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Board of Directors Meeting Minutes
January 20, 2016
1. Call to order
The meeting was scheduled for 10:30am Pacific and began at 10:37
when a sufficient attendance to constitute a quorum was
recognized by the chairman.
Other Time Zones: http://timeanddate.com/s/2xbh
The meeting was held via teleconference, hosted by Doug Cutting
and Cloudera.
IRC #asfboard on irc.freenode.net was used for backup purposes.
2. Roll Call
Directors Present:
Rich Bowen
Shane Curcuru
Bertrand Delacretaz
Jim Jagielski
Chris Mattmann
Brett Porter
Sam Ruby
Greg Stein
Directors Absent:
David Nalley
Executive Officers Present:
Ross Gardler
Kevin A. McGrail
Craig L Russell
Executive Officers Absent:
none
Guests:
Bruce Snyder
Daniel Gruno
Deepal Jayasinghe - joined at 10:54; left at 11:25
Dennis E. Hamilton
Jacques Nadeau - joined at 11:10
Jake Farrell
Julien Le Dem - joined at 11:10
Mark Thomas
Marvin Humphrey
P. Taylor Goetz
Sean Kelly
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 December 16, 2015
See: board_minutes_2015_12_16.txt
Approved by General Consent.
4. Executive Officer Reports
A. Chairman [Brett]
A Happy New Year to everyone at the ASF.
On the board list, we agreed on an Annual Meeting date of 22 March
2016 (concluding 24 March). I plan to formally announce that in the
next couple of weeks once we are within the 60 day window. There's
some preparation to do to ensure the quorum and voting tools are all
set, as well as the usual record preparation.
B. President [Ross]
It's been a quiet month with the holiday period. Though the new year
has certainly been a busy one.
There is no significant news from EA, Brand Management, Fundraising,
Marketing or TAC, all of which are "business as usual" - given the
quiet period of the last month that means very little to report.
While most of us can take it easy during the holiday period this is
not the case for our infra team. Service uptime for monitored services
was over the "three nines" for the first time and work progresses on
core infrastructure improvements, including GitHub integration. The
Whimsy experiment is progressing nicely with infra reporting solid
progress. Further details are provided in the Whimsy report.
It is worth drawing attention to VP Marketing's proposal to reinstate
media/analyst training at ApacheCon this year. This would be a very
welcome return of a program run a number of years ago. We now have many
new projects and as such it is not uncommon to have PMCs with nobody
able to respond appropriately to media enquiries. I welcome the
proposal to offer the sessions again and will support the initiative
in any way I can.
I've started the process for the 2016/17 budget. Virtual have raised a
few questions regarding budgeted vs actual expenditure, in particular
with respect to brand management ($4.8K of the $39K budget) and legal
($562 out of the $22K budget). With just four months left in this
financial year we feel this indicates a need to reduce these budget
items next year. I will work with the appropriate VPs and, if
appropriate, will take the appropriate action.
Unfortunately the time has come for us to look for a new VP Infra as
David is looking to step down. I would like to thank David for his
exceptional work in this role. I think we can all agree our infra
support has improved considerably under his guidance and the hard work
of our contractors. We all knew that one day David would wish to step
down. I have been dreading the day as he is a very hard man to
replace. On behalf of the Board, our Membership and most importantly
our Communities I would like to thank David for his work.
I've known about this or a couple of weeks and have been considering
our options. As David himself has warned, the role of VP Infra is
pretty much a full time role now. During the last couple of years we
have considered many options to bring stability and scalability to our
infra team and the VP infra role. We've never been entirely happy with
the options available to us and have yet to come to find a solution
that is full satisfactory. I am reviewing the options available and
have added a discussion item to this months agenda with the view to
reminding all directors of those options and to make a preliminary
recommendation to the board for consideration over the following
month. David continues to assist with these investigations but expects
to step down within the next month. If necessary I will step in to
bridge the gap. However, I must emphasize that we need to take action
quickly in order to minimize disruption for our contractors and our
communities.
Additionally, please see Attachments 1 through 6.
C. Treasurer [Chris]
The Treasurer’s Office processed out of cycle payments for
infrastructure related services to bring them current.
Jim and Virtual worked to update the website instructions for mailing
checks.
We continue to receive harassing emails from the Brazilian agency
who claims to have handled the SVN Brazilian trademark. No action
is requested beyond Jim’s prior action - this is merely informational.
Virtual and the Treasurer will meet to discuss Bitcoin donations.
Income and Expenses for December 2015 CASH BASIS
Current Balances:
Dec 2015
Citizens Checking $883,759
Amazon- ASF Payments $-
Paypal - ASF $77,309
Wells Fargo Checking - ASF $334,121
Wells Fargo Savings $288,321
Total Checking/Savings $1,583,509
Income Summary:
Inkind Revenue $8,333
Public Donations $7,607
Sponsorship Program $60,000
Programs Income $28,000
Interest Income $15
Total Income $103,955
Expense Summary:
In Kind Expense $8,333
Infrastructure $55,588
Sponsorship Program $-
Programs Expense $-
Publicity $5,455
Brand Management $-
Conferences $-
Travel Assistance Committee $-
Tax and Audit $-
Treasury Services $3,100
General & Administrative $8,403
Total Expense $80,879
Net Income $23,076
D. Secretary [Craig]
A second round of requests for committers whose ICLA has gone missing
has been sent out. This is based on recent whimsy tooling.
In December, 87 iclas, five cclas, and two grants were received and
filed.
E. Executive Vice President [Rich]
We are one month out from the close of the CFPs for ApacheCon North
America. We expect, as usual, to get a flood of submissions in the
last 2 weeks. (Submit now! Avoid the rush!) Thus, it is anticipated
that the coming month will be busier, as we try to promote the CFP,
and then begin working on the event in earnest.
F. Vice Chairman [Greg]
Nothing to report.
Executive officer reports approved as submitted by General Consent.
5. Additional Officer Reports
A. VP of W3C Relations [Andy Seaborne / David]
See Attachment 7
B. Apache Legal Affairs Committee [Jim Jagielski]
See Attachment 8
C. Apache Security Team Project [Mark J. Cox / Chris]
See Attachment 9
Additional officer reports approved as submitted by General Consent.
6. Committee Reports
Summary of Reports
The following reports required further discussion:
# ActiveMQ [bp]
# Axis [jj]
# Continuum [bp]
# Giraph [bp]
# Mesos [rb]
# OpenJPA [bp]
# Rave [rb]
# Samza [bp]
# Stanbol [bp]
# Synapse [jj]
# Tapestry [bp]
# Web Services [bp]
# Wink [bp]
# Wookie [bp]
A. Apache Accumulo Project [Billie Rinaldi / Sam]
See Attachment A
B. Apache ACE Project [Marcel Offermans / Shane]
See Attachment B
C. Apache ActiveMQ Project [Bruce Snyder / Bertrand]
No report was submitted.
D. Apache Airavata Project [Suresh Marru / Jim]
See Attachment D
E. Apache Archiva Project [Olivier Lamy / Greg]
See Attachment E
F. Apache Aries Project [Jeremy Hughes / Brett]
See Attachment F
G. Apache Attic Project [Henri Yandell / Rich]
See Attachment G
H. Apache Avro Project [Tom White / Jim]
See Attachment H
I. Apache Bloodhound Project [Gary Martin / Shane]
See Attachment I
J. Apache Brooklyn Project [Richard Downer / Brett]
See Attachment J
K. Apache Calcite Project [Julian Hyde / Bertrand]
See Attachment K
L. Apache Celix Project [Alexander Broekhuis / Greg]
See Attachment L
M. Apache Chukwa Project [Eric Yang / Chris]
See Attachment M
N. Apache Continuum Project [Brent Atkinson / Sam]
No report was submitted.
O. Apache Crunch Project [Micah Whitacre / David]
See Attachment O
P. Apache CXF Project [Daniel Kulp / Rich]
See Attachment P
Q. Apache DB Project [Bryan Pendleton / Bertrand]
See Attachment Q
R. Apache Directory Project [Kiran Ayyagari / Rich]
See Attachment R
S. Apache Geronimo Project [Alan Cabrera / Sam]
No report was submitted.
T. Apache Giraph Project [Avery Ching / Jim]
No report was submitted.
U. Apache Groovy Project [Guillaume Laforge / David]
See Attachment U
V. Apache Hadoop Project [Christopher Douglas / Brett]
See Attachment V
W. Apache HBase Project [Andrew Purtell / Chris]
See Attachment W
X. Apache Helix Project [Kishore Gopalakrishna / Shane]
See Attachment X
Y. Apache Incubator Project [Ted Dunning / Greg]
See Attachment Y
Z. Apache Isis Project [Dan Haywood / Shane]
See Attachment Z
AA. Apache James Project [Eric Charles / Rich]
See Attachment AA
AB. Apache jclouds Project [Ignasi Barrera / Bertrand]
See Attachment AB
AC. Apache Jena Project [Andy Seaborne / Sam]
See Attachment AC
AD. Apache JMeter Project [Sebastian Bazley / David]
See Attachment AD
AE. Apache JSPWiki Project [Juan Pablo Santos / Chris]
See Attachment AE
AF. Apache Kylin Project [Luke Han / Jim]
See Attachment AF
AG. Apache Lucy Project [Marvin Humphrey / Brett]
See Attachment AG
AH. Apache Mahout Project [Suneel Marthi / Greg]
See Attachment AH
AI. Apache Maven Project [Hervé Boutemy / Brett]
See Attachment AI
AJ. Apache Mesos Project [Benjamin Hindman / Rich]
See Attachment AJ
AK. Apache MINA Project [Jean-François Maury / Chris]
See Attachment AK
AL. Apache MRUnit Project [Brock Noland / Shane]
See Attachment AL
AM. Apache MyFaces Project [Mike Kienenberger / Greg]
See Attachment AM
AN. Apache NiFi Project [Joe Witt / David]
See Attachment AN
AO. Apache Nutch Project [Sebastian Nagel / Sam]
See Attachment AO
AP. Apache ODE Project [Tammo van Lessen / Jim]
See Attachment AP
AQ. Apache Onami Project [Nino Martinez Wael / Bertrand]
See Attachment AQ
AR. Apache OpenJPA Project [Pinaki Poddar / Chris]
No report was submitted.
AS. Apache OpenMeetings Project [Maxim Solodovnik / Brett]
See Attachment AS
AT. Apache OpenOffice Project [Dennis E. Hamilton / Shane]
See Attachment AT
AU. Apache ORC Project [Owen O'Malley / Sam]
See Attachment AU
AV. Apache Parquet Project [Julien Le Dem / David]
See Attachment AV
AW. Apache PDFBox Project [Andreas Lehmkühler / Greg]
See Attachment AW
AX. Apache Rave Project [Matt Franklin / Rich]
No report was submitted.
AY. Apache REEF Project [Markus Weimer / Jim]
See Attachment AY
AZ. Apache Samza Project [Chris Riccomini / Bertrand]
No report was submitted.
BA. Apache Sqoop Project [Jarek Jarcec Cecho / Greg]
See Attachment BA
BB. Apache Stanbol Project [Fabian Christ / Rich]
No report was submitted.
BC. Apache Steve Project [Daniel Gruno / Shane]
See Attachment BC
BD. Apache Struts Project [René Gielen / Sam]
See Attachment BD
BE. Apache Synapse Project [Hiranya Jayathilaka / Bertrand]
See Attachment BE
Jim: There seems to be a lot of discussion but not much
communication between the two PMCs. @Jim: Report again next
month
BF. Apache Tajo Project [Hyunsik Choi / Brett]
See Attachment BF
BG. Apache Tapestry Project [Howard M. Lewis Ship / Chris]
No report was submitted.
BH. Apache Tcl Project [Massimo Manghi / David]
See Attachment BH
BI. Apache Tez Project [Hitesh Shah / Jim]
See Attachment BI
BJ. Apache Thrift Project [Jake Farrell / Bertrand]
See Attachment BJ
BK. Apache Tika Project [Dave Meikle / Brett]
See Attachment BK
BL. Apache Tomcat Project [Mladen Turk / Chris]
See Attachment BL
BM. Apache TomEE Project [David Blevins / Greg]
See Attachment BM
BN. Apache Traffic Server Project [Leif Hedstrom / David]
See Attachment BN
BO. Apache VXQuery Project [Till Westmann / Sam]
See Attachment BO
BP. Apache Web Services Project [Sagara Gunathunga / Jim]
No report was submitted.
BQ. Apache Whimsy Project [Ross Gardler / Rich]
See Attachment BQ
BR. Apache Wink Project [Luciano Resende / Shane]
No report was submitted.
BS. Apache Wookie Project [Scott Wilson / Greg]
No report was submitted.
BT. Apache Axis Project [Deepal Jayasinghe / Jim]
See Attachment BT
@Jim: Please report again next month
Committee reports approved as submitted by General Consent.
7. Special Orders
A. Establish the Apache Arrow 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 columnar in-memory processing and data
interchange
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management
Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Apache Arrow Project",
be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the
Foundation; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the Apache Arrow Project be and hereby is
responsible for the creation and maintenance of software
related to columnar in-memory processing and data interchange;
and be it further
RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache Arrow" 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 Arrow Project, and to have primary responsibility
for management of the projects within the scope of
responsibility of the Apache Arrow 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 Arrow Project:
* Todd Lipcon <todd@apache.org>
* Ted Dunning <tdunning@apache.org>
* Michael Stack <stack@apache.org>
* P. Taylor Goetz <ptgoetz@apache.org>
* Reynold Xin <rxin@apache.org>
* Julian Hyde <jhyde@apache.org>
* Julien Le Dem <julien@apache.org>
* Jacques Nadeau <jacques@apache.org>
* James Taylor <jamestaylor@apache.org>
* Jake Luciani <jake@apache.org>
* Parth Chandra <parthc@apache.org>
* Alex Levenson <alexlevenson@apache.org>
* Marcel Kornacker <marcel@apache.org>
* Steven Phillips <smp@apache.org>
* Hanifi Gunes <hg@apache.org>
* Jason Altekruse <json@apache.org>
* Abdel Hakim Deneche <adeneche@apache.org>
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Jacques Nadeau
be appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Arrow, 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.
RESOLVED, that the Apache Arrow Project be and hereby
is tasked with the migration and rationalization of the Apache
Drill Arrow sub-project; and be it further
RESOLVED, that all responsibilities pertaining to the Apache
Drill Arrow sub-project encumbered upon the
Apache Drill Project are hereafter discharged.
Special Order 7A, Establish the Apache Arrow Project, was
approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
B. Terminate the Apache Onami Project
WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Onami
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 Onami project
due to inactivity;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Apache Onami
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 Onami
Project; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache Onami" is
hereby terminated; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the Apache Onami PMC is hereby terminated.
Special Order 7B, Terminate the Apache Onami Project, was
approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
C. Terminate the Apache Rave Project
WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Rave
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 Rave project
due to inactivity;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Apache Rave
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 Rave
Project; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache Rave" is
hereby terminated; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the Apache Rave PMC is hereby terminated.
Special Order 7C, Terminate the Apache Rave Project, was
approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
8. Discussion Items
A. Discuss options for Infrastructure management.
With the imminent retirement of the current VP Infrastructure we need to
decide how to proceed in the near future. The easiest path is to simply
replace David with a new volunteer VP. However, as discussed in the past
this course of action is not considered sustainable due to the heavy
workload. Other options previously considered include:
* Employ a full time infrastructure manager
* Employ a full time Executive Director (infra management + additional
duties)
* Outsource all infra services to a third party provider
- not-for-profit
- for profit
* Outsource critical infra services to a third party provider whilst
keeping non-critical services in-house and volunteer managed
* Creating a separate company to manage our infra services
This discussion item is intended to allow us to:
a) Refresh our memories of previous findings for each of the above
options
b) Identify any other options that should be explored
c) Agree to rule out some of the above options
d) Provide a preliminary recommendation from the Presidents office
e) Agree on a time frame in which the board will receive a final
recommendation from the Presidents office, and subsequently seek
to approve an action
Ross: we need to make a timely decision on the replacement of our
current VP, infrastructure. Bertrand: at some point we will probably
need a full time operations manager. Ross: maybe at some time but
not now. Brett: could the existing contractors handle the extra
work? Ross: management of the contractors needs a different person
in the role. Rich: the job is easily over 20 hours per week. Chris:
this is potentially a high-burnout job. Shane: even if we use a
third party service, we still need to manage them. Ross:
communication with PMCs is still needed Jim: we need a job
description to see what all is required and to see whether some
duties might be changed to make it less burnout-prone @Ross: create
a job description Ross: we are investigating outsourcing with a few
third parties, including Virtual, and creating our own corporation.
Ross: looks like we need both inside VP, Infrastructure to liaise
with PMCs, and outsource infra services. Time frame: one month!
@Ross: Prepare a plan to transition infra
9. Review Outstanding Action Items
* David: follow up with last PMC and committer additions.
[ Santuario 2015-05-20 ]
Status:
* David: Chair has no time to devote to the project. May be time for the
Attic.
[ Tuscany 2015-06-17 ]
Status:
* 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: Started.
* Jim: follow up with PMC to improve the report to include a narrative and not
just numbers.
[ Knox 2015-11-18 ]
Status: Complete
* Brett: follow up with PMC to include narrative of community health and not
just numbers and references to ticket tracking systems.
[ Oozie 2015-11-18 ]
Status: not done
* Jim: please report next month on the Axis/Synapse relationship and release
[ Axis 2015-12-16 ]
Status: In process
* Brett: pursue a report for Continuum
[ Continuum 2015-12-16 ]
Status: not done
* Shane: pursue a report for MRUnit
[ MRUnit 2015-12-16 ]
Status:
* Ross: Notify PMC that tools are available to aid in the Apache Extras
[ Pivot 2015-12-16 ]
Status:
* Chris: pursue a report for Stanbol
[ Stanbol 2015-12-16 ]
Status:
* Brett: pursue a report for Tajo
[ Tajo 2015-12-16 ]
Status: present
* Jim: Please include community changes and release dates in reports
[ Tiles 2015-12-16 ]
Status: Relayed.
* Brett: pursue a report for Wink
[ Wink 2015-12-16 ]
Status: not done
10. Unfinished Business
11. New Business
12. Announcements
Shane Curcuru has decided to leave IBM and is looking for another
opportunity.
13. Adjournment
Adjourned at 11:48 a.m. (Pacific)
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ATTACHMENTS:
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Attachment 1: Report from the Executive Assistant [Melissa Warnkin]
TAC:
* 10 submissions; 2 pending
* Will be preparing the "behind-the-scenes" spreadsheets shortly in
preparation for the close of application
FOSDEM
* Working with Daniel on swag; awaiting response from Sally regarding whether
the new logo will be "production ready", if not, we'll use old logo. Daniel
sourcing swag locally, I left a lot of swag from ACEU with a few folks to
carry to FOSDEM.
* Agreed Melissa will not attend, due to the cost, since there are plenty of
local volunteers
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Attachment 2: Report from the VP of Brand Management [Shane Curcuru]
Overall trademarks questions were down over the end of year holidays. A
couple of PMC requests for registration are awaiting my time to complete
review and move forward, which I will catch up on this month.
A number of different individuals and organizations have asked to produce
t-shirts and similar goods featuring Apache project logos, so I plan to
publish a formal policy outlining requirements, and broadly allowing such use
for non-profit purposes by outside parties.
The USPTO has published our HBASE, CTAKES, PDFBOX,
MANIFOLDCF, and TOMCAT registrations in the gazette, which is the final step
before the official registrations are granted.
A registration by Oracle of OPENOFFICE.ORG has finally completed in India.
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Attachment 3: Report from the VP of Fundraising [Hadrian Zbarcea]
Fundraising is continuing normally.
The bulk of the renewals happen to be in the first part of the (calendar) year
and we are in the process of talking about renewals and submitting invoices.
The revenues increased as expected, we are doing better than in the previous
months and I expect that by summer we'll be at or above the previous peak.
We also continue communication to new sponsors and there are signs that we'll
be signing on a few new sponsors in the coming months.
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Attachment 4: Report from the VP of Marketing and Publicity [Sally Khudairi]
I. Budget: we remain within budget. Sally Khudairi has negotiated an
extension and renewal to our press release distribution service
through 2017, and has also purchased a contact database subscription
as part of our clipping service. We haven't had a contact database
subscription in several years as our need was limited, but Sally
decided that we need ongoing current contacts/access to key
journalists/industry influencers, as there have been several shifts
with reporters/beats over the past few months alone which caused our
outreach emails to bounce for a while.
II. Fundraising/Branding/Marketing/ComDev liaison: Sally has reminded
those involved with the content of the ASF quarterly progress reports
that we will begin to compile updates for the upcoming Third Quarter
report (November 2015-January 2016) shortly. Sally continues to work
with Fran Lukesh of LucidWorks and Lisa Dae of HotWax Systems on the
new ASF identity system. We are working hard to wrap up the core
elements in time for FOSDEM, where we are hoping to publicly debut the
new logo.
III. Press Releases: no formal announcements were issued via the
newswire service, ASF Foundation Blog, or announce@apache.org during
this timeframe:
IV. Informal Announcements: 6 items were published on the ASF
"Foundation" Blog, and 17 items were tweeted on @TheASF. 5 Apache News
Round-ups were issued, with a total of 70 weekly summaries published
to date. No new videos have been added to the ASF YouTube channel.
V. Future Announcements: two announcements remain 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: whilst the number of actual media requests were
somewhat average (9 this month), the volume produced as a result was
quite high, stemming from the types of outlets seeking to engage with
the Apache community, as well as the range of topics covered. In
addition, we have had nearly continuous requests for
stories/interviews after every announcement and/or blog post published
to our dedicated media/analyst list. In addition, we've noticed a
recent uptick in our international media coverage due to an Asian
outlet covering nearly every technical item posted on the
announce@apache.org list. The ASF received 960 press clips over this
time period, vs. last month's clip count of 840.
In addition, due to our increased media presence and activities, Sally
is considering reinstating the media/analyst trainings offered during
ApacheCon, with the possibility of holding two different beginner
level sessions (one for podlings in the Incubator, the other for
established TLPs or sub-projects), as well as an intermediate or
advanced session as well. She will be following up with the Linux
Foundation team to see what options might be considered.
VI-a. Public Relations: in response to the number of non-media-related
phone calls received regarding non-media-but-Apache-product-related
queries Sally has been exploring options for an ASF-dedicated phone
line, as well as a more detailed/visible "help" page on apache.org. No
further progress has been made on this over the past month.
VII. Analyst Relations: we received an analyst fact-checking query
over the holidays, and were able to successfully respond within their
deadline. Apache was mentioned in 15 reports by Gartner (including 4
Magic Quadrant reports), 4 reports by Forrester, 5 reports by 451
Research, and 10 reports by IDC.
VIII. ApacheCon liaison: no formal activities are planned at this
time, other than helping promote the CFP and Travel Assistance
deadlines.
IX. (Non-ASF) Industry Events and Outreach liaison: no formal
activities are taking place at this time.
X. Newswire accounts: we now have 52 pre-paid press releases with
NASDAQ GlobeNewswire through the end of 2017, due to the just-signed
service extension to the current contract. We also 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]
Things were quieter this month than normal, largely due to holidays.
General Activity:
=================
- Added new nodes to our LDAP cluster for more robustness, starting work on
adding LDAP load balancers to prevent abusing specific nodes.
- Work continues on moving machines from our old VM boxes to our new provider,
as well as formalizing existing setups (cinfig mgmt etc).
- GitHub organisational changes were applied, in order to continue with the
exploratory MATT project. Committers can now be automatically added and/or
removed from GitHub teams depending on LDAP affiliation and MFA settings.
- 120 JIRA tickets created, 156 resolved
Uptime Statistics:
==================
Continuing the positive trend since November, we are very pleased to report that
uptime across all SLA segments for this reporting cycle was above the famous
'three nines', and the overall uptime - when using the same number of decimal
places as most service providers - was at a marvelous 100.0%. That is not to say
we did not have our share of service glitches - in fact we had quite a few - but
the duration of these (a few minutes each) were too insignificant to budge the
total uptime figure.
In order to compare better with places using various decimal place settings, we
have tweaked our SLA page to accept this setting as an argument, thus:
http://status.apache.org/sla/?1 will show uptime as XX.Y% whereas
http://status.apache.org/sla/?3 will show it as XX.YYY% etc.
There are still places that we cannot or do not yet monitor, more specifically
various components in whimsy - mostly due to access restrictions -, and we are
in talks with people from the Whimsy project about utilizing a new status page
for our monitoring.
Whimsy Github Experiment
=====================
We've done some work around MATT (Merge All The Things -
http://matt.apache.org) and are relatively happy with the workflow around
definitively identifying Github and Apache accounts and merging them.
(Our process allows for folks to sign into their Github account and the Apache
account and confirm the other.
That work has been followed up with some automation work so that:
We can create groups on the fly, automagically populate them from
group membership in LDAP(predicated upon the person identifying their
Github ID with MATT), and then grant them commit access if they have MFA
(Multi-factor authentication) enabled. We've decided, at least for the time
being to mandate MFA - as we have no visibility into authn failures or other
auth attacks, and the MFA ability grants us better security than we have on
our own hosted repositories. (Currently ~1/2 of Whimsy committers do not
have commit access to the repository because they have not enabled MFA.)
We still have work today on the Github experiment, mainly around the
automation of pushes back to an ASF copy of the repositories.
We should have more to report on this front next month.
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Attachment 6: Report from the Apache Travel Assistance Committee [Nick Burch]
Things are progressing on track for Vancouver. Applications will close just
after Speaker notifications go out, to give Speakers the change to apply if
they realise they'll need help once accepted. That still gives us a fair bit
of time to get the word out.
Application numbers so far are tracking similar to previous events. However,
we are hoping that the newly launched "TAC Stories" (featuring interviews
with past TAC Recipients) will help raise interest and awareness. We'll be
working with Sally and the LF to help use these shortly.
Christofer Dutz (as past TAC recipient) has recently joined the committee,
and is helping with Vancouver. We've always more to do if other volunteers
turn up though!
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Attachment 7: Report from the VP of W3C Relations [Andy Seaborne]
In December, there was a charter extension request for the HTML Media
Extensions Working Group; a significant part of the extension is work on
Encrypted Media Extensions.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation canvased support for a formal objection
with charter modifications requiring all participants agree to conditions
that allow security researchers (and others) to circumvent technology for
protecting copyright.
The Foundation is not represented on the ongoing working group.
The ASF response to the charter extension expressed support for the
principle of free security research and open source implementation, but did
not support the formal objection nor the mechanism proposed.
Sergio Fernández has joined The Tourism Structured Web Data Community
Group. This is the first time ASF is represented so ASF has signed the
community group agreement.
Andy Seaborne has joined the CSV on the Web Community Group. This is the
first time ASF is represented so ASF has signed the community group
agreement.
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Attachment 8: Report from the Apache Legal Affairs Committee [Jim Jagielski]
Relatively slow month. Some minor questions asked and answered on
the legal lists. Currently working a just-recently-discovered license
non- compliance issue related to a fork of one of our projects. Our
pro-bono counsel has been contacted regarding review of our bylaws, and
proposed changes (if necessary) to clarify how to apply "two-thirds
majority" when counting votes. As a reminder, currently we use the
'two thirds of cast votes' majority interpretation.
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Attachment 9: Report from the Apache Security Team Project [Mark J. Cox]
Given recent issues with some teams neglecting security reports, the
team has started going back over older reports and ensuring they have
been handled by the respective PMCs. One issue affecting Ranger
Policy Admin server was allocated CVE-2015-5167 but after 5 months our
requests to private@ranger.incubator.apache.org for updates have not
been responded to. Raising this for board attention.
Stats for Dec 2015:
2 Support question
11 Phishing/spam/proxy/attacks point to site "powered by Apache" or Confused
user due to Android licenses
3 Direct Vulnerability report to security@apache.org
3 [affecting web sites]
15 Vulnerabilities reported to projects
1 [cloudstack, via security@cloudstack]
6 [tomcat, via security@tomcat]
3 [httpd, via security@httpd] (one not ASF issue)
1 [aoo site, via security@openoffice]
2 [aoo, via officesecurity@lists.freedesktop.org]
2 [aoo, via security@openoffice]
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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.
No new committers have been added since the previous report, nor have
there been new releases. We are excited to have a new pre-commit build
for Accumulo using Yetus.
Releases
Version 1.6.4 was released on 10/3/2015.
Activity
The number of subscribers to the user list increased by 2 to 397 and the
number of subscribers to the dev list increased by 5 to 230. Mailing lists
remain active.
In the past 3 months, there have been 170 commits to the master branch
from 8 authors, 2 of whom are not yet committers.
Versions 1.7.1 and 1.6.5 will likely be released soon, with 150 of 164
and 41 of 44 issues fixed for those versions, respectively.
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 (oct-dec) months: 40 msgs
(previous 3 months: 19 msgs)
* Commits for last 3 (oct-dec) months: 0
(previous 3 months: 10)
Activity:
* Upgraded the build to the latest Bndtools version.
* Some discussions about performance, how to upload artifacts to ACE,
how to commit changes automatically and how associations work.
Notes:
1. 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;
2. The release cannot be created just yet because of some dependencies on
other projects (Apache Felix) that are not released yet.
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Attachment C: Report from the Apache ActiveMQ Project [Bruce Snyder]
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Attachment D: Report from the Apache Airavata Project [Suresh Marru]
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:
The community has been active but was understandably slow towards end
of the year. This is typical. We expect to see activity on mailing list
raise back in new year.
## Health report:
Past few years have seen high activity around GSOC time frames. We expect
that will happen again this year.
PMC members Marlon Pierce and Suresh Marru are teaching a class based on
Apache Airavata. We hope the class will spur additional users and assist in
directly inject new committers or indirectly simplifying contributors
on-boarding process and shepherding starter tasks.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 20 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Supun Nakandala on Mon May 18 2015
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 29 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Hasini Gunasinghe at Mon Aug 10 2015
## Releases:
One release is made during this reporting period. We expect to
follow a release strident of at least one release per quarter,
hopefully one every 6 weeks.
- 0.15 was released on Fri Dec 04 2015
## Mailing list activity:
- users@airavata.apache.org:
- 105 subscribers (up 9 in the last 3 months):
- 81 emails sent to list (40 in previous quarter)
- dev@airavata.apache.org:
- 143 subscribers (up 11 in the last 3 months):
- 110 emails sent to list (180 in previous quarter)
- issues@airavata.apache.org:
- 19 subscribers (up 4 in the last 3 months):
- 269 emails sent to list (364 in previous quarter)
- architecture@airavata.apache.org:
- 72 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months):
- 0 emails sent to list (0 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 29 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 87 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment E: Report from the Apache Archiva Project [Olivier Lamy]
## Description:
Apache Archiva software is an extensible repository management tool that
helps taking care of your own personal or enterprise-wide build artifact
repository.
## Issues:
there are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity:
- Small number of bug fixed.
## Health report:
- Low activity at the moment.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 8 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Jean-Baptiste Onofre on Fri Jul 11 2014
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 20 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Sascha Vogt at Mon Jul 14 2014
## Releases:
- Last release was 2.2.0 on Mon Mar 02 2015
## Mailing list activity:
- users@archiva.apache.org:
- 232 subscribers (down -2 in the last 3 months):
- 19 emails sent to list (18 in previous quarter)
- dev@archiva.apache.org:
- 103 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 38 emails sent to list (5 in previous quarter)
- notifications@archiva.apache.org:
- 13 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 40 emails sent to list (16 in previous quarter)
- issues@archiva.apache.org:
- 37 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months):
- 29 emails sent to list (36 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 5 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 3 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment F: Report from the Apache Aries Project [Jeremy Hughes]
## Description
Apache Aries delivers a set of pluggable Java components enabling an
enterprise OSGi application programming model.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity:
- 12 releases since the last report in November.
- Aries added to the Sonar analysis on analysis.apache.org
- A good flow of contributions via GitHub.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 38 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Jean-Baptiste Onofre on Fri Apr 10 2015
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 49 committers.
- Sam Bratton was added as a committer on Mon Dec 21 2015
## Releases:
- Aries Subsystems Bundle (subsystem-bundle) 2.0.8 2015-11-30
- Aries Subsystem API (subsystem-api) 2.0.8 2015-11-30
- Aries Subsystem Core (subsystem-core) 2.0.8 2015-11-30
- Aries SPI-Fly (spi-fly) 1.0.8 2015-12-12
- Aries JPA (jpa) 2.3.0 2015-12-16
- Aries Transaction Blueprint (transaction-blueprint) 2.1.0 2015-12-16
- Aries Blueprint Maven Plugin (blueprint-maven-plugin) 1.2.0 2015-12-16
- Aries Blueprint Parser (blueprint-parser) 1.4.0 2015-12-18
- Aries Blueprint Core (blueprint-core) 1.5.0 2015-12-18
- Aries Blueprint Spring Support (blueprint-spring) 0.1.0 2015-12-18
- Aries Blueprint Spring Extender Support (blueprint-spring-extender)
0.1.0 2015-12-18
- Aries JPA Container 1.0.3 2015-12-21
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@aries.apache.org:
- 136 subscribers (up 4 in the last 3 months):
- 824 emails sent to list (533 in previous quarter)
- user@aries.apache.org:
- 233 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
- 98 emails sent to list (29 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 72 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 74 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment G: Report from the Apache Attic Project [Henri Yandell]
## Description:
- The Attic is where projects slumber when their communities fade away.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- One project move to the Attic was completed (Shindig). Deltacloud remains
mostly done with Git aspects needing completing. Ryan Baxter's help
moving Shindig to the Attic was very much appreciated.
## Health report:
- Not perfect - i.e. the Deltacloud retirement remained incomplete. Otherwise
quiet with not a lot pressing to do this quarter, as shown by the lower
mailing list activity.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 20 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Hervé Boutemy on Sat Jul 18 2015
## Mailing list activity:
- general@attic.apache.org:
- 36 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months):
- 32 emails sent to list (135 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 2 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 1 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment H: Report from the Apache Avro Project [Tom White]
Apache Avro is a cross-language data serialization system.
== Issues ==
There are no board-level issues at this time.
== Community ==
Since the last board report in October, 34 Jira issues were filed and 27
resolved, roughly in line with the last period. Mailing list activity
is up slightly at over a hundred messages total per month.
Matthieu Monsch was added as a new committer this month (January 2016).
No new PMC members have been added since August 2015.
== Releases ==
There have been no releases this quarter. Avro 1.7.7 was released in July
2014. We are still in the process of releasing 1.8.0 after addressing a number
of blocking issues from a third release candidate.
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Attachment I: Report from the Apache Bloodhound Project [Gary Martin]
Project Description
===================
Apache Bloodhound is a software development collaboration tool, including
issue tracking, wiki and repository browsing
Issues
======
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 is extremely low, as evidence from email lists show.
For this to be addressed, we need a concerted effort to get committers
talking on the dev list again to see who has time to help progress the
project and build enthusiasm for continuing.
Recent developments do include a prospective GSoC student enquiring as
to whether we would be a suitable project which is fantastic. It is not
clear whether we would be suitable for such a scheme this year but the
project chair has indicated that he would make time to mentor a student if
it were deemed appropriate. In particular this should require a backup
mentor from the PMC to ensure any student project is given appropriate
attention. A decision on this from the PMC is required in a short time to
avoid prejudicing the enquiring student's chances of finding another
project.
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Attachment J: Report from the Apache Brooklyn Project [Richard Downer]
Description:
Apache Brooklyn Project is a software framework for modeling,
monitoring and managing cloud applications through autonomic
blueprints.
Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time
Activity:
- The holiday season saw a slow-down in activity, but development has
picked up again. Code is being contributed and merged at a regular
pace, and new users continue to appear on the mailing lists.
- We are moving through the post-graduation task list. Our main focus
is on migrating our source code repository; we are using the move
from incubator to TLP as an opportunity to reorganise our source code
from a single monolithic repository to a small number of repositories
focussed on distinct modules of the project. The new structure has
been collectively decided and is now in place in the single
repository; what remains is the physical split and move to the
multiple new repositories.
- As soon as the graduation tasks are complete, we aim to release a new
version (0.9.0) as soon as possible.
Health report:
- With regular code contributions and merges, new users on mailing
lists, and turnover of JIRA tickets, we are satisfied with the
health of the project (aside from the earlier observation about the
holiday season).
PMC changes:
- Currently 11 PMC members.
- No new PMC members since our last report.
- Last PMC addition was Jean-Baptiste Onofré and Olivier Lamy, who
converted their mentor status to committer/PMC member on graduation.
Committer base changes:
- Currently 11 committers.
- No new committers since our last report.
- Last committer addition was Jean-Baptiste Onofré and Olivier Lamy,
who converted their mentor status to committer/PMC member on graduation.
Releases:
- No release since last report.
- Last release was 0.8.0-incubating on 14th September 2015.
Mailing list activity:
- dev@brooklyn.apache.org:
- 94 subscribers as of 5th January
- 558 emails sent to list in December
JIRA activity:
- 14 JIRA tickets created in December
- 3 JIRA tickets resolved in December
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Attachment K: Report from the Apache Calcite Project [Julian Hyde]
## Description
Apache Calcite is a highly customizable engine for parsing and
planning queries on data in a wide variety of formats. It allows
database-like access, and in particular a SQL interface and advanced
query optimization, for data not residing in a traditional database.
As a framework, Calcite’s audience is fairly small, consisting
mainly of developers building data engines (Drill, Phoenix, Hive for
example) but also streaming engines such as Samza, and some
commercial engines using Calcite for query planning and its Avatica
JDBC layer.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- New alliances with streaming projects:
- Storm committed initial SQL support based on Calcite;
- Flink announced plans to use Calcite develop a SQL interface for
both streaming and traditional queries.
- Release schedule a bit slow due to the holidays, but 1.6 will
probably happen mid-January.
- List, JIRA, and commit activity are about above average.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 13 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 11 committers.
- New commmitters:
- Josh Elser was added as a committer on Sun Nov 08 2015
- Wei Xue was added as a committer on Sun Nov 08 2015
## Releases:
- 1.5.0 was released on Mon Nov 09 2015
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@calcite.apache.org:
- 145 subscribers (up 18 in the last 3 months):
- 493 emails sent to list (373 in previous quarter)
- issues@calcite.apache.org:
- 12 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 1170 emails sent to list (926 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 131 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 107 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment L: Report from the Apache Celix Project [Alexander Broekhuis]
## Description: OSGi framework implementation in C.
## Issues:
- there are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity:
- Preparation for next release is ongoing. An alpha tag has been created. We
are expecting a new release within two months.
- Apache Celix was presented @ ApacheCon Europe by Bjoern Petri and Pepijn
Noltes
- Code coverage significantly improved
- Configuration admin bundle added
- Dependency manager significantly improved including examples.
- Scoping support for topology manager added
- Building with address sanitizer (gcc) added.
- Coverity support added (https://scan.coverity.com/projects/apache-celix) as
well as the enabled address sanitizer build and the coverity support?
- Started using markdown files for documentation with use of github markdown
processing.
## Health report:
- Development (commits) activity is still increasing.
- Mailing activity can be higher, but is acceptable for a small community.
- Apache Celix received a lot of small contributions in the form of small
patches
## PMC changes:
- Currently 7 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Marcel Offermans on Wed Jul 16 2014
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 7 committers.
- 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:
- 55 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 41 emails sent to list (18 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 68 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 38 JIRA tickets
closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment M: 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.
## Health report:
- A new release attempts to attract new developers to participate
in Chukwa community
## PMC changes:
- Currently 12 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Grace Huang on Tue Oct 15 2013
## Releases:
- 0.7.0 was released on Mon Dec 21 2015
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@chukwa.apache.org:
- 90 subscribers (down -3 in the last 3 months):
- 135 emails sent to list (113 in previous quarter)
- user@chukwa.apache.org:
- 160 subscribers (down -3 in the last 3 months):
- 2 emails sent to list (4 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 12 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 17 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment N: Report from the Apache Continuum Project [Brent Atkinson]
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Attachment O: 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 slightly slower pace to the previous
quarter, with 19 new JIRAs being created since the previous board report
with 18 (11 new + 7 old) issues being resolved in that time. The majority of
the work on the project continues to focus on maintenance such as bug
fixes but also improvements to Scala and Spark.
A significant design and implementation effort has been underway to design
Java 8 Lambda API support.
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.
David Whiting was added as a committer on Dec 2nd, 2015.
Releases
--------
* Apache Crunch 0.13.0 was released August 5, 2015
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Attachment P: 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.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity:
During the "Holiday Quarter", development activity dropped a little bit, but
not as much as in previous years. Much of the development was centered around
the Fediz sub-project (provide WS-Federation Passive Requestor Profile and
various single sign on capabilities). We're hoping to get a release of Fediz
shortly with the additional capabilities. On CXF proper, most of the
development was around bug fixes, performance updates, and additional stuff to
support Fediz.
## Health report:
- The activity in the community is steady. Questions are answered promptly.
Issues/patches are handled fairly quickly.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 22 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Andriy Redko on Tue Sep 09 2014
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 37 committers.
- Francesco Chicchiriccò was added as a committer on Mon Nov 30 2015
## Releases:
- 3.1.4 was released on Mon Nov 02 2015
- 3.0.7 was released on Mon Nov 02 2015
- 2.7.18 was released on Tue Nov 03 2015
## Mailing list activity:
- users@cxf.apache.org:
- 1005 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
- 450 emails sent to list (557 in previous quarter)
- dev@cxf.apache.org:
- 445 subscribers (up 5 in the last 3 months):
- 182 emails sent to list (167 in previous quarter)
- notifications@cxf.apache.org:
- 29 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 798 emails sent to list (572 in previous quarter)
- jaxrs-tck@cxf.apache.org:
- 5 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months)
- issues@cxf.apache.org:
- 121 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 826 emails sent to list (892 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 121 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 93 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment Q: 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:
- Derby-10.12.1.1 was released on Sun Oct 11 2015
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Health report:
Activity in the Apache DB community remains low, but steady. Questions are
asked and answered, issues are raised and addressed, enhancements are
suggested, considered, and discussed.
In addition to activity on the Apache-provided infrastructure (mailing
lists, issue trackers, etc.), there is steady interest in Apache DB
projects on other fora (e.g., StackOverflow).
## 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
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 42 committers.
- No new changes to the committer base since last report.
## Releases:
- Derby-10.12.1.1 was released on Sun Oct 11 2015
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Attachment R: Report from the Apache Directory Project [Kiran Ayyagari]
In the last quarter two new PMC members were added and 4 new versions of
various sub-projects were released.
Voting is currently going on for adding one more committer.
Work is still going on to support cross-BTree transactions in Mavibot
and the project Kerby's source code is being peer reviewed.
A security issue(CVE-2015-5349) affecting Apache Directory Studio was
fixed and a new version of Studio was released.
--- Detailed Information ---
-- Community --
* No new committer (last previous addition: Aug 2015)
* Two new PMC members (last previous addition: April 2015)
* Colm O hEigeartaigh
* Kai Zheng
* Mailing lists:
* Users mailing list: 301 subscribers (+6)
* Development mailing list: 173 subscribers (+1)
* API mailing list: 71 subscribers (+2)
* Fortress mailing list: 27 subscribers (+4)
* Kerby mailing list: 23 subscribers (+7)
-- Current activity --
* Apache Directory LDAP API:
* Two new releases.
* Good activity
* Mainly bug fixes.
* Apache Mavibot:
* No new releases.
* Low activity
* Work is going on for supporting cross-BTree transactions.
* ApacheDS:
* One new release.
* Low activity.
* Apache Directory Studio:
* One new release.
* Good activity.
* Apache eSCIMo:
* Nil activity.
* No releases yet.
* Fortress:
* No new releases.
* Low activity.
* Apache Kerby:
* No new releases.
* Good activity, code reviewe in progress.
-- Releases --
* Two releases for Apache Directory LDAP API:
* Apache Directory LDAP API 1.0.0-M32 (October 19th 2015)
* Apache Directory LDAP API 1.0.0-M33 (December 21st 2015)
* One release for Directory Server:
* Apache Directory Server 2.0.0-M21 (December 21st 2015)
* One release for Directory Studio:
* Apache Directory Studio 2.0.0.v20151221-M10 (January 2nd 2016)
* No releases for Apache Mavibot, Apache Kerby, Fortress and eSCIMo
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Attachment S: Report from the Apache Geronimo Project [Alan Cabrera]
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Attachment T: Report from the Apache Giraph Project [Avery Ching]
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Attachment U: Report from the Apache Groovy Project [Guillaume Laforge]
## Description:
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.
## Issues:
There are no particular issue requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
There hasn’t been a new release yet since the graduation to TLP.
We are still working on automating our process further, as the current
release strategy requires too many manual steps that we fear might lead us
to release sup-optimal versions as some point.
We created a new Twitter account (@ApacheGroovy [1]) to spread news and
interesting links about the Apache Groovy project, and at the time of
writing, we’ve just passed the 1000 followers mark.
With the holidays, the mailing-list has been pretty calm, with a slowdown
in traffic on the users list, but overall there’s roughly a 10% increase
in subscribers across lists, and dev was actually more active.
## Health report:
Project activity (#mails, tickets, commits etc) are all healthy as the
project is already pretty mature. But releases need to be made more
frequently.
Downloads have been great throughout 2015, and we’ve broken our records
with 12.7 million downloads from Maven Central (8M) and Bintray (4.7M).
Although we shouldn’t read too much into such indicators as they tend to
more about buzz than actual usage, but the TIOBE programming language
index now lists Apache Groovy in its top-20, at the 17th position [2].
## PMC changes:
- Currently 9 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months.
The PMC hasn’t changed since the graduation to TLP.
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 16 committers.
- New committers since the graduation: Graeme Rocher and John Wagenleitner
- Last committer addition was Graeme Rocher at Dec 13 2015
## Releases:
- 2.4.5 was released on Sept 17 2015
- 2.4.4 was released on Jul 09 2015
- 2.4.3 was released on Mar 23 2015
## Mailing list activity:
- users@groovy.apache.org:
- 311 subscribers (up 37 in the last 3 months):
- 348 emails sent to list (494 in previous quarter)
- dev@groovy.apache.org:
- 185 subscribers (up 18 in the last 3 months):
- 457 emails sent to list (344 in previous quarter)
- notifications@groovy.apache.org:
- 24 subscribers (up 3 in the last 3 months):
- 1190 emails sent to list (1096 in previous quarter)
- issues@groovy.apache.org:
- 8 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months)
## JIRA activity:
- 109 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 112 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
[1] https://twitter.com/ApacheGroovy
[2] http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html
-----------------------------------------
Attachment V: Report from the Apache Hadoop Project [Christopher Douglas]
Hadoop is a set of related tools and frameworks for creating and managing
distributed applications running on clusters of commodity computers.
In YARN, resource-aware scheduling (YARN-1011) continues to make progress on
a branch, particularly for oversubscription and distributed scheduling.
Other areas of active development include node labels, reservations, docker
support, and the timeline server.
In HDFS, a long-awaited native client (HDFS-8707) has made progress in a
branch. Other areas include the WebHDFS protocol, truncate, erasure coding,
and intra-datanode rebalancing. Discussion on the dev list suggests that
support for erasure coding will likely be pushed from the next release, to
2.9 or 3.0.
Bug fixes and stability improvements continue to be filed and fixed in
MapReduce.
The community prepares maintenance releases (2.6.4 and 2.7.2) concurrently
with a release of the head of branch-2 as 2.8.0.
RELEASES
- 2.6.3 was released on Wed Dec 16 2015
COMMUNITY
(+ PMC Yi Liu 2015-11-09)
(+ PMC Tsuyoshi Ozawa 2015-12-09)
(+ PMC Wangda Tan 2015-12-09)
(+ PMC Akira Ajisaka 2015-12-16)
(+ PMC Robert Kanter 2016-01-12)
(+ branch-YARN-2928 Varun Saxena 2015-12-04)
(+ branch-YARN-2928 Naganarasimha 2015-12-04)
(+ branch-HDFS-8707 Stephen Walkauskas 2016-01-07)
auth: 134 committers (including branch), 64 PMC members
-----------------------------------------
Attachment W: 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
0.98.15 was released on Fri Oct 09 2015
0.98.16 was released on Mon Nov 16 2015
0.98.16.1 was released on Thu Nov 26 2015
ACTIVITY
No new PMC members added in the past three months.
Last PMC addition was Sean Busbey on March 25, 2015.
Heng Chen (chenheng) was added as a committer on Fri Nov 13 2015
HBaseCon, the yearly conference for the HBase community, will happen
again in 2016, and has been scheduled for Tuesday May 24, 2016 at The
Village on Market St. in San Francisco.
Our trademark registration application 86566462 for "HBASE" was accepted
by the USPTO for publishing for public objection. If there are no
objections our formal registration will issue in a couple of months. If
there are any unlikely objections Shane has already indicated he will
work with Apache counsel to address them.
STATS
47 committers
27 PMC
1054 subscribers to the dev list (down 11 in the last 3 months)
2303 subscribers to the user list (up 5 in the last 3 months)
500 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
421 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
-----------------------------------------
Attachment X: Report from the Apache Helix Project [Kishore Gopalakrishna]
## Description:
A cluster management framework for partitioned and replicated distributed
resources
## Issues:
- None
## Activity:
- Low. No active development.
## Health report:
- Project is stable and mature and development activity has reduced
drastically. We only work on feature requests from users.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 16 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Kapil Surlaker on Tue Dec 17 2013
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 16 committers.
- 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:
- 60 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months):
- 68 emails sent to list (113 in previous quarter)
- user@helix.apache.org:
- 84 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months):
- 22 emails sent to list (23 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 12 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 4 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
-----------------------------------------
Attachment Y: 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 48 podlings currently undergoing incubation.
The end of the year was relatively quiet for the Incubator.
* Community
New IPMC members:
- James Taylor
- Nick Kew
* New Podlings
- Fineract
- Milagro
* Releases
The following releases entered distribution during the month of
December:
- 2015-12-08 Apache Atlas 0.6-incubating
- 2015-12-09 Apache Myriad 0.1.0-incubating
- 2015-12-28 Apache Slider 0.90.2-incubating
Wave's release candidate has set a record for frustration. It was
presented to general@incubator on November 3rd 2015, and still has only
one IPMC +1 vote over two months later.
* Infrastructure
Despite the heroics of Infra, JIRA's temperamental imports have
occasionally delayed migrations for new podlings over the years.
SystemML is the latest podling to experience difficulties.
* Miscellaneous
- The Log4CXX podling has no active Mentors, but a volunteer has stepped
forward. The situation is developing.
* Credits
- Report Manager: Marvin Humphrey
-------------------- Summary of podling reports --------------------
* Still getting started at the Incubator
- Fineract
- Impala
- Kudu
- Metron
- Milagro
* Not yet ready to graduate
No release:
- Eagle
- Geode
- HAWQ
- MADlib
- Mynewt
- Rya
- S2Graph
- SystemML
- Unomi
Community growth:
- Apex
- BatchEE
- FreeMarker
- Sirona
* Ready to graduate
- DataFu
* Did not report, expected next month
- Concerted
- HORN
- ODF Toolkit
- OpenAZ
* In crisis
- log4cxx2
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Table of Contents
Apex
BatchEE
Concerted
DataFu
Eagle
Fineract
FreeMarker
Geode
HAWQ
Impala
Kudu
log4cxx2
MADlib
Metron
Milagro
Mynewt
Rya
S2Graph
Sirona
SystemML
Unomi
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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. Continue release Apex-Core, and Apex-Malhar on ongoing basis.
2. Continue grow contributors beyond the initial set.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
No issues, thanks for your support.
How has the community developed since the last report?
The community is very engaged with the development of the project.
We see continuous uptick in mailing list participation (1392 messages on
dev@ for December, 86+ subscribers).
We have seen new contributors and work to integrate with other Apache
ecosystem projects such as Geode and NiFi.
The community has been active building meetup groups in various locations:
http://s.apache.org/jKT
Meetup membership grew to ~1000 in less than 4 months
How has the project developed since the last report?
Release Malhar 3.2.0-incubating on 2015-11-16
Roadmap published on web site:
http://apex.incubator.apache.org/roadmap.html
JIRA migration completed for Core and Malhar.
Various metrics for December are as follows:
+---------------------------------------------------+
| Metric | Core | Malhar |
+---------------------------------------------------+
| Non Merge Commits | 17 | 18 |
| Contributors | 11 | 10 |
| Jira New Issues | 18 | 32 |
| Resolved Issues | 25 | 14 |
| Pull Requests merged | 8 | 16 |
| Pull Requests proposed | 5 | 18 |
+---------------------------------------------------+
We are anticipating releases for Apex Core and Malhar in January.
Date of last release:
2015-11-16 Apex (Malhar) 3.2.0-incubating
2015-10-31 Apex (Core) 3.2.0-incubating
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
1 new PPMC member and 2 committers were added in December.
PPMC and committer list was updated on the status page.
Due to omission in the incubation proposal initial committers voted to
adjust PPMC membership as per original intention. The vote result can be
found here: http://s.apache.org/jeJ
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:
Chris Nauroth:
There is a very high level of activity across mailing lists and JIRA.
Development is clearly happening in an open, collaborative way.
--------------------
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. increase the community
2. enhance the documentation
3. -
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
No
How has the community developed since the last report?
Activity on the mailing lists did increase a bit.
How has the project developed since the last report?
Several enhancement in Mojo (making it easier to use with Gradle),
several fixes and enhancements in components have been done.
Date of last release:
batchee-0.3-incubating on 2015-11-12
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
Reinhard Standtner hss been added as committer on the 2nd dec.
Signed-off-by:
[X](batchee) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
[ ](batchee) Olivier Lamy
[X](batchee) Mark Struberg
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
--------------------
Concerted
Apache Concerted is a Do-It-Yourself toolkit for building in-memory data
engines.
Concerted has been incubating since 2015-10-14.
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
Jake Farrell (jfarrell):
There has been very little activity on the mailing lists, John D. Ament
started a thread about the project's health.
Chris Nauroth (cnauroth):
+1 for concerns on lack of activity. Attempting to rally PPMC.
Julian Hyde (jhyde):
I have the same concerns about low activity level. Allegedly there is
*private* activity (re-factoring code to ready it for submission) but I
am encouraging them to show *public* activity as well.
--------------------
DataFu
DataFu provides a collection of Hadoop MapReduce jobs and functions in
higher level languages based on it to perform data analysis. It provides
functions for common statistics tasks (e.g. quantiles, sampling), PageRank,
stream sessionization, and set and bag operations. DataFu also provides
Hadoop jobs for incremental data processing in MapReduce.
DataFu has been incubating since 2014-01-05.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Grow user and contributor base
2. Increased committer activity
3. Continued 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?
* No new activity in the community since the last report.
How has the project developed since the last report?
* Apache DataFu 1.3.0 source release completed, which is the first release
since entering the Incubator. DataFu 1.3.0 was also released to Maven.
* Website (http://datafu.incubator.apache.org/) has been updated with
instructions on how to use the source release or artifacts from Maven.
Date of last release:
* 2015-11-14
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
Signed-off-by:
[ ](datafu) Ashutosh Chauhan
[X](datafu) Roman Shaposhnik
[x](datafu) Ted Dunning
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
Roman Shaposhnik (rvs):
The community appears to be in the final stretch before graduation,
hopefully there's enough critical mass for it to happen.
--------------------
Eagle
Eagle is a Monitoring solution for Hadoop to instantly identify access to
sensitive data, recognize attacks, malicious activities and take actions in
real time.
Eagle has been incubating since 2015-10-26.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Build the momentum with the community.
2. Create an apache release.
3. Work with the community on a roadmap and clarify the vision.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
Nothing urgent at this moment.
How has the community developed since the last report?
1. We have submitted papers and applied to conferences. We worked with
other open source projects like Siddhi, Apache Ranger during December.
2. Dev community showed increasing interests. In Dec, there have been 878
messages on dev@ mailing list. It is an increase of 30% mom. With more
quality discussions around integration, features and release process.
3. There were increased participation in the dev mailing list pertaining
to new feature development and roadmap.
There was a request from the community about the roadmap and clear picture
of the vision. We have published the first roadmap to the community and
are working on it.
How has the project developed since the last report?
1. Main features/improvements added include:
a) EAGLE-53 Finalized the docker image by fixing few bugs and scripts.
b) EAGLE-32 Worked on creating a generic monitoring framework.
c) EAGLE-47 Policy audit module
d) Bug fixes & documentation improvement
2. 47 new JIRAs filed, 30 resolved (In Dec 2015)
3. 30 code commits (In Dec 2015)
Date of last release:
None
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
None
Signed-off-by:
[X](eagle) Owen O'Malley
[X](eagle) Henry Saputra
[X](eagle) Julian Hyde
[X](eagle) P. Taylor Goetz
[X](eagle) Amareshwari Sriramdasu
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
Julian Hyde (jhyde):
Activity on the dev list is healthy and trending upwards.
--------------------
Fineract
Fineract is an open source system for core banking as a platform.
Fineract has been incubating since 2015-12-15.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Push the initial source code to Apache
2. Inform the non-technical part of the existing Mifos.org community of
the change in project structure
3. Getting new committers up to speed on Apache processes and philosophy
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
None, currently.
How has the community developed since the last report?
The project just has started. All members of the initial community are
taking their first steps into the Apache Way. The larger Mifos.org
community is still operating as it was before, and is a mix of 'clients'
who use the platform and services provided by Mifos.org and partners who
leverage more on the platform and extend on it. Most partners have already
been involved and informed about the plans to become an Apache project,
most of whom are part of the current Fineract Apache community.
How has the project developed since the last report?
This is the first report.
Date of last release:
N/A
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
Given the early state and missing code base, no additional commiters or
PMC members were elected.
Signed-off-by:
[ ](fineract) Ross Gardler
[X](fineract) Greg Stein
[X](fineract) Roman Shaposhnik
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
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
None
How has the community developed since the last report?
We have one new committer who works on the Chinese documentation.
How has the project developed since the last report?
The web site was moved over to the Apache infrastructure, and the
freemarker.org domain was transferred to Apache too.
Preparing for the first release from ASF, issues reported by Rat were
fixed, and the build scripts were reworked to give output that conforms
the release policy and conventions.
There were a few smaller pull requests which were all reviewed and
integrated.
As a side note, there's a yet unresolved legal/policy issue (INFRA-10787)
regarding if we can use freemarker.org as the canonical domain (while it's
served from the Apache infrastructure), or we must redirect it to
freemarker.incubator.apache.org (as it is now).
Date of last release:
There was no release from the Incubator yet
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
2015-10-21 Nan Lei, committer (non-PMC)
Signed-off-by:
[X](freemarker) Jacopo Cappellato
[ ](freemarker) Jean-Frederic Clere
[ ](freemarker) David E. Jones
[ ](freemarker) Ralph Goers
[X](freemarker) Sergio Fernández
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
--------------------
Geode
Apache Geode is a distributed, in-memory database with strong data
consistency, built to support transactional applications with low latency
and high concurrency needs.
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
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 only item pending for the Alpha-1 release is completion of the
LICENSE and NOTICE file review (GEODE-610)
- The Geode Clubhouse hosted a meeting covering detailed aspects of
OQL/Querying on Geode presented by Jason Huynh. Video to be published on
YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaY2q0UlWjAgEGL7uhCLs6A)
- The new website is live and with good feedback from community, check it
out!
- The breakdown of JIRA tickets is the following:
Q3 / 2015 - 65 created, 19 resolved.
Q4 / 2015 - 342 created, 227 resolved.
Q1 / 2016 - 11 created, 6 resolved.
- There was a total of 66 pull requests on GitHub with 7 still open.
- The breakdown of the mailing lists messages for October, November and
December of 2015:
org.apache.geode.issues 2,473
org.apache.geode.commits 2,242
org.apache.geode.dev 1,247
org.apache.geode.user 169
- There are now 143 subscribers on the dev and 135 on the user mailing
lists.
- Upcoming community events in January / 2016:
- FOSDEM 2016 in Brussels:
- Taxi trip analysis (DEBS grand-challenge) with Apache Geode
(incubating)
- Big Data meets Fast Data: an scalable hybrid real-time
transactional and analytics solution
How has the project developed since the last report?
- GEODE-77 (about JGroups) got merged into develop making a release now
possible. This was a huge effort and now JGroups is treated like any
other dependency in the project allowing for easy updates when needed.
- There is Agile Dashboard tracking the release progress:
http://s.apache.org/s0v
- Builds now runs Apache RAT for license audit thanks to a Gradle plugin.
(GEODE-608)
- Jenkins nightly build now produces source and binary artifacts. Namely
apache-geode-src-1.0.0-incubating-SNAPSHOT.tar.gz and
apache-geode-1.0.0-incubating-SNAPSHOT.tar.gz
- The code for HTTP session replication and Hibernate modules are now
being merged into develop. (GEODE-14)
- The community did a squashathon (GEODE-409 branch) focusing to fix
intermitent failures on the CI with great results, increasing the number
of Unit and Integration tests. Current numbers are the following, by
category:
UnitTest: 1,572 tests
IntegrationTest: 2,571 tests
DistributedTest: 7,166 tests
Date of last release:
XXXX-XX-XX
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
N/A
Signed-off-by:
[x](geode) Konstantin Boudnik
[ ](geode) Chip Childers
[x](geode) Justin Erenkrantz
[ ](geode) Jan Iversen
[x](geode) Chris Mattmann
[ ](geode) William A. Rowe Jr.
[x](geode) Roman Shaposhnik
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
Konstantin Boudnik (cos):
For the next report: for me as a mentor (and perhaps for others on IPMC)
it is not very insightful to see the number of pull requests or JIRAs
opened. It isn't what "project development" constitutes in my mind. I
would like to see more info about how project is getting into Apache Way,
what important discussions are held, what decisions are made through
community consensus, etc.
--------------------
HAWQ
Apache HAWQ is a Hadoop native SQL query engine that combines the key
technological advantages of MPP database with the scalability and
convenience of Hadoop. HAWQ reads data from and writes data to HDFS
natively. HAWQ delivers industry-leading performance and linear
scalability. It provides users the tools to confidently and successfully
interact with petabyte range data sets. HAWQ provides users with a complete,
standards compliant SQL interface.
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. Expand the community, increase dev list activity and adding new
contributors
3. Infrastructure migration: create Jenkins projects that build HAWQ
binary, source tarballs and docker images, and run feature tests
including at least installcheck-good tests for each commit (HAWQ-127).
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
Everything seems to be smooth, nothing urgent at this time.
How has the community developed since the last report?
1. One HAWQ Nest community meeting (topic: Data Federation with Apache
HAWQ Using the PXF Extension Framework)
Video: http://bit.ly/HAWQNest1217, Slides: http://bit.ly/HAWQNest1217ss
2. The community shows increasing activities. In Dev, there have
been 494 messages on dev@/user@, compared with 459 messages in Nov.
How has the project developed since the last report?
1. Main features/improvements added include:
a) Improve recovery performance during some exception cases (HAWQ-241,
HAWQ-232)
b) Support writable external table executing on a specified number of
virtual segment (HAWQ-293)
c) Improve HAWQ resource manager resource allocation algorithm and RPC
framework (HAWQ-234)
d) Support fault injector in 2.0 (HAWQ-288)
e) Clean up some IP and build related issues (HAWQ-277, HAWQ-186,
HAWQ-184, HAWQ-228)
f) Some key bug fixes for 2.0 Beta
2. 2.0 Beta RC2 was proposed
3. 98 new JIRAs filed, 59 resolved (In Dec 2015)
4. 82 code commits (In Dec 2015)
Date of last release:
We have not had a release yet.
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
No new committers/members from initial.
Signed-off-by:
[X](hawq) Alan Gates
[x](hawq) Konstantin Boudnik
[x](hawq) Justin Erenkrantz
[](hawq) Thejas Nair
[x](hawq) Roman Shaposhnik
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
Justin Erenkrantz:
There has been good progress on improving the licensing situation
(HAWQ-271) as well as conversations about what it means to be a
contributor (yielding
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/HAWQ/Becoming+a+committer).
All good and healthy so far.
Konstantin Boudnik (cos):
Same comment as for Geode: the report is almost copy-cut from one another
(if not in the letter, but in the spirit). Did you guys had anything worth
mentioning besides of new features and bug fixes? Like Justin mentioned
above - that what is very important for the project development.
--------------------
Impala
Impala is a high-performance C++ and Java SQL query engine for data stored
in Apache Hadoop-based clusters.
Impala has been incubating since 2015-12-03.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Resolve any issues around use of Gerrit as code-review tool.
2. Movement of existing JIRA / Git / wiki / e-mail resources to Apache
equivalents
3. Initial release as incubating project.
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?
Slowly - Impala is still in the very early stages of incubation, and
performing the mechanical tasks of code movement and infrastructure setup
is our first priority. The holiday period in the United States has slowed
this effort slightly, but we look forward to picking up pace in early
2016. There have been no additions to the committer or PMC lists since
incubation began.
How has the project developed since the last report?
We have performed some of the basic initial tasks for incubation -
establishing wiki pages, Git repositories and accounts for the initial
committer set. Our next steps are:
1. Finalize the SGA from Cloudera
2. Move existing @cloudera.org e-mail aliases to their
@impala.incubator.apache.org equivalents.
3. Move source code from Cloudera git repository to Apache git repo.
4. Improve out-of-box build and test experience so that community can
easily evaluate release artifacts.
5. Migrate cloudera.org JIRA tickets to issues.apache.org.
Date of last release:
NA
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
At the time of the Incubation vote, 2015-12-03.
Signed-off-by:
[X](impala) Tom White
[X](impala) Todd Lipcon
[ ](impala) Carl Steinbach
[ ](impala) Brock Noland
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
--------------------
Kudu
Kudu is a distributed columnar storage engine built for the Apache Hadoop
ecosystem.
Kudu has been incubating since 2015-12-03.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Move development to the Apache-hosted git repository, bug tracking, and
code review.
2. Build a more diverse development and user community
3. Perform releases under the ASF
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
None so far.
How has the community developed since the last report?
- The development community has remained about the same since the initial
proposal, with overall code contribution levels a bit lower than
historical averages due to the end-of-year holidays.
- Xiaomi reported that they are now running Kudu in a production use case
on ~70 nodes ingesting 10B rows/day. This is Kudu's first known
production use case, and we expect continuing and increasing
participation from developers at Xiaomi.
- To spread the word about Kudu, various community members have given a
number of talks over the last 6 weeks, including: Strata/Hadoop World
(Singapore), Big Data Tech Con (Beijing), Shanghai Streaming Meetup,
Korea Big Data Think Tank (Seoul), San Francisco Spark Hackers, The Hive
Big Data Think Tank (Palo Alto), Charlotte Hadoop User Group, Cloudera
World Tokyo, Big Data Warehousing Meetup (NYC), and more.
- Members of the Kudu community met up with Apache Drill contributors and
built an initial version of Kudu/Drill integration. We anticipate
further collaboration with Drill and other ASF TLPs.
How has the project developed since the last report?
This is our first report since incubation. In the past month, we've
accomplished a few milestones:
- filed an SGA as well as ICLAs for initial committers
- granted karma, created mailing lists, and subscribed mentors/committers
- updated our web site to comply with ASF branding
- filed INFRA requests to start working on git and JIRA migration
(INFRA-10959, INFRA-10983)
Progress has slowed in the second half of December due to the holiday
season, but we anticipate picking momentum back up in January.
Date of last release:
None under the ASF. Outside of the ASF, we released 0.6.0 on 11/24/2015.
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
None since initial incubation.
Signed-off-by:
[X](kudu) Jake Farrell
[ ](kudu) Brock Noland
[x](kudu) Michael Stack
[ ](kudu) Jarek Jarcec Cecho
[x](kudu) Chris Mattmann
[ ](kudu) Julien Le Dem
[ ](kudu) Carl Steinbach
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
--------------------
log4cxx2
Logging for C++
log4cxx2 has been incubating since 2013-12-09.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Activate some community
2. Create a release
3.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
Not sure if the project still has an official mentor assigned, after
Christian Grobmeier is not the chair of the Apache Logging Services
project anymore.
How has the community developed since the last report?
Not grown. However, the project aims to become a sub project of Apache
Logging again. Community growth is not much a matter for this podling, as
long as there are a few active contributors.
How has the project developed since the last report?
Not at all: There's no public development and it seems there's currently
only one originally incubating community member left. Though some support
is given and bugs are tracked.
Date of last release:
2008-04-03 was the last official, pre-incubation 0.10.0
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
Signed-off-by:
[ ](log4cxx2) Christian Grobmeier
[ ](log4cxx2) Scott Deboy
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
John D. Ament (johndament):
Project appears to be in bad shape. Even though there is activity on
the ML there is no mentor engagement.
Marvin Humphrey (marvin):
Christian Grobmeier has resigned as Mentor, and attempts to reach Scott
Deboy have not been successful. A thread was started on the general
list and there remains some interest in the podling. Bill Rowe has
volunteered to serve as Mentor provided that the contributors can rally.
--------------------
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 (incubating) release.
2. Expand the community, increase dev list activity and add new
committers/pmc members.
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?
1. Second community call held 12/18/15. On the call Roman suggested that
the MADlib community do a 1.9 alpha release in the near term. There
was general agreement and this is planned for January. A Release
Manager has not yet been identified.
2. Material technical conversations on dev mailing lists and in the
appropriate JIRAs. E.g., 51 emails on dev in Dec.
3. One new committer has been proposed and voting is under way on the
private mailing list.
4. Two comprehensive proposals were posted to the dev mailing list from
community members. One relates to the addition of geographically
weighted regression (GWR) algorithms. The second involves Bayesian
analysis of binomial response models for MPP databases, which makes
extensive use of MADlib’s new matrix operations. Both proposals are
under active discussion on the mailing list currently.
5. We have been accepted to present a full talk at FOSDEM 2016/Brussels in
the HPC, Big Data & Data Science Devroom on Jan 31. The title of the
talk is: "MADlib: Distributed In-Database Machine Learning for Fun and
Profit"
How has the project developed since the last report?
1. 5 JIRAs created and 4 resolved in last 30 days.
2. A SQL API guide has been added to the the MADlib wiki
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MADLIB/SQL+API+Guide.
Date of last release:
No release yet.
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
One new committer has been proposed and voting is under way on the private
mailing list.
Signed-off-by:
[x](madlib) Konstantin Boudnik
[x](madlib) Ted Dunning
[x](madlib) Roman Shaposhnik
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
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Metron
Metron is a project dedicated to providing an extensible and scalable
advanced network security analytics tool. It has strong foundations in the
Apache Hadoop ecosystem.
Metron has been incubating since 2015-12-06.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Building a diverse community of developers for Metron
2. Getting security practitioners to provide feedback on requirements
3. Make an Apache release
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
None.
How has the community developed since the last report?
- We added Debo Dutta as a committer
How has the project developed since the last report?
- We received a signed SGA from Cisco
- We picked our new logo
- We setup our new website
- We closed our first few Jiras
Date of last release:
No release yet.
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
2016-01-08
Signed-off-by:
[X](metron) Billie Rinaldi
[X](metron) Chris Mattmann
[X](metron) Owen O'Malley
[X](metron) P. Taylor Goetz
[ ](metron) Vinod Kumar Vavilapalli
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
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Mynewt
Mynewt is a real-time operating system for constrained embedded systems like
wearables, lightbulbs, locks and doorbells. It works on a variety of 32-bit
MCUs (microcontrollers), including ARM Cortex-M and MIPS architectures.
Mynewt has been incubating since 2015-10-20.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Do a first Apache release capable of producing a downloadable RTOS
image with support for multiple peripherals and network connectivity.
2. Develop and execute policies that enable project contributors to
achieve self-governance
3. Expand community - attract new project contributors and users, grow
committer base
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?
1. Mailing list activity since last report:
@dev 52 messages (1 Dec to 5 Jan), 1 new subscribers (20 total)
@commits 150+ messages
2. Repo is being cloned and looked at by several outside parties - need
to get all interested parties on the dev mailing list.
3. Participation on the @dev mailing list covered a range of topics
including feature implementation approaches, coding practices, website,
and documentation rules discussions.
How has the project developed since the last report?
1. Feature support: 2 new JIRA issues were created to facilitate feature
implementation and website discussions
2. Documentation support: Two new committers have started adding material
to technical documentation.
3. Effort towards community growth: We have redesigned the project website
to organize and present content more clearly and to highlight upcoming
events where the project will have exposure.
4. Effort towards self governance: Consensus reached on how a potential
contributor is accepted over time as a committer based on quality of
work.
Date of last release:
XXXX-XX-XX
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
Signed-off-by:
[ ](mynewt) Sterling Hughes
[X](mynewt) Jim Jagielski
[X](mynewt) Justin Mclean
[X](mynewt) Greg Stein
[X](mynewt) P. Taylor Goetz
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
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Milagro
Distributed Cryptography; M-Pin protocol for Identity and Trust
Milagro has been incubating since 2015-12-21.
In view of the holiday season, it has only really started this week
(Jan 4th) and is currently bootstrapping.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Import the software.
2. Sign up the developers.
3. Audit the Intellectual Property.
All fairly meaningless until the Community is live at Apache.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
n/a.
How has the community developed since the last report?
n/a.
Initial committers have been asked to sign up to the lists and submit
ICLAs.
How has the project developed since the last report?
n/a.
Date of last release:
n/a.
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
Initial Committers only.
Signed-off-by:
[ ](milagro) Sterling Hughes
[ ](milagro) Jan Willem Janssen
[+](milagro) Nick Kew
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
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Rya
Rya (pronounced "ree-uh" /rēə/) is a cloud-based RDF triple store that
supports SPARQL queries. Rya is a scalable RDF data management system built
on top of Accumulo. Rya uses novel storage methods, indexing schemes, and
query processing techniques that scale to billions of triples across
multiple nodes. Rya provides fast and easy access to the data through
SPARQL, a conventional query mechanism for RDF data.
Rya has been incubating since 2015-09-18.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Populate the website for the project
2. Expand the "how to" document to explain the ways new contributors can
become involved in the project, so we increase the size of the
community.
3. Become familiar with the release process and have a first release as
part of the Apache Foundation
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
No
How has the community developed since the last report?
* We have documented (on Confluence) and tested procedures for committers
to review and incorporate Pull Requests into the incubator-rya Apache
git repository.
* The committers are becoming much more comfortable with the Apache
infrastructure and processes. Committers have been documenting processes
on Confluence, creating Jira tickets, tying these to Rya components and
versions, and submitting and pulling in PRs to resolve these Jira
tickets.
* The Rya user community (i.e. non-committers) have begun submitting
issues through Jira and the dev list. These have become Jira tickets,
resolved by committers, and tested by the community. Specifically, the
community submitted RYA-19, RYA-17, and RYA-6. Committers resolved and
the community tested RYA-19 and RYA-17.
* Non-committers have also begun submitting PRs that have been
incorporated into the apache repo. Specifically, RYA-13 and most of
RYA-7 was done by non-committers.
* We've started logging "beginner" Jira tickets. These are issues that
we've found in Rya that a new developer could take on as a good way to
"get their feet wet" in the code base.
How has the project developed since the last report?
* We've completed adding the Apache license headers and added license
header verification to the project's build.
* Resolved a handful of issues that users have encountered.
* Committed features: Delete support for secondary indices, more efficient
* Mongo Core and Geo indexing.
* Still working on creating a website for the project.
* Working on deploying artifacts onto Maven
* Working on creating a quick-start VM for users to try out Rya.
Date of last release:
Not applicable
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
Not applicable
Signed-off-by:
[x](rya) Josh Elser
[ ](rya) Edward J. Yoon
[x](rya) Sean Busbey
[x](rya) Venkatesh Seetharam
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
Josh Elser (elserj):
Continuing to see growing activity, but not much collaboration between
reviews among committers (saw some ignored comments on pull requests).
Something to watch in the future.
--------------------
S2Graph
S2Graph is a distributed and scalable OLTP graph database built on Apache
HBase to support fast traversal of extremely large graphs.
S2Graph has been incubating since 2015-11-29.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Make a release
2. Attract users and contributors
3. Foster more and diverse committers
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
No
How has the community developed since the last report?
* Project infrastructures (i.e., jira, wiki, mailing list and git
repository) setup has been completed, and the site and the source code
are moved to the Apache infrastructure.
* All members have submitted necessary CLAs.
* SGA have submitted from Kakao.
* There have been no new committers or PPMC members elected.
* We are discussing the development workflow and the code review policy.
How has the project developed since the last report?
* We are applying ALv2 header to all files and rat-plugin to audit them.
Date of last release:
No yet
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
No
Signed-off-by:
[X](s2graph) Andrew Purtell
[x](s2graph) Seetharam Venkatesh
[X](s2graph) Sergio Fernández
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
Seeratham Venkatesh (venkatesh):
The community is bootstrapping and seeing a flurry of activities.
--------------------
Sirona
Monitoring Solution.
Sirona has been incubating since 2013-10-15.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. increase the community
2. do more releases
3. make the community more active
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
No
How has the community developed since the last report?
No change
How has the project developed since the last report?
Several fixes have been done and enhancements in instrumentation side.
Date of last release:
2015-11-18
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
Signed-off-by:
[x](sirona) Olivier Lamy
[ ](sirona) Henri Gomez
[X](sirona) Jean-Baptiste Onofre
[ ](sirona) Tammo van Lessen
[ ](sirona) Mark Struberg
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
--------------------
SystemML
SystemML provides declarative large-scale machine learning (ML) that aims at
flexible specification of ML algorithms and automatic generation of hybrid
runtime plans ranging from single node, in-memory computations, to
distributed computations such as Apache Hadoop MapReduce and Apache Spark.
SystemML has been incubating since 2015-11-02.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Grow SystemML community: increase mailing list activity,
increase adoption of SystemML for scalable machine learning, encourage
data scientists to adopt DML and PyDML algorithm scripts, respond to
user feedback to ensure SystemML meets the requirements of real-world
situations, write papers, and present talks about SystemML.
2. Core library improvements, including Apache Spark integration.
3. Produce a release
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
The community has been blocked by INFRA-10714 since November.
Beginning Jan 6th, we are manually updating the missing fields in JIRA so
that we can properly manage project issues and delegate issues to new
users to grow our community.
How has the community developed since the last report?
Users have asked several excellent questions on the dev list, and existing
committers are actively helping these users. The project is receiving pull
requests from contributors, committers have discussed these pull requests
with their contributors, and contributions have been merged into the
project. Matthias Boehm has presented talks regarding the SystemML
Optimizer at TU Dresden, HTW Dresden, and TU Berlin. Fred Reiss presented
a talk on Dec 8th.
How has the project developed since the last report?
Numerous core library improvements have been made to project. Additional
documentation has been created to help new users. The test suite has been
refactored to increase maintainability and performance. Contributions have
been made by non-IBM contributors. We are developing our 2016 roadmap,
as seen in the "[DISCUSS] Project Roadmap" thread on the mailing list at
<http://s.apache.org/9hK>.
Date of last release:
NONE
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
NONE
Signed-off-by:
[x](systemml) Luciano Resende
[ ](systemml) Patrick Wendell
[ ](systemml) Reynold Xin
[ ](systemml) Rich Bowen
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
--------------------
Unomi
Unomi is a reference implementation of the OASIS Context Server
specification currently being worked on by the OASIS Context Server
Technical Committee. It provides a high-performance user profile and event
tracking server.
Unomi has been incubating since 2015-10-05.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Improve documentation on the website
2. Make some incubating releases
3. Grow the community size and diversity.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
None
How has the community developed since the last report?
We got feedbacks from users and interested people. A good sign is that the
1.0.0-incubating release has been voted by people outside of the initial
committer set (even if the release vote didn't pass).
How has the project developed since the last report?
We did improvement on the website, and on the code. Our focus was on Unomi
1.0.0-incubating release. Unfortunately, a couple of issues (missing src
assembly especially) blocked the vote. We are fixing those issues to
submit a take 2 on 1.0.0-incubating release.
Date of last release:
Unomi 1.0.0-incubating has been proposed to vote, but due to a couple of
issue it has been declined. We are working to submit a take 2 on
1.0.0-incubating.
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
None
Signed-off-by:
[X](unomi) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
[ ](unomi) Bertrand Delacretaz
[X](unomi) Roman Shaposhnik
[X](unomi) Chris Mattmann
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
-----------------------------------------
Attachment Z: Report from the Apache Isis Project [Dan Haywood]
## Description:
Apache Isis is a framework for rapidly developing domain-driven apps in Java.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity:
Since the last report we have made two releases, Apache Isis 1.10.0 [1] and
Apache Isis 1.11.0 [2]. This is in line with a desire to push out new
features on a more frequent basis (every 6 to 8 weeks is the intention).
The mailing list activity is steady, with the number of new subscribers
continuing to increase steadily.
## Health report:
Project activity (#mails, tickets, commits etc) are all healthy. Part of
this is because more frequent releases (two in this reporting period)
generates additional "traffic" as a side-effect.
We note that the automated scoring has downgraded us from "healthy" to
"mostly healthy". This would seem to be primarily on account of no new
committers/PMC members since Dec 2014. In the Isis PMC we are not unduly
worried; our user base is increasing and from that we expect to invite new
committers in the fullness of time.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 11 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Martin Grigorov on Tue Dec 23 2014
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 11 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Martin Tzvetanov Grigorov at Thu Dec 11 2014
## Releases:
- 1.11.0 was released on Sat Jan 02 2016
- 1.10.0 was released on Tue Nov 10 2015
## Mailing list activity:
- users@isis.apache.org:
- 151 subscribers (up 17 in the last 3 months):
- 537 emails sent to list (343 in previous quarter)
- dev@isis.apache.org:
- 75 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months):
- 862 emails sent to list (437 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 85 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 95 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
[1] http://isis.apache.org/release-notes.html#r1.10.0
[2] http://isis.apache.org/release-notes.html#r1.11.0
-----------------------------------------
Attachment AA: Report from the Apache James Project [Eric Charles]
## Description:
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:
- Work on HTTP access to mailbox has been started based on JMAP Specification
(http://jmap.io/spec.html)
- Sieve integration into the mail server has been further implemented.
- Cassandra, Guice injection and docker files have been polished.
- Discussion on distributed event architecture is ongoing.
## Health report:
- No new committer has been voted.
- Pull requests on Github from contributors have been accepted.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 14 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Peter Palaga on Sun Jul 22 2012
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 36 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Matthieu Baechler at Tue Oct 06 2015
## Releases:
- No new release.
## Mailing list activity:
- server-dev@james.apache.org:
- 193 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 802 emails sent to list (612 in previous quarter)
- mailet-api@james.apache.org:
- 93 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 8 emails sent to list (0 in previous quarter)
- general@james.apache.org:
- 188 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 6 emails sent to list (0 in previous quarter)
- mime4j-dev@james.apache.org:
- 69 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 7 emails sent to list (5 in previous quarter)
- server-user@james.apache.org:
- 426 subscribers (up 4 in the last 3 months):
- 20 emails sent to list (37 in previous quarter)
- site-dev@james.apache.org:
- 37 subscribers (up 4 in the last 3 months):
- 3 emails sent to list (2 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 42 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 47 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
-----------------------------------------
Attachment AB: Report from the Apache jclouds Project [Ignasi Barrera]
A cloud agnostic library that enables developers to access a variety of
supported cloud providers using one API.
Project Status
--------------
Likely related to the holiday period, activity around jclouds and,
specifically, development of the existing code has been relatively quiet over
the past quarter. That being said, there have been a number of recent
questions from new users expressing interest in developing custom cloud
providers, which is a welcome sign of ongoing interest and engagement in the
project. The core community has also continued to be very responsive to
questions from users.
Community
---------
We are also having discussions about how to grow the committer base. Due to
the nature of the project it is difficult to find people interested in more
than one provider or in several areas of the project. We are having
discussions to effectively mitigate this and to allow the community to grow
faster and better. Regarding this there is a committer candidate under the
radar.
There are currently 11 PMC members and 22 committers.
* Last committer: 2014-08-01 (Chris Custine)
* Last PMC member: 2015-09-20 (Zack Shoylev)
Community Objectives
--------------------
* Finally determine the scope and complete the features for jclouds 2.0.0.
* Encourage and supervise, where necessary, new contributors to grow the
committer base.
Releases
--------
The last jclouds release, 1.9.2, took place on Sat Jan 16 2016.
-----------------------------------------
Attachment AC: Report from the Apache Jena Project [Andy Seaborne]
## Description:
Jena is a framework for developing Semantic Web and Linked Data
applications in Java. It provides implementation of W3C standards for RDF
and SPARQL.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity:
The Jena 3.0.1 release happened in the usual "6 months-ish" cycle following
the major release of 3.0.0 at the end of July. The release included new
contributed components, one contributed from the developer community, one
resourced as a GSoC project.
## Health report:
Mailing list and JIRA activity is at normal levels.
Most incoming contributions are now coming via github pull requests.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 11 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Osma Suominen on Fri Jun 26 2015
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 13 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Osma Suominen at Thu Jun 25 2015
## Releases:
- 3.0.1 was released on Mon Dec 14 2015
## Mailing list activity:
- users@jena.apache.org:
- 616 subscribers (up 17 in the last 3 months):
- 465 emails sent to list (578 in previous quarter)
- dev@jena.apache.org:
- 150 subscribers (down -2 in the last 3 months):
- 1446 emails sent to list (1053 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 66 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 59 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
-----------------------------------------
Attachment AD: Report from the Apache JMeter Project [Sebastian Bazley]
## Description:
Pure Java application for load and functional testing
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity:
The project continues to work on improving the product. We are hoping to make
the next release soon.
The JMeter Twitter account has 2337 followers as of 8th Jan 2016. This is
about 180 more than at the time of the previous report (October)
We recently incorporated a substantial donation of code from UbikLoadPack for
generating reports. This was processed via the Incubator IP clearance
process.
## Health report: There is steady progress on fixing bugs and implementing
enhancements.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 7 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Felix Schumacher on Tue Feb 03 2015
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 11 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Deepak Shetty at Wed Jul 29 2015
## Releases:
- Last release was 2.13 on Sat Mar 14 2015
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@jmeter.apache.org:
- 138 subscribers (up 4 in the last 3 months):
- 525 emails sent to list (203 in previous quarter)
- issues@jmeter.apache.org:
- 40 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 438 emails sent to list (293 in previous quarter)
- user@jmeter.apache.org:
- 806 subscribers (up 5 in the last 3 months):
- 218 emails sent to list (393 in previous quarter)
It's possible that the reduced user mailing list participation is partly due
to increased activity on places like StackOverflow.
## Bugzilla Statistics:
- 85 Bugzilla tickets created in the last 3 months
- 95 Bugzilla tickets resolved in the last 3 months
-----------------------------------------
Attachment AE: Report from the Apache JSPWiki Project [Juan Pablo Santos]
## Description:
A feature-rich and extensible WikiWiki engine built around the standard
JEE components (Java, servlets, JSP).
## Issues:
- Although almost no dev activity on this quarter (see below), we think
there are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- Almost no SVN activity this quarter.
- Release 2.10.2 blocked due to developers' lack of time on the project,
(due to being developed on a free-time basis) holidays, etc., but
should be doable on this quarter.
- No questions unattended/unanswered on MLs.
## Health report:
- Although there hasn't been almost any development activity this quarter,
we don't think there's reason to concern: Project is stable / mature
with a slow pace of development, plus there's enough people to oversee
the project (vote on releases, answer questions, etc.).
- Activity is expected to be picked up once we release 2.10.2.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 10 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was David Vittor on Fri Jan 23 2015
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 15 committers.
- 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:
- 86 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months):
- 40 emails sent to list (132 in previous quarter)
- user@jspwiki.apache.org:
- 177 subscribers (up 5 in the last 3 months):
- 29 emails sent to list (27 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 4 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 3 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment AF: Report from the Apache Kylin Project [Luke Han]
## Description:
===============
Apache Kylin is an open source Distributed Analytics Engine designed
to provide SQL interface and multi-dimensional analysis (OLAP) on
Hadoop supporting extremely large datasets.
## Issues:
==========
- there are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity:
============
- ASF announced Apache Kylin to TLP on Dec 8, 2015
- Mailing list, JIRA, and commit activity are at or above average.
- We are working on release v2.0-Beta
- Requested international trademark registration
- Jason Zhong presented Kylin at Big Data Technology Conference
2015, Beijing, China on Dec 12, 2015
- NetEase published their use case at their tech blog
- Baidu Map published their use case at InfoQ
## Community:
=============
- 3 committers and 0 PMC members appointed after last report.
- Messages on the dev mailing list after last report: 556
- Messages on the user mailing list after last report: 118
- 109 JIRA tickets created after last report
- 120 JIRA tickets closed/resolved after last report
## Releases:
============
- The last release was v1.2 on Dec 15, 2015
-----------------------------------------
Attachment AG: Report from the Apache Lucy Project [Marvin Humphrey]
## Description:
The Apache Lucy search engine library provides full-text search for
dynamic programming languages.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring Board attention at this time.
## Activity:
New maintenance releases (0.4.3) for both the Lucy search engine library
and the Clownfish symbiotic object system are currently being voted on.
The long-awaited 0.5.0 releases draw near, which will add experimental Go
bindings and significantly expand the visible surface area of Clownfish.
## Health report:
The situation remains stable, with major ongoing contributions from two
people and occasional participation from other long-standing community
members. It would be better if the upcoming releases draw some attention
and new blood.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 13 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Timothy Wilkens on Sun Sep 14 2014
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 14 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Tim Wilkens at Fri Sep 26 2014
## Releases:
- Last release was 0.4.2 on Tue Dec 16 2014
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@lucy.apache.org:
- 57 subscribers (down -2 in the last 3 months):
- 98 emails sent to list (52 in previous quarter)
- user@lucy.apache.org:
- 89 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
- 15 emails sent to list (4 in previous quarter)
- issues@lucy.apache.org:
- 22 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 40 emails sent to list (71 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 0 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 1 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
-----------------------------------------
Attachment AH: 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.
Activity:
Apache Mahout 0.11.1 was released on Nov 6, 2015. This release supports
Spark 1.4+ and has major performance improvements for vector and matrix
operations.
Sebastian Schelter presented the new Mahout distributed linear algebra
framework at Flink Forward, Berlin On October 12, 2015. [1]
Present activity is restricted to finalizing the Flink - Mahout integration
which would be Mahout 1.0 release and to bolster the performance of the
backend linear algebra by rebasing the code with alternate native
implementations.
PMC changes:
- Currently 14 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Stevo Slavić on Tue Apr 21 2015
Committer base changes:
- Currently 25 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Anand Avati at Thu Apr 23 2015
Releases:
- Mahout 0.11.1 was released on Fri Nov 06 2015
Issues:
Decline in the project user and developer base over the past 2 years, in large
part due to the availability of competing Machine Learning libraries with very
active developer teams backed by organizations.
Its hard to sustain a Machine Learning project on voluntary basis with no
dedicated resources and yet be relevant with changing times and increasing
competition.
In the past, there was some promise of dedicated resources from organizations
but nothing promising enough.
JIRA activity:
- 22 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 35 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uh92PK0K0mA
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Attachment AI: 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.
* Activity
* 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).
To fulfill this, we needed to release several shared components with the
same requirements which will be used within the plugins.
* We did a yearly Jira issues cleanup, following the same process as the
cleanup done in september: with the same "3-years without update" limit,
this time we closed ~120 issues (600 in september), and got feedback only
on a few issues. Then these issues were worked on with reporter's help and
fixed. This makes us think that the process gives us what we expected:
ability to efficiently close orphan issues and detect issues that still
have users active interest.
* On behalf of the Apache Maven team, Jason van Zyl has become a member of
the Java Platform Module System (JSR 376) expert group: see
http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jigsaw/spec/
* Prepations for adopting JDK9 Jigsaw have started.
* Health Report
We have a few new committers and PMC members, replacing people becoming less
active over time: the team is slowly rotating at every level.
Even if Maven is stable, we have many Jira issues opened against our many
sub-projects (Maven core, 46 plugins and their dependencies), more than what
the current team can triage and fix, with or without active help from initial
reporters: that's why yearly Jira cleanups, if not perfect, is the best
solution we have found to focus our work. We expect to do such cleanup each
year unless stats show that it's not useful any more (which is unlikely since
some users tend to report issues but not give reproducible test cases or
required explanations when asking for more details).
* Community
* PMC changes
* Michael Osipov joined the PMC on 2015-10-21
* Igor Fedorenko joined the PMC on 2015-10-21
* Andreas Gudian joined the PMC on 2015-11-22
- Currently 25 PMC members.
* Committers changes
* Christian Schulte was added on 2015-12-09
- Currently 56 committers.
* Mailing List activity
- users@maven.apache.org:
- 1772 subscribers (down -6 in the last 3 months)
- 445 emails sent to list (617 in previous quarter)
- dev@maven.apache.org:
- 644 subscribers (down -2 in the last 3 months)
- 1140 emails sent to list (1027 in previous quarter)
- notifications@maven.apache.org:
- 175 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months)
- 1387 emails sent to list (946 in previous quarter)
- announce@maven.apache.org:
- 686 subscribers (up 6 in the last 3 months)
- 21 emails sent to list (9 in previous quarter)
- issues@maven.apache.org:
- 243 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months)
- 2981 emails sent to list (2668 in previous quarter)
- commits@maven.apache.org:
- 147 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months)
- 886 emails sent to the list (616 in the previous quarter)
* JIRA activity:
- 339 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 531 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
* Releases
Core
* Maven 3.3.9 (2015-11-15)
Plugins
* Maven Surefire Plugin 2.19 (2015-10-18)
* Maven Clean Plugin 3.0.0 (2015-10-19)
* Maven Shade Plugin 2.4.2 (2015-10-28)
* Maven JDeps Plugin 3.0.0 (2015-10-29)
* Maven PMD Plugin 3.6 (2015-12-17)
* Maven Surefire Plugin 2.19.1 (2016-01-03)
* Maven Shade Plugin 2.4.3 (2016-01-10)
Other
* Maven Shared Components parent POM 22 (2015-11-03)
* Maven Shared Filtering 3.0.0 (2015-11-10)
* Maven Shared Mapping 3.0.0 (2015-11-19)
* Maven Common Artifact Filter 3.0.0 (2015-12-01)
* Maven Shared IO 3.0.0 (2015-12-23)
* Maven File Management 3.0.0 (2015-12-25)
* Maven JAR Utilities 1.2 (2015-12-31)
-----------------------------------------
Attachment AJ: 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 and contributors continues to grow. The community has
bi-weekly meetings as well as a handful of working groups that are
addressing specific components. We are starting to prepare for a 2-3
different MesosCons this year (Denver, Europe, and China). We're also
planning on doing a 1.0 release in the coming months.
## Releases ##
* 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)
* Apache Mesos 0.26.0 (2015-12-10)
## PMC/Committership ##
No new committers or PMC members were added in November or December,
but we have a handful of candidates that the community is currently
proposing. The last added members:
* 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
YP.com.
* The community is generally happy with our new monthly release
cadence, but it has made backwards compatibility trickier to
negotiate (although, see below, 1.0 release will help).
* The community would like to do our 1.0 release. Vinod Kone, a long
time PMC and committer member will be acting as a project manager
for this release.
* We're preparing for multiple MesosCon's this year organized by the
Linux Foundation. The first is planned for Denver June 1-2,
2016. Final dates and location for Europe have not been
secured. We're also investigating doing one in China as there are
some large users and a community developing there.
* A new member in the community is Nvidia, who is working on adding
GPU support to Mesos.
-----------------------------------------
Attachment AK: 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:
Apache MINA 2.0.10 has been released on December 16th, 2015. It addresses
mainly performance and concurrent related problems.
Apache MINA SSHD is about to release 1.1.0 in the next fews days.
## 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-François Maury on Mon Apr 07 2014
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 26 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Lyor Goldstein at Thu Apr 30 2015
## Releases:
- Apache MINA 2.0.10 was released on Wed Dec 16 2015
## Mailing list activity:
- users@mina.apache.org:
- 498 subscribers (down -3 in the last 3 months):
- 78 emails sent to list (108 in previous quarter)
- dev@mina.apache.org:
- 358 subscribers (down -6 in the last 3 months):
- 597 emails sent to list (344 in previous quarter)
- ftpserver-users@mina.apache.org:
- 138 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 1 emails sent to list (5 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 57 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 53 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
-----------------------------------------
Attachment AL: Report from the Apache MRUnit Project [Brock Noland]
## Description:
Apache MRUnit is a Java library that helps developers unit test Apache
Hadoop map reduce jobs.
## Issues:
- The PMC Chair is looking for other PMC members to take the role
## Activity:
- Nearly zero due to few people changes in the MR API
## Health report:
- MRUnit still has many users but the API we build on is not changing
it might be time to move to the attic.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 12 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was James Robert Kinley on Tue Sep 18 2012
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 15 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Mac Noland at Tue Feb 10 2015
## Releases:
- Last release was 0.9.0 on Tue May 01 2012
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@mrunit.apache.org:
- 40 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months):
- 8 emails sent to list (8 in previous quarter)
- user@mrunit.apache.org:
- 79 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 4 emails sent to list (2 in previous quarter)
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Attachment AM: 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:
- Apache Myfaces Core is healthy and in maintenance mode. There have been
some delays in applying patches this quarter, but it eventually happened.
UI-Component Sets:
- Apache Tobago is healthy and active.
- Apache Trinidad continues to have issues opened. I continue to encourage
contributions by having issue reporters submit fixes for their own issues as
we have no active developers. We are planning a release within the next month
to pick up changes made by contributors up to this point, and Leonardo has
successfully went through the release process to verify it still works.
- Myfaces Tomahawk is in maintenance mode and has had very little activity
this quarter. 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.
- 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.
- Two new PMC members have been added.
## Community changes:
- Currently 76 committers and 42 PMC members.
- Last committer addition was Thomas Andraschko at Thu Jul 02 2015
- Last PMC additions were Bill Lucy and Thomas Andraschko on Fri Jan 15 2016
## Releases:
- Apache Tobago 3.0.0-alpha-1 was released on Tue Nov 10 2015
- Apache Myfaces Core 2.2.9 was released on Tue Dec 15 2015
- Apache Tobago 3.0.0-alpha-2 was released on Sun Dec 20 2015
## Mailing list activity:
- users@myfaces.apache.org:
- 747 subscribers (down -5 in the last 3 months):
- 20 emails sent to list (10 in previous quarter)
- dev@myfaces.apache.org:
- 312 subscribers (down -4 in the last 3 months):
- 285 emails sent to list (291 in previous quarter)
- tck@myfaces.apache.org:
- 20 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months)
- notifications@myfaces.apache.org:
- 111 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months):
- 0 emails sent to list (0 in previous quarter)
- announce@myfaces.apache.org:
- 269 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months):
- 0 emails sent to list (0 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 39 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 49 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment AN: 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.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- Released NiFi 0.4 with extensive stability and feature enhancements.
- Upcoming NiFi releases will provide important features frequently
requested and discussed by the community and as found on feature proposals
in the NiFi Wiki. Discussion of moving toward a 1.0 release are underway.
- Members of the NiFi community have created new or improved integrations
with several Apache projects including HBase, Kafka, Avro, Flink, and Apex.
## Health report:
- Activity on mailing lists, JIRA, Git remains strong.
- During the last review cycle the PMC has grown and a newly formed
committer tier has been established.
- The pipeline for people progressing toward committer and/or PMC status
is highly encouraging.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 13 PMC members.
- One new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Sean Busbey on Wed Nov 25 2015
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 17 committers.
- New commmitters:
- Joe Percivall was added as a committer on Mon Dec 14 2015
- Sean Busbey was added as a committer on Wed Nov 25 2015
- Toivo Adams was added as a committer on Tue Nov 03 2015
- Ricky Saltzer was added as a committer on Wed Oct 21 2015
- Michael W Moser was added as a committer on Sun Oct 18 2015
## Releases:
- nifi-0.4.1 on Wed Dec 23 2015
- nifi-0.4.0 on Mon Dec 14 2015
## Mailing list activity:
- users@nifi.apache.org:
- 200 subscribers (up 66 in the last 3 months):
- 726 emails sent to list (343 in previous quarter)
- dev@nifi.apache.org:
- 203 subscribers (up 37 in the last 3 months):
- 1413 emails sent to list (968 in previous quarter)
- commits@nifi.apache.org:
- 37 subscribers
## JIRA activity:
- 324 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 215 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
-----------------------------------------
Attachment AO: 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 1.11 was released on Dec 06 2015.
CURRENT ACTIVITY
Issues
- 62 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 47 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
A vote about moving from svn to git is in process. Last November
this option has been discussed with positive response.
COMMUNITY
Michael James Joyce was added as committer and PMC on Nov 08 2015.
The traffic on the mailing lists is at a steady level:
- dev@nutch.apache.org:
- 552 subscribers (down -15 in the last 3 months):
- 818 emails sent to list (954 in previous quarter)
- user@nutch.apache.org:
- 1114 subscribers (down -5 in the last 3 months):
- 259 emails sent to list (183 in previous quarter)
-----------------------------------------
Attachment AP: 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.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- We've made progress with preparing the next release, migrated some fixes
from the development branch to the release branch. We're feature complete
with the current release and release preparation is in progress.
## Health Report:
- ODE is very mature and stable, however the interest in BPEL has decreased
significantly. Thus ODE's development is currently pretty much in
maintenance mode. We're ironing out technical debt and making sure
that our codebase campground is clean, supporting our users with answers
and fixes.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 15 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Rafal Rusin on Wed Oct 01 2014
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 26 committers.
- No new changes to the committer base since last report.
## Releases:
- Last release was 1.3.6 on Sat Oct 12 2013
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@ode.apache.org:
- 155 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 38 emails sent to list (101 in previous quarter)
- user@ode.apache.org:
- 225 subscribers (down -3 in the last 3 months):
- 33 emails sent to list (24 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 6 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 3 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
-----------------------------------------
Attachment AQ: Report from the Apache Onami Project [Nino Martinez Wael]
Onami is moving to the Attic, see resolution 7B
-----------------------------------------
Attachment AR: Report from the Apache OpenJPA Project [Pinaki Poddar]
-----------------------------------------
Attachment AS: Report from the Apache OpenMeetings Project [Maxim Solodovnik]
## Description:
Video conferencing, instant messaging, white board and collaborative
document editing application.
## Issues:
- there are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity:
- We are currently working on our next version 3.1.0, we planning to release
it in the beginning of 2016, We are planning to invite additional PMC member.
## Health report:
- We are observing increase of emails in dev@ list due to new version is being
prepared, and decrease of emails in user@ list due to holidays, more issues are
being closed since the release is almost ready
## PMC changes:
- Currently 22 PMC members.
- Keiji Ono was added to the PMC on Mon Oct 12 2015
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 24 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Ono Keiji at Thu May 28 2015
## Releases:
- Last release was 3.0.7 on Sat Sep 26 2015
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@openmeetings.apache.org:
- 139 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 177 emails sent to list (129 in previous quarter)
- user-russian@openmeetings.apache.org:
- 27 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months):
- 25 emails sent to list (18 in previous quarter)
- user@openmeetings.apache.org:
- 323 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 261 emails sent to list (482 in previous quarter)
- user-espanol@openmeetings.apache.org:
- 60 subscribers (up 6 in the last 3 months):
- 40 emails sent to list (76 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 43 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 49 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment AT: Report from the Apache OpenOffice Project [Dennis E. Hamilton]
DESCRIPTION
===========
Apache OpenOffice is an open-source, office-document productivity
suite providing six productivity applications based around the
OpenDocument Format (ODF). OpenOffice is released on multiple
platforms and in dozens of languages.
STATUS
======
The Project succeeded with maintenance release 4.1.2 on October 28.
This is a significant milestone and the first release in 14 months.
Warning signs around sustainability and disconnects across the
community are being brought gradually and gingerly to community
attention.
ISSUES FOR BOARD AWARENESS
==========================
The Board needs to be aware of Activity concerns and Sustainability
warning signs reported/reviewed in the Issues sections, below.
RELEASES
========
Release 4.1.2 was approved on October 26 and announced as available on
2015-10-28. In addition, Java UNO tools for Maven, jar files of AOO 4.1.2
components for independent usage, were distributed on 2015-12-21.
Complete Release History
2015-10-28 4.1.2
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
------------------------
Non-4.1.2-release-blocker issues and some anticipated features were
retargeted to a subsequent Apache OpenOffice release in order to
accelerate release of 4.1.2.
Improvements for performing unit testing have been introduced by
introducing Google Test in place of cppunit. Some finalization
is needed to have the changes work for Windows builds.
There is not yet any action plan or staging for releases beyond
October's 4.1.2. There are no projected release dates.
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 origin and as brought to Apache, however much
the limited downstream use of the code base is also desired and
supported.
As evidence of that importance, by 2015-12-31, binary installers
of previous release 4.1.1 had been downloaded 48.1 million times.
Of these,
87.7% were for Windows
8.9% were for Macintosh
3.4% were for all other distributions, including Linux
For 4.1.2 binaries, since release at the end of October until
2015-12-31, there are 7.7 million downloads, now continuing at
about 1 million per week, with
87.5% for Windows,
8.1% for Macintosh, and
4.4% for all other distributions
Although US destinations have the greatest number of downloads
by nationality, that represents only 15% of the total for this
highly-international project.
That overwhelmingly defines the community of next-in-line adopters
of Apache OpenOffice software.
PMC/COMMITTERS
==============
The practice of welcoming new PMC/committer members on the dev list
dropped out and has been restored.
PMC
---
The AOO PMC consists of 27 individuals as of 2015-12-31. Gavin
McDonald joined the PMC and Peter Junge retired in the October-
December quarter.
18 have remained continuously out of the
23 from TLP formation in October, 2012.
9 are new or returned PMC members
7 of the current PMC are Apache Software Foundation
Members, including the original Chair
2015-10-18 Gavin McDonald (gmcdonald) joined the PMC
2015-10-08 Damjan Jovanovic (damjan) joined the PMC
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
2015-10-18 Peter Junge (pj) retired
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/vji>.
Committers
----------
There are 140 committers as of 2015-12-31. Twenty-four have registered PGP
keys. Don Lewis became a committer in the October-December quarter.
2015-12-04 Don Lewis added
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
The recognition and invitation of potential committers is improving and
expected to continue.
ISSUES
======
With the positive movement seen in this quarter, some issues linger.
It is slow going identifying obstacles and bringing them before the entire
community for its wisdom in identification of consensus-based direction.
Recent progress is owed to heroic efforts on the part of a small group.
We must find a way to not have that as the only way of operating,
burning out devoted contributors. The inevitability of turnover is
worrisome.
Governance
----------
ACTION ITEM: Following the October 2015 Board Meeting, considering the
general lack of energy and resources reported, the AOO PMC was
requested to report plans for informing the public on current
difficulties and risks to the project.
STATUS: The PMC has not addressed the action item. The Chair has made
an initial few [RISK? ...] posts on the dev@ list to bring individual
cases to general-community attention. There are mixed results.
NEXT STEPS: Continue identifying risks and issues of capacity and
capability on the public lists to provide a grounded discussion on the
state of the project in the community.
Development
-----------
PREVIOUSLY: Chair was to 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.
STATUS: Preparation for short-cycle releases and controlled changes,
such as code-signing and straightforward maintenance, has no alignment
on the PMC. There is concern that this will distract from achieving a
feature release.
NEXT STEPS: Take the concerns to the dev@ community for discussion there.
RESOURCE ISSUES: The buildbot for Windows binaries has not
made a successful build since since 2015-07-28. This has limited QA
testing and patch testing. There is risk of regressions from changes that
are developed and successfully applied to Linux builds, the primary tool
active developers.
CAPACITY CONCERNS. Based on the crunch to release AOO 4.1.2, it is clear
that 5-6 developers, all on the PMC, completely held together the release
and deployment of AOO 4.1.2. While there are important contributions from
many others on and off the PMC, without those five the release would not have
happened when it did.
The involvement of QA volunteers was limited.
There are also limitations around having enough PMC members provide
builds from source corresponding to the different configurations that are
supported.
Community
---------
PREVIOUSLY: Misalignment in the connection and support from developers
all the way to end-users via lists, forums, and bugzilla was raised as a
concern. The incoherence in where fixes are focused versus where usability
is an issue are part of that concern.
STATUS: This has been raised among the different subgroups with modest
success. Some do not see a problem.
NEXT STEPS: Continue to cultivate this issue. Downgrade from an issue for
board attention.
ISSUE CLEARANCE AND TECHNICAL DEBT. The handling of issues is how the cycle
of improvement from developers to users to developers is demonstrated.
The tabulation of bugzilla issue growth has been completed to the end
of 2015. The rate at which issues remain unresolved continues to be in
excess of 40%. The overall tabulation is at <http://s.apache.org/YFT>.
A qualitative analysis is at <http://s.apache.org/SNg>.
NOTE: There is a strenuous objection to the use of "technical debt" in
the analysis of unresolved-issue accrual.
KEY CONCERN: No matter how the tracking and understanding of these issues
improves, there does not appear to be developer capacity for addressing
very many of them. This may discourage further defect reporting and
diminish user confidence in their reliance on the software.
Previous Sustainability Concerns
--------------------------------
CUSTOM IT SUPPORT. A project member has taken over the maintenance
of the MediaWiki software. The Forum services are running successfully.
This is no longer an issue.
RELEASE MANAGEMENT. A new Release Manager provided AOO 4.1.2. The ability
to train others in managing releases is not fully established and resources
for the different builds are strained. Improvement is expected to continue.
NEXT STEPS: Continued attention.
SKILL DEVELOPMENT. Exploring engagement with companies that might
have a strategic reason for contributing skills to the project has
not been fruitful.
Although there are occassional newcomers wanting to work on the project,
the learning curve is very steep, especially for Windows development. It is
not unusual for new volunteers to disappear after a short time.
On the bright side, three students are now being mentored by a senior
developer.
NEXT STEPS: Continued attention, improve the Windows situation.
COMMITTER/PMC AVAILABILITY. As of 2015-10-20, all 140 committers have updated
their passwords since the previously-required reset. It remains to determine
what committers/PMC are still subscribed to the dev/private lists. In any
case, most of the 140 are not regulary involved.
NEXT STEPS: Promote more active contributors as committers, assess
capacity for development more closely.
INFRASTRUCTURE ISSUES.
PREVIOUSLY 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.
STATUS: The Forum and Wiki systems are maintained by a project member
and the procedures are documented for use by others.
NEXT STEPS: None.
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Attachment AU: Report from the Apache ORC Project [Owen O'Malley]
## Description:
A high-performance columnar file format for Hadoop workloads.
## Issues:
- We really need a release, which is blocked by wanting to get the Java
reader and writer moved out of Hive.
## Activity:
- Progress continues on moving the Java reader and writer out of Hive. We've
created the ORC module in Hive and moved the API, utilities and writer into
it. We are currently cleaning up some of the ORC APIs before Hive 2.0.0
gets released. The final bits to move over to the ORC module will be the
reader. Once the reader is moved over, the entire module can be moved to
the ORC project.
## Health report:
- The activity level is relatively low. The C++ reader works and is stable.
There continues to be user interest in reading and writing ORC files
outside of Hive.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 6 PMC members.
- Aliaksei Sandryhaila was added to the PMC on Wed Nov 18 2015
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 12 committers.
- No new changes to the committer base since last report.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was more than 2 years ago
## Releases:
- No release has been made yet.
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@orc.apache.org:
- 23 subscribers (up 3 in the last 3 months):
- 29 emails sent to list (37 in previous quarter)
- user@orc.apache.org:
- 24 subscribers (up 4 in the last 3 months):
- 30 emails sent to list (21 in previous quarter)
- issues@orc.apache.org:
- 13 subscribers (up 3 in the last 3 months):
- 73 emails sent to list (63 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 5 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 3 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment AV: 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:
All changes required by Apache Drill have been merged into Apache Parquet,
getting Drill off of its Parquet fork. Releases are ongoing to allow Drill
to upgrade its dependencies. Several efforts are ongoing to improve
vectorized reads from Java and C++ They involve collaboration of several
organizations. Communication is happening in JIRA
## Health report:
We have now a rotation to have someone responsible for answering JIRAs and
emails each week. Level of ticket creation and resolution is about the
same, keeping opened tickets to a reasonable amount. Typically user
activity shows up in the user lists of other projects depending on parquet
(drill, impala, presto, spark, ...)
## PMC changes:
- Currently 21 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Alex Levenson on Tue Apr 21 2015
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 23 committers.
- New commmitters:
- Cheng Lian was added as a committer on Wed Dec 02 2015
- Sergio Peña was added as a committer on Wed Dec 02 2015
## Releases:
- Parquet-Format 2.3.1 was released on Thu Dec 17 2015
- Parquet-mr 1.9.0 in preparation
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@parquet.apache.org:
- 147 subscribers (up 17 in the last 3 months):
- 466 emails sent to list (396 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 40 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 36 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment AW: Report from the Apache PDFBox Project [Andreas Lehmkühler]
## Description:
The Apache PDFBox library is an open source Java tool for
working with PDF documents.
## Issues:
- there are no issues requiring board attention at this time"
## Activity:
- we are planning to release the third and hopefully last RC of PDFBox very
soon
- as there are a lot of fixes for the 1.8 branch we are going to release a
bugfix version of the 1.8 branch as well
- joining forces with Tim Allison from Apache TIKA to run some bulk tests
(analyzing ~250k of pdfs using different of versions of PDFBox) is a huge help
in many ways
- compare 2.0.0 with 1.8.x (benchmarks as well as comparing results)
- determine regressions
- observe memory footprint/performance
- find pdfs using rare features/combination of features which are unsupported
by PDFBox
## 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
- after releasing two RCs of the next major version more people show their
interest in PDFBox (see the increased number of subscribers to users@)
## 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
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 16 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was John Hewson at Fri Feb 07 2014
## Releases:
- 1.8.10 on Jul 22 2015
- 2.0.0 RC1 on Oct 19 2015
- 2.0.0 RC2 on Nov 22 2015
## Mailing list activity:
- users@pdfbox.apache.org:
- 543 subscribers (up 41 in the last 3 months):
- 451 emails sent to list (535 in previous quarter)
- dev@pdfbox.apache.org:
- 147 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months):
- 3260 emails sent to list (2871 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 175 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 163 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment AX: Report from the Apache Rave Project [Matt Franklin]
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Attachment AY: Report from the Apache REEF Project [Markus Weimer]
## Description:
Apache REEF (Retainable Evaluator Execution Framework) is
a scale-out computing fabric that eases the development of Big Data
applications on top of resource managers such as Apache YARN and Mesos.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity:
- Due to the holidays, Activity has been light since the last report
in December.
- The community is working towards release 0.14, the first release
since graduation.
- We have closed on most of the post-graduation work items.
## Health report:
- The mailing list and development is satisfying, considering the
season.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 21 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 30 committers.
- There were two committers added that somehow fell through the cracks
during graduation:
- Andrew Chung was added as a committer on Sun Dec 06 2015
- Dhruv Mahajan was added as a committer on Tue Dec 15 2015
## Releases:
- No release since last report.
- 0.14 is planned to be released in February, with a feature freeze at
the end of January.
- 0.13 was released on Tue Oct 13 2015
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@reef.apache.org:
- 43 subscribers (up 6 in the last 3 months):
- 1841 emails sent to list (2586 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 286 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 212 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
-----------------------------------------
Attachment AZ: Report from the Apache Samza Project [Chris Riccomini]
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Attachment BA: Report from the Apache Sqoop Project [Jarek Jarcec Cecho]
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 is primarily on sqoop2 branches, but there is still
considerable number of bugfixes on trunk branch
* A total of 196 issues have been resolved last 3 months
* In the past three months, a total of 99 messages were exchanged on the
user list and a total of 2103 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 475 subscribers to the user list
- Total of 171 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 BB: Report from the Apache Stanbol Project [Fabian Christ]
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Attachment BC: Report from the Apache Steve Project [Daniel Gruno]
## Description:
Apache STeVe is Apache's Python based voting system that the Foundation uses
to handle things like voting in our new Board of Directors.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring much board attention at this time. As stated
below, we are in a state of trying to find our footing, but at present,
it is not something that the board need to concern themselves with,
unless they wish to help out in a personal capacity.
## Activity:
This quarter has been one of some soul searching within the PMC, kicked off by
a thread by the former VP asking whether it would make sense to disband the
PMC and merge the project with the Whimsy PMC. While this did not gain enough
traction to make it to any formal vote or the likes, it did shine some light
on the difficulties of 'seasonal projects' like STeVe, where the community can
seem quite dead for large periods of time. There were some follow-ups asking
for more participation, and we did manage to vote in a new committer to help
with the project.
## Health report:
While the project can be considered as being in hiatus between annual member
meetings, the above mentioned call for a new committer did manage to garner
votes from 5 PMC members, proving that we still have the 3x+1 needed to have
an active PMC. We continue to monitor the state of the community as we
approach the usual busy period around March/April.
On a more personal note, I will likely be reaching out to the ASF membership
and seek people to help us test and improve the pySTeVe branch of our project.
It is my belief that getting a release out at some point will help our
visibility and grow our community, but we are in need of people to test and
report back with their findings.
Compared to previous quarter, the email flow picked up relatively well, albeit
still not much.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 8 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Rich Bowen on Mon Apr 20 2015
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 9 committers.
- Pierre Smits was added as a committer on Tue Dec 15 2015
## Releases:
- No releases yet.
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@steve.apache.org:
- 20 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months):
- 47 emails sent to list (4 in previous quarter)
- user@steve.apache.org:
- 13 subscribers (up 3 in the last 3 months):
- 1 emails sent to list (0 in previous quarter)
- issues@steve.apache.org:
- 12 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 14 emails sent to list (0 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 7 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 1 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment BD: 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 no releases in the last quarter. Last GA release was
* Struts 2.3.24.1 - security fix release (2015-09-15)
Given this was the holiday season, we saw rather vivid development and
feedback activity within the reporting period. Work on Struts 2.5 keeps
moving forward, with a BETA 3 soon to be published. 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 have currently three security reports under investigation. Progress
on these non-critical issues went rather slow, with Apache Security team
having to remind us that these issues are quite long-standing now. Two
of these issues seem to be finally fixed now, with announcements and an
improved solution to come up with the next Struts 2.3 GA release,
expected to arrive very soon. Thanks to Mark Thomas for his very
valuable help on analyzing one of these issues and giving advice on how
to improve on it. We made progress with the third issue as well.
We continue to receive high quality contributions by non-committers via
our GitHub mirror and issue tracking. This includes not only drive-by
patches, but also, and more importantly, continued involvement by
various individuals. We keep monitoring them as they might qualify for
committership addition.
Aleksandr Mashchenko (amashchenko) was added as new committer effective
2015-10-23.
No new PMC members have been added in the last quarter. Last PMC
addition was on 2015-05-12.
We have no issues that require board assistance at this time.
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Attachment BE: Report from the Apache Synapse Project [Hiranya Jayathilaka]
Apache Synapse is a high performance, flexible, lightweight
Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and a mediation framework.
Community
=========
No new committers or PMC members were nominated this quarter. Latest
Synapse committer was elected on December, 2013. Latest Synapse PMC
member was elected on December, 2013.
Releases
========
There have been no new releases during this period.
The last release of Synapse is version 2.1, which was released on
January, 2012.
Board Issues
============
Over the past few years the community interest towards Synapse has
been dwindling, with a considerable decline in the number of commits
and the mailing list traffic. For instance, we haven't had any commits
or meaningful mailing list conversations over the last reporting period.
Right now it is only myself (PMC chair) who is even reasonably active
on the project, with occasional contributions coming from Andreas Viethen
in the way of basic code maintenance. And with myself gettig occupied
with academic work, the project is almost at a standstill.
I would personally like to do one more release before we terminate the
project, but without a compatible Axis2 release this is not possible.
I personally don't have time to contribute towards an Axis2 release,
and the other Synapse committers haven't stepped in to make any
contributions either. Given these conditions I don't believe there's
any point in trying to keep the project alive.
I have already initiated a discussion on the Synapse PMC list about
retiring the project. This thread was opened on 12th of January, and
it hasn't garnered a single response as of today -- 6 days later. I
think this sums up the current level of interest towards the project.
I will now go ahead and call for a vote to retire the project, and
kick off the procedure to move the Synapse into Attic. I intend to
send the corresponding resolution to the board by next month's
board meeting.
-----------------------------------------
Attachment BF: Report from the Apache Tajo Project [Hyunsik Choi]
## Description:
Tajo is an open source big data warehouse system in Hadoop for
processing web-scale data sets.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
We are preparing the meetups in SF bay area and LA in USA in Jan 2016.
We will have 5 meetups in SF bay area and LA for Jan. Also, we are preparing
the minor release 0.10.2, which is the bug fix release.
## Health report:
Project activity (#mails, tickets, commits etc) are all healthy.
We periodically release minors and major versions. The response
and questions in mailing list are resolved quickly. Bugs
reported by users are being resolved quickly.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 15 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Hyoung Jun Kim on Sun Dec 07 2014
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 19 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was DaeMyung Kang at Thu Sep 17 2015
## Releases:
- Last release was 0.11.0 on Tue October 27 2015
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@tajo.apache.org:
- 97 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
- 20 emails sent to list (55 in previous quarter)
- user@tajo.apache.org:
- 47 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months):
- 98 emails sent to list (26 in previous quarter)
- issues@tajo.apache.org:
- 27 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 2741 emails sent to list (4698 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 121 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 140 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment BG: Report from the Apache Tapestry Project [Howard M. Lewis Ship]
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Attachment BH: Report from the Apache Tcl Project [Massimo Manghi]
## Description:
- Apache Tcl is an umbrella for Tcl-Apache integration efforts.
Currently Apache Tcl has Rivet as only active subproject.
## Activity:
- A new artifact of rivet was released (2.2.4) and a new version
(2.3.0) is about to be ready. Development continues for the code
in trunk at a slow but constant pace. More efforts are under way
to document the new mod_rivet design
- As stated in the October report we discontinued Websh.
Since Websh was a subproject we didn't move it to the Attic, we
just put a banner on the web pages and asked infra to delete the
development mailing list.
## Issues:
- There are no relevant issues requiring board attention at
this time.
## Health report:
- We can't be dismissive about the issue concerning the health of
the project. Even though most PMC members are voting each release we
basically have real commits from one contributor (myself).
In our last report I stated we had intention to start a campaign to
recruit more contributors but I failed to do so. We are discussing
a document with a list of topics on which we may attract attention
from the Tcl developers community. As soon as this chart is ready we
will make it public hoping to stir some interest
## PMC changes:
- Currently 10 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Brice Hamon De Crevecoer on Tue Nov 25 2014
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 15 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Brice B. Hamon at Tue Nov 25 2014
## Releases:
- rivet-2.2.4 was released on Sat Dec 05 2015
## Mailing list activity:
- rivet-dev@tcl.apache.org:
- 48 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 46 emails sent to list (65 in previous quarter)
- site-cvs@tcl.apache.org:
- 6 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 55 emails sent to list (20 in previous quarter)
## Bugzilla Statistics:
- 1 Bugzilla tickets created in the last 3 months
- 4 Bugzilla tickets resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment BI: 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.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- There is healthy dev activity continuing. Work continues on the 0.7.x
and 0.8.x lines with a vote in progress for 0.8.2 currently ongoing.
- There is a dev branch for work ongoing to refactor the UI for a
newer version of ember.
- There is also work ongoing to create a release with binary artifacts
for easier consumption.
- There were discussions initiated to rotate the Project Chair with
consensus forming around a single candidate. The vote has yet to be
formalized and a new resolution will likely be made for next month’s
board meeting.
## Health report:
- There were over a 100+ JIRAs resolved during the past 3 months.
- Most of the work on 0.7.x is mainly related to stability and bug fixes.
- The main community focus is on the 0.8.x line which will form the basis
for the Hive 2.x release for their LLAP based implementation.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 32 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Jeff Zhang on Sat May 30 2015
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 34 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Sreenath at Wed May 13 2015
## Releases:
- Last release was 0.8.1-alpha on Sun Oct 11 2015
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@tez.apache.org:
- 144 subscribers (down -5 in the last 3 months):
- 320 emails sent to list (227 in previous quarter)
- issues@tez.apache.org:
- 52 subscribers (down -2 in the last 3 months):
- 2079 emails sent to list (2932 in previous quarter)
- user@tez.apache.org:
- 181 subscribers (up 6 in the last 3 months):
- 106 emails sent to list (229 in previous quarter)
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Attachment BJ: Report from the Apache Thrift Project [Jake Farrell]
Thrift is a framework for providing cross-platform RPC and serialization.
Project Status
---------
The Thrift community continues to see consistent growth with submissions
from new contributors for bug fixes and client library improvements. A
lot of focus has has been going into our cross library test coverage and
progress has been made on our next release candidate which we hope to
have it available before the end of this month. The Thrift PMC has also
added a new committer, Nobuaki Sukegawa.
Community
---
Latest Additions:
* PMC addition: Randy Abernethy, 7.31.2015
* Contributor addition: Nobuaki Sukegawa, 10.13.2015
Issue backlog status since last report:
* Created: 165
* Resolved: 190
Mailing list activity since last report:
* @dev 2465 messages
* @user 127 messages
Releases
---
Last release: 0.9.3, Release Date: Oct 6, 2015
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Attachment BK: Report from the Apache Tika Project [Dave Meikle]
What is Tika?
=========================
Apache Tika is a dynamic toolkit for content detection, analysis, and
extraction. It allows a user to understand, and leverage information from, a
growing a list over 1200 different file types including most of the major
types in existence (MS Office, Adobe, Text, Images, Video, Code, and science
data) as recognised by IANA and other standards bodies.
Issues
=========================
There are no issues that need the boards attention.
Releases
=========================
The 1.11 release of Tika was made in October 2015[1], improving MIME type
support and adding a parser for GROBID (GeneRation Of BIbliographic Data
Discussions). Work has also started on the 2.X stream.
Community
=========================
The Tika PMC added Bob Paulin as a committer and PMC member in September 2015.
Mailing list activity on dev@ was at 170, 185 and 136 messages in Nov, Dec and
Jan 2015/16, respectively. user@ was at 9, 3 and 6 messages, during the same
timeframe.
[1] http://s.apache.org/TDD
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Attachment BL: Report from the Apache Tomcat Project [Mladen Turk]
## Description:
A Java Servlet, JavaServer Pages, Java WebSocket and Java
Unified Expression language specifications implementation.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity:
- Continued healthy activity across multiple components and
responsiveness on both dev and user lists.
- We have released a first milestone release of the current
development branch (Tomcat 9.0.x).
- We have started a regular Webinar series - one every two weeks.
We do each Webinar twice (to try and cover as much as the world
as possible) and make a recording available on YouTube.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpqpJ0-G1lYfUBQ6_36Au_g
Is is early days and we are still experimenting with various
technical and organisational options to figure out what works best.
- We have also started to gather known recordings of Tomcat related
presentations on the project website.
http://tomcat.apache.org/presentations.html
- We are keeping a closer eye on our Twitter account and making sure
we announce releases, Webinars etc via Twitter as well as the
usual mailing lists.
- Apache Tomcat Native project (a connector implementation for
Tomcat based on APR/OpenSSL) development focus has switched to
version 1.2.x, with the first 1.2.0 release in October 2015,
up to 1.2.4 several days ago.
## Health report:
- TODO - Please use this paragraph to elaborate on why
the current project activity (mails, commits, bugs etc) is at its current
level.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 24 PMC members.
- New PMC members:
- Felix Schumacher was added to the PMC on Mon Oct 26 2015
- Martin Grigorov was added to the PMC on Mon Oct 26 2015
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 40 committers.
- New commmitters:
- Ognjen Blagojević was added as a committer on Fri Oct 23 2015
- Martin Tzvetanov Grigorov was added as a committer on Tue Oct 27 2015
## Releases:
- Apache Tomcat 9.0.0.M1 (alpha) was released on Thu Nov 19 2015
- Apache Tomcat 8.0.30 was released on Sat Dec 05 2015
- Apache Tomcat 8.0.29 was released on Tue Nov 24 2015
- Apache Tomcat 8.0.28 was released on Mon Oct 12 2015
- Apache Tomcat 8.0.27 was released on Thur Oct 01 2015
- Apache Tomcat 7.0.67 was released on Wed Dec 09 2015
- Apache Tomcat 7.0.65 was released on Sun Oct 18 2015
- Apache Tomcat Native 1.2.4 was released on Mon Jan 11 2016
- Apache Tomcat Native 1.2.3 was released on Tue Dec 15 2015
- Apache Tomcat Native 1.2.2 was released on Mon Nov 09 2015
- Apache Tomcat Native 1.2.0 was released on Wed Oct 28 2015
- Apache Tomcat Native 1.1.34 was released on Tue Dec 15 2015
## Mailing list activity:
- users@tomcat.apache.org:
- 3023 subscribers (up 15 in the last 3 months):
- 902 emails sent to list (1002 in previous quarter)
- dev@tomcat.apache.org:
- 850 subscribers (up 10 in the last 3 months):
- 3472 emails sent to list (2399 in previous quarter)
- taglibs-user@tomcat.apache.org:
- 353 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
- 1 emails sent to list (0 in previous quarter)
- announce@tomcat.apache.org:
- 3977 subscribers (up 72 in the last 3 months):
- 9 emails sent to list (4 in previous quarter)
## Trademark:
- Detailed status:
https://svn.apache.org/repos/private/pmc/tomcat/trademark-status.txt
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Attachment BM: Report from the Apache TomEE Project [David Blevins]
Apache TomEE delivers enterprise application containers and services based
on, but not limited to the Enterprise JavaBeans Specification and Java
Enterprise Edition Specifications.
The user list continues to be active with most queries resolved quickly.
Average user mailing list traffic: 230 messages / month
Dev mailing list traffic:
- 39 messages for October
- 138 messages for November
- 69 messages for December
We seem to continuously see new users reaching out to us.
Thanks to a community push and the joined effort, we dedicated the end of
November and the beginning of December on the TomEE 1.7.3 release which is
Java EE 6 certified. This is a maintenance release with a couple of important
fixes the community was looking for.
Most of the work has been dedicated to produce the first Java EE 7 TomEE
release, namely the 7.0.0-M1. This release has been anticipated for some
months and is a big step forward for the community. Lack the Java EE 7 TCK
continues to be painful disadvantage, one which will be slightly more
highlighted now that we are shipping Java EE 7 targeted releases and
questions of compliance increase.
Overall the project is lacking in resources and has been highlighted in late
board reports, delays in getting security issues resolved and the long lag in
the first TomEE 7 milestone release. Action has been taken as previously
reported to address issues of late board reports. The PMC is more actively
discussing the open security issue, ZDI-15-638. As well serious discussions
are underway on how to attract more committers. Expect some resolutions in
this area as a deliverable to the board in future reports. The community is
aware and desires better.
Specifically for ZDI-15-638, the PMC expects resolution in the next two weeks
with release in both 1.7.x and 7.x shortly after.
Last release was 1.7.3 on 2015-12-09 and 7.0.0-M1 on 2015-12-10.
Last committer was added November 2015. Last PMC addition, 4 new members on
2015-08-11.
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Attachment BN: 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:
- The 2015 Fall Summit was hosted by, and held at, Yahoo! campus. Roughly 80
participants were present. The Summit was very well received.
- We are starting planning for our Spring Summit, which likely will be held
in combination with ACNA'16.
## Health report:
- We are happy to announce that since last board report, three new committers
have been voted into the community! This is particularly exciting since
they all three have been focusing on our HTTP/2 efforts.
- We're in the final stages of a new v6.1.0 release, scheduled for January
2016 release. No new releases were made since the last report, but our
releases are following expected release schedules for the year.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 36 PMC members.
- New PMC members:
- Masaori Koshiba was added to the PMC on Sun Nov 29 2015
- Ryo Okubo was added to the PMC on Sun Nov 29 2015
- Masakazu Kitajo was added to the PMC on Sun Dec 20 2015
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 44 committers.
- New commmitters:
- Ryo Okubo was added as a committer on Wed Nov 18 2015
- Masakazu Kitajo was added as a committer on Mon Dec 14 2015
- Masaori Koshiba was added as a committer on Wed Nov 18 2015
## Releases:
- Last release was 6.0.0 on Mon Sep 21 2015
## Mailing list activity:
- users@trafficserver.apache.org:
- 476 subscribers (up 5 in the last 3 months):
- 120 emails sent to list (248 in previous quarter)
- dev@trafficserver.apache.org:
- 308 subscribers (up 12 in the last 3 months):
- 617 emails sent to list (553 in previous quarter)
- announce@trafficserver.apache.org:
- 14 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months):
- 0 emails sent to list (2 in previous quarter)
- issues@trafficserver.apache.org:
- 37 subscribers (up 3 in the last 3 months):
- 2304 emails sent to list (4723 in previous quarter)
- summits@trafficserver.apache.org:
- 13 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months)
## JIRA activity:
- 156 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 133 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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Attachment BO: Report from the Apache VXQuery Project [Till Westmann]
Description:
Apache VXQuery implements a parallel XML Query processor.
Activity:
- Activity has slowed down - especially in December. There’s a sizable
overlap between the committers for VXQuery and the AsterixDB podling
and a lot of the attention has been focussed on AsterixDB recently.
However, as some of the work in the AsterixDB podling is on the Hyracks
and Algebricks frameworks that are the foundation of VXQuery, VXQuery
also benefits from this work.
- Discussions on the integration with parts of the Hadoop ecosystem
(HDFS and YARN) still ongoing.
- The paper on VXQuery has been presented by Preston at IEEE Big
Data 2015 in Santa Clara.
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 BP: Report from the Apache Web Services Project [Sagara Gunathunga]
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Attachment BQ: Report from the Apache Whimsy Project [Ross Gardler]
1) Many/(most?) Whimsy committers are now authorized to push to the GitHub
repository. MATT is now online, but there appears to still be a manual step
required to identify which GitHub ID is to be associated with your Apache
account. This presumably will be ironed out over time, and at the moment only
represents a point of confusion, not a stumbling block.
2) In addition to Sam, two committers (Chris and Sebb) have succeeded at
actually pushing to GitHub. Also two committers (Craig and Sebb) are able to
run individual tools on their own development machines[1]. Their changes are
automatically deployed, without human intervention[2]. Craig is now working
on trying to push a change - this may be complete by the time of the board
meeting.
3) Set up of the whimsy-test VM has begun in earnest. To the extent humanly
possible, everything is either provisioned through Puppet or deployed
automatically from the GitHub repository[3].
4) Status monitoring is beginning to be roughed in[4]. At the moment, it is a
simple ping endpoint. This rolls up fined grained status of the various
applications deployed on whimsy, and alerts the infrastructure team when there
is failure.
5) A replacement for the Secretary mail tool is nearing completion. It should
be considerably more responsive and reliable than the current tool[5], which
required multiple manual cleanup of intermediate svn directories this month.
The hope is that with this version of the tool, Craig will be able to develop,
locally test, and deploy improvements such as adding buttons and tweaking the
content of emails produced.
6) Additional items planned for the next month (or so) include:
a) Flipping the "big switch" to enable synchronization between GitHub
and ASF hosted repositories.
b) Moving the board agenda tool over to what is now called
whimsy-test.
c) Changing the DNS so that that what is not whimsy-test will become
the new whimsy. The old whimsy will remain around under a new
name for a few months.
[report prepared by Sam Ruby]
[1] https://github.com/apache/whimsy/blob/master/README.md
[2] https://github.com/apache/whimsy/blob/master/DEVELOPMENT.md
[3] https://github.com/apache/whimsy/blob/master/DEPLOYMENT.md
[4] https://github.com/apache/whimsy/blob/master/www/status/README.md
[5] http://s.apache.org/lm
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Attachment BR: Report from the Apache Wink Project [Luciano Resende]
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Attachment BS: Report from the Apache Wookie Project [Scott Wilson]
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Attachment BT: Report from the Apache Axis Project [Deepal Jayasinghe]
## Description
The Apache Axis project is responsible for the creation and maintenance
of software related to the Axis Web Services frameworks and subsidiary
components.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
However, it is worth mentioning that Axis2 is ready to release 1.7
and it would be based on current trunk.
## Activity:
- 2releases since the last report in November.
## PMC/Committers changes:
- Currently 61 PMC/Commiters members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Hiranya Jayathilaka on July 7 2015
## Releases:
- Apache Rampart 1.6.4 (December 28, 2015)
- Apache Axis2 1.6.4 (December 28, 2015)
## Mailing list activity:
- user list - 31 emails conversations.
- dev list - was also active with releases related threads.
## JIRA activity:
- 9 Jira issues created in the last 3 months
- 7 Jira issues closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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End of minutes for the January 20, 2016 board meeting.
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