richard Zang was added as a committer on Mon Jun 22 2015
## Releases:
- 2.1.0 was released on Tue Jul 14 2015
- 2.0.2 was released on Fri Aug 07 2015
- 2.0.1 was released on Fri May 22 2015
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@ambari.apache.org:
- 181 subscribers (up 6 in the last 3 months):
- 12424 emails sent to list (12292 in previous quarter)
- user@ambari.apache.org:
- 335 subscribers (up 21 in the last 3 months):
- 381 emails sent to list (554 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 1572 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 1422 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment E: Report from the Apache Ant Project [Conor MacNeill]
Apache Ant Status Report - August 2015
Apache Ant is a Java based build tool along with associated tools. It
consists of 4 main projects:
- Ant core and libraries (Antlibs)
- Ivy - Ant based dependency manager
- IvyDE - Eclipse plugin to integrate Ivy into Eclipse
- EasyAnt - Ant and Ivy toolbox to support build processes
o Release Status
Core
---------
Ant 1.9.5 was released on June 4, 2015
Ant 1.9.6 followed on July 3, 2015 and is the current release
The followup release was due to the introduction of a regression in zip handling
Ivy
-------
Ivy 2.4.0 was released on December 26, 2014
Ivy-DE 2.2.0 was released on November 22, 2013
EasyAnt
-------------
The current release is still from the Incubator
0.9-Incubating.
o Committers and PMC
Jean-Louis Boudart was added to the PMC on Dec 6th, 2013
Charles Duffy was made a committer on Dec 8th, 2013.
o Community
The project remains quiet although we did two core releases soon after my
previous report. These are the first releases in about a year of the core. I
expect activity to remain at similar levels going forward.
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Attachment F: Report from the Apache BookKeeper Project [Sijie Guo]
BookKeeper is a distributed, reliable, and high performance
logging service. The project also includes Hedwig which is
a highly scalable Pub/Sub service built on top of ZooKeeper
and BookKeeper with strong durability guarantees.
= Project Status =
Development has continued towards the 4.4.0 release, which
is a feature release. It will be including improvements on
bookie storage, compaction and ledger recovery, and new
features about last-add-confirmed long poll. A new api about
ledger handle is on proposal and under discussing.
= Releases =
Our last release was 4.3.1, released on 2015-05-27.
The next release will be 4.4.0.
= Community Status =
The last committer added was Matteo Merli (mmerli) on
the 6th Jul 2015.
We are going to schedule the first user meetup in September.
No infrastructure issues.
61 subscribers in dev@bookkeeper.apache.org
77 subscribers in user@bookkeeper.apache.org
853 issues opened to date, 10 since 2015-05-15
589 issues resolved to date, 8 since 2015-05-15
54 people have reported issues, 7 since 2015-05-15
26 people have contributed patches, 4 since 2015-05-15
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Attachment G: Report from the Apache Buildr Project [Alex Boisvert]
Apache Buildr is a Ruby-based build system for Java-based applications,
including support for Scala, Groovy and a growing number of JVM languages and
tools.
We made one minor release (v1.4.23 on June 15th) since our last board report.
Development and community activity (mailing lists, bug reports, etc.) remains
relatively low. Our last committer/PMC change happened in October 2013.
We have no issues that require board attention.
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Attachment H: Report from the Apache Cassandra Project [Jonathan Ellis]
Cassandra is a distributed database providing massive scalability,
high performance, and high availability.
Releases:
2.2.0 20 Jul 2015
2.2rc2 9 Jul 2015
2.1.8 9 Jul 2015
2.1.7 22 Jun 2015
2.0.16 22 Jun 2015
2.2rc1 8 Jun 2015
2.1.6 8 Jun 2015
2.2b1 19 May 2015
Development:
With most of Cassandra 3.0 development complete, but with release
stalled by continuing difficulties in finishing CASSANDRA-8099 (a
rewrite of the storage engine around CQL principles rather than the
old Thrift API), we decided to release the-features-formerly-known-
as-3.0 as 2.2 as soon as possible, followed by a 3.0 release later
based on 8099.
2.2 has now been released successfully. I summarized the new features
in [1].
Community:
Gearing up for the 2015 Cassandra Summit in San Francisco, September
22-24. For the first time, this will be a two-day cconference, plua a
day of hands-on training.
Most recent committer and PMC changes:
Sam Tunnicliffe was added as committer on 18 May 2015.
Aleksey Yeshchenko was added as PMC member on 7 Aug 2014.
[1] http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/cassandra-2-2
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Attachment I: Report from the Apache Celix Project [Alexander Broekhuis]
## Description:
OSGi framework implementation in C.
## Activity:
- Plans for a next release has been made. Lots of bugfixes and updates
have been done.
- Travis build (https://travis-ci.org/apache/celix/) has been set up to be
able to have some CI for Celix.
- Support for Apache Celix on Android (based on a Docker builder) has been
committed.
- Pepijn Noltes and Bjoern Petri will give a presentation about Apache
Celix (and Apache Felix / Apache ACE) @ ApacheCon Europe.
## Health report:
- Mailing activity has been low the last month. Apache Celix is a small
community and it is the holiday season so this is within expectations.
- Number of commits is increasing, which is a good sign. There are some
plans about a next release and this is also needed because the last release
is over an year old.
## Issues:
- there are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## LDAP committee group/Committership changes:
- Currently 7 committers and 7 LDAP committee group members.
- No new LDAP committee group members added in the last 3 months
- Last LDAP committee group addition was Marcel Offermans at Fri Jul 18
2014
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Marcel Offermans at Fri Jul 18 2014
## Releases:
- Last release was 1.0.0-incubating on Tue Feb 25 2014
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@celix.apache.org:
- 56 subscribers (down -2 in the last 3 months):
- 27 emails sent to list (44 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 17 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 10 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment J: Report from the Apache Clerezza Project [Hasan Hasan]
DESCRIPTION
Apache Clerezza is an OSGi-based modular application and a set of components
(bundles) for building RESTFul Semantic Web applications and services.
ISSUES FOR THE BOARD
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
RELEASE
- Clerezza rdfjson 1.0.0 created on May 28, 2015
https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/clerezza/rdfjson-1.0.0/
Vote result: http://s.apache.org/HRq
ACTIVITY
- Improved integration test of the new launchers
- Fixed bugs in jena.sparql and rdf.rdfjson.
COMMUNITY
Latest change was addition of a new committer and PMC member on 16.08.2013
INFRASTRUCTURE
- Website: Hasan said he would fix the download page
(http://clerezza.apache.org/downloads/) but has not got time to do it yet.
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Attachment K: Report from the Apache Cocoon Project [Thorsten Scherler]
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Attachment L: Report from the Apache Community Development Project [Ulrich Stärk]
## Description:
The Community Development PMC is responsible for helping
people become involved with Apache projects
## Activity:
It has been a silent period (July) with little activity
GSoC is approaching the pencils down date with final
evaluations due Aug 28. Of the 56 students that started,
49 made it through the midterm evaluations. For the first
time in our GSoC history we had to deal with a mentor not
submitting their evaluation on time. The situation was
resolved with no negative consequences for the ASF. The
resaon for this mishap was a combination of oversight on
the mentor's side as well as lack of communication on the
admin's side.
ACEU is prepared from our side. All schedules are done.
## Issues:
No issues require board attention at this time.
## PMC/Committership changes:
Currently 19 committers and 21 PMC members.
Sebastian Bazley was added to the PMC in Aug 2015
Herve Boutemy was added to the PMC in Aug 2015
Tony Stevenson was added to the PMC in Aug 2015
Herve Boutemy was added as a committer in Aug 2015
## Mailing list activity:
- mentors@community.apache.org:
- 266 subscribers (down -2 in the last 3 months)
- cfp-review@community.apache.org:
- 36 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months)
- students@community.apache.org:
- 55 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 0 emails sent to list (0 in previous quarter)
- dev@community.apache.org:
- 487 subscribers (up 53 in the last 3 months):
- 703 emails sent to list (917 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 27 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 16 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment M: Report from the Apache Continuum Project [Brent Atkinson]
Apache Continuum is an enterprise-ready continuous integration server with
features such as automated builds, release management, role-based security, and
integration with popular build tools and source control management systems.
Activity
As expected, activity remained low since last report. The spike in issue tracker
and commit activity seen two periods ago was driven driven by a single
contributor with some, but limited, additional activity seen in the issue
tracker and mailing lists. Work towards the 1.5 release has stalled, with a
single issue remaining. A release based on current state may be possible, but
will require the necessary PMC votes, an unknown given the failure of the 1.4.3
release due to lack of votes.
Board Issues
- None at this time. However, failure to release 1.5 next period due to lack
of PMC votes will likely result in a recommendation for a board-initiated
move to the Attic due to a non-functioning PMC.
PMC/Committership changes
- Currently 18 committers and 13 PMC members in the project.
- No new changes to the PMC or committership since last report.
Releases
- Last release was 1.4.2 on Fri Jun 13 2014
Mailing list activity
- users@continuum.apache.org:
- 286 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 0 emails sent to list (0 in previous quarter)
- dev@continuum.apache.org:
- 105 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
- 3 emails sent to list (15 in previous quarter)
- notifications@continuum.apache.org:
- 10 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 4 emails sent to list (22 in previous quarter)
- issues@continuum.apache.org:
- 41 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 0 emails sent to list (312 in previous quarter)
JIRA activity
- No significant activity since last report
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Attachment N: Report from the Apache CouchDB Project [Jan Lehnardt]
Report from the Apache CouchDB committee [Jan Lehnardt]
## Description:
NoSQL document database using HTTP, JSON, and MapReduce
## Activity:
- Finished import of third-party donations: Nano, couchperuser and
couchdb-docker.
- Started establishing release procedure for new project Nano.
- Finishing up last blockers before 2.0 release candidates and final release.
## Health report:
- Current activity is good, albeit a little damped quarter-to-quarter because
of summer.
## Issues:
- there are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## LDAP committee group/Committership changes:
- Currently 49 committers and 12 LDAP committee group members.
- No new LDAP committee group members added in the last 3 months
- Last LDAP committee group addition was Robert Kowalski at Fri Oct 24 2014
- New commmitters:
- Bastian Krol was added as a committer on Thu Jul 30 2015
- Johannes Jörg Schmidt was added as a committer on Wed Jul 01 2015
## Releases:
- Last release was 1.6.1 on Wed Sep 03 2014
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@couchdb.apache.org:
- 581 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 792 emails sent to list (3012 in previous quarter)
- notifications@couchdb.apache.org:
- 11 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months):
- 1762 emails sent to list (88 in previous quarter)
- replication@couchdb.apache.org:
- 78 subscribers (up 4 in the last 3 months):
- 8 emails sent to list (6 in previous quarter)
- user@couchdb.apache.org:
- 1324 subscribers (down -5 in the last 3 months):
- 195 emails sent to list (322 in previous quarter)
- erlang@couchdb.apache.org:
- 189 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 0 emails sent to list (0 in previous quarter)
- announce@couchdb.apache.org:
- 254 subscribers (up 15 in the last 3 months):
- 0 emails sent to list (0 in previous quarter)
- www@couchdb.apache.org:
- 11 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 7 emails sent to list (8 in previous quarter)
- l10n@couchdb.apache.org:
- 42 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 9 emails sent to list (6 in previous quarter)
- marketing@couchdb.apache.org:
- 57 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months):
- 148 emails sent to list (450 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 84 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 65 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment O: Report from the Apache Creadur Project [Brian E Fox]
Apache Creadur creates and maintains a suite of open source software related
to the auditing and comprehension of software distributions. Any language and
build system are welcomed.
Status
------
Since the last report in May, email and commit activity continues to move
along slowly. We’ve had a new Gradle Plugin contributed from other Apache
projects using Gradle. Some work needs to be done to get everything building
properly and cut a formal release.
Creadur is primarily used by other Apache projects to help check for
conformity to ASF standards. This is why the project team is primarily
comprised of members and committers from other ASF projects. The risk of the
project foundering is therefore very low.
Community
---------
The last committer was elected in August, 2012. In September 2013
Phil Ottlinger was elected to join the PMC.
Releases
--------
Apache Rat 0.11 was released in August, 2014 Apache Rat 0.10 was
released in September, 2013.
Community Objectives
--------------------
Release RAT 0.12, progress has already been started on
this. Release Apache Whisker 0.1 Find more committers
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Attachment P: Report from the Apache DeltaSpike Project [Thomas Andraschko]
## Description:
Apache DeltaSpike is a portable JSR-299 CDI
(Contexts and Dependency Injection for Java) Extension library
which contains lots of useful tools and helpers
which are missing in the CDI core spec.
DeltaSpike is not a CDI-container itself, but a portable
Extension library which can run on all CDI-containers!
DeltaSpike is tested and runs on many Java EE Servers like
Apache TomEE, Red Hat JBoss Application Server, JBoss Wildfly,
Oracle WebLogic, Oracle Glassfish, IBM WebSphere, and also on
simple Servlet containers like Apache Tomcat or Jetty in combination
with either JBoss Weld or Apache OpenWebBeans.
## Activity:
We receive contributions from the community on a regular basis.
We added a new module for proxy generation based on ASM to enable e.g. CDI
interceptor execution on the proxy instance. We also did a lot of bug
fixing including security bugs.
## Health report:
The community and developers activity remains high.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## LDAP committee group/Committership changes:
- Currently 32 committers and 18 LDAP committee group members.
- No new LDAP committee group members added in the last 3 months
- Last LDAP committee group addition was Rafael Benevides at Tue Apr 21 2015
- New commmitters:
- Harald Wellmann was added as a committer on Mon Jun 08 2015
- Daniel Cunha was added as a committer on Wed Jun 03 2015
## Releases:
- 1.4.0 was released on Mon May 18 2015
- 1.4.1 was released on Fri Jun 12 2015
- 1.4.2 was released on Sun Jul 19 2015
## Mailing list activity:
- users@deltaspike.apache.org:
- 158 subscribers (up 5 in the last 3 months):
- 90 emails sent to list (174 in previous quarter)
- dev@deltaspike.apache.org:
- 107 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
- 821 emails sent to list (607 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 80 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 94 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment Q: Report from the Apache DeviceMap Project [Reza Naghibi]
(submitted by Bertrand Delacretaz representing the DeviceMap PMC, whose chair
has resigned with immediate effect [1] )
DeviceMap has reached the minimal viable number of PMC members with only three
of them remaining, after two PMC members, including the current PMC chair,
resigned this week based on seemingly unresolvable difficulties between them
and another PMC member [1] [2].
A resolution to establish a new chair is provided along with this report.
With this and very low activity in the project it looks like the Attic might
be the next step.
However, the PMC would like to give it some time before making a final
decision, in case something positive happens in the next few months.
The PMC will observe the project's activity and health for the next three
months and review the possible move to the Attic based on what happens between
now and our next report, which is due for the board's November meeting.
[1] http://s.apache.org/RGQ
[2] http://s.apache.org/7OW
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Attachment R: Report from the Apache Drill Project [Jacques Nadeau]
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Attachment S: Report from the Apache Empire-db Project [Francis De Brabandere]
Apache Empire-db is a relational database abstraction layer that allows
developers to take a more SQL-centric approach in application development
than traditional ORM frameworks. Its focus is to allow highly efficient
database operations in combination with a maximum of compile-time-safety
and DBMS independence.
Progress of the project
In the past three month we have received several contributions from new
users as well as suggestions for improvements and some bug reports.
We have already added the contributions to the project trunk and we have
added some more improvements and fixes.
At the moment we are in the process of preparing a new release.
Changes in committers or PMC members
There have been no changes in committers or PMC members during the last
months.
Issues
There are no issues that require the board's attention at this time.
Releases
The vote for Apache-Empire-db 2.4.4 is currently awaiting acceptance.
Latest release was Apache-Empire-db 2.4.3 released on 20/Aug/2014.
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Attachment T: Report from the Apache Etch Project [Martin Veith]
Apache Etch is a cross-platform, language- and transport-independent
RPC-like framework for building and consuming network services.
BOARD ISSUES
There are no Board-level issues at this time.
RELEASES
* Apache Etch 1.4.0 was released on August, 06 2014.
ACTIVITY
* Bug fix release 1.4.1 has been delayed due to some minor issues, but will be
released soon
* Nearly no activity since last report on the user and developer mailing lists.
If activity is not increasing, I will start a discussion in the PMC how to
make Etch more visible or even a discussion if it should be moved to attic.
COMMITTERS OR PMC MEMBERS CHANGE
* No changes regarding PMC or committers composition since graduation
in January 2013.
* No changes in our committer and user base. We were able to get
exactly three binding PMC votes for the last release.
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Attachment U: Report from the Apache Flume Project [Arvind Prabhakar]
DESCRIPTION
Apache Flume is a distributed, reliable, and available system for
efficiently collecting, aggregating, and moving large amounts of log
data to scalable data storage systems such as Apache Hadoop's HDFS.
RELEASES
* The last release of Flume was version 1.6.0, released on May
20, 2015.
* No other releases are planned at this time.
CURRENT ACTIVITY
* A total of 59 issues have been filed, and 15 issues have been
resolved between the period starting May 5, 2015 and August 3,
2015.
* Approximately 533 messages were exchanged on the dev list in the
past three months, while a total of 205 were exchanged on the user
list in this period.
COMMUNITY
* The last time a new committer was added to the project was on
June 19, 2015.
* The last time a new PMC member was elected for the project was
on November 4, 2014.
* Currently there are:
- Total of 264 subscribers to the developer list
- Total of 638 subscribers to the user list
- Total of 26 committers
- Total of 21 PMC members
ISSUES
* There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
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Attachment V: Report from the Apache Forrest Project [David Crossley]
Apache Forrest mission is software for generation of aggregated multi-channel
documentation maintaining a separation of content and presentation.
Issues needing board attention:
None.
Changes in the PMC membership:
None.
Last modified: 2013-04-08
Most recent addition: 2009-06-09
New committers:
None.
Most recent addition: 2009-06-09
General status:
The most recent release is 0.9 on 2011-02-07.
No activity on the user mail list. However it never gets used much anyway.
There was almost zero activity on the dev mail list.
One PMC member (me) was present during the quarter. Immediately following
our last (May) report, another PMC member indicated their presence.
At this report, three other PMC members responded to my draft report.
This confirms that there are sufficient people hanging around for us to
potentially be able to make a decision or encourage new contributors.
Project status:
Activity: Idle
3+ people have indicated presence, so has sufficient oversight.
Security issues reported:
None.
Progress of the project:
I added a few comments to our issue tracker regarding some license
improvements for any upcoming release.
I made some commits for some improvements to documentation and examples,
and better explained searches at JIRA to help people to navigate our
issue tracker.
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Attachment W: Report from the Apache Giraph Project [Avery Ching]
Giraph is a Bulk Synchronous Parallel framework for writing programs
that analyze large graphs on a Hadoop cluster. Giraph is similar to
Google's Pregel system.
Project releases
* We expect to make a new 1.2 release that includes the Blocks & Pieces
framework
Overall project activity since the last report
* Multithreaded graph mutation
* Blocks & pieces framework
* Lots of bug fixes
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
* Igor Kabiljo on 2/10/15
New community development
* Maja Kabiljo gave the talk "Large scale Collaborative Filtering using Apache
Giraph" in the recent Hadoop Summit
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=1668&v=LkvXc6zASvo)
Mailing list members
We continue to see mailing list growth.
user@ 446 -> 455
dev@ 262 -> 273
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Attachment X: Report from the Apache Gora Project [Lewis John McGibbney]
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Attachment Y: Report from the Apache Hama Project [ChiaHung Lin]
## Description:
Hama is an efficient and scalable general-purpose BSP computing engine.
## Activity:
- Release v0.7.1 once the bug HAMA-963 is fixed.
- Plan DNN platform on top of Apache Hama.
## Health report:
- Subscribers in dev is slightly increased and that in user is
relative stable. Although Hama released a new version v0.7.0 on Jun,
the community is relative small that accounts for the current traffic
in health report.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## LDAP committee group/Committership changes:
- Currently 15 committers and 9 LDAP committee group members.
- No new LDAP committee group members added in the last 3 months
- Last LDAP committee group addition was Yexi Jiang at Thu Mar 13 2014
- Minho Kim was added as a committer on Thu Jun 11 2015
## Releases:
- 0.7.0 was released on Sat Jun 13 2015
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@hama.apache.org:
- 107 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 361 emails sent to list (483 in previous quarter)
- user@hama.apache.org:
- 182 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 62 emails sent to list (2 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 15 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 17 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment Z: Report from the Apache Hive Project
[Alan Gates filling in for Carl Steinbach]
## Description:
- The Apache Hive (TM) data warehouse software facilitates querying and
managing large datasets residing in distributed storage.
## Activity:
- Hive continues to develop on multiple fronts. The community recently
agreed to create a branch-1 to maintain stability and backwards compatibility
while developing new functionality on master. The new work includes work to
speed up query processing (llap, hbase-metastore) and simplify code paths
(beeline-cli). A new module was contributed to Hive from the PL/HQL project,
adding procedural SQL to Hive. Work is also on going on improving Hive on
Apache Spark.
## Health report:
- Hive continues to attract new contributors. Development in terms of bug
fixing and new features is strong. Mailing list activity is strong.
## Issues:
- The board has noted that the report has been late multiple times and asked
the PMC to step in this time, One PMC members (Owen O'Malley) suggested it is
time to rotate the chair and one board member (Rich Bowen) concurred.
## LDAP committee group/Committership changes:
- Currently 55 committers and 28 LDAP committee group members.
- New PMC members:
- Gopal Vijayaraghavan was added on Fri Jun 12 2015
- Sushanth Sowmyan was added on Mon Jul 20 2015
- Sun Chao was added on Fri Jun 12 2015
- New commmitters:
- Matt McCline was added as a committer on Mon May 18 2015
- Lalam Chinna Rao was added as a committer on Wed Jul 01 2015
- Chaoyu Tang was added as a committer on Thu May 21 2015
- Pengcheng Xiong was added as a committer on Mon Aug 10 2015
- Dmitry Tolpeko was added as a committer on Mon Aug 17 2015
## Releases:
- 1.1.1 was released on Wed May 20 2015
- 1.0.1 was released on Wed May 20 2015
- 1.2.1 was released on Fri Jun 26 2015
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@hive.apache.org:
- 775 subscribers (up 30 in the last 3 months):
- 1833 emails sent to list (2792 in previous quarter)
- issues@hive.apache.org:
- 12 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 8189 emails sent to list (8180 in previous quarter)
- user@hive.apache.org:
- 2051 subscribers (up 67 in the last 3 months):
- 656 emails sent to list (997 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 838 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 662 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment AA: Report from the Apache HTTP Server Project [Eric Covener]
## Description:
The Apache HTTP Server Project develops and maintains an
open-source HTTP server for modern operating systems.
## Activity:
- mod_h2 (an implementation of HTTP/2) has been added to trunk
and activity has begun to better integrate it.
## Health report:
- Maintenance activities are proceeding in a healthy way
- Little forward development activity beyond mod_h2 integration
## Issues:
- No issues requiring the boards attention
## LDAP committee group/Committership changes:
- Stefan Eissing was added to the LDAP committee group on Tue Jul 21 2015
- New commmitters:
- Stefan Eissing was added as a committer on Mon Jul 06 2015
- Edward Lu was added as a committer on Tue Jul 07 2015
## Releases:
- 2.4.16 was released on Wed Jul 15 2015
- 2.2.31 was released on Thu Jul 16 2015
- (2.0.x is EOL)
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Attachment AB: Report from the Apache HttpComponents Project [Asankha Perera]
The Apache HttpComponents project is responsible for creating and maintaining a
toolset of low-level Java components focused on HTTP and associated protocols.
Status
Overall the project remains active. HttpCore 5.0 and HttpClient 5.0 are nearing
a major milestone of being compliant with mandatory requirements of RFC 7230,
RFC 7231 and RFC 7235.
Releases
The last report was submitted in mid June. There has not been any releases
during this period.
HttpCore 5.0 and HttpClient 5.0 ALPHA 1 releases can be expected in the course
of next months.
Community
The community remains small but active, but has good user interaction on the
mailing lists.
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Attachment AC: Report from the Apache Incubator Project [Ted Dunning]
Incubator PMC report for August 2015
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 43 podlings currently under incubation.
Generally things have been going well although podlings that are very quiet
has continued to accumulate, likely requiring action in the next few months.
The Ignite graduation discussion was long and some of the community was
surprised a bit by some opinions about the podling. The discussion has
precipitated yet another discussion about reorganizing the Incubator, but I
personally think that the discussion and proposal are better served by
increasing the communications between the Incubator at large and the podlings
to move such exposure to a diversity of opinions earlier in the life of the
podlings, possibly by encouraging more shepherding.
No board action is required on this topic at this time.
* Community
New IPMC members:
Flavio Junquiero
People who left the IPMC:
(none)
* New Podlings
No new podlings entered the incubator this month.
* Graduations
The board has motions for the following:
Ignite
Lens
* Releases
The following releases were made since the last Incubator report:
2015-07-27 - apache-brooklyn-0.7.0-incubating
2015-07-24 - Apache-Twill-0.6.0-incubating
2015-07-23 - Apache-Zeppelin-0.5.0-incubating release
2015-07-22 - apache-ripple-emulator-0.9.30-incubating
2015-07-21 - apache-ignite-1.3.0-incubating
2015-07-21 - apache-samoa-0.3.0-incubating
2015-07-21 - apache-kylin-0.7.2-incubating
2015-07-16 - apache-tinkerpop-3.0.0-incubating
2015-07-16 - apache-usergrid-1.0.2-incubating
2015-07-16 - apache-nifi-0.2.0-incubating
2015-07-16 - apache-groovy-2.4.4-incubating
2015-07-16 - apache-lens-2.2.0-beta-incubating
2015-07-09 - apache-sentry-1.5.1-incubating
2015-07-09 - apache-atlas-0.5-incubating
* IP Clearance
JBoss HornetQ code grant to the ActiveMQ PMC.
* Legal / Trademarks
* Infrastructure
Marvin board report reminders went out this month. There was
much rejoicing.
* Miscellaneous
* Report Manager: John D. Ament
-------------------- Summary of podling reports --------------------
* Still getting started at the Incubator
AsterixDB
Climate Model Diagnostic Analyzer
DataFu
FreeMarker
* Not yet ready to graduate
No release:
Blur
Tamaya
Community growth:
Kylin
TinkerPop
Trafodion
Twill
* Ready to graduate
Calcite
The Board has motions for the following:
Ignite
Lens
* Did not report, expected next month
BatchEE (Shepherd notes remaining)
Droids (Shepherd notes remaining)
Kalumet
REEF
Ripple
Slider
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Table of Contents
AsterixDB
BatchEE (notes only)
Blur
Calcite
Climate Model Diagnostic Analyzer
DataFu
Droids (notes only)
FreeMarker
Kylin
ODF Toolkit
Sentry
Sirona
Tamaya
TinkerPop
Trafodion
Twill
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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. Migrate issues from Google Code
2. Do an Apache release.
3. Grow community
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware
of?
1. The most urgent issue right now is to migrate the issues from the
Google Code tracker to the ASF JIRA (INFRA-9954) as Google Code turns
read-only on Aug 24. The issue was open with sporadic activity for
some time. Recently, the frequency of the interactions with infra has
increased significantly (thanks!), but the problem is not solved yet.
2. There was a discussion on the use of a Gerrit instance hosted at UCI
for code reviews in this project. After an initial assumption that this
was contrary to Apache policy and the subsequent
a) clarification on how Gerrit is being used (every AsterixDB commit is
explicitly made by a committer to the ASF git repo - not by Gerrit),
b) configuration of Gerrit that all notifications are sent the the
project's mailing list, and
c) addition of a step at Gerrit account creation that requires that an
ICLA is on file at the ASF
the current state of the discussion is that this is
a) not contrary to policy but also
b) not ideal as the regular workflow depends on non-ASF resources.
Ideally the code review tool would be hosted by infra, but capacity is
an issue.
How has the community developed since the last report?
Getting more requests on opportunities to contribute and also some
contributions.
How has the project developed since the last report?
- New website is up
- YARN support added
- Other development is ongoing
Date of last release:
No Releases yet.
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
No new elected PPMC and/or committers since entering incubator.
Signed-off-by:
[x](asterixdb) Ate Douma
[ ](asterixdb) Chris Mattmann
[ ](asterixdb) Henry Saputra
[x](asterixdb) Jochen Wiedmann
[x](asterixdb) Ted Dunning
--------------------
BatchEE
BatchEE projects aims to provide a JBatch implementation (aka JSR352) and a
set of useful extensions for this specification.
BatchEE has been incubating since 2013-10-03.
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
Justin Mclean:
Did not report (3rd time in a row). Low mailing list activity.
--------------------
Blur
Blur is a search platform capable of searching massive amounts of data in a
cloud computing environment.
Blur has been incubating since 2012-07-24.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. At this point we need to have more releases, more often.
2.
3.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware
of?
No
How has the community developed since the last report?
- Subscriptions: user@ - 55[-2]; dev@ - 67[0]
How has the project developed since the last report?
Many bug fixes, plus a release vote was called. It did not pass due to
some licensing issues with a javascript library in a web application that
is apart of the Blur project. It has recently been resolved, we will call
a vote for a new release in the beginning of August.
Date of last release:
2014-07-29 (The vote for the 0.2.4 release was called on 2015-07-02)
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
2014-07-28
Signed-off-by:
[ ](blur) Doug Cutting
[X](blur) Patrick Hunt
[X](blur) Tim Williams
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
--------------------
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. Add more PPMC members.
2. Demonstrate community robustness by rotating project tasks among
multiple project members.
3. There is no third thing. We are almost ready to graduate.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware
of?
None.
How has the community developed since the last report?
The last report was in April. (We are reporting a month late, because
we missed the July report.)
In July, there were 148 messages on dev@, 37 commits, 44 issues
created, 39 issues resolved by 10 contributors.
Diversity is improving. The 1.4 release will be the first release for
which Julian Hyde was not release manager.
Julian Hyde won best lightning talk at XLDB 2015 in May with the talk
"Apache Calcite: One planner fits all".
Tom Barber spoke about Calcite at ApacheCon NA in April.
Collaborations with other Apache projects continue:
* Phoenix has built a remote JDBC driver using Calcite’s Avatica
component.
* Phoenix is replacing their SQL parser & planner with Calcite.
* Samza is developing support for streaming SQL queries using
Calcite for parsing and planning.
* Kylin upgraded from 0.9.2 to 1.3.
* Collaboration with Hive and Drill continues.
How has the project developed since the last report?
We completed releases 1.2 and 1.3, and are preparing 1.4.
Date of last release:
2015-05-30 apache-calcite-1.3.0-incubating
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
2015-04-24 5 new committers
2014-12-31 1 new PPMC member
Signed-off-by:
[X](calcite) Ted Dunning
[X](calcite) Alan Gates
[X](calcite) Steven Noels
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
Ted Dunning:
This is turning into a serious community. They should consider
graduation.
johndament:
Podling seems to be in good shape. They may want to consider
beginning the graduation process.
--------------------
Climate Model Diagnostic Analyzer
CMDA provides web services for multi-aspect physics-based and phenomenon-
oriented climate model performance evaluation and diagnosis through the
comprehensive and synergistic use of multiple observational data, reanalysis
data, and model outputs.
Climate Model Diagnostic Analyzer has been incubating since 2015-05-08.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Start developing at the ASF
2. Start using ASF JIRA
3. Get code pushed to ASF Git repo
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware
of?
N/A
How has the community developed since the last report?
See below
How has the project developed since the last report?
CMDA has not really gotten started at the ASF yet. Very little has changed
since the last report. The most important thing is getting the community
started. At the moment the CMDA JIRA is completely empty and the code base
has yet to be pushed to the git repo. Mailing list activity is largely
non-existent and there's no website up for the project yet. Hopefully
these hurdles will be crossed during this next month so that more active
develop can start for the project.
Date of last release:
None yet
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
None yet
Signed-off-by:
[ ](climatemodeldiagnosticanalyzer) James W. Carman
[ ](climatemodeldiagnosticanalyzer) Chris Mattmann
[X](climatemodeldiagnosticanalyzer) Michael James Joyce
[ ](climatemodeldiagnosticanalyzer) Kim Whitehall
[ ](climatemodeldiagnosticanalyzer) Gregory D. Reddin
--------------------
DataFu
DataFu provides a collection of Hadoop MapReduce jobs and functions in higher
level languages based on it to perform data analysis. It provides functions
for common statistics tasks (e.g. quantiles, sampling), PageRank, stream
sessionization, and set and bag operations. DataFu also provides Hadoop jobs
for incremental data processing in MapReduce.
DataFu has been incubating since 2014-01-05.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Do first release
2. Grow user and contributor base
3. Increased committer activity
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware
of?
* Performing the initial release remains the most important milestone.
However, the majority of the known tasks for this have been completed.
The remaining tasks are related to documentation. We are able to
generate a signed, versioned source release from the build system.
How has the community developed since the last report?
* A couple new contributors have submitted patches. One of these has been
committed and the other is nearly ready to be committed.
How has the project developed since the last report?
* The build system has been updated to provide tasks for generating
signed, versioned source releases. Documentation has been updated as
well with instructions on how to do this.
* Apache DataFu has been updated to run against Hadoop 2. There was an
issue running the Hourglass integration tests against Hadoop 2, which
had been blocking this update.
* A couple new patches from two new contributors for Pig UDFs have been
submitted. One of these is an improvement to the HyperLogLog UDF
cardinality estimator that makes it much more efficient. The other is a
helper for getting a tuple out of a bag.
* A patch has been submitted for a UDF to incrementally process
date-partitioned data in Pig. This provides similar functionality that
is available in Hourglass.
Date of last release:
* Not yet released
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
* November 2014
Signed-off-by:
[ ](datafu) Ashutosh Chauhan
[X](datafu) Roman Shaposhnik
[X](datafu) Ted Dunning
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
Ted Dunning:
The generation of signed releases on shared hardware has historically
raised serious security questions from infra. I think that this process
needs to be vetted very carefully.
--------------------
Droids
Droids aims to be an intelligent standalone robot framework that allows to
create and extend existing droids (robots).
Droids has been incubating since 2008-10-09.
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
johndament:
Did not report. Podling seems to be in bad shape. Prior reports
indicated similar issues.
--------------------
FreeMarker
FreeMarker is a template engine, i.e. a generic tool to generate text output
based on templates. FreeMarker is implemented in Java as a class library for
programmers.
FreeMarker has been incubating since 2015-07-01.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. IP clearance
2. Move to ASF infrastructure, especially the code repository
3. Finding contributors
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 are in early stage of incubation (like source code wasn't imported
yet), so there's no change.
How has the project developed since the last report?
We have collected the required Software Grants and ICLA-s. We are working
on the migration to the ASF infrastructure and preparing for the IP
clearance process.
Date of last release:
There was no release from the Incubator yet
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
We only have the initial comitters and inital PMC members yet.
Signed-off-by:
[X](freemarker) Jacopo Cappellato
[ ](freemarker) Jean-Frederic Clere
[ ](freemarker) David E. Jones
[X](freemarker) Ralph Goers
[ ](freemarker) Sergio Fernández
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
P. Taylor Goetz:
Freemarker is still ramping up.
--------------------
Kylin
Kylin is a distributed and scalable OLAP engine built on Hadoop to support
extremely large datasets.
Kylin has been incubating since 2014-11-25.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Grow community to add more PPMC members, contributors
2. Rotate community tasks between PPMC members
3. Well manage features (streaming and batch) within coming releases
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware
of?
* Nothing
How has the community developed since the last report?
1. In July, there were 610 messages on dev@, 52 issues created, 22 issues
resolved
2. Qianhao Zhou has presented Apache Kylin
at China Hadoop Summit 2015 Shanghai on July 24, 2015
3. Debashis Saha and Luke Han has presented Apache Kylin
at Hadoop Summit 2015 San Jose on June 9, 2015
4. Hongbin Ma has presented Apache Kylin
at OSC (Open source innovation meetup) Shanghai on June 14, 2015
5. Fabian Wilckens has spoken about Apache Kylin
at Berlin BuzzWords on June 1, 2015
6. Medha Samant has presented Apache Kylin
at Drill Meetup Bayarea on May 26, 2015
How has the project developed since the last report?
1. Released 0.7.1 and 0.7.2, is preparing release 0.7.3
2. Cleanup and GC tool of cube build job
3. Early streaming features bring into 0.8 branch,
continuing refactoring to support lambda architecture
4. Metadata migration tool
5. Kafka as streaming source
6. In-memory cubing for streaming
7. Upgraded Calcite to 1.3 to support better SQL functions and bug fixes
8. Bug fixes
Date of last release:
2015-07-21 v0.7.2-incubating released
2015-06-10 v0.7.1-incubating released (First Apache Release)
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
1. Two new mentors joined Apache Kylin PMC: Julian Hyde and Taylor Goetz
Signed-off-by:
[ ](kylin) Owen O'Malley
[X](kylin) Ted Dunning
[X](kylin) Henry Saputra
[X](kylin) Julian Hyde
[X](kylin) P. Taylor Goetz
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
Ted Dunning: This is a very active and inclusive community.
--------------------
ODF Toolkit
Java modules that allow programmatic creation, scanning and manipulation of
OpenDocument Format (ISO/IEC 26300 == ODF) documents
ODF Toolkit has been incubating since 2011-08-01.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Grow the community
2. Generate additional releases
3.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware
of?
Very quiet.
How has the community developed since the last report?
No new committers. New tickets have been raised by interested users.
Date of last release:
2014-06-02
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
2012-10-29
Signed-off-by:
[ ](odftoolkit) Sam Ruby
[ ](odftoolkit) Nick Burch
[ ](odftoolkit) Yegor Kozlov
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
-------------------------
Sentry
Sentry is a highly modular system for providing fine grained role based
authorization to both data and metadata stored on an Apache Hadoop cluster.
Sentry has been incubating since 2013-08-08.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Encourage more feature and direction discussions on the dev list rather
than jira.
2. Continue reporting on time
3. Improve release schedules
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware
of?
* Community has fixed all the issues raised except for the ongoing efforts
mentioned in the previous section.
* Community has released Sentry 1.5.1 after fixing the earlier release
issues.
* Making project direction more visible: Created a roadmap page on wiki,
so that there is one place every one can see what is community working
on or aspiring to work on.
* Project is now doing monthly reporting
How has the community developed since the last report?
We had 73 messages on dev list last month. (Got number from
http://markmail.org/list/org.apache.sentry.dev)
How has the project developed since the last report?
About 42 issues were created and about 46 resolved(Numbers from jira).
Date of last release:
2015-07-14
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
Colin Ma, Dapeng Sun, Guoquan Shen and Xiaomeng Huang were added as
committers on 12/24/2014. No new PPMC members have been added since the
project has entered the incubator.
Signed-off-by:
[X](sentry) Arvind Prabhakar
[ ](sentry) Joe Brockmeier
[ ](sentry) David Nalley
[ ](sentry) Olivier Lamy
[X](sentry) Patrick Hunt
[ ](sentry) Thomas White
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
--------------------
Sirona
Monitoring Solution.
Sirona has been incubating since 2013-10-15.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Increase community
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware
of?
Nothing.
How has the community developed since the last report?
Not a lot.
How has the project developed since the last report?
Ongoing incremental improvements and bug fixes.
Discussing/preparing a new release.
Date of last release:
2014-06-26
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
None added since project has started
Signed-off-by:
[X](sirona) Olivier Lamy
[ ](sirona) Henri Gomez
[ ](sirona) Jean-Baptiste Onofre
[ ](sirona) Tammo van Lessen
[ ](sirona) Mark Struberg
--------------------
Tamaya
Tamaya is a highly flexible configuration solution based on an modular,
extensible and injectable key/value based design, which should provide a
minimal but extendible modern and functional API leveraging SE, ME and EE
environments.
Tamaya has been incubating since 2014-11-14.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. We need more active contributors.
2. We must provide support for Java EE.
3. We must release more often.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware
of?
No.
How has the community developed since the last report?
Streamlining all features and preparingthe first release took more
time as originally suggested due to absences of key people involved.
It has shown that additional committers are urgently needed.
There were several that have shown interest, but unfortunately this
did not lead to additional contributors.
We hope that presentations at ApacheCon, Devoxx and several other
conferences as well as articles at JAXenter and more will
help to improve the community until end of year.
How has the project developed since the last report?
We have now an agreed core set of APIs and extensions that provide a
healthy and usefule base for the future. The extensions are all
well tested and documented, so we should be able tome come up
if a good quality with our first release. The first release
0.1-incubating is now in the vote on PMC, so we are
now on track to further wider community awereness for our
project. Anatole has a article series on the topic in the
biggest German technical paper and also will blog regularly
on it, once the release is out. As a star spec lead his
network should definitively help to grow community then.
Date of last release:
None. But first release is discussed in the PMC as of now,
so within the next 1-2 week it should be out.
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
See last report (no new committers or PMC members).
Signed-off-by:
[X](tamaya) John D. Ament
[ ](tamaya) Mark Struberg
[ ](tamaya) Gerhard Petracek
[ ](tamaya) David Blevins
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
johndament:
The small community came together quickly following existing ASF best
practices to get their first together. Thank you especially to Justin
Mclean for pre-reviewing the release to catch any issues. Once Tamaya
gets through some community growth, they will be well functioning.
--------------------
TinkerPop
Apache TinkerPop is a graph computing framework.
Apache TinkerPop has been incubating since 2015-01-16.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Grow community.
2. N/A.
3. N/A.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware
of?
N/A.
How has the community developed since the last report?
TinkerPop has added a new contributor (Matt Frantz). Furthermore with the
release of TinkerPop 3.0.0-incubating (i.e. GA), more graph vendors will
start to implement the framework given the stability of the API.
How has the project developed since the last report?
- Released 3.0.0-incubating.
- Currently working on 3.1.0 and 3.0.1 branches.
Date of last release:
July 9, 2015
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
A new committer -- Matt Frantz (July 8, 2015)
Signed-off-by:
[X] (tinkerpop) Rich Bowen
--------------------
Trafodion
Trafodion is a webscale SQL-on-Hadoop solution enabling transactional or
operational workloads on Hadoop.
Trafodion has been incubating since 2015-05-24.
Four most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Develop community and a deeper understanding of the Apache Way. Move
all communication to project public lists.
2. Complete wiki migration and website build.
3. Resolve remaining license conflicts.
4. Make our first Apache (incubating) 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?
* All issues are now discussed through JIRAs.
* An on boarding process for new contributors has been documented in the
wiki.
* We have 30 contributors from more than 4 organizations.
* Accepted to present at ApacheCon in Budapest on September 30.
* At least 2 users have been guided through public lists as they try out
the product.
How has the project developed since the last report?
* Website up at http://trafodion.incubator.apache.org/
* 5 pages added to the wiki at
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/TRAFODION/
* Daily builds are being done using a CI system outside of ASF
Infrastructure.
* 17 authors have made 29 commits to master in July. 165 files changed,
9518 lines additions, 5742 deletions.
* With migration from previous issue tracking system completed we have
1415 JIRAs created and 36 resolved in July 2015
Date of last release:
We have not done a release of Trafodion since incubation.
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
Steve Varnau elected as committer on July 16, 2015.
Signed-off-by:
[X](trafodion) Andrew Purtell
[ ](trafodion) Devaraj Das
[ ](trafodion) Enis Söztutar
[ ](trafodion) Lars Hofhansl
[X](trafodion) Michael Stack
[X](trafodion) Roman Shaposhnik
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
P. Taylor Goetz:
Podling is still ramping up. Mentors engaged in the process.
--------------------
Twill
Twill is an abstraction over Apache Hadoop YARN that reduces the complexity of
developing distributed applications, allowing developers to focus more on
their business logic.
Twill has been incubating since 2013-11-14.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Encouraging more contributions in open manner
2. More regular release cycles and roadmap
3. Increase adoptions
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware
of?
* Need help from mentors to verify releases to get binding votes in dev
list before going to general incubator list
How has the community developed since the last report?
* New release 0.6.0-incubating on July 24, 2015
* 19 JIRA issues resolved since last report
* Add 2 new external contributors
* Add a new PPMC member
How has the project developed since the last report?
* Version 0.6.0-incubating is released
* Fixing issue to support MapR distribution
* Adding new PPMC member: Henry Saputra
Date of last release:
2015-07-24 0.6.0-incubating
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
2015-08-04 Henry Saputra
Signed-off-by:
[ ](twill) Arun C Murthy
[ ](twill) Tom White
[X](twill) Patrick Hunt
[ ](twill) Andrei Savu
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
-----------------------------------------
Attachment AD: Report from the Apache jUDDI Project [Alex O'Ree]
August 2015 Report for the jUDDI project
jUDDI (pronounced "Judy") is an open source Java implementation of the
Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration (UDDI v3) specification for
(Web) Services. The jUDDI project includes Scout. Scout is an implementation
of the JSR 93 - Java API for XML Registries 1.0 (JAXR).
jUDDI
- Low traffic on the mailing lists this quarter.
- 3.3 Released July 15, 2015
Scout
- No release this period, not really any development took place.
- Very low volume of JAXR related questions on the mailing list.
Last PMC addition and new committer April 3, 2013 (Alex O'Ree)
Last Release jUDDI-3.3.0, July 15, 2015
There are no issues that require the boards attention at this time.
-----------------------------------------
Attachment AE: Report from the Apache Kafka Project [Jun Rao]
Apache Kafka is a distributed pub/sub system for efficiently collecting and
delivering a large number of messages to both offline and online systems.
Development
===========
We are actively developing multiple features in the next release. These include
(1) a new java-based consumer; (2) security (authorization and authentication);
(3) quotas; (4) a framework for copying data into and out of Kafka; (5) a stream
processing api integrated with Kafka.
Community
===========
Lots of activities in the mailing list. kafka-user has 435, 278, 86 emails in
Feb, Mar and Apr, respectively (down from 453 in Apr). kafka-dev has 1532, 800,
402 emails in May, Jun and Jul, respectively (down from 2001 in Apr). We last
elected a new committer Gwen Shapira on Jul. 6, 2015. We also added Guozhang
Wang to pmc on Jun. 10, 2015. We had two Kafka meetups in the bay area on May
19 and Jun. 16.
Releases
===========
0.8.2.1 was released on Mar. 11, 2015.
-----------------------------------------
Attachment AF: Report from the Apache Knox Project [Kevin Minder]
# Description
The Knox Gateway is a REST API gateway for securing Hadoop REST APIs at the
perimeter.
# Issues
None
# Status
* Working toward releases 0.6.1 and 0.7.0
# Releases
* 0.6.0: 2015-04-30
* 0.5.1: 2015-12-01
* 0.5.0: 2014-11-04
* 0.4.0: 2014-04-21
* 0.3.0: 2013-10-13 (Incubating)
# Development Activity
* Community has just released 0.6.0
* Jira: 579 total, 130 open, +19 -29 over last 90 days
* Git (Source): 26 commits over last 90 days
* SVN (Site & Docs): 18 commits over last 90 days
# Community Activity
## Contributors Added
* 3 new contributors active
## Membership Changes
* None
## Mailing List Activity
* dev@knox: 393 messages over last 90 days
* user@knox: 115 messages over last 90 days
-----------------------------------------
Attachment AG: Report from the Apache Libcloud Project [Tomaz Muraus]
Libcloud is a Python library that abstracts away the differences among
multiple cloud provider APIs.
Issues
There are no issues that require the board's attention at this time.
Releases
- No releases during this period, but we are currently working on
rolling out 0.18.0 which should be out some time in the next couple of
weeks.
- Last release was 0.17.0 on February 18th, 2015
Community
- No PMC additions / changes during this period
- Last PMC addition was a new committer on March 17th, 2015
-----------------------------------------
Attachment AH: Report from the Apache Logging Project [Christian Grobmeier]
The Apache Logging Services Project creates and maintains open-
source software related to application logging.
Currently there are no issues which require the board's attention.
- Community
Log4j 2 remains an active project. The overall
community is healthy and friendly.
Log4j 1.x has reached its "End Of Life". Following the vote, we will
prepare all necessary steps together with press@apache (Sally).
Log4cxx is still active at the Incubator.
In general, all subprojects are healthy despite the community didn't grow
much in the past months.
- Project Branding Requirements
All components except Chainsaw meet the branding requirements.
We will fix the Chainsaw branding with the next release.
- Last three community changes
* Matt Sicker joined as PMC Member on Aug 10 2014
* Bruce Brouwer joined as a Committer on May 16 2014
* Matt Sicker joined as a Committer on Mar 01 2014
- Releases
* Log4j 2.3.0 (May 15, 2015)
* Log4j 2.2.0 (Feb 26, 2015)
* Log4j 2.1.0 (Oct 28, 2014)
- Subproject summaries
Log4j 2: Active. R2.4.0 will be out soon.
Log4j 1: Will be announced as EOL product soon.
Log4net: Almost no activity, but questions on the mailing lists are answered.
Log4cxx: Active in the Incubator. Release is considered.
Log4php: Almost no activity, but questions on the mailing lists are answered.
Chainsaw: Ready for a new release.
-----------------------------------------
Attachment AI: Report from the Apache ManifoldCF Project [Karl Wright]
ManifoldCF PMC Chair: Karl Wright (kwright@apache.org)
Date: August 2015
Project description
==============
ManifoldCF is an effort to provide an open source framework for connecting
source content repositories like Microsoft Sharepoint and EMC Documentum, to
target repositories or indexes, such as Apache Solr, OpenSearchServer or
ElasticSearch. ManifoldCF also defines a security model for target
repositories that permits them to enforce source-repository security policies.
Releases
========
ManifoldCF graduated from the Apache Incubator on May 16, 2012. Since then,
there have been numerous major releases, including a 1.9 and 2.1 release on
May 3 and 4, 2015. The next pair of major releases is scheduled for August
31, 2015.
ManifoldCF is still in the position of supporting both a legacy set of releases
(1.x), and a non-backwards-compatible set of releases (2.x). The 1.10 release
is planned to be the last major release of the 1.x series of releases.
Committers and PMC membership
=============================
The last committer we signed up was Kishore Kumar on April 28, 2015.
Mailing list activity
=====================
Mailing list has moderately active. Most of our connectors now have
significant use cases and constituencies. We are participating in Google
Summer of Code this year, and expect new connectors to come from that. Dev
list comments for this period centered around the ManifoldCF 2.1 and 1.9
releases, and occasional user questions. I am unaware of any mailing-list
question that has gone unanswered.
Outstanding issues
==================
Release upload to the dist.apache.org svn repository is quite slow, and takes
well over an hour for a single ManifoldCF release candidate. We raised this
issue with Infra originally by posting to the Infra list, but did not manage to
resolve it. The problem was originally noted in uploads to people.apache.org.
We were told to migrate to svn for release candidate availability, which we did,
only to find that it was no faster than uploading to people.apache.org. I
finally raised a specific ticket - INFRA-9519 - when it became clear that no
progress had been made. Infra has responded that this is a known issue that
they need to work on long-term.
Branding
========
We continue to believe we are now compliant with Apache branding guidelines,
with the possible exception of (TM) signs in logos from other Apache products
that don't have any such marks. We submitted ManifoldCF to the trademark
registration service and received word that our trademark application is now
pending.
-----------------------------------------
Attachment AJ: Report from the Apache Marmotta Project [Jakob Frank]
Apache Marmotta, an Open Platform for Linked Data.
Apache Marmotta was founded in December 2012 and has graduated from the
Incubator in November 2013.
The last quarter was again relatively quiet. The frequency on the mailing
lists increased with questions and queries answered by the core development
team, but and only small changes to the codebase have been made.
We are still struggling to grow the community. More than two years passed
since we welcomed a new committer. The PMC is actively looking for candidates
to grow the community.
For the 2015 GSoC we started with two student projects:
* For "RDF HDT implementation for Sesame RIO" (MARMOTTA-593), the student did
not pass the midterm review. This was mainly because of the code quality and
lack of communication.
* For "Proposal to Implement GeoSPARQL in Marmotta" (MARMOTTA-584), the
student successfully achieved the milestones for the midterm review, and now
he is moving towards refining and adding the pending features. If the project
development continues as expected, by end of summer Marmotta could add
GeoSPARQL support to the next release.
Subscribers to the projects mailing list:
dev@marmotta.a.o: 86 subscribers (+3 since last report, 2015-05)
users@marmotta.a.o: 99 subscribers (+6 since last report, 2015-05)
Releases
2014-12-05 (3.3.0)
2014-05-20 (3.2.1)
Committers & PMC
Peter Ansell (committer&PMC, 2013-06-24)
Raffaele Palmieri (committer&PMC, 2013-05-21)
Issues for the Board
There are no Board-level issues at this time.
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Attachment AK: Report from the Apache MetaModel Project [Kasper Sørensen]
Providing a common interface for discovery, exploration of metadata and
querying of different types of data sources.
## Activity:
- Working on making 2 releases, 4.3.4 and 4.3.5
- The community continues to be quite active and contributing in several
modules: MongoDB, Cassandra, JDBC and ElasticSearch.
- Brand new hadoop module included in the latest release
- The team was also involved in bug fixing tasks and improve integration
tests.
- Kasper Sorensen, VP of MetaModel, will be talking about the project at
Apache BigData Europe conference.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## LDAP committee group/Committership changes:
- Currently 10 committers and 10 LDAP committee group members.
- No new LDAP committee group members added in the last 3 months
- Last LDAP committee group addition was Henry Saputra at Thu Nov 27 2014
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Henry Saputra at Thu Nov 27 2014
## Releases:
- 4.3.4 was released on Sun May 24 2015
- 4.3.5 was released on Tue Jun 23 2015
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@metamodel.apache.org:
- 61 subscribers (down -4 in the last 3 months):
- 419 emails sent to list (430 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 29 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 17 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment AL: Report from the Apache NiFi Project [Joe Witt]
## Description:
- Apache NiFi is an easy to use, powerful, and reliable system to
process and distribute data.
## Activity:
- Completed transition from Incubator to TLP infrastructure.
- Completed first release as a TLP
- Closing in on the 0.3.0 release.
- Corrects several defects.
- Adds support for integration with several Apache projects
including Ambari and Flume
- Adds support for interaction with several of Amazon's Web Services.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## LDAP committee group/Committership changes:
- Currently 12 committers and 12 LDAP committee group members.
- No new LDAP committee group members added in the last 3 months
- New commmitters:
- Dan Bress was added as a committer on Wed May 27 2015
- Bryan Bende was added as a committer on Mon Jun 15 2015
## Releases:
- nifi-0.1.0-incubating was released on Thu May 14 2015
- nifi-0.2.0-incubating was released on Sun Jul 12 2015
- nifi-0.2.1 was released on Sun Jul 26 2015
## Mailing list activity:
- users@nifi.apache.org:
- 65 subscribers (up 35 in the last 3 months):
- 108 emails sent to list (17 in previous quarter)
- dev@nifi.apache.org:
- 129 subscribers (up 4 in the last 3 months):
- 1089 emails sent to list (823 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 227 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 193 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment AM: Report from the Apache Oltu Project [Antonio Sanso]
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Attachment AN: 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 1.0.0 has been released
CURRENT ACTIVITY
One of the comitters (Eric Charles) have breached the silence and we have
begun talking again. Discussing release plans. This could spark the project
again.
Reporting were delayed because of summer vacation (with no internet
connection), sorry.
COMMUNITY
Silent
ISSUES
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time and we'd suggest
postponing move to attic to end of the year to see if we get it going again.
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Attachment AO: Report from the Apache Oozie Project [Mohammad Islam]
Report from the Apache Oozie committee [Mohammad Islam]
## Description:
Oozie is a workflow scheduler system to manage Apache Hadoop jobs.
## Activity:
- The project is actively making progress and working on next release.
## Health report:
- The project continues to get traction in the community demonstrated by the
numbers shown below.
## Issues:
- there are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## LDAP committee group/Committership changes:
- Currently 17 committers and 16 LDAP committee group members.
- New LDAP committee group members:
- Ryota Egashira was added to the LDAP committee group on Tue Aug 11 2015
- Shwetha GS was added to the LDAP committee group on Tue Aug 04 2015
- Purshotam Shah was added to the LDAP committee group on Tue Aug 04 2015
- Last committer addition was Purshotam Shah at Tue Aug 12 2014
## Releases:
- 4.2.0 was released on Wed Jun 03 2015
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@oozie.apache.org:
- 134 subscribers (up 6 in the last 3 months):
- 1225 emails sent to list (1304 in previous quarter)
- user@oozie.apache.org:
- 473 subscribers (up 32 in the last 3 months):
- 170 emails sent to list (185 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 94 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 47 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment AP: Report from the Apache Open Climate Workbench Project [Michael James Joyce]
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Attachment AQ: Report from the Apache OpenJPA Project [Pinaki Poddar]
There are no items requiring board attention at this time.
* Highlights
Apache OpenJPA provides POJO persistence for stand-alone JSE, JEE
container and many other lightweight frameworks, such as Tomcat,
Spring or OSGi.
Project codebase is progressing to support Java8 at compile and runtime.
Compile time support for Java8 is available.
* Community
The developer community had maintained stability of the codebase,
supported previous releases.
Mailing lists continue to be active for a stable project such as OpenJPA.
* Governance
We aim to build partnership with database vendors especially
in non-relational realm.
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Attachment AR: Report from the Apache Perl Project [Philippe M. Chiasson]
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Attachment AS: Report from the Apache Phoenix Project [James R. Taylor]
## Description:
Apache Phoenix is a relational database layer on top of Apache HBase.
## Activity:
- Two minor versions released across our three supported HBase versions
- Highlights of the releases are outlined here: http://s.apache.org/7jk
- Several new modules were added:
* Query server
* Spark integration
* Pherf test at scale tool
- Phoenix was included in Cloudera Labs on May 6, 2015
- James Taylor gave a talk on Phoenix at Hadoop Summit on June 10, 2015
## Health report:
- Health is strong
- Adoption continues to grow with the overall big data market
- Both user and dev communities continue to grow with increased usage
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## LDAP committee group/Committership changes:
- Currently 23 committers and 20 LDAP committee group members
- No new LDAP committee group members added in the last 3 months
- Last LDAP committee group addition was Samarth Jain at Sat Mar 14 2015
- Josh Mahonin was added as a committer on Thu Jun 25 2015
## Releases:
- 4.4.0-HBase-0.98 was released on Wed May 20 2015
- 4.4.0-HBase-1.0 was released on Wed May 20 2015
- 4.4.0-HBase-1.1 was released on Thu May 28 2015
- 4.5.0-HBase-0.98 was released on Mon Jul 27 2015
- 4.5.0-HBase-1.0 was released on Wed Jul 29 2015
- 4.5.0-HBase-1.1 was released on Tue Jul 28 2015
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@phoenix.apache.org:
- 168 subscribers (up 22 in the last 3 months):
- 2736 emails sent to list (4972 in previous quarter)
- user@phoenix.apache.org:
- 359 subscribers (up 61 in the last 3 months):
- 671 emails sent to list (616 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 214 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 144 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment AT: Report from the Apache POI Project [Dominik Stadler]
## Description:
Java API To Access Microsoft Document File Formats
## Activity:
Apache POI continues to be an active project, both in terms of community and
development.
Work is ongoing for the next release 3.13 with finished work items being
switching internal implementations for the POIFS implementation and providing
a common layer in the framework for working with different format of
Powerpoint files. A first beta was released, the next beta with more of the
changes is planned to be done shortly.
After a reported security vulnerability related to Zip-Expansion denial of
service has been fixed in the latest beta there were two additional cases
reported which we are currently analyzing.
## Health report:
Due to the complexity of the supported formats, there is a steady influx of
bug reports which we try to tackle to get the list of actual bugs more
manageable, see below bug activity for details.
## Issues:
there are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## LDAP committee group/Committership changes:
- Currently 31 committers and 24 LDAP committee group members.
- David North was added to the LDAP committee group on Sat May 23 2015
- David North was added as a committer on Wed May 20 2015
## Releases:
- 3.12 was released on Mon May 11 2015
- 3.13-beta1 was released on Wed Jul 22 2015
## Bug activity
535 bugs are open overall
Having 63 enhancements, thus having 472 actual bugs
131 of these are waiting for feedback, thus having 341 actual workable bugs
8 of the workable bugs have patches available
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@poi.apache.org:
- 257 subscribers (down -7 in the last 3 months):
- 742 emails sent to list (782 in previous quarter)
- user@poi.apache.org:
- 653 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 186 emails sent to list (161 in previous quarter)
- general@poi.apache.org:
- 130 subscribers (down -2 in the last 3 months):
- 3 emails sent to list (0 in previous quarter)
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Attachment AU: Report from the Apache Qpid Project [Robbie Gemmell]
Apache Qpid is a project focused on creating software based on the
Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP), currently providing a
protocol engine library, message brokers written in C++ and Java, a
message router, and client libraries for C++, Java / JMS, .Net,
Python, Perl and Ruby.
# Releases:
- Qpid JMS 0.2.0 was released on 16th May 2015.
- Qpid JMS 0.3.0 was released on 14th Jun 2015.
- Qpid CPP 0.34 was released on 29th Jun 2015.
# Community:
- Jakub Scholz was added as a committer and PMC member on 22nd May 2015.
- The main user and developer mailing lists remain active. Quarterly stats:
-- dev@qpid.apache.org:
182 subscribers (down 1), 1685 emails (1664 previous).
-- users@qpid.apache.org:
360 subscribers (up 2), 437 emails (543 previous).
-- proton@qpid.apache.org:
84 subscribers (down 4), 1292 emails (987 previous).
- JIRAs are being raised and addressed:
301 JIRA tickets were created and 271 resolved in the last 3 months.
# Development:
- The 0.10 release process for Qpid Proton 0.10 is under way. The first RC
had some issues discovered, a second is currently under vote.
- Work continues on features planned for Proton 0.11 such as reactive API
support in additional languages like Go and C++.
- The new AMQP 1.0 JMS client had its second and third releases as noted
earlier, and a 0.4.0 release will be performed as soon as Proton 0.10 is
released.
- Qpid Dispatch will be aiming for a 0.5 release soon to add support for
the SASL related changes available in Proton 0.10.
- Work is under way towards a new release of the Qpid Java components,
aiming for a September time frame.
- A new qpid-interop-test effort was established to aid cross component
testing between various components such as the different client language
bindings for Proton and the JMS client.
# Issues:
There are no Board-level issues at this time.
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Attachment AV: Report from the Apache Rave Project [Matt Franklin]
Apache Rave is a widgets-based, web-and-social mashup platform.
ISSUES
Low community activity.
COMMUNITY
Unfortunately, the slight rally in community has not been
sustained throughout the quarter.
COMMITTER/PMC CHANGES
08/29/13 - Dan Gornstein was added as a new committer & PMC member.
RELEASES
01/07/14 - 0.23 released.
ACTIVITY
The last 3 months have been extremely quiet in terms of list and
development activity. We are going to make one last call to the developer
and users lists before recommending the attic within the next quarter.
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Attachment AW: Report from the Apache River Project [Patricia Shanahan]
## Description:
- Apache River is a Java-based Service Oriented Architecture, implementing the
Jini Specification and Jini Technology Starter Kit.
## Activity:
- The main objectives are release 3.0 and an improved new user experience.
The release 3.0 source code provides a deep refactoring that addresses
performance, concurrency and scaling issues. It replaces sun.com.jini and
com.artima package names with new org.apache.river package names.
Patricia Shanahan will drive preparing a release with support and information
from Greg Trasuk.
The improved new user experience objective is supported by a release candidate
for new set of easy-to-run River examples. It is the subject of an on-going
release vote.
## Health report:
- The project continues to make only slow progress, mainly due to lack of time
on the part of the committers.
## Issues:
- there are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## LDAP committee group/Committership changes:
- Currently 13 committers and 13 LDAP committee group members.
- No new changes to the LDAP committee group or committership since last
report. The last change in the PMC was in June 2014, when Patricia Shanahan
returned from emeritus to active status as a committer and PMC member.
## Releases:
- Apache River 2.2.2 was released on November 18, 2013
- Apache River 2.2.1 was released on May 2, 2013.
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@river.apache.org:
- 96 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
- 80 emails sent to list (175 in previous quarter)
- user@river.apache.org:
- 100 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
- 3 emails sent to list (15 in previous quarter)
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Attachment AX: Report from the Apache Roller Project [Dave Johnson]
Apache Roller is a full-featured, Java-based blog server that works
well on Tomcat and MySQL, and is known to run on other Java servers
and relational databases. The ASF blog site at blogs.apache.org runs on
Roller 5.0.3 Tomcat and MySQL.
Issues
No board issues at this time.
Releases
The latest release of Apache Roller is v5.1.2, which was released
on March 24, 2015 to fix a security vulnerability. The release
announcement is here:
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/roller-dev/201503.mbox/%3CCAF1aazCxr+dwCGq4rMpEw_7nMD+c8jecGvas5kW9RjFN2gS-BA@mail.gmail.com%3E
And the security vulnerability report is here:
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/roller-dev/201503.mbox/%3CCAF1aazAPWTduVhrPr7WiFaspFdsh21yf0YiSB3UmLjtDVGnfXw@mail.gmail.com%3E
Community
The Roller community is small but active these days, busy with a new
release and fielding support questions about that release.
The last new PMC member and committer who joined is Kohei Nozaki
who joined on March 8, 2015.
Roller committer Glen Mazza decided to resign from the PMC and remain
with the project as a committer.
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Attachment AY: Report from the Apache Santuario Project [Colm O hEigeartaigh]
## Description:
Library implementing XML Digital Signature Specification & XML Encryption
Specification
## Activity:
- Version 2.0.5 of the Java library was released over the last quarter,
containing a few bug fixes. Following some discussion, we agreed to continue
to support the 1.5.x branch of the Java library until next year.
## Health report:
- Apache Santuario is a stable and mature project that is actively managed by
the PMC. However, project activity is rather quiet.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## LDAP committee group/Committership changes:
- Currently 16 committers and 6 LDAP committee group members.
- No new changes to the LDAP committee group or committership since last
report.
## Releases:
- Apache XML Security for Java 2.0.5 was released on Mon Jul 13 2015
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@santuario.apache.org:
- 248 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 23 emails sent to list (52 in previous quarter)
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Attachment AZ: Report from the Apache SIS Project [Martin Desruisseaux]
## Description:
Apache Spatial Information System (SIS) is a Java library for developing
geospatial applications. SIS enables better representation of coordinates
for searching, data clustering, archiving, or any other relevant spatial
needs.
## Activity:
- Completed the support of Well Known Text (WKT) version 2,
a.k.a. ISO 19162.
- Added a few more map projections.
Documented what is done and what remain to be done in [1].
- Started tests using the Geospatial Integrity of Geoscience Software
(GIGS) test suite [2].
- Next Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) meeting will be in September 2015
[3]. Of special interest to Apache SIS is the API ad hoc (we may do a
talk) and the Coordinate Reference System standard working group.
- Proposed Apache SIS talk for ApacheCon in Budapest (September 2015) has
been accepted [4].
# Actions that need to be taken:
- We have been asked by the board to ask OGC if they can give free
membership to the Apache foundation. Martin plan to ask when he will
attend to the next OGC meeting.
- Regarding our question asked in a previous report (how to protect a
namespace in Maven central from deployment by peoples who do not own
that namespace), we have been suggested to ask on the Maven user list.
This has not yet been done.
## Statistics:
- Line of code count according cloc: about 138,128
- Line of comments count according cloc: 169,168
## Health report:
- Most of current commits activity come from 1 or 2 developers. One way
we try for addressing this issue is documenting extensively the code.
SIS has a comment:code ratio of 1.23 : 1. This high ratio come mostly
from javadoc and from other comments explaining the rational behind
non-trivial implementations, especially in relationship with
international standards or historical usages. Our hope is that SIS
attractivity will cross some threshold after a sufficient amount of
functionalities become available.
## Issues:
- If Martin asks at OGC for free membership for Apache foundation, OGC may
ask for a contact person at Apache for discussing the details of the deal.
We are not sure what to answer to that question.
## LDAP committee group/Committership changes:
- Currently 19 committers and 19 LDAP committee group members.
- No new LDAP committee group members added in the last 3 months
- Last LDAP committee group addition was Marc Le Bihan at Fri Apr 03 2015
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Marc Le Bihan at Wed Dec 03 2014
## Releases:
- SIS 0.5 released in February 2015.
- Next release soon - we are in consolidation phase before RC.
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@sis.apache.org:
- 56 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months):
- 35 emails sent to list (67 in previous quarter)
- user@sis.apache.org:
- 41 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 12 emails sent to list (17 in previous quarter)
[1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SIS-212
[2] http://www.iogp.org/Geomatics#2521115-gigs
[3] http://www.opengeospatial.org/events/1509tcagenda
[4] https://apachebigdata2015.sched.org/event/28e5e0bd5b95508346305d00c31f7ee0
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Attachment BA: Report from the Apache Spark Project [Matei Zaharia]
Apache Spark is a fast and general engine for large-scale data processing. It
offers high-level APIs in Java, Scala, Python and R as well as a rich set of
libraries including stream processing, machine learning, and graph analytics.
Project status:
- We posted our 1.4.0 release in June, with contributions from 210
developers. The biggest addition was support for the R programming
language, along with many improvements in debugging tools, built-in
libraries, SQL language coverage, and machine learning functions
(http://spark.apache.org/releases/spark-release-1-4-0.html).
- We posted a Spark 1.4.1 maintenance release in July.
- We've started the QA process for Spark 1.5.0, which should be
released in around one month. The biggest features here are large
performance improvements for Spark SQL / DataFrames, as well
as further enriched support for R (e.g. exposing Spark's machine
learning libraries in R).
Latest releases:
July 15, 2015: Spark 1.4.1
June 11, 2015: Spark 1.4.0
April 17, 2015: Spark 1.2.2 and 1.3.1
March 13, 2015: Spark 1.3.0
Committers and PMC:
The last committers added were on July 20th, 2015
(Marcelo Vanzin) and June 8th, 2015 (DB Tsai).
The last PMC members were added August 12th, 2014
(Joseph Gonzalez and Andrew Or).
Mailing list stats:
3501 subscribers to user list (up 493 in the last 3 months)
1947 subscribers to dev list (up 255 in the last 3 months)
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Attachment BB: Report from the Apache Steve Project [Jim Jagielski]
Note:
This month's report was drafted by Daniel Gruno and approved by
Jim Jagielski.
Description:
STeVe is a system for managing a plethora of vote mechanisms, most notably
the STV (Single Transferable Vote) method used in the ASF board elections.
Activity:
After a successful annual members meeting, many new ideas came up and were
discussed in the project. A new branch, called pySTeVe, was created with the
purpose of providing a unified web UI for setting up, voting and tallying
votes/issues with a modular architecture that allows numerous new ways of
voting. Of particular note is that pySTeVe is Python based, rather than
Perl. No official release has been made yet, but we are confident that
this will happen before the next annual meeting.
An online demo VM has been set up at https://vote-wip.apache.org/, which can
be used by Apache projects to both test pySTeVe and hold online votes on
issues. With infra's support, this VM is scheduled to host the next annual
members votes as well.
Health report:
The project is currently in a summer holiday hiatus, but has seen a great
influx in code, committers and discussion since the annual meeting. We are
confident that there is sufficient oversight in the PMC.
Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time
LDAP committee group/Committership changes:
- Currently 8 committers and 8 LDAP committee group members.
- No new LDAP committee group members added in the last 3 months
- Last LDAP committee group addition was Richard Bowen at Mon Apr 20 2015
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Richard Bowen at Mon Apr 20 2015
Releases:
- No releases made yet.
Mailing list activity:
- dev@steve.apache.org:
- 18 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 3 emails sent to list (218 in previous quarter)
- user@steve.apache.org:
- 10 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 0 emails sent to list (1 in previous quarter)
- issues@steve.apache.org:
- 11 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
- 0 emails sent to list (39 in previous quarter)
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Attachment BC: Report from the Apache Stratos Project [Lakmal Warusawithana]
## Description:
Apache Stratos is a highly-extensible Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)
framework that helps run Apache Tomcat, PHP, and MySQL applications and can
be extended to support many more environments on all major cloud
infrastructures.
## Activity:
- Stratos community was very active in last 3 months. All 5 GSoC students are
passed mid-terms. Cut a major release and discussing doing minor releases in
every two weeks. PMC's are spoken at CloudExpo NY and QConNY about Apache
Stratos.
## Issues:
- there are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## LDAP committee group/Committership changes:
- Currently 43 committers and 42 LDAP committee group members.
- Vishanth Balasubramaniam was added to the LDAP committee group on Mon Jun
15 2015
- Vishanth Balasubramaniam was added as a committer on Sun Jun 14 2015
## Releases:
- 4.1.0 was released on Fri Jul 24 2015
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@stratos.apache.org:
- 241 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 3961 emails sent to list (3962 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 135 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 355 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment BD: Report from the Apache Subversion Project [Greg Stein]
Apache Subversion exists to be universally recognized and adopted as
an open-source, centralized version control system characterized by
its reliability as a safe haven for valuable data; the simplicity of
its model and usage; and its ability to support the needs of a wide
variety of users and projects, from individuals to large-scale
enterprise operations.
* Board Issues
There are no Board-level issues of concern.
* Community
Our last PMC addition was in March 2014.
On July 12, 2015, Holden Karau (ID: holden) was added as a
committer. Holden worked on Subversion before its move to the
Foundation, so while she is "new" here, this is a return from
hiatus to work on Apache Subversion's Scheme bindings.
* Releases
Since our report in May, the community has made multiple releases:
- On June 9th, our second release candidate for 1.9.x line (1.9.0-rc2)
- On July 14th, our third candidate (1.9.0-rc3)
- On August 5th, 1.7.21 was released to remedy two security issues:
CVE-2015-3184 and CVE-2015-3187
Note that the 1.8.x was "current" at the time, so releases to 1.7.x
are made only to fix security issues or severe/critical bugs.
- On August 5th, 1.8.14 was released to remedy the same CVEs noted
above for the 1.7.21 release. These two releases were complicated
by working with Apache HTTPD and their CVE-2015-3185 fixes, but
only from a release/publication standpoint. The two communities
worked well together.
- On August 5th, the first release to the 1.9.x line was made (1.9.0).
Release notes at:
http://subversion.apache.org/docs/release-notes/1.9.html
This moves the 1.7.x line to "unsupported", and the 1.8.x line will
only see future releases to fix security/severe/critical bugs.
- On August 14th, 1.7.22 was released to fix a test case, so that
our 1.7.x series can be set aside cleanly.
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Attachment BE: Report from the Apache Syncope Project [Francesco Chicchiricco]
## Description:
Apache Syncope is an Open Source system for managing digital identities
in enterprise environments.
## Activity:
New users keep popping up in mailing lists, asking for support with
various deployment scenarios.
Presentation "Building Open Source Identity Infrastructures" has been
accepted at ApacheCon: Core Europe 2015, which will directly
involve showing Apache Syncope references.
Bugfix proceeds for the current stable release branch 1_2_X (1.2.4 and
1.2.5 were released since last board report).
Development of new features is held in master branch towards 2.0.0 -
discussions and activity are reported in mailing list, backed via
wiki pages.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## LDAP committee group/Committership changes:
- Currently 19 committers and 9 LDAP committee group members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Guido Wimmel in April 2014
- Last committer addition was Giacomo Lamonaco in January 2015
## Releases:
- 1.2.4 (May 5th, 2015)
- 1.2.5 (July 28th, 2015)
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@syncope.apache.org:
- 64 subscribers (up 3 in the last 3 months):
- 292 emails sent to list (420 in previous quarter)
- user@syncope.apache.org:
- 106 subscribers (up 5 in the last 3 months):
- 93 emails sent to list (125 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 19 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 18 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment BF: 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 vote has completed, and a first release candidate
will be made available in the next few days.
Describe the overall activity in the project over the past quarter.
Activity on the user mailing list is slow. 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 BG: Report from the Apache TomEE Project [David Blevins]
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Attachment BH: Report from the Apache Turbine Project [Thomas Vandahl]
Apache Turbine Project Board Report, August 2015
Apache Turbine is a servlet based framework that allows experienced Java
developers to quickly build web applications. Turbine allows you to
personalize the web sites and to use user logins to restrict access to parts
of your application.
Turbine is a matured and well established framework that is used as the base
of many other projects.
Status
The Turbine project has again seen low levels of activity in the last quarter.
The Turbine project has no board-level issues at this time.
Community changes
No new committers were voted in since the last board report.
The last change to the committer base was the addition of Georg Kallidis
(2012/09/19).
No new PMC members were voted in since the last board report.
The last change to the PMC was the addition of Georg Kallidis (2013/09/30).
Turbine core project
A few commits have been done in the core project. Now, that the security
component is released, the new milestone release 4.0-M2 can be prepared.
The last released component was the parent POM (2013/09/25).
Fulcrum component project
A few commits have been done in the Fulcrum project.
Fulcrum Security 1.1.0 has been released (2015/07/24).
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Attachment BI: Report from the Apache Tuscany Project [Jean-Sebastien Delfino]
Apache Tuscany is an SOA framework based on OASIS OpenCSA and SCA.
ISSUES
- Community activity is very low.
RELEASES
- Last release was Tuscany SCA 2.0.1, 10/3/2013.
COMMUNITY ACTIVITY
- Last committer addition was Sebastian Millies, 12/4/2012.
- Mailing list traffic is almost non-existent with only two discussions of JIRA
issues on the dev list this year, although we just got one interesting post this
month from an Emeritus Apache member interested in getting back to it and maybe
work on Tuscany.
- There has been only two commits in 2015, one from infra to fix broken download
links and one from a Tuscany committer adding a DOAP file.
- Given the lack of activity, Luciano Resende has initiated a discussion with
the Fabric3 community to see if they'd be interested in merging back with
Tuscany to create Tuscany 3.x. The discussion is progressing, hoping to have
an update next month or a post to our list from the Fabric3 folks with the
outcome of the discussion and their input.
- We've also chatted about a Javascript Node.js implementation of Tuscany SCA
for micro-services. We're planning to start a discussion on the dev list on
this topic once we get input from Fabric3 as they may be interested as well.
BRANDING
- The project needs to update logos with ™.
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Attachment BJ: Report from the Apache Velocity Project [Nathan Bubna]
Report from the Apache Velocity committee [Nathan Bubna]
## Description:
Java-based template engine
## Activity:
We had a bump in activity this last quarter, leading to a new committer and a
committer joining the PMC. More talk than work, but still good to see
progress toward a next version. Things have died down again this last month
or so.
## Health report:
Better than before, but things are still fairly sedentary.
## Issues:
Nope, no issues for the board.
## LDAP committee group/Committership changes:
- Currently 13 committers and 9 LDAP committee group members.
- Sergiu Dumitriu was added to the LDAP committee group on Mon Jun 01 2015
- Maurice (Mike) L. Kienenberger was added as a committer on Mon Jun 01 2015
## Releases:
- No releases in the last quarter.
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@velocity.apache.org:
- 125 subscribers (down -2 in the last 3 months):
- 169 emails sent to list (7 in previous quarter), lots of fun.
- user@velocity.apache.org:
- 314 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 2 emails sent to list (41 in previous quarter)
- general@velocity.apache.org:
- 94 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 0 emails sent to list (0 in previous quarter)
- This list has long been pointless.
## JIRA activity:
- 7 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 12 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment BK: Report from the Apache Web Services Project [Sagara Gunathunga]
Web Services Report for August 2015
Releases within this quarter:
* WSS4J 2.0.5
* WSS4J 2.0.4
* WSS4J 2.1.2
* WSS4J 2.1.1
* WSS4J 2.1.0
* Axiom 1.2.15
Last releases for other subprojects:
* Xmlschema 2.2.1 : Feb 2015
* Neethi 3.0.3 : Jan 2014
* Woden : Feb 2011
Community and development:
* Last committer addition - Sept 2014,
* Last PMC member addition - in Sept 2013
Development
* WSS4J - 227 commits by 2 committers.
* Axiom - 342 commits by 1 committer.
* Woden - 44 commits by 2 committers.
* Xmlschema - 1 commit by 1 committer.
* Neethi - 0 commits.
Branding checklist for sub-projects with releases in the last quarters
(Axiom, Neethi, WSS4J, Project homepage ):
* Project Naming And Descriptions: OK
* Website Navigation Links: OK
* Trademark Attributions: OK
* Logos and Graphics: OK ( Neethi and WSS4J sub projects don't have logos)
* Project Metadata: OK
Not yet compliant:
* XmlSchema
* Woden
* XML-RPC
Subprojects
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Current subproject descriptions follow, along with anything specifically
requiring the board's attention this quarter.
* Apache Woden
Woden is an open source Java implementation of the W3C WSDL 2.0
specification.
* Apache Axiom
Apache Axiom is a StAX-based, XML Infoset compliant object model which
supports on-demand building of the object tree.
* Apache XmlSchema
Apache XmlSchema is a Java object model for manipulating and utilizing
XML Schema.
* Apache Neethi
Apache Neethi is a Java implementation of the WS-Policy specifications.
* Apache WSS4J
Apache WSS4J is a Java implementation of the OASIS Web Services Security
(WS-Security) from OASIS Web Services Security TC.
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Attachment BL: Report from the Apache Whimsy Project [Ross Gardler]
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Attachment BM: Report from the Apache Xalan Project [Steven J. Hathaway]
The Apache Xalan Project develops and maintains libraries and programs
that transform XML documents using XSLT standard stylesheets. Our subprojects
use the Java and C++ programing languages to implement the XSLT libraries.
Xalan is a mature project, but we are hoping to acquire more committers
who can upgrade the project to address the newer XPath and XSLT standards.
We are in process of doing integration builds to incorporate the Xerces-C
patches. There continues to be activity on the Xalan-J project.
ISSUES FOR THE BOARD
None.
CURRENT ACTIVITY
Xalan is a mature product. There is little development activity other
than patch maintenance. Most of the activity is in the Xalan-J subproject.
There are some participants reporting on their build and deployment issues.
We continue to get about 20 messages per month on our development mailing list.
MEMBERSHIP
Changes in the PMC membership:
None.
Last new committer:
May 2014
PROJECT RELEASES
Xalan Java 2.7.2 April 15, 2014
Xalan C/C++ 1.11 October 31, 2012
Publishing of project releases was refreshed Oct 30, 2014.
OTHER ISSUES
The XML project in the attic still references an older Xalan-J release
and is still found by the Google search engines. We are researching a
solution.
We still have enough active members to vote on releases and other PMC issues.
We would still appreciate more active persons to build Xalan-C tests.
We continue to get requests for Xalan to support XSLT version 2. The
Xalan libraries currently support XSLT version 1. Feature ugrades and
migration will require more than a few committers.
BRANDING ISSUES
None.
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Attachment BN: Report from the Apache Xerces Project [Michael Glavassevich]
Xerces-J
There was no development activity in the two months since the
previous board report. There were a few inquiries about a patch
on an old JIRA issue from members of the community who may be
willing to help with getting it integrated. We've yet to respond
but that might be an opportunity to find some new contributors.
Mailing list traffic has been low; roughly 25 posts on the j-dev
and j-users lists since the beginning of June 2015.
No new releases this quarter. The latest release is
Xerces-J 2.11.0 (November 30th, 2010).
Xerces-C
There was no development activity in the two months since the
previous board report. There has been little activity since the
3.1.2 release earlier in the year.
Mailing list traffic has been low; roughly 30 posts on the c-dev
and c-users lists since the beginning of June 2015.
No new releases this quarter. The latest release is
Xerces-C 3.1.2 (March 19th, 2015).
Xerces-P
Nothing in particular to report. There was no development
activity over the reporting period.
XML Commons
No activity of the reporting period.
Committer / PMC Changes
The most recent committers were added in February 2015 (Xerces-C)
and May 2009 (Xerces-J).
No new PMC members in the last two months. The last two additions
to the PMC were in May 2010.
No committers committed changes to SVN in the last two months.
Apache Project Branding Requirements
The project logo still needs a "TM" to be added to it.
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Attachment BO: Report from the Apache XML Graphics Project [Chris Bowditch]
The Apache XML Graphics Project is responsible for software intended for
the creation & maintenance of the conversion of XML formats to graphical
output & related software components.
== Issues for the Board ==
No issues at present.
== Community ==
Last new committer: Matthias Reischenbacher on 2015/05/12
Last new PMC member: Andreas Delmelle on 2015/07/10
== XML GRAPHICS COMMONS ==
6 commits to SVN this quarter. Some commits were related to the release,
and some were to fix Findbugs warnings
v2.0.1 was released on 3rd June
The latest release is 2.0.1 (3 June 2015)
== FOP ==
55 separate commits to SVN. These are mostly bug fixes (including a couple
of patches from the community); but also includes support for PCL Soft
Fonts. The community has also resumed work on implementing Change Bars. The
FOP User list has a slow but steady stream of questions being raised and
answered; 103 e-mails in total.
v2.0 was released on 3rd June
The latest release is 2.0 (3 June 2015)
== BATIK ==
6 separate commits to SVN. 2 were bug fixes, 1 was to address a problem
with build scripts, and the remainder were related to the 2 releases. 18
messages to the user mailing list
Batik v1.6.1 was released on 11th May
Batik v1.7.1 was released on 11th May
The latest version is 1.8 (17 March 2015)
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