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Board of Directors Meeting Minutes
October 21, 2015
1. Call to order
The meeting was scheduled for 10:30am Pacific and began at 10:34
when a sufficient attendance to constitute a quorum was
recognized by the chairman.
Other Time Zones: http://timeanddate.com/s/2vy9
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
Chris Mattmann
Brett Porter
Sam Ruby
Greg Stein
Directors Absent:
Jim Jagielski
David Nalley
Executive Officers Present:
Ross Gardler - left at 11:32
Craig L Russell
Executive Officers Absent:
Kevin A. McGrail
Guests:
Bruce Snyder
Dennis E. Hamilton
Filip Hanik
Hadrian Zbarcea
Henri Yandell
Jake Farrell
Mark Thomas
Marvin Humphrey
Sean Kelly
Ted Dunning
Tom Pappas
3. Minutes from previous meetings
Published minutes can be found at:
http://www.apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html
A. The meeting of August 19, 2015
See: board_minutes_2015_08_19.txt
Approved by General Consent.
B. The meeting of September 16, 2015
See: board_minutes_2015_09_16.txt
Approved by General Consent.
4. Executive Officer Reports
A. Chairman [Brett]
The main discussions during the last month have been related to the
Incubator. After a lengthy thread, which is now closed, the conclusion
seemed to be that there was no immediate board-level issue to be
addressed, and concrete proposals have been appropriately raised on
the Incubator lists.
As Ross mentions, I'll be in Beijing tomorrow for the Apache Roadshow
event, giving an Apache Way presentation (combined with some amount of
the State of the Feather).
B. President [Ross]
Thank you to Brett Porter and David Nalley who will be covering for me
in Korea (David) and China (Brett and David) this month as I still
struggle with resolving the issues that prevent me from travelling at
present.
Most of our EA time was taken up with TAC and ApacheCon this month. No
significant actions to report.
Fundraising
----------------
Fundraising continues to improve processes in response to issues
identified. New sponsors are in the pipeline. One platinum sponsor has
chosen not to renew.
Separately from VP Fundraising activities I have had the opportunity
to speak directly to three separate current and potential sponsors in
the last couple of weeks. All three have the same feedback, it can
essentially be boiled down to two things: 1) why should we sponsor,
there is no measurable benefit to us beyond code and we get that
anyway and 2) why are you spending so much money on infrastructure
when perfectly good options, such as GitHub. Item 1) is a difficult
one to answer since we don't give anything in return for sponsorship
(and we are in agreement this should not change). Item 2 seems easy,
but in 2 of the three cases when I responded with our usual "we need
to self host for X, Y, Z reasons" they responded to the effect of "but
we use GitHub for our canonical repositories, we don't have those same
concerns".
I will explore these issues in the coming months with the appropriate
VPs and, if appropriate, bring proposals back the Membership and/or
board as appropriate.
Marketing
=======
The usual tick-tock from marketing plus the rather surprising (almost)
universal acceptance of the proposed logo redesign.
My thanks go to Sally for working on this redesign. I look forward to
the minor refinements that are likely to emerge based on the Members
feedback.
Brand Management
===============
Thank you to the Directors who have reviewed the proposal to register
Tomcat in additional geographies. I see there are enough approvals at
the time of writing. Assuming no concerns are raised during the prior
to or during the meeting VP Brand Management will proceed with the
requested registrations.
Thank you to the Tomcat PMC, VP Brand Management and, in particular,
Mark Thomas for drawing up a clear justification for their request in
response to my "devils advocate" attempts to channel any potential
Directors concerns. Mark was very professional and patient in his
responses and I believe the experience has helped clarify the criteria
under which non-US registrations should be considered.
Documentation and guidance for brand management. Resources are indexed
from http://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/resources
Infrastructure
==========
Welcome to Daniel Takamori, a new part-time infra team member
(filling an open position). For more see
https://blogs.apache.org/infra/entry/dear_apache.
Infra budget needs some adjustment, some lines are over budget
(specifically replacing hardware, cloud infrastructure, and build farm
costs). Overall the predicted spend is within approved budget. David
is working with Virtual to ensure there is no impact on our overall
impact on our annual budget. In addition there is the possibility of
in-0kind donations covering the increased spend in these lines.
With this focus on retiring/replacing old machines a significant
amount of technical debt has been paid back.
All services met the SLA despite some failures that needed to be
managed this month - http://status.apache.org/sla/
Travel Assistance Committee
======================
At the time of writing there is no TAC report.
Thank you to Gavin McDonald who has stepped down from the chair role
in TAC after seven years. Gavin did a fantastic job of getting TAC off
the ground, something I myself attempted (but failed) prior to his
engagement. Gavin felt that some new blood would be beneficial to TAC,
in this context I'm pleased to report that Nick Burch has returned to
the committee after a few years break. Nick brings lots of historical
knowledge but also a renewed energy.
Nick and the team will be exploring ideas for increasing the impact of
TAC. The first task is to understand how our own assistance and that
of the Linux Foundation can be better aligned.
Additionally, please see Attachments 1 through 6.
C. Treasurer [Chris]
Work is progressing to finish off the Wells Fargo account closing.
The Treasurer has sent an email to Wells Fargo (after yet another
customer care representative change) to close out credit cards. The
final step is for the Treasurer to make his way into a branch and
transfer the remaining funds.
The Treasurer’s Office and Virtual are finishing processing and set
up of some paperwork with Citizens for the Foundation’s Business
Signature credit cards.
AR reports are being sent to VP, Fundraising for visibility into
sponsor payment lifecycle and status. Virtual is assisting with the
preparation.
This month's report includes budget/variance information.
Income and Expenses for September 2015 CASH BASIS "Preliminary" Contents
Current Balances:
Sept 2015 2016 Budget Variance YTD 2016 YTD 2016 Bud Variance
Citizens Checking $765,633
Amazon- ASF Payments $-
Paypal - ASF $67,475
Wells Fargo Checking - ASF $334,460
Wells Fargo Savings $288,278
Total Checking/Savings $1,455,846
Income Summary:
Public Donations $1,116 $4,592 $(3,476) $14,080 $31,339 $(17,259)
Sponsorship Program $- $26,500 $(26,500) $77,000 $361,500 $(284,500)
Programs Income $- $- $- $- $- $-
Interest Income $14 $21 $(7) $73 $104 $(32)
Total Income $1,131 $31,113 $(29,982) $91,152 $392,943 $(301,791)
$-
Expense Summary: $-
Infrastructure $47,381 $68,750 $(21,369) $207,050 $280,862 $(73,812)
Sponsorship Program $- $- $- $- $- $-
Programs Expense $- $- $- $- $2,200 $(2,200)
Publicity $21,269 $6,413 $14,856 $81,694 $61,754 $19,940
Brand Management $- $6,114 $(6,114) $1,104 $12,530 $(11,426)
Conferences $- $2,292 $(2,292) $7,564 $3,458 $4,105
Travel Assistance Committee $10,234 $- $10,234 $19,034 $25,730 $(6,696)
Tax and Audit $- $- $- $- $12,000 $(12,000)
Treasury Services $3,100 $3,100 $- $15,250 $15,500 $(250)
General & Administrative $9,769 $11,240 $(1,470) $39,904 $56,199 $(16,295)
Total Expense $91,753 $97,908 $(6,155) $371,600 $470,233 $(98,634)
Net Income $(90,622) $(66,795) $(23,827) $(280,447) $(77,290) $(203,157)
D. Secretary [Craig]
Most of the cleanup of icla.txt public names versus ldap full names
has been completed. There is more work to do to clean up all of the
missing/unsigned iclas.
In September, 91 iclas, five cclas, and two grants were received and
filed.
E. Executive Vice President [Rich]
ApacheCon
We just completed ApacheCon Europe in Budapest 2 weeks ago. Attendance
was disappointing, but Angela speculates that was a combination of
being up against Strata, and the Syrian refugee situation, that
contributed to this, and estimates that we would have had up to
another 50% attendance were it not for these influences. As it was, we
had 432 in attendance for Big Data, and about 200 for Core.
We heard a number of people say that the split into two events was
confusing and poorly explained. This was primarily at the CFP time -
ie, which event to submit talks to, and how the talks were selected.
But it was also confusing for attendees, who may have signed up for
one event and then been unable to attend the other.
In the future, we plan to have a single CFP and a single event, but do
marketing for the various content tracks, such as 'ApacheCon Big
Data', 'ApacheCon Search', or 'ApacheCon Web'. Sponsors report that
this makes it a lot easier to support an event when it is clear what
the content is, and thus who the audience will be, which is validation
of what we've been saying for years. We will also have content
category based CFP selection committees, which will work with Angela
and Craig to select the content for the next event. Talks will be
tagged as belonging to various major categories, and selection will be
divided up in that manner to produce these
conferences-with-a-conference.
TAC is another area that suffered considerable confusion, as may be
reported elsewhere. In future events, we are going to try to have
Angela work much more closely with TAC, and with Melissa, to eliminate
the confusion caused by having two separate sources of travel
assistance.
The CFP for ApacheCon North America will be announced soon, once
changes have been made to the CFP to reflect the above decisions.
ApacheCon Europe 2016 is still in limbo. Given the poor attendance in
Budapest, there are financial considerations. We are, however,
reaching out to a number of sponsors, and if we can obtain promises of
a certain level of sponsorship, we will move forward with planning
that event. Several locations are being investigated at this time.
FOSDEM
FOSDEM has been announced, and Apache has submitted a proposal for a
table to promote the ASF. We have requested two tables, one of which
will be dedicated to the ASF, and the other which will rotate among
projects which wish to show up to promote their specific community.
Apache OpenOffice has committed to being present, and we have interest
expressed by other projects.
Apache Retreats
There has been the beginning of a discussion of reviving the Apache
Retreat concept. A venue was suggested in conversations at ApacheCon,
and that is being further investigated. No firm plans have been made
at this point. Discussion is ongoing on the ComDev mailing list.
OSCON
We have received initial contact from Joshua Simmons, a representative
of OSCON regarding what changes would need to happen to secure the
ASF's participation in OSCON next year. This conversation is still
just beginning, but Ross provided considerable feedback regarding our
experience at this year's event.
F. Vice Chairman [Greg]
I believe I added "Vice Chairman" to an email signature line this
month. Things are looking up.
Executive officer reports approved as submitted by General Consent.
5. Additional Officer Reports
A. VP of W3C Relations [Andy Seaborne / Rich]
See Attachment 7
B. Apache Legal Affairs Committee [Jim Jagielski]
See Attachment 8
C. Apache Security Team Project [Mark J. Cox / Greg]
See Attachment 9
Additional officer reports approved as submitted by General Consent.
6. Committee Reports
Summary of Reports
The following reports required further discussion:
# Aries [bp]
# Geronimo [bp]
# Hadoop [bp]
# Incubator [gs]
# Maven [bp]
# Onami [rb]
# OpenJPA [bp]
# OpenOffice [bd]
# Rave [sr]
# Shindig [bp]
# Tcl [rb]
# TomEE [sr]
A. Apache Accumulo Project [Billie Rinaldi / David]
See Attachment A
B. Apache ACE Project [Marcel Offermans / Shane]
See Attachment B
C. Apache ActiveMQ Project [Bruce Snyder / Chris]
See Attachment C
D. Apache Airavata Project [Suresh Marru / Sam]
See Attachment D
E. Apache Aries Project [Jeremy Hughes / Rich]
No report was submitted.
F. Apache Attic Project [Henri Yandell / Brett]
See Attachment F
G. Apache Avro Project [Tom White / Bertrand]
See Attachment G
H. Apache Bloodhound Project [Gary Martin / Brett]
See Attachment H
I. Apache Celix Project [Alexander Broekhuis / Greg]
See Attachment I
J. Apache Chukwa Project [Eric Yang / Rich]
See Attachment J
K. Apache Crunch Project [Micah Whitacre / David]
See Attachment K
L. Apache CXF Project [Daniel Kulp / Bertrand]
See Attachment L
M. Apache DB Project [Bryan Pendleton / Sam]
See Attachment M
N. Apache Directory Project [Kiran Ayyagari / Shane]
See Attachment N
O. Apache Drill Project [Jacques Nadeau / Chris]
See Attachment O
P. Apache Geronimo Project [Alan Cabrera / Shane]
No report was submitted.
Q. Apache Hadoop Project [Christopher Douglas / Sam]
No report was submitted.
R. Apache HBase Project [Andrew Purtell / David]
See Attachment R
S. Apache Helix Project [Kishore Gopalakrishna / Greg]
See Attachment S
T. Apache Ignite Project [Dmitriy Setrakyan / Rich]
See Attachment T
U. Apache Incubator Project [Ted Dunning / Bertrand]
See Attachment U
A question was raised about Mentors who are not responsive to
normal requests but when it is suggested that they step down,
they promise to do better.
The consensus response is to remove them as Mentor and ask
them to earn merit if they want to participate as Mentor in
the podling in future.
V. Apache Isis Project [Dan Haywood / Greg]
See Attachment V
W. Apache James Project [Eric Charles / Chris]
See Attachment W
X. Apache jclouds Project [Andrew Phillips / Brett]
See Attachment X
Y. Apache Jena Project [Andy Seaborne / Shane]
See Attachment Y
Z. Apache JMeter Project [Sebastian Bazley / Greg]
See Attachment Z
AA. Apache JSPWiki Project [Juan Pablo Santos / Rich]
See Attachment AA
AB. Apache Lens Project [Amareshwari Sriramadasu / Shane]
See Attachment AB
AC. Apache Lucene.Net Project [Prescott Nasser / Sam]
See Attachment AC
AD. Apache Lucy Project [Marvin Humphrey / Chris]
See Attachment AD
AE. Apache Mahout Project [Suneel Marthi / Chris]
See Attachment AE
AF. Apache Maven Project [Hervé Boutemy / Brett]
See Attachment AF
AG. Apache Mesos Project [Benjamin Hindman / David]
See Attachment AG
AH. Apache MINA Project [Jean-François Maury / Bertrand]
See Attachment AH
AI. Apache MyFaces Project [Mike Kienenberger / Brett]
See Attachment AI
AJ. Apache NiFi Project [Joe Witt / Shane]
See Attachment AJ
AK. Apache Nutch Project [Sebastian Nagel / Sam]
See Attachment AK
AL. Apache ODE Project [Tammo van Lessen / Rich]
See Attachment AL
AM. Apache Onami Project [Nino Martinez Wael / Bertrand]
See Attachment AM
AN. Apache OpenJPA Project [Pinaki Poddar / Chris]
No report was submitted.
AO. Apache OpenMeetings Project [Maxim Solodovnik / Bertrand]
See Attachment AO
AP. Apache OpenOffice Project [Dennis E. Hamilton / David]
See Attachment AP
@Bertrand: Convey to the PMC concerns regarding the different
perspectives of the public web site and the actual state of
the community
AQ. Apache Orc Project [Owen O'Malley / Greg]
See Attachment AQ
AR. Apache Parquet Project [Julien Le Dem / Rich]
See Attachment AR
AS. Apache PDFBox Project [Andreas Lehmkühler / Brett]
See Attachment AS
AT. Apache Rave Project [Matt Franklin / Sam]
No report was submitted.
@Ross: Is the project ready for the Attic?
AU. Apache Samza Project [Chris Riccomini / Bertrand]
See Attachment AU
AV. Apache Serf Project [Bert Huijben / Chris]
See Attachment AV
AW. Apache Shindig Project [Ryan Baxter / Shane]
No report was submitted.
AX. Apache Sqoop Project [Jarek Jarcec Cecho / David]
See Attachment AX
AY. Apache Steve Project [Jim Jagielski]
See Attachment AY
AZ. Apache Struts Project [René Gielen / Greg]
See Attachment AZ
BA. Apache Synapse Project [Hiranya Jayathilaka / Brett]
See Attachment BA
BB. Apache Tapestry Project [Howard M. Lewis Ship / Chris]
See Attachment BB
BC. Apache Tcl Project [Massimo Manghi / Brett]
See Attachment BC
@Brett: Should websh go to the Attic? Need to discuss with the
Attic and the PMC.
BD. Apache Tez Project [Hitesh Shah / Sam]
See Attachment BD
BE. Apache Thrift Project [Jake Farrell / Shane]
See Attachment BE
BF. Apache Tika Project [Dave Meikle / Bertrand]
See Attachment BF
BG. Apache TomEE Project [David Blevins / Sam]
No report was submitted.
BH. Apache Traffic Server Project [Leif Hedstrom / Greg]
See Attachment BH
BI. Apache Usergrid Project [Todd Nine / Rich]
See Attachment BI
BJ. Apache VXQuery Project [Till Westmann / David]
See Attachment BJ
BK. Apache Web Services Project [Sagara Gunathunga / Sam]
See Attachment BK
BL. Apache Wink Project [Luciano Resende / Brett]
See Attachment BL
BM. Apache Wookie Project [Scott Wilson / David]
See Attachment BM
BN. Apache Yetus Project [Sean Busbey / Bertrand]
See Attachment BN
BO. Apache Tomcat Project [Mladen Turk / Shane]
See Attachment BO
Committee reports approved as submitted by General Consent.
7. Special Orders
A. Establish the Apache Brooklyn 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 tools that help automate various
administrative tasks or information lookup activities.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management
Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Apache Brooklyn Project",
be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the
Foundation; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the Apache Brooklyn Project be and hereby is
responsible for the creation and maintenance of a software
framework for modeling, monitoring, and managing cloud
applications through autonomic blueprints; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache Brooklyn"
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 Brooklyn Project, and to have primary
responsibility for management of the projects within the scope
of responsibility of the Apache Brooklyn 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 Brooklyn Project Management Committee:
* Aled Sage <aledsage@apache.org>
* Alex Heneveld <heneveld@apache.org>
* Andrea Turli <andreaturli@apache.org>
* Andrew Kennedy <grkvlt@apache.org>
* Ciprian Ciubotariu <cipi@apache.org>
* Hadrian Zbarcea <hadrian@apache.org>
* Jean-Baptiste Onofré <jbonofre@apache.org>
* Olivier Lamy <olamy@apache.org>
* Richard Downer <richard@apache.org>
* Sam Corbett <sjcorbett@apache.org>
* Svetoslav Neykov <svet@apache.org>
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Richard Downer be
appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Brooklyn, 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 Brooklyn 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 Brooklyn Project.
Special Order 7A, Establish the Apache Brooklyn Project, was
tabled.
B. Change the Apache STeVe Project Chair
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Jim Jagielski
to the office of Vice President, Apache STeVe, and
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of
Jim Jagielski from the office of Vice President, Apache STeVe, and
WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache STeVe project
has chosen to recommend Daniel Gruno as the successor to the
post;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Jim Jagielski is relieved and
discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice
President, Apache STeVe, and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Daniel Gruno be and hereby is
appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache STeVe, to serve in
accordance with and subject to the direction of the Board of Directors.
and the Bylaws of the Foundation until death, resignation, retirement,
removal or disqualification, or until a successor is appointed.
Special Order 7B, Change the Apache STeVe Project Chair, was
approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
C. Terminate the Apache Shindig Project
WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Shindig
project has chosen by vote to recommend moving the project to the
Attic; and
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors deems it no longer in the best
interest of the Foundation to continue the Apache Shindig project
due to inactivity;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Apache Shindig
project is hereby terminated; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the Attic PMC be and hereby is tasked with
oversight over the software developed by the Apache Shindig
Project; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache Shindig" is
hereby terminated; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the Apache Shindig PMC is hereby terminated.
Special Order 7C, Terminate the Apache Shindig Project, was
approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
D. Change the Apache jclouds Project Chair
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Andrew Phillips
to the office of Vice President, Apache jclouds, and
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of
Andrew Phillips from the office of Vice President, Apache jclouds, and
WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache jclouds
project has chosen by vote to recommend Ignasi Barrera as the
successor to the post;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Andrew Phillips is relieved and
discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice
President, Apache jclouds, and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Ignasi Barrera be and hereby is appointed
to the office of Vice President, Apache jclouds, 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 jclouds Project Chair, was
approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
E. Establish the Apache Calcite 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 parsing and planning queries on data in a
wide variety of formats.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management
Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Apache Calcite
Project", be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of
the Foundation; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the Apache Calcite Project be and hereby is
responsible for the creation and maintenance of software
related to parsing and planning queries on data in a wide
variety of formats; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache
Calcite" 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 Calcite Project, and to have
primary responsibility for management of the projects within
the scope of responsibility of the Apache Calcite 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 Calcite Project:
* Alan Gates <gates at apache dot org>
* Aman Sinha <amansinha at apache dot org>
* Ashutosh Chauhan <hashutosh at apache dot org>
* James R. Taylor <jamestaylor at apache dot org>
* Jacques Nadeau <jacques at apache dot org>
* Jesús Camacho Rodríguez <jcamacho at apache dot org>
* Jinfeng Ni <jni at apache dot org>
* John Pullokkaran <jpullokk at apache dot org>
* Julian Hyde <jhyde at apache dot org>
* Nick Dimiduk <ndimiduk at apache dot org>
* Steven Noels <stevenn at apache dot org>
* Ted Dunning <tdunning at apache dot org>
* Vladimir Sitnikov <vladimirsitnikov at apache dot org>
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Julian Hyde be
appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Calcite,
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 Calcite Project be and hereby is
tasked with the migration and rationalization of the Apache
Incubator Calcite podling; and be it further
RESOLVED, that all responsibilities pertaining to the Apache
Incubator Calcite podling encumbered upon the Apache
Incubator Project are hereafter discharged.
Special Order 7E, Establish the Apache Calcite Project, was
approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
F. Change the Apache Flume Project Chair
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Arvind Prabhakar
to the office of Vice President, Apache Flume, and
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of
Arvind Prabhakar from the office of Vice President, Apache Flume, and
WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Flume project
has chosen to recommend Hari Shreedharan 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 Flume, and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Hari Shreedharan be and hereby is
appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Flume, to serve in
accordance with and subject to the direction of the Board of Directors
and the Bylaws of the Foundation until death, resignation, retirement,
removal or disqualification, or until a successor is appointed.
Special Order 7F, Change the Apache Flume Project Chair, was
approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
8. Discussion Items
9. Review Outstanding Action Items
* 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:
* Jim: Any prospects for new committers/PMC members?
[ Aries 2015-04-22 ]
Status:
* David: follow up with last PMC and committer additions.
[ Santuario 2015-05-20 ]
Status:
* Ross: What can be done with regard to Apache Extras?
[ Pivot 2015-06-17 ]
Status:
* 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:
* David: please submit a new report next month with some changed content
[ Tapestry 2015-07-15 ]
Status:
* Sam: schedule a call to restart the online ICLA submission discussion
[ Secretary 2015-08-19 ]
Status: Meeting was held. Minutes: http://s.apache.org/oME
* David: follow up on activity in PMC.
[ Etch 2015-08-19 ]
Status:
* Bertrand: follow up to see if the project is still ok.
[ Onami 2015-08-19 ]
Status: Done, latest report states Onami's will to go to the Attic.
* Rich: please provide more details in the next scheduled report
[ OpenJPA 2015-08-19 ]
Status: They were pinged about this back in August, but haven't yet
reported for this month.
* Jim: work with counsel to review the bylaws and propose changes (if
necessary) to clarify how to apply "two-thirds majority" when counting
votes.
[ Discussion Items 2015-08-19 ]
Status:
* Shane: pursue a report for Bloodhound
[ Bloodhound 2015-09-16 ]
Status: Public lists are dormant since July. Chair Gary is working on
a basic report on private@ as of 7-Oct. Report provided and
signed off, thanks.
* Jim: pursue a report for Helix
[ Helix 2015-09-16 ]
Status:
10. Unfinished Business
11. New Business
12. Announcements
13. Adjournment
Adjourned at 11:43 a.m. (Pacific)
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ATTACHMENTS:
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Attachment 1: Report from the Executive Assistant [Melissa Warnkin]
ApacheCon and TAC: It was a very successful week. We had a total of 11
TACers, 10 of which were first-time recipients of the program. All shared
their enthusiasm and appreciation for being there and expressed that it was a
wonderful experience and they learned a lot. Through the sessions and
discussions with other attendees, many have expressed their eagerness to join
in on different projects. As usual, booth traffic was very busy. I will be
assisting Nick in the TAC “re-boot” effort.
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Attachment 2: Report from the VP of Brand Management [Shane Curcuru]
Presented two updated brand education sessions at Apache:Big Data and
ApacheCon Core in Budapest. Questions both at the sessions and in the halls
at the conference show that we still need to improve education for PMCs and
committers in Apache projects.
Published updated and annotated site map and resources for branding policy and
practices, as well as a trademark registration cost guideline. Site map
includes links to brand-related education and presentations:
http://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/resources
Signed non-exclusive, annual renewable licensing agreement with Litographs, a
garment, poster, and printed goods vendor for use of Apache project marks in
exchange for a percentage of royalties. The detailed agreement uses similar
terms that we've provided to independent Member shops in the past, but can
serve as a solid model to better memorialize other requests from third parties
who wish to produce non-computer related goods promoting Apache communities
using Apache marks.
Working with the President, please see the Tomcat PMC's additional report
requesting authorization to use existing Brand budgeted funds to pay for
several international trademark registrations of their TOMCAT mark (which
we've already applied to register in the US). I fully support the Tomcat
PMC's request.
Looking forward, we are still evaluating the Brand budget situation given the
unexpected loss of our pro bono counsel support. It will take some time to
see what the expected monthly expenses for DLAPiper support will be given our
level of work and our discount structure.
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Attachment 3: Report from the VP of Fundraising [Hadrian Zbarcea]
The fundraising activities continue. We have conversations with 3 potential
sponsors and we expect one to close very soon.
Due to the concerns expressed last month we identified a few gaps in the
execution and we are taking the following steps:
* we are still behind on our receivables; if our execution would be flawless,
we'd be on target, as Tom indicated. That is not the case yet.
* we identified a communication issue as we do not know the payment status of
outstanding invoices and as such we do not know if/when to send reminders.
With KAM and accounting@'s help we made the convention to send bi-weekly
reports to vp-fundraising@.
* there is a lack of clarity on who and how to send reminders. I had a
conversation with Tom where we agreed on how to coordinate it.
* we identified a gap in the information about renewals and as a result, one
platinum renewal fell through the cracks. The reminder is now sent, but we
are taking steps to close the gap.
* following on a recommendation from Ross, we started to update our process to
consider end of fiscal year and the budgeting process of ours sponsors. Tom
will provide the information in the following weeks (update: Tom just sent the
list, didn't have time to review yet).
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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
forwarded the proposed revised ASF logo, which was strongly welcomed
by the majority of Members who provided feedback. Work continues with
the designers (donated by HotWax Systems and LucidWorks) on
fine-tuning the logo and comprehensive visual system, with completion
anticipated before the end of the calendar year.
III. Press Releases: no announcements were issued via the newswire
service, ASF Foundation Blog, or announce@apache.org during this
timeframe.
IV. Informal Announcements: 4 items were published on the ASF
"Foundation" Blog, and 26 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 54 weekly summaries published to date.
V. Future Announcements: no announcements are in development. 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 16 media requests, including
several briefings at Apache: Big Data and ApacheCon Europe. The ASF
received 1,411 press clips over this time period, vs. last month's
clip count of 844.
VII. Analyst Relations: we responded to 7 analyst queries, including
briefings at ApacheCon Europe. Apache was mentioned in 38 reports by
Gartner, 7 reports by Forrester, 33 reports by 451 Research, and 12
reports by IDC.
VIII. ApacheCon liaison: the events in Europe are complete, both
Apache:Big Data and ApacheCon:Core enjoyed solid media and analyst
participation. Special thanks to Rich Bowen and Shane Curcuru for
their participation during the events, as well as to Ross Gardler for
taking pre-event interviews.
IX. (Non-ASF) Industry Events and Outreach liaison: no formal
activities at this time.
X. Newswire accounts: we have 8 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]
Date:
By:
Reviewed by:
New Karma:
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Infrastructure has added Daniel Takamori as a part-time staff member.
You can read more here: https://blogs.apache.org/infra/entry/dear_apache
This is a backfill of the part-time contract position that expired in
May of this year.
Finances:
==========
I spent some time talking with the Virtual folks about our rate of
expenditure in some specific GL Accounts - those used for replacing
hardware, cloud infrastructure, and build farm costs. While we are
currently close to plan in terms of totals, the rate of spending has
increased dramatically, and failing either a reduction in spending,
or in-kind sponsorships (one of which we are working on), we will
be over budget in those specific categories. That said, we are
significantly underbudget overall
Operations Action Items:
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N/A
Short Term Priorities:
======================
N/A
Long Range Priorities:
======================
Automation
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We've made small, regular strides in increasing our automation efforts,
but nothing particularly report-worthy.
Resilience
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Much work around backups, both improving the scope as well as the quality
of our backups is ongoing. We are backing things up, but need to figure out
a retention policy, and that work is yet to be done.
Technical Debt
--------------
We've made significant strides in migrating workloads off of aging machines.
While we have a long way to go, progress is occurring. Most notably by end
of month we should have everything in place to retire the last remaining
machine at our Florida Colocation facility and cancel that contract.
Monitoring
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After last months significant gains, we are seeing benefits brought on
by monitoring, but not necessarily additional gains in the monitoring.
General Activity:
=================
ApacheCon Europe happened in the past month, and a number of Infra
volunteers and staff members attended.
We suffered a second LDAP outage, that required editing corrupted
data and restoring it. This caused a brief outage.
Mail system proof of concept work continues, though the largest
blocker at the moment is ensuring that a broader-than-the-ASF
community cares about Ponymail.
Uptime Statistics:
==================
See http://status.apache.org/sla/ for details.
Despite some needed LDAP maintenance that caused a brief outage, overall
we met or exceed all of the SLAs this month.
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Attachment 6: Report from the Apache Travel Assistance Committee [Gavin McDonald]
ApacheCon Europe
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TAC had a successful conference, helping 11 people make the event who
otherwise couldn't have, and helping them develop their skills, contacts and
confidence in the process. We're in the process of collecting their feedback
at the moment, but so far all seems positive. Final costs should be
available by next month.
Committee
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After an epic run of 7 years at the helm, sadly Gavin McDonald has stepped
down as TAC Chair. Everyone on the committee is very grateful for his time
and effort as chair! Nick Burch has taken over the role.
Melissa Warnkin was added to the committee just after Budapest.
Next steps
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A meeting was held in Budapest to discuss ways to better get the message
about TAC out, beyond the "usual circles", and notes were circulated to the
list. We are thinking of doing a much bigger push for stories from
successful past recipients, to be shared. Some of these will go on the site,
many will be classified by their project areas, and used to build more
personalised/relevant messages on TAC for projects to spread. (Generic
mailings to projects have mixed successes). We will also hopefully be able
to feed some of these back to sponsors as evidence of successes that their
funding permitted.
There is also discussion on scoring and assistance offerings, to try to
ensure that Vancouver has a broader group of people funded. Part of this
will hopefully be driven by better outreach, but some may need some tweaks
(eg childcare has been identified as one issue for some). We are considering
trying some more targetted outreach towards students as well.
We have a call with the LF in 2 weeks to discuss Vancouver, we expect to
open applications shortly after that. We are aiming to tie our dates to the
CFP ones, so that accepted speakers have a chance to apply if they need it,
and to avoid the confusion of both TAC and LF offering travel funding. More
details on that next month. Our rough plan is to open application soon, for
the organised, but do most of the publicity nearer the time.
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Attachment 7: Report from the VP of W3C Relations [Andy Seaborne]
Henry Story (bblfish@) has joined the Credentials Community Group.
This is the first member of the group for ASF, so the foundation
agrees to the standard community group conditions.
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Attachment 8: Report from the Apache Legal Affairs Committee [Jim Jagielski]
A formal ASF Release Policy has been drafted and it is in the process of
being reviewed. My expectation is to make it official within a month's
timeframe. Many thanks to Marvin Humphrey for his work in this effort.
JIRA tickets continue to be closed.
I will be working with our legal counsel regarding the proposed
Bylaws update regarding the 2/3rds majority question.
No issues requiring board attention.
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Attachment 9: Report from the Apache Security Team Project [Mark J. Cox]
Some concern last month due to non-response of TomEE to a security
issue we passed to the PMC list on 21st May 2015 which had no response
or ack to date. Please can board remind TomEE PMC of their need to
follow the security process in a timely manner.
Short stats for September 2015, a very quiet month in which we
received:
6 Support question
3 Security vulnerability question, but not a vulnerability report
10 Phishing/spam/proxy/attacks point to site "powered by Apache" or
Confused user due to Android licenses
Vulnerability reports to security@apache.org:
1 [httpd] (rejected, bug only)
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Attachment A: Report from the Apache Accumulo Project [Billie Rinaldi]
The Apache Accumulo sorted, distributed key/value store is a robust,
scalable, high performance data storage system that features cell-based
access control and customizable server-side processing. It is based on
Google's BigTable design and is built on top of Apache Hadoop,
Zookeeper, and Thrift.
Summary
The project is active and there are no Board-level issues at this time.
Two new committers have been added since the previous report. We have
made two releases and have overhauled the license and notice files so
that each release artifact has its own tailored license and notice (as
opposed to a single all-encompassing L&N for all).
Releases
Version 1.6.4 was released on 10/3/2015.
Version 1.5.4 was released on 9/20/2015.
Activity
The number of subscribers to the user list increased by 4 to 395 and the
number of subscribers to the dev list decreased by 6 to 225. Mailing list
activity has been lower than in the previous quarter, but lists are still
active.
In the past 3 months, there have been 226 commits to the master branch
from 13 authors, 4 of whom are not yet committers.
After the recent release of 1.5.4, we have retired the 1.5 branch. For
the upcoming 1.7.1 release, 108 of 149 issues have been resolved.
Community
Dylan Hutchison and Russ Weeks were added as committers and PMC members
on 10/7/2015.
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Attachment B: Report from the Apache ACE Project [Marcel Offermans]
Apache ACE is a software distribution framework that allows you to
centrally manage and distribute modular software components,
configuration data and other artifacts to OSGi based and related target
systems.
Releases:
* April 22nd, 2014: ACE 2.0.1 release.
Statistics:
* Last committers added: March 27th, 2012
* Last PMC members added: June 18th, 2013
* Mailing list activity (dev+users) for last 3 (jul-sep) months: 19 msgs
(previous 3 months: 37 msgs)
* Commits for last 3 (jul-sep) months: 10
(previous 3 months: 42)
Activity:
* Upgraded the build to the latest Bndtools version.
* Apache ACE (and Apache Celix) featured in presentations at the
Smart Systems Conference:
http://www.bc-smartsystems.nl/en/programme/software-quality-1
* Apache ACE featured at ApacheCon Core Europe:
http://sched.co/3x1V
* Provisioning the IoT at DevNation featured Apache ACE:
http://www.devnation.org/#0e729c10598c8ab5dba83212f17023ca
* Upcoming presentations at JavaOne:
CON2106 - Provisioning the IoT
CON7034 - Microservices for the IoT
* Some discussions about relay servers and Apache Celix integration.
Notes:
Traffic on the mailing lists is still relatively slow. As a community
we should push for a new release and try to get some new committers
involved by actively engaging them.
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Attachment C: Report from the Apache ActiveMQ Project [Bruce Snyder]
## Description:
Apache ActiveMQ is a popular and powerful open source messaging server.
Apache ActiveMQ is fast, supports many cross language clients and
protocols, comes with easy to use enterprise integration patterns and many
advanced features while fully supporting JMS 1.1, J2EE 1.4, AMQP 1.0.
## Activity:
- ActiveMQ 5 saw two new releases this quarter one major release and an
additional bug fix release.
- ActiveMQ 5.11.2 was released on Mon Aug 10 2015
- ActiveMQ 5.12.0 was released on Thu Aug 13 2015
- Some discussion on the mailing list around when to release ActiveMQ 5.12.1
and what fixes should be included.
- The ActiveMQ native clients also saw some releases this quarter and
continue to see active development.
- ActiveMQ-CPP 3.9.0 was released on Sat Aug 15 2015
- The Apache.NMS API v1.7.1 was released on Fri Sep 04 2015.
- The Apache.NMS.ActiveMQ client library v1.7.1 was released on Mon Oct 05
2015.
- The Artemis project continues to see some very active development and
discussion on the mailing lists.
- ActiveMQ Artemis 1.1.0 was released on Wed Sep 23 2015
## Health Report:
- As the number and scope of the recent releases shows, there is a lot of
development occurring throughout all of the ActiveMQ products
- Many bugs are being raised, but they are being looked at fairly promptly
- There were a couple of bugs raised that resulted in good “cross team”
discussions as to whether the bug was, indeed, a bug or a desired change in
behavior
- While some of these discussions did hold up the creations of a patch
release (5.12.1), it was important for the team to reach a consensus on the
outcome and plans are starting to finish the release
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## PMC changes:
- Currently 20 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Arthur Naseef at Mon Feb 09 2015
## LDAP changes:
- Currently 54 committers and 20 committee group members.
- No new committee group members added in the last 3 months
- Christopher L. Shannon was added as a committer on Thu Jul 30 2015
## Releases:
- ActiveMQ-CPP 3.9.0 was released on Fri Aug 14 2015
- ActiveMQ Artemis 1.1.0 was released on Wed Sep 23 2015
- 5.11.2 was released on Mon Aug 10 2015
- activemq-cpp-3.9.0 was released on Sat Aug 15 2015
- 5.12.0 was released on Wed Aug 12 2015
- Apache.NMS.ActiveMQ v1.7.1 was released on Sun Oct 04 2015
- Apache.NMS v1.7.1 was released on Thu Sep 03 2015
## Mailing list activity:
- users@activemq.apache.org:
- 721 subscribers (up 20 in the last 3 months):
- 727 emails sent to list (815 in previous quarter)
- dev@activemq.apache.org:
- 336 subscribers (up 9 in the last 3 months):
- 777 emails sent to list (1557 in previous quarter)
- issues@activemq.apache.org:
- 27 subscribers (up 6 in the last 3 months):
- 1807 emails sent to list (1357 in previous quarter)
- announce@activemq.apache.org:
- 8 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months)
## JIRA activity:
- 248 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 209 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment D: Report from the Apache Airavata Project [Suresh Marru]
## Description:
Apache Airavata is a distributed system software framework to manage
simple to composite applications with complex execution and workflow
patterns on diverse computational resources.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- Summer had seen a big surge of activity. Post GSoC it has slowed down.
Cutting releases and fostering more future release planning might stimulate
more activity back again.
## Health report:
- The commit rate remains high but the dev list emails traffic is not much.
The community has to do a better job in fostering more dev list
discussions.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 20 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Supun Nakandala at Mon May 18 2015
- Currently 29 committers and 20 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Supun Nakandala at Mon May 11 2015
- Hasini Gunasinghe was added as a committer on Mon Aug 10 2015
## Releases:
- Last release was 0.14 on Thu Jan 08 2015. We are behind in
preparing two releases. I (Suresh) volunteered to be the RM for next two
releases and have been blocking. Will get this release out in October.
## Mailing list activity:
- users@airavata.apache.org:
- 96 subscribers (up 5 in the last 3 months):
- 40 emails sent to list (3 in previous quarter)
- dev@airavata.apache.org:
- 131 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months):
- 174 emails sent to list (684 in previous quarter)
- issues@airavata.apache.org:
- 15 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 373 emails sent to list (655 in previous quarter)
- architecture@airavata.apache.org:
- 70 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 0 emails sent to list (17 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 72 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 106 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment E: Report from the Apache Aries Project [Jeremy Hughes]
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Attachment F: Report from the Apache Attic Project [Henri Yandell]
## Description:
- The Attic is where projects slumber when their communities fade away.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- Three project moves to the Attic were completed (Whirr, DirectMemory
and Click), and Deltacloud is mostly done (first Git based project
to enter the Attic). Sebb has done sterling work rescuing the lost
Jakarta websites from the Internet Archive.
## Health report:
- We're reacting well to projects moving to the Attic, and it's good to
see Hervé and Sebb's activity. There's always a project with just a
little to complete (Deltacloud this time), so we could do that little bit
better.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 20 PMC members.
- Hervé Boutemy was added to the PMC on Sat Jul 18 2015
## Mailing list activity:
- general@attic.apache.org:
- 34 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 132 emails sent to list (33 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 6 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 6 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment G: Report from the Apache Avro Project [Tom White]
Report from the Apache Avro committee
## Description:
Apache Avro is a data serialization system.
## Issues:
- The 1.8.0 release failed because committers found several problems
with the project's license documentation (see AVRO-1722 [1]).
Problems included: missing required attribution in NOTICE and the
inclusion of possibly GPL code (see LEGAL-224 [2]). We are in the
process of fixing these issues before releasing 1.8.0.
## Activity:
- Close to releasing 1.8.0 (once licensing issues are solved).
## Health report:
- The community is not keeping up with the number of reported bugs or
with feature contributions. We need to prioritize reviews with the
goal of growing the number of active committers.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 14 PMC members.
- Ryan Blue was added to the PMC on Sun Aug 09 2015
## LDAP changes:
- Currently 22 committers and 14 committee group members.
- Ryan Blue was added to the committee group on Mon Aug 10 2015
- New commmitters:
- Sean Busbey was added as a committer on Mon Aug 10 2015
- Niels Basjes was added as a committer on Mon Aug 10 2015
## Releases:
- Last release: 1.7.7 on 23 July 2014
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@avro.apache.org:
- 269 subscribers (down -4 in the last 3 months):
- 452 emails sent to list (326 in previous quarter)
- user@avro.apache.org:
- 590 subscribers (up 21 in the last 3 months):
- 55 emails sent to list (76 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 42 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 18 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment H: Report from the Apache Bloodhound Project [Gary Martin]
Project Description
===================
Apache Bloodhound is a software development collaboration tool, including
issue tracking, wiki and repository browsing
Issues
======
There are no issues requiring board attention at the current time.
Releases
========
There have been no releases over the last three months. The last release
was in fact towards the end of last year:
* apache-bloodhound-0.8 (11th December 2014)
PMC/Committer Changes
=====================
There are currently 15 PMC members on the project with the last additions
in January 2014.
The last new committers were added in May 2014.
Community & Development
=======================
Committer activity remains stubbornly low. Email discussions related to
tickets deemed necessary for the next release continued along with some
discussions of plans for future developments. This resulted in two of
our GSoC students responding indicating an interest in helping out.
Such GSoC students in the short term might be considered the best source
for new additions to the PMC. The current low activity should be thought
of as counter-productive to encouraging the GSoC students' interest and
more generally is a barrier to interest from new developers.
There are currently 7 remaining active tickets that are incomplete and
marked to be in the next release.
Email discussions in general are still decreasing in volume though the
user list does appear to get reasonably timely responses to queries.
We have also experienced some periods of downtime on the main bloodhound
issue tracker which managed to go un-noticed for a few days. This would
have been quicker to spot with heavier use from the developer community
but also points at the need to improve our site monitoring.
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Attachment I: Report from the Apache Celix Project [Alexander Broekhuis]
## Description:
OSGi framework implementation in C.
## Activity:
- The last weeks a lot of small issue have been addressed in
preparation of the a next release.
- Bjoern & Pepijn presented "Self healing system using distributed
OSGi" at apachecon core europe. Which covered, among others, Apache
Celix.
- Apache Celix presented as part of INAETICS technology stack at
Bits&Chips SmartSystems
- On-going work to get Apache Celix running on Android. Actually it
is running but not released yet (separate branch)
## Health report:
- The last month there has been a substantial increase in number of commits.
- The number of mails on the mailing list is still a bit low.
- Reactions on question on the mailing list are quick.
## Issues:
- there are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## PMC changes:
- Currently 7 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Marcel Offermans at Wed Jul 16 2014
## LDAP changes:
- Currently 7 committers and 7 committee group members.
- No new committee group members added in the last 3 months
- 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:
- 54 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
- 18 emails sent to list (31 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 21 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 17 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment J: Report from the Apache Chukwa Project [Eric Yang]
## Description:
Chukwa is an open source data collection system for monitoring
large distributed systems.
## Activity:
- New Chukwa docker image
- New ring and pie chart supports
- Some document updates
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## PMC/Committership changes:
- No new PMC members in the last 3 months.
- Latest PMC addition: Sun Dec 01 2013 (Grace Huang)
- No new committers in the last 3 months.
- Latest committer addition: Mon Mar 16 2015 (Sreepathi Prasanna)
- Currently 16 committers and 12 PMC members.
## Releases:
- Latest Chukwa 0.6.0 released on November 22 2014
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@chukwa.apache.org:
- 93 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
- 113 emails sent to list (193 in previous quarter)
- user@chukwa.apache.org:
- 163 subscribers (up 4 in the last 3 months):
- 4 emails sent in the last 3 months):
## JIRA activity:
- 12 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 10 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment K: Report from the Apache Crunch Project [Micah Whitacre]
Apache Crunch is a Java library for writing, testing, and running
MapReduce and Spark pipelines on Apache Hadoop.
Project Status
--------------
The project has been moving at a similar pace to the previous quarter, with
34 new JIRA issues logged since the previous board report, with 24 (23 new +
1 old) issues being resolved in that time. The majority of the work on the
project continues to focus on maintenance such as bug fixes with a heavier
focus on rounding out HBase support, building out better Spark support, and
support for Java 8 Lambdas.
The project also successfully release version 0.13.0 this quarter which
featured 27 issues. The release focussed on several bug fixes but the major
effort was to upgrade to HBase 1.0 and remove support for Hadoop 1.0.
There are no board-level issues at this time.
Community
---------
Community activity continues to be similar with the previous reporting
period. The user mailing list has maintained a steady rate of questions and
answer (1 per day). Over the last reporting period the activity on the
developer mailing list has increased (2 per day).
Micah Whitacre was added to the PMC on April 3rd, 2014.
Micah Whitacre was added as a committer on July 11th, 2013.
Releases
--------
* Apache Crunch 0.13.0 was released August 5, 2015
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Attachment L: Report from the Apache CXF Project [Daniel Kulp]
## Description:
Apache CXF is an open source services framework. CXF helps you build and
develop services using frontend programming APIs, like JAX-WS and
JAX-RS. These services can speak a variety of protocols such as SOAP,
XML/HTTP, RESTful HTTP, or CORBA and work over a variety of transports
such as HTTP, JMS or JBI.
## Activity:
With the release of CXF 3.1.0 last reporting period, much of this period was
spent following up on various reports and suggestions as users upgraded. Also,
a lot of time has been spent upgrading Fediz to the latest CXF version. This
activity resulted in several patch releases of CXF (3.1.2/3.1.3/3.0.6/2.7.17) as
well as a couple of Fediz releases (1.2.1 and 1.1.3). The Fediz releases also
addressed a security vulnerability that is now public and on our web site:
http://cxf.apache.org/security-advisories.html
## Health report:
- The activity in the community is stead. Questions are answered promptly.
Issues/patches are handled fairly quickly. We’re looking at some of the
patches to see if there are potential new committers with a discussion on
one already started.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## PMC changes:
- Currently 22 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Andriy Redko at Tue Sep 09 2014
## LDAP changes:
- Currently 36 committers and 22 committee group members.
- No new committee group members added in the last 3 months
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Iris Ding at Tue May 26 2015
## Releases:
- 3.1.3 was released on Thu Oct 01 2015
- 3.1.2 was released on Mon Aug 03 2015
- Apache CXF Fediz 1.2.1 was released on Tue Aug 11 2015
- 3.0.6 was released on Mon Aug 03 2015
- Apache CXF Fediz 1.1.3 was released on Tue Aug 11 2015
- 2.7.17 was released on Fri Jul 31 2015
## Mailing list activity:
- users@cxf.apache.org:
- 1008 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 598 emails sent to list (658 in previous quarter)
- dev@cxf.apache.org:
- 441 subscribers (down -5 in the last 3 months):
- 162 emails sent to list (244 in previous quarter)
- notifications@cxf.apache.org:
- 28 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
- 587 emails sent to list (528 in previous quarter)
- jaxrs-tck@cxf.apache.org:
- 4 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months)
- issues@cxf.apache.org:
- 121 subscribers (down -6 in the last 3 months):
- 900 emails sent to list (1082 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 153 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 124 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment M: Report from the Apache DB Project [Bryan Pendleton]
## Description:
The Apache DB TLP consists of the following subprojects:
o DdlUtils : a small, easy-to-use component for working with
Database Definition (DDL) files.
o Derby : a relational database implemented entirely in Java.
o JDO : focused on building the API and the TCK for compatibility
testing of Java Data Object implementations providing data
persistence.
o Torque : an object-relational mapper for Java.
## Activity:
Activities over the last quarter
o Google Summer of Code project in Derby came to a successful conclusion
o Derby 10.12 release is underway: release candidates are
being tested, and the release is anticipated in October.
o The Derby community successfully held several votes, including
a vote on sunsetting support for Java 7.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 43 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Matthew Adams at Sun Jan 19 2014
## LDAP changes:
- Currently 42 committers and 43 committee group members.
- No new changes to the committee group or committership since last report.
## Releases:
- Last release was JDO 3.1 on Thu Mar 19 2015
-----------------------------------------
Attachment N: Report from the Apache Directory Project [Kiran Ayyagari]
Current Activity and Status
---------------------------
The last quarter was mainly focused on releasing the first version of Kerby.
A new version of the LDAP API release was discussed and in the preparation to
it there is some bug fixing going on.
We have received an offer to contribute RADIUS software built on top of
ApacheDS, we are still evaluating this offer.
We are thinking of adding two more members to the PMC, the vote is not started
yet.
There were three presentations in the recently concluded ApacheConCore EU, one
each on Fortress, Kerby and ApacheDS projects.
The default JDBM backend used by ApacheDS is causing data corruption problems.
We are seeing a lot of users complaining about it in the recent weeks.
Though we have suggested some workarounds this remains our top priority to fix
the issue by replacing JDBM with the new MVCC backend library, Mavibot.
Currently work is going on to support cross-BTree transactions in Mavibot.
------------------------- Detailed Information ------------------
-- Community --
One new committer (last previous addition: May 2015)
* Yaning Xu
No new PMC member (last previous addition: April 2015).
Mailing lists:
* Users mailing list: 295 subscribers (-2)
* Development mailing list: 172 subscribers (-5)
* API mailing list: 69 subscribers (-1)
* Fortress mailing list: 23 subscribers (+3)
* Kerby mailing list: 16 subscribers (+3)
-- Current activity --
Apache Directory LDAP API:
* No new releases.
* Good activity
* Mainly bug fixes.
Apache Mavibot:
* One new release.
* Low activity
* Many smaller fixes.
* Work started on supporting cross-BTree transactions.
ApacheDS:
* No new releases.
* Low activity.
Apache Directory Studio:
* One release during this quarter.
* Good activity.
* Work in progress on OpenLDAP configuration editor.
Apache eSCIMo:
* Nil activity.
* No releases yet.
Fortress:
* No new releases.
* Low activity.
Apache Kerby:
* One new release.
* Good activity
-- Releases --
* One release for Apache Mavibot:
* Apache Mavibot 1.0.0-M8 (August 16th 2015)
* One release for Apache Kerby:
* Apache Kerby 1.0.0-RC1 (September 16th 2015)
* No releases for Apache Directory LDAP API, Directory Server, Studio,
Fortress and eSCIMo
-----------------------------------------
Attachment O: Report from the Apache Drill Project [Jacques Nadeau]
## Description:
A distributed SQL MPP for Hadoop and NoSQL
## Activity:
- Drill adoption has seen strong increases in the last few months. This is
expected as Drill is now something useful to end users (as opposed to being
mostly in development).
- There have been a number of community events that have been helpful in
continuing to drive adoption and awareness of the project. This includes
countless meetups, talks and tutorials at a number of major conferences (such
as NoSQL Now & Strata/Hadoop World NYC).
- The community has been primarily focused on addressing user issues for the
last few months. Activity continues to increase on the user list post the
1.0 release of Drill.
- Code contributors are starting to appear more frequently. These new
contributions are most often focused on extending Drill (such as storage
plugins, format plugins and udfs)
- A key corporate contributor has created a new extended test suite for
Drill. This will likely be considered for incorporation into the Drill
codebase to provide additional support for product quality goals.
## Health report:
- Drill's community diversity is increasing as we see a broadening of
companies sponsoring engineers to work on Drill. This is due to both new
contributors and existing contributors moving to new companies.
- New contributors are arriving but we need to continue to ease their
experience.
- New contributors currently struggle with a lack of code documentation.
The community is working on improving this to ease the newbie experience.
- New (and existing) contributors find Drill's precommit testing
requirement to be burdensome as the tests typically take 30-40 minutes to
complete. As such the community is looking at ways to speed this up.
## Issues:
- There are currently no issues that require board attention.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 16 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Parth Chandra at Tue Nov 18 2014
## LDAP changes:
- Currently 24 committers and 16 committee group members.
- No new committee group members added in the last 3 months
- Abdel Hakim Deneche was added as a committer on Mon Aug 31 2015
## Releases:
- Last release was 1.1.0 on Sun Jul 05 2015
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@drill.apache.org:
- 408 subscribers (up 11 in the last 3 months):
- 2155 emails sent to list (2859 in previous quarter)
- user@drill.apache.org:
- 467 subscribers (up 45 in the last 3 months):
- 1033 emails sent to list (855 in previous quarter)
- issues@drill.apache.org:
- 18 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 3755 emails sent to list (7519 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 431 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 229 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
-----------------------------------------
Attachment P: Report from the Apache Geronimo Project [Alan Cabrera]
-----------------------------------------
Attachment Q: Report from the Apache Hadoop Project [Christopher Douglas]
-----------------------------------------
Attachment R: Report from the Apache HBase Project [Andrew Purtell]
HBase is a distributed column-oriented database built on top of
Hadoop Common and Hadoop HDFS.
ISSUES FOR THE BOARD’S ATTENTION
None at this time.
RELEASES
- 0.98.14 was released on August 29, 2015
- 1.0.2 was released on August 31, 2015
- 1.1.2 was released on September 01, 2015
ACTIVITY
No new PMC members added in the past three months.
Last PMC addition was Sean Busbey on March 25, 2015.
As new PMC, Sean Busbey made a significant impact by evaluating our
compliance with Foundation release policies, found deviations had
accumulated over time, and lead development efforts to fix them. Once
the blockers had been addressed we resumed releases. The bulk of the
work was done on HBASE-14085.
Stephen Yuan Jiang was added as a committer on August 23, 2015.
Andrew Purtell presented at OSCON on July 23, 2015. [1]
We held a developer workshop at the Palo Alto offices of Cloudera on
August 26, 2015 that was well attended. [2]
Nick Dimiduk presented at Apache Big Data EU on September 28,
2015. [3]
We held an un-conference style meetup at Cloudera NYC on September
29, 2015. [4]
We have resumed community sponsored user group meetups. The next
one is scheduled for October 8, 2015. [5]
STATS
46 committers
27 PMC
1070 subscribers to the dev list (up 35 in the last 3 months)
2296 subscribers to the user list (up 34 in the last 3 months)
509 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
468 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
[1] http://s.apache.org/yWM
[2] http://s.apache.org/yW2
[3] http://s.apache.org/Mjj
[4] http://s.apache.org/Q7t
[5] http://s.apache.org/dMQ
-----------------------------------------
Attachment S: Report from the Apache Helix Project [Kishore Gopalakrishna]
## Description:
A cluster management framework for partitioned and replicated distributed
resources
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity:
- Most commits are from external contributors in the form of PRs.
- Discussion around new rebalancers
- Increase in adoption.
## Health report:
- Project is in stable state with not many new features added. This explains
less emails on mailing list and drop in JIRA activity.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 16 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Kapil Surlaker at Tue Dec 17 2013
## LDAP changes:
- Currently 16 committers and 16 committee group members.
- No new committee group members added in the last 3 months
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Greg Brandt at Mon Jul 06 2015
## Releases:
- Last release was 0.6.5 on Tue Mar 24 2015
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@helix.apache.org:
- 58 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 74 emails sent to list (187 in previous quarter)
- user@helix.apache.org:
- 82 subscribers (down -3 in the last 3 months):
- 18 emails sent to list (60 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 7 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 0 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
-----------------------------------------
Attachment T: Report from the Apache Ignite Project [Dmitriy Setrakyan]
## Description:
The Apache Ignite (TM) In-Memory Data Fabric is a high-performance,
integrated and distributed in-memory platform for computing and
transacting on large-scale data sets in real-time, orders of magnitude
faster than possible with traditional disk-based or flash technologies.
Apache Ignite (TM) provides many in-memory components to improve
performance and scalability of user applications, including in-memory
data grid (distributed caching), in-memory compute grid, in-memory
streaming, and more.
## Activity:
- The community has released version 1.4, which was the first release
as a TLP project. The release includes support for SSL
protocol, and many stabilization and fault tolerance fixes.
- The community is working towards version 1.5, which includes compact
in-memory format, support for C++ and .NET, portable cross-platform
serialization protocol, deadlock-free transactions, and many
stabilization fixes.
- The community has refined the Jira and GitHub processes.
- The community voted to establish yearly PMC chair rotation.
## Health report:
- Ignite keeps attracting new contributors on the mailing list.
- Ignite PMC has added 2 new PMC members.
## Issues:
- There are no outstanding issues.
## LDAP committee group/Committership changes:
→ Denis A. Magda was added to the PMC on Mon Sep 28 2015
→ Raul Kripalani was added to the PMC on Sun Sep 20 2015
→ Denis A. Magda was added as a committer on Mon Sep 21 2015
→ Raul Kripalani was added as a committer on Sun Sep 20 2015
→ Currently 26 committers and 24 PMC members.
## Releases:
- 1.4.0 was released on Mon Sep 28 2015
- 1.3.0 was released on Tue Jul 21 2015
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@ignite.apache.org:
- 116 subscribers (up 24 in the last 3 months):
- 2447 emails sent to list (1746 in previous quarter)
- user@ignite.apache.org:
- 108 subscribers (up 42 in the last 3 months):
- 849 emails sent to list (611 in previous quarter)
- issues@ignite.apache.org:
- 16 subscribers (up 3 in the last 3 months):
- 4604 emails sent to list (2468 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 589 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 330 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
-----------------------------------------
Attachment U: Report from the Apache Incubator Project [Ted Dunning]
The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.
There are 44 podlings currently undergoing incubation.
* Community
New IPMC members:
- Josh Elser
- Sterling Hughes
* New Podlings
- MADlib
- Rya
- Unomi
* Graduations
The board has motions for the following:
- Calcite
- Brooklyn
* Releases
The following releases were made since the last Incubator report:
- 2015-09-06 Apache Kylin 1.0-incubating
- 2015-09-14 Apache Brooklyn 0.8.0-incubating
- 2015-09-14 Apache HTrace-4.0.0-incubating
- 2015-09-15 Apache TinkerPop 3.0.1-incubating
- 2015-09-16 Apache Groovy 2.4.5-incubating
- 2015-09-21 Apache Sentry-1.6.0-incubating
- 2015-09-22 Apache AsterixDB Hyracks 0.2.16-incubating
* IP Clearance
- Raytheon BBN Technologies Corp donated POI Visio, an extension module for
Apache POI. It adds support for the Microsoft Visio .vsdx xml-based file
format. (Current Apache POI Visio support only handled the older binary
.vsd format). Post-import, the component will be known as XDGF.
* Infrastructure
- It seems that an incorrect date in the Board meeting calendar caused the
report reminders to fire a week early, requiring manual cleanup after the
correct date was established. There was discussion of migrating the
reminders and other Incubator bookkeeping to Whimsy.
* Miscellaneous
- At the height of Corinthia's crisis, several committers resigned. The
mailing lists have since gone silent. Some IPMC members followed up but
those efforts do not appear to have been successful.
- A vote to retire the Droids podling is pending.
- Various proposals to change the Incubator have been discussed on
general@incubator. The one generating the most responses, mostly in
opposition, is a proposal which would lessen the role of Mentors with
business affiliations to podlings during Incubator entry and exit votes.
None of the other proposals have gotten any traction.
- A proposal regarding the Incubator formulated during ApacheCon EU was
discussed on board@apache.
* Credits
- Report Manager: Marvin Humphrey
-------------------- Summary of podling reports --------------------
* Still getting started at the Incubator
- HAWQ
- MADlib
* Not yet ready to graduate
No release:
- Apex
- FreeMarker
- Geode
- Myriad
- OpenAZ
* Ready to graduate
- Groovy
The Board has motions for the following:
- Calcite
- Brooklyn
* Did not report, expected next month
- BatchEE
- Climate Model Diagnostic Analyzer (2 months late)
- Cotton (2 months late)
- DataFu
- HORN
- ODF Toolkit
- Ripple (4 months late)
* Report reviewed but not signed off by Mentors, expected next month
- Wave
* Likely to retire
- Droids
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Table of Contents
Apex
FreeMarker
Geode
Groovy
HAWQ
MADlib
Myriad
ODF Toolkit
OpenAz
Wave
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--------------------
Apex
Apex is an enterprise grade native YARN big data-in-motion platform that
unifies stream processing as well as batch processing.
Apex has been incubating since 2015-08-17.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Release Apex-Core, and Apex-Malhar at least twice.
2. Grow contributors beyond the initial set.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
None. Thanks for continual support.
How has the community developed since the last report?
The community is very engaged with the development of the project. There
have been 485 messages on dev@.
The community voted and selected the APEX logo which is put on the brand
new project website at http://apex.incubator.apache.org/
How has the project developed since the last report?
Various metrics are as follows:
+---------------------------------------------------+
| Metric | Core | Malhar |
+---------------------------------------------------+
| Non Merge Commits | 88 | 33 |
| Contributors | 17 | 9 |
| Jira Issues | 94 | 30 |
| Resolved Issues | 30 | 4 |
+---------------------------------------------------+
The project is still using the Atlassian instance of JIRA. The migration to
Apache JIRA is underway.
The first release of the project under ASF banner (3.2.0) is targeted to be
branched off at the end of September.
Date of last release:
No release under ASF-Incubation code base as yet. Apex-Core, Apex-Malhar
were last launched on July end in pre Apache days.
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
Committers and Mentors came about via incubation proposal.
Signed-off-by:
[X](apex) Chris Nauroth
[X](apex) Alan Gates
[X](apex) Hitesh Shah
[X](apex) Justin Mclean
[X](apex) P. Taylor Goetz
[X](apex) Ted Dunning
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
--------------------
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.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Finding contributors
2. Make the community more active
3. Do more releases
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
None
How has the community developed since the last report?
There's no significant change since the last month.
How has the project developed since the last report?
Several few fixes have been done.
Date of last release:
2014-08-09 batchee-0.2-incubating
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
during incubation. We got a few contributions though.
Signed-off-by:
[ ](batchee) Mark Struberg
[ ](batchee) Olivier Lamy
[X](batchee) Romain Manni-Bucau
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
--------------------
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. Finding contributors
2. Do the first release from ASF
3. Further infrastructure migrations (move issues to Jira, web site)
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
None
How has the community developed since the last report?
There's no significant change since the last month.
How has the project developed since the last report?
The IP clearance process is now complete given that:
1) Software License Agreements have been collected (and have been filed by
the ASF Secretary) for the former copyright owners that are no more
active and involved in the project.
2) Contributor License Agreements have been collected (and have been filed
by the ASF Secretary) for the main contributors of the project, that are
now committers of the incubating project
3) Notices in the project mailing lists and website have been published to
announce that the project is now incubating at ASF and to invite
potential contributors to participate in the new home
4) License headers have been updated to reflect the new copyright
Git repositories were migrated to ASF, and development now goes at ASF.
GitHub integration was configured so that we can receive pull requests.
Mailing lists were officially moved over to ASF
Jira was created and marked as the official issue tracker, though old
issues weren't yet migrated.
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 committers and initial PMC members yet.
Signed-off-by:
[X](freemarker) Jacopo Cappellato
[ ](freemarker) Jean-Frederic Clere
[ ](freemarker) David E. Jones
[ ](freemarker) Ralph Goers
[ ](freemarker) Sergio Fernández
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
--------------------
Geode
Geode is a data management platform that provides real-time, consistent
access to data-intensive applications throughout widely distributed butt
architectures.
Geode has been incubating since 2015-04-27.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Have our first Apache (incubating) release (currently blocked on us
solving JGroups licensing issues) GEODE-77.
2. Expanding the community to include contributors and committers outside
of Pivotal.
3. Execute and manage the project according to governance model required by
the "Apache Way"
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
None
How has the community developed since the last report?
- The community has elected Nitin Lamba as its first Release Manager.
- Project website is being revamped.
- In September 73 issues were created and 26 resolved, bringing the total
to 382 created and 164 resolved.
- There was 1 pull requests to github in the last 30 days, for a total of
19 pull requests.
- There were 319 messages on the dev list and 32 messages on the user list.
- There are now 128 subscribers on the user and 117 on the dev list.
- Events and Conferences:
In September:
Four talks at "Apache: Big Data Europe"
- An introduction to Apache Geode (incubating)
- Building a highly scalable open-source Real-time Streaming Analytics
system using Spark SQL, Apache Geode (incubating), SpringXD and Apache
Zeppelin (incubating)
- Implementing a Highly Scalable In-Memory Stock Prediction System with
Apache Geode (incubating), R and Spring XD
- Apache Geode (incubating): The First Six Months
Two talks at SpringOne:
- Implementing a highly scalable Stock prediction system with R, GemFire
and Spring XD <http://s.apache.org/gOc>
- Building Highly-Scalable Spring Applications with In-Memory,
Distributed Data Grids <http://s.apache.org/LHS>
Geode clubhouse: Building Effective Apache Geode Applications with Spring
Data GemFire (Sept 8th)
Geode clubhouse (roundtable): Sept 30th
Meetup in Cork Ireland: http://s.apache.org/HV1
Meetup in London: http://s.apache.org/sOM
Upcoming in October:
Geode Clubhouse: Transactions (Oct 6th)
Geode Clubhouse: Roundtable (Oct ?)
How has the project developed since the last report?
- A wiki page has been setup to track the first release:
http://s.apache.org/2d6
- 11 items have been identified to reach the first release.
- Almost all unit tests now pass on feature/GEODE-77 branch (The JGroups
feature branch).
- Good progress has also been made on stabilizing CI, by fixing various
intermittent failures in integration tests.
Date of last release:
N/A - Just nightly builds.
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
Signed-off-by:
[x](geode) Konstantin Boudnik
[ ](geode) Chip Childers
[ ](geode) Justin Erenkrantz
[ ](geode) Jan Iversen
[ ](geode) Chris Mattmann
[ ](geode) William A. Rowe Jr.
[ ](geode) Henry Saputra
[ ](geode) Roman Shaposhnik
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
--------------------
Groovy
Apache Groovy is a multi-faceted programming language for the Java platform.
Groovy is a powerful, optionally typed and dynamic language, with static-
typing and static compilation capabilities, aimed at multiplying developers’
productivity thanks to a concise, familiar and easy to learn syntax. It
integrates smoothly with any Java program, and immediately delivers to your
application powerful features, including scripting capabilities, Domain-
Specific Language authoring, runtime and compile-time meta-programming and
functional programming.
Groovy has been incubating since 2015-03-17.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
No issues left before graduating.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
No particular issue, but our mentors suggested we think about graduating.
We still have to launch the vote, but the consensus is positive already.
How has the community developed since the last report?
I've started collecting the number of subscribers on the users and dev
lists starting last July (numbers from early July till end of September).
Groovy users have been continuing to subscribe to our mailing-lists on a
regular basis.
Early end of end of end of
July July August September
Users: 249 259 273 274
Dev: 152 156 163 164
The download numbers, which are also an interesting indicator to see how
much a project is used, are still on an upward trend.
Here are the figures totaling downloads from both Maven Central and Bintray
since the Groovy project entered the incubator (full numbers from September
not yet available):
March April May June July August
643k 759k 877k 1.15M 1.29M 1.34M
The download numbers doubled since Groovy entered the incubator.
How has the project developed since the last report?
Since the last report 3 months ago, we managed to make two releases.
1. Groovy 2.4.4 on July 9th, patching an important security issue,
but the release wasn't yet compliant with all the good practices
in terms of licenses & copyright information
2. Groovy 2.4.5 on September 17th, we fixed all the problems of the
previous release, and we took the opportunity to do a "release party"
during the SpringOne2GX conference in Washington, DC, to spread the
knowledge of the new release process across the team, as well as with
our partners from JFrog.
Date of last release:
2015-09-17: Groovy 2.4.5
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
We've welcomed a new committer to the project: Keegan Witt. Keegan is also
known in our community for his work with the Maven integration for Groovy
(the GMavenPlus project)
Signed-off-by:
[ ](groovy) Andrew Bayer
[x](groovy) Konstantin Boudnik
[x](groovy) Bertrand Delacretaz
[X](groovy) Jim Jagielski
[x](groovy) Emmanuel Lecharny
[ ](groovy) Roman Shaposhnik
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
Emmanuel Lecharny:
Nothing special. They get it, it's now time for them to graduate, IMHO. As
a mentor, it's a pleasure to follow this podling.
--------------------
HAWQ
HAWQ is an advanced enterprise SQL on Hadoop analytic engine built around a
robust and high-performance massively-parallel processing (MPP) SQL framework
evolved from Pivotal Greenplum Database.
HAWQ has been incubating since 2015-09-04.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Produce our first Apache Release
2. Finalize infrastructure Migration and ICLAs from committers
3. Expand the community, increase dev list activity and adding new
committers/pmc members
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
We have only just started the incubation, everything seems to be starting
up, nothing urgent at this time.
How has the community developed since the last report?
This is our first report, after having been approved for incubation roughly
2 wks ago.
1. Most of the core contributors have completed their ICLA's and have
established apache ids.
2. Several presentations and meetups at ApacheCon EU and Strata aimed at
growing interest in the project
3. Formal announcements from Pivotal and press briefings related to the
move of the project into Apache aimed at growing awareness and interest
in the project.
4. Outreach to parties that have expressed interest previously in our open
source initiatives
5. Still very much at the early stages of community development, we're just
starting to get rolling.
How has the project developed since the last report?
This is our first report, after having been approved for incubation roughly
2 wks ago.
1. Initial code drop has been provided to Apache
2. Core infrastructure has been setup including: mailing lists, git, jira,
wiki, website
3. 62 messages on our developer list, 3 messages on our user list
4. 16 jiras filed, 10 open, 1 reopened, 4 resolved, 1 closed - 1 issue
unassigned
5. 7 commits in total, including initial commit
6. Most discussed items on the mailing list:
- addressing issues with getting jira configured to allow issues to be
assigned to users
- discussion of usage of alternate communication channels, e.g. chat.
- discussion of RTC vs CTR models for dev process
Date of last release:
We have not had a release yet.
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
Most of the initial list of committers have been onboarded, but there are
still a few more outstanding. We have not yet added any new members on top
of the initial committer list.
Signed-off-by:
[X](hawq) Alan Gates
[x](hawq) Konstantin Boudnik
[x](hawq) Justin Erenkrantz
[ ](hawq) Owen O'Malley
[ ](hawq) Thejas Nair
[ ](hawq) Roman Shaposhnik
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
--------------------
MADlib
Big Data Machine Learning in SQL for Data Scientists.
MADlib has been incubating since 2015-09-15.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Produce a first Apache release.
2. Finalize infrastructure migration and ICLAs from committers.
3. Expand the community, increase dev list activity and add new
committers/pmc members.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
Just started incubation, nothing specific to report at this time.
How has the community developed since the last report?
We are approximately 2 weeks into the incubation process.
1. So still at early stage.
2. Most of the core contributors have completed their ICLA's and have
established apache ids.
3. Several presentations and meet-ups at ApacheCon EU and Strata NYC to
discuss MADlib move to ASF governance.
4. Formal announcements from Pivotal, press briefings and blogs related
to the move of the project into Apache aimed at growing awareness and
interest in the project. Specialty press have picked up the story and
reported widely.
How has the project developed since the last report?
Early activity:
1. Initial code drop provided to Apache
2. Core infrastructure is in the process of being migrated from existing
infrastructure: mailing lists, git, jira, wiki, website
Date of last release:
No release yet.
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
Most of initial list of committers have been on-boarded, some still
outstanding. No new members added on top of the initial committer list.
Signed-off-by:
[x](madlib) Konstantin Boudnik
[X](madlib) Ted Dunning
[ ](madlib) Roman Shaposhnik
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
--------------------
Myriad
Myriad enables co-existence of Apache Hadoop YARN and Apache Mesos together
on the same cluster and allows dynamic resource allocations across both
Hadoop and other applications running on the same physical data center
infrastructure.
Myriad has been incubating since 2015-03-01.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Determine the best way to take github pull requests or ReviewBoard patch
(chains) and apply/commit them to the Myriad git repo. We're looking at
Mesos' apply-review.sh script, but I wonder if there's something else
out there we should be considering. Is there a way to make github
'Merge' integration just work, even through the mirror?
2. Vote in and onboard new committers. Two are in progress, one from a new
contributing organization.
3. Prepare our first release under Apache. We'll update the code's
copyright/namespace and packaging, but we still need to learn the other
elements of the Apache release process. Is this "DRAFT" still the best
resource? https://incubator.apache.org/guides/releasemanagement.html
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
None beyond the above-mentioned.
How has the community developed since the last report?
- Mailing list traffic has significantly increased from 60-80
messages/month in April-July to 171 in August and 227 in September. Some
of that could be JIRA integration, but we still have 17 unique human
authors now, up from 13 in July.
- Increasing participation in our biweekly community syncs. We now get
around 7-11 participants, up from the 5-8 we were getting in May-July.
See minutes at: http://s.apache.org/8kF
- Wiki: Ruth has done a wonderful job populating and organizing the wiki
from our scattered docs. Now we have 24 wiki pages describing use cases,
architecture, installation/configuration, administration, and the REST
API. https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MYRIAD/Myriad+Home
- Website under development, with awesome Myriad logo.
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MYRIAD-144 preview at
http://klucar.github.io/myriad-site/
- We started a #myriad IRC channel on Freenode, and are in the process of
integrating it with ASFBot.
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-10485
- Well-attended talk by Mohit and Santosh at MesosCon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lU2VE08fOD4
- Swapnil, Sarjeet, and Mitra won 1st place in freestyle category at docker
global hack day for docker based multi-tenant YARN/Myriad clusters.
https://blog.docker.com/2015/09/docker-global-hack-day-3-winners/
How has the project developed since the last report?
- Finally got the SGA from Paypal and migrated our source to Apache git!
Still need to figure how to integrate it into our commit workflow.
- Resolved 14 JIRAs: http://s.apache.org/3dc
- Merged the following PRs (from the old github repo)
* Multi-project build changes (PR#108)
* Improved unit testing (PR#112)
* Myriad Logo update (PR#113)
* Dynamically configurable NM Ports (PR#102)
* Fine-grained scaling (PR#91)
* Upgrade to Hadoop 2.7 (PR#116)
* Complete Myriad HA Implementation (PR#123)
* Run MyriadExecutor as NodeManager AuxService (PR#118,123)
Date of last release:
Santosh will release manage the Myriad 0.1.0 release, our first release
under Apache. We created a 0.1.0 version tag in JIRA, and targeted some
pre-release issues for Apache copyright/namespace changes. We'll try to
merge in some outstanding PRs, but there are no other feature blockers, so
we hope to cut our first release candidate this month.
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
- One new committer has been privately nominated and voted in, awaiting
IPMC Board approval. Then he/she still has to accept the invitation.
- Another is in the midst of voting this week.
Signed-off-by:
[ ](myriad) Benjamin Hindman
[X](myriad) Danese Cooper
[X](myriad) Ted Dunning
[X](myriad) Luciano Resende
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
--------------------
ODF Toolkit
Java modules that allow programmatic creation, scanning and manipulation of
OpenDocument Format (ISO/IEC 26300 == ODF) documents
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
Rob Weir (robweir):
No report submitted, though I did remind the PPMC. I sense some "report
fatigue" since they missed the July report deadline, submitted then in
time for August, but lacked a mentor sign off, and then submitted again in
September and did get sign off.
Drew Farris (drew):
Kudos to robweir activity as a mentor, however this project could use
another mentor. Generally little traffic or activity.
Nick Burch (nick):
Project has recently added a committer, which is good, but otherwise the
level of activity remains too low. I've heard rumours of development
happening in private elsewhere, but unless that effort returns to the
project and activity improves, I think we're going to have to look at
admitting defeat and retiring the podling soon.
--------------------
OpenAz
Tools and libraries for developing Attribute-based Access Control (ABAC)
Systems in a variety of languages.
OpenAz has been incubating since 2015-01-20.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Confirm 1.0.0 as the first release
2. Get website up to attract more attention
3. Vote to confirm if any JIRA's are needed to be closed for 1st 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?
n/a
How has the project developed since the last report?
Preparing for v1.0.0 release
Date of last release:
XXXX-XX-XX
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
no new since initial
Signed-off-by:
[ ](openaz) Emmanuel Lecharny
[X](openaz) Colm O Heigeartaigh
[ ](openaz) Hadrian Zbarcea
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
P. Taylor Goetz (ptgoetz):
The OpenAz report is pretty sparse and has not been signed off
by any of the podling's mentors. dev@ mailing list activity is
extremely low (15 messages in the past 3 months). I would recommend
the top priority be for the project to expand the community.
Colm O hEigeartaigh (coheigea):
Agreed that activity is very sparse. It seems that most of the initial
committers in the proposal have not joined the project. I think we will
try to get the website up and running, triage some items to be done for
an initial release, and then get the release done in the next quarter.
Hopefully that will drum up more interest in the project.
--------------------
Wave
A wave is a hosted, live, concurrent data structure for rich communication.
It can be used like email, chat, or a document.
Wave has been incubating since 2010-12-04.
[x](wave) Upayavira
[ ](wave) Christian Grobmeier
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
Marvin Humphrey (marvin):
Wave's report was deliberately not signed off by its Mentors. Mentor
Upayavira engaged the Wave community about the possibility of retiring.
The community preferred to continue; a timeline for making an incubating
release was discussed.
Upayavira (upayavira):
As Marvin observed, I'm doubtful that Wave has the momentum to make
any significant change nor to progress towards graduation. The community
will need to meet some targets - the immediate one is to make a release
before the next board report is due.
-----------------------------------------
Attachment V: Report from the Apache Isis Project [Dan Haywood]
## Description:
Apache Isis is a framework for rapidly developing domain-driven apps in
Java.
## Activity:
Since the last report we have released Apache Isis 1.9.0, with the usual
clutch of new features [1].
The mailing list activity is steady. The number of new subscribers this
quarter is lower than in previous quarters, but is still rising.
A "companion" open source project [2], to develop a custom DSL for Apache
Isis, has released its first betas. This work - implemented using Eclipse
Xtext [3] - is unfortunately not being done particularly collaboratively, but
we are advertising the betas on the mailing list. It is nevertheless
encouraging that Isis as a project has attracted this attention for what is
quite a substantial piece of work. There is at least a possibility that that
work might be contrbuted back to ASF/the Isis project in the future.
Work has also *just* started on developing a new viewer component [4] for
Apache Isis, based on the Vaadin framework. This work is being done by a
Vaadin employee (like Google, they get their own 10% time and this individual
has chosen a Vaadin/Isis integration as his paid-for side project).
It is too early to know if this work will end up being contributed to ASF
or not, but it will be released as open source and under the Apache v2
license.
Finally, two of the Apache Isis committers entered a 2 day "RAD Race"
competition in the Netherlands, pitching our skills against 7 other teams,
all of which were using proprietary CASE tools. We didn't win, but we
acquitted ourselves well. A write-up is available [5].
[1] http://isis.apache.org/release-notes.html#r1.9.0
[2] https://github.com/vaulttec/isis-script
[3] http://www.eclipse.org/Xtext/
[4] https://github.com/alejandro-du/vaadin-viewer
[5] https://github.com/incodehq/radrace2015
## Health report:
Project activitity is broadly the same as previous quarters, in all the
various categories (commits, JIRA tickets, mails). The rate that
new subscribers to the mailing list has perhaps slowed a little.
We are very aware that we remain a very small community and somewhat
unfashionable project, and are still somewhat searching for our audience.
Unfortunately we have had very little luck in getting talk proposals accepted
at various conferences. We would seem to be in somewhat in a catch-22
situation... conferences aren't accepting us because they've not heard of
the framework, and people haven't heard of the framework because they've not
seen us at conferences. However, we hear nothing but praise from those
users who have "discovered" us, so are not overly discouraged.
We have contacted "Software Engineering Radio" podcast with a view to seeing
if a talk might be arranged; nothing is likely on that front for at least
6 months, however.
We hope to publish an article or two writing up the RAD RACE, to help raise
awareness of the framework, as well as tell an interesting story.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 11 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Martin Grigorov at Tue Dec 23 2014
## LDAP changes:
- Currently 11 committers and 11 committee group members.
- No new committee group members added in the last 3 months
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Martin Tzvetanov Grigorov at Thu Dec 11 2014
## Releases:
- 1.9.0 was released on Tue Sep 01 2015
## Mailing list activity:
- users@isis.apache.org:
- 136 subscribers (up 6 in the last 3 months):
- 338 emails sent to list (305 in previous quarter)
- dev@isis.apache.org:
- 73 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months):
- 443 emails sent to list (508 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 38 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 43 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
-----------------------------------------
Attachment W: Report from the Apache James Project [Eric Charles]
The Apache James Project delivers a rich set of open source modules and
libraries, written in Java, related to Internet mail which build into an
advanced enterprise mail server.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- Vulnerability CVE-2015-7611 (VU#988628 reported by CERT) has been discussed
and a fix released
(https://blogs.apache.org/james/entry/apache_james_server_2_3).
- Source tree restructure to prepare migration to Git has been discussed and
implemented.
- New features (quota...) have been added.
- Further work to prepare the v3 release is still on going.
## Health report:
- 2 new committers will help to release James server v3.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 14 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Peter Palaga at Sun Jul 22 2012
## LDAP changes:
- Currently 36 committers and 14 committee group members.
- No new committee group members added in the last 3 months
- New commmitters:
- Matthieu Baechler was added as a committer on Tue Oct 06 2015
- Antoine Duprat was added as a committer on Tue Oct 06 2015
## Releases:
- SERVER-2.3.2.1 was released on Sat Sep 26 2015
## Mailing list activity:
- server-dev@james.apache.org:
- 192 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 589 emails sent to list (762 in previous quarter)
- mailet-api@james.apache.org:
- 92 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 0 emails sent to list (8 in previous quarter)
- general@james.apache.org:
- 187 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
- 0 emails sent to list (0 in previous quarter)
- mime4j-dev@james.apache.org:
- 68 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 5 emails sent to list (29 in previous quarter)
- server-user@james.apache.org:
- 422 subscribers (down -2 in the last 3 months):
- 37 emails sent to list (20 in previous quarter)
- site-dev@james.apache.org:
- 32 subscribers (down -3 in the last 3 months):
- 2 emails sent to list (0 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 51 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 21 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
-----------------------------------------
Attachment X: Report from the Apache jclouds Project [Andrew Phillips]
A cloud agnostic library that enables developers to access a variety of
supported cloud providers using one API.
Project Status
--------------
Development activity in the last quarter has quietened down a bit and
has shifted towards updating existing popular providers and extending
recent Google and Microsoft contributions. The user community remains
active, with regular questions from a diverse set of users being
discussed on the mailing list.
An important recent step was the successful integration of the first
major change to jclouds core code carried out without the involvement
of one of the original core developers.
Community
---------
Last committer: 2014-07-30 (Andrea Turli)
Last PMC member: 2015-09-20 (Zack Shoylev)
Community Objectives
--------------------
* Identify and complete the remaining major changes to be included
in jclouds 2.0
* Complete, extend and harden providers recently graduated from the
jclouds labs repo
* Encourage and supervise, where necessary, new contributors to grow
the committer base
Releases
--------
jclouds has carried out one release in the past quarter: 1.9.1 was
released on 2015-08-06.
-----------------------------------------
Attachment Y: Report from the Apache Jena Project [Andy Seaborne]
## Description:
A framework for developing Semantic Web and Linked Data applications
in Java.
## Activity:
The major release mentioned in the last report happened at the end of
July. This release included a number of incompatible changes including
making all java packages come under org.apache.jena, migrating to Java8,
and requiring persistent data to be reloaded.
Such changes have the potential for a lot of users@ email but this time, so
far, only a small number of migration questions have been raised.
Ongoing development of Jena includes development of a major new component
for an in-memory storage sub-system. This is being developed via
discussions on the dev@ list.
## Health report:
Activity is at around its normal levels, with September on the users list
being towards the upper end of "normal" and dev list being a little less
busy. Given a recent release, this is normal. Issues on JIRA continue at
a steady rate.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 11 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Osma Suominen at Fri Jun 26 2015
## LDAP changes:
- Currently 13 committers and 11 committee group members.
- No new committee group members added in the last 3 months
- Last committee group addition was Osma Suominen at Thu Jun 25 2015
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Osma Suominen at Thu Jun 25 2015
## Releases:
- 3.0.0 was released on Wed Jul 29 2015
## Mailing list activity:
- users@jena.apache.org:
- 596 subscribers (up 6 in the last 3 months):
- 583 emails sent to list (470 in previous quarter)
- dev@jena.apache.org:
- 153 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months):
- 1060 emails sent to list (1475 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 58 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 69 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
-----------------------------------------
Attachment Z: Report from the Apache JMeter Project [Sebastian Bazley]
## Description:
Pure Java application for load and functional testing
## Activity:
JMeter has dropped support for Java 6, and there have been many
improvements to the code to get ready for the next release.
The JMeter Twitter account has 2153 followers as of 3rd Oct 2015.
This is about 230 more than at the time of the previous report (July)
The JMeter user list is active and user requests are generally dealt
with promptly, either by other members of the community or the JMeter
developers.
Likewise the developer list, though of course that is mainly used by
the committers.
## Health report:
The project has been perhaps a bit quieter over the summer (holidays etc),
but there is still steady activity.
## Issues:
there are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## PMC changes:
- Currently 7 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Felix Schumacher at Tue Feb 03 2015
## LDAP changes:
- Currently 11 committers and 7 committee group members.
- No new committee group members added in the last 3 months
- Deepak Shetty was added as a committer on Wed Jul 29 2015
## Releases:
- Last release was 2.13 on Sat Mar 14 2015
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@jmeter.apache.org:
- 132 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 187 emails sent to list (344 in previous quarter)
- issues@jmeter.apache.org:
- 39 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 271 emails sent to list (222 in previous quarter)
- user@jmeter.apache.org:
- 797 subscribers (up 3 in the last 3 months):
- 375 emails sent to list (519 in previous quarter)
## Bugzilla Statistics:
- 56 Bugzilla tickets created in the last 3 months
- 33 Bugzilla tickets resolved in the last 3 months
-----------------------------------------
Attachment AA: Report from the Apache JSPWiki Project [Juan Pablo Santos]
## Description:
A feature-rich and extensible WikiWiki engine built around the standard
J2EE components (Java, servlets, JSP).
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- Quiet quarter regarding ML activity, although conversations on releasing
2.10.2 spun quite a burst of activity to include new functionality for
this release.
- We have to retake conversation on releasing 2.10.2. There shouldn't be
too much trouble with it.
## Health report:
- As said before, it has been a quiet quarter, but this happens from time
to time; all JSPWiki developers work on it on their free time, plus this
quarter we've had few questions on MLs, hence little activity.
- There is still plenty enough people to answer questions / vote on
new releases, etc., though.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 10 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was David Vittor at Fri Jan 23 2015
## LDAP changes:
- Currently 15 committers and 10 committee group members.
- No new committee group members added in the last 3 months
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was David Vittor at Fri Jan 02 2015
## Releases:
- Last release was 2.10.1 on Thu May 29 2014
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@jspwiki.apache.org:
- 84 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
- 107 emails sent to list (159 in previous quarter)
- user@jspwiki.apache.org:
- 172 subscribers (down -2 in the last 3 months):
- 20 emails sent to list (105 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 21 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 17 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
-----------------------------------------
Attachment AB: Report from the Apache Lens Project [Amareshwari Sriramadasu]
## Description:
Apache Lens is a platform that enables multi-dimensional queries in a unified
way over datasets stored in multiple warehouses. Lens integrates Apache Hive
with other data warehouses by tiering them together to form logical data cubes.
## Activity:
- A new improved web client has been added
- Saved query and parameterisation has been added.
- Flattening of fields from bridge table relations added in OLAP features.
- Building project on JAVA-8 is almost finished.
- Moving to Apache Hive dependency is in progress.
- Release 2.4.0-beta is planned and is in progress.
- Apache Lens has been presented at Apache Bigdata conference, Europe
and Strata Hadoop World, NY.
## Issues :
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## LDAP changes:
- Currently 16 committers and 16 committee group members.
- New commmitters/PMC:
Raju Bairishetti was added as a committer on July 19 2015
Yash Sharma was added as a committer on July 18 2015
## Releases:
- 2.3.0-beta was released on Fri Aug 28 2015
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@lens.apache.org:
- 59 subscribers (+0 from last report):
- 622 emails sent to list in september
- user@lens.apache.org:
- 52 subscribers (+0 from last report):
- 4 emails sent to list in september
- commits@lens.apache.org:
- 27 subscribers (+0 from last report):
- 29 emails sent to list in september
## JIRA activity:
- 30 JIRA tickets created in the last month.
- 26 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last month.
-----------------------------------------
Attachment AC: Report from the Apache Lucene.Net Project [Prescott Nasser]
Apache Lucene.Net is a port of the Lucene search engine library, written in
C# and targeted at .NET runtime users.
== Summary ==
We continue to yo-yo in community involvement. Our report dated 6/10, we saw a
significant up tick, but that faded as we got very close to a 4.8.0 release.
Some of us have all the tests passing and some don't so we are close in the
Lucene.Net.Core project.
The status of the associated libraries are very behind - next up is the
Analysis code.
No progress was made on a website refresh (that we wanted to launch with
4.8.0)
We are struggling to pull it over the line. We had a number of core committers
check who said they should be freeing up to help this quarter (now only 2
months elft
Pushing on 4.8.0.
- Approximately 7 commits in the last quarter to move our port along
(resolving tests)
- Currently we have ~5 failed failing tests to fix (down from ~80 last report.
Also depends on environment still, we are trying to tighten that up)
- Some additional libraries that help users make the most of Lucene.Net
(Analysis, Suggest, Highlighters, QueryParser, Codecs and a few others)
== Releases ==
Last Release 3.0.3 - Oct 2012 Working toward 4.8.0
== Statistics ==
Last PMC Member Added, Paul Irwin, October 2013 Two committers added Jan '15 -
Laimonas, Feb '15 - Wyatt
Nuget package downloads:
Lucene.Net 3.0.3: 195111 (up from 160246)
Lucene.Net.Contrib 3.0.3: 52823 (up from 41550)
Lucene.Net Contrib Spatial: 7349 (up from 6123)
Lucene.Net Contrib Spatial.NTS: 1426 (up from 1239)
-----------------------------------------
Attachment AD: Report from the Apache Lucy Project [Marvin Humphrey]
The Apache Lucy search engine library provides full-text search for
dynamic programming languages.
Issues requiring Board attention:
None.
Activity:
Over the last quarter, Lucy development continued to move forward towards
the long-planned 0.5.0 releases of the Lucy search engine library and the
Clownfish symbiotic object system. There were two active contributors:
Nick Wellnhofer, who focused on preparing the Clownfish public API, and
Marvin Humphrey, who focused on Go bindings for Clownfish and Lucy.
A new release would help to draw attention to the project, but existing
community activity remains steady.
Health report:
Commit activity this quarter was average. The number of emails sent to
the dev list dropped, and the number of actual design conversations
dropped more, as the use of Github pull requests increased. Most commits
this quarter were in areas where design consensus had previously been
established.
Grouping commits into pull requests has made review easier, compared with
reviewing messages to the commits list, since ASF commit emails arrive out
of order and with noisy subject lines. Furthermore, a well-crafted
abstract in the initial pull request email's abstract communicates intent
more effectively, and we are making good use of Travis and Appveyor CI.
Personnel changes:
- Currently 14 committers and 13 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Timothy Wilkens at Sun Sep 14 2014
Releases:
- Last release was 0.4.2 on Tue Dec 16 2014
Mailing list activity:
- dev@lucy.apache.org:
- 60 subscribers (down -3 in the last 3 months):
- 55 emails sent to list (162 in previous quarter)
- user@lucy.apache.org:
- 90 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
- 4 emails sent to list (5 in previous quarter)
- issues@lucy.apache.org:
- 21 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 73 emails sent to list (107 in previous quarter)
JIRA activity:
- 5 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 4 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
-----------------------------------------
Attachment AE: Report from the Apache Mahout Project [Suneel Marthi]
The goal of Apache Mahout project is to build an environment for quickly
creating scalable performant machine learning applications.
ISSUES FOR BOARD'S ATTENTION
None at this time.
RELEASES
- 0.10.2 was released on Aug 6, 2015
- 0.11.0 was released on Aug 7, 2015
ACTIVITY
No new PMC members or Committers added in the last 3 months.
Last PMC addition was Stevo Slavic on April 21, 2015.
Sebastian Schelter will be presenting the new Mahout-Samsara Linear Algebra
framework at the upcoming Flink Forward conference in Berlin on October 12,
2015. [1]
0.10.2 was released on Aug 6, 2015. This release had major optimizations and
performance improvements to the new Samsara Linear Algebra backend.
0.11.0 was released on Aug 7, 2015. This release makes Mahout compatible with
Spark 1.3.1.
Mahout 0.11.0 has been integrated with Apache BigTop 1.0.1.
Integration of Apache Mahout with Apache Flink is presently in the works and
is being done in collaboration with TU Berlin and Data Artisans.
Apache Mahout has been recognized as one of the 5 Big Data Open Source
projects to watch out for in a ZDNet article dated Aug 21, 2015. [2]
STATS
25 committers
14 PMC members
19 JIRA tickets created in last 3 months
30 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in last 3 months
[1]http://www.flink-forward.org
[2]http://www.zdnet.com/article/five-open-source-big-data-projects-to-watch/
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Attachment AF: Report from the Apache Maven Project [Hervé Boutemy]
Apache Maven is a widely-used project build tool, targeting mainly Java
development. Apache Maven promotes the use of dependencies via a
standardized coordinate system, binary plugins, and a standard build
lifecycle.
* Issues
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
* General Information
* As announced previously, we are starting to release 3.x.x line of plugins
with Maven 3 and Java 6 minimum requirements (no more compatible with
Maven 2.2.1 and Java 5).
* We did an automatic Jira cleanup, closing isues that did not have any
activity for 3 years with a message proposing to reopen if necessary.
On 600 issues closed, approx 15 issues were reopened, often with complaints
about our attitude. We understand and are not completely happy with this
way of handling issues reported by users but did not find better way to
purge old history that was de-facto closed (and often without user feedback
when trying to work on it, but not always as reopenings prove).
* This year, we had one talk about Maven during ApacheCon: CORE Europe,
and a few Maven developers were present to discuss and work/party together.
* The PMC is working on revitalizing: change habits (invite active
committers, resign when not active), discuss if more formal changes are
useful, rephrase "binding/non-binding" in votes summary that
gives the wrong impression that some votes don't count (when they are in
fact only "non-legally binding").
* Community
* PMC changes
* Brett Porter resigned from PMC on 2015-10-11
* Mark Hobson resigned from PMC on 2015-10-11
* Carlos Sanchez resigned from PMC on 2015-10-11
* Deng Ching-Mallete resigned from PMC on 2015-10-11
* Tibor Digana joined the PMC on 2015-10-20
- Currently 22 PMC members.
* Committers changes
* Petar Tahchiev reinstated as committer from emeritus status on 2015-08-02
* Carlos Sanchez went emeritus on 2015-10-11
- Currently 55 committers.
* Mailing List activity
- users@maven.apache.org:
- 1777 subscribers (down -9 in the last 3 months)
- 636 emails sent to list (448 in previous quarter)
- dev@maven.apache.org:
- 645 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months)
- 1077 emails sent to list (908 in previous quarter)
- notifications@maven.apache.org:
- 173 subscribers (down -4 in the last 3 months)
- 991 emails sent to list (764 in previous quarter)
- announce@maven.apache.org:
- 680 subscribers (down -5 in the last 3 months)
- 10 emails sent to list (19 in previous quarter)
- issues@maven.apache.org:
- 243 subscribers (down -4 in the last 3 months)
- 2707 emails sent to list (1712 in previous quarter)
* JIRA activity:
- 268 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 797 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
* Releases
Plugins
* Maven Shade Plugin 2.4.1 (2015-07-14)
* Maven Project Info Reports Plugin 2.8.1 (2015-09-11)
* Maven Assembly Plugin 2.6 (2015-10-10)
* Maven Checkstyle Plugin 2.17 (2015-10-18)
Other
* Maven Archetype 2.4 (2015-08-15)
* Maven Enforcer 1.4.1 (2015-08-23)
* Maven Wagon 2.10 (2015-09-12)
* Maven Shared Utils 0.9 (2015-09-17)
* Maven Parent POM 27 (2015-09-24)
* Maven Dependency Tree 3.0 (2015-10-10)
* Maven Plugins (parent) 28 (2015-10-13)
* Maven Shared Utils 3.0.0 (2015-10-11)
* Maven Release 2.5.3 (2015-10-17)
* Maven Surefire 2.19 (2015-10-18)
* Maven Archiver (2015-10-19)
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Attachment AG: Report from the Apache Mesos Project [Benjamin Hindman]
Apache Mesos is a cluster manager that provides resource sharing and
isolation across cluster applications.
## General ##
The project is in a healthy state: two amazing MesosCons (Seattle and
Dublin), new contributions from Intel, EMC, and IBM, new users, new
committers, a bunch of new releases, and a lot of great feature
development.
## Releases ##
* Apache Mesos 0.23.0 (2015-07-17)
* Apache Mesos 0.24.0 (2015-09-01)
* Apache Mesos 0.24.1 (2015-09-18)
* Apache Mesos 0.23.1 (2015-09-21)
* Apache Mesos 0.22.2 (2015-09-23)
* Apache Mesos 0.21.2 (2015-09-24)
* Apache Mesos 0.25.0 (2015-10-09)
## PMC/Committership ##
* Voted to add Joris Van Remoortere as a PMC and Committer on 2015-09-20.
* Voted to add Michael Park as a PMC and Committer on 2015-07-28.
* Voted to add Kapil Arya as a PMC and Committer on 2015-10-06.
## Community ##
* Added more organizations to the 'Powered By Mesos' list, including
DataMan, Xiaomi, Linkernetworks, CERN, SmartProcure, Scrapinghub,
Udacity, Hootsuite, Jobrapido. See
http://mesos.apache.org/documentation/latest/powered-by-mesos.
* MesosCon happened in Seattle in late August. We had over 700 people
from all over the world, over 30 different organizations speaking
during a 2 day multi-track setup, an all day hackathon, and a suite
of great sponsors.
* MesosCon Europe happened in Dublin in early October. We had over
150 people join for a single day multi-track setup, and an all day
hackathon.
* New large contributions from engineers at Intel (oversubscription),
EMC (external volumes), and the beginnings of contributions from
teams at IBM.
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Attachment AH: Report from the Apache MINA Project [Jean-François Maury]
## Description:
Apache MINA is a network application framework which helps users
develop high performance and high scalability network applications
easily.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity:
The 2.0.10 release has still to be completed. The performance problem has
been fixed.
SSHd 1.0.0 has been released on September 7th, 2015 but no announce mail
and web site have been processed.
Major features of SSHd 1.0.0:
- extension points for future extension
## Health report:
Project activitity is broadly the same as previous quarters, in all the
various categories (commits, JIRA tickets, mails).
## PMC changes:
- Currently 10 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Jean-Fran=C3=A7ois Maury at Mon Apr 07 2014
## LDAP changes:
- Currently 26 committers and 10 committee group members.
- No new committee group members added in the last 3 months
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Lyor Goldstein at Thu Apr 30 2015
## Releases:
- Last release was Apache Mina SSHD 0.14.0 on Mon Mar 09 2015
## Mailing list activity:
- users@mina.apache.org:
- 496 subscribers (down -2 in the last 3 months):
- 100 emails sent to list (86 in previous quarter)
- dev@mina.apache.org:
- 365 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 338 emails sent to list (558 in previous quarter)
- ftpserver-users@mina.apache.org:
- 138 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 4 emails sent to list (27 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 38 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 40 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment AI: Report from the Apache MyFaces Project [Mike Kienenberger]
## Description:
The Apache MyFaces project is an umbrella project of the Apache
Software Foundation for projects relating to the JavaServer Faces (JSF)
technology.
## Activity and health:
JSF Implementation:
- Apache Myfaces Core is healthy and in maintenance mode.
UI-Component Sets:
- Apache Tobago is healthy and active.
- Apache Trinidad had three maintenance commits by two different new
contributors, which was encouraged by having issue reporters submit
fixes for their own issues. There may still be life in this project.
- Myfaces Tomahawk is in maintenance mode. Last commit on behalf of a
contributor was April 2015.
Add-ons and Extensions:
- Apache MyFaces Portlet Bridge is in maintenance mode. Last developer
commit was Jan 2014. Last commit on behalf of a contributor was May
2015. We added that contributor who indicated interest in the project
in May, but no activity has been forthcoming.
- Apache MyFaces CODI is in maintenance mode. CODI was replaced by Apache
DeltaSpike so new development happens there. Last commit March 2014.
- Apache MyFaces Orchestra is in maintenance mode. New projects use CDI
and DeltaSpike instead. Last commit December 2014.
- Apache MyFaces ExtVal is in maintenance mode. Last commit June 2014.
- Apache MyFaces Commons is in maintenance mode. Last commit Auguest 2012.
- Apache MyFaces Ext-Scripting is in maintenance mode. Last commit Dec
2012.
- Apache MyFaces Test is in maintenance mode (Used by Myfaces Core). Last
commit June 2014.
- Our latest committer started a review of all open issues. We've
developed a issue closing policy and issues that are unlikely to be
addressed are being closed.
- Added 1 new PMC member.
## Issues:
- There are no new issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Community changes:
- Currently 76 committers and 40 PMC members.
- Paul Nicolucci was added to the committee group on Thu Jul 16 2015
- Last committer addition was Thomas Andraschko at Thu Jul 02 2015
## Releases:
- Apache Tobago 1.0.42 released on July 16 2015
## Mailing list activity:
- users@myfaces.apache.org:
- 752 subscribers (down -3 in the last 3 months):
- 10 emails sent to list (45 in previous quarter)
- dev@myfaces.apache.org:
- 316 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
- 277 emails sent to list (329 in previous quarter)
- tck@myfaces.apache.org:
- 19 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months)
- notifications@myfaces.apache.org:
- 109 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 0 emails sent to list (0 in previous quarter)
- announce@myfaces.apache.org:
- 267 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 0 emails sent to list (0 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 36 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 227 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment AJ: 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 release of NiFi 0.3.0
- Published numerous feature proposals
- Numerous meetups/talks have occurred since the last report featuring Apache
NiFi at locations including Washington DC, Maryland, South Korea, Montreal,
Phoenix, Seattle.
## Health report:
- Activity on mailing lists, JIRA, Git remains strong. The user mailing list
is growing. Feedback from the community on the responsiveness of the
community has been encouraging.
- The PMC is discussing the establishment of bylaws similar to those of
Hadoop, Hive, HTTPD.
## Issues:
- there are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## PMC changes:
- Currently 12 PMC members.
- New PMC members:
- None since TLP status in July 2015
## LDAP changes:
- Currently 12 committers and 12 committee group members.
- Last committer addition was Bryan Bende at Mon Jun 15 2015
## Releases:
- nifi-0.2.0-incubating was released on Sun Jul 12 2015
- nifi-0.2.1 was released on Sun Jul 26 2015
- nifi-0.3.0 was released on Fri Sep 18 2015
## Mailing list activity:
- users@nifi.apache.org:
- 132 subscribers (up 84 in the last 3 months):
- 369 emails sent to list (57 in previous quarter)
- dev@nifi.apache.org:
- 165 subscribers (up 38 in the last 3 months):
- 1018 emails sent to list (962 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 265 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 138 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment AK: Report from the Apache Nutch Project [Sebastian Nagel]
Apache Nutch is a highly extensible and scalable open source web crawler
software project. Stemming from Apache Lucene™, the project has diversified
and now comprises two codebases, based respectively on Apache Hadoop
data structures and Apache Gora for leveraging NoSQL databases.
ISSUES
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
RELEASES
Nutch 1.10 was released on May 06 2015. A vote on the next
release of the 2.x branch is ongoing.
CURRENT ACTIVITY
Cihad Güzel successfully finished his GSoC project.
COMMUNITY
Two people have joined the PMC and have become a committers:
- Asitang Mishra on Sep 09 2015, and
- Sujen Shah on Sep 15 2015
The traffic on the mailing lists is at a steady level.
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Attachment AL: Report from the Apache ODE Project [Tammo van Lessen]
## Description:
Apache ODE is a WS-BPEL implementation that supports web services
orchestration using flexible process definitions.
## Activity:
- We are still tailoring our next release. We're feature complete with
the current release and need some time for polishing the release process.
GSOC was pretty successful. We had one very good student, she completed
the clustering feature for ODE on time and with very good quality.
Unfortunately we had to fail the second student because the quality/
dedication neither matched our requirements nor Googles.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 15 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Rafal Rusin at Wed Oct 01 2014
## LDAP changes:
- Currently 26 committers and 15 committee group members.
- No new changes to the committee group or committership since last report.
## Releases:
- Last release was 1.3.6 on Sat Oct 12 2013
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@ode.apache.org:
- 155 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
- 101 emails sent to list (172 in previous quarter)
- user@ode.apache.org:
- 228 subscribers (down -3 in the last 3 months):
- 20 emails sent to list (45 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 6 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 9 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment AM: 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
Since last report, there have not been new components releases.
CURRENT ACTIVITY
Discussion of the Onami state.
COMMUNITY
Users community is quiet silent.
ISSUES
It's time for attic, we have had an open discussion on the developers list,
both on how many pmcs where active and what could be done. as it is now, the
best direction are for Onami to be moved to attic. As there's not enough
committers for an active PMC. And there's not really been any activity for a
long time.
Thanks for the opportunity and the possibility for Onami as an Apache project.
-----------------------------------------
Attachment AN: Report from the Apache OpenJPA Project [Pinaki Poddar]
-----------------------------------------
Attachment AO: Report from the Apache OpenMeetings Project [Maxim Solodovnik]
## Description:
Video conferencing, instant messaging, white board and collaborative
document editing application.
## Activity:
- The constant activity in mailing list, JIRA and commits. I believe the
project is as active as it was previosly.
## Health report:
- We just performed a release, so I expect increasing of email activity, both
feedback and issues :) Unfortunately we have no new commiters so far, but I
hope we will have some before next report.
## Issues:
- The only issue with the project is "too few" active commiters (only 2
actually) I would appreciate any help/ideas on how can we increase the
amount of active developers of the project.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 21 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Peter Dähn at Tue Jun 02 2015
## LDAP changes:
- Currently 24 committers and 22 committee group members.
- Ono Keiji was added to the committee group on Sun Sep 27 2015
- Last committer addition was Ono Keiji at Thu May 28 2015
## Releases:
- 3.0.7 was released on Sat Sep 26 2015
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@openmeetings.apache.org:
- 140 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 143 emails sent to list (103 in previous quarter)
- user-russian@openmeetings.apache.org:
- 23 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 12 emails sent to list (111 in previous quarter)
- user@openmeetings.apache.org:
- 324 subscribers (up 3 in the last 3 months):
- 496 emails sent to list (438 in previous quarter)
- user-espanol@openmeetings.apache.org:
- 53 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
- 74 emails sent to list (23 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 35 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 43 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment AP: Report from the Apache OpenOffice Project [Dennis E. Hamilton]
For quarter-to-quarter comparison consistency, this October 2015 report
rolls-up, updates, and expands material from the September 2015 Interim
report.
- - - - - - - - - - - -
Apache OpenOffice is an open-source, office-document productivity
suite providing six productivity applications based around the
OpenDocument Format (ODF). OpenOffice is released on multiple
platforms and in dozens of languages.
STATUS
======
The Project is working urgently toward maintenance release 4.1.2.
There is continuing adjustment to the change of Chair for the second
time in 2015. Warning signs around sustainability and disconnects across
the community are being brought gingerly to community-wide attention.
ISSUES FOR BOARD AWARENESS
==========================
The Board needs to be aware of Community concerns, Sustainability
warning signs, and other matters reported in the Issues sections, below.
RELEASES
========
There is no release in the July - September quarter.
Release 4.1.2 is now anticipated in October 2015, using an accelerated
approach.
Complete Release History
2014-08-21 4.1.1
2014-04-29 4.1
2013-10-01 4.0.1
2013-07-17 4
2013-01-30 3.4.1 refresh (8 more languages)
2012-08-21 3.4.1 incubating
2012-05-08 3.4 incubating
ACTIVITY
========
Release Effort and Plans
------------------------
Developer focus is on provision of the Apache OpenOffice 4.1.2
maintenance release. This will extend to localization, web site
updates, and provision of any associated security advisories.
Non-4.1.2-release-blocker issues and some anticipated features are
targeted for the future Apache OpenOffice 4.2 release. There
is no anticipated date at this time. To accelerate 4.1.2, some but
not all 4.1.2 blockers and additional feature developments have been
triaged to 4.2.
Community Operations
--------------------
The Apache OpenOffice community has three main pillars: development, support,
and end-user services. The pillars are permeable, with interdependencies
from end to end.
For AOO, the provision of authenticated binaries as part of Apache releases
is not a mere convenience. It is overwhelmingly the purpose of the project
in its openoffice.org origin and as brought to Apache, however much
downstream use of the code base is also desired and supported.
For context, by the end of August 2015 there were 41 million downloads
of AOO 4.1.1 since its release one year earlier.
87.7% were for Windows
9.1% were for Macintosh
3.2% were for everything else, including Linux
A virtuous cycle of learning and improvement best extends out to those users,
circling back via end-user services, support functions, and the developer
community.
Currently, the pillars operate semi-independently in what has been typical of
operations since the beginning of the project at Apache.
PMC/COMMITTERS
==============
PMC
---
The AOO PMC consists of 26 individuals as of 2015-09-30
19 have remained continuously out of the
23 from TLP formation in October, 2012.
7 are new or returned PMC members
6 of the current PMC are Apache Software Foundation
members, including the original Chair
2015-02-13 Dennis E. Hamilton joined the PMC
2015-02-11 Jan Iversen returned to PMC as Chair
2015-01-03 Mechtilde and Dr. Michael Stehmann joined the PMC
The last preceding addition was on 2014-01-16
2015-09-09 Ian Lynch (ingotian) deceased May, 2015
2015-08-23 Jan Iversen retired
The last preceding retirement was on 2014-08-30
PMC membership history is available in PDF at <http://s.apache.org/Tw8>.
Committers
----------
There are 139 committers as of 2015-09-30. Twenty-four have registered PGP
keys.
2015-08-06 Manik Malhotra added
2015-07-27 Gavin McDonald added
Last previous committer addition was Tal Daniel on 2014-04-29
2015-09-23 Ingrid von der Mehden (ingrid), deceased 2013-06-12
2015-09-09 Ian Lynch (ingotian), deceased May, 2015
2015-08-23 Jan Iversen resigned
Reduction in committers is generally not tracked.
That's introduced now.
ISSUES
======
The lack of progress on all fronts in the project has been a
continuing issue. Obstacles are being identified and brought before
the entire community for its wisdom in identification of consensus-
based direction.
Development
-----------
The ability to make "hot" maintenance releases on a compressed schedule for
critical defects and mitigation of security vulnerabilities remains to be
introduced post-4.1.2. More compression and an abbreviated release process
are required to be able to make a hot update in around 30 days or less by
avoiding all feature enhancements and non-urgent fixes and using an existing
release as base.
ACTIONS: Follow through with PMC to develop a slip-stream release setup
that is always in hand regardless of what feature release development
is underway. Have in place as soon as possible after release 4.1.2.
There is an issue with respect to release dependencies based on optional
presence of a Java JRE of the same bit-ness (x86 or x64) as the installed
AOO binaries. Absence of the corresponding JRE denies full functionality
(i.e., operation of the embedded help system and ability to use the default
database created by the OpenOffice Base application). Although no JRE is
distributed with AOO, the dependency remains and is inadequately "optional"
according to Apache principles.
ACTIONS: Verify the optionality consideration. Determine ways to
avoid surprising and confusing the users.
Community
---------
At the moment, the various pillars (development, support, and end-user
service) are served by different individuals although a few notable
contributors work across the full span.
There is no consolidated organization of expertise (i.e., on the PMC) where
the diverse interests of contributors of all kinds, including end-users, are
aligned to address end-to-end project issues and direction.
Considering that the end-user population is dominated by Windows (87.7%)
and Macintosh (9.1%), it is a concern that the key developers have their
greatest affinity and direct experience with the least-popular platforms
(3.7%) in contrast. It is also a concern that development does not keep
pace with the evolution of the dominant platforms and arrival of their new
variants. Failure to do so blocks achieving ubiquitous presence in store
systems and other provisions that inspire end-user confidence and take-up.
Issues brought to the developer and user lists about usage are addressed by
volunteer users, sometimes unevenly. Discussion is yet to begin on improved
coordination of issues across the Bugzilla, lists, wiki and forums. There
is much room for more-reliable capture of issues and consistent provision of
resolutions and work-arounds.
There are clear misalignments that must be identified more closely and then
addressed. A noteworthy example is the presence of long-standing (over
years) usability issues involving crashers for which no repairs have been
provided. In the face of that, supporters of lists and forums have developed
manual power-user-class workarounds that are provided when the issues are
regulary reported anew.
ASSESSMENT. The current arrangement is incoherent. Separate actions
among the pillars are sometimes at cross purposes, especially around
usability issues that confront non-expert (i.e. most) users.
ACTIONS
Broaden participation and coordination among the PMC so that those
with expertise on particular areas provide consultation and have their
concerns heard. Have all apprised of the overall picture so that impacts
on areas of individual focus are better understood.
Continue obtaining and presenting measures that expose recuring
problems in the context of overall activity so that pain points can be
appraised in a realistic manner aligned with the purpose of the project.
Sustainability
--------------
The following warning signs are noticed with regard to
sustainability.
CUSTOM IT SUPPORT. The Project has not maintained consistent
support of the servers that is has agreed to operate as part of its
agreement with Infra. The services are at risk. (See Infrastructure
in the next section.)
RELEASE MANAGEMENT. A single Release Manager has undertaken all
releases up until now. On the stepping down of that RM, Andrea
Pescetti has stepped in for 4.1.2 and others are needed to rotate
into Release Management duties thereafter.
SKILL DEVELOPMENT. The learning curve required to contribute
effectively to the current code base has proven to make it difficult
to develop or attract experienced developers to the project. While the
ASF is traditionally about the people and not companies, the AOO
project is evaluating engagement with companies that might
have a strategic reason for contributing skills to the project.
EXISTING CAPACITY. The depth and breadth of developer coverage of
the code base will be assessed after the sprint toward release 4.1.2
can be reviewed and development and QA capacity assessed.
ISSUE CLEARANCE AND TECHNICAL DEBT. Analysis of bugzilla status
since the inception of that database provides the following portrait
of issue legacy as of 2015-08-05
* the oldest unresolved issue is #497 created on 2001-03-02
* 24115/121298 (20%) issues are unresolved from before November,
2012 commencement as a TLP
* 2232/5139 (43%) issues unresolved of new issues from November,
2012 through July, 2015
* 192/452 (42%) issues unresolved of those created in the first
seven months of 2015
There are a number of factors that impact the quality of these
statistics (PDF details at <http://s.apache.org/OEy>). There is
every reason to fear that, after suitable filtering, the rate
of technical debt accrual is even greater than 42-43%.
The disposition of bugzilla issues will continue to be monitored
along with discussion of improved coordination across the user-facing
activities of the project.
ASSESSMENT [2015-09-30]
LACKING QU50: The project strives to respond to documented bug reports
in a timely manner.
PMC OPERATION. There is reduction of PMC-inessential discussions. There is
honoring of the principal that PMC-inessential topics one is unwilling to
discuss in public are not worth discussing in private. Now the inhibition
to discuss community issues in public needs to be addressed.
COMMITTER/PMC AVAILABILITY. The list of OpenOffice commmitters does not
appear to reflect available, active committers. A census of available
PMC/committers and their areas of commitment is called for.
ACTION: Determine which committers/PMC failed to update their accounts
during the past reset. Determine which PMC/committers are no longer
subscribed to the AOO dev list. Confirm absence of participation
and adjust accordingly. Engage the remainder with regard to
available capabilities and their capacity. Complete in the
October-December 2015 quarter.
Infrastructure Issues/Needs
---------------------------
Apache OpenOffice, by long-standing agreement with Apache Infra,
takes responsibility for the custom MediaWiki and Forum servers
operating on Infra-provided VMs. Limited support is achieved;
more is required. Although operational, the software is out-of-
date.
There is also need to support buildbots from within the project.
ACTION From 2015-09 Report. Clarify the situation and achieve a
sustainable arrangement in consultation with Infra. Identify at least
temporary relief, with solid arrangement by January.
PROGRESS: No progress in September.
NEXT STEPS: To be carried out in the October-December 2015 Quarter.
-----------------------------------------
Attachment AQ: Report from the Apache Orc Project [Owen O'Malley]
## Description:
A high-performance columnar file format for Hadoop workloads.
## Issues:
- Progress in separating out the Java ORC reader & writer from Hive has gone
slowly. The progress on HIVE-10171 is currently 19 of 24 sub-taskes done.
Part of the problem has been a lot of conflicting activity in the ORC code
base from the development of LLAP. The LLAP branch has merged, which should
slow down the churn on the code base.
- The project needs to make a release soon to start developing the community.
The release is blocked by getting the Java code out of Hive.
## Activity:
- The Java ORC reader & writer, which are still in Hive, had 142 commits
in the last 3 months.
- The C++ ORC reader has only had 2 commits.
## Health report:
- The activity is low. There are users asking for the Java release, which we
are working on.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 5 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Prasanth Jayachandran at Tue Apr 21 2015
## LDAP changes:
- Currently 12 committers and 5 committee group members.
- No new changes to the committee group or committership since last report.
## Releases:
- No releases yet.
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@orc.apache.org:
- 20 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 26 emails sent to list (49 in previous quarter)
- user@orc.apache.org:
- 20 subscribers (up 3 in the last 3 months):
- 21 emails sent to list (4 in previous quarter)
- issues@orc.apache.org:
- 10 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 69 emails sent to list (41 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 7 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 6 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment AR: Report from the Apache Parquet Project [Julien Le Dem]
## Description:
Apache Parquet is a general-purpose columnar storage format.
## Issues:
there are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity:
- Bloom filters: need to finalize the design. Have use cases to validate it
(query execution, etc)
- Vectorized read API: refactoring of the code based on feedback.
- Using dict in filter push down: rework to have better code reuse.
- ByteBuffer: close to being merged.
## Health report:
The project is fairly stable with new features and
compatibility testing underway.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 21 PMC members
. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Alex Levenson at Tue Apr 21 2015
## LDAP changes:
- Currently 21 committers and 21 committee group members.
- No new changes to the committee group or committership since last report.
## Releases:
- 1.8.1 was released on Tue Jul 21 2015
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@parquet.apache.org:
- 130 subscribers (up 13 in the last 3 months):
- 367 emails sent to list (705 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 53 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 25 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment AS: Report from the Apache PDFBox Project [Andreas Lehmkühler]
## Description:
The Apache PDFBox library is an open source Java tool for working with
PDF documents.
## Activity:
- after a long time of hard work we decided to cut a release candidate for
2.0.0 this october. As we are down to 6 open tickets I'm quite optimistic
that it'll really come true
- we joined forces with Tim Allison from Apache TIKA to run some bulk tests
from time to time to avoid regressions
## Health report:
- there is a steady stream of contributions, bug reports and questions on
the mailing lists
- the core team consists of 4 - 5 active developers
- we expect to attract more people once our new major release is out of the
door
## Issues:
- there are no issues requiring board attention at this time"
## PMC changes:
- Currently 16 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was John Hewson at Thu Feb 06 2014
## LDAP changes:
- Currently 16 committers and 16 committee group members.
- No new committee group members added in the last 3 months
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was John Hewson at Fri Feb 07 2014
## Releases:
- 1.8.10 was released on Wed Jul 22 2015
## Mailing list activity:
- users@pdfbox.apache.org:
- 497 subscribers (up 6 in the last 3 months):
- 519 emails sent to list (578 in previous quarter)
- dev@pdfbox.apache.org:
- 145 subscribers (down -4 in the last 3 months):
- 2932 emails sent to list (2594 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 151 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 143 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment AT: Report from the Apache Rave Project [Matt Franklin]
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Attachment AU: Report from the Apache Samza Project [Chris Riccomini]
## Description:
Apache Samza is a distributed stream processing framework.
## Activity:
- Talks about Samza given at Strata, as well as other meetups.
- Meetup scheduled for October 13th in Bay Area.
- Ongoing work on Samza SQL operators.
## Health report:
Overall, health of project remains strong. Activity from both committers and
users in mailing list is steady. Several talks at various meetups have been
given.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## PMC changes:
- Currently 10 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Yi Pan at Mon Jun 15 2015
## LDAP changes:
- Currently 13 committers and 10 committee group members.
- No new committee group members added in the last 3 months
- Last committee group addition was Yi Pan at Tue Jun 16 2015
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Navina Ramesh at Fri May 22 2015
## Releases:
- 0.9.1 was released on Fri Jul 10 2015
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@samza.apache.org:
- 265 subscribers (up 8 in the last 3 months):
- 747 emails sent to list (869 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 61 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 52 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment AV: Report from the Apache Serf Project [Bert Huijben]
## Description:
The serf library is a high performance C-based HTTP client library built
upon the Apache Portable Runtime (APR) library. Serf is the default
client library of Apache Subversion and Apache OpenOffice.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
After last months work on getting the infrastructure setup at the ASF
we resumed work on preparing a Serf 1.3.9 release and getting trunk
ready for a 1.4.0 release.
## Health report:
Activity returned to a normal level after last months relocating rush.
## PMC & Committer changes:
Currently 11 PMC members and 12 committers. Our last new committer was
added on Wed Sep 02 2015. No PMC additions since the PMC started two
months ago.
## Releases:
No ASF releases yet. Last pre-ASF release 2014-10-20
## Mailing list and Jira activity:
We are still not back at the pre-asf subscriber numbers on the new list,
but we are slowly getting there. We see some new subscribers though.
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Attachment AW: Report from the Apache Shindig Project [Ryan Baxter]
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Attachment AX: Report from the Apache Sqoop Project [Jarek Jarcec Cecho]
DESCRIPTION
Apache Sqoop is a tool designed for efficiently transferring bulk data
between Apache Hadoop and structured datastores such as relational
databases. It can be used to import data from external structured
datastores into Hadoop Distributed File System or related systems like
Hive and HBase. Conversely, Sqoop can be used to extract data from
Hadoop and export it to external structured datastores such as relational
databases and enterprise data warehouses.
RELEASES
* The last releases of Apache Sqoop
** Version 1.4.6, released on May 10, 2015 from trunk branch.
** Version 1.99.6, released on May 5, 2015 from the sqoop2 branch.
CURRENT ACTIVITY
* Development activity continues on both trunk as well as sqoop2 branches.
* A total of 147 issues have been resolved between the period starting from
July 1, 2015 to October 1, 2015.
* In the past three months, a total of 198 messages were exchanged on the user
list and a total of 2067 messages were exchanged on the dev list.
COMMUNITY
* The last addition of a new committer was done in June 2015.
* The last appointment to the PMC was done in March 2015.
* Currently there are:
- Total of 460 subscribers to the user list
- Total of 164 subscribers to the dev list
- Total of 24 committers
- Total of 15 PMC members
ISSUES
* There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
REFERENCES
None.
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Attachment AY: Report from the Apache Steve Project [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.
## Issues:
- there are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity:
- Minor work on pySTeVe has been done, but the bulk of the program is, for the
time being, considered stable, and so development has slowed down.
- Suggestions to run some mock elections with ASF committers trying out the new
system has been proposed, but not yet carried out.
- We are discussing when/if/how to release the pySTeVe component.
- Jim Jagielski has decided to step down as VP, and proposed Daniel Gruno to
replace him in this role (see special order 7B). The PMC extends its thanks
to Jim for the work he's done as VP.
## Health report:
- The community remains healthy, albeit in a sort of hiatus state. This is
likely due to ASF elections being about half a year away.
- PMC remains alive and responsive when needed.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 8 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Rich Bowen at Mon Apr 20 2015
## LDAP changes:
- Currently 8 committers and 8 committee group members.
- No new committee group members added in the last 3 months
- Last 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 official releases have been made yet, but we are discussing releasing the
pySTeVe component sometime soon.
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@steve.apache.org:
- 18 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 6 emails sent to list (1 in previous quarter)
- user@steve.apache.org:
- 10 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 0 emails sent to list (0 in previous quarter)
- issues@steve.apache.org:
- 11 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 0 emails sent to list (0 in previous quarter)
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Attachment AZ: Report from the Apache Struts Project [René Gielen]
The Apache Struts MVC framework is a solution stack for creating elegant
and modern action-based Java web applications. It favors convention over
configuration, is extensible using a plugin architecture, and ships with
plugins to support technologies such as REST, AJAX and JSON.
The Struts team made two GA releases in the last quarter:
* Struts 2.3.24.1 - security fix release (2015-09-15)
* Struts Annotations 1.0.6 - switch processing from APT to Annotation
Processor API (2015-09-29)
The Struts team made two BETA releases in the last quarter, for the
upcoming Struts 2.5 framework line
* Struts 2.5-BETA2 - bug fixes, security fixes and improvements over
BETA1 (2015-09-28)
* Struts 2.5-BETA1 - first public test version including consolidations,
deprecations, dependency upgrades and new feature additions (2015-07-17)
Within the reporting period we saw vivid development and feedback
activity. Work on Struts 2.5 moves forward quickly, with a first GA
version probably soon to be released. Struts 2.5 includes new features,
consolidations and dependency upgrades along with dropping support for
already deprecated APIs and framework parts. It is considered a
milestone release towards Struts 3, which is supposed to include major
new features as well as breaking changes.
We addressed two security issues in the last quarter, one of which lead
to a security announcement advising users to switch off debug mode in
production environments [1], the other being addressed by Struts
2.3.24.1 security fix release [2].
We continue to see positive effects from our switch to a git-based
workflow being mirrored on GitHub, along with accepting external
contributions via pull requests combined with properly filed and
documented JIRA tickets. There is a significant rise in high quality
contributions by non-committers. The PMC is currently in the process of
voting on committership invitation for one of these individuals.
The Apache Struts project was also represented at ApacheCon EU: core at
the beginning of October. PMC member Johannes Geppert gave a talk
targeting the upcoming Struts 2.5 release and combining Struts 2 with
AngularJS.
No new committers or PMC members have been added in the last quarter.
Last PMC addition was on 2015-05-12, last committer addition on 2014-01-06.
We have no issues that require board assistance at this time.
[1] http://struts.apache.org/docs/s2-025.html
[2] http://struts.apache.org/docs/s2-026.html
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Attachment BA: Report from the Apache Synapse Project [Hiranya Jayathilaka]
Apache Synapse is a high performance, flexible, lightweight
Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and a mediation framework.
Community
=========
No new committers or PMC members were nominated during this period.
Latest Synapse committer was elected on December, 2013. Latest Synapse
PMC member was elected on December, 2013.
Releases
========
There have been no new releases during this period.
The last release of Synapse is version 2.1, which was released on
January, 2012.
We continue to work with the Axis2 community on getting an Axis2 release
out, which has been a significant blocker for releasing Synapse. Note
that we are waiting for the Axis2 1.7 release which will be based on the
current SVN trunk of Axis2. This is necessary since the current Synapse
code depends on Axis2 trunk. The last Axis2 release (1.6.3 released
on June 2015), is a maintenance release based on the Axis2 1.6 branch.
This branch dates back to May 2011, and we haven't used it in Synapse
since our 2.1 release in January 2012. We used Axis2 1.6.1 in that
last release of Synapse, and we had to backport Synapse code from
Axis2 trunk to the 1.6 branch to make it happen. Since then both
Axis2 and Synapse trunks have evolved significantly, and we are now at a
position where backporting Synapse to Axis2 1.6 branch is no longer easy
nor makes sense.
Overall progress towards Axis2 1.7 and Synapse releases has been slow but
steady. Issues have been fixed/resolved more aggressively
than usual, and some of the build issues that have been affecting both
projects have been resolved. Overall, there have been multiple positive
signs that an Axis2 1.7 release is imminent.
Board Issues
============
None identified
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Attachment BB: 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?
We have begun to discuss the process of a change in project lead, as
Howard Lewis Ship's involvement in the project has markedly
decreased over the last year or more.
When did the project last make any releases?
The latest stable version of Tapestry (5.3.8) has been released 20
Nov 2014. We have made available the a series of beta builds of the
upcoming 5.4 release, (most recently, 5.4-beta-35, on 23 Aug 2015),
following successful votes.
Although a consensus has been reached to pursue a release candidate, the
effort is currently stalled.
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 occasional
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).
Project branding or naming issues, either in the project or externally.
No known issues.
Branding requirements progress:
* "Website Navigation Links: navbar links included, link to www.apache.org
included" - License and Security links are missing
* "Logos and Graphics: include TM, use consistent product logo on your site"
- TM missing from logo
Legal issues or questions:
None.
Infrastructure issues or strategic needs:
None.
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Attachment BC: Report from the Apache Tcl Project [Massimo Manghi]
## Description:
- Apache Tcl is an umbrella for Tcl-Apache integration efforts. Current
projects are
* Rivet
* Websh
## Issues:
- Even though websh has been so far maintained we agreed to
discontinue the support of this subproject since there is no
active interest in continuing its development. Apache Tcl
will soon be comprising a single Tcl based project (Apache Rivet)
- We will undertake next month a new campaign on the Tcl related
communication channels (groups, IRC, etc) seeking for new
contributors. Even though we are striving to keep up with the web
programmer expectations we are aware Tcl has long lost attractiveness
as a language for the web. That's the basic obstacle we are meeting
to convince people to adopt our tools for their web programming.
## Activity:
- Bug reports continue to be filed at a slow pace but we are
responding to every new issue opened. We are doing new
improvements to the development branch of mod_rivet.
- RPMs for rivet 2.2.3 were made available with help of Petr
Gajdos for SuSE Linux, Scientific Linux, RedHat, CentOs 6-7, and
Fedora 22-23 on OBS.
## Mailing list activity:
Activity on the mailing lists appears to be consistent with
the traffic of previous quarters
- websh-dev@tcl.apache.org:
- 15 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 2 emails sent to list (6 in previous quarter)
- rivet-dev@tcl.apache.org:
- 48 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 70 emails sent to list (108 in previous quarter)
- site-cvs@tcl.apache.org:
- 5 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 21 emails sent to list (33 in previous quarter)
## PMC changes:
- Currently 10 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Brice Hamon De Crevecoer at Tue Nov 25 2014
## Releases:
- Apache/Rivet released 2.2.3 on May 21st. We'll probably roll out a 2.2.4
release in a few weeks
- Websh is maintained but no new artifacts were released after
3.6.0b5 (2009-09-24)
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Attachment BD: Report from the Apache Tez Project [Hitesh Shah]
## Description:
Apache Tez is an effort to develop a generic application framework which
can be used to process arbitrarily complex directed-acyclic graphs (DAGs) of
data-processing tasks and also a re-usable set of data-processing primitives
which can be used by other projects.
## Activity:
There is general momentum within the community to continue to fix
issues as well as make performance improvements for the 0.6 and 0.7
maintenance lines as well as the mainline master branch.
The main master branch had a recent alpha release for the 3rd-party
plugins work from TEZ-2003 and work continues on that to
stabilize the feature/APIs for a future alpha/beta release.
In addition, there were enhancements for the UI to support a more
dynamic version with live updates to track the progress of Tez DAGs.
## Health report:
The community is quite healthy. There have been 2 releases in
the past quarter. The user@ list is active with questions raised
by various users and generally prompt replies from the contributor
community. Bikas Saha will be giving a talk on Tez at
ApacheCon Europe in the Big Data track.
## Issues:
There are no issues that require the Board’s attention at this time.
## LDAP committee group/Committership changes:
- Currently 34 committers and 32 LDAP committee group members.
- No new LDAP committee group members added in the last 3 months
- Last LDAP committee group addition was Jeff Zhang at Mon Jun 01 2015
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Sreenath at Wed May 13 2015
## Releases:
- 0.6.2 was released on Thu Aug 06 2015
- 0.8.0-alpha was released on Tue Sep 01 2015
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@tez.apache.org:
- 152 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 230 emails sent to list (289 in previous quarter)
- issues@tez.apache.org:
- 56 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 3033 emails sent to list (4634 in previous quarter)
- user@tez.apache.org:
- 178 subscribers (up 8 in the last 3 months):
- 245 emails sent to list (278 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 280 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 161 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment BE: Report from the Apache Thrift Project [Jake Farrell]
Thrift is a framework for providing cross-platform RPC and serialization.
Project Status
---------
Since our last board report Apache Thrift 0.9.3 has successfully been released.
This release resolved a security vulnerability, CVE-2015-3254, and added new
features focused on improved our client library stability. The Apache Thrift
community continues to see consistent growth from new contributors for bug
fixes and client library improvements and we have added a new PMC member,
Randy Abernethy. We have starting work towards our next release candidate
which will focus on making multi OS builds easier.
Community
---
Latest Additions:
* PMC addition: Randy Abernethy, 7.31.2015
* Contributor addition: Konrad Grochowski, 9.22.2014
Issue backlog status since last report:
* Created: 138
* Resolved: 139
Mailing list activity since last report:
* @dev 1626 messages
* @user 114 messages
Releases
---
Last release: 0.9.3, Release Date: Oct 6, 2015
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Attachment BF: Report from the Apache Tika Project [Dave Meikle]
Apache Tika is a dynamic toolkit for content detection, analysis, and
extraction. It allows a user to understand, and leverage information from, a
growing a list over 1200 different file types including most of the major
types in existence (MS Office, Adobe, Text, Images, Video, Code, and science
data) as recognised by IANA and other standards bodies.
Issues
=========================
There are no issues that need the boards attention.
Releases
=========================
The 1.10 release of Tika was made in August, upgrading support to Java 7 and
adding new features to make configuration easier. Discussions are underway for
the 1.11 release as well as progression towards as 2.X stream.
Community
=========================
The Tika PMC added Bob Paulin as a committer and PMC member in September.
There were two talks on Tika by Nick Burch and Michael Starch[1][2] at
ApacheCon Big Data in Budapest, as well as a gathering of interested parties.
Apache Tika has now been wrapped as a Perl Module[4], extending the list of
community client libraries available.
Mailing list activity on dev@ was at 397, 388 and 150 messages in Aug, Sep and
Oct 2015, respectively. user@ was at 45, 25 and 23 messages, during the same
timeframe.
[1] http://sched.co/3zt7
[2] http://sched.co/40Zd
[3] http://s.apache.org/Mmo
[4] https://metacpan.org/release/RIBUGENT/Apache-Tika-0.04
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Attachment BG: Report from the Apache TomEE Project [David Blevins]
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Attachment BH: Report from the Apache Traffic Server Project [Leif Hedstrom]
## Description:
Apache Traffic Server is an HTTP proxy server and cache, similar to Squid
and Varnish in functionality and features.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- Our Fall 2015 Summit is planned for Mon-Tue Nov 16-17. A "barcamp" is
planned for Sun Nov 15 as well. For more details see
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/TS/Fall+2015+Summit
## Health report:
- The lack of new committers has been discussed, and we have at least 3 more
candidates that we are considering for vote. But we are seeing normal
activity both on releases, contributions and mailing lists.
- The PMC voted to remove 6 PMC members that were unreachable or unresponsive
to several emails. This was a "Special Orders" agenda for the July 2015
board meeting (see Item E). The removed PMC members are welcome back at any
time. This explains the drop in PMC members compared to previous report.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 33 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Thomas Jackson at Thu Feb 12 2015
## LDAP changes:
- Currently 41 committers and 33 committee group members.
- No new committee group members added in the last 3 months
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Thomas Jackson at Tue Feb 10 2015
## Releases:
- 6.0.0 was released on Mon Sep 21 2015
- 5.3.2 was released on Sun Sep 13 2015
## Mailing list activity:
- users@trafficserver.apache.org:
- 470 subscribers (up 6 in the last 3 months):
- 245 emails sent to list (217 in previous quarter)
- dev@trafficserver.apache.org:
- 296 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
- 496 emails sent to list (590 in previous quarter)
- announce@trafficserver.apache.org:
- 12 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 2 emails sent to list (0 in previous quarter)
- issues@trafficserver.apache.org:
- 34 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 4266 emails sent to list (4221 in previous quarter)
- summits@trafficserver.apache.org:
- 11 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months)
## JIRA activity:
- 202 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 163 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment BI: Report from the Apache Usergrid Project [Todd Nine]
Description
Usergrid is Backend-as-a-Service (BaaS) composed of an integrated
database (Cassandra), a query engine (Elastic Search), and
application layer and client tier with SDKs for developers.
Activity
Development continues on the 2.0 release. Stabilization and bug
fixes from the results of large scale testing are in progress.
Short summary of Usergrid activity over past month
No new committers in past month
When was the last PMC member and committer added to the project?
George Reyes voted onto PMC on 2015-10-02, pending ACK by board
When was the last release made by the project?
2015-07-16 - apache-usergrid-1.0.2-incubating
Issues
None
Mailing list activity:
- dev@usergrid.apache.org:
- 87 subscribers (up 6 in the last 3 months):
- 1429 emails sent to list (2475 in previous quarter)
- user@usergrid.apache.org:
- 100 subscribers (up 12 in the last 3 months):
- 15 emails sent to list (8 in previous quarter)
JIRA activity:
- 191 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 135 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment BJ: Report from the Apache VXQuery Project [Till Westmann]
Description:
Apache VXQuery implements a parallel XML Query processor.
Activity:
- After Google Summer of Code ended activity has gone down a bit but is
still above pre-GSoC levels.
- A lot of the current work/discussions is on the integration with parts of
the Hadoop ecosystem (HDFS and YARN).
- The paper on VXQuery has been accepted for publication at IEEE Big Data
2015. The paper will be presented by Preston at the conference in Santa
Clara in November.
Issues:
- There are no issues that require the board's attention at this time.
PMC/Committership changes:
- Currently 10 committers and 7 PMC members in the project.
- Last PMC addition was Steven Jacobs at Fri Jul 18 2014
- Last committer addition was Steven Jacobs at Fri Jul 18 2014
Releases:
- Last release was 0.5 on Thu Mar 05 2015
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Attachment BK: Report from the Apache Web Services Project [Sagara Gunathunga]
Web Services Report for October 2015
Releases within this quarter:
* Woden 1.0M10
* WSS4J 2.1.3
Last releases for other subprojects:
* Xmlschema 2.2.1 : Feb 2015
* Neethi 3.0.3 : Jan 2014
* Axiom 1.2.15 : Jun 2015
Community and development:
* Last committer addition - Sept 2014,
* Last PMC member addition - in Sept 2013
Development
* WSS4J - 41 commits by 1 committer.
* Axiom - 199 commits by 1 committer.
* Woden - 34 commits by 1 committers.
* Xmlschema - 0 commit by 0 committer.
* Neethi - 0 commits.
* Woden project and site are compliance with Apache branding polices now.
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
Subprojects
-----------
Current subproject descriptions follow, along with anything specifically
requiring the board's attention this quarter.
* Apache Woden
Woden is an open source Java implementation of the W3C WSDL 2.0
specification.
* Apache Axiom
Apache Axiom is a StAX-based, XML Infoset compliant object model which
supports on-demand building of the object tree.
* Apache XmlSchema
Apache XmlSchema is a Java object model for manipulating and utilizing
XML Schema.
* Apache Neethi
Apache Neethi is a Java implementation of the WS-Policy specifications.
* Apache WSS4J
Apache WSS4J is a Java implementation of the OASIS Web Services Security
(WS-Security) from OASIS Web Services Security TC.
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Attachment BL: Report from the Apache Wink Project [Luciano Resende]
Apache Wink is a project that enables development and consumption of
REST style web services. The core server runtime is based on the
JAX-RS (JSR 311) standard. The project also introduces a client
runtime which can leverage certain components of the server-side
runtime. Apache Wink delivers component technology that can be easily
integrated into a variety of environments.
There are no issues that require Board attention at the moment.
Community:
The Wink project has a small community which is not very active. We have
had discussions on how to increase community activity, but nothing so far
has really been successful, the project continues to be a in a state where
it’s a mature project with steady but low user questions/answers on the
mailing list and a patch here and there. I believe Wink is a mature project
with active users and we should not consider any retirement actions at the
moment. Last svn activity shows most recent patch applied in march 2015.
Releases:
* Last release was Apache Wink 1.4.0 which was released on September 15, 2013
Committers or PMC changes:
* Voted Gerhard Petracek was added as a Wink committer in August 2013.
Trademark/Branding:
* No known issues.
Legal Issues:
* None
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Attachment BM: Report from the Apache Wookie Project [Scott Wilson]
Apache Wookie develops software related to implementation of the W3C
Widgets family of specifications.
ISSUES
As mentioned in previous reports, activity in the project has declined and is
now at a minimum with some questions from users and implementers but little on
the development side and also the community has not grown since 2013. The
reasons for this remain the same, in particular the lack of non-proprietary
adoption of the W3C widget specification.
FUTURE
We have begun a discussion within the project community on whether Wookie
should move to the attic; we will hold a vote on this before the next
reporting session.
RELEASES
Wookie 1.0 was released on 24th February 2014.
ACTIVITY
Work is still being undertaken on Wookie 2.0.
COMMUNITY
Our last committer and PMC member added was Steve Lee on 21st February 2013.
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Attachment BN: Report from the Apache Yetus Project [Sean Busbey]
Apache Yetus provides libraries and tools that enable contribution and
release processes for software projects.
ISSUES FOR BOARD'S ATTENTION
None at this time.
RELEASES
None to date.
ACTIVITY
No new PMC additions in the past three months.
Last PMC addition was formation on September 16, 2015.
No new committers added in the past three months.
Last committer addition was formation on September 16, 2015.
The PMC has extended an invitation for committership. It has been verbally
accepted and we are awaiting ICLA filing.
The PMC has completed migration of the existing code and issues from
the Apache Hadoop project to our dedicated project resources. The community
has created a basic website with a contribution guide and are working to
complete blockers on our first release.
Mailing list activity is low but healthy, with several discussions around
project organization during our first month.
STATS
- Currently 6 PMC members.
- Currently 6 committers
- dev list has 18 subscribers (up 18 in the last 3 months)
- 45 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 7 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment BO: Report from the Apache Tomcat Project [Mladen Turk]
This report from the Apache Tomcat PMC is being made at the recommendation of
V.P. Brand to support the Tomcat project's request for additional funding to
register our trademarks in the EU, India and China. This is in addition to our
registration in the US that is already in progress.
The funding required to meet this request is a one-off cost of $2,465.
The driver for this request is the desire of the Tomcat PMC to reduce the
ongoing impact of trademark infringements and to reduce the risk to the Tomcat
community of a future significant dispute over the project's marks.
The regions in this request for registration have been selected based on where
we see the greatest concentrations of the Tomcat community.
The board may think that since Tomcat has been in existence since 1999 that
the marks are well known and that there is no need to register the marks. The
Tomcat PMC strongly disagrees with this view. The longevity of the Tomcat
project means that a large eco-system of products has built up around Tomcat
and the size of that ecosystem increases, rather than decreases, the
likelihood of infringement.
The Tomcat PMC already has experience of handling multiple infringements of
the project's marks. We continue to concerned about any infringement due to
the potential harm it could cause to the community. The risks to the community
include:
- Potential users of Tomcat put off by their poor experience or the poor
experience of others with a low quality product intended to be used with
Tomcat that, due to the infringing name, is assumed to be a product of the ASF
and therefore indicative of the quality of ASF products.
- Potential users of Tomcat drawn to other products because those products
provide similar functionality to Tomcat and use an infringing name which
(deliberately or not) confuses users into thinking they are using Tomcat when
they are not.
- Resolving infringements requires significant volunteer energy which is then
not available to support the community. This reduces the quality of community
support and thereby makes Tomcat less attractive.
- Specifically for China, that operates a first to register rather than first
to use system, there is a significant risk that another organisation registers
Tomcat. That would cause us all sorts of problems that would require large
amounts volunteer energy to resolve as well as placing additional demands on
infrastructure.
All of these risks boil down to reducing the size of the Tomcat community and
diverting that community from developing, using and supporting Tomcat. The
smaller the community, the smaller the pool of contributors, the fewer of
those who will advance to committer and hopefully on to PMC member and ASF
member. The fewer committers and PMC members the community has, the greater
the risk to the long term survivability of the project.
To be clear, we are not saying that the Tomcat community is struggling to
survive under a flood of trademark infringements. We are saying the trademark
infringements have had, and continue to have, a negative impact on the project
and that registering our marks would reduce the ongoing impact and reduce the
risk of a future, more significant, trademark dispute.
It is also worth pointing out (with the notable exception of China) that
registration is not required in order to successfully resolve a trademark
dispute. However, as we explain later, registration does reduce the likelihood
of infringement and simplifies the process of resolution. Where the infringer
contests the issue, registration significantly reduces the time and cost of
resolution.
To date, the Tomcat PMC has resolved disputes using one of the following
paths:
1) A polite request to the product owners to change the name with which they
happily complied.
2) As 1) but the product owner had gone AWOL. In such cases the company
hosting the product (e.g. Apple, Google etc.) had to be approached to request
that the product is taken down.
3) A polite request to the product owners which is met with a "That trademark
isn't registered. I can do what I like." response. The PMC then has to take
the time to educate them that this is not that case and, eventually, the
product name is changed.
4) A large(ish) corporation has a commercial product based on Tomcat and the
sales/marketing team are keen to emphasis this to sell their product based on
Tomcat's reputation. This normally results in multiple small to medium
infringements over a long period of time. It has been resolved by an ongoing
engagement by the PMC with the infringing company to educate as to what is
allowed and to encourage the company to put processes in place to reduce /
eliminate future infringing. Depending on the frequency and serious of the
infringements, support from V.P. Brand / ASF lawyers may be requested to get
the message across to more senior figures.
1) Is easy to fix and not a great drain on the project since it only takes a
few minutes to send a polite e-mail.
2) Depends a lot on the hosting company. Some are easier to work with than
others. Resolving these usually takes a couple of hours.
3) We have had several of these and they can take up a fair amount of
volunteer time (days) to resolve.
4) We have only had one of these but it took weeks of volunteer time and
support from V.P. Brand to resolve. It also requires ongoing monitoring to
ensure that the issue remains resolved.
The benefits to the Tomcat PMC of registering our marks are as follows:
- less volunteer energy required to resolve 'simple' infringements since a
registered mark negates the whole "But that mark isn't registered"
counter-argument;
- less volunteer energy required to resolve 'simple' infringements since a
registered mark simplifies the trademark infringement reporting process for
most large 'hosting' providers (e.g. Google, Apple, etc.)
- less corporate infringements (and hence less volunteer energy required to
resolve them) since a registered mark will appear in the searches performed
when selecting product names and corporations tend to give registered marks a
wider berth than unregistered ones;
- significantly reduces the potential for us to lose the right to use the
project mark's in China;
- should an infringer refuse to stop their infringement (we haven't had this
happen yet but it feels like only a matter of time) a registered mark greatly
simplifies the resolution process (and makes it a lot less expensive).
On that last point, there have been a couple of occasions where it felt like
it was 50/50 whether the infringing party was going to stop the infringement.
Fortunately, so far, continued dialogue has resulted in the right outcome.
However, it does feel like only matter of time before an infringer refuses to
stop their infringement. Having the marks registered before that happens will
save us both time and money in that case.
The Apache Tomcat PMC
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