Index
Links: 2016 - All years
- Original The Apache Software Foundation
Board of Directors Meeting Minutes
February 17, 2016
1. Call to order
The meeting was scheduled for 10:30am Pacific and began at 10:34
when a sufficient attendance to constitute a quorum was
recognized by the chairman.
Other Time Zones: http://timeanddate.com/s/2xwj
The meeting was held via teleconference, hosted by Doug Cutting
and Cloudera.
IRC #asfboard on irc.freenode.net was used for backup purposes.
2. Roll Call
Directors Present:
Rich Bowen
Shane Curcuru
Bertrand Delacretaz
Jim Jagielski
Chris Mattmann
David Nalley
Brett Porter
Sam Ruby
Greg Stein
Directors Absent:
none
Executive Officers Present:
Ross Gardler
Craig L Russell
Executive Officers Absent:
Kevin A. McGrail
Guests:
Daniel Gruno
Gavin McDonald
Hadrian Zbarcea
Henri Yandell
Marvin Humphrey
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 January 20, 2016
See: board_minutes_2016_01_20.txt
Approved by General Consent.
4. Executive Officer Reports
A. Chairman [Brett]
Preparation is nearly complete for the Annual Meeting, with notices to
go out shortly. This year, I've spent some more time writing down the
process as I go and created a tool to generate the meeting from
templates to make it easier for future boards.
I've accepted an offer to join the advisor board for the China OSS
Promotion Union (COPU), which came after attending the Apache Roadshow
in Beijing last year. This doesn't entail any relationship with the
ASF, however I'll certainly share anything relevant that comes from
it, particularly if we look to participate in future events in the
region.
B. President [Ross]
Made good progress on planning for the loss of VP Infra. See
discussion item for details.
Executive Assistant
===============
Most "non-routine" activity this month has been around TAC and
ApacheCon, with a special focus on raising awareness of the CFP close.
There was a reasonable amount of trademark follow ups this month.
Brand Management
===============
Quite a busy month. A number of event requests and a few trademark
infringements to deal with. Nothing too significant and good progress
being made in all cases.
Fundraising
=========
Some process improvements now in place. All invoices are up-to-date,
although it turns out that Virtual were still under the impression
that one of our previous sponsors who have indicated they are unable
to renew was still invoiced. I'm not sure how this happened or at what
point in the process the sponsor was invoiced. Hopefully the process
improvements will minimize such errors in the future.
We are currently $64k behind sponsorship income projections for 2016
(though our overall budget remains in good shape since we have spent
less than projected as well as received less than projected - current
"worst case" puts us at -$138k by financial year end against a
budgeted $161k).
Marketing and Publicity
==================
It's time for the November 2015-January 2016 quarterly report. All
those officers who have not yet submitted their report for Sally
should do so in the next couple of days (it's quick and simple, just
review your board reports for this period, select the key pieces and
send to Sally who can add any necessary colour).
New visual identity is live - I am still shocked at how "easy" this was
from my perspective, and that of our members. A testament to the
sensitive handling of a potentially sensitive topic. I believe our
Membership felt fully involved and as a result is almost unanimous in
their approval of the new design. Well done Sally (and thanks to
LucidWorks and HotWax Systems for donating creative services).
Sally has confirmed a return of her media/analyst trainings at
ApacheCon. I've already signed up for my much needed update and I
recommend everyone who is at all interest in such things to sign up
when Sally announces them within the community
(two beginner sessions, one for podlings one for TLPs and an advanced
session will be offered).
Infrastructure
==========
During the last month I've met 1:1 with all but one of the infra team
as well as spending time with most of the team as a group. My goal was
to listen to their recommendations on how to address the replacement
of David as VP Infra. I've also spoken with a number of potential
outsource organizations to understand what they can offer. Finally,
I've reviewed a reasonably complete proposal secured by David.
The output of all these activities is covered in a discussion item,
with a more complete proposal to be presented to the board and
discussed between now and the next board meeting on board@.
In the interim, David has agreed to stay on for at least another month
as VP Infra. I have offered to help out where I can (see discussion
item) and the Infra contractors have all shown willing to continue in
a (mostly) self-managing way.
There has been good progress on a number of infra items. Most notably
projects may now publish apps in the iTunes store. Huge thanks to Mark
Thomas who has been working on this for multiple years and seen it to
conclusion. In addition Appveyor CI is now available for projects
using the GitHub mirror:
https://blogs.apache.org/infra/entry/appveyor_ci_now_available_for
There are a few issues with uptime for core services (critical
services remain close to 100%). Issues vary from technical debt to
abuse. Remediation is being planned in all relevant cases.
Travel Assistance Committee
======================
Not report submitted at the time of writing. Melissa has been updating
me on status. We are at low levels of applications at present, though
it is still early in the process. Melissa is working with the TAC team
to ensure we conduct more outreach.
Additionally, please see Attachments 1 through 6.
C. Treasurer [Chris]
An updated engagement letter with the CPA has been prepared
for the IRS 990. The Treasurer’s office and Virtual will
submit the signed form to the CPA shortly.
The Treasurer’s Office worked with Virtual and the CPA to
complete the IRS 990 questionnaire form as part of the taxes
submission. We are on schedule to deliver and submit the
990 taxes by March.
The independent audit is also progressing. Virtual has been
working with the CPA agency to produce an initial draft
review which was sent to Jim, Ross, and Chris on Feb 2nd.
Income and Expenses for January 2016 CASH BASIS
Current Balances:
Jan 2016
Citizens Checking $857,580
Amazon- ASF Payments $-
Paypal - ASF $78,458
Wells Fargo Checking - ASF $333,958
Wells Fargo Savings $288,336
Total Checking/Savings $1,558,332
Income Summary:
Inkind Revenue $7,167
Public Donations $13,658
Sponsorship Program $25,000
Programs Income $-
Interest Income $15
Total Income $45,839
Expense Summary:
In Kind Expense $7,167
Infrastructure $45,404
Sponsorship Program $-
Programs Expense $-
Publicity $7,008
Brand Management $-
Conferences $-
Travel Assistance Committee $-
Tax and Audit $-
Treasury Services $3,100
General & Administrative $8,339
Total Expense $71,017
Net Income $(25,177)
D. Secretary [Craig]
Continuing the process of making sure that all committers have ICLAs
on file, the number of discrepancies in the records is dropping but
many still remain. Of the 64 requests sent out to the email address on
file, 34 were undeliverable. Seven committers submitted new or found
ICLAs (included in the totals below). We have begun the process of
removing access for accounts that have no ICLA on file.
In January, 91 iclas, three cclas, and two grants were received and
filed.
E. Executive Vice President [Rich]
The CFP for ApacheCon closed on the 12th, and we have begun
the process of reviewing these submissions and forming the
schedule. Anyone wishing to participate in this process should
contact me, or the dev@community.apache.org mailing list.
Our current submission totals are:
For ApacheCon North America: 152
For Apache Big Data: 206
We are also looking for suggestions (and contacts) for
keynotes for the event. We currently have 2 suggestions, and
have room for 4 - 5. These, also, should to go to me, or to
the dev@community mailing list.
Relevant dates:
CFP Close: February 12, 2016
CFP Notifications: February 29, 2016
Schedule Announced: March 3, 2016
We do not yet have dates for ApacheCon Europe, but we should
know within the next 2 months whether we will be doing that
event this year.
Huge thanks to Daniel Gruno, as well as to a number of
volunteers, for their presence at FOSDEM 2016. They gave away
hundreds of stickers, as well as other swag, and showcased the
new feather logo. They had many conversations with open source
enthusiasts, and it was a good time for reengaing with that
community.
Apache OpenOffice also shared the table with us, as they have
a long history of being present at FOSDEM.
As always, a huge thank you to Melissa for her support of this
event.
One conversation at FOSDEM was our difficulty with connecting
new volunteers with concrete tasks that they can do to get
involved. Several times a month, people come to the
dev@community mailing list and ask "How can I get involved?"
and are generally given vague answers that amount to "Go look
at the projects and see what they need." From this discussion
has arisen a new service, Help Wanted -
https://helpwanted.apache.org/ (Thanks to Daniel Gruno, once
again) that attempts to bridge this gap. The goal is to
promote beginner tasks that are a good place for entry into
our communities. Projects are encouraged to put tasks on there
that reflect this goal. (ie, please don't just dump your Jira
ticket list here.) It's also a place for community-level
tasks, such as our desire to create per-project brochures that
can be produced on demand for events, meetups, elevator chats,
and so on.
I expect to be completely focused on ApacheCon for the coming
few months.
F. Vice Chairman [Greg]
Provided an email-interview for a story about open source
communities and benefits/costs to companies seeking to move
their proprietary code to F/OSS communities.
Executive officer reports approved as submitted by General Consent.
5. Additional Officer Reports
A. VP of W3C Relations [Andy Seaborne / Brett]
See Attachment 7
B. Apache Legal Affairs Committee [Jim Jagielski]
See Attachment 8
C. Apache Security Team Project [Mark J. Cox / Rich]
See Attachment 9
Additional officer reports approved as submitted by General Consent.
6. Committee Reports
Summary of Reports
The following reports required further discussion:
# Abdera [bp]
# Ant [bp]
# BookKeeper [bp]
# Buildr [bp]
# Cassandra [rb]
# Clerezza [gs]
# Community Development [bp]
# Continuum [bp]
# CouchDB [rb]
# Etch [bp]
# HttpComponents [bp]
# Ignite [bp]
# Perl [bp]
# Tapestry [bp]
# Tuscany [dn]
# Velocity [gs]
# Web Services [bp]
# Whimsy [sr]
# Wink [bp]
# Xerces [bp]
A. Apache Abdera Project [Ant Elder / Chris]
No report was submitted.
B. Apache ActiveMQ Project [Bruce Snyder / Sam]
See Attachment B
C. Apache Ambari Project [Yusaku Sako / Bertrand]
See Attachment C
D. Apache Ant Project [Conor MacNeill / Greg]
No report was submitted.
E. Apache Arrow Project [Jacques Nadeau / Shane]
See Attachment E
F. Apache BookKeeper Project [Sijie Guo / Jim]
No report was submitted.
G. Apache Brooklyn Project [Richard Downer / David]
See Attachment G
H. Apache Buildr Project [Alex Boisvert / David]
No report was submitted.
I. Apache Cassandra Project [Jonathan Ellis / Chris]
See Attachment I
@Rich: Event in late April might conflict with ApacheCon North
America.
J. Apache Clerezza Project [Hasan Hasan / Shane]
See Attachment J
K. Apache Cocoon Project [Thorsten Scherler / Jim]
See Attachment K
L. Apache Community Development Project [Ulrich Stärk / Bertrand]
See Attachment L
M. Apache Continuum Project [Brent Atkinson / Rich]
No report was submitted.
N. Apache CouchDB Project [Jan Lehnardt / Sam]
See Attachment N
O. Apache Creadur Project [Brian E Fox / Brett]
See Attachment O
P. Apache DeltaSpike Project [Thomas Andraschko / Greg]
See Attachment P
Q. Apache DeviceMap Project [Radu Cotescu / David]
See Attachment Q
R. Apache Drill Project [Jacques Nadeau / Chris]
See Attachment R
S. Apache Empire-db Project [Francis De Brabandere / Bertrand]
See Attachment S
T. Apache Etch Project [Martin Veith / Jim]
No report was submitted.
U. Apache Flume Project [Hari Shreedharan / Brett]
See Attachment U
V. Apache Forrest Project [David Crossley / Rich]
See Attachment V
W. Apache Geronimo Project [Alan Cabrera / Greg]
See Attachment W
X. Apache Giraph Project [Avery Ching / Shane]
See Attachment X
Y. Apache Gora Project [Lewis John McGibbney / Sam]
See Attachment Y
Z. Apache Groovy Project [Guillaume Laforge / Chris]
See Attachment Z
AA. Apache Hama Project [ChiaHung Lin / Rich]
See Attachment AA
AB. Apache HTTP Server Project [Eric Covener / Shane]
See Attachment AB
AC. Apache HttpComponents Project [Asankha Perera / Greg]
No report was submitted.
AD. Apache Ignite Project [Dmitriy Setrakyan / Bertrand]
No report was submitted.
AE. Apache Incubator Project [Ted Dunning / David]
See Attachment AE
AF. Apache jUDDI Project [Alex O'Ree / Jim]
See Attachment AF
AG. Apache Kafka Project [Jun Rao / Brett]
See Attachment AG
AH. Apache Knox Project [Kevin Minder / Sam]
See Attachment AH
AI. Apache Kylin Project [Luke Han / Greg]
See Attachment AI
AJ. Apache Lens Project [Amareshwari Sriramadasu / Jim]
See Attachment AJ
AK. Apache Libcloud Project [Tomaž Muraus / Shane]
See Attachment AK
AL. Apache Logging Services Project [Ralph Goers / Brett]
See Attachment AL
AM. Apache ManifoldCF Project [Karl Wright / David]
See Attachment AM
AN. Apache Marmotta Project [Jakob Frank / Rich]
See Attachment AN
AO. Apache MetaModel Project [Kasper Sørensen / Sam]
See Attachment AO
AP. Apache Oltu Project [Antonio Sanso / Chris]
See Attachment AP
AQ. Apache Oozie Project [Robert Kanter / Bertrand]
See Attachment AQ
AR. Apache Open Climate Workbench Project [Michael James Joyce / Sam]
See Attachment AR
AS. Apache OpenJPA Project [Pinaki Poddar / Greg]
See Attachment AS
AT. Apache Perl Project [Philippe M. Chiasson / Jim]
No report was submitted.
AU. Apache Phoenix Project [James R. Taylor / Brett]
See Attachment AU
AV. Apache POI Project [Dominik Stadler / David]
See Attachment AV
AW. Apache Qpid Project [Robbie Gemmell / Rich]
See Attachment AW
AX. Apache REEF Project [Markus Weimer / Shane]
See Attachment AX
AY. Apache River Project [Patricia Shanahan / Bertrand]
See Attachment AY
AZ. Apache Roller Project [Dave Johnson / Chris]
See Attachment AZ
BA. Apache Samza Project [Chris Riccomini / David]
See Attachment BA
BB. Apache Santuario Project [Colm O hEigeartaigh / Chris]
See Attachment BB
BC. Apache Serf Project [Bert Huijben / Rich]
See Attachment BC
BD. Apache SIS Project [Martin Desruisseaux / Bertrand]
See Attachment BD
BE. Apache Spark Project [Matei Zaharia / Brett]
See Attachment BE
BF. Apache Stanbol Project [Fabian Christ / Shane]
See Attachment BF
BG. Apache Stratos Project [Lakmal Warusawithana / Jim]
See Attachment BG
BH. Apache Subversion Project [Greg Stein]
See Attachment BH
BI. Apache Syncope Project [Francesco Chicchiriccò / Sam]
See Attachment BI
BJ. Apache Tapestry Project [Howard M. Lewis Ship / Greg]
See Attachment BJ
BK. Apache Turbine Project [Thomas Vandahl / Brett]
See Attachment BK
BL. Apache Tuscany Project [Jean-Sebastien Delfino / David]
No report was submitted.
@David: Time for the attic?
BM. Apache Usergrid Project [Todd Nine / Jim]
See Attachment BM
BN. Apache Velocity Project [Nathan Bubna / Rich]
See Attachment BN
BO. Apache Web Services Project [Sagara Gunathunga / Shane]
See Attachment BO
@Shane: Contact PMC to get a better report next month; make
sure to read the guidelines @Rich: Rich will find some
outstanding reports to model and publish links to them
BP. Apache Whimsy Project [Ross Gardler / Sam]
See Attachment BP
Whimsy will continue to report monthly at least until the
svn/git "experiment" concludes. There is still more data
collection required.
BQ. Apache Wink Project [Luciano Resende / Greg]
See Attachment BQ
BR. Apache Wookie Project [Scott Wilson / Bertrand]
See Attachment BR
BS. Apache Xalan Project [Steven J. Hathaway / Chris]
See Attachment BS
BT. Apache Xerces Project [Michael Glavassevich / Bertrand]
No report was submitted.
BU. Apache XML Graphics Project [Glenn Adams / Shane]
See Attachment BU
BV. Apache Axis Project [Deepal Jayasinghe / Jim]
See Attachment BV
Committee reports approved as submitted by General Consent.
7. Special Orders
A. Change the Apache Tez Project Chair
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Hitesh
Shah (hitesh) to the office of Vice President, Apache Tez, and
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation
of Hitesh Shah from the office of Vice President, Apache Tez,
and
WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Tez
project has chosen by vote to recommend Siddharth Seth (sseth) as
the successor to the post;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Hitesh Shah is relieved and
discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office
of Vice President, Apache Tez, and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Siddharth Seth be and hereby is
appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Tez, to
serve in accordance with and subject to the direction of the
Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until
death, resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification, or
until a successor is appointed.
Special Order 7A, Change the Apache Tez Project Chair, was
approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
B. Change the Apache Avro Project Chair
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Tom
White (tomwhite) to the office of Vice President, Apache Avro, and
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation
of Tom White from the office of Vice President, Apache Avro,
and
WHEREAS, the Project Management Committee of the Apache Avro
project has chosen by vote to recommend Ryan Blue (blue) as
the successor to the post;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Tom White is relieved and
discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office
of Vice President, Apache Avro, and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Ryan Blue be and hereby is
appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Avro, to
serve in accordance with and subject to the direction of the
Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until
death, resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification, or
until a successor is appointed.
Special Order 7B, Change the Apache Avro Project Chair, was
approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
8. Discussion Items
A. Over the last few months I've noticed a drastic decrease in the number
of reports submitted on-time, or at all. What's going on? Are the board
reminders going out?
Historical data:
https://whimsy-test.apache.org/board/missing-reports
For this month:
Initial reminders were sent Thu, 28 Jan 2016 11:01:36 +0000
Final reminders were sent Sat, 13 Feb 2016 04:27:17 +0000
There was a problem in prior months where getting the chairs email
addresses from LDAP would fail; Sebb and Sam addressed the LDAP
reliability problems, and Brett changed the address used for chairs
to the $availid@apache.org address, avoiding the need for LDAP
entirely. This problem is thought to be solved.
Reminders are still only being sent to PMCs, i.e, not to executive
officers and additional officers. They are also still being sent
via a web interface instead of a cron job.
These would be excellent tasks for somebody wishing to get more
involved in the Whimsy project :-). A draft script for sending
reminders can be found at http://s.apache.org/GZD. Deployment info
is at https://github.com/apache/whimsy/blob/master/DEPLOYMENT.md
B. Synapse. What happened and relationship with
https://github.com/wso2/wso2-synapse
and what we need to (possibly) watch out for.
There was a prior discussion of this matter on the trademarks list.
That discussion seemed to die off after this post:
http://s.apache.org/cUl
C. Updating VP Infrastructure Role
After reviewing as many opinions and proposals as possible I have come
to the conclusion that none of the options for moving the VP Infra
responsibilities to a third party can be considered "small reversible
steps". Furthermore, contrary to my initial recommendation to the board
I am not convinced that any of the outsourcing options currently
available are optimal for the foundation.
I remain convinced that, at some point in the future, our
infrastructure operations will require a full time management role.
However, I do not think that time is now. Below I outline the current
VP Infra job description (drawn up in consultation with David as VP
Infra and most of the infrastructure staff). I have classified each
task as either STAFF, VP or PRESIDENT to indicate where I propose each
should land. This results in splitting the current VP role three ways:
paid STAFF (and where possible contractors), PRESIDENT and VP (who
remains a volunteer VP Infrastructure). Items marked VP/STAFF are
expected to require significant oversight from the VP but can be
delegated to STAFF.
The intention is to split the role into "doing" (STAFF), "planning" (VP)
and "HR" (PRESIDENT). Note, it is expected that the majority of the
PRESIDENT responsibilities can be outsourced to a support organization
though no negotiations have taken place at this time.
* Set and manage annual infra budgets [VP/STAFF]
* Approve infra purchasing decisions, including contract
negotiation and renewal with suppliers [VP/STAFF]
* Set medium- to long-term strategy for ASF Infra services in
response to community demands (Critical, Core and Standard
services) [VP]
* Implement the defined strategy for ASF Infra (Critical, Core and
Standard services [STAFF]
* Define SLA targets [VP]
* Track against SLA targets and report at https://status.apache.org/sla
[STAFF]
* Allocate resources (people's time) to ensure tickets are dealt
with in a timely way in addition to completing assigned project
word [STAFF]
* Balance job assignments and project schedules to ensure the
necessary work is completed while fun new stuff is progressed
[STAFF]
* Ensure projects are either provided with everything they need as
a service, or (wherever possible) are provided compute resources
to self-host [STAFF]
* Encourage collaboration between projects who are self-managing
the same/similar services [VP/STAFF]
* Set or advise on appropriate ASF policy as requested [VP]
* Monitor project adherence to appropriate ASF policies (e.g.
release management, version control, service use), addressing
issues of concern and escalating to the appropriate officer
wherever necessary [STAFF]
* Be the voice of the community within infra operations [VP]
* Be the voice of the infra team for the ASF President and thus the
Board and our Members (e.g. board reports) [VP]
* Manage infra staff with respect to performance and work
environment [PRESIDENT]
* Negotiate contract renewals with infra contractors/staff
[PRESIDENT]
* Recruit infra staff as needed [PRESIDENT]
After initial discussion in this board meeting I will take this proposal
with appropriate modifications to the board@ list for fine tuning. At
this point the search of a replacement VP and expansion of Staff duties
can be commenced.
Re: A. Late/missing board reports
@Brett: Should we add another reminder to tardy projects the Monday
before the meeting?
Re: B. Synapse issue
Jim: there has been a lot of contention between Axis and Synapse and
it doesn't seem to be resolved in a good way
Sam: there is a significant trademark issue with wso2-synapse; they
have forked the project and taken our trademark and the fork does
not even implement the same API
Jim: I'm expecting to hear from WSO2 that since synapse has retired
we want to take the trademark
Shane: how are the company and project working together?
Also, cloudstack has been forked; this situation needs to be
investigated
Re: C. VP Infra plan
Sam: Overall, good work; perhaps change the set strategy and define
SLA to ratify strategy and SLA instead?
Ross: good change.
Brett: looks like more responsibility for staff; could we bring up
someone from infra for leadership role?
Ross: with current structure it might be risky to promote an
existing infra contractor; the best option for outsourcing would
probably cost an extra $100K per year; the good news is that we are
in a healthy situation with regard to cost
Brett: we should be sensitive to the effect on staff
Henri: job description-wise; I would expect to see a ‘travel
required’ or not
Ross: I will add this to the job requirements
Shane: I would like to see us put as much as possible on public web
site to get feedback from stakeholders and show other organizations
"how we do things here"
Ross: the meeting minutes are public
Shane: but people outside the board meeting attendees won’t see how
we handled this issue
Ross: I’m focused on getting it done, not necessarily publishing it;
feel free to take this discussion to a different venue
David: good for Ross to take on some personnel management tasks
interim; there is lots of menial work to do but needs to line up with
long term goals; I'm looking forward to seeing who gets recruited for the
new role
Ross: "self elected" senior team member caused problems in the past;
what we are looking for is more like a "project lead" than a manager
for keeping projects on track; I'll take this forward with more
discussion on board@
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: on-going
* 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: looks better
* Jim: please report next month on the Axis/Synapse relationship and release
[ Axis 2015-12-16 ]
Status: complete
* Brett: pursue a report for Continuum
[ Continuum 2015-12-16 ]
Status: followed up with a note. Some discussion of attic on dev@
recently but hoping to get a final release out first.
* 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 Wink
[ Wink 2015-12-16 ]
Status: currently discussing retirement on wink-private, will look for
conclusion to that
* Jim: Please report again next month
[ Axis 2016-01-20 ]
Status: complete
10. Unfinished Business
11. New Business
12. Announcements
13. Adjournment
Adjourned at 12:08 p.m. (Pacific)
============
ATTACHMENTS:
============
-----------------------------------------
Attachment 1: Report from the Executive Assistant [Melissa Warnkin]
ApacheCon and TAC:
* Melissa sent out the "time is running out" email to members@ and
dev@community on 2.5.16, and a reminder on 2.10 that the CFP closes in two
days.
* Melissa talked to Sally re social media
* TAC sent a reminder email to their channels
* TAC have received 14 submitted applications and 4 pending
Trademarks:
* Tracking of registrations and follow-up items continues
-----------------------------------------
Attachment 2: Report from the VP of Brand Management [Shane Curcuru]
Busier than usual month on trademarks@, but now have the time and organization
- and documentation improvements - to really improve our ability to respond to
basic questions, and to provide guidance and precedents for more complex
questions.
Approved several continuing events; the number of Apache projects with notable
annual conferences using our brands continues to grow strongly.
Hadoop PMC handled a number of details around proper references to their brand
by different vendors nicely.
Working with the AOO PMC to make formal trademark infringement complaints to
the Microsoft Store due to a vendor there misusing our OpenOffice marks.
Counsel is working on our backlog of registration requests; began applications
for TOMCAT internationally, TEZ, CASSANDRA, and MESOS. KYLIN and SPARK
projects are preparing justifications for their international registrations.
KYLIN PMC also wishes to register their logo.
Awaiting assistance from operations@/treasurer@ to report past brand payments,
we have an additional invoice awaiting approval based on the report.
Shane has started a regular review of selected project homepages and brand
presentation, both as a way to help PMCs understand policies as well as to
suggest improvements for ways to help draw in new contributors. Will be
posting regular updates on http://communityovercode.com/ throughout the year.
-----------------------------------------
Attachment 3: Report from the VP of Fundraising [Hadrian Zbarcea]
Fundraising activities are continuing normally.
We are up to date with sending all invoices. After a few conversations with
Virtual we setup a reporting system that I believe gives the feedback needed
to fundraising. Based on it we can keep the fundraising@ records up to date
with the authoritative financial records from accounting@. I am in the process
of updating the records and by the board meeting they should be almost, if not
completely, in sync. If other tweaks will be necessary, we'll address them
later.
No new sponsors this month.
-----------------------------------------
Attachment 4: Report from the VP of Marketing and Publicity [Sally Khudairi]
I. Budget: we remain within budget, with no outstanding invoices due
at this time thanks to the expeditious payment processing from the
Virtual team.
II. Fundraising/Branding/Marketing/ComDev liaison: Sally Khudairi is
preparing the upcoming ASF Third Quarter report (November 2015-January
2016) which will be published at the end of the month. She
successfully launched the new ASF identity with thanks to LucidWorks
and HotWax Systems for donating creative services, and will continue
to work together on supporting the ongoing rollout. The new identity
was received with great enthusiasm by the community and debuted at
FOSDEM, where the promotional giveaways (pins, pens, "Powered By"
stickers, caps, cups, and t-shirts) created by Daniel Gruno we a
tremendous hit. As the inventory cleared out before the event was
over, we are considering creating a similar package for the upcoming
ApacheCon.
III. Press Releases: the following formal announcement was issued via
the newswire service, ASF Foundation Blog, and announce@apache.org
during this timeframe:
- 27 January 2016 -- The Apache® Software Foundation Announces Strong
Momentum; Enters 2016 More Influential, Innovative, Efficient, and
with a New Look
IV. Informal Announcements: 5 items were published on the ASF
"Foundation" Blog, and 20 items were tweeted on @TheASF. 4 Apache News
Round-ups were issued, with a total of 74 weekly summaries published
to date. No new videos have been added to the ASF YouTube channel.
V. Future Announcements: three announcements are currently in
development. Projects planning to graduate from the Apache Incubator
as well as PMCs wishing to announce major project milestones and "Did
You Know?" success stories are welcome to contact Sally at
<press@apache.org> for more information. Kindly provide at least
2-weeks' notice for proper planning and execution.
VI. Media Relations: we've had an uptick in media requests over the
past three weeks, particularly for briefings where members of the
Apache community are serving as industry experts across an array of
topics. The trend of our growing media coverage in Asia continues. The
ASF received 1,692 press clips over this time period, vs. last month's
clip count of 960.
Due to our increased media presence, Sally has decided to reinstate
the media/analyst trainings offered during ApacheCon, and will be
holding two different beginner level sessions (one for podlings in the
Incubator, the other for established TLPs or sub-projects), as well as
an advanced session. She is finalizing details with the Linux
Foundation team and will be announcing details on these opportunities
to the community shortly.
VI-a. Public Relations: Sally has been exploring options for an
ASF-dedicated phone line, and to create a more detailed/visible "help"
page on apache.org, but hasn't progressed on this over the past month.
VII. Analyst Relations: although we have had no formal briefings
during this timeframe, we continue to serve as an ongoing resource for
a small handful of analysts. Apache was mentioned in 20 reports by
Gartner, 5 reports by Forrester, 25 reports by 451 Research, and 13
reports by IDC.
VIII. ApacheCon liaison: Sally has been working with the Linux
Foundation team on updating the ApacheCon logo and signage, and has
been 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 have 51 pre-paid press releases with NASDAQ
GlobeNewswire through the end of 2017. Although we haven't received
formal notice, it appears that we no longer receive gratis news
release distribution in the UK by Pressat (no new ASF announcements
have been posted on their site as of September 2015).
# # #
-----------------------------------------
Attachment 5: Report from the VP of Infrastructure [David Nalley]
New Karma:
==========
N/A
Operations Action Items:
========================
N/A
Short Term Priorities:
======================
- Setting up a new git repository server at the ASF for testing git r/w
synchronization viability.
- Provision an isolated test environment (including isolated LDAP) for
developing/testing services faster than is currently possible, under a
separate domain (asfplayground.org). We believe this separation will also help
projects and volunteers work on their ideas, such as the Syncope trial, as
they can then develop and test without interfering with production systems
- Agreement with Apple has been executed, and projects may now publish
apps in the iTunes store. Huge thanks to Mark Thomas who has been
working on this for multiple years and seen it to conclusion.
- Appveyor CI is now available for projects who make use of a Github
mirror, see for more details:
https://blogs.apache.org/infra/entry/appveyor_ci_now_available_for
Long Range Priorities:
======================
- Mailing list system switchover is expected to happen in the coming months. We
are aware of a few outstanding mail-search requests that we have concluded
could be solved out-of-the-box by this.
- VMs on Eirene, Nyx and Erebus to be moved in readiness for their decommission
- Further explore identity management proposals
General Activity:
=================
- Moved the STeVe VM to a new data center in anticipation of the upcoming annual
members meeting. Benchmarks show it could serve an election with more than
6,000 voters, so it should be adequate for the upcoming election.
- The new machine for serving up ASF's end of the ASF->GitHub r/w repositories
is under work, but has been slowed a bit by some difficulty in integrating
new hooks as well as difficulty with our current environment setup (see SRPs
above). As stated in the SRPs, we have discussed deploying a separate test
environment that is isolated from our production environment and would allow
for faster development/testing. The project hinges on three phases: ACL,
email/webhooks and dual r/w repositories with sync. The ACL has been
automated now and is working. The email phase has turned up some faults in
GitHub's way of determining whether a commit is unique (and thus deserves a
diff email), and thus we are working towards replacing this with a new
mechanism. This new method however is dependent on getting the 2xr/w repos
up and running, which in turn depends on rewriting the git hooks we have in
place for our current setup, and is the cause of the current slow progress.
We expect to have a basic work flow with new hooks in the coming week, and
once that is confirmed, we'll attach the Whimsy code to that process.
- Work continues on moving machines from our old VM boxes to our new provider.
- Fixed some issues with buildbot configurations not being applied.
- Lots of JIRA activity: 175 tickets created, 146 resolved
- Fixed spam filtering cluster so that it runs checks correctly and is able to
catch more legitimate spam. This has already proven very effective.
- 5 machines and two arrays decommisoned and removed from OSUOSL racks.
Uptime Statistics:
==================
The new Whimsy VM has implemented a status page that we have tied into our
monitoring system (PMB). This is still not considered a production environment,
and thus does not count towards our SLA.
This month was a slightly bumpy ride for some services. While the critical
services continued their nice trend of pretty much 100% uptime, some core
services such as people.apache.org have acted very unstable, indicating that we
may need to speed up the decommissioning of this service.
BugZilla has been abused by some external services trying to scrape
everything, causing some downtime. We have implemented a connection rate
limiting module (using mod_lua) for the BZ proxy and this seems to have helped,
albeit not stopped the downtime competely.
The Moin wiki is, as always, experiencing hiccups, caused by the general flaw
in its design. We urge any project still using this to switch to cwiki, if they
experience slowness in the service.
For details statistics, see http://status.apache.org/sla/
-----------------------------------------
Attachment 6: Report from the Apache Travel Assistance Committee [Nick Burch]
-----------------------------------------
Attachment 7: Report from the VP of W3C Relations [Andy Seaborne]
Nothing to report this month.
-----------------------------------------
Attachment 8: Report from the Apache Legal Affairs Committee [Jim Jagielski]
Contacted legal counsel regarding bylaws clarification and possible
editing, if required; currently still in process.
No issues requiring board attention at this time.
-----------------------------------------
Attachment 9: Report from the Apache Security Team Project [Mark J. Cox]
The team continues following up on older reports direct to security@
and ensuring they have been handled by the respective PMCs.
Stats for Jan 2016:
2 Support question
2 Security vulnerability question, but not a vulnerability report
8 Phishing/spam/proxy/attacks point to site "powered by Apache" or
Confused user due to Android licenses
9 Direct Vulnerability report to security@apache.org
2 [xerces]
1 [site]
1 [cordova]
2 [commons]
1 [jetspeed]
1 [httpd]
1 [activemq]
7 Vulnerabilities reported to projects
1 [httpd]
3 [tomcat]
2 [aoo]
1 [sling]
-----------------------------------------
Attachment A: Report from the Apache Abdera Project [Ant Elder]
-----------------------------------------
Attachment B: Report from the Apache ActiveMQ Project [Bruce Snyder]
Description
* Apache ActiveMQ is a popular and powerful open source messaging server.
Apache ActiveMQ is fast, supports many cross language clients and protocols,
comes with easy to use enterprise integration patterns and many advanced
features while fully supporting JMS 1.1, J2EE 1.4, AMQP 1.0.
Activity
* Apache.NMS added a new provider implementation Apache.NMS.XMS for connecting
to IBM WebSphere MQSeries. This was contributed by the user community, and
based on the existing Apache.NMS provider implementation for TIBCO EMS.
There are now eight NMS provider implementations.
* ActiveMQ 5.x added several new features in version 5.13.0
* There is now support for automatic wire protocol detection (OpenWire, STOMP,
MQTT, and AMQP) using the new auto transport.
* Improved metrics as the broker now keeps track of the memory size of pending
messages.
* A pure Java API for runtime configuration changes to the broker. Previously
only changes could be done in XML.
* There is now support for dynamic network demand based on the existence of
Virtual Consumers.
* Support was added for sending scheduled message using message annotations
when using AMQP.
* The ability to dynamically shrink and regrow the store size at runtime based
on available disk space.
PMC changes
* Currently 20 PMC members
* New PMC members
** Christopher Shannon was added to the PMC on Sun Jan 24 2016
** Jeff Genender was added to the PMC on Sun Jan 24 2016
Committer base changes
* Currently 56 committers
* New commmitters
** Matt Richard Hogstrom was added as a committer on Thu Jan 28 2016 (not sure
why he was added, got this info from reporter.apache.org)
** John Robert Sisson was added as a committer on Thu Jan 28 2016 (not sure
why he was added, got this info from reporter.apache.org)
Releases
* Activemq-CPP v3.9.1 was released on Thu Dec 03 2015
* Activemq-CPP v3.9.2 was released on Thu Feb 08 2016
* 5.11.3 was released on Sun Nov 01 2015
* 5.12.1 was released on Wed Oct 14 2015
* 5.12.2 was released on Sun Jan 10 2016
* 5.13.0 was released on Wed Dec 02 2015
* 5.13.1 was released on Fri Feb 05 2016
* ActiveMQ Artemis 1.2.0 was released on Thu Jan 07 2016
Mailing list activity
* users@activemq.apache.org
** 716 subscribers (down -5 in the last 3 months)
** 816 emails sent to list (712 in previous quarter)
* dev@activemq.apache.org
** 344 subscribers (up 7 in the last 3 months)
** 837 emails sent to list (765 in previous quarter)
* issues@activemq.apache.org
** 35 subscribers (up 4 in the last 3 months)
** 2045 emails sent to list (1763 in previous quarter)
* announce@activemq.apache.org
** 9 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months)
JIRA activity
* 233 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
* 257 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
-----------------------------------------
Attachment C: Report from the Apache Ambari Project [Yusaku Sako]
Description:
- Apache Ambari simplifies provisioning, managing, and monitoring of Apache
Hadoop clusters.
Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time
Activity:
- Since the last report in Nov 2015, the community has focused on releasing
2.2.0 (798 JIRAs resolved) and 2.2.1 (213 JIRAs resolved).
2.2.0 was a milestone release that introduced Express Upgrades that facilitates
speedy, guided upgrades of the stack via the UI.
2.2.0 and 2.2.1 also addressed improving performance, scalability, stability,
and security.
Currently, stabilization work for 2.2.2 is underway as well as new feature
development in trunk.
PMC changes:
- Currently 40 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Jonathan Hurley on Sun May 17 2015
Committer base changes:
- Currently 59 committers.
- New commmitters:
- Dipayan Bhowmick was added as a committer on Tue Jan 19 2016
- Pallav Kulshreshtha was added as a committer on Tue Jan 19 2016
- Nahappan Somasundaram was added as a committer on Sat Jan 09 2016
- Aravindan Vijayan was added as a committer on Fri Dec 11 2015
- Di Li was added as a committer on Fri Dec 11 2015
- Sriharsha Chintalapani was added as a committer on Mon Nov 16 2015
Releases:
- 2.2.1 was released on Tue Feb 9 2016
- 2.2.0 was released on Sat Dec 19 2015
Mailing list activity:
- dev@ambari.apache.org:
- 210 subscribers (up 9 in the last 3 months):
- 13018 emails sent to list (10644 in previous quarter)
- user@ambari.apache.org:
- 411 subscribers (up 31 in the last 3 months):
- 377 emails sent to list (312 in previous quarter)
JIRA activity:
- 1136 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 1039 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
-----------------------------------------
Attachment D: Report from the Apache Ant Project [Conor MacNeill]
-----------------------------------------
Attachment E: Report from the Apache Arrow Project [Jacques Nadeau]
## Description:
- Arrow is a columnar in-memory analytics layer designed to accelerate big
data. It houses a set of canonical in-memory representations of flat and
hierarchical data along with multiple language-bindings for structure
manipulation. It also provides IPC and common algorithm implementations.
## Issues:
- there are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity:
- The project was established at the last board meeting.
- Mailing lists, repositories and issue tracking have been established by
infrastructure.
- An initial website is underway and should be available by the time of the
board meeting.
- The community also has worked with Sally from press@ to announce the project
via a press release on February 17th.
- Various community members are working on putting together better
documentation and communication around Arrow.
## Health report:
- The project is just getting started as an independent project.
- One of the key initial efforts is finalizing the extraction of code from the
Drill codebase. This is tracking well and we hope to complete this before the
next board report.
- A number of community talks are being submitted to upcoming conferences and
meetups to make more people aware of Arrow.
- We need to start spending more time growing the community beyond the initial
PMC and committers.
- The Project voted to add 5 additional committers to the core project due to
their involvement initial Arrow discussions.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 17 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added since the project was established.
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 18 committers.
- Wes McKinney was added as a committer on Mon Feb 01 2016
- Offers are out to four other community members to become committers.
## Releases:
- No Arrow releases have yet been made.
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@arrow.apache.org:
- 17 subscribers (up 17 in the last 3 months)
- issues@arrow.apache.org:
- 4 subscribers (up 4 in the last 3 months)
-----------------------------------------
Attachment F: Report from the Apache BookKeeper Project [Sijie Guo]
-----------------------------------------
Attachment G: 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:
- Our source code repository reorganisation is complete and we are
now using multiple repositories for different modules of our project.
This means that our incubator repository is no longer in use.
- This means that the bulk of the graduation tasks are completed. We
will conduct a final review of our graduation tasks and tie up any
loose ends as soon as possible.
- Having completed the repository reorganisation, 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.
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:
- 102 subscribers as of 9th February
- 555 emails sent to list in December
JIRA activity:
- 8 JIRA tickets created in January
- 4 JIRA tickets resolved in January
-----------------------------------------
Attachment H: Report from the Apache Buildr Project [Alex Boisvert]
-----------------------------------------
Attachment I: Report from the Apache Cassandra Project [Jonathan Ellis]
Cassandra is a distributed database providing massive scalability,
high performance, and high availability.
Releases:
2.1.12 7 Dec 2015
3.0.1 8 Dec 2015
3.1 8 Dec 2015
3.2 12 Jan 2016
2.1.13 8 Feb 2016
2.2.5 8 Feb 2016
3.3 9 Feb 2016
Development:
Cassandra has moved to a monthly release schedule [1], with even releases
(3.2) including new features, and odd releases (3.1., 3.3) only bug fixes.
A good summary of what's new in 3.2 is at [2].
Community:
Pretty quiet start to the year. I am in the initial stages of planning
NGCC (Next Generation Cassandra Conference, for Cassandra committers
and contributors, not end users) 2016, probably for late April.
Most recent committer and PMC changes:
Carl Yeksigian was added as committer on 4 Jan 2016.
Aleksey Yeshchenko was added as PMC member on 7 Aug 2014.
[1] http://www.planetcassandra.org/blog/cassandra-2-2-3-0-and-beyond/
[2] http://rustyrazorblade.com/2016/01/cassandra-32-overview/
-----------------------------------------
Attachment J: Report from the Apache Clerezza Project [Hasan Hasan]
DESCRIPTION
Apache Clerezza is an OSGi-based modular application and a set of components
(bundles) for building RESTFul Semantic Web applications and services.
ISSUES FOR THE BOARD
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
RELEASE
- Clerezza partial-release-201508 created on Dec 2, 2015
This release fixes issues preventing rdf.rdfjson and rdf.jena.sparql
to expose their OSGi-DS services. It contains latest version of Jersey and
Jena and provides some integration tests.
https://www.apache.org/dist/clerezza/partial-release-201508/
Vote result: http://s.apache.org/bH9
ACTIVITY
- Using the OSGi bundles provided by the Jena project for the Jena backend
- Created integrations tests based on new launchers
- Fighting with a sling-launchpad plugin update that made previous releases
uncompilable
COMMUNITY
Latest change was addition of a new committer and PMC member on 16.08.2013
INFRASTRUCTURE
- Website: The download page (http://clerezza.apache.org/downloads/)
has been updated: Used 'https://www.apache.org/dist/clerezza/' as base URL,
added links to new releases and fixed broken links
-----------------------------------------
Attachment K: Report from the Apache Cocoon Project [Thorsten Scherler]
## Description:
Web development framework: separation of concerns, component-based.
## Issues:
none
## Activity:
Last release was 2.1.12 on Thu Mar 14 2013 and last PMC addition was on
Fri Jul 06 2012.
The reactions on our last draft board report on the private list have
shown that we are still fully running.
The ticket INFRA-10458 for a "Replacement VM for cocoon.zones.apache.org" is
resolved, thank you infrastructure.
There had been a couple of question on the user list which different user and
committers attended.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 32 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Javier Puerto on Fri Jul 06 2012
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 80 committers.
- No new changes to the committer base since last report.
## Releases:
- Last release was 2.1.12 on Thu Mar 14 2013
## Mailing list activity:
- users@cocoon.apache.org:
- 388 subscribers (down -3 in the last 3 months):
- 20 emails sent to list (1 in previous quarter)
- dev@cocoon.apache.org:
- 235 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
- 3 emails sent to list (51 in previous quarter)
- cvs@cocoon.apache.org:
- 70 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 1 emails sent to list (23 in previous quarter)
- docs@cocoon.apache.org:
- 82 subscribers (down -6 in the last 3 months):
- 2 emails sent to list (0 in previous quarter)
-----------------------------------------
Attachment L: Report from the Apache Community Development Project [Ulrich Stärk]
## Description:
The Community Development PMC is responsible for helping people become
involved with Apache projects
## Issues:
No issues require board attention at the moment.
## Activity:
Preparations for Google Summer of Code 2016 have started, the application is
due on Feb 19.
Discussion on the mailing lists is high with a focus on guiding newcomers,
ApacheCon preparation and how to better help newcomers find the right project
to start contributing to.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 21 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Roman Shaposhnik on Wed Aug 11 2015
## Releases:
None.
## Mailing list activity:
- cfp-review@community.apache.org:
- 37 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months)
- dev@community.apache.org:
- 637 subscribers (up 75 in the last 3 months):
- 462 emails sent to list (397 in previous quarter)
- mentors@community.apache.org:
- 266 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months)
- students@community.apache.org:
- 56 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 0 emails sent to list (0 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 9 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 7 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
-----------------------------------------
Attachment M: Report from the Apache Continuum Project [Brent Atkinson]
-----------------------------------------
Attachment N: Report from the Apache CouchDB Project [Jan Lehnardt]
## Description:
NoSQL document database using HTTP, JSON, and MapReduce
## Issues:
- there are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity:
- Start on official Docker image for CouchDB 1.x and 2.x.
- Fully automated and scripted CI on builds.a.o.
- Started to seed “alpha” tarballs to early 2.0 build testers
(These are not Apache Releases, just tarballs people can test).
- Started receiving feedback and started work on resolving
reported issues.
- Continued flushing out of last issues for upcoming 2.0 release
found by the dev team.
- Both CouchDB proper and the Fauxton (admin interface) sub-proejct
have each been accepted as projects at the RailsGirls Summer of Code
(think Google Summer of Code, but with a focus on getting women* into
Open Source).
## Health report:
- Nothing special to report, the project and community are gearing up
for the 2.0 release, and activity is according to expectations.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 14 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Michelle Phung on Mon Oct 19 2015
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 52 committers.
- Ilya Khlopotov was added as a committer on Thu Jan 14 2016
## Releases:
- Last release was 1.6.1 on Wed Sep 03 2014
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@couchdb.apache.org:
- 587 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 219 emails sent to list (332 in previous quarter)
- notifications@couchdb.apache.org:
- 14 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 1437 emails sent to list (2660 in previous quarter)
- couchapp@couchdb.apache.org:
- 46 subscribers (up 21 in the last 3 months):
- 142 emails sent to list (0 in previous quarter)
- replication@couchdb.apache.org:
- 84 subscribers (up 4 in the last 3 months):
- 1 emails sent to list (0 in previous quarter)
- user@couchdb.apache.org:
- 1315 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months):
- 221 emails sent to list (207 in previous quarter)
- erlang@couchdb.apache.org:
- 190 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 0 emails sent to list (0 in previous quarter)
- announce@couchdb.apache.org:
- 282 subscribers (up 21 in the last 3 months):
- 0 emails sent to list (0 in previous quarter)
- www@couchdb.apache.org:
- 17 subscribers (up 4 in the last 3 months):
- 0 emails sent to list (0 in previous quarter)
- design@couchdb.apache.org:
- 16 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 5 emails sent to list (8 in previous quarter)
- l10n@couchdb.apache.org:
- 44 subscribers (up 3 in the last 3 months):
- 5 emails sent to list (4 in previous quarter)
- marketing@couchdb.apache.org:
- 59 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 100 emails sent to list (167 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 74 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 47 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
-----------------------------------------
Attachment O: Report from the Apache Creadur Project [Brian E Fox]
Apache Creadur creates and maintains a suite of open source software related
to the auditing and comprehension of software distributions. Any language and
build system are welcomed.
Status
------
Since the last report, email and commit activity continues to move
along slowly. The .12 release is still in limbo. Creadur is primarily used by
other Apache projects to help check for conformity to ASF standards. This is
why the project team is primarily comprised of members and committers from
other ASF projects. The risk of the project foundering is therefore very low.
Community
---------
The last committer was elected in August, 2012. In September 2013
Phil Ottlinger was elected to join the PMC.
Releases
--------
Apache Rat 0.11 was released in August, 2014 Apache Rat 0.10 was
released in September, 2013.
Community Objectives
--------------------
Release RAT 0.12
Find more committers
-----------------------------------------
Attachment P: Report from the Apache DeltaSpike Project [Thomas Andraschko]
## Description:
Apache DeltaSpike is a portable JSR-299 CDI
(Contexts and Dependency Injection for Java) Extension library
which contains lots of useful tools and helpers
which are missing in the CDI core spec.
DeltaSpike is not a CDI-container itself, but a portable
Extension library which can run on all CDI-containers!
DeltaSpike is tested and runs on many Java EE Servers like
Apache TomEE, Red Hat JBoss Application Server, JBoss Wildfly,
Oracle WebLogic, Oracle Glassfish, IBM WebSphere, and also on
simple Servlet containers like Apache Tomcat or Jetty in combination
with either JBoss Weld or Apache OpenWebBeans.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
We receive contributions from the community on a regular basis.
We are currently voting on 1.5.3 which includes several bugixes,
improvements and a few new features.
## Health report:
The community and developers activity was average in the last quarter.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 18 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Rafael Benevides on Mon Apr 20 2015
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 32 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Harald Wellmann at Mon Jun 08 2015
## Releases:
- 1.5.2 was released on Sun Dec 06 2015
## Mailing list activity:
- users@deltaspike.apache.org:
- 169 subscribers (up 9 in the last 3 months):
- 138 emails sent to list (53 in previous quarter)
- dev@deltaspike.apache.org:
- 110 subscribers (up 3 in the last 3 months):
- 413 emails sent to list (372 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 53 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 46 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
-----------------------------------------
Attachment Q: Report from the Apache DeviceMap Project [Radu Cotescu]
Device Data Repository and classification API (established November 2014)
Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time
Activity:
The project's activity decreased drastically after the PMC had reached the
minimal viable number of PMC members.
Health report:
The project is still minimally viable, with 3 active PMC members, but at
risk if anyone leaves without new PMC members being elected.
PMC changes:
Currently 3 PMC members.
No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
Last PMC addition was Bertrand Delacretaz on Wed Nov 19 2014
Committer base changes:
Currently 13 committers.
No new committers added in the last 3 months
Last committer addition was Volkan Yazici at Thu Apr 23 2015
Releases:
No new releases in the past 3 months
Mailing list activity:
dev@devicemap.apache.org:
58 subscribers (up 3 in the last 3 months):
29 emails sent to list (122 in previous quarter)
JIRA activity:
5 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
4 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
-----------------------------------------
Attachment R: Report from the Apache Drill Project [Jacques Nadeau]
## Description:
- A distributed SQL MPP for Hadoop and NoSQL
## Issues:
- there are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity:
- The Drill community has released 1.3, 1.4 since the last board report. The
community vote is also underway for the 1.5 release at the time of this
writing.
- Drill has added a number of powerful capabilities around partition
optimizations
- Work is underway to leverage secondary indexes for improving query
performance
- New connectors have been contributed to work with JDBC sources and image
metadata formats
- Substantial refactoring of the memory allocation and accounting layer was
completed.
- Web and REST security features were added.
- The Drill development community is also working with the newly formed Arrow
community.
## Health report:
- Drill is in a strong phase of user and developer growth. Daily we see new
interested community members providing patches, test and documentation
feedback and general project engagement.
- A number of people are working on specific JIRAs to help improve code
approachability, testing and documentation.
- Two new PMC members have driven there first release, helping to broaden the
responsibility of release management.
- Weekly Google hangouts are well attended and continue to help welcome new
members in a personal way. Decisions continue to happen on list with any
discussions from hangouts reported to the list.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 17 PMC members.
- Hanifi Gunes was added to the PMC on Friday Feb 12 2016
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 27 committers.
- New commmitters:
- Ellen Friedman was added as a committer on Sun Nov 22 2015
- Kris Hahn was added as a committer on Fri Dec 04 2015
## Releases:
- 1.4.0 was released on Sat Dec 14 2015
- 1.3.0 was released on Sat Nov 21 2015
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@drill.apache.org:
- 412 subscribers (up 6 in the last 3 months):
- 1960 emails sent to list (2576 in previous quarter)
- issues@drill.apache.org:
- 19 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months):
- 2873 emails sent to list (4068 in previous quarter)
- user@drill.apache.org:
- 511 subscribers (up 25 in the last 3 months):
- 979 emails sent to list (1006 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 310 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 156 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
-----------------------------------------
Attachment S: Report from the Apache Empire-db Project [Francis De Brabandere]
Apache Empire-db is a relational database abstraction layer that allows
developers to take a more SQL-centric approach in application development
than traditional ORM frameworks. Its focus is to allow highly efficient
database operations in combination with a maximum of compile-time-safety
and DBMS independence.
Progress of the project
The project progresses at it's rather slow but steady pace. Our new
committers both contributed since last report.
Changes in committers or PMC members
No changes since last report. Our chair has indicated that he wishes
to step down so we plan to have a change of pmc chair resolution in
the next report.
Issues
There are no issues that require the board's attention at this time.
Releases
Latest release was Apache-Empire-db 2.4.4 released on 19/Aug/2015.
-----------------------------------------
Attachment T: Report from the Apache Etch Project [Martin Veith]
-----------------------------------------
Attachment U: Report from the Apache Flume Project [Hari Shreedharan]
DESCRIPTION
Apache Flume is a distributed, reliable, and available system for
efficiently collecting, aggregating, and moving large amounts of log
data to scalable data storage systems such as Apache Hadoop's HDFS.
RELEASES
* The last release of Flume was version 1.6.0, released on May
20, 2015.
* No other releases are planned at this time.
CURRENT ACTIVITY:
* A total of 40 issues have been filed, and 8 issues have been
resolved between the period starting November 5, 2015 and February 4,
2016.
* Approximately 354 messages were exchanged on the dev list in the
past three months, while a total of 194 were exchanged on the user
list in this period.
COMMUNITY
* The last time a new committer was added to the project was on
June 19, 2015.
* The last time a new PMC member was elected for the project was
on November 4, 2014.
* Currently there are:
- Total of 283 subscribers to the developer list
- Total of 653 subscribers to the user list
- Total of 26 committers
- Total of 21 PMC members
ISSUES
* There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
-----------------------------------------
Attachment V: Report from the Apache Forrest Project [David Crossley]
Apache Forrest mission is software for generation of aggregated multi-channel
documentation maintaining a separation of content and presentation.
Issues needing board attention:
None.
Changes in the PMC membership:
None.
Last modified: 2013-04-08
Most recent addition: 2009-06-09
New committers:
None.
Most recent addition: 2009-06-09
General status:
The most recent release is 0.9 on 2011-02-07.
No activity on the user mail list. However it never gets used much anyway.
There was some tiny activity on the dev mail list, with two PMC members
participating. See below.
Two PMC members were present during the quarter.
At this report, three other PMC members responded to my draft report.
This confirms that there are sufficient people hanging around for us to
potentially be able to make a decision or encourage new contributors.
Project status:
Activity: Low
3+ people have indicated presence, so has sufficient oversight.
Security issues reported:
None.
Progress of the project:
Backported the feature from the "scales" skin to the "pelt" skin for the
"Conditional display of menuitems". Issue: FOR-1255
Improved the explanation of broken links found during processing.
Added a reader and a serializer for JSON.
There was some initial discussion between two PMC members on the dev list,
regarding a discrepancy with content as images in v2 docs title element.
-----------------------------------------
Attachment W: Report from the Apache Geronimo Project [Alan Cabrera]
## Description:
Apache Geronimo is an open source server runtime that integrates the best open
source projects to create Java/OSGi server runtimes that meet the needs of
enterprise developers and system administrators.
## Issues:
- We are concerned with our current level of community activity.
- There are outstanding concerns about the inability to obtain a
compatible JEE TCK and how that will ultimately affect the project.
- Missed a few quarterly reports.
- Need to follow up on getting IBM’s WAS Liberty application server
fixes to the Yoko ORB integrated. Hoping to get the original
engineers to perform the integration.
## Activity:
- No releases
## Health report:
- Last quarter was a very light quarter for Apache Geronimo. This was
likely due to the holidays.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 42 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Romain Manni-Bucau on Wed Aug 06 2014
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 69 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Hendrik Saly at Thu Oct 23 2014
## Releases:
- Last release was 3.18 on Tue May 20 2014
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@geronimo.apache.org:
- 357 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
- 23 emails sent to list (28 in previous quarter)
- geronimo-tck@geronimo.apache.org:
- 44 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months)
- scm@geronimo.apache.org:
- 100 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 1 emails sent to list (7 in previous quarter)
- servicemix-tck@geronimo.apache.org:
- 10 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months)
- tck-commits@geronimo.apache.org:
- 5 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months)
- user@geronimo.apache.org:
- 454 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months):
- 9 emails sent to list (3 in previous quarter)
- xbean-dev@geronimo.apache.org:
- 34 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 3 emails sent to list (9 in previous quarter)
- xbean-scm@geronimo.apache.org:
- 17 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 3 emails sent to list (6 in previous quarter)
- xbean-user@geronimo.apache.org:
- 33 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
- 2 emails sent to list (0 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 1 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 0 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
-----------------------------------------
Attachment X: Report from the Apache Giraph Project [Avery Ching]
Giraph is a Bulk Synchronous Parallel framework for writing programs
that analyze large graphs on a Hadoop cluster. Giraph is similar to
Google's Pregel system.
Project releases
* We expect to make a new 1.2 release that includes the Blocks & Pieces
framework and OOC processing next year.
Overall project activity since the last report
* New out-of-core features being added
* Use IP addresses for communication rather than hostnames
* Fixing some bugs
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
* Igor Kabiljo on 2/10/15
* We hope to propose a new committer shortly
New community development
* Avery Ching presented the industrial paper "One Trillion Edges: Graph
Processing at Facebook-Scale" at VLDB 2015 in September
Mailing list members
We continue to see some mailing list growth.
user@ 455 -> 470
dev@ 273 -> 280
-----------------------------------------
Attachment Y: Report from the Apache Gora Project [Lewis John McGibbney]
## Description:
The Apache Gora open source framework provides an in-memory data model
and persistence for big data. Gora supports persisting to column stores,
key value stores, document stores and RDBMSs, and analyzing the data
with extensive Apache Hadoop™ MapReduce support.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
Gora has seen a reasonable degree of activity in this last while.
We've seen new members coming to report bugs (which have been fixed),
as well as evidence that Gora is being used in a number of big data
search stacks with some possible module contributions coming our way.
We have only one or two issues before we are ready to release Gora 0.7.
Lewis John McGibbney gave a Gora lightening talk @NASA JPL.
Work is ongoing to build a Gora-backed Log4j2 NoSQL appender.
## Health report:
More or less all of the Gora correspondence happens on dev@. We very
rarely have individual coming to user@. Of the ML traffic on dev@
the overwhelming majority of it is Jira and Github correspondence.
Generally speaking however, if we have new bug reports filed, they
are acted upon in a reasonable timeframe.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 21 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Furkan Kamaci on Wed Sep 16 2015
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 21 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Furkan Kamaci at Mon Sep 14 2015
## Releases:
- Last release was 0.6.1 on Mon Sep 14 2015
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@gora.apache.org:
- 74 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months):
- 234 emails sent to list (450 in previous quarter)
- user@gora.apache.org:
- 72 subscribers (up 6 in the last 3 months):
- 11 emails sent to list (53 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 18 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 14 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
-----------------------------------------
Attachment Z: 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:
Still no new release yet since the graduation to TLP this month.
And there’s a growing demand for a new release (2.4.6).
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 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.
Last month, we reported on the new Twitter account
(@ApacheGroovy [1]) to spread Groovy-related news.
We reached 1000 followers and are now at over 1200 followers.
## 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.
Last month, we entered the TIOBE programming language index
at the 17th position, and for February, we’re ranked 20th.
Upcoming Groovy dedicated conferences are coming up:
- GR8Days in Poland in March (new conference)
- Greach in Spain in April
- GR8Conf Europe in June
- GR8Conf US in July
- G3 Summit in December (new conference)
## 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:
- 323 subscribers (up 36 in the last 3 months):
- 369 emails sent to list (412 in previous quarter)
- dev@groovy.apache.org:
- 194 subscribers (up 22 in the last 3 months):
- 338 emails sent to list (433 in previous quarter)
- issues@groovy.apache.org:
- 8 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months)
- notifications@groovy.apache.org:
- 25 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months):
- 943 emails sent to list (1059 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 81 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 79 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 AA: Report from the Apache Hama Project [ChiaHung Lin]
## Description:
Hama is an efficient and scalable general-purpose BSP computing engine.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- The community is still being baked and relatively small but getting
stabilized.
- There's effort to integrate Hama with beam (dataflow) project from
outside the community.
## Health report:
- We preparing 0.7.1 release that contained updates and bug fixes.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 10 PMC members.
- Behroz Sikander was added to the PMC on Thu Jan 28 2016
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 15 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Minho Kim at Thu Jun 11 2015
## Releases:
- Last release was 0.7.0 on Sun Jun 14 2015
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@hama.apache.org:
- 113 subscribers (up 3 in the last 3 months):
- 96 emails sent to list (146 in previous quarter)
- user@hama.apache.org:
- 186 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 24 emails sent to list (44 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 3 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 5 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
-----------------------------------------
Attachment AB: Report from the Apache HTTP Server Project [Eric Covener]
## Description:
The Apache HTTP Server Project develops and maintains an
open-source HTTP server for modern operating systems.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- mod_h2 (HTTP/2 implementation) is under active development and
garnering significant user feedback. Thank you Steffen!
- mod_proxy: Jim added some very cool proxy health check support,
and reverse proxy docs, to trunk. Thanks as always to Jim!
- Docs: Our newest committer has been aggressively going through
bugzilla and improving some important docs. Thanks Luca!
- Work to support OpenSSL 1.1.0 in trunk was started to enable
feedback to the new API before the first OpenSSL 1.1.0 beta.
Thanks Rainer!
## Health report:
- mod_proxy joins mod_h2 in the active development category,
most other areas still see maitnenance-only.
- users@ down marginally, dev@ up marginally
## PMC changes:
- Currently 44 PMC members.
- Jean-Frederic Clere was added to the PMC on Tue Nov 24 2015 (last PMC
addition)
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 114 committers.
- Luca Toscano was added as a committer on Fri Jan 22 2016 (last committer
addition)
## Releases:
- 2.4.18 was released on December 14, 2015.
## Bugzilla Statistics:
- 70 Bugzilla tickets created in the last 3 months
- 44 Bugzilla tickets resolved in the last 3 months
-----------------------------------------
Attachment AC: Report from the Apache HttpComponents Project [Asankha Perera]
-----------------------------------------
Attachment AD: Report from the Apache Ignite Project [Dmitriy Setrakyan]
-----------------------------------------
Attachment AE: 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 49 podlings currently undergoing incubation.
* Community
New IPMC members:
- Greg Trasuk
* New Podlings
- iota (formerly Tempo)
- Beam (formerly Dataflow)
* Graduations
None this month.
* Releases
The following releases entered distribution during the month of
January:
- 2016-01-07 Apache Trafodion 1.3.0-incubating
- 2016-01-08 Apache Slider 0.90.2-incubating
- 2016-01-13 Apache HTrace 4.0.1-incubating
- 2016-01-14 Apache Singa 0.2.0
- 2016-01-17 Apache Malhar v3.3.0-incubating
- 2016-01-21 Apache Zeppelin 0.5.6-incubating
- 2016-01-25 Apache Ranger 0.5.1
- 2016-01-26 Apache Twill 0.7.0-incubating
- 2016-01-28 Apache FreeMarker 2.3.24-rc01-incubating
Wave's release candidate finally received its 3rd and 4th IPMC +1 votes,
nearly three months after it was submitted to general@incubator on
November 3rd, 2015.
* IP Clearance
- Thomas Weise, Siyuan Hua, Jean-Baptiste Note, and Datatorrent Inc.
donated Kafka on YARN (KOYA), an "app-package" built for use with Apache
Slider (incubating).
* Legal / Trademarks
More podlings have begun reviewing names prior to entry into the Incubator
in order to avoid the inconvenience of mid-incubation name change to
users, developers and Apache Infra.
- The proposed "Dataflow" podling adopted the name "Beam" because the
Dataflow brand was not donated -- Google will continue to provide
"Google Cloud Dataflow".
- The proposed "Tempo" podling renamed itself "iota", in part to avoid the
possibility of confusion with a similarly named project.
* Miscellaneous
- Several podlings experienced difficulties implementing Apache
requirements for LICENSE and NOTICE. Draft documentation provided by
Todd Lipcon was discussed.
- Some incoming proposals have started adopting the "Additional Interested
Contributors" section, which allows people to express interest in the
project while deferring the sensitive subject of commit privileges.
* Credits
- Report Manager: Marvin Humphrey
-------------------- Summary of podling reports --------------------
* Still getting started at the Incubator
- Milagro
* Not yet ready to graduate
No release:
- Concerted
- Eagle
- Fineract
- HORN
- Kudu
- log4cxx
- Metron
- S2Graph
- SystemML
- Unomi
Community growth:
- AsterixDB
- Blur
- ODF Toolkit
- Slider
- Tamaya
- TinkerPop
- Twill
* Did not report, expected next month
- Impala
- iota (new)
- OpenAZ (two months missed)
- Sirona
- Toree
* Report Incomplete
- CMDA
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Table of Contents
AsterixDB
Blur
Concerted
Eagle
Fineract
HORN
iota
Kudu
log4cxx2
Metron
Milagro
ODF Toolkit
S2Graph
Slider
SystemML
Tamaya
TinkerPop
Twill
Unomi
----------------------------------------------------------------------
--------------------
AsterixDB
Apache AsterixDB is a scalable big data management system (BDMS) that
provides storage, management, and query capabilities for large
collections of semi-structured data.
AsterixDB has been incubating since 2015-02-28.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Do an Apache release that can also provide binary artifacts with
correct LICENSEs and NOTICEs.
2.
3.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
No.
How has the community developed since the last report?
- Heri Ramampiaro was added as a committer on Jan 16.
How has the project developed since the last report?
- Continued active development.
- Current focus on stabilizing the code base.
- The most important issue to be addressed is still the same as for
the last report, but significant progress has been made (by Ian with
a lot of support from Ate) and RC2 for the binary release is
currently under review.
Date of last release:
2015-10-22 AsterixDB 0.8.7
2015-09-22 Hyracks 0.2.16
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
2016-01-16 Heri Ramampiaro
Signed-off-by:
[X](asterixdb) Ate Douma
[ ](asterixdb) Chris Mattmann
[X](asterixdb) Henry Saputra
[ ](asterixdb) Jochen Wiedmann
[ ](asterixdb) Ted Dunning
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
--------------------
Blur
Blur is a search platform capable of searching massive amounts of data
in a cloud computing environment.
Blur has been incubating since 2012-07-24.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Greater community involvement.
2. Produce releases.
3.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
- No
How has the community developed since the last report?
- Subscriptions: user@ - 56[+1]; dev@ - 72[+2]
- The community involvement has not really changed over the past few
months.
How has the project developed since the last report?
- The software has a few additional features, and bug fixes.
Date of last release:
2014-07-29
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
2014-07-28
Signed-off-by:
[ ](blur) Doug Cutting
[X](blur) Patrick Hunt
[ ](blur) Tim Williams
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.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. First release
2. Establish a consistent development process and release rhythm.
3. Expanding the community and continuing to add new committers.
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?
Latest Additions:
* PMC addition: NA
* Commiter addition: 1 (ICLA submission pending)
Issue backlog status since last report:
* Created: 0
* Resolved: 0
Mailing list activity since last report:
* @dev 24 messages
* @issues 2 messages
* @commits 0 messages
How has the project developed since the last report?
- Project has been dormant for the most part, Mentors have raised their
concerns regarding it
- Working on scripts to automate the release process for our first Apache
Concerted release candidate
- Website is created and is under review before it is published
- Refactoring of existing code
Date of last release:
- Working towards our first release candidate.
Signed-off-by:
[X](concerted) Chris Nauroth
[ ](concerted) Daniel Dai
[X](concerted) Jake Farrell
[X](concerted) Julian Hyde
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
Chris Nauroth (cnauroth):
Once again, I'll echo concerns about lack of activity and potential
long-term viability of the project.
Julian Hyde (jhyde):
I share Chris's concerns. The project claim that activity is happening
in private; if so, it would be hugely beneficial to make that activity
public. Having said that, filing a report on time and appointing a
committer is activity, and that is appreciated.
--------------------
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. Get the first Apache release ready
2. Clarify and publish the roadmap
3. Improve the community participation
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
Nil
How has the community developed since the last report?
- We presented about Apache Eagle in Big Data Summit on Jan 27th.
- We are preparing decks for Strata Hadoop and Hadoop summit Europe.
- We are seeing participation from engineers with different background.
- We have a release manager identified in the community for the first
release.
How has the project developed since the last report?
- Community is focussing on getting the release ready
- 19 commits in github
- 17 JIRA's closed
- 534 discussions on the dev mailing list
The community is working on some exciting features in the Eagle framework
to make it more generic and support for new data sources.
Date of last release:
Nil
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
On Feb 1st Ralph Su was elected as a committer. We are looking forward to
his contributions.
Signed-off-by:
[ ](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):
Project is beginning to focus on producing a first release, which is
good. Other activity is healthy.
--------------------
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. Inform the non-technical part of the existing Mifos.org community of
the change in project structure
2. Getting new committers up to speed on Apache processes and philosophy
3. Replacing dependencies that are not compliant with the license policies
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?
Since the code was initially pushed over, the community is working on the
first release.
In addition to the initial committer new contributors started to work on
the project.
How has the project developed since the last report?
The initial code is now available and the work to meet the license
policies has started.
Date of last release:
N/A
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
Signed-off-by:
[ ](fineract) Ross Gardler
[ ](fineract) Greg Stein
[X](fineract) Roman Shaposhnik
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
--------------------
HORN
HORN is a neuron-centric programming APIs and execution framework for large-
scale deep learning, built on top of Apache Hama.
HORN has been incubating since 2015-09-04.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Continue to gain and attract contributors.
2. Produce a first Apache release.
3. Finalize Architecture and API design
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
There are no issues requiring IPMC attention at this time.
How has the community developed since the last report?
- The subscribers are slightly increased but activities are low.
- We're considering collaborate or integrate with another deep learning
open source softwares for example Samsung Veles.
- We also discuss about early stage retiring from incubation if low
community growth is expected.
- dev@horn.i.a.o. 39 subscribers
How has the project developed since the last report?
We're developing Parameter Server and APIs but there's no notable
improvements.
Date of last release:
XXXX-XX-XX
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
- 2015-11-17 New committers: Zachary Jaffee.
Signed-off-by:
[x](horn) Luciano Resende
[ ](horn) Robin Anil
[x](horn) Edward J. Yoon
[ ](horn) Rich Bowen
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
--------------------
iota
iota is a scalable, secure and modular platform to interconnect
IoT devices.
iota has been incubating since 2016-01-20.
Signed-off-by:
[x](iota) Daniel Gruno
[ ](iota) Justin Mclean
[ ](iota) Sterling Hughes
[x](iota) Hadrian Zbarcea
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
Hadrian Zbarcea (hadrian):
iota just entered incubation, mailing lists and most of the infra are
created. Committers are in the process of submitting their iclas and the
code needs to be moved to the asf repository.
--------------------
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. Continue to move over infrastructure (JIRA, etc) to ASF
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.
How has the community developed since the last report?
- In January, we have received patches from three new contributors. The
patches were of varying size (from trivial to quite significant) but
we're encouraged that new developers are finding the patch submission
process approachable.
- Overall >110 patches were committed in January from 11 developers
representing three organizations. Discounting some large patches which
replaced our copyright boilerplate, license notices, etc, around
10-12kloc were changed in January. This is a substantial increase
compared to December which had only 29 patches, representing less than
1000 lines of changed code.
Lines of code are not a primary metric we track, but the above shows
that the community is getting back into rapid and lively development
after a lull during the holiday season. This is also evident in the dev
list traffic (1084 messages so far in January).
- Community members continue to give public talks about Kudu at various
conferences and meetups. Talks were delivered at meetups in Atlanta and
Palo Alto, and more are being scheduled for the coming months.
- The public Kudu Slack channel has proven fairly popular among both the
developer and user communities. The group now has 116 members, of which
~20 are typically active on an average weekday.
How has the project developed since the last report?
Since the last report, we've accomplished the following milestones:
- We set up a workflow and scripting for committers to easily push work
that has been reviewed on Gerrit into our official ASF repository. We
are following the best practices established by the AsterixDB podling.
- We moved over our user and developer discussions to ASF mailing lists
and discontinued usage of our old Google Groups. Migration of JIRA is an
ongoing project which we hope to close out this coming month.
- We set up publicly-accessible precommit builds so that non-Cloudera
contributors can see automated test results for their contributions.
- We adjusted our licensing boilerplate and documentation to comply with
our understanding of ASF policies. We also started to build scripting
for doing ASF-style source releases. We are planning on doing our first
release in the incubator in early Feb.
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
[ ](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. Create a release
2. Activate some community
3.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
There's an ongoing discussion to move the project to attic unless it is
able to release in the next few months.
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?
After the discussion about the activity of the project and the success of
the incubation process, there's currently a member willing to step through
the release process. The initial plan on incubation anyway was to primary
apply available patches and release those bug fixes.
Additionally, there's once more a discussion about the supported build
platforms, because currently the project heavily focusses on cpptasks,
which is not maintained and simply doesn't support current versions of all
formerly supported IDEs anymore. The current focus is on dropping
cpptasks and ANT for the build of the software and use autoconf and/or
cmake instead.
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) Scott Deboy
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
Marvin Humphrey (marvin):
Ralph Goers has volunteered to serve as Mentor.
--------------------
Metron
Metron integrates a variety of open source big data technologies in order to
offer a centralized tool for security monitoring and analysis. Metron
provides capabilities for log aggregation, full packet capture indexing,
storage, advanced behavioral analytics and data enrichment, while applying
the most current threat-intelligence information to security telemetry
within a single platform.
Metron has been incubating since 12-08-2015
Three most important issues to address in the move towards
Graduation.
- Building a diverse community of developers for Metron
- Getting security practitioners to provide feedback on requirements
- Make an Apache release
Any issues that the Incubator PMC or ASF Board might wish/need to be aware
of?
- We are currently trying to produce the first Apache release of Metron
- We would like to request Apache infrastructure (a Jenkins server) for CI
How has the community developed since the last report
- We started working on implementing a variety of new features on Metron
- We did a Meetup in the DC area jointly with Capital One. We had over 75
people in attendance with many expressing interest in joining the Metron
project
How has the project developed since the last report
- This month we have closed 7 key Jiras and built up scripts for standing
up an integration and test environment for Metron that anyone in the
community can take advantage of
Signed-off-by:
[x](metron) Billie Rinaldi
[ ](metron) Chris Mattmann
[ ](metron) Owen O'Malley
[X](metron) P. Taylor Goetz
[ ](metron) Vinod K
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
--------------------
Milagro
Distributed Cryptography; M-Pin protocol for Identity and Trust
Milagro has been incubating since 2015-12-21.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Import the Software
2. Develop the community
3. Establish the project's identity
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?
The community has voted to invite four further developers to join as
committers and PPMC members. Two of these were omissions from the Initial
Committers list; the others are new. We are in the process of inviting
them.
How has the project developed since the last report?
Milagro is still in the very early stages of incubation, and performing
the mechanical tasks of code movement and infrastructure setup is our
first priority.
We have started developing the community on the Apache mailinglists, but
have yet to move other activities to Apache.
Date of last release:
n/a
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
n/a (but see above - we are inviting new developers on board).
Signed-off-by:
[ ](milagro) Sterling Hughes
[ ](milagro) Jan Willem Janssen
[*](milagro) Nick Kew
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
--------------------
ODF Toolkit
Java modules that allow programmatic creation, scanning and manipulation of
OpenDocument Format (ISO/IEC 26300 == ODF) documents
ODF Toolkit has been incubating since 2011-08-01.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Grow the community.
2. Develop a new release.
3. Plan for future iterations.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
Still pretty quiet, but users are raising issues and new developers are
submitting patches.
How has the community developed since the last report?
There are a growing number of interested users and developers.
We need to maintain their interest and plan for future enhancements.
How has the project developed since the last report?
A number of tickets have been resolved and a new release is being
prepared, aiming for mid year or earlier. There are Java version issues
to be addressed first.
Date of last release:
2014-06-02
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
2012-10-29
Signed-off-by:
[ ](odftoolkit) Sam Ruby
[X](odftoolkit) Nick Burch
[ ](odftoolkit) Yegor Kozlov
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
Nick Burch (nick):
It's a shame that the large amount of private work done can't be
contributed back to the project, as that could've been a big help. We
are seeing activity again, and the work towards a release which could
help grow interest. More committers are needed, but no strong
candidates are currently visible, so outreach work is needed. Despite
these issues, the project certainly deserves another 3 months to see if
they can turn the corner.
--------------------
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?
List[Nothing].empty
How has the community developed since the last report?
* There are two new contributors who have been developing a backend
storage using Redis.
* We are currently working with RTC. We made 6 commits by this process.
* For RTC, we use the Pull Request in Github to review the code.
How has the project developed since the last report?
* [S2GRAPH-9] We added a new REST server using Netty which shows better
performance with fewer resources.
* [S2GRAPH-7] For the above, common codes such as parsing JSON are moved
to s2core.
* [S2GRAPH-14] We generalize the HBase-specific code for adding other
storages easy.
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:
--------------------
Slider
Slider is a collection of tools and technologies to package, deploy, and
manage long running applications on Apache Hadoop YARN clusters.
Slider has been incubating since 2014-04-29.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Getting more external users
2. Getting more diverse set of developers
3. Getting more diverse set of committers/PMC
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 completed the IP clearance for the contribution of a Kafka app
package for Slider, KOYA. We have a few patches that have been
submitted by contributors and still need to be reviewed.
How has the project developed since the last report?
We added a new app package for running Apache Tomcat on Slider.
We released slider-0.90.2-incubating (the first in the 0.90 line), a
preview/alpha release containing a major new feature, anti-affinity
placement. Also, we have reworked our release process and are
planning our next release for around March 1.
Date of last release:
2016-01-09 slider-0.90.2-incubating
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
2015-07-07: Yu (Thomas) Liu
Signed-off-by:
[ ](slider) Arun C Murthy
[ ](slider) Devaraj Das
[X](slider) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
[ ](slider) Mahadev Konar
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 running on 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:
- 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.
- Produce a release (in progress).
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
NONE. We have resolved our blocking infrastructure issues related to
project JIRA.
How has the community developed since the last report?
Our mailing list in January had 123 messages (7 of which were Jenkins). We
have had several useful discussions on the mailing list concerning various
aspects of SystemML. We have had several additional discussions on our
JIRA site and in our Pull Request conversations. We have received
usability feedback which includes filing JIRA issues and mailing list
activity.
How has the project developed since the last report?
Numerous additions have been made to the project, including core
functionality, usability improvements, and documentation. The project has
had 96 commits since January 6. In the last 30 days, 126 new issues have
been reported on our JIRA site and 68 issues have been resolved. We are in
the process of producing our first Apache release, version 0.9.0. RC3
passed the SystemML PMC vote and is currently being voted on by the IPMC.
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:
--------------------
Tamaya
Tamaya is a highly flexible configuration solution based on an modular,
extensible and injectable key/value based design, which should provide a
minimal but extendible modern and functional API leveraging SE, ME and EE
environments.
Tamaya has been incubating since 2014-11-14.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Make the project known in projects world-wide.
2. Release more often.
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?
We have new people committing to our project and are in good hope
one or another will join us as an official committer. JUG talks in
Switzerland showed that the project is widely known and well
appreciated in the enterprise context.
How has the project developed since the last report?
The project's API has proven to work very well. We added
additional integrations with several key technologies such
as Spring, OSGI and CDI. We streamlined our build and also
had discussions on some needed enhancements on the API/SPI.
We are currently working on the final aspects for getting out
our next release, which within 2-4 weeks.
Date of last release:
2015-08-22
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
25th January 2015
Signed-off-by:
[x](tamaya) John D. Ament
[ ](tamaya) Mark Struberg
[ ](tamaya) Gerhard Petracek
[ ](tamaya) David Blevins
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
John D. Ament (johndament):
The core committers are very dedicated to the project. However, there's
only two of them. For the project to be sustainable, they need to show
growth in contributors.
--------------------
TinkerPop
TinkerPop is a graph computing framework written in Java
TinkerPop has been incubating since 2015-01-16.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Add more members to the PPMC.
2. Add more members to the committer list.
3. N/A (unless the mentors have ideas?)
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
Nothing at this time.
How has the community developed since the last report?
We have 2 new committers: Dylan Millikin and Ted Wilmes. Ted Wilmes has
also joined the PPMC.
How has the project developed since the last report?
Since the last status report, 166 new JIRA issues have been created and127
have been resolved. Travis CI has been enabled so all PRs are
automatically built and tested upon submittal. Open discussions of project
related activities and decisions continue on the TinkerPop dev mailing
list.
We continue to reach out to other Apache projects to discuss integration
possibilities. Since the last report, we have had discussions with Apache
Flink and Apache S2Graph about adding TinkerPop support.
A number of graph providers have released new versions of their software
with TinkerPop support. These include Stardog, Blazegraph, and OrientDB
(via the community driven, orientdb-gremlin). This demonstrates a
continued community interest, and demand for TinkerPop support.
A tutorials section has been added to the TinkerPop homepage along with a
number of tutorials targeted at the TinkerPop beginner. The hope is that
this will lower the barrier of entry for new folks who are interested in
the graph space and TinkerPop in particular.
The following articles/presentations/blogposts were provided about
TinkerPop from TinkerPop members since the last report:
* Rodriguez, M.A., "Quantum Walks with Gremlin"
<http://arxiv.org/abs/1511.06278>, Graph Day, January 2016.
* Mallette, S.P., Kuppitz, D., "Titan 1.0 Data Migration"
<https://github.com/dkuppitz/openflights>, December 2015.
Date of last release:
* 2015-11-24
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
* Dylan Millikin - committer (11/4/2015)
* Ted Wilmes - committer (11/10/2015) PPMC (1/11/2016)
Please see our Project Status page as we have been diligent to update it
accordingly.
http://incubator.apache.org/projects/tinkerpop.html
Signed-off-by:
[ ](tinkerpop) Rich Bowen
[x](tinkerpop) Daniel Gruno
[x](tinkerpop) Hadrian Zbarcea
[ ](tinkerpop) Matt Franklin
[ ](tinkerpop) David Nalley
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
Hadrian Zbarcea (hadrian):
TinkerPop is making good progress. If they focus on the 2 points above
relating to growing the community I think they'll be ready to graduate.
Daniel Gruno (humbedooh):
+1 to Hadrian's statement. We have been chatting a bit about getting a
thread going about what remains before graduation.
--------------------
Twill
Twill is an abstraction over Apache Hadoop® YARN to reduce the complexity
of developing distributed applications.
Twill has been incubating since 2013-11-14.
Top three items to resolve before graduation:
- More engagement from the community.
- Improve documentations and examples.
- Increase adoption.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
- None at this time.
How has the community developed since the last report?
- Graduation discussion is happening in dev mailing list
- Published release 0.7.0-incubating
- 10 new JIRA issues filed since last report
- 7 JIRA issues resolved since last report
- 1 new contributors submitted patches
How has the project developed since the last report?
- Version 0.8.0-incubating is being worked upon
- Support for Azure Blob Storage
Date of last release:
- 2016-01-26: 0.7.0-incubating
What are the plans for the next period?
- Encourage contributions from active users
- Identify potential committers
- Engage more on social channels (IRC and Twitter)
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
- August 4, 2015 : Henry Saputra
Signed-off-by:
[ ](twill) Vinod K
[ ](twill) Arun C Murthy
[X](twill) Tom White
[X](twill) Patrick Hunt
[ ](twill) Andrei Savu
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. They are now mostly
waiting for the 1.0.0-incubating release. That's our highest priority
right now.
How has the project developed since the last report?
Our focus was on Unomi 1.0.0-incubating release. Unfortunately, a couple
of issues (see next section) blocked the vote.
We are fixing those issues to submit a take 3 on 1.0.0-incubating release.
Date of last release:
Unomi 1.0.0-incubating (take 2) has been called to vote, but the vote
didn't passed due to:
* the src distribution included binaries
* the NOTICE file was incomplete
We were concerned by the NOTICE as it wasn't obvious and not clear (both
on the licensing howto and on the mailing list). Following Justin McLean
advices, we should be able to update the NOTICE (hopefully, this one will
be complete). We are now working on 1.0.0-incubating (take 3) release.
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
None
Signed-off-by:
[X](unomi) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
[ ](unomi) Bertrand Delacretaz
[ ](unomi) Chris Mattmann
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
-----------------------------------------
Attachment AF: Report from the Apache jUDDI Project [Alex O'Ree]
February 2016 Report for the jUDDI project
jUDDI (pronounced "Judy") is an open source Java implementation of the
Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration (UDDI v3)
specification for (Web) Services. The jUDDI project includes Scout.
Scout is an implementation of the JSR 93 - Java API for XML Registries
1.0 (JAXR).
jUDDI
- Low traffic on the mailing lists this quarter.
- 3.3.2 Released November 10, 2015
Scout
- No release this period, no development took place.
- Very low volume of JAXR related questions on the mailing list.
Last PMC addition and new committer April 3, 2013 (Alex O'Ree)
Last Release jUDDI-3.3.2, November 10, 2015
There are no issues that require the boards attention at this time.
-----------------------------------------
Attachment AG: Report from the Apache Kafka Project [Jun Rao]
Apache Kafka is a distributed pub/sub system for efficiently collecting and
delivering a large number of messages to both offline and online systems.
Development
===========
We released 0.9.0.0, which include the following major features: (1) a new
java-based consumer; (2) authorization (through ssl and sasl) and
authentication; (3) quotas; (4) Kafka connect: a framework for copying data
into and out of Kafka. We are actively working on critical bug fixes from
0.9.0.0 and new features such as KStream.
Community
===========
Lots of activities in the mailing list. We have 1828 subscribers in the user
mailing list, up 148 in the last 3 months. We have 1513 emails in the user
mailing list in the last 3 months, up from 1197 in the previous cycle. We have
687 subscribers in the dev mailing list, up 51 in the last 3 months. We have
5779 emails in the dev mailing list in the last 3 months, up from 5344 in the
previous cycle. We last elected a new committer Ewen Cheslack-Postava on Dec.
8, 2015.
Releases
===========
0.9.0.0 was released on Nov. 24, 2015.
-----------------------------------------
Attachment AH: Report from the Apache Knox Project [Kevin Minder]
# Description
The Knox Gateway is a REST API gateway for securing Hadoop REST APIs at the
perimeter. We are starting to move into the UI proxy and UI SSO space as well.
# Issues
* This quarter has seen discusson on dev@knox from a single individual
expressing concern reguarding the project's development practices. See:
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/knox-dev/201512.mbox/%3CCAD-Ua_ibfetwjD2Mx1rOhXzc1y0h6b4PaXZThuByuRKp9oh29g@mail.gmail.com%3E
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/knox-dev/201512.mbox/%3CCACRbFyjvkoWZ8QsqzXO-bJ3dGwSeowa_UL=a0J=+GbDTjhRy8g@mail.gmail.com%3E
These issues were discussed and as a result the communities existing
CTR vs RTC practices were refined, clarified and the site contribution process
documentation updated. I believe this was a beneficial discussion.
# Status
* We did two releases this quarter which is a first.
* More importantly the 0.8.0 release is the first hilighting a non-committer
contributed feature as its primary release driver.
* The 0.7.0 release also however did include a significantly increased
amount of non-committer contributed content over prior releases.
* Starting work for a 0.9.0 release. We may consider this for our 1.0 release.
# Releases
* 0.8.0: 2016-02-04
* 0.7.0: 2015-12-15
* 0.6.0: 2015-04-30
* 0.5.1: 2015-12-01
* 0.5.0: 2014-11-04
* 0.4.0: 2014-04-21
* 0.3.0: 2013-10-13 (Incubating)
# Development Activity
* Community just began development towards a 0.9.0/1.0.0 release
* Jira: 668 total, 132 open, +46 -72 over last 90 days
* Git (Source): 62 commits over last 90 days
* SVN (Site & Docs): 15 commits over last 90 days
# Community Activity
## Contributors Added
* None
## Membership Changes
* None
## Mailing List Activity
* dev@knox: 933 messages over last 90 days
* user@knox: 58 messages over last 90 days
-----------------------------------------
Attachment AI: 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:
============
- Mailing list, JIRA, and commit activity are at or above average.
- We are working on release v2.0-Beta
- Requesting international trademark registration
- Updated project list of ASF home page
- Kylin's topic has been selected at Hadoop Summit Dublin 2016
- Submitted topic at Hadoop Summit San Jose 2016
- Yahoo! JAPAN submitted one topic at Hadoop/Spark Conference Japan 2016
## Community:
=============
- 2 committers and 0 PMC members appointed after last report.
- Messages on the dev mailing list after last report: 569
- Messages on the user mailing list after last report: 116
- 123 JIRA tickets created after last report
- 81 JIRA tickets closed/resolved after last report
## Releases:
============
- The last release was v1.2 on Dec 15, 2015
-----------------------------------------
Attachment AJ: Report from the Apache Lens Project [Amareshwari Sriramadasu]
Report from the Apache Lens committee
## Description:
Apache Lens is a platform that enables multi-dimensional queries in a unified
way over datasets stored in multiple warehouses. Lens integrates Apache Hive
with other data warehouses by tiering them together to form logical data cubes.
## Activity:
- Capability added to load multiple drivers of same type.
- Stabilized query submission throttling feature.
- Added saved query and parameterization feature.
- User facing error propagation has been improved.
- User facing CLI has many improvements.
- Moving to Apache Hive dependency is dev complete and being tested.
- Release 2.5.0-beta is planned and is in progress.
- A weekly/bi-weekly hangout was proposed by community for individuals to
break the ice as well as to get more involved. But not many active
participants. Happened only for a month.
## Issues :
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 16 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Raju Bairishetti on Wed July 19 2015
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 20 committers.
- New committers :
+ Deepak Kumar Barr on Nov 07 2015
+ Pranav Kumar Agarwal on Oct 31 2015
+ Amruth S on Oct 23 2015
+ Sushil Mohanty on Oct 23 2015
- Last committer addition was Deepak Kumar Barr at Sat Nov 07 2015
## Releases:
- Lens-2.4.0-beta was released on Mon Nov 23 2015
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@lens.apache.org:
- 64 subscribers (+3 from last report):
- 1988 emails sent in the past 3 months, 2506 in the previous cycle
- user@lens.apache.org:
- 56 subscribers (+4 from last report):
- 31 emails sent in the past 3 months, 83 in the previous cycle
- commits@lens.apache.org:
- 29 subscribers (+2 from last report):
- 216 emails sent in the past 3 months, 261 in the previous cycle
## JIRA activity:
- 87 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 74 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
-----------------------------------------
Attachment AK: Report from the Apache Libcloud Project [Tomaž Muraus]
Libcloud is a Python library that abstracts away the differences among
multiple cloud provider APIs.
General
We had a good amount of activity in the past couple of months and we
are finally moving towards a v1.0 release.
Recently we have released a first preview of the v1.0 release which
includes two new APIs - one for managing Backup as a Service projects
and products and one for managing Containers as a Service projects
and products (Kubernetes, Amazon Container Service, Joyent Triton,
etc.).
People interested in this new APIs can learn more about them in those
posts:
- https://libcloud.apache.org/blog/2016/01/20/libcloud-1.0-pre1.html
- https://libcloud.apache.org/blog/2016/02/05/libcloud-containers-example.html
- http://www.slideshare.net/AnthonyShaw5/introducing-container-asaservice-support-to-apache-libcloud
Issues
There are no issues which require board attention at this time.
Releases
- Libcloud v0.20.0 on December 16th, 2015
- Libcloud v0.20.1 on January 19th, 2016
- Libcloud v1.0.0-pre1 on January 25th, 2016
Community
- Anthony Shaw (anthonyshaw) joined us as a committer and a PMC member
in November 2015
- Anthony Shaw was a guest in FLOSS Weekly podcast where he talked about
Libcloud - https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly/episodes/373?autostart=false
- Anthony Shaw presented Libcloud and the new Container as a Service API
abstraction at the Sydney Python Meetup -
http://www.slideshare.net/AnthonyShaw5/introducing-container-asaservice-support-to-apache-libcloud
-----------------------------------------
Attachment AL: Report from the Apache Logging Services Project [Ralph Goers]
The Apache Logging Services Project creates and maintains open-
source software related to application logging.
Currently there are no issues which require the board's attention.
- Community
Log4j 2 remains an active project. The overall community is healthy
and friendly.
Log4cxx is still active in the Incubator. A thread was started on
the incubator mailing list asking for help in getting new mentors.
This resulted in 2 people offering to help. It also digressed into
a discussion about closing down the podling. The podling is actively
discussing how to create a release that doesn't use Java build tools.
In general, all subprojects are still healthy although none has grown
much since the last report.
- Project Branding Requirements
All components except Chainsaw meet the branding requirements.
We will fix the Chainsaw branding with the next release.
- Last three community changes
* Ralph Goers was voted to be the next Chair on Nov 01 2015
* Mikael Staldal joined as a Committer on Sep 17 2015
* Matt Sicker joined as PMC Member on Aug 10 2014
- Releases
* Log4j 2.5 (Dec 9, 2015)
* log4net 1.2.15 (Dec 8 2015)
* Log4net 1.2.14 (Nov 10 2015)
- Subproject summaries
Log4j 2: Active. Releases every 2-3 months.
Log4j 1: EOL announced. Bugzilla closed for new issues.
Log4net: Active with 2 recent releases
Log4cxx: Active in the Incubator. Discussions on how to perform a release
are in progress.
Log4php: Almost no activity, but questions on the mailing lists are answered.
Chainsaw: Ready for a new release.
-----------------------------------------
Attachment AM: Report from the Apache ManifoldCF Project [Karl Wright]
Project description
==============
ManifoldCF is an effort to provide an open source framework for connecting
source content repositories like Microsoft Sharepoint and EMC Documentum, to
target repositories or indexes, such as Apache Solr, OpenSearchServer or
ElasticSearch. ManifoldCF also defines a security model for target
repositories that permits them to enforce source-repository security policies.
Releases
========
ManifoldCF graduated from the Apache Incubator on May 16, 2012. Since then,
there have been numerous major releases, including a 2.3 release on
December 17, 2015. We have now discontinued planned releases for the 1.x
ManifoldCF platform. The next major release is scheduled for April 30, 2016.
Committers and PMC membership
=============================
The last committer we signed up was Tugba Dogan on September 7, 2015.
Mailing list activity
=====================
Mailing list has been light this quarter, except for December. Most of our
connectors have significant use cases and constituencies and are mature
offerings. There is a notable cycle of activity seemingly centered on quarter
ends which seems to have become more pronounced. Dev list
comments for this period centered around the ManifoldCF 2.3 release in December,
and occasional user questions. I am unaware of any mailing-list question that
has gone unanswered.
Outstanding issues
==================
No outstanding infrastructure issues are known at this time.
Branding
========
We continue to believe we are now compliant with Apache branding guidelines,
with the possible exception of (TM) signs in logos from other Apache products
that don't have any such marks. We received word that the ManifoldCF
trademark application (US TM App No. 86583085 for "MANIFOLDCF" in Cl. 9 | DLA
Ref: 393457-900118) has been accepted.
-----------------------------------------
Attachment AN: Report from the Apache Marmotta Project [Jakob Frank]
Marmotta Board Report for February 2016
=======================================
Apache Marmotta, an Open Platform for Linked Data.
Apache Marmotta was founded in December 2012 and has graduated from the
Incubator in November 2013.
Another low activity quarter, with just small developments towards what the
project should release as 3.4.0 in the upcoming weeks. The stability of the
source code is heading the project to get more focused activity out there,
getting quite some interesting contributions to improve the performance.
One the 3.4 milestone, the project already discussed to take bigger steps for
a new release (4.0?), where new fresh things, like Java 8 and Sesame 4, should
come in.
The last developments regarding geospatial querying (GeoSPARQL) have reached
the news with, not only posts at the ASF/OGC blogs, but also at some
third-party media.
We are already trying to find the resources necessary to adapt the project
identity (mainly logo) to the new look recently adopted by The Foundation.
Subscribers to the projects mailing list:
dev@marmotta.a.o: 88 subscribers (+2 since last report, 2015-11)
users@marmotta.a.o: 107 subscribers (+5 since last report, 2015-11)
Releases:
2014-12-05 (3.3.0)
2014-05-20 (3.2.1)
Committers & PMC (last additions):
Peter Ansell (committer&PMC, 2013-06-24)
Raffaele Palmieri (committer&PMC, 2013-05-21)
Issues for the Board:
There are no Board-level issues at this time.
-----------------------------------------
Attachment AO: Report from the Apache MetaModel Project [Kasper Sørensen]
## Description:
Providing a common interface for discovery, exploration of metadata and
querying of different types of data sources.
## Issues:
- there are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity:
- Initial work being done on MetaModel 5.0 which involves upgrading to
Java 8and supporting the new language features and JDK.
- Discussions are going on about whether we should update our logo and
general look'n'feel of the Apache MetaModel "brand".
## PMC changes:
- Currently 10 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Ankit Kumar on Wed Nov 19 2014
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 11 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Dennis Du Krøger at Thu Oct 15 2015
## Releases:
- 4.5.0 was released on Thu Dec 17 2015
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@metamodel.apache.org:
- 69 subscribers (up 4 in the last 3 months):
- 510 emails sent to list (582 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 25 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 14 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
-----------------------------------------
Attachment AP: Report from the Apache Oltu Project [Antonio Sanso]
DESCRIPTION
Oltu is a project to develop a Java library which provides an API
specification for, and an unconditionally compliant implementation of the
OAuth v2.0 specifications. OAuth is a mechanism that allows users to
authenticate and authorise access by another party to resources they control
while avoiding the need to share their username and password credentials.
MILESTONES
Apache Oltu 1.0 was released on March 3rd 2014.
Apache Oltu Oauth2 module version 1.0.1 was released September 24th 2015
CURRENT ACTIVITY
The core part of the project related to 'The OAuth 2.0 Authorization
Framework' (RFC 6749) is pretty stable due the fact RFC 6749 is now a
standard.
A stable version 1.0 was released on March 3rd 2014 and some minor releases
are going out regularly for bug fixing. The current intention is to extend the
coverage to the JWE (started in OLTU-80)
- Implement JWE support for JWT In Progress ). We completed the "Handling
Cryptography" process (http://www.apache.org/dev/crypto.html) in
OLTU-162 - Handling Cryptography within OLTU Release Resolved .
Users activity is growing slowly but steadily (the user@ mailing list has got
new messages from new users). We got quite some feedbacks from users (included
patches). The answer from Oltu dev seems to be a bit slow though. The overall
coding activity is also slow. The reason might also be the fact the OAuth
specification is stable for a while (being an RFC) hence also the code is
stable. I have sent an email to dev@ in order to encourage people to engage
more on reported bugs. I will report next time with the outcome.
COMMUNITY
PMC composition has not changed since graduation
We have voted one new committer Jasha Joachimstha in January 2015
(31/01/2015)
ISSUES
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
-----------------------------------------
Attachment AQ: Report from the Apache Oozie Project [Robert Kanter]
## Description:
Oozie is a workflow scheduler system to manage Apache Hadoop jobs.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity:
- Development activity continues as can be seen from the
following JIRA report: http://s.apache.org/oozie_report_feb_16
- Recent departures and the holidays have decreased the usual
amount of activity lately, though big new features are still
being worked on and committed (e.g. OOZIE-1976). Newer
contributors are stepping up and working towards
committership.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 16 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Ryota Egashira on Mon Aug 10 2015
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 17 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Purshotam Shah at Tue Aug 12 2014
## Releases:
- Last release was 4.2.0 on Wed Jun 03 2015
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@oozie.apache.org:
- 143 subscribers (up 3 in the last 3 months):
- 976 emails sent to list (872 in previous quarter)
- user@oozie.apache.org:
- 496 subscribers (up 14 in the last 3 months):
- 128 emails sent to list (169 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 57 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 41 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
-----------------------------------------
Attachment AR: Report from the Apache Open Climate Workbench Project [Michael James Joyce]
Apache Open Climate Workbench is a tool for scalable comparisons of remote
sensing observations to climate model outputs.
Project Activity:
Development on the project has been quite good since the last report.
There has been an increase in new contributors helping out with some
sticking around and becoming regular faces. Omkar Reddy recently
joined the project as a committer and PMC member after making
a number of great contributions and bug fixes.
The team pushed out a 1.0.0 release in late September which included
a large number of new features that were integrated since our last
release in January 2015. The team has a rough plan laid out for the
next release (1.1.0) and has been pushing forward towards it. A good
amount of progress has been made on 1.1 with quite a few new features
and bug fixes having already been pushed to the code base. We expect
to have 1.1 pushed out soon given the current progress.
Issues for the Board:
None
When was the last release:
0.5 - 13 January 2015
1.0.0 - 22 September 2015
When was the last committer or PMC member elected:
Omkar Reddy - 20 January 2016
-----------------------------------------
Attachment AS: Report from the Apache OpenJPA Project [Pinaki Poddar]
## Description:
Apache OpenJPA is a persistent object management kernel for databases,
relational as well as non-relational. For relational databases, OpenJPA is
compliant to the Java Persistence Architecture (JPA) version 2.0.
OpenJPA runs in stand-alone JSE as well as containers e.g JavaEE,
Tomcat, Spring or OSGi.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
Besides the always swelling EE7 TCK issue which prevents us
from verifying comatility with JPA-2.1.
## Activity:
There is quite some maintenance activity on the 2.x branch which is
targetting the JPA-2.0 specification.
JPA-2.1 work is still not taking off as we are still hoping to finally
get the TCK for EE7.
We could go on implementing JPA-2.1 features and ignore all those
bloody JCP hassles.
We already have quite a few of those features in place in a branch.
## Health report:
OpenJPA is a 'mature' codebase and many parts are stable and needs
lots of knowledge if you touch them. Thus it's rather hard to
get up and running.
We tried to modernise the structure a bit (moving from Junit3 to 4)
but that's really just the tip of the iceberg.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 14 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Heath Thomann on Tue Jun 30 2015
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 30 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Romain Manni-Bucau at Tue Jun 02 2015
## Releases:
- Last release was 2.4.0 on 2015-04-19
- We are currently voting on 2.4.1
## Mailing list activity:
- users@openjpa.apache.org:
- 255 subscribers (up 4 in the last 3 months):
- 42 emails sent to list (38 in previous quarter)
- dev@openjpa.apache.org:
- 131 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months):
- 113 emails sent to list (86 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 18 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 7 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
-----------------------------------------
Attachment AT: Report from the Apache Perl Project [Philippe M. Chiasson]
-----------------------------------------
Attachment AU: Report from the Apache Phoenix Project [James R. Taylor]
## Description:
- Apache Phoenix is a relational database layer on top of Apache HBase
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity:
- James Taylor presented Phoenix at Big Data Application Meetup on 1/27/16
- Vote underway on 4.7.0 release with next RC scheduled for next week.
- Transaction support added through integration with Tephra, an ASL 2.0
licensed project from Cask.
- Work continues to integrate Phoenix with Apache Calcite.
- Pull request is available to add Apache Sqoop support for Phoenix
## Health report:
- Health is good with the community continuing to grow and multiple
integration efforts underway to expand usage of Phoenix in the broader
Hadoop ecosystem.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 22 PMC members.
- Thomas D'Silva was added to the PMC on Fri Nov 20 2015
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 26 committers.
- Ankit Singhal was added as a committer on Mon Feb 01 2016
## Releases:
- Last release was 4.6.0 on Fri Oct 23 2015
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@phoenix.apache.org:
- 186 subscribers (up 8 in the last 3 months):
- 4374 emails sent to list (2241 in previous quarter)
- user@phoenix.apache.org:
- 446 subscribers (up 33 in the last 3 months):
- 592 emails sent to list (719 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 269 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 361 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
-----------------------------------------
Attachment AV: Report from the Apache POI Project [Dominik Stadler]
## Description:
Apache POI is a Java library for reading and writing Microsoft Office file
formats.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity:
- There is steady progress in certain areas, support for PowerPoint is
currently the main point of work, other parts saw smaller enhancements and
bugfixes, overall activity is good, multiple PMC/Committers are active and
are responsive on the mailing-lists. We prepared a first beta for the next
release 3.14, which should become available soon. No new PMC/Committers,
one active user was contacted, but did not want to get comittership.
## Health report:
- activity looks good, all seems healthy.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 26 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Javen O'Neal on Mon Oct 19 2015
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 33 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Javen O'Neal at Sun Oct 18 2015
## Releases:
- 3.14-beta1 was released on Wed Dec 23 2015
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@poi.apache.org:
- 257 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 963 emails sent to list (956 in previous quarter)
- user@poi.apache.org:
- 656 subscribers (up 9 in the last 3 months):
- 205 emails sent to list (152 in previous quarter)
- general@poi.apache.org:
- 134 subscribers (down -2 in the last 3 months):
- 2 emails sent to list (0 in previous quarter)
## Bugzilla Statistics:
- 82 Bugzilla tickets created in the last 3 months
- 96 Bugzilla tickets resolved in the last 3 months
- 477 bugs are open overall
- Having 97 enhancements, thus having 380 actual bugs
- 120 of these are waiting for feedback,
- thus having 260 actual workable bugs
- 10 of the workable bugs have patches available
-----------------------------------------
Attachment AW: Report from the Apache Qpid Project [Robbie Gemmell]
Apache Qpid is a project focused on creating software based on the
Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP), currently providing a
protocol engine library, message brokers written in C++ and Java, a
message router, and client libraries for C++, Java / JMS, .Net,
Python, Perl and Ruby.
# Releases:
- Qpid Proton 0.11.0 was released on 16th Nov 2015
- Qpid Java 6.0.0 was released on 8th Dec 2015
- Qpid Proton 0.11.1 was released on 18th Dec 2015
- Qpid JMS 0.7.0 was released on 21st Dec 2015
# Community:
- The main user and developer mailing lists remain active. Quarterly stats:
-- users@qpid.apache.org:
350 subscribers (down 4), 450 emails (421 previous).
-- dev@qpid.apache.org:
187 subscribers (up 1), 2070 emails (1927 previous).
-- proton@qpid.apache.org:
98 subscribers (up 6), 1034 emails (581 previous).
- JIRAs are being raised and addressed:
339 JIRA tickets were created and 364 resolved in the last 3 months.
- There were no new committers since the previous report. The last new
committer added was Lorenz Quack on 9th Oct 2015.
- There were no new additions to the PMC since the previous report. The last
addition to the PMC was Jakub Scholz who joined on 22nd May 2015.
# Development:
- The release process for Qpid Proton 0.12.0 is now well under way,
containing various fixes and further work on the C++ reactive API
bindings. A release vote was initiated but halted after a blocker was
found, a new vote is being progressed now that a fix has been made.
- The new AMQP 1.0 JMS client had its 0.7.0 release as noted earlier, and a
0.8.0 release with various bug fixes and improvements will be made as
soon as Proton 0.12.0 is released.
- Development on the Qpid Java broker and AMQP 0-x client continue toward a
6.1.0 release, with various fixes also being backported towards doing
a 6.0.1 patch release in the near future.
- Qpid Dispatch is undergoing some significant internal refactoring, and
is aiming for a 0.6.0 release containing those improvements in the next
month or so.
- Work toward an updated Qpid CPP release will begin once Proton 0.12.0 is
available, including some repository updates to better align related
components for future releases.
# Issues:
There are no Board-level issues at this time.
-----------------------------------------
Attachment AX: 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:
- The community is working towards release 0.14, the first release
since graduation.
- We have one more new committer in the process.
- We have closed on most of the post-graduation work items.
## Health report:
- The project is very active, with roughly 10 new commits in flight at all
times
## PMC changes:
- Currently 21 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- There has been some mixup during graduation, which left some people out
of the PMC. We plan on holding a vote to rectify that soon.
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 31 committers.
- New commmitters:
- Andrew Chung was added as a committer on Sun Dec 06 2015
- Anupam was added as a committer on Wed Feb 10 2016
- Dhruv Mahajan was added as a committer on Tue Dec 15 2015
## Releases:
- Last release was 0.13 on Tue Oct 13 2015
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@reef.apache.org:
- 44 subscribers (up 6 in the last 3 months):
- 1929 emails sent to list (2368 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 264 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 217 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
-----------------------------------------
Attachment AY: Report from the Apache River Project [Patricia Shanahan]
## Description:
Apache River software provides a standards-compliant JINI service.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- The main activity is preparing for release 3.0
## Health report:
- Activity continues at a level limited by the developers' other commitments.
There is forwards progress towards the 3.0 release.
- Different PMC members have different visions for River's post 3.0 direction.
There is general agreement to set those issues aside in favor of getting the
release done. We plan to discuss future directions after the 3.0 release.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 14 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Bryan Thompson on Sun Aug 30 2015
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 14 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Bryan Thompson at Mon Aug 31 2015
## Releases:
- Last release was river-examples-1.0 on Sun Aug 09 2015
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@river.apache.org:
- 96 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months):
- 234 emails sent to list (214 in previous quarter)
- user@river.apache.org:
- 97 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
- 15 emails sent to list (2 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 1 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 40 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
=============================================
This report received +1 votes from 5 PMC members in addition to the chair.
-----------------------------------------
Attachment AZ: Report from the Apache Roller Project [Dave Johnson]
## Description:
Apache Roller is a full-featured, Java-based blog server that works
well on Tomcat and MySQL, and is known to run on other Java servers
and relational databases. The ASF blog site at blogs.apache.org runs on
Roller 5.0.3 Tomcat and MySQL.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity:
- The core Roller community is small and with low activity levels,
with only bug fixes and small improvements underway.
- Moved from Subversion to Git for SCM.
- Some discussion and activity around new Bootstrap based UI.
## Health report:
- Community is made-up of part-time volunteers with limited time to devote to
Roller.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 5 PMC members.
- Kohei Nozaki was added to the PMC on Sun Dec 06 2015
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 10 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Kohei Nozaki at Mon Mar 09 2015
## Releases:
- Last release was 5.1.2 on Tue Mar 24 2015
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@roller.apache.org:
- 160 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 26 emails sent to list (6 in previous quarter)
- user@roller.apache.org:
- 287 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 13 emails sent to list (3 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 21 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 7 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
-----------------------------------------
Attachment BA: Report from the Apache Samza Project [Chris Riccomini]
## Description:
Apache Samza is a distributed stream processing framework.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity:
- Upcoming Samza meetup on February 17.
- Discussing accelerating release cadence.
- Release in December.
## Health report:
- Project continues at a healthy pace. Anecdotally, have seen several new
groups adopting Samza. Continue to receive contributions and discussion from
third parties (non-committer/PMC members).
## PMC changes:
- Currently 11 PMC members.
- Navina Ramesh was added to the PMC on Thu Jan 07 2016
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 13 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Navina Ramesh at Fri May 22 2015
## Releases:
- 0.10.0 was released on Fri Dec 18 2015
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@samza.apache.org:
- 299 subscribers (up 20 in the last 3 months):
- 444 emails sent to list (543 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 61 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 41 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
-----------------------------------------
Attachment BB: Report from the Apache Santuario Project [Colm O hEigeartaigh]
## Description:
- Library implementing XML Digital Signature Specification & XML Encryption
Specification
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Activity:
- We had one new release over the last quarter - Apache Santuario XML Security
for Java 2.0.6. This was a minor bug fix release, primarily done to fix
some issues raised by a new user of the library.
## Health report:
- Apache Santuario is a mature and stable project that has reached a point
where not too many fixes are required, as it is a set of implementations of
some specifications that are quite old now. It is actively managed by the
PMC.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 6 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Marc Giger on Wed Apr 03 2013
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 16 committers.
- No new changes to the committer base since last report.
- Last committer addition was Marc Giger in July 2012
## Releases:
- Apache XML Security for Java 2.0.6 was released on Mon Dec 07 2015
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@santuario.apache.org:
- 250 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 23 emails sent to list (5 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 5 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 6 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
-----------------------------------------
Attachment BC: Report from the Apache Serf Project [Bert Huijben]
## Description:
The serf library is a high performance C-based HTTP client library
built upon the Apache Portable Runtime (APR) library. Serf is the
default client library of Apache Subversion and Apache OpenOffice.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
The project got back to its normal activity level after the
migration and adding a few new features. Focus was more on the new
features (E.g. HTTP/2) and improving the build on more platforms
than on getting a new release out.
## Health report:
Activity returned to a normal level. After months of waiting google-
code finally shows that we have migrated on the old homepage.
## PMC & Committer changes:
Currently 11 PMC members and 12 committers. Our last new committer was
added on Wed Sep 02 2015. No PMC additions since the PMC started two
months ago.
## Releases:
No ASF releases yet. Last pre-ASF release 2014-10-20
## Mailing list and Jira activity:
Normal activity.
-----------------------------------------
Attachment BD: Report from the Apache SIS Project [Martin Desruisseaux]
## Description:
Apache Spatial Information System (SIS) is a Java library for developing
geospatial applications, with an emphasis on standards published jointly
by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and International Organization
for Standardization (ISO). Apache SIS 0.6 contains geodetic data
structures for geospatial referencing such as map projection and
coordinate reference system definitions, along with the associated
operations which enable the mathematical conversion of coordinates
between different systems of reference.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
About 17,000 lines of code and also 17,000 lines of comment (according
CLOC) ported to SIS since the last report. The main new feature is the
support of the EPSG geodetic dataset, a de-facto standard database of
more than 6000 coordinate reference systems used on Earth (a preliminary
list is at [1]). However we still have to resolve LEGAL-183 in order to
bring those data to users. We are exploring download from a command line
tool.
No significant progress on the developer guide [2] since last report. We
recognize that this documentation is necessary for lowering the entry
barrier, and hope to spend some days on it before the next release.
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) published a blog entry titled "OGC
standards in Apache projects" in December [3]. A journalist published an
article about SIS, Marmotta, Open Climate Workbench and Magellan in
January [4]. An OGC officer plans to come to ApacheCon in Vancouver and
proposes to setup a geospatial track. An Apache SIS talk has been
submitted for that track.
I had informal talk with OGC director about free membership for ASF last
year. There is no new development on this front since I didn't had the
opportunity to attend an OGC meeting since that time. The next
opportunities may be ApacheCon in Vancouver (May) and the next OGC
meeting in Dublin (June).
## Health report:
The project is reported as healthy by the report helper (score of 7.15),
but the number of active developers is still low. The fact that the
"referencing by coordinates" module is almost done (> 70,000 lines of
code) may help, since referencing is usually not the most attractive
topics for new GIS developers. The next parts (e.g. rasters, GUI) may be
more attractive.
## PMC changes:
* Currently 19 PMC members.
* No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
* Last PMC addition was Marc Le Bihan on Wed Dec 10 2014
## Committer base changes
* Currently 20 committers.
* No new committers added in the last 3 months
* Last committer addition was Rémi Maréchal at Tue Sep 08 2015
## Releases:
* Last release (0.6) was in September 2015.
* Next release (0.7) will hopefully be proposed in March.
## Mailing list activity:
* dev@sis.apache.org:
o 57 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
o 105 emails sent to list (64 in previous quarter)
* user@sis.apache.org:
o 41 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
o 1 emails sent to list (5 in previous quarter)
[1] http://sis.staging.apache.org/book/tables/CoordinateReferenceSystems.html
[2] http://sis.apache.org/book/en/developer-guide.html
[3] http://www.opengeospatial.org/blog/2346
[4] https://thenewstack.io/apache-sets-geospatial-voyage/
-----------------------------------------
Attachment BE: Report from the Apache Spark Project [Matei Zaharia]
Apache Spark is a fast and general engine for large-scale data processing. It
offers high-level APIs in Java, Scala, Python and R as well as a rich set of
libraries including stream processing, machine learning, and graph analytics.
Project status:
- We posted our 1.6.0 release in January, with contributions from 248
developers. This release included a new typed API for working with
DataFrames, faster state management in Spark Streaming, support
for persisting and loading ML pipelines, various optimizations, and a
variety of new advanced analytics APIs. Full release notes are at
http://spark.apache.org/releases/spark-release-1-6-0.html.
- We are currently collecting changes for a Spark 1.6.1 maintenance
release, which will likely happen within several weeks.
- The community also agreed to make our next release 2.0, which
will be a chance to fix small dependency and API problems in
addition to releasing new features. Partial list of planned changes:
http://s.apache.org/spark-2.0-features.
Latest releases:
Jan 4, 2016: Spark 1.6.0
Nov 09, 2015: Spark 1.5.2
Oct 02, 2015: Spark 1.5.1
Sept 09, 2015: Spark 1.5.0
Committers and PMC:
The last committers were added on Feb 8, 2016
(Wenchen Fan) and Feb 3, 2016 (Herman von Hovell).
We just voted in three PMC members on Feb 10, 2016
(Joseph Bradley, Sean Owen, Yin Huai).
Mailing list stats:
4249 subscribers to user list (up 286 in the last 3 months)
2380 subscribers to dev list (up 196 in the last 3 months)
-----------------------------------------
Attachment BF: Report from the Apache Stanbol Project [Fabian Christ]
Apache Stanbol provides a set of reusable components for semantic content
management.
First, appologies for the missed reports. We had to report in December
but missed that plus the January report.
There are no issues which require board attention at the moment. However,
the project is in a phase where new/other people should take over the
lead as chairman since the current chairman Fabian Christ has less and
less time to manage the project. Therefore, the project will start to
find a new person for this job.
Additionally, a first suggestion was started to invite new people to
become PMC members and potentially new leaders for the project.
At code level the project is doing fine. The project started to
reorganize a lot of old JIRA issues and tries to focus on the relevant
tasks.
The project did not manage to cut new releases. This is also an issue of
finding new people to become more responsible for the project and start
creating releases.
Bertrand Delacretaz has resigned from the Stanbol PMC on December, 1st 2015
Subscribers on the dev list: 233
Last new committer was
Cristian Petroaca on May 7th, 2015
No new PMC member was elected since the graduation of Apache Stanbol on
Sep 19th, 2012.
Last stack release was:
Apache Stanbol 0.12 on Mar 2nd, 2014
Last component release was:
Apache Stanbol Partial Security Release RC2 on June 5th, 2014
org.apache.stanbol.commons.security.reactor-20140602
-----------------------------------------
Attachment BG: Report from the Apache Stratos Project [Lakmal Warusawithana]
## Description:
Apache Stratos is a highly-extensible Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)
framework that helps run Apache Tomcat, PHP, and MySQL applications and can
be extended to support many more environments on all major cloud
infrastructures.
## Issues:
- No issue for last quarter
## Activity:
- Last 3 months, developers are mainly focused on stability of the 4.1.x
release. Delivered one bug fixed release. No heavy development happened in
the last quarter may be due to the holiday season.
## Health report:
- For last quarter no new committer / PMC member added. I feel people are
loosing interest in Stratos due to mainly rising of other open source
projects in same space with bigger backing up. I believed Stratos community
need to find right place to play with other open source project. Also WSO2
stopped providing paid contributors to the project. This will affect to
slow down the project ,because all full time contributors were WSO2
employees. But PMC is strong enough to take forward the project.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 45 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Pubudu Gunatilaka on Fri Sep 25 2015
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 46 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Pubudu Gunatilaka at Thu Sep 24 2015
## Releases:
- Apache Stratos 4.1.5 was released on Thu Dec 10 2015
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@stratos.apache.org:
- 240 subscribers (up 5 in the last 3 months):
- 944 emails sent to list (1953 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 54 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 48 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
-----------------------------------------
Attachment BH: Report from the Apache Subversion Project [Greg Stein]
Apache Subversion exists to be universally recognized and adopted as
an open-source, centralized version control system characterized by
its reliability as a safe haven for valuable data; the simplicity of
its model and usage; and its ability to support the needs of a wide
variety of users and projects, from individuals to large-scale
enterprise operations.
* Board Issues
There are no Board-level issues of concern.
* Community
Our last PMC addition was in December 2015 (James McCoy)
Our last committer addition was in November 2015 (James McCoy).
The community remains active on its mailing lists:
* almost 800 subscribers to users@ with over 100 messages per month
* over 300 subscribers to dev@ with over 120 messages per month
The dev@ activity and a healthy commit rate is encouraging, as we
have seen a downward trend of paid developers over the past six months.
* Releases
Apache Subversion 1.9.3 was released on December 14, 2015.
Apache Subversion 1.8.15 was released on December 14, 2015.
Development continues on 1.10.x, with about 250 commits per month. No
target date or feature set has been defined.
-----------------------------------------
Attachment BI: Report from the Apache Syncope Project [Francesco Chicchiriccò]
## Description:
Apache Syncope is an Open Source system for managing digital identities
in enterprise environments.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
We are seeing an increasing activity level on both user@ and dev@ mailing
lists, especially related to the first milestone release cut in December
from 2.0.0, which provides a first essay of several new features.
The main focus is now set to complete the missing bits for 2.0.0,
especially about renewed documentation and admin console.
The PMC has briefly discussed in December about the opportunity to rotate
the PMC chair; such discussion brought anyway to confirmation of the
current chair.
In December we have also started dicussing with Infra about the
possibility of a PoC for proving the effectiveness of using Syncope for
ASF corporate identity management but, after an initial interest - which
led to the creation of a new GIT repository for the purpose - things seem
to have stalled.
## Committer / PMC changes:
- Currently 19 committers and 9 LDAP committee group members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Guido Wimmel in April 2014
- Last committer addition was Giacomo Lamonaco in January 2015
## Releases:
- 2.0.0-M1 (Dec 23rd, 2015)
- 1.2.7 (Jan 15th, 2016)
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@syncope.apache.org:
- 70 subscribers (up 5 in the last 3 months):
- 557 emails sent to list (440 in previous quarter)
- user@syncope.apache.org:
- 118 subscribers (up 8 in the last 3 months):
- 120 emails sent to list (76 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 41 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 37 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
-----------------------------------------
Attachment BJ: Report from the Apache Tapestry Project [Howard M. Lewis Ship]
Apache Tapestry is a Java component-based web framework that features high
productivity, great code reuse, robust deployment, and terrific performance.
Any issues for the Board?
We have begun to discuss the process of a change in project lead, as
Howard Lewis Ship's involvement in the project has markedly
decreased over the last year or more.
When did the project last make any releases?
Tapestry 5.4.0 was released on 21 Dec 2015. This was a long, long,
time in the making.
Describe the overall activity in the project over the past quarter.
Activity on the user mailing list is slow. Questions are answered
with participation of not only the core contributors but also by the
community at large. Discussion focuses especially around new
features of the 5.4 release. There are also occasional
announcements concerning third-party libraries developed entirely
outside the Tapestry team.
Activity on the dev mailing list is medium.
Plans are underway to determine what changes will be introduced into
Tapestry 5.5.
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
Jochen Kenmade has been voted in as a committer on 25 Apr 2014, and
subsequently been voted into the PMC (2 Mar 2015).
Project branding or naming issues, either in the project or externally.
No known issues.
Branding requirements progress:
* "Website Navigation Links: navbar links included, link to www.apache.org
included" - License and Security links are missing
* "Logos and Graphics: include TM, use consistent product logo on your site"
- TM missing from logo
Legal issues or questions:
None.
Infrastructure issues or strategic needs:
None.
-----------------------------------------
Attachment BK: Report from the Apache Turbine Project [Thomas Vandahl]
Apache Turbine is a servlet based framework that allows experienced Java
developers to quickly build web applications. Turbine allows you to
personalize the web sites and to use user logins to restrict access to parts
of your application.
Turbine is a matured and well established framework that is used as the base
of many other projects.
Status
The Turbine project has again seen low levels of activity in the last quarter.
The Turbine project has no board-level issues at this time.
Community changes
No new committers were voted in since the last board report.
The last change to the committer base was the addition of Georg Kallidis
(2012/09/19).
No new PMC members were voted in since the last board report.
The last change to the PMC was the addition of Georg Kallidis (2013/09/30).
Turbine core project
The milestone release 4.0-M2 has been completed.
* Turbine 4.0-M2 was released on Tue Dec 22 2015
Fulcrum component project
No activity has been taken place in the Fulcrum project.
The last released component was Fulcrum Yaafi 1.0.7 (2015/10/09).
-----------------------------------------
Attachment BL: Report from the Apache Tuscany Project [Jean-Sebastien Delfino]
-----------------------------------------
Attachment BM: Report from the Apache Usergrid Project [Todd Nine]
##Description
Usergrid is a Backend-as-a-Service (BaaS) composed of an integrated
database (Cassandra), a query engine (Elastic Search), and
application layer and client tier with SDKs for developers.
##Activity
2.1 release RC2 in progress
Astyanax to CQl driver
True multitennant system administration per org
Partial/declarative indexing of documents
Making ElasticSearch an optional component
Distributed work system with Akka
Improvements in unique value management with Akka
General/continuous performance improvements
## When was the last PMC member and committer added to the project?
Michael Russo and Mike Dunker voted onto PMC on 2016-01-18, pending ACK
from board
## When was the last release made by the project?
2015-07-16 - apache-usergrid-1.0.2-incubating
# Issues
None
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@usergrid.apache.org:
- 94 subscribers (up 6 in the last 3 months):
- 1162 emails sent to list (1621 in previous quarter)
- user@usergrid.apache.org:
- 112 subscribers (up 12 in the last 3 months):
- 62 emails sent to list (39 in previous quarter)
##JIRA activity:
- 148 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 112 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
-----------------------------------------
Attachment BN: Report from the Apache Velocity Project [Nathan Bubna]
## Description:
- Java-based template engine
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- No commits. Very light mailing list and JIRA traffic.
## Health report:
- Velocity is of minimal priority to the developers at this time.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 9 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Sergiu Dumitriu on Wed Jun 10 2015
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 13 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Maurice (Mike) L. Kienenberger at Mon Jun 01
2015
## Releases:
- No releases in the last quarter.
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@velocity.apache.org:
- 126 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 28 emails sent to list (30 in previous quarter)
- general@velocity.apache.org:
- 88 subscribers (down -6 in the last 3 months):
- 2 emails sent to list (0 in previous quarter)
- user@velocity.apache.org:
- 309 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
- 10 emails sent to list (5 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 4 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 3 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
-----------------------------------------
Attachment BO: Report from the Apache Web Services Project [Sagara Gunathunga]
Web Services Report for February 2016
Releases within this quarter:
* Axiom 1.2.16
* Axiom 1.2.17
* WSS4J 1.6.19
* WSS4J 2.0.6
* WSS4J 2.1.4
Last releases for other subprojects:
* Xmlschema 2.2.1 : Feb 2015
* Neethi 3.0.3 : Jan 2014
* Woden 1.0M10 : Sept 2015
Community and development:
* Last committer addition - Sept 2014,
* Last PMC member addition - in Sept 2013
Development
* WSS4J - 140 commits by 2 committer.
* Axiom - 331 commits by 1 committer.
* Woden - 0 commits.
* Xmlschema - 0 commit.
* Neethi - 0 commits.
Branding checklist for sub-projects with releases in the last quarters
(Axiom, Neethi, WSS4J, Project homepage ):
* Project Naming And Descriptions: OK
* Website Navigation Links: OK
* Trademark Attributions: OK
* Logos and Graphics: OK ( Neethi and WSS4J sub projects don't have logos)
* Project Metadata: OK
Not yet compliant:
* XmlSchema
Subprojects
-----------
Current subproject descriptions follow, along with anything specifically
requiring the board's attention this quarter.
* Apache Woden
Woden is an open source Java implementation of the W3C WSDL 2.0
specification.
* Apache Axiom
Apache Axiom is a StAX-based, XML Infoset compliant object model which
supports on-demand building of the object tree.
* Apache XmlSchema
Apache XmlSchema is a Java object model for manipulating and utilizing
XML Schema.
* Apache Neethi
Apache Neethi is a Java implementation of the WS-Policy specifications.
* Apache WSS4J
Apache WSS4J is a Java implementation of the OASIS Web Services Security
(WS-Security) from OASIS Web Services Security TC.
-----------------------------------------
Attachment BP: Report from the Apache Whimsy Project [Ross Gardler]
1) GitHub experiment appears to have stalled. In particular, adding a new
committer (e.g. Brett) still involves manual intervention by the
infrastructure team; and there still isn't an Apache hosted clone of
Whimsy. None of this is affecting whimsy development, but is the reason
for monthly board reports.
2) Brett and Craig have succeeded pushing changes to GitHub. Changes continue
to be automatically deployed, without human intervention.
3) Primarily due to the deadlock and authentication problems experienced with
the board agenda tool, that tool has been moved over to whimsy-test. It's
internal threading model has been converted to processes, and LDAP failover
and cache expiration logic has been added. Sebb has been instrumental in
this effort. This may ultimately address the problems that Brett saw with
missing mail addresses in board reminders.
4) Sebb has moved the Apache phone book over to be based on data produced by
whimsy.
5) Status monitoring is now implemented, and continues to be refined. It has
already proven to be helpful.
6) As problems with the current secretary mail process seem to not be as
prevalent this month, and the move to the new mail system by the
infrastructure team isn't imminent, work on this has slowed in favor of
other efforts.
7) Initial code has been roughed in for a replacement for the current LDAP
Perl scripts used to add committers to a PMC and to modify PMC membership.
This effort may be ultimately be superseded Syncope.
https://whimsy-test.apache.org/roster/committee/
Other:
Last PMC and committer addition: 14 December 2015
No releases made (code is using a continuous deployment model)
[report prepared by Sam Ruby]
-----------------------------------------
Attachment BQ: Report from the Apache Wink Project [Luciano Resende]
Apache Wink is a project that enables development and consumption of
REST style web services. The core server runtime is based on the
JAX-RS (JSR 311) standard. The project also introduces a client
runtime which can leverage certain components of the server-side
runtime. Apache Wink delivers component technology that can be easily
integrated into a variety of environments.
There are no issues that require Board attention at the moment.
Community:
The Wink project has a small community which is not very active. Although
I believe Wink is a mature project with active users, the overall PMC has
been alive but not active, and is currently starting to contemplate a move
to attic.
Last svn activity shows couple website updates in the past week (02/2016)
Releases:
* Last release was Apache Wink 1.4.0 which was released on September 15, 2013
Committers or PMC changes:
* Voted Gerhard Petracek was added as a Wink committer in August 2013.
Trademark/Branding:
* No known issues.
Legal Issues:
* None
-----------------------------------------
Attachment BR: Report from the Apache Wookie Project [Scott Wilson]
Apache Wookie develops software related to implementation of the W3C
Widgets family of specifications.
ISSUES
As mentioned in previous reports, activity in the project has declined and is
now at a minimum with some questions from users and implementers but little on
the development side and also the community has not grown since 2013. The
reasons for this remain the same, in particular the lack of non-proprietary
adoption of the W3C widget specification. As a result we are currently holding
a vote to move Wookie to the Attic.
RELEASES
Wookie 1.0 was released on 24th February 2014.
ACTIVITY
None recently.
COMMUNITY
Our last committer and PMC member added was Steve Lee on 21st February 2013.
-----------------------------------------
Attachment BS: Report from the Apache Xalan Project [Steven J. Hathaway]
The Apache Xalan Project develops and maintains libraries and programs
that transform XML documents using XSLT standard stylesheets. Our subprojects
use the Java and C++ programing languages to implement the XSLT libraries.
Xalan is a mature project, but we are hoping to acquire more committers
who can upgrade the project to address the newer XPath and XSLT standards.
We are in process of doing integration builds to incorporate the Xerces-C
patches. There continues to be activity on the Xalan-J project.
ISSUES FOR THE BOARD
None.
CURRENT ACTIVITY
Xalan is a mature product. There is little development activity other
than patch maintenance. Most of the activity is in the Xalan-J subproject.
There are some participants reporting on their build and deployment issues.
We are still trying to get more participants to report on their integration
build attempts. Work is continuing to perform integration builds using
Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 through 2015. Some builds were performed for
Solaris.
Most of the communications traffic is via JIRA. Email list activity has been
stagnant for 2 months.
MEMBERSHIP
Changes in the PMC membership:
None.
Last new committer:
May 2014
PROJECT RELEASES
Xalan Java 2.7.2 April 15, 2014
Xalan C/C++ 1.11 October 31, 2012
Publishing of project releases was refreshed Oct 30, 2014.
OTHER ISSUES
We would still appreciate more active persons to build Xalan-C tests.
We continue to get requests for Xalan to support XSLT version 2. The
Xalan libraries currently support XSLT version 1. Feature ugrades and
migration will require more than a few committers.
BRANDING ISSUES
None.
-----------------------------------------
Attachment BT: Report from the Apache Xerces Project [Michael Glavassevich]
-----------------------------------------
Attachment BU: Report from the Apache XML Graphics Project [Glenn Adams]
## Description:
- The Apache XML Graphics Project is responsible for software intended for
the creation & maintenance of the conversion of XML formats to graphical
output & related software components.
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
- New releases of XMLGraphicsCommons (XGC) and FOP were accomplished, both
labeled as Version 2.1. These releases are targeted primarily towards bug
fixes and additional feature support in the following areas: barcodes,
color spaces, fonts, PDF, and inline progression dimension (IPD)
processing.
- For the upcoming quarter, activity is expected to include a transition
from ANT to a MAVEN based build process, some initial work having already
started during this reporting period.
## Health:
- The level of community and developer activity remains at a consistent,
moderate, level with respect to the previous reporting period.
## PMC:
- Currently 12 PMC members.
- Simon Steiner was added to the PMC on Tue Jan 19 2016
- Chris Bowditch retires as PMC chair.
- Glenn Adams accepts PMC chair.
## Committer:
- Currently 21 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Matthias Reischenbacher at Wed May 13 2015
## Releases:
- XMLGraphics Commons 2.1 was released on Wed Jan 13 2016
- XMLGraphics FOP 2.1 was released on Wed Jan 13 2016
## Mailing:
- batik-users@xmlgraphics.apache.org:
- 265 subscribers (up 4 in the last 3 months):
- 14 emails sent to list (2 in previous quarter)
- fop-dev@xmlgraphics.apache.org:
- 186 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months):
- 347 emails sent to list (289 in previous quarter)
- fop-users@xmlgraphics.apache.org:
- 436 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months):
- 96 emails sent to list (74 in previous quarter)
- batik-dev@xmlgraphics.apache.org:
- 95 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 24 emails sent to list (26 in previous quarter)
- general@xmlgraphics.apache.org:
- 68 subscribers (up 3 in the last 3 months):
- 116 emails sent to list (12 in previous quarter)
- fop-commits@xmlgraphics.apache.org:
- 52 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 56 emails sent to list (15 in previous quarter)
- batik-commits@xmlgraphics.apache.org:
- 47 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 38 emails sent to list (0 in previous quarter)
-----------------------------------------
Attachment BV: 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 (both Java and C stacks).
## Issues:
- There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
However, before the next board report we will try to take some decisions
for many of inactive projects (including Axis2 C).
## Activity:
- Axis PMC was able to release the most waited Axis2 1.7 release,
huge kudos should go to Andreas for driving the release.
## PMC/Committer changes:
- Currently 61 PMC/Commiters members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was on July 7 2015
## Releases:
- Apache Rampart 1.7.0 (January 18, 2016)
- Apache Axis2 1.7.0 (January 18, 2016)
------------------------------------------------------
End of minutes for the February 17, 2016 board meeting.
Index